anyway i think it’s a good book but it also reminded me milo yiannopoulos‘ first article for breitbart was a defence of digimon

just finished pure invention: how japan’s pop culture conquered the world by matt alt and i don‘t think it was the intent necessarily but it reads like a horror story in places.

genuine excerpt from the transcript of this interview www.newstatesman.com/podcasts/the...

thought snl uk ep 2 was decent, liked the jools holland sketch best. i do find myself wanting more george fouracres stuff whenever he’s not about though

not sure it is particular on to be publishing whacko quotes from a clearly radicalised “family member“ of zack polanski

sadiq khan has beaten nick timothy, nigel farage, robert jenrick and matt goodwin to posting anything at all about the beginning of Holy Week today

some class popes lately

nothing from robert “psalm sunday” jenrick either

you can tell right wing politicians are sincere in their defence of christian values because i don’t think any of them bothered to queue up a palm sunday post

I unfortunately have to be elsewhere but best wishes to comrades who are at this today

the bit in that gb news back and forth where matt goodwin says he fed his book through chatgpt and it said it didn’t carry the hallmarks of being written by AI. a truly bulletproof defence

people who still like keir starmer aren’t liberal left, they’re just weirdos

annual leave for me now, is it? the old out of office on, is it? the answer to all these questions and more is “yeah”

no way they seem so on top of things

All else aside, Hannah Spencer won by over 4000 votes! She outpolled Goodwin by nearly 50%! It is ridiculous we're even discussing family voting as a factor.

okay but have greater manchester police considered maybe that it’s easier to lie to yourself about why you didn’t win than accept people liked the other candidate better

launching a podcast called “beyond the bubble” and choosing as the first guest Michael Gove is a funny bit

not a mario character, is he? absolute fucking joke. the boys are going to be fuming

"the good news is that we have found a relatively cheap and easy way to prevent the cast from going through puberty. the bad news is that not everybody in this room is going to like it".

Met Police have just released a log of Morgan McSweeney's call after his phone was stolen in October, in which he doesn't mention that he works in Downing St or for the PM undermines the idea that police were "too busy" to properly investigate the theft McSweeney failed to explain why it mattered

imagine being the person who nicked mcsweeney’s phone. what safe seat would you be after?

probably being dense but isn’t the thing about messages that even if one phone involved in the exchange has been “stolen” they tend to exist on the other persons phone too

the white working class are going to need to start thinking seriously about how their luxury values alienate the white working class voters Labour needs to win

wonder if there are any concerning implications from the fact the president of the United States said he can’t make public who he is talking to because they’ll be killed

that what kind of Irish is your grandad thing is now very firmly stuck in my head

i thought this was quite shooting stars (complimentary)

i’d rather it was our own format but British TV has lacked: an outlet for live music performances, an outlet for sketch comedy and this was better than american version by several orders of magnitude. they should revive top of the pops though

they did a very good job, fair play. wasn’t too yank, more hits than misses. george fouracres the standout for me!

yes bibi but the question was “can superman outrun the flash”

dumbest war of all time

Tbf I also did this the first time i heard that song

some of the people here are individually funny in other things but based only on this the show needs to deyankify urgently or die urgently

we should skip the football bit of football and let the lawyers all hash it out in the courtrooms, tribunals and appeal boards to save time

burnham would have won, wake up labour www.newstatesman.com/politics/pol...

recommend a lunch time walk to st etienne’s “he’s on the phone” in this weather personally

That was a party political broadcast for the Labour Party

my god, these people are grim www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

yeah but other than that www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

HSTikkyTokky sounds like a name you’d use to make fun of HSTikkyTokky

but it isn’t some kind of cosmic deal, is it? a well run club should have used its period of unprecedented success to build solid foundations. we shouldn’t be talking about what happens to the club if we get relegated to league one a mere ten years on from a premier league title

they need to abandon the pretence that you can reserve seats on east midlands trains. they are always turned off, every single time

“But, as you see, it's a beautiful day, the Strait of Hormuz is open and people are having a wonderful time.”

every last leg joke is like “it’s kind of weird that this news thing is happening? that’s like when the kid at school with a specific characteristic does something!”

does feel like everybody who thought this iran war was a good idea turned out to be thick as shit (best case scenario) doesn’t it

Oh so the parliament of owls is a joke to you?

don’t care who is on the money but agree it shouldn’t be animals. if animals were so good they’d have invented mathematics, written any of the great novels and/or built at least one democratic institution

winning a football match for the first time in 10, not conceding for the first time in 30 (THIRTY). relief!!!

leaders like trump are why sun tzu had to write a bunch of advice like "don't write your enemy a letter detailing what tactics you really don't want them to do"

most humiliating tudor defeat since calais?