Jim Caviezel Met Vin Diesel Going to the fair Said Jim Caviezel To Vin Diesel “Ha! You’ve got no hair” Quoth Vin: “Tis fair,” My pate is bare, But this is incidental; For tonsure-free I’d rather be Than totally fucking mental”

My wedding anniversary present from @cg1999.bsky.social; our annual @yorkshiretea.bsky.social re-up #1040bags #havewegotanytea #yes

It is possible to cherish the BBC as an institution while also saying that BBC News is failing very badly, day after day, in its duty to inform and that it always fails in a right-wing direction. It desperately needs to recover its integrity

Refusing to take responsibility for my own catastrophic misjudgements and hugely selfish decisions over a course of decades.

Happy Rapture Eve, everyone! Comes round earlier every year, doesn’t it

Reform's ‘plan’ to revoke the legal status of millions of UK residents is morally abhorrent & economic madness The public believe in fairness & mutual respect, not this cruel Trumpian policy that would leave us all poorer. We are not America - we must resist this dangerous turn in British politics.

Hey - some of us cancelled our Disney+ subscription MONTHS ago*… *because we were broke 😕

Someone somewhere has access to the unredacted unexpurgated Epstein Files, and they could basically save the world if they leaked them right now. Because as it is, we’re destroying western democracy to avoid confronting the distinct possibility that the President of the US is a child rapist.

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The current MAGA trope of “The left are CELEBRATING Charlie Kirk’s death is not just a myth (it really IS NOT happening); it’s pure projection, because that IS how MAGA reacts when anyone liberal gets attacked or killed (Paul Pelosi, the Hortmans, Gabby Gifford etc).

Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

The only thing the “Special Relationship” has meant since the 80s is Britain inevitably getting dragged into whichever ass-hatted war the US has decided to throw for itself this time.

Have Disney pulled the Indiana Jones movies for being mean to nazis yet?

In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.

Really quite made up that this chat with Ste Brotherstone from @scarredforlife.bsky.social about World Of The Vorgans, Night Shift, Car Wars, TV Tops, Rebecca's World and Load Runner has gone down so well. It's here if you've not heard it yet! timworthington.org/2025/09/12/l...

“Antifa” isn’t an organisation. It’s an ADJECTIVE. It’s a contraction of anti-fascist. So by “outlawing Antifa”, Trump is literally proposing to make it illegal to oppose fascism.

Here’s the thing: someone being murdered for their opinions in a criminal act of violence is an atrocity, WHATEVER those opinions were. Someone being fired for their opinions ON THE ORDERS OF THE GOVERNMENT may not be as immediately devastating but the long term IMPLICATIONS are WAY more sinister.

I was also told that you shouldn’t call convicted sexual predators sexual predators because something or other

Yeah sorry I don’t have any benefit of the doubt left for people “sending love” to the Nazi wife of a dead Nazi who today vowed to continue his Nazi legacy. Of all the billions of people suffering in the world who you could choose to stand on a stage & send love to?

I am having a hard time reconciling "Charlie Kirk was a fierce advocate of open dialogue and free expression" with "we must identify and persecute everyone who is insufficiently mournful"

Dear @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social Can whoever runs your IT get this crap off your ‘news’ site inferring the Charlie Kirk suspect was antifa or a ‘radical left extremist’ when literally ALL the information coming from the US is he is the exact opposite. You’re not just wrong. You’re VERY dangerous.

The Nation pulls NO punches, from @espiers.bsky.social "There's no requirement to take part in this whitewashing campaign. Refusing to join in doesn’t make anyone a bad person. It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins “Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.”

The right are reacting to the Kirk assassination like it’s a sudden and drastic escalation in political violence; it’s not. It’s actually pretty typical of the second Trump era. It just feels that way to them because for the first time, it happened to someone THEY gave a fuck about.

so many dudes are going to shoot their dick off

NEWS! Man claiming to be a 'classical liberal' actually just a bit racist

This is how you protect your democracy. The US is a demonstration of what happens when you don't. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

If the shooter had killed a leftist podcaster, he would have a multi million dollar Go Fund Me to cover his legal fees tomorrow, and an interview lined up with Charlie Kirk.

