David Ryan

Journalist | author | DVD extra. Words in The Spectator, Unherd and Spiked Online. Invented George Orwell film studies. New book Old Bailey Hack, on Rumpole.

[David Ryan @davidxryan]

"Don't make me chunky. You wouldn't like me when I'm chunky."

[Jenny 🌺 @G0AwayHeat]

All the kids’ favorites are here: Luigi, Mario, Bowser, Prostitute, Toad.

[David Ryan @davidxryan]

@DnlYn2892212345 Klowns 4, Phantasm 5. Removed Phantasm II, III and IV from the watchlist. Bumped up Child's Play (which I'd seen in 1988) from a 6 to a 7 on IMDb, as it had its moments. Gave the 2019 Child's Play a 4, as it was bollocks.

[David Ryan @davidxryan]

Been catching up on Prime with films that used to make the cover of Starburst magazine in the late 80s - Killer Klowns from Outer Space, the Phantasm franchise, etc - and I think I can safely say they're utter drivel.

[David Ryan @davidxryan]

@hellothisisivan The honest-guv-I'm-not-racist-really people can't contain themselves at the moment.

[Jim de’Griz @jimdeGrizzle]

It’s almost like the ‘social sciences’ have run out of subjects worthy of detailed investigation…

[David Ryan @davidxryan]

@poynterton

[David Ryan @davidxryan]

@NathanMkII If I had a large stash of dodgy epubs, which if course I don't, I'd just run them through Speechify and have John Rhys-Davies (or Gwyneth Paltrow, or Snoop Dogg) read them to me.

[David Ryan @davidxryan]

@NathanMkII I keep reducing the price of the David Fisher version but no one's biting...

[Peter Sarris @peter_sarris]

Years ago I got punched in the face outside a gay pub in Cambridge. A few days later I got a call: ‘Hi I’m Sandra. I’m the Police Liaison Officer. I’m here for people who are Lesbian. Gay, or any type of religion really.’😂

[David Ryan @davidxryan]

@NathanMkII I'm a digital-only kinda guy these days. Selling all my analogue stuff on eBay, because what's the point of hanging onto it?

[David Ryan @davidxryan]

@NathanMkII Paradise of Death comes out on August 6.
https://t.co/VYYf0SUmLl
Androids of Tara on November 5.
https://t.co/rkUmOPAvf6

[NPRG @CptHastings1916]

In the final analysis, most contemporary leftist rhetoric is functionally indistinguishable from the phrase Shut Up.

[David Ryan @davidxryan]

Basically, one of those sketches where Paul Whitehouse is Harry Enfield's pet Geordie

[Charlotte Gill @CharlotteCGill]

I'm sure working-class men in Tyneside LOVE that taxpayers are funding this PhD about them

"This study will draw upon biographical methods, conducting 40 interviews with male participants in Tyneside - a predominantly white post-industrial area with a paucity of research on race (Nayak, 2003). A gendered analysis will assist in examining ways in which once normalised notions of masculinity can be validated in right-wing ideology." https://t.co/VIiRiBh6bN

[David Ryan @davidxryan]

@JackHadders The screenshot's an intelligence test, which you've failed.

[David Ryan @davidxryan]

If she's the face of the future, the two most palatable options are emigration and death.

[Ben Goldsmith @BenGoldsmith]

It’s baffling to me that the few remaining normal people in Oxford and the other British universities don’t melt away in embarrassment at what these institutions have become.

Anyone involved with any of our universities knows that things are worse than even you might imagine.

[David Ryan @davidxryan]

The striking part was how unBritish it was. It was below the belt. It wasn't cricket.

[Wes Streeting @wesstreeting]

I’m not going to amplify Reform’s ad by sharing it, but the wilful misrepresentation of Kemi Badenoch - selectively quoting what she said about ‘white lives matter’ - is disgraceful and dangerous.

It needs to be challenged, including by those of us who are not Conservatives.

[David Ryan @davidxryan]

Have Americans adopted the word 'gobsmacked' now? Like they have with 'brilliant' and 'over the top'?

[TV News Now @TVNewsNow]

🚨 Fox’s Kevin Corke STUNNED by scale of RED WAVE in Los Angeles and California: “I am gobsmacked by the numbers” in L.A. county!”

“In and around Sacramento, boy does Steve Hilton really start to pick up numbers and it’s consistent. Look at Nevada too!”

“It’s going to be a very interesting night for Steve Hilton and for a lot of people who didn’t anticipate he’d do as well as he’s doing.”

[David Ryan @davidxryan]

I first saw Catherine Tate a couple of years later as part of Lee Mack's Bits, in a room above a pub in Kentish Town. I remember thinking she was quite cute.

[Did You See? @TvDidYouSee]

#OnThisDay 3 June 1997
#CatherineTate appears in #TheBill - A Rock and a Hard Place.

[David Ryan @davidxryan]

JW Waterworld, which was drearier than I remembered. The one time I visited Universal Studios, their main live show was Waterworld in a big circular pool, with actors whizzing round on jetskis, bursting into flames on gantries, etc. I think it lasted a tolerable 20-30 mins.