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Alistair Canlin

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A struggling writer, who might very well be the next big thing, but I'll have to leave that to you to decide

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Alistair Canlin
7 years
Some words that were spinning round my head spewed out and ended up in #Twisted50 Get your copy #amwriting #horror
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Alistair Canlin
4 years
Why on earth is this irrelevant member of an irrelevant party still being given a platform to express his blinkered and backward views #marr
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4 years
I’m all your nightmares at once, I’m an intelligent woman with a crucifix Sister Agatha is 2020’s first heroine #Dracula
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Alistair Canlin
3 years
For what it cost to furnish Boris Johnson’s flat every life in Grenfell tower could have been saved #bbcqt
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2 years
“Why don’t we use the money from cancelled Christmas parties to help fund refugee charities?” One of the most humane thing ever said on Question Time… and Fiona Bruce quickly moves on allowing no response #bbcqt
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Alistair Canlin
6 years
Television Show Idea: Williford & Cooper Investigate Willifre & Cooper investigate crimes against historical figures using a time machine that Cooper invented and hides in the basement of the university #UniversityChallenge
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Alistair Canlin
3 years
“Boris did a lot of talking, but said nothing… “ Rosie Jones nails Boris Johnson, all bluff and bluster and zero content. Nothing but a crooked snake oil salesman #bbcqt
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1 year
That’s how you write a fucking finale! #HappyValley
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3 years
Asked about crime against women Boris Johnson replies “What we need to do is concentrate on real crime” His bumbling words are dangerous, and offensive to everybody #bbcbreakfast
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Alistair Canlin
4 years
We have the second largest death toll in the world “Now is not the time to measure such things” THEN WHEN THE FUCK IS? THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT HAS FAILED THE BRITISH PEOPLE! #bbcqt
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2 years
Rose breaks my heart #TheSplit
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8 months
“We need more time…” You’ve had thirteen years!!! #BBCLauraK
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6 years
Audience member accuses Priti Patel and her ilk of being arrogant... her response.... to look arrogant #bbcqt
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Alistair Canlin
4 years
A happy ending.... what a bloody delightful change!!! #TheNest
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6 years
When Tosh knows you’re full of shite #Shetland
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Alistair Canlin
5 years
It’s not Christmas until #CallTheMidwife has ripped out your heart, made you sob like a bairn, and then moments later makes you soar with happiness
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Alistair Canlin
1 year
The harbinger of hate given a platform to spout more of her hate and idiocy… Suella Braverman represents a Britain that I don’t recognise, and don’t really want to live in… a small minded, backward looking island of xenophobia #BBCLauraK
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Alistair Canlin
4 years
You’re naked it’s not your eyes they’re looking at This Nun is stealing the whole show #Dracula
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Alistair Canlin
3 years
Bonnie Greer’s reaction to Mail journalist discussing racism is more succinct than a thousand tweets #bbcqt
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Alistair Canlin
7 years
Was that you being a supportive boss? Yeah, any good? Bloody awful One of TVs best double-acts #broadchurch
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Alistair Canlin
3 years
A lesson on how to destroy the government, just repeat to them what they actually did #bbcqt
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7 years
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Alistair Canlin
5 years
God I've missed this beautifully awkward duo #TheEndOfTheFxxxingWorld
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3 years
“The NHS is a miracle!” Bonnie Greer dropping truth bombs #bbcqt
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Alistair Canlin
4 years
Racist defends racism by being racist #bbcqt
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Alistair Canlin
3 years
The Cake Fridge… can there be any better place on earth? #Shetland
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Alistair Canlin
9 years
Migrants = Humans http://t.co/Htqyg6sD2o
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Alistair Canlin
6 years
When you’re bored halfway through your performance and you decide to find out how the piano works #Eurovision
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Alistair Canlin
6 months
Every compassionate person is Layla Moran right now listening to the noise coming out of Esther McVey #bbcqt
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Alistair Canlin
3 years
“We in Wales should follow Scotland...” To be honest the world would be a better place if we all did this #bbcqt
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Alistair Canlin
7 years
@SusanCalman @keviclifton Could you get anymore British than a ballroom dancing contest disrupted by a storm called Ophelia #savekevin from #StormOphelia
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Alistair Canlin
4 years
The nation listening to a Tory MP #bbcqt
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Alistair Canlin
4 years
