ARE YOU KEEPING IN TOUCH WITH YOUR RUSSIAN FRIENDS?

Came across this entirely by accident, and it's one of the best descriptions of the absolute terror caused by OCD that I think I've ever read. It's amazing. Do please read it. alexrees.substack.com/p/did-i-kill...

this week's newsletter is titled "aren't you tired of feeling insane all the time?" and I think it speaks for itself it is also free to read youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/arent-you-...

There's a poster in my workplace which among other things encourages people to be kind, be generous with their time etc. But it also says "All ideas are good ideas" and....well. I don't know about that. Some ideas are TERRIBLE ideas.

🎶 Oh Mandy Well you went and you peed without waiting To be home safe again Oh Mandy 🎶

I've seen this, so now you have to, too.

Whatever you think the church's position on same-sex relationships should be, the decision-making of the House of Bishops shouldn't be informed by advice which tries to claim a consensus which doesn't exist, even among the theologians quoted supposedly in support of it.

4th team out of 15 in the church quiz, thank you very much.

Dear Auntie You will be surprised to hear that I am going to prison tomorrow.

Resting Bitch Sentence. Genius.

Nice one, Zadie Smith.

Just had second session of phone psychological therapy / IAPT / CBT / talking therapy / y'know, whatever we're calling it this week. Well. Second session *this time round*. 🙄 Well done me.

Your reminder that Brianna found comfort, community and support online, and was murdered by transphobes in a park. But it's phones which are the problem.

This was gonna be the last thing I hang on my Christmas tree, but it keeps on telling me to add just one more thing.

I just want to reiterate, if you are using the front page of national newspapers to say how the media are biased against you, the standing assumption is that you are acting in bad faith. Remarkably, being silent is a key component of being silenced.

Is anyone else also internally screaming about this BBC nonsense? I feel like someone's pumping hallucinogenic gas into my house. Nothing makes sense

Evergreen skeet.

The contributions of Oak Hill to this article are quite remarkable. So many words to say so little. And a *masterful* use of the passive voice here. www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...

For the first time in over 20 years of having a garden, I have grown Brussel sprouts! Do I like sprouts? No, not really. Is that the point? Absolutely not!

A long time ago, c1990ish, when I was in my early teens, we went on a family holiday to northern France. Nearish Thiepval, I think. There was something of a job to do on the holiday too - before we went, my Dad had recorded conversations with 2 of our very elderly neighbours...1/3

They found a way to top "akshilly the eye of the needle was a really big gate in Jerusalem and a camel could get through it just fine" as an insane take.

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

This is some really good news.

I can’t believe Zohran is transing the trains already www.mta.info/article/f-m-...

It seems pretty risky to tell people they won't see the change they want if they vote Green, given that they already voted Labour and didn't see the change they wanted.

It's been a very long week, but I misread this as ...."plus dragon tuition bursary". Which frankly sounds great.

A great day for the golden rule of political analysis: when the right wins it is a resounding ideological victory that humiliates the left and when the left wins it is a precarious fluke that will surely end up humiliating the left. Conservatives are power’s landlords and the left merely tenants

Let's just take a moment to reflect on the self-sacrifice and hope this person embodies - not the evil, hateful monsters thirsting for violence.

The pro-conversion therapy LetUsPray letter (which I intend to pronounce Let-You-Spray, because I am childish) is a project of the Christian Institute. So it's no worry at all that it's signed by a member of the Archbishops' Council. www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...

Great investigation of the Nazis, racists and criminals mobilising the flag-on-lamp-posts movement. This is the kind of journalism that the national media could and should have conducted: manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...

Whatever one's view of church light parties (me, I like Halloween and also any opportunity to eat sweets and be silly in any context), I am on piano duty and therefore covered in glitter. Particularly proud of the hairclips.

I love Roger Allam. Most of all as Fred Thursday, but also as Douglas Richardson. Good choice of favourite Cabin Pressure episode, too. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

Niche. @quiresandplaces.com

Above all, I am very sad that Virginia Guiffre didn't live to see Andrew defenestrated.

Tolkien: how can he misinterpret my work? The meaning is obvious! CSS Lewis: see, you have no one to blame but yourself Lewis: now if you'd tried using some allegories like i explained-- Tolkien: shut your mouth, you Anglican traitor

Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.

Whether Farage is a quietly devout Anglican really is between him and Jesus, but tis is another of those "Christian values, you know the ones, nudge nudge wink wink" pieces. thecritic.co.uk/does-nigel-d...

I've had a Sensible Haircut (TM) which I rather like, and is a little tiny bit Judith Butler.

“Gelsinger has made it a core mission to soft-power advance the company’s Christian principles in Silicon Valley, the halls of Congress and beyond.” “Which Christian principles? Feeding the hungry and protecting the vulnerable?” “Oh, you know the ones.”

Always good to "soft-power advance the company’s Christian principles* in Silicon Valley, the halls of Congress and beyond, armed with a fundraised war chest of a $110m." *Whatever the hell those are. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Long car journey to visit the big kids, and Kid C is in charge of listening material. So far: The Longest Johns, Young 'Uns, bit of Pulp and Creedence Clearwater Revival, and now: Cabin Pressure. Starting with Douz.

For #BlackHistoryMonth, I feel compelled to tell you what happened to me last night in a hotel bar in Nottingham...[1/10]

Voters knew what to do to stop Reform. Unusually for a by-election, turnout surged to > 50% up from 44% in 2021. This is terrible for Labour though & smashes the campaign phrase that “Only Labour can stop Reform”. They now need 2 oppo votes to pass Senedd Bills.

Nicely done, people of Caerphilly.

It's possible that I'm a little bit overtired, but I did nearly cry in the street earlier because my nearest post box has been made out of service to be replaced by an "automated system" coming soon.

Feel like with James Orr onboard in a role which essentially seems to be "theoretician in chief" and the inclusion of Danny Kruger we are going to get a manifesto which is 50% Richard Tice style "zero taxes on property developers" and 50% the most demented SocCon shit you've ever seen

Oh yeah I hadn’t thought of that

Dave is watching sailing. One of the boats is called Lazarus. One of the commentators has just said "When Lazarus comes back"...