The new PM of Japan Sanae Takaichi styles herself as “the Japanese Thatcher”…a bit like all those Tribute Acts such as The Australian Doors…no good can come of this

Prince Andrew finding it hard to read Virginia’s new autobiography…his sweat keeps dripping onto the pages

Absolutely appalling service from Better UK. Glass Mill Leisure Centre keeps getting block booked in the mornings, so I can only swim in the afternoon. I pay a massive annual sum for membership. Am being ripped off #betteruk #glassmillleisurecentre

After the hardly shocking news that Prince “My Problem is I’m just TOO Loyal” Andrew has been stripped of his titles, here’s a lovely song in his defence

I know I’ve mentioned it before - but there is so often a coyness about talking about the predators close to the monarchy - Mountbatten, Laurens Van Der Post, Peter Ball, Jimmy Savile - such danger in deference m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/politic...

Very interesting article in the new edition of Private Eye about Ben Houchen and the Teeside Regeneration project

www.instagram.com/reel/DP1AZkv... Ince is appearing on You Hould Have Been Here Last Week Podcast as part of Cheerful Earful Podcast Festival Sat 18 Oct 12:45-2:00pm The Bedford Balham. Tickets only £5

Sign of the times…just about to go for a Hearing Test

For the many people worried about the Assisted Dying Bill #choice #ethics #control #family

Hey @robinince.bsky.social Am having a particularly unpleasant journey on Hull Trains today. A 10-carriages service cut to 5…rammed…

The withdrawal of winter fuel heating allowance #oldage

Ah, the perennial worries of the superannuated that they may end up “becoming a burden” to their loved ones

www.facebook.com/share/1S3xv7... Please do come along and support a lovely comedy event!!!

The immense delay and eye-watering £20 Billion cost of HS2, when the money might’ve been better spent building a reliable high speed rail service between the West Coast (Liverpool) & the East (Hull)…#railways #HS2

Re-reading “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” for the first time in 30 years. I still recognise the comedy elements, but with the passing of time the sadness has greater resonance for me

A lament for the closing down of WH Smiths

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For the inconsiderate Cloud Vapers on our public streets

Dedicated to Senor Luis Rubiales, the ex-Head of the Spanish Football Association, and his awful and hideously entitled behaviour

I am in Wakefield. Playing the Cluntergate Centre in Horbiry tonight. Anyone fancy coming along? 😁

As the aisle of Man becomes the first part of the U.K. to legalize Assisted Dying, some worries about unscrupulous relatives gaslighting older people

The latest episode of the podcast I co-host w Paul Ricketts called "You Should Have Been Here Last Week" featuring Comedy Legend & Renaissance Performer, the comedian, presenter, poet & Leonard Cohen afficianado, the one and only @arthursmith1917.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKQ2...

For the rather horrible aggressive owner of an American XL Bully Dog I once met in Ladywell Fields owner of a

Petulant KetBrat Narcissistic Neo-Nazi Techbro Tool Elon Musk and his band of incompetent Incels at DOGE have to beg Nuclear Power Safety workers to come back after Elon and his merry gang of callow cack-handed chainsaw-wielding idiots had sacked them all and deleted all their contact details

Trump’s pleading, cajoling love song to Greenland

King Charles’s Playlist surprisingly doesn’t include The Queen Is Dead by The Smiths, Elizabeth My Dear by The Stone Roses or even God Save The Queen by the Sex Pistols

The new Canadian Prime Minister is Mark Carney, a man heavily associated with Banks. Apparently all his statements will soon only be available online.

The latest episode of our podcast about the heckle horror stories that all comedians go through! www.facebook.com/share/18ENxP...

Am travelling on an Avanti West Coast service from London to Liverpool. Only 7 carriages on a Friday afternoon. Rammed. Shop not open. @avantiwestcoast.bsky.social are absolutely useless

A little song for Donald Trump and his pumice plans to reopen Guantanamo Bay “Detention Centre” to indefinitely detain 1000s rounded up by ICE. #donaldtrump #elonmusk #historyrepeating

Donny Hathaway is a neglected genius

Currently listening to Roberta Flack’s first three albums released 1969-72. Sublime.

That new Elon Musk remake of Texas Chainsaw Massacre is even more horrifying than the original

A quick one for the utterly wretched Prince Andrew, overly-loyal friend and playmate of deceased American billionaire paedophile Jeffery Epstein and gullible confidante and unwitting asset of Chinese Spies

I'm at Headliners Comedy Club Chiswick Fri 14/Sat 15 Feb. Fabulous line-up (same both nights) @omarbadawy.bsky.social @paultonkinson.bsky.social my good self and the wonderful Sindhu Vee. I'll be onstage 2nd, closing the First 1/2, so my stage time will be approx 9-9:20pm See you all there, Folks!

After Republican Representative for Georgia introduces a Bill in Congress to rename Greenland Red White And Blue Land, here is Donald Trump attempting to woo Greenlanders in his own inimitable, back-handed sleazy bullying way #greenland #donaldtrump #mineralwealth

If you’re wondering if you’re in a constitutional crisis and that the republic could collapse at any moment, you are.

Reading Samantha Harvey's novel "Orbital" and thoroughly enjoying it.

Big up to Margo Cilker playing @soundloungecio.bsky.social on Thursday 24 April. Can't wait!!!!

This weekend I am playing Headliners Comedy Club in Chiswick with Paul Tonkinson and Sindhu Vee! See you there!

A power outage in Sri Lanka has been caused by a monkey f***** it up. Police wish to interview Robbie Williams

Tomorrow I am performing MELONS! for the final time - it was the most fun I’ve had at Edinburgh Fringe and I think this is only the second time I’ve performed it since August 2023 - I wish I could have toured it but projects got in the way comedy-festival.co.uk/events/robin...

I look forward to reading that, Robin

Sign of these crappy times: this week Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, now 40 years old, is back on the Canadian bestsellers list.

NIH has cut billions of dollars in biomedical funding, effective immediately The move halts a large slice of money for most universities and research institutions virtually overnight, imperiling vital research in everything from cancer to heart disease. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Hi everybody! Just set up my Bluesky account and am very excited!