Eat the rich. The poor are all tough and stringy.

This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites. The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.

Quite insane seeing this attire on US television

“My tastes have always been funereal and dirge-like.” Mine too, Kenneth; mine too. 2026 will be the centenary of his birth and I wonder how much people think about him any more. He was certainly a key person for me when it came to my falling in love with language 🖤 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Thoroughly recommend following @wildlifekate.bsky.social on Instagram. If like me you love owls, kittens and hens, your wildest hopes will be exceeded. Would very much like her to get a giraffe but realise this is probably a bit unrealistic in Wales.

Immediately stash bottle of champagne in the fridge.

One banal point from all of these photos is how tawdry it all looks. Like a run-down hotel full of disheveled oddballs you try to avoid.

A podcast I am listening to is interrupted by an advert for "AI Call Centre Chatbots" which it breezily asserts will “skyrocket your customer satisfaction levels”. Am confident that this will prove to be an over-claim.

In addition to 5 years of social media history, CBP would also require tourists to provide all phone numbers used over that period, any email addresses used in the past decade, DNA and iris scans, and the names, addresses, birthdates and birthplaces of family members Including children

I’M LOSING MY SHIT THIS IS SO FUNNY

I don't really post anymore, but I would like to carry on writing books at some point in the future. Hate to be annoying, but any chance you could retweet so old twitter followers can find me if they want to? Going to delete my twitter, or at least abandon it on lock and let it die a slow death.

I love living in a country where there's no way to avoid having these people imposed on us even if we reject them at the ballot box. Either through constant media tours like Jon Ashworth or appointment to the Lords like this.

Once right-wing oligarchs gain control of just about every national and local media company, social media platform, and big AI, as they are systematically doing with little notice from the general public, it will be game, set and match for the Republic.

I hope people understand that if Trump gets his way America will soon be part of the global axis of evil if we aren't already. You see it in the Caribbean, you see it in Ukraine, and you see it with Trump trying to buddy up to Xi. We are a malevolent force.

People keep wondering why they're going after Venezuela. It's because they want to do regime change and control its oil, then use a big tract of land there to keep a tax free "network state" that looks like Dubai but operates like Rhodesia. They are saying this out loud! Believe them!

i have thoughts...thoughts drawn from the history of fascism...Mussolini had this level or micro managing including which fonts could be used in newspapers

The Sun hasn’t made a profit in years

🚨🚨New episode 🚨🚨 Trump’s National Security Strategy: Make Europe Whiter Again? With Jonathan Terra podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b...

Would love to see Trump have to respond to factual questions. What do the letters NATO stand for? You say you settled a war between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Can you point to either of them on this map?

Do you notice how basically nothing in British politics makes sense, unless key players and major commentators are absolutely deranged? And then it makes *way too much* sense, everything slots together just fine. Because it’s elite radicalisation, they have driven themselves and each other crazy.

I think she is trying to alter her epitaph but it has already been written: "Perpetual ignominy" and "lettuce".

They all look like their own waxworks

Approximately, none.

The fact that everyone *including news media* is always talking about the news in terms of political strategy, palace intrigue, and their own posturing, leads to a culture of treating every issue politics touches as just another pro sport

The tech oligarchs are the most organised, determined anti democratic force we’ve seen this side of World War II For way too long this has been ignored, elided and under estimated What someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time

The US government is summarily executing people on a weekly basis without telling the American people any of their names or presenting any proof of their guilt, for alleged crimes that do not carry the death penalty in the US.

Glance briefly through timeline. Congratulations to Zia Yusuf on his extreme and universal unpopularity. #BBCQT

“Tonight, Question Time is in Dover for an immigration special” Unfortunately I have a prior appointment to set fire to my own legs. #bbcqt

Trump's face is becoming contorted as he desperately tries to cling to consciousness

Could easily inform them without recourse to "detailed review".

Sick of hearing about the fucking budget, already.

Daily dose of sheer insanity.

For people wondering what Liz Truss is up to now, my Clubland Substack’s end-of-month news round-up has this summary. The details are quite extraordinary. clubland.substack.com/p/late-novem...

One of the reasons I expect Reform to go worse in the UK than Trumpism is going in the US is that I think the UK has weaker civic society institutions. Our churches and universities are less rich, powerful, or inclined to resist, our media more compliant and uniform, our unions just as desiccated.

Sought and found asylum in the UK

Badenoch is an inferior Moral Maze panellist of the Claire Fox calibre

Disinhibition

The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.

The "don't have an extra kid if you can't afford it" brigade get awfully upset when you suggest they don't stay in their £2m house if they can't afford it, don't they?

NEW | Wading through coverage of the Budget… THE BUDGET, THE BRITISH PRESS, AND THE LONG SHADOW OF BENEFITS STREET Why a TV show from 2014 is still easy shorthand for creating division. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/the-budget...

What a damn shame.

Large number of comments on my timeline in a similar vein. Congratulations to Kemi Badenoch on her extreme and universal unpopularity.

Budget commentary on timeline agreeably diversified by this penetrating observation.

@michaeldweiss.bsky.social explains how the Ukraine “peace plan” got laundered into the media: leaks from Trump-world figures trying to force the deal into existence, with JD Vance and Marco Rubio pulling string and vying to be MAGA's 2028 successor.

what the fuck

Has been fairly evident for years though that Trevor Phillips is a terrible cunt.

Based on your recent interaction, how likely are you to conduct a poisonous vendetta against BT for the entire rest of your life? From 0 (not at all likely) to 10 (extremely likely).

I wrote about the fake account blowup on X this weekend. A genuine post-truth nightmare and proof that these companies have polluted their platforms so thoroughly and traded reality for profit that they've undermined the very idea of what the internet is supposed to be.