unlike all the strident leftists who were correct too early, i am correct at exactly the right time

An unkind part of me thinks like this. But more practically, how is it that actors get a visa so much easier than anyone else? You couldn't find an American to play an American? Isn't that how this is meant to work?

Israeli forces are massacring Palestinian journalists - committing war crimes on a scale that would normally make headline news - and yet Western media are still calling this a "ceasefire". Pure propaganda.

Today was lame, but then I remembered that Dogma is no longer Harvey Weinstein's property and therefore easy to watch, and there was a pack of fizzy strawberry laces in the back of the cupboard.

Uwe Boll's Schindler's List

Seen a lot of "arm yourself" stuff out there from anti-ice people on various platforms tonight. Seen vets talking about learning from insurgencies and guerilla fighters they fought. So it's going to get bloody as hell if the self-declared sensibles don't actually do something.

Every bit of western culture popular narrative underlined what is right and wrong and that so many just entirely missed it is so disheartening.

Ultimately you're not supposed to believe it. It not mattering is the point. The bolder the lie, the greater the impunity. The ultimate victory for evil is not convincing you, it's the truth being irrelevant.

Someone said don't seek this video out and I disagree. Watch it. Show everyone.

We can all get things wrong, but if I had been this consistently and catastrophically wrong about such important issues I don't think I could carry on publishing my opinions every week. I'd want to go away and think about how I'd so badly misunderstood the things I write about.

There's a lot of "free reign" here when it should be "free rein". Probably one of those rare circumstances when that matters too.

I don't think this is a revelation.

It doesn't count as retirement when you were getting paid to eat on telly.

Europeans after managing to prevent the collapse of NATO for another 1-2 weeks… #Europe #Rutte

The original 80s show always ended with a moral "this is how you be a kind and decent person" coda.

He can stay in a fucking Travelodge, eat purely Gregg's and he can go to Thorpe Park for an afternoon if he's a good boy.

My local bookshop understands their audience.

This is an excellent analogy, because my recollection from grade school is that the pen on the right looks fun and exciting, and then you play with it for a few minutes and realize it's not actually useful for anything and in fact makes some tasks more cumbersome, and never think about it again.

When I changed to the posh school it was at the same time as a kid came back from an American holiday doing exactly that. And his name was literally Michael Jackson. It was a very confusing first week for 8-year old me.

No, you must learn from the labour party that you just keep telling people who hate you that you agree with the people they're voting for anyway.

The only 0 is Reform 2024 to Labour 2026. Meanwhile, 8% of the Labour vote has gone Reform and 24% has gone Green/LibDem. Note the Labour/LibDem/Green Don't Knows, though. Thoughts and prayers with Morgan, Luke and the rest of the Hero Voter whisperers.

how far is Davos from Dignitas

None of these things are to distract us from the Epstein files. The Epstein files distracts them from doing these things.

The general electorate doesn't look at polls and make such choices. They'll just not vote at all and reform will get in by default.

The New World asked me to speak to some British trans women about what life has been like for them over the past few years - here's what they had to say, in their own words: www.thenewworld.co.uk/marie-le-con...

Gavin Newsom is so full of shit. Utter cretin. If he's your saviour, we're all fucked.

I think a good sign of whether you have a broad enough media diet is “do you know things that you are bored by and wish you didn’t?” And the Beckham feud, and indeed the names of the Beckham children, are filling that role for me at the moment.

This is why solidarity is everything. If you vote for the bigot to persecute the people you’re bigoted against, don’t be surprised if he comes for you

Lolololol

Royal Court has changed its loos. This is about as good a solution to the EHRC nonsense as is possible (and loads of places absolutely do not have the capacity to do this).

The concept of 'whispering' something in a newspaper column

Oh god, not Chagos discourse again. We should do a war against Trump just for that.

Must be a weird feeling for the Americans stationed there that their quiet backwater deployment has become a potential flashpoint and the opposing side is mostly white people who speak perfect English.

Hawai'i being annexed by a distant power... So, about that...

sorry, but every person has their limit. i'm very tolerant, but i draw the line at LGBT people in broadway musicals.

And we don't need one. Problem solved.

Oh are we doing that whole bit again where we pretend Brianna Ghey died because of social media rather than because of the people who stabbed her 28 times.

I'm getting the ick every time Starmer describes something as "wrong". It's giving calling an adult "naughty" vibes.

Now tv coming at me with an "offer" to return to the service. Still needing to pay extra to have higher than 720p. Absolute fucking clowns.

I'm so fed up of life just getting progressively worse because some arseholes decided to do that. It wasn't inevitable or unavoidable. It wasn't even unforeseen. It is a series of very deliberate choices that some guys made.

Just quite selfishly I'd like America to stop being fucking mental, because my current client is kinda dependent on that. And I'm quite dependent on having clients. There you go, easy microcosm of international trade for you.

How it started ... How it's going

Europe has - in technical terms - an absolute sod load of potential economic leverage over the United States. It has turned the other cheek due to security concerns. The US seems intent on demonstrating that it will not guarantee European security. So Europe may start using that leverage.

Seems unfair that you only get to use the bouncy slide to get off a plane when things have gone wrong. The bouncy slide should be a treat they give to the best passengers who did the flight correctly.

I’m starting to wonder if looking genuinely happy and acting like you really love the city is a more effective way to campaign (and govern) than scowling about what a shithole the city is and how many more cops it will take to subdue it.