Listened to the latest @thebugle.bsky.social - i think Andy was wrong. The vibe was not killed - @alicefraser.bsky.social was exceptional in her monologue.

This is off the top of my head. These sorts of inefficiencies happen on quite literally a daily basis. Everybody in the system knows this. Everyone. Yet what is the government’s diagnosis? “Juries. They are the problem. Get rid of juries.” It is absolutely mind-boggling.

2 in 3 of Nigel Farage’s current and former partners do not speak English as their first language.

I know who Nus Ghani MP is - not because we always agree - but because she’s been serving her constituency (as well as lewks) since 2015. Who the hell is Lucy White?! Ah, a quick google search reveals her as a rentagob for GB ‘news.’ I know which one is qualified to chair the budget debate.

‘The chill wind from the White House is already rippling through New Broadcasting House.’ @lewisgoodall.com reacts after the BBC edited out an anti-Trump line from a historian’s lecture.

I am increasingly of the opinion that people who change menus and look and feel of computer software just so that you know it's a new version should be personally forced to play tech support to my mother for five months.

Going to leave you with a Home Office chart from their most recent asylum stats so you can decide whether the UK is a magnet for asylum seekers with a uniquely generous asylum system www.gov.uk/government/s...

I'm calling it. I reckon Trump knew Epstein.

"What's that they're chanting, Smithers?" "Um. I believe they're saying 'Release the E... arhart Files', sir."

The wisdom of Jackson Lamb: We have to answer the five F's: "what the fuck who the fuck when the fuck why the fuck" -but that's only 4 "fuck off; that's 5"

Douglas Barrowman and Michelle Mone's company, PPE Medpro, has just been ordered to refund the Government £122m from a PPE contract. There are two very odd things about PPE Medpro that may affect the odds of the Government ever getting that £122m... Thread:

Reminder: The existence of these in most Scottish supermarkets and corner shops is proof that anyone shilling for the notion that multiculturalism can't work on this island is a charlatan

Tbaqaok (verb): to cheat at Scrabble

Hello from a very lively Hastings.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail updated for Britain in 2025.

If any legal firm wants to set up a fundraiser to sue Robinson for libel on behalf of Ayeni I will happily contribute. (Assuming he wants to sue).

It is inherently absurd to proscribe a group as terrorists based on acts the public doesn't know about. Terrorism *by definition* involves violence intended to intimidate a civilian population. How can the target population be terrorised by acts they know nothing about? www.bbc.com/news/article...

robert jenrick is concerned about people coming in to the uk who have outdated and offensive views of women’s rights, because there’s a chance they’ll take jobs from broadsheet columnists

In the modern media environment, the public simply doesn’t trust “we have secret evidence that shows why we have to do this”. The Home Office needs to convince the public proscription was necessary, or else use measures that don’t criminalise support for the group.

Hallo friends! If you’re seeing this please give it a bit of love for the algorithm. Hey! I’m in London! I’ll be at Soho Theatre 6-9 August doing my very silly show A Passion For Passion and in Edinburgh after then. 🎟️ https://www.alicecomedyfraser.com/upcoming-gigs

Ok, so Republicans just introduced a 900 page bill none of them have read. But my team is going through it line by line and on this 🧵you can see the hidden provisions we found. Will update all day. 1/ NEW Medicaid cuts, so now 17 million - instead of 16M - lose health care.

I've just been on the phone to my mum. She says hi!

Tonight at the magnificent @mostlycomedy.bsky.social I was able to recycle all my old material about immigration under a Tory government to reuse under a Labour government.

Ten years ago this week I started leaving stupid reviews of literally anything on YouGov and people would upvote and downvote the reviews and sometimes leave comments like "are you literally mental". There was no reason to do any of this, I was just a bit depressed.

Dear Labour, Please stop dicking around. Do a bit of constructive taxation, fund some hospitals and invest in the future. You were elected to be Labour. Resurrect SureStart. Quit using gas to set the energy price. Fund some hospitals… Be Labour. Yrs Everyone

3) Moving right on immigration normalizes the radical right, their positions and rhetoric. Normalization is a key precondition for electoral expansion of the radical right. Programmatic accommodation and collaboration normalize the radical right and open new segments of the electorate for it.

Unbound did precisely fuck-all PR for my book when it came out, despite promises. Didn't even send copies to the obvious people. It was a Brexit satire. Easiest sell on earth at the time. I wouldn't piss on Archna Sharma and John Mitchinson if they were on fire. Avoid their revived Boundless brand.

Here's a big part of the explanation of how we got to where we are now.

New article up about the fallout of the last 24 hours being In The News. [no paywall] www.patreon.com/posts/126469...

The best part of this was that I could absolutely hear Alice's voice and cadence while reading it. Come to Canada, we're cool!

If you are posting about migrants applying for visas, why would you use a stock photo of people arriving on small boats, clearly without visas? Come on guys. This is beneath you.

Meet the destroyer HMS Glowworm. In April 1940 she was forced to fight the German Heavy Cruiser Admiral Hipper, ten times her size, and Hipper's destroyer escorts. Her extraordinary last stand earned her captain the first Victoria Cross of WW2. In part because THE GERMANS nominated him for one /1 🧵

my hope is that AI can empower the Dumbest, Least talented slobs i know to replace everything i ever loved with One Million Years of Content

This is all completely absurd by the way, totally arbitrary.

Loving www.camel-ai.org/index.html - feels remarkably intuitive!

So let’s have a little look at the Right wing media feeding off its own ecosystem. Here’s @TiceRichard claiming NET ZERO caused the Heathrow shut down, while sharing a Telegraph article that appears to back up his claim Must be true then, right?? 🧐you know the drill… 🧵 1/

i came here to finish posts and let people infer things, and

On 16th March, 1968 Warrant Officer Hugh Thompson Jnr was flying helicopter recon for a US attack on My Lai, an alleged Viet Cong-controlled village in Vietnam. But as the attack developed below, Thompson realised he was witnessing something something else: A massacre. He decided to act. 1/28

Last month I did a little experiment. I wanted to see how the exact same post would perform on both X (Twitter) and Bluesky. The results were...interesting... [Thread]

Jools Holland's favourite dish is beef bourgiwourgignon.

Why don't we have a new name to replace quisling? Few people recognize the name these days or the reason collaborators were so named and despised. How about we start calling them mcconnells instead?

Correct. If the birthdate field contains corrupt or mismatched data, it defaults to 1875-05-20, which serves as a flag. May 20, 1875, is the day the international standards and metrics treaty was signed. Everything is a conspiracy when you don’t know how anything works.

the key to success on bluesky is to assume every post was written for you specifically and then reply with helpful corrections when they get something wrong

This was a great evening - thought provoking and funny. Not enough octopuses, though.

I think we've had enough of winter tbh, that'll do for now. Let's crack on with a bit of spring I reckon.