“We thought we could get away with letting children starve over the summer, but unfortunately we were caught” James Cleverly fails to say #bbcqt
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Alistair Canlin
5 years
I don’t care about the Ireland, give it back to them...👀 The ignorance of the little Englander is utterly terrifying! #bbcqt
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Alistair Canlin
2 years
The nation hearing yet more government lies #bbcqt
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Alistair Canlin
1 year
Can anybody explain to me how @EilishMccolgan has not been nominated for this year’s #BBCSPOTY ?!?!?!? She practically ran the distance of the moon and back this year #spoty
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6 years
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Alistair Canlin
3 years
“I would like fewer restrictions��” Not one single clap, not even a ripple, tumbleweed drifted across the studio #bbcqt
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Alistair Canlin
6 years
@MooseAllain As seen in Glasgow
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Alistair Canlin
5 years
The best thing about #KeepingFaith is that the characters are allowed time to breathe, to grow, to be real. You care for them, you care what happens to them. The whole thing is beautiful
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Alistair Canlin
4 years
“The virus has lost its potency” Proclaims village idiot #bbcqt
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Alistair Canlin
8 months
“It is not our policy to comment on intelligence” Because there is none in this government #BBCLauraK
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Alistair Canlin
5 years
We are all ⁦ @Bonn1eGreer ⁩ as she has to listen to Melanie Phillips witter on #bbcqt
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Alistair Canlin
6 years
Seriously? Craig David is singing to the Queen about that week he pulled a girl and shagged her for a few days.... #Queensbirthdayparty
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Alistair Canlin
5 years
“They’re not worried about the country, they’re just worried about their own jobs” Gina Miller nails the Tory Party’s position on Brexit perfectly #bbcqt
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Alistair Canlin
5 years
The voice of the British people #bbcqt
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Alistair Canlin
3 years
STOP SHOUTING AT EACH OTHER! SAYS WOMAN WHO CAN’T STOP SHOUTING!!!! #bbcqt
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Alistair Canlin
1 year
@SoVeryBritish The Spy Who Had A Bit Of A Soft Spot For Margaret In Accounts But Didn’t Want To Say Anything Just In Case It Made Things Awkward
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Alistair Canlin
3 years
When you know there might be a queue at the cake fridge so you come prepared #Shetland
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Alistair Canlin
2 years
Now that’s one hell of a backyard #Shetland
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Alistair Canlin
8 years
#callthemidwife can rip your heart apart with kindness
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Alistair Canlin
4 years
Somebody should sneeze in the studio and scare the shit out of them all #bbcqt
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Alistair Canlin
2 years
The passion of Ed Miliband is almost uncontrollable #BBCLauraK
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Alistair Canlin
2 years
@SoVeryBritish Glasgow has turned up in a very flashy outfit, looking particularly gallus, and headed straight to the fridge and is drinking you out of house and home…. But you’re rather loving their banter
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Alistair Canlin
5 years
My eyes twitching like crazy, so I’m either having a stroke, or I really need my bed.... Romance #Shetland style
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Alistair Canlin
8 years
That awkward moment when you realise you've not gotten away with murder #HappyValley
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Alistair Canlin
5 years
Martin Lewis trying his very best not to scream at the idiocy that surrounds him #bbcqt
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Alistair Canlin
3 years
“We’ve followed the science every step of the way” Did you fuck! #bbcqt
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Alistair Canlin
8 years
I'm voting for her! #bbcqt
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Alistair Canlin
4 years
So so disappointing that #Dracula lost its way in the end
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Alistair Canlin
2 years
Timothy West doesn’t say a single thing in the entire scene… but he completely steals the whole thing… a superb actor #GentlemanJack
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Alistair Canlin
5 years
Every viewer during this series of #Shetland
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Alistair Canlin
8 years
@lilyallen If you're upsetting Hopkins then, by god, you must be doing something right
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Alistair Canlin
4 years
Not so much a review of the papers, more a platform to Sarah Vine’s opinions on Boris’s underpants, foreigners stealing funding from Britain’s flood defences, and some inconsequential shit about the royals #marr
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Alistair Canlin
3 years
I read an article in the Daily Mail and it taught me everything I needed to know about international diplomacy #bbcqt
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Alistair Canlin
6 years
Perez & Tosh, the best double act on television #Shetland
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Alistair Canlin
2 years
As the cases of sleaze grow more and more every day the government stooges that are put up in front of the media to defend the horror show that Boris Johnson’s government has become become more and more obscure #bbcbreakfast #torysleaze #borismustgo
