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My new book is published today, and my cats highly recommend it. www.penguin.co.uk/books/462676...
I try not to food shame but my father has gone too far this time with his leftover-based lunch dish 😂
#ShareGoodNews - despite the efforts of the Right (looking at YOU, Yaxley-Lennon/Posh Tommy and at YOU, Farage and your stooges like #LucyConnolly) London has the lowest level of ethnic violence of any city of comparable size in the world.
If you're standing around in Windsor, in a silly red hat, remember In Britain MAGA hat = MEGA twat.
Written by a doctor at St Thomas' Hospital, London after the Tommy Robinson march on 13/9.
As a spotty teenage boy, with one and only one thing on my mind, I was regularly drawn to the books by the covers. However, I could never stomach the bilge inside. There was better writing, which was also less demeaning to women in the newsagent's top-shelf magazines.
Silk was hard to get in 40s Britain, even without the war. An Uncle was in the RN in the Far East. When he came back home for officer training in 1942, he managed to bring a big bolt of silk. His sisters greeted him like a conquering hero; the silk eventually became their wedding dresses.
When I have builders in, I always have this compulsion to put on a Motorhead T-shirt and play metal. In reality, I listen to all sorts of music, but part of me believes they won't think I'm such a wuss with that going on in the background.
“Their silence, because they’re afraid, is their support to the genocide.” 👏👏👏
Soon to be followed by the Nitwits of Brexit, Francoise and Frost? At which point, the low average number of brain cells across the party will decline even further.
As early as 1931, while still in Germany, Albert Einstein spoke against American racism. "It must be pointed out … that the exclusion of the colored population from active civil rights by the common practices is a slap in the face of the Constitution of the nation." - Albert Einstein, 1946 #History
I used to get told off by people for calling certain people fascists - apparently it weakened the word - now, those people I called fascists are being fascists - what really weakens the word is not using it when we can try and stop them and only use it when they have power
The standard bearers of fascism, a political system whereby wealthy, well-connected bigots use deniable actions by the criminal-minded & useful idiots from the "lower" classes to undermine law & order & democracy. While at the same time loudly decrying the breakdown in law and order & democracy.
Summer left Liverpool several weeks ago. Since the start of the month, it has been cold and pissing down almost every day. So, back to business as usual meteorologically.
You didn't perhaps imply that to call #ElonMusk a steaming pile of shit is unfair, to steaming piles of shit, everywhere?
Just wow 😵💫 #MolluscMonday
Gonna write some brief troll mitigation tips for you all because like any successful, happy woman on the internet, i’ve had ‘em Tips break down into two main areas: 1. Defensive tactics: how not to make it easy for them 2. Offensive tactics: fuck ‘em up 🧵:
Kirk was a Nazi, hence he's "good" as the only good Nazi is a dead one. Something which seems utterly lost on the BBC & much of the news media, who seem to be determined to cement his place as MAGA's (and by extension UK fascism's) martyred saint.
At what point do Labour MPs decide to rescue their party - and their seats - by evicting Starmer and Reeves? When voting intention figures fall to 19%? 15%? 10%? (Last week they stood at 21%, and have prob fallen since) The longer they leave it, the harder and less plausible the recovery will be.
Doesn't matter how much child abuse you sanction, just don't cross the Labour leadership.
Why does he feel the need to comment on the murder of a US extremist who means nothing to most UK voters? If this is part of his/McSweeney's strategy to woo Reform voters, it's just pathetic. Even Farage would (publicly) baulk at some of Kirk's views & wouldn't want Reform associated with them.
Like many medieval Lords, de Montfort Jr was up to his eyeballs in debt to Jewish bankers. So he murdered his creditors. Unlike many other mass murderers, many still regard him as an English political hero & he has a University named after him, which hates it when you mention the genocide.
Agreed about Ultraviolet. The story is that Joe Ahearne never intended to write & direct all 6 episodes. But no one else's scripts were considered good enough. The result was that his time was totally consumed with the first series; he never had the time & was too knackered to develop a second arc.
