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Gary Slaymaker

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Bon viveur, raconteur, llanast. BBC Radio Wales's film guru (their words, not mine). Some people are beloved, I'm betolerated...just.

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Where's Christopher Lee when you need him?

06.03.2026 16:17 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Today, from 2.30, on BBC Radio Wales with Eleri - reviews of The Bride, Hoppers & War Machine, and my 3 of the best big screen brides. Joiwch.

06.03.2026 09:32 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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This is the man who is now in charge of US Homeland Security.

05.03.2026 18:53 πŸ‘ 8009 πŸ” 2722 πŸ’¬ 709 πŸ“Œ 228

Minnesota would like a word.

02.03.2026 13:18 πŸ‘ 6698 πŸ” 1736 πŸ’¬ 135 πŸ“Œ 42

Farage cannot cope with his own unpopularity. At all.
With the media’s help and huge foreign donations, his ego has been massaged into such a state of entitlement that he thinks he’s answerable to no one and simply owed power.
It’s become a national imperative to prove him wrong.

02.03.2026 13:12 πŸ‘ 888 πŸ” 258 πŸ’¬ 57 πŸ“Œ 6
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You cannot talk like this about any other minority in America.

And if it was any other president’s adviser who said something like this about any other minority, it’d be the instant end of their presidency.

02.03.2026 07:54 πŸ‘ 23873 πŸ” 5954 πŸ’¬ 1730 πŸ“Œ 632
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Fascinating anecdote from A.N. Wilson today in the Mail. 20 years ago the brother of the editor of the newspaper he worked for became a foreign ambassador. Then the late Queen & Prince Philip came to visit the country & left behind a pile of expenses for their official trip. HT @willoyd.bsky.social

01.03.2026 19:41 πŸ‘ 25 πŸ” 27 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

Kind of incredible. I was just sitting down to write about how Starmer should be given credit for keeping us out of this mess when he does this. Unutterably foolish and obsequious. Why in God's name should we have anything to do with this shortsighted madness.

01.03.2026 21:56 πŸ‘ 2202 πŸ” 528 πŸ’¬ 227 πŸ“Œ 36

Taxi'n gracyr fach...ddim y fersiwn gyda Jimmy Fallon, yn amlwg.

27.02.2026 13:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Summary:

The electorate is restless.
Labour is rudderless.
Greens are hope.
Tories are hopeless.
And Reform’s silent majority has once again turned out to be a noisy minority.

27.02.2026 10:29 πŸ‘ 741 πŸ” 162 πŸ’¬ 24 πŸ“Œ 3

That's the way to do it. So good to see progressive politicians pushing back hard on Reform's messaging. Highly effective and so refreshing and Labour could learn a lot from Polanski in this regard. Take the attack to the Faragists - don't let them get away with it.

27.02.2026 10:32 πŸ‘ 1336 πŸ” 357 πŸ’¬ 66 πŸ“Œ 10

🚨BREAKING🚨 Robert Jenrick has defected from Reform to the Greens.

27.02.2026 07:46 πŸ‘ 2328 πŸ” 305 πŸ’¬ 99 πŸ“Œ 34
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Today, from 2.30, on BBC Radio Wales with Eleri, we have Epic, Scream 7 & The Bluff, and my 3 of the best films with four letters or fewer in their titles. Joiwch.

27.02.2026 11:01 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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Nos fory. Tomorrow night.
Allai addo sbort, ond allai ddim addo bihafio. Welai chi 'na.

26.02.2026 17:10 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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20.02.2026 16:30 πŸ‘ 886 πŸ” 158 πŸ’¬ 21 πŸ“Œ 7
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20.02.2026 07:09 πŸ‘ 865 πŸ” 200 πŸ’¬ 20 πŸ“Œ 9
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Today, from 2.30, on BBC Radio Wales with Eleri - reviews of Cold Storage, Good Luck Have Fun Don't Die & If I Had Legs I'd Kick You, and my 3 of the best sci-fi comedies (no BTTF or Galaxy Quest for the added challenge). Joiwch.

20.02.2026 09:35 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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When will Republicans, veterans organizations, & retired military officers speak up about this? No president in the history of the Republic has done this. Yet Trump, Vance, & Hegseth do it constantly. It betrays the most important core value of our military-no partisan politics.

