How spooky is it that my random Amazon Music selection has chosen to play Tainted Love by Soft Cell ... Rest In Peace.

The Alma Theatre opened in 1997 (apparently the oldest pub theatre in the South West!) I only starting visiting in 2014 and, after seeing 25 shows there, can confirm that it is indeed a fine pub and excellent little theatre. youtu.be/gLciL2o0Jg0 #theatre #bristol #almatavern

Actually, I think this is Trump's default position...

Just as Trump apparently remembers nothing of his relationship with convicted child sex trafficker Epstein; Farage, seems to have forgotten his close friend and Russian collaborator Nathan Gill. Hmmm 🤔

In September, seven years after its opening, I recorded seeing 75 shows in the Weston Studio at the Bristol Old Vic. One of my favourite spaces for exciting and innovative theatre. I hope this little video gives some flavour of the quality and breadth of work offered. youtu.be/XguXll6IQpc #theatre

As Reform's Nathan Gill admits taking bribes from Russian 'secret service pawn' Oleg Voloshyn, here’s a nice photo of Nigel Farage with Voloshyn’s wife.

Typical hypocrites! 🙄

Trump’s gonna cancel The Onion next.

Nigel Farage just admitted he hasn't a clue how to do anything in government, which is why he needs people like Nadine Dorries. So they will be guided by one of the stupidest morons ever to hold public office - quite the sales pitch.

Leaving the ECHR won’t “Take Back Control” – it will hand your rights to politicians “The myths are seductive, the reality is very different – without the ECHR your freedoms rest on whichever Home Secretary wakes up grumpy” eastangliabylines.co.uk/politics/jus...

Once more for the dimwits at the back: a) Lucy Connolly pleaded guilty. b) She was convicted under legislation introduced under Thatcher. c) She was sentenced under guidance brought in under Boris Johnson. d) fuck off.

24 hours in Sadiq Khan’s Lawless London.

#singstreet @lyrichammersmith.bsky.social is a FABULOUS show with a wonderful coming-of-age romance story and some absolutely cracking songs. This is a snippet of the encore performance of 'Up' performed, as were all the songs in the show, by the cast. youtu.be/n9Moc4Q7h70

Nigel Farage says he has never worked in a prison so he is unable to answer a question on prison policy. On that basis he will have no views on health, defence, culture, energy, education, farming, transport, law… or anything other than lying and grifting.

New YouGov polling. A monumental failure of our political class to educate, a monumental failure of our media to report fairly, for a generation

Trump will believe the last thing put in front of him, just like his MAGA followers.

Tommy Robinson is going to be all over this. Just you wait and see... ..any time now...

Farewell Ozzy. A reminder, as if you need it, of where it all started, from what is still one of favourite albums. youtu.be/0lVdMbUx1_k?...

RIP. Legend

Reform don't worry about truth or actual facts, they can just make them up to create the fear and panic they need to keep their business running.

We have to reset our priorities from top to bottom.

Clacton residents are wrong to think Farage has “done nothing” since becoming an MP. He’s earned some £1m from other jobs: £400,000 as a GB News presenter, £280,000 as “brand ambassador” for a gold firm, £135,000 making personalised Cameo video messages, and £4,000 a month writing for the Torygraph

Exactly Liz, nothing represents 'our national culture' more than Greek statues made in Greece by Greeks.

A wonderful "Evening With Patti Smith" got me to 125 shows seen at the beautiful Theatre Royal Bath. 🎉 That definitely deserves a little history video, so here it is, 42 years since my first visit a memory jogger of past times at TRB: youtu.be/U7ARN7oW1zI #theatreroyalbath #bath #theatre #history

🚨BREAKING 🚨 Patel, Braverman and Jenrick Immigration Scheme Led to Unexpected and Unregulated Influx of 1.2 Million Foreign Workers Ten times as many entered the UK under under Brexiters' unvetted skilled worker visa scheme as arrived in small boats bylinetimes.com/2025/07/04/p...

In May this year I saw my 75th* performance at the Bristol Old Vic! A record I thought worth celebrating, so have started on a series of videos to record my history at my favourite theatres, this is the first. youtu.be/cdxg7SUnKgc #bristololdvic #bristol #theatre #history #bovts

The taxpayer avoiding rich don't care about our country, we should not care about them.

Something fishy about this sob story (1) The photos are stock shots taken in 2012 and 2014, available from Shutterstock and Alamy—links below. (2) There’s no trace of bankers Al and Alexandra Moy anywhere other than the Telegraph 🤔 www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/... www.alamy.com/stock-photo-...

2 shows in this week so far, both telling deeply human stories, powerfully emotional, and both having extraordinarily effective stage design. The Beautiful Future Is Coming (Bristol Old Vic) and The Midnight Bell (Theatre Royal Bath). Go see. 👍

Here’s an idea: Stop acting like the Gestapo.

There's no placating the Brexiters, no reasoning with them, no basic comprehension or adulthood. You can't debate papers behaving like the Sun or the Mail this morning. There's nothing to debate with. They view all trading relations with Europe as humiliation.

I really don't get this pernicious political narrative that "high skill" can be judged by high pay. Suggesting that caring for our vulnerable is "low skill" and unworthy of equally "high pay" is a disgusting denigration of valuable and important skills.

Shock! Horror! Subscribing to an expensive service rather than taking the free option means you have less money left to spend?!?! You would have thought these people had some basic understanding of how finance works... 🤔

I know this isn't the biggest point, but note the complete absence of criticism for Bukele wearing a black sweater, instead of a shirt and tie. It seems if you are "the world's coolest dictator" and willing to become a US prison annex, turning up looking like a pimp in an off-Broadway musical is ok.

Autism didn’t make them do it. Mental illness didn’t, either. This personal piece from The Big Picture cuts through the excuses and names the real issue: some people are just hateful, and we need to stop giving them cover.

Spent a wonderful couple of hours Saturday morning on a backstage tour of @theatreroyalbath.bsky.social. Huge thanks to the lovely TRB staff who told us so much about the three TRB venues (and plans for Venue 4). Here's a few photos of the Egg, the main house and some props from the current show.

i am fascinated by the outright refusal of people in the professional political commentary class to just consider the possibility that there is no plan and that trump really is a braying idiot with the more acute case of narcissistic personality disorder on record

Their ignorance of basic mathematics, let alone how national economies actually work, surely proves that this current Republican administration is the most insanely incompetent ever elected in US history.

You have to appreciate the efficiency though. 'Woke Putin' accomplishes so much stupidity with so few words, it's a kind of idiot masterpiece.

Including a handful of perfectly recreated Feelgood classics, Wilko: Love and Death and Rock'n'Roll @swkplay.bsky.social is a wonderfully evocative exploration of the life of a music legend, "the Shakespeare of Canvey Island". #WilkoPlay southwarkplayhouse.co.uk/wp-content/u...

There really is no way anyone can support buying American products.

Brick Lane, London.

Reform members who want Rupert Lowe as leader are suddenly realising that their £25 did not give them any say in the party, it just made them suckers in the personal grift machine of Nigel Farage. How sad 😂

Well, well, no surprise at all. Just another example of those with more than the average always complaining more than the average when asked to give up even the smallest amount of their over abundance. And then realising they still have way more than the average.

The hypocrisy is off the charts.

It’s borderline criminal.