Mocking Isabel Oakeshott and her like in Dubai is all good, knockabout stuff, but the idea that a British citizen should no longer enjoy the protection of the British state because of where they live is populist nonsense.

Well that was the least chill movie ever. Think I might have lasting trauma. Two thumbs up.

Off to punch myself in the face with Sirat at the IMAX.

On the one hand I’d like these preening drama queens to keep my city’s name out of their mouth. On the other, this does allow me to cultivate a self-image as some sort of London-based Lord Humungus ruling the wastelands.

“Out of touch” is one way to put it, yes. I prefer “Instinctively Islamaphobic” myself.

Badenoch saying it's only Muslim voters who oppose the strikes because they're loyal to the Middle East, Starmer saying people voted for the Greens because of the power of a George Galloway endorsement...........we need to reckon with the fact that our political leaders are profoundly out of touch.

An offhand tweet of mine has caught on and I’m getting a glimpse at what it must be like to be a big account managing their notifications. “Should probably *glance* at the replies to make sure nobody’s getting out of hand.”

Labour: Ah, Ming vase strategy you see. Can’t do anything sudden or unexpected or it might spook the voters. Also Labour: Refugees having rights is an existential threat to the country and the Home Secretary must unilaterally curtail them post haste.

Reform win a seat: The true Volk have spoken and we all must listen. Greens win a seat: Early reports that Muslims may have ‘voted’ (an ancient Islamic practice designed to steal elections). How severely should the franchise be limited in response?

So the BBC did an article about a Muslim man who got hideous racist abuse for appearing in a “Welcome” advert at Heathrow airport… …and they included this passage. What the actual fuck is wrong with them?!

This is important - Ref got almost exactly what you'd expect a Conservative replacement party to get, in a seat they would never need or expect to win.

Very clear that for Starmer, 'sectarian voting' is when British Muslims don't vote Labour, and for many others, it is just when British Muslims vote.

The best cross tabs we've seen basically suggest the main predictor of voting for the Greens or not was not religion, but age, and maybe housing status. This is not unexpected given who and how they ran, but somehow it has become entirely about Muslim voters. It's hard not to read into that!

I’ve been struck by how the government’s response has been to browbeat the electorate, yeah.

Doing my semi-annual clothes audit and devastated to find how well everything still fits and how few things have me like, “Not sure what I was thinking with this one.” The charity shop donations will be meagre this time around.

A lot of people asking questions already answered by the shirt: *Yes*, I went to the Pokémon pop-up at the Natural History Museum.

I think it also looks desperate when you’re in government with ~400 seats and having an existential crisis in public about a party with less than 10. “The Greens will legalise date rape drugs!” “Well only if you lose your huge majority and surely you’re not worried about that - you just got it!”

Oh, so *this* is why they had to take Mandelson’s passport!

The British electorate has badly misread the mood of both the government and the opposition and must apologise.

All things aside, though, Goodwin's crashout might be funny, but it's also instructive about how Reform will react if they lose a general election and in that sense that is very bad.

A lot of people are going to have to reassess their analysis now that it turns out telling voters to eat shit and die makes them vote for someone else. A lot of models need readjusting. A lot of worldviews forever shifted. An incredible revelation.

It’s wrong when Kemi does it and it’s wrong when Labour do it. We need to consistently call this poison out.

Me gurning for the camera for my birthday. (Khao Bird: Thai barbecue spot in Soho - highly recommended).

Oh sick, Surfer Sting’s finally back.

[whispering to my date] That’s Ishmael.

In the interests of owning one’s own mistakes, will hold my hands up here - have used the word ‘disability’ in reference to Tourette’s several times in recent days but won’t going forward. variety.com/2026/film/aw...

Fantastic interview. Everyone should read it:

Yeah, worth looking at quite how horrifyingly bananas this is.

People say there’s no difference between the Tories and Reform but real daylight emerging between “Undo the sexual revolution“ and “There’s not *enough* horrible shit in plain view on the internet.”

It is worth understanding both Reform and the Tories currently fiscal policy as "look, if we hope enough, can we make Thatcherism happen again?" This will not get sufficient scrutiny as it is a position shared by a large chunk of the tabloids and half of the gentlemen from the Times.

Slava Ukraini, today and every day.

Ah Bluesky, where it is ableist to suggest that people don't have to order Doordash but people with Toruette's just aren't putting in the effort.

Terrific movie. Brazilian cinema is on fire right now. And it seems like I missed… some things.

I just really struggle with the image of giving an award to the actor who played the disabled man struggling to find social acceptance… and then excluding the man himself, because you think his disability is unacceptable. It’s almost parable-like in its precise depiction of false acceptance

Right, I’m just going into The Secret Agent, which is 160 minutes, so if we could just stick a pin in… this until I get back!

Regret being glib about this in my initial post, the fact they want to create a law based on punishing those who help refugees and name it after a prominent Jewish politician whose family fled pogroms is disgusting. The fact they don't realise it makes them look like Nazis actually makes it worse.

There are apparently people on here who would really benefit from actually watching I Swear.

When he sits down because he’s like, “Well, this is probably going to take a while”! Losing it.

Listening to Outkast at the gym.

Probably not the healthiest reaction but I do find the sums with which our politicians are bought pretty insulting.

The one that springs to mind (recency bias) is The Monkey, a horror-comedy neither scary nor funny but gratingly smug.

Just to reiterate people across the world have died and are in pain due to Starmer's attempts to suck up to Donald Trump. It failed and keeps failing. If he had anything resembling a working conscience he would quit in shame NOW. itcouldbesaid.substack.com/p/it-could-b...

The decline of right wing cultural production is just due to the fact that they don’t like culture, they like the signifiers of culture, ie “classic sculpture means white people are better.” They don’t like art at all except for this purpose. They don’t even like the nerd stuff they whine about

Good and clear on what the Supreme Court's judgement, and the High Court's, means for trans people. As much as we shoud send back the EHRCs guidance, the only real solution here is to change the law and that's what we should be driving towards.

Not the same thing but sometimes I think how cool it is how Mulholland Drive, generally considered one of the greatest films of all time, was a failed TV pilot changed into a feature length film after the fact. And part of why it’s great is that TV quality.

Agree with this, and I do also think it is elite-led, not a response to the 'ungovernable' voters.

Not kidding. Jesus wept.

This convo has been had so many times but it’s worth repeating - most left wing people in 2026 are progressives who aren’t keen on things like Reformy style immigration policies or cuts to welfare for disabled ppl. They aren’t checking state spending rates in their analysis of left vs right

Send Help is nicely sadistic but surprisingly saggy in the middle. I feel like it works better if you’re not waiting for the other shoe to drop - that is, if you’re less familiar with Sam Raimi’s game.