14.02.2026 11:59 πŸ‘ 4898 πŸ” 1824 πŸ’¬ 288 πŸ“Œ 105

Thing is though, I really want this t-shirt now!

14.02.2026 10:58 πŸ‘ 131 πŸ” 25 πŸ’¬ 15 πŸ“Œ 3
Far-right thug Tommy
Robinson flees UK after police
warning over terror threat
Far-right thug Tommy Robinson took to social
media this evening to proclaim himself a 'priority
target' for ISIS, adding he had fled the UK after
receiving a call from Bedfordshire Police

Far-right thug Tommy Robinson flees UK after police warning over terror threat Far-right thug Tommy Robinson took to social media this evening to proclaim himself a 'priority target' for ISIS, adding he had fled the UK after receiving a call from Bedfordshire Police

Fighting age man flees his homeland to seek asylum on overcrowded island.

14.02.2026 09:10 πŸ‘ 2979 πŸ” 876 πŸ’¬ 317 πŸ“Œ 82

I prefer it when β€˜Traitors’ describes the TV program, not the people potentially electing the next government.

14.02.2026 11:14 πŸ‘ 1168 πŸ” 267 πŸ’¬ 65 πŸ“Œ 9

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13.02.2026 16:33 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Today, from 3pm, on BBC Radio Wales with Behnaz - reviews of Wuthering Heights, Whistle, Bugonia & The Taste of Things; and my 3 of the best 'weather related' titles in film. Joiwch.

13.02.2026 10:48 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Day after Alex Pretti killing I complained to BBC about presentation of White House statements and evidence as equivalent. Duty of balance doesn’t extend to complicity with clear lies, I said. BBC could and should report WH making false statements as a *fact of the story*. Today I got response …

12.02.2026 15:34 πŸ‘ 1106 πŸ” 309 πŸ’¬ 35 πŸ“Œ 17

I’ve watched a lot of congressional hearings over the last 40 years. This performance by Bondi is the single most unprofessional, non-responsive, reprehensible and obnoxious I have ever seen from any witness who has testified before any committee of either chamber.

11.02.2026 17:38 πŸ‘ 27225 πŸ” 7006 πŸ’¬ 1966 πŸ“Œ 433

She spent the whole morning performatively screaming at Congressmen, but this image of Bondi saying nothing and refusing to turn around will be the only real takeaway from her testimony today.

11.02.2026 18:31 πŸ‘ 2458 πŸ” 644 πŸ’¬ 40 πŸ“Œ 13
Jim Ratcliffe has had Β£70m of state money in the last four years, which would pay for a lot of fictitious dole scroungers.

Jim Ratcliffe has had Β£70m of state money in the last four years, which would pay for a lot of fictitious dole scroungers.

For anyone unsure whether Jim Ratcliffe saying the UK has been 'colonised' by immigrants in that interview was being a full-on racist, he goes on to imply that they all scrounge benefits without looking for work.
*This* Jim Ratcliffe, in case you were wondering:

11.02.2026 19:08 πŸ‘ 95 πŸ” 59 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 4
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Just saw an ad for my own little film on Instagram which was weird.

Anyway, if you live near somewhere that’s showing our queer welsh-language slasher comedy as part of Iris on the Move pop along won’t you?

11.02.2026 19:23 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Bud Cort, β€˜Harold and Maude’ Star, Dies at 77 Bud Cort, who starred in 'Harold and Maude" and "Brewster McCloud," died Wednesday. He was 77.

RIP Bud Cort
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11.02.2026 19:26 πŸ‘ 232 πŸ” 119 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 52

Toby Young, Matthew Elliott, Daniel Moylan, Claire Fox, Daniel Hannan, Michael Gove, Therese Coffey (a Brexit convert), Paul Goodman, John Moynihan, Ruth Lea, Stewart Jackson, Michael Hintze, Charles Moore, David Frost, Theo Agnew; & now John Redwood.

Rewarded for the Brexit calamity with peerages.

11.02.2026 09:36 πŸ‘ 532 πŸ” 205 πŸ’¬ 59 πŸ“Œ 23