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Alistair Canlin
3 years
“Europe should let us win Eurovision otherwise we won’t send our drunks over and shit on their beaches” #bbcqt
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Alistair Canlin
4 years
The real miracle of #TheAWord is how they all manage to get a perfect phone signal
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Alistair Canlin
3 years
The greatest detective #Shetland has ever seen
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Alistair Canlin
1 year
It’s amazing what you can pick up from the middle aisle of Aldi #Germany #Eurovision #Eurovision2023
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Alistair Canlin
7 months
It’s sad that we still need David Attenborough to remind us how we are fucking up the planet… he must be so tired of repeating the same message again and again… one day we will listen… please god one day #PlanetEarth3
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Alistair Canlin
6 months
“I wouldn’t have used those words, but the sentiment…” A half hearted attempt at being a politician, Grant Shapps lets himself down as a human being again and again… the sooner the despicable cronies go the better #bbclaurak
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Alistair Canlin
7 years
The Brexit Negotiation Team struggles with their new colouring in book #bbcqt
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Alistair Canlin
6 years
Force Iain Dale to eat chlorinated chicken live on air #marr #marrshow
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Alistair Canlin
3 years
“It’s only after the election that we’ll understand the outcome of the ballot” Well thank fuck for Douglas Ross explaining democracy for us #bbcqt
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Alistair Canlin
2 years
It never ceases to amaze me how brilliant the telephone signal is in #Shetland
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Alistair Canlin
5 years
Gina Miller baffles everybody with facts #bbcqt
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Alistair Canlin
7 years
. @BegumNadiya tries to understand a Scottish accent #NadiyasBritishFoodAdventure
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Alistair Canlin
4 years
World Beating Incompetence #bbcqt
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Alistair Canlin
3 years
“Do you want to keep digging that hole? I can still see the top of your head” Romance, Tosh style #Shetland
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Alistair Canlin
3 years
“We need to get the jabs in people’s arms...” Where the hell has this ludicrous phrase come from... oh yeah the buffoon-in-chief Boris Johnson It demeans the efforts of every single health professional. Injecting a patient is not just jabbing something in somebody’s arm #bbcqt
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Alistair Canlin
3 years
Utterly tone deaf, and out of her depth #bbcqt
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Alistair Canlin
7 years
If you vote Tory then for godsake don’t ever grow old, don’t become poor, and please don’t even think of getting ill #bbcqt
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Alistair Canlin
4 years
@Richard63277416 By sending us back to 1871
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Alistair Canlin
3 years
#CallTheMidwife crushes your heart in a tenderly beautiful way
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Alistair Canlin
8 years
And then I go and spoil it all By saying something stupid Like I love you #PresidentialDebate
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Alistair Canlin
5 years
“Your tactics are bullying...” squeals bully #bbcqt
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Alistair Canlin
6 years
Television Idea: 2nd series of Williford & Cooper Investigations Williford tries to miss use the time machine hidden in the basement of the university for his own gain. Cooper calls on the secret society of the beret to stop him before he changes history #universityChallenge
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Alistair Canlin
8 years
He deserves it #TheNightManager
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8 years
#TrumpBookReport Lolita. Young woman. Beautiful woman. Nobody respects her more than me. Not like Humbert. Weak. Low energy. No respect
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Alistair Canlin
10 months
Wahey!!! It looks like two rather rotund elderly men running away joyfully from a hysterically embarrassing prank on their friend Frank #AntiquesRoadshow I may need help
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Alistair Canlin
3 years
“Brexit is a fucking disaster” Truth #bbcqt
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Alistair Canlin
5 years
Audience member calls out the government on its hypocrisy and lies... James Cleverly then responds by lying #bbcqt
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Alistair Canlin
6 months
"There are some that don't want to respect Memorial Day" Grant Shapps #bbclaurak
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Alistair Canlin
8 years
@GaryLineker Come on! Malta defended against Scotland and lost 5-1. A 2-0 victory is poor performance by England, not Malta
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Alistair Canlin
5 years
“The one thing I wanted to do was not make a mess of things....” Well that plan went fucking marvellously Dave #TheCameronYears
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Alistair Canlin
6 years
Dr Who, The Early Years #HowardsEnd
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Alistair Canlin
3 years
When you know you’ve absolutely bossed it at the office Secret Santa #Shetland
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Alistair Canlin
3 years
New Government Policy on deterring illegal immigrants, put up big signs saying ‘We Are Closed’ bound to deter them… #TheSeaWasClosed
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