I worked in a Cretan Youth Hostel for a while. Used to get dust storms from Libya on the southerly wind, the Meltemi. The only usual warning was to find a vulture perched nearby. They are big birds, especially when one is waiting for proof of death before deciding whether to make you its breakfast.
Cool coat!
Tonight on Newsnight, we have an interview with Reichsmarshall Herman Goering about the horrific numbers of German soldiers killed by Allied forces engaged in the "liberation" of Europe. After that Nigel Farage will present the weather forecast, followed by a repeat of Bake Off with Nigel Farage.
Just reading 'On Tyranny' by Timothy Snyder. This hits hard for English flag wankers.
So was the BBC, from '39 to '45; something which seems to have escaped them as well.
There was a young couple vigorously probing one another's tonsils on the 86A from Liverpool City Centre last night. Not quite the same thing, admittedly, but the first time Paula H let me kiss her was on the top deck of the bus, so it brought back some memories.
Wouldn't want to eat Reform supporters anyway, all that ultra-processed food, preservatives and trans-fats, etc, in their diets is going to make them into very unhealthy eating.
Let me check I’ve got this right. Someone calling for entirely innocent foreign-born people to be burned alive at a time of serious social unrest is a free speech champion who must be feted. And some calling them & their hideous promoters in politics & media racist is a menace who must be silenced.
Yet another example of the moral void at the heart of Starmer's Labour Party Exposed by @theipaper.com's Vicky Spratt inews.co.uk/news/labour-...
Good Morning! How about looking at some cool (weird) bugs fly? FYI Owlflies are very cute 🧪🪲 youtu.be/lD8sKzA_FZU?...
The fundamental difference between anti-fascism and fascism is this: The fascists go home, so do we. We go home, the fascists turn up at our door. And if think fascists won't turn up at your door, history proves you wrong. They'll get around to you eventually.
An American guy I was friends with at University was the son of an officer in the Pittsburgh Police. He said his Dad always held that the acronym FBI meant Fucking Big Idiots. They now have the leadership to go with the title.
Want one!
Interesting how someone who owns god knows how many horses can be described as "frugal"
@hutchinsondave.bsky.social 'ere's sum Sheffield culture for ya youtu.be/zcDu9LY2-oU?...
The Elizabeth I's unique facility for eliminating enemy infantry with pots of excrement accurately hurled from portals on the superstructure left British forces facing a critical capability gap.
Windows 10 PSA: support ends this October. However, there's an option on the Windows Update tab (under settings > updates) to 'enrol for ongoing updates'. I did that. It's entirely free and runs to October 2026.
Trump certainly kicks up to (and kisses the ring of) Putin, boss of bosses of the Bratva
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Watch out for the announcement of this Only Fans site......
Breaking: Irish broadcaster RTE says that Ireland will not participate in Eurovision next year if Israel does. "RTÉ feels that Ireland’s participation would be unconscionable given the ongoing and appalling loss of lives in Gaza." about.rte.ie/2025/09/11/r...
Peter Mandelson’s life purpose is groveling to the ultra-rich. Twice he went too far even for Tony Blair’s government, and was obliged to resign. To Keir Starmer, looking to define his premiership against every traditional Labour value, it seems that this made him just the man for the job.
Mandelson is a clever crook who only entered Labour politics because it was the family trade. Lacking morality or principles and happy to abase himself before any evil bastard, as long as they are rich enough, he would have made a fine Mafia consiglieri.
Everyone say hello to Tupi, a lil’ capybara baby at the San Antonio Zoo. 🥹
The death of a hate-mongering grifter is always a cause for celebration, and his kids have a slightly better chance of not growing up to be Nazis with him gone.
The Boycott movement gathers pace, this is fantastic from the film industry and actors alike. The Israeli film industry complains that some of them are not bad guys, that's not the point. buff.ly/1jOaJYf
She looks like she's from a religious order?
