Paul Quinn
@pljquinn
New twatery on TikTok
From now on I shall be Quinn p (Cambridge Scholars remain as amazing as ever)
Apparently it's Charlie Kirk. It looks more like Phones from Stingray, but after an accident. New York sculptor spent $100,000 to make a Charlie Kirk statue no one wants to buy www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
There was such hope, but some questionable early decisions, and powerful malign forces outside meant premature cancellation was inevitable. Still, I can't see a reconsideration of Starmer and his embrace by Labour fandom about twenty years from now.
Christopher Nolan spent $250 million on The Odyssey and predictably ran into culture wars about translation and casting. In the mid 80s we had Tony Robinson striding along a beach or creeping around a cellar while speaking to camera. Must have cost the BBC about £200. Unforgettable. #odyssey
Yesterday I predicted they would try and make her Britain's Charlie Kirk. Never change TikyTok (or change, quickly)
And because he's at the Friary Church in Crawley, naturally Thompson knows Wilfrid Scawen Blunt: poet, race horse owner and breeder, anti-imperialist (the first English gaoled for supporting Irish Home Rule), married to Ada Lovelace's daughter Anne (Byron's granddaughter) and notorious shagger. 7/
Coventry Patmore, of The Angel in the House, was another significant champion of Thompson (and another Catholic). It's the Meynells who arranged for Thompson to stay with religious orders in Storrington and Crawley while trying to kick his Laudanum habit. 6/
Wilfrid and Alice Meynell. Wilfrid was a Catholic publisher, Alice was a significant poet who was named twice as a potential Poet Laureate (the first time to replace Tennyson) Working with the Meynells places Thompson in an important Catholic network, with a clear Sussex connection. 5/
Who's Francis Thompson, I hear no-one cry. I'm glad you didn't ask. He was a major-minor poet at the end of the 19th/start of the 20th century. His most famous work is 'The Hound of Heaven'. Here's Richard Burton reading the poem youtu.be/gToj6SLWz8Q?... 2/
Dropping my daughter at her friend's house on Saturday, I noticed this blue plaque on the house opposite. I had forgotten Francis Thompson had been sent by friends to Crawley to help him kick his Laudanum habit (although you may think a Laudanum habit is a prerequisite for living in Crawley) 1/
This runs through Sparacus' head three times a day as he recalls his glory days.
How can The Sun attack Dr Who going 'woke' in a story about a new version of Othello? With the greatest of ease, my friends, IF YOU'RE A GURNING IDIOT!!! REGARD. You find a connection through the cast and then tie it all together, along with other telly that's offended them, in a reactionary bow.
Spoilers! Not a member of that first cabinet of shitehawks, but too good not to - it's Jacob Rees Mogg as River Song, sweeties.
Here's Michael Gove again (really), with Danny Alexander as Jenny and Liam Fox as Strax. Obviously Co-Pilot has not idea who Liam Fox is.
Next up, it's Kenneth Clarke as Winston Churchill. You'll note a problem. I suspect there is someone else called Kennenth Clarke and that who Co-Pilot has drawn. Because that's not Hush-Puppy wearing Ken Clarke.
Next, it's Michael Gove, Ed Davey and Ian Duncan Smith as Vastra, Jenny and Strax
They are things of beauty, as are all the others I've done in the last two days. Behold
Forget all that anti-Thatcher sentiment in the Cartmel Years: Here's the Iron Lady Doctor and her companions spreading individualism and neo-liberal economics across time and space. Ice Hot Professor!!