yeah i don't feel like the punishment for this is wrong, it could have been far more severe, but the fact that *he's done this before* is WILD www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s new official residence…

It is strange, is it not, to look upon a man who is not merely the richest in the world but the richest ever to have lived, a man who owns both his own sports car company and his own ROCKET SHIP company… and to feel for that man not a hint, not even the faintest glimmer of envy…?

Can’t. Walking the dinosaur.

UBI for artists is cool, but easy to sell as “you people think the world owes you a living”. The irony is that the world *does* owe artists a living. Tech corporations just worked out how not to pay it.

3/4 of the way through this and Mitch Benn is delivering a tour de force. Safe to say he likes Blade Runner. A great listen!

To give you an idea of how deranged the UK has become about gender stuff, here's Enid Blyton - the absolute avatar of classic English conservatism and a huge fan of racist "gollywogs" - casually describing a gender non-conforming kid in the 1940s and having their friends be totally cool with it.

There is literally no better example of textbook fascistic thinking than "Who cares about human rights when the rich are doing so very well"

Will the credits on Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights be as honest as the credits on the Morecambe and Wise version?

Happy 13th anniversary to this pair of matching news headlines.

The Democrats idea of fighting fascism.

Absolutely right, but it’ll never happen in the UK while our “elected representatives” live in fear of the tabloid press. I mean Jesus, imagine the fucking field day the Mail and Express would have over this…

Said it before, and I’ll say it again, but for people like me, this would be transformative - it would stabilise our incomes, and allow us to plough more time into creative work and less into stuff anyone could be doing. AND it’s a net economic benefit to the country.

One of the maddest elements of Brexit - and there are *many* - is the rewards that continue to be lavished on the blithering idiots who sold it & continue to be proved wrong about everything every day…

Jason’s incredibly insightful video here has afforded me some thoughts on the Gregg’s Vegan Sausage Roll Terror of a few years ago… Here’s a link: bsky.app/profile/mitc...

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

Meanwhile, in Early Onset Dementia News, on THREE occasions in this podcast I say the word “radiator” when I mean “elevator”. #dontblameitonthesunshine #dontblameitonthemoonlight #dontblameitonthegoodtimes #blameitonthealzheimers

Bit of a controversial opinion, I know, but it kind of strikes me that “famous paedophile” shouldn’t be a thing it’s possible to be (not while alive, in any event)…?

Those must be big shoes to fill

This is excellent & draws out something the rest of the media is ignoring: among other things, the Epstein files have made it super, super clear that the entire "anti-woke" cultural hysteria was engineered by powerful men averse to accountability.

“Ok, Trump may be a pedophile, but at least he’s still a racist!” — MAGA right now

It’s #BandcampFriday when Bandcamp waive their usual cut and the artist gets everything… Out today: MEDIUM RARITIES vol 5; another collection of outtakes and oddities mitchbenn.bandcamp.com/album/oh-you...

Bloody hell @mitchbenn.bsky.social your stuff is always good but that's next level and deserves to go massively viral in the US.

Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.

New song & video: ICE ICE (Maybe) Patreon.Com/mitchbenn #mitchbenn #satire #uspolitics #presidenttrump #usapolitics #ice #jdvance #kristinoem #stephenmiller #fascism #proudboys #project2025 youtu.be/DdSqe_2FpU0?...

let me tell you this: margaret thatcher would not have stood by peter mandelson for being friends with jeffrey epstein! she would have befriended epstein *herself*, had home over to christmas dinner several times, and knighted him against official advice!

Well quite. I first heard Epstein’s name at least 20 years ago, and the context I heard it in was “He’s an extremely rich & well connected guy who’s also a massive nonce and throws regular kiddy-fucking parties for his rich pals”. My thought then as it is now, was “And everyone KNOWS this…?!”

Reminder that Epstein and Trump shut down the first #MeToo movement by convincing people that being against sexual abuse was woke.

Inevitably a bunch of radio stations played I Got You Babe at 6am this morning. The really EVIL ones will play it again at 6am TOMORROW morning.

Saw a meme today of some guy saying “The planet Earth is a resort for about 500 very rich people; the rest of us are just staff”… Thought it over and realised it’s worse than that: MOST of us are staff. The most vulnerable and helpless of us are the buffet.

This shit hits like a sledgehammer right now. It's not even remotely an exaggeration.

when the rich Do Crimes

Fair play to 4chan & Qanon though; turns out they were right about pretty much everything. Except which side was doing it.

In fairness the P in POTUS could stand for lots of things…

This country is being run by a blackmailed pedophile, at this point if you oppose impeachment & removal I can only conclude you're treasonous or also a blackmailed pedophile yourself.

the whole point of the liberal consensus is that we don't kill each other when we don't get our way conservatives decided a black President was too high a price to pay and said fuck it, let's go back to killing each other

"must not become". Yeah, imagine that.

I guess "white wealthy British and American grooming gangs" doesn't have the same ring to it

‘Are you a Pedophile’ will be a question on future political applications for consideration.(?) The Pedodent and most of his cabinet/admin are being called out by the American People! Their true “colors” will be their own undoing.

My fave Kubrick anecdote: David Prowse on acting in A Clockwork Orange: 'So you want me to carry Patrick Magee, who weighs 17Olbs, plus the wheelchair, another 30lbs, so 200lbs, down the stairs & then do a dialogue scene?' 'Yeah, you can do it.' 'I know but your name isn't One Take Kubrick, is it?'

My mum had bombs dropped on her as a child. My dad bled on a beach in battle. I'm not yet bored of rules-based coexistence, because anger isn't the same as education, history isn't a comic, and interesting times don't just happen to someone else.

...they told her no, didn't they

Let's ask the question: How many times do the following people show up being named in the Epstein Files: President Joe Biden: 0 President Barack Obama: 0 MN Governor Tim Walz: 0 President Donald Trump: 4,500 Does any Republican not see the problem?

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And another thing. It is REALLY tedious to open a news page every day and see photograph after photograph of the same worst possible humans gurning back at me. It's like a wanker's yearbook.