It true. I’m doing an April Fools’ shift @theshirkersrest.bsky.social today, just like Suggs at The French House. Except without all the hit records and fame.

A film review, with some thoughts on a brutal sport that has been a saviour for so many troubled kids.

Pissed elephants.

I have a question for @nytimes.com. When did you decide journalism really wasn’t for you?

Never mind the dead schoolgirls, will no one think of the investors’ portfolios?

NEW: Thank you for your inattention to this matter.

It’s a great time to get a deal on a luxury hotel in Dubai right now. But as I always say - why the fuck would I want to go to Dubai?

Here’s a radical idea. Trains, yes, but trains that run on the WEEKENDS. Wild, huh? Just think about it though.

It’s weird how this guy doesn’t have any friends

Please teach your boys not to be dicks.

Venezuela 3 USA 2. “It doesn’t mean anything in the grand scheme of things..” is an odd way to start a report about baseball’s World Cup final.

What idiot started this?

Wasn’t it bad when the Taliban did this?

A beautiful love letter to one of the greats by @willhawkes.bsky.social. I can never visit Clerkenwell without popping in.

It was supposed to be a puppet comedy, not a prophecy.

The popular press is wildly out of step with public opinion.

Am also spitting angry @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social

Shart spangled banner and Reform re-formed. Street art protests in Paris and Kent.

A short story. Steve spends his spare time doomscrolling and posting snarky comments. Yet despite his witty interjections, nothing changes. Until one day, it did…

Irony is dead thanks to these ballless shitsacks.

A very dangerous world, in which the FIFA Peace Prize no longer carries the weight of integrity it once did.

What the fuck is wrong with America? Always at war. Always pretending to have moral superiority. Always putting the world in danger. Another unjustifiable, unprovoked war that is going to cost many lives. Can you not just fuck off and give the world a break?!

One day of good news - Greens thrashing Reform - and we’re back to America and Israel’s murderous shite. Fuck off, the pair of youse.

Someone should tell Matt Goodwin that, here in Britain, we don't like sore losers. It's part of our culture.

So good to wake up to some good news for a change. Hats off to Hannah Spencer, the Green Party, Gorton and indeed, Denton.

Even The Daily Heil gave this a good review. Somehow they forgot to mention that it was Margaret Thatcher who sold the water companies to investors who would go on to rake £85 billion off you. And that it was David Cameron and Liz Truss who slashed regulations allowing them to pollute our rivers.

Any suggestions for ritual disposal of this family heirloom are welcome.

The worst deal in history, brass balls of the fuckwit who delivered #Brexit 🤣🫣🇷🇺🪆 #Farage

Saw a cheese and Branston roll today for £4.65 and I am shook.

It’s a disgrace what Presa has done to Rayo. Great club, fantastic fans, dickhead owner.

Fully chuffed that @theshirkersrest.bsky.social has made Branch Pub of the Year, but I can’t take all the credit. Congrats to all 4 of these magnificent SE London watering holes.

Great to see the rain in London again today after yesterday’s drought.

Visiting your constituency occasionally is not 'working from home', Nige.

This was v v good.

February Cask Festival Is Ago! We have Ten Cask Ales for you to enjoy today! CAMRA Members get 50p off a pint of Cask Ale today when you show your Membership Card.

NEW PUBCAST: Paris, Malaga and… erm, Rotherhithe. Plus Lime Crisps, Goan Crisps and, unfortunately, Kimchi Crisps.

I wonder how many were from people who had actually been to London.

A brilliant, elegant and sprawling account of the unfolding American disaster, whose roots are deep and historic and whose impact is sadly global. @adamshatz.bsky.social

I love how the US has been pissing everybody off, with its tariffs and generally behaving like dicks, then when Canada and the UK get chummy with China, Trump’s like - you can’t do that!

Time to Get Up, Stand Up.

You can’t tell me we have a functioning economic system when the richest man in human history is one of the most profoundly stupid people in human history

No.

I think he’s confusing it with the ‘other’ island.

Donald has only got one ball, JD has two but very small, Miller has something sim’lar And poor old Johnson has no balls at all. #USA #WhiteHouse #GOP #Republicans #USpolitics #balls

#crispnews Wasabi.

#crispnews Lime.

current mood:

I feel like Donald Trump is giving the Airing of Grievances a bad name. #festivus

Not sure which I hate more, VAR or ICE.