How come everyone’s called Olly all of a sudden?

As ever, shout-outs to @p70.bsky.social @metalkevin.bsky.social and @allthatchas.bsky.social. Thanks to everyone for listening and support. In loving memory of Asha Bhosle and many others.

What has become of our table manners? Recent surveys suggest that 73 per cent of Britons believe table manners are less important than they once were. It shows.

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Calm down, most cows aren't 'killers' It's basic common sense: tread calmly and quietly, don't walk a dog near cows and don't go near their babies.

Me on cows

Every 12 months they kill five of us and we kill 2.8 million of them. Perhaps we’re the dangerous ones?

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What has become of our table manners? Recent surveys suggest that 73 per cent of Britons believe table manners are less important than they once were. It shows.

Me on table manners

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Pictured: The monkeys force-fed to test fat jabs The footage supplied to The Mail on Sunday was secretly filmed by a lab worker at two UK testing plants who said he was horrified the 'immense distress' the animals endured.

A lab worker at UK animal testing plants has shared footage of the hell - the hell - that animals go through there.

This is what @animalresearch.bsky.social are paid to cover up

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Giving up caffeine is a fool’s errand Everyone is giving up something these days. Even before this week’s flood of new year’s resolutions, we’re in the age of subtraction as people shed vices like old skins. Cigarettes, alcohol – those vi...

Me on the hell of giving up caffeine

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The ole Celts are (eventually) magic

Ignore that 🤣

One of the most degrading halves of football I’ve seen for a while

Nailed on to go to pens 🤣

Yeah, does anyone know if the Strait of Hormuz is open on Sundays? If so, what time?

The pain and paranoia of the London Marathon Running the London Marathon is a life affirming experience – and that's even before the magical moment when you reach the finishing line

I wrote about the paranoia - or maranoia, if you will - of the final week before the marathon.

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Out now: a very special episode of Jesus Christ They’ve Done It!

When I set out on this podcast odyssey six months ago, my biggest dream was to interview Mick Jackson, the director of Threads.

Well, sometimes dreams come true. Enjoy!

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After five months and hundreds of miles, my training for the London Marathon is as good as over. Time to follow the example of this darling who I saw on today’s 12-miler.

A few people asked whether me getting the Mick Jackson interview means the podcast is finished.

Not at all! I’m taking a few weeks off because I’ve got a marathon to run, a book to finish writing and a dog to keep cuddling.

See you in May with some great guests. The odyssey continues!

Listening to this now and it's absolutely fascinating hearing about the making of Threads. I'd love to see the haunted looking portrait he used to keep in the garage. I hope it was documented before it sadly burned.

UK households issued ‘scary’ nuclear war warning - ‘time to be aware’ EXCLUSIVE: UK households are being warned to prepare for the possibility of nuclear war by two experts.

My latest episode made the Daily Express 😱

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This is the Times cartoon that Mick Jackson mentioned during my interview with him on my podcast.

Check it out on ‘Jesus Christ, They’ve Done It - the Threads podcast.’ On all the main platforms.

Thank you so much 🙌🏼❤️

This is simply unbeatable. Well done @allthatchas.bsky.social. And a worthy tribute to the great man.

So much fun. I think the essential Britishness of the film was a big draw for me. The understated ‘let’s get on with it’ character of especially the city administrators in the bunker, or watching Ruth being slowly overwhelmed as her life plan dissolves.

Mick Jackson interview (Threads director) Podcast Episode · Jesus Christ, They've Done It - The Threads Podcast · 15 April · 50min

You don’t need to have watched Threads to enjoy this one. Available on all pod platforms. Here’s the Apple…

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Out now: a very special episode of Jesus Christ They’ve Done It!

When I set out on this podcast odyssey six months ago, my biggest dream was to interview Mick Jackson, the director of Threads.

Well, sometimes dreams come true. Enjoy!

@bangpodcast.bsky.social @scarredforlife.bsky.social

Please share my next post, friends 🫶🏼

- They've started editing, Mum.
- Who has?
- The Threads podcast.
- It's just been on the news. My dad says you've got to come home now.

On the next episode of Jesus Christ, They’ve Done It, I interview the director of Threads - the one and only Mick Jackson.

Coming soon…

Over the past few months, I’ve been training for the London Marathon, so most weekends I’ve been out running more than 20 miles at a stretch.

✍️ Chas Newkey-Burden

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Three things that scare the crap out of me as an adult:

Drunk people

Rail replacement buses

Men

Three things that scared the crap out of me as a kid:

Stag beetles

When people who wore glasses suddenly took them off

Even the prospect of anyone vomiting