Slogan ideas… “Smoking hot body or your money back” – crematorium “The first one’s on the house” – chimney installers “We’re not afraid to raise a few eyebrows” – plastic surgeons “We’ll help bring out your inner child” – maternity ward “There’s no turning back now” – neck brace manufacturers
Bring your own sheep
This is a masterclass in narrative tension
Apparently, it's bad luck to mention a "MacBook" in a software company. You have to call it "the Scottish laptop".
I can't work out if it's cowardice, stupidity, or the visceral loathing of those on the Labour right for anything vaguely leftish. Or maybe Peter Wright & the MI5 Spycatcher cranks were right, Labour is a Russian front, & Putin has ordered them to prepare the way for Nigel Nigelovitch's takeover.
So help me, I laughed #shitpost #meme #distractedBoyfriend
I spent my teenage summers splitting firewood, but could never build stacks that neat. Usually, because the dog would select a piece, generally from near the bottom & carry it around all day, before abandoning it. My mum would then ask why I had left a piece of firewood in the middle of the lawn
The Daily Express would publish exclusive interviews and probably arrange for the child to meet the current reincarnation of Diana.
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Surprised we are yet to see a "Royal insider" claiming a baby whose identity only they know, but which they will hint if it's in the public interest/yields enough cash, to be the Queen reborn. The waste of such a glorious grifting opportunity puzzles me. Young people today have no drive, etc., etc.
She's going to have an interesting Fresher's Week
I'm an immigrant to Ireland, from a country that has done a LOT more harm to Ireland than India ever has, and yet I've very rarely had any shite. Seeing Irish racist goons cosying up to racists in the UK tells you what they are really about. It isn't love of country. It's plain moronic prejudice.
what a humiliating way for don jr. to find out his dad sends birthday cards.
Thanks to all those who tuned in to the We Have Ways livestream last night. Advanced copies of Jungle Commandos with signed book plates will be available at the festival this weekend.
Bagpuss returns after time away to deal with his drinking problem, too much Ovaltine can really mess you up, and finds himself sent to the cold case unit. First enquiry, who killed Weed? Was it Bill or Ben?
Giving Johnson access to money & thinking he won't misuse it is like giving a dog access to a lamp post & expecting him not to piss on it. Anyone remember Jennifer Arcuri, provider of IT training and taxpayer-supported blowjobs?
Dive into the sunset. 11 shots, edited in lightroom, stacked in photoshop. Background stacked individually from 6 shots, slight bend in the horizon due to the stacking. #birds
Remember when Trump said the birthday card he signed and sent to Epstein “doesn’t exist”? Anyway, here it is:
Imagine the message it would send if Gary Lineker won 'Presenter of the Year' at this year's National Television Awards Standing up for compassion & the right to speak out And, the feathers it would ruffle My lovely followers, you know what to do: nationaltvawards.com/vote 🗓️ Deadline: 12th Sep
Dad was a tank troop leader in Italy. His Churchills, supported the Gurkhas during 44/45. A pre-war professional soldier, he developed tremendous respect for their professionalism, military ability and ferocity. He also gained a lifelong love of all things Indian and Nepali, particularly the food.
Slightly diminish a book: Tolstoy's War and Peas
Compulsory god bothering, including hymn singing, prayers, etc, at school assembly turned me into an atheist by the time I was 16. Hopefully, if the moron party ever gets to implement this bollocks, modern kids will be able to see through the bullshit.
I went to a couple of RCP meetings in Bristol in 89/90. I have never been in a room with so many poshos in my life. Not even at Uni. One girl kindly gave me a lift home in her brand new VW Golf. I asked how much it cost as I was thinking of getting one. She didn't know; it was a birthday present
Slightly diminish a book: The Lord of the Rinse
Surely it's a bit much to ask Streeting to rule out more private finance? I mean, if he pisses off the money men, what is he going to do for lucrative Directorships & Consultancies after his political career inevitably goes down in flames?
Got to be the Blackpoll, as he's wearing the colours of my football team (Newcastle United). His orange feet also make him look like he's wearing a snazzy pair of high-tech boots.
