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Worth saying that despite asking for more than 12 hours we’ve had nothing back from Labour on this

Watching Italian Tiktok and discovering that ‘questa trend è cringatissima’ and now I will be trying to make cringatissima into a proper non-italicized English word

That New York Times story lots of people are sharing today about Farage's ties to US anti-abortion groups was first reported by @mc00.bsky.social on Byline Times a year ago bylinetimes.com/2024/11/29/n...

“Over the last 70 years, the #ECHR has repeatedly stepped in when domestic courts were unable to provide the protection we now take for granted and cherish,” says the UK’s outgoing judge at the European Court of Human Rights👇 🔗 www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/ecthr-m... via @lawsocietygazette.bsky.social

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Lisa Robertson was at the top of my contributors wish-list and I'm thrilled that she is in our first issue

1 of 2. My take on news items this week. 1. Reparations 2. Jenrick open.substack.com/pub/profcori...

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Oh no. Sometimes the obituaries just seem to come in like waves. Generations pass, I suppose. The water gets closer.

Cover of L&NER’s Wandering On The Continent booklet, 1937

12 Episodes of Screen Two are on iPlayer atm. Don’t fuck about, no excuses, get it together and watch them. Some of the best cinema you’ll ever see x

Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth enjoying an evening at the Stork Club in 1945.

I’ve not actively hated Rishi Sunak in a while, so the news he’s taken a job with Anthropic AI (aka the company I’m part of a mass lawsuit against for stealing our work to train their LLM) is actually kind of comforting.

In Durham? Or not? Tomorrow at 3pm I'll be talking about my book Maybe I'm Amazed, music, autism & more with the great Paul Smith from Maximo Park. Be there or livestream it, details here galadurham.co.uk/galapost/joh...

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“If I could write words Like leaves on an autumn forest floor, What a bonfire my letters would make. If I could speak words of water, You would drown when I said I love you.” ― Spike Milligan #NationalPoetryDay

Seems to me that if you’re in the business of calculating’what resources are consumed’ and who pays you ought to consider it on a global scale and consider what we here owe to the global south and how we might calculate the things we need to give up to pay our debt.

Years ago a jewish ma who loves me invited me to break fast with her family after Yom Kippur. It was a revealing experience and profound honour. In a small act of solidarity to jewish friends, we will eat tonight at 7:24. I have made lemon chicken soup, potato salad, and honey cake. 1/

I thought you meant the record label and was having a peek to see who was there…

I enjoyed Andrew O’Hagen’s account of Edna O’Brien where she told him about Richard Burton’s confession that he would read ‘The Love Object’ to Elizabeth Taylor during sex ‘I said I’d rather not know if you don’t mind’

I am obviously going to disagree with Leo on abortion as a discrete topic, but the importance of having a Pope demanding holistic pro-life beliefs instead of the hypocrisy that reveals it’s about controlling women cannot be understated.

One of my favourite German words to say aloud is Flurfunk. It describes gossip or rumours that spread through the workplace and means, literally, "hallway radio." On a related note, a Finnish word for gossipers is kahvipöytäparlamentti. It means "coffee break parliament."

How refreshing.

Incomers: the myth vs reality of refugees in the UK Britain hosts just 1% of the world’s refugees – far fewer than many nations – yet myths of handouts and 'overwhelm' still dominate debate By Jeremy Leslie-Spinks

The C4 workshop meeting from last week’s was a bit too close to one I’d been in at work, although no one called me a cunt.

At first glance I thought this brilliant promo shot was Rebecca Horn

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No just scooters and cyclists whizzing by me on the pavement

When it comes to irregular migration, ID cards are a solution in search of a problem This (admittedly old) DWP research gives sense of scale - of claimants who were foreign nationals at time of NINO registration, most were British. Just 2% had no lawful migration status www.gov.uk/government/n...

I love a bit of Paranoid in the morning

White shoes

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If you're not entitled to a free flu shot, you can get one privately from Asda for 60p(!!) as part of a promotional offer if you book online and can go before September ends. Here's the link: asda.cxmflow.com/OABS/Appoint...

Absolutely.. government should be calmly articulating the benefits to the UK of legal immigration. Time to be bold and put some clear water between themselves and Reform on immigration rather than chasing them down far-right rabbit holes.

Having pondered it all morning, I'm still incredulous that all that Today programme coverage of migrant hotels at no point (unless I missed it) mentioned why people were here, what they might be fleeing from etc.

If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.

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Reform is racist. Let’s just say it. Loudly and often. They’re racist. Don’t take them on on how they plan to fund their nonsense. They don’t care. They don’t say it because they’ve worked it out. They say it for headlines and for voters who want prejudice as policy. They’re racist. They’re failure.

The Reform Party policy of abolition of indefinite leave to remain is supported by 3% of the public

These are delicious and a good idea, I’m taking a support sandwich to work tomorrow!

I mean you're either pro-choice or pro-women dying of septic miscarriages, living in fear, lacking bodily autonomy, etc. We've had more than three years to see what lack of reproductive rights looks like, and it looks like a sadistic nightmare.

The Comic Strip Presents Back Cheers The Mighty Boosh Alan Partridge Peep show The League of Gentlemen Armstrong and Miller The Royle Family Smack the Pony

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