‘Five Houses’ Farage has a certain ring. And he owns, or has claimed to own, all of them. Which is four more than Angela Rayner does… www.bbc.com/news/article...

Mainstream media's Charlie Kirk narrative: Sure, he believed LGBTQ people should be stoned to death, black people are inferior and unqualified, women are only meant to serve men, 10 year old girls should be forced to give birth. But he meant well.

It’s neither necessary nor appropriate to pretend Charlie Kirk was something other than what he was, or that he didn’t say or do the things he said and did, in order to condemn his being murdered in cold blood. Nor is acknowledging what he was and what he did tantamount to saying he deserved it.

Notice how not a SINGLE CLIP of Charlie Kirk is being shown on TV as the news organizations try to eulogize him kindly. Even Fox News. You cannot show a SINGLE THING he ever said that wasnt spewing HATE and violence. What a legacy.

This is such a funny element to the Kirk eulogizing: they can’t describe him the way they’re describing him *and* show clips of anything he actually said or did

It's the guns...😐

i’m not going to be lectured about political violence by people whose politics is violence

This happened in full view of Sky News cameras and a bunch of police just standing there. Why is THIS not on the news all day? Why don't we show people what these thugs are turning the country into? I could only find it on the far right TikTok page that proudly boasted about the incident. SHARE!

These fucking idiots took emails of Hillary Clinton ordering pizza and turned them into a child trafficking scheme, but they’re perfectly fine with Donald Trump being best friends with the most notorious sex trafficker of our time.

This is good; "Minister of Hypocrisy Wes Streeting" "So there we have it. One Irish person is charged with ‘terrorism’ in a UK court for speaking out against violence, while another Irish person is being held up as a victim of unfree speech for speaking out in favour of violence."

Breathtaking sunrise over Gateshead this morning

Nicely ominous Blood Moon over Sydney last night…

It’s #BANDCAMPFRIDAY when BC waives its usual cut and the artist gets everything you pay… Out today on my Bandcamp site: The MIDDLE EAST Album… satirical songs about goings-on in that most comedy-rich of regions (what could possibly go wrong)… mitchbenn.bandcamp.com/album/mitch-...

Made up my own flyers for the Sydney run of #TheLehrerEffect (retaining @happytoast.co.uk’s amazing artwork, obviously)

Why is no-one in any position of power IN OUR BLOODY COUNTRY calling Farage out like this?

Catch this quick! Mitch explodes with energy!

THE LEHRER EFFECT comes to the SYDNEY FRINGE My best-reviewed Edinburgh show ever is now on at #SydneyFringe sydneyfringe.com/events/mitch...

And has any politician or commentator ever - as in EVER - opined that right wingers and conservatives should “reach out to” or “try to address the concerns of” liberals and progressives? Seriously, has that EVER happened? Why is it always us who need to “understand” them and never vice versa?

It is exhausting how those of us on the left are constantly told to be careful and mindful and sensitive with the language and rhetoric we use, while the right just say whatever shit they want. Being on the right is playing politics on easy mode.

I am on tour again next month with lots of new stuff created at Edinburgh Fringe - Penzance , Glasgow , Newcastle , Chorlton , Burnham on Sea and lots more Robinince.com

EDINBURGH - that’s a wrap on certainly my most successful Fringe since the Covid Hiatus, possibly most successful ever (awaiting final figures). So long, adopted hometown, see you in 11 months… SYDNEY - see you next week… sydneyfringe.com/events/mitch...

So a brief scour of the socials confirms that PayPal has started to refuse to do instant transfers to UK banks is widespread and NOT just a Me Thing… Does anyone know if this is a glitch, or an actual policy change?

Just out of @20thcenturymarc.marcburrows.co.uk’s fantastic Britpop Hour; hilarious, meticulously crafted and weirdly moving even for one as Britpop-agnostic as myself. Just three shows left; see it if you can www.edfringe.com/tickets/what...