Gurkhas terrified the Germans in Italy. One (possibly apocryphal) story my Dad told about working with the Gurkhas: A Gurkha night patrol found 3 Germans asleep in a bunker. They cut the throats of 2 but left the man in the middle unharmed to tell the story & spread terror amongst his comrades.
ATTENTION BRITAIN! 🇬🇧 The UK now has a petition to STOP CENSORSHIP by MasterCard and VISA of legal products! This joins the Australian and Canadian petitions that are gaining momentum. Come on, let's get these signed! And spread the word! The UK petition: petition.parliament.uk/signatures/1...
That's about right.
And his supporters are mostly English idiots
Doesn't he have to get permission from his son before he can look at, never mind lick, another man's balls? That must make for some really awkward conversations at the family dinner table.
Rayner's offences were being female, northern & working class & of course, a lefty. A right-wing male ex-Etonian (or Dulwichian(?)) could have shagged the estate agent, pocketed the tax money & told critics to sod off. The Fail & Torygraph would be lauding a blow struck against woke, or whatever.
Any imaginable grift, the more absurd the better, as long as it ticks their boxes - they'll swallow it wholesale. Looking at them on TV, I think there needs to be more research done on the effects of leaded petrol on the inability of many of the over-50s to cope with reality.
'Pre-Blondie Debbie Harry Book Cover Model' 1971 www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/...
I respect the Union Flag; my family has a military tradition & it's the flag they served under. But I went to a lot of punk/ska gigs in my youth; these were often disrupted by NF supporting skinheads with England flags. So when I see one, it brings back visceral memories of fighting racist twats.
This gets progressively funnier with every use of the term "floppy".
![One of Britain’s most senior police officers has launched an angry tirade against Extinction Rebellion protesters going “all floppy” when they get arrested. Sir Stephen House, the deputy commissioner of the Metropolitan police, said the tactic of going limp was a “flipping nuisance” as it required extra officers to drag protesters away. House told a London assembly police and crime committee hearing: “We have asked them to stop being floppy. And that might seem like a silly thing to say, but when we arrest them and pick them up, they go all floppy, which is why you see four or five officers carrying them away. It’s a complete waste of officers’ time, and a complete pain in the neck.” Extinction Rebellion: how successful were the latest protests? Read more House also expressed annoyance at how the tactic made the police look heavy-handed. He said: “The problem with them going floppy and four offices carrying them away [is that it] looks to the general public like police are overreacting here. We’re not making them go floppy. They’re just sort of being a nuisance.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7uvcqt45oqlutlrtgx7bpodq/bafkreie7yqxb4cj2t4gxftiqsno5wgk2kczb5vbtj7wh2b2u5sjtqtdrku@jpeg "Click to view full size")
it's not gender activism, it's transphobia and bigotry it's not gender activism, it's transphobia and bigotry it's not gender activism, it's transphobia and bigotry it's not gender activism, it's transphobia and bigotry it's not gender activism, it's transphobia and bigotry
The "more money to spend on books" bit might be a clue why Farage and his moronic cult followers dislike solar panels
Just don't spend all your time doing this......
He didn't "misspeak". He lied. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
They could only afford second-hand servants.
In my youth, I worked briefly for a charity run by a Catholic Missionary Order. They did good work, but the Brothers lived comfortable lives. I had to make a weekly report to my supervisor, Brother T, in his study. This was no chore, as I got a glass of fine single malt or, on occasion, good claret.
Since the beginning of agriculture, when granaries became temples & food stores came under the control of priests, religion has been a racket. Cynics & charlatans proliferate, happily exploiting believers & the gullible for status & power. They hate it when anyone has the temerity to point this out.
Feel free to share the fact that these racist, nativist flag fliers are led by a man convicted for trying to smuggle migrants into the UK hopenothate.org.uk/2025/08/19/e...
I can easily imagine a first Reform cabinet comprising Farage, Tice and a bunch of teenage racists fresh from public school. Rapidly followed by a Farage meltdown when he realises that as PM, he actually has to do some work and can't spend all day lying on GB News or brown nosing Trump.
I bet Wes Streeting is rubbing his clammy little hands with glee.