If you voted for Brexit, STFU about tax increases

“You’ll be visited by three spirits.”

if elon just hired an Inverse Jester (guy hired to listen to his jokes and pretend they're funny) we could solve every problem except how to keep the inverse jester from killing himself

Or you could stay, impeach him, and then leave.

So, we finally watched Michael Clayton last night, and I was affirmed once again in my belief that Tilda Swinton really is the finest actress of the strange alien race to which she belongs.

So glad that Kevin Le Gendre is coming on tonight to help us celebrate the life and music of Jimmy Cliff.

When you look at all the tech and influencer bros, it's really striking how little joy they have in their lives. No appreciation for nature or art, no creativity or human relations, pretending to themselves that enjoying things is 'weak'. They might as well be fucking Cybermen.

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WHERE IS DEATH OF STALIN YOU CLATTERING FANNIES

This is *expressly* not the law

RIP to Jimmy Cliff, a constant part of the soundtrack of my childhood and integral part of what I would argue is the best sountrack of all time for The Harder They Come. This one hurts. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jg7q...

When I was in govt we used to prep ministers for select committees by doing trial sessions. And we were so much better at it than MPs. They almost never ask the difficult questions.

Never mind that they're paying a shitload just to come to welcoming, progressive, Global Britain to study. They're keeping universities afloat, helping local economies. But yeah, paint your fucking red cross all over education. Keep them all out. Extinguish the idea of 'students' while you're at it.

I am looking forward to Sky News and GB News getting forensically analysed and the lengthy uninterrupted coverage shown on the BBC.

Has someone asked Michael Prescott how long he was political editor of the Sunday Times for, and whether it's the same number of years as his dossier/ LinkedIn page suggests?

ICYMI: Reform’s UK only member of the Welsh parliament has been suspended for using a racial slur in a WhatsApp group. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/reform-laura-jones-suspended-racial-slur-senedd-b2869040.html

Busines and Trade Secretary, Peter Kyle: "When you win an election... you start off where the other lot left off, and the extent of challenges that Brexit left us, that some of the other periods of intense instability left us... you can't fix that in one month, in one budget, or in one year." ~AA

Hegseth is now threatening to recall Sen. Mark Kelly to active duty in order to court martial him.

CBI chief Rain Newton-Smith tells gov't: "Change course on Employment Rights... The minimum wage, the last Labour govt's defining reform has endured because it was built in partnership with us." Hmm. Was it? Some of us are old enough to remember it was introduced in the teeth of CBI opposition. ~AA

Letter: "New polling by Best for Britain shows three in five Brits now see Brexit as a failure with seven in 10 of these voters blaming Nigel Farage. His silence on the subject speaks volumes." ~AA www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/2564170...

RIP Jimmy Cliff youtu.be/Kddp0S1NB4E?...

It is imposdible to make a Top 100 list everyone agrees with… BUT THIS LIST IS SO WRONG!!!! variety.com/lists/best-c...

This tragic perma-virgin keeping the Austin comedy scene going with Grok's killer roasts.

There is however something slightly cathartic in how much it clearly pains him that he has all the money in the world and it still can’t make him funny. He’s like a walking cautionary tale.

I implore someone, anyone, in the media… Do your job And the next time you have Farage on, please ask him directly: …what were the motivations behind this?

Vulgar? The entire internet is vulgar, my dear.

If someone used AI to perform 'a vulgar roast with forbidden words' on me, they'd be feeding through a tube up their nose until their family decided to pull the plug for a more useful appliance.

Remembering Udo Kier — a fearless, unforgettable screen original whose decades of boundary-pushing performances changed the shape of cult and art-house cinema. #UdoKier

1950s British comedy movie.

Nothing makes me more interested in something than being told it’s no longer relevant/I should move on. See also: Brexit, Farage’s home ownership, Farage’s income streams, Reform’s funding and racism, their links to Russia, MAGA and the mountain of evidence that they’re traitorous lying bastards.

Oxo are now selling Ed Sheeran cubes in supermarkets from this week. Just adding hot water in a mug ensures that consumers can enjoy the rich, beefy taste of the gnome-faced songster on cold winter nights.

RIP Udo Kier, a true original 📽️ his one and only social media post:

Shakin' Stevens has now been reduced to moderate undulation and some jiggling say family members. He used to shake continually, says a cousin, but the onset of age has brought him to a state of occasional oscillation and infrequent waggling.

Boy oh boy do companies love to pollute Louisiana. Especially the places where all the Black folks live.

Children who look like Richard Widmark can be let out early in the evenings, say local councils. The children, whose resemblance to the film star frightens many people, can visit parks but must be accompanied by an adult and someone with a bazooka.

Yoghurts are good for you, says Tom Funts of the Yoghurt Advisory Board, and anyone who says different is a prick. Honestly, he goes on to say, I hate those anti-yoghurt bastards. If I ever met them I'd stuff a crowbar horizontally up their chuffs. Eat yoghurts, you scumpockets.

The problem Donald Trump has as pretender to the throne of America is that he leads a party full of scavengers who are all realizing it might be in their best interests not to pretend anymore.

It really is so absurd to claim "I get small business because I worked in a MacDonalds once and what business needs is another massive costly upheaval in four years, just as they have absorbed the last change." Even before you add the fact that she is unlikely to be Tory leader by next summer.

2013 seems like another world now, that's when I met Udo Kier at some fancy Hollywood thing in Palm Springs, we chatted about Fassbinder & he said he was making a movie in Ireland & would look me up. It didn't happen but it was a privilege to meet him. Rest in peace, Udo, you maniac, you sweet man.

RIP Udo Kier.

RIP Jimmy Cliff. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...

Some bleak things on my timeline - a world of anguish - I hope these happy photos show you have allies - Cath Loveday , Kate ThisistheKit, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Mog from Warwick Books #poetry #adhd #bookshops #glastonbury

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Her parents bought the house in the 1960s for £21K and now it's worth £1.2 million It is insane that some people think you should just be able to keep all of that - if you've made a big profit, it is fair you should get taxed on that

Damn. Jimmy Cliff. oh man.

You get the reverse of this on the right, where someone dislikes capitalism, but believes that what they object to is 'modernity'.

The only reason that BIG TIN of chocolates went out of fashion was because people generally won't buy them. But people will buy a smaller tub every week for £4.50 when they go shopping, weeks before Christmas.

Rarely is an artist the soundtrack to a whole life. Jimmy Cliff was one of those rare individuals. RIP. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...