My head nearly fell off. The actual Minister for Health said this? m.independent.ie/irish-news/t...

proper cricket

me, a radical leftist: let’s make the country nice so people want to make their lives here a sensible grown-up forensic MP: we should increase the horrors

more like brydon farce

searing political insight

me reflecting on the captaincy of the english cricket team at the turn of the millennium:

Looking through the replies to this, I think we have definitely crowdsourced the answer.

losing my mind over youtube's suggested reply for this comment

carry on up the tiber

jordan peterson waking from another six-month ketamine coma:

So you agree? The ideological lockstep of the British press functions to lead the public by the nose into a narrowly constrained set of beliefs?

This is the entirety of his bio on the official Vandy roster

Cruelty is anhedonic. It rarely delivers the euphoria promised because, in the abstract, what feels righteous and joyful inevitably reveals itself to be sordid and small. Then it's "No not like that". "No not enough". "No the real battle, the forever war to make this feel good starts now". Forever.

Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨

The deaf don’t generally participate in street crimes; consequently, the gangs all hear.

"what's more virgin than a computer?" is, unfortunately, a banger

Nothing says feminism like forcing women to do something they have been vocal about not wanting to do.

midlife crisis actor

Indeed. It was called the Red Army.

for the record everyone should be mad *at the government* for this

I've got a new piece at @lseimpactblog.bsky.social today following on from my previous piece about the British Library cyberattack and arguing that, since the UK Government clearly doesn't care about the UK knowledge sector, we need to develop our own community-led tech and infrastructure solutions.

💥New: Don’t rely on government to save the British Library ✍️ @simonxix.com #BritishLibrary #HigherEducation #ResearchInfrastructure

"We would have punished these guys if it hadn't taken us 4 decades to get round to it" is just a fantastic summary of police accountability in Britain

HBOMax has started showing a 'remastered' 4K Mad Men and they’ve messed things up so during Roger’s oyster vomit scene you can now see the crew men with the vomit hose on the right

total yard freedom

Blue Prince (2025)

gone to london* to see the queen† *rome †pope

this mf doesn’t live in a society 😭

been in italy for approximately twenty minutes and got papers please-d by the carabineri

Imagine being so innately misogynist that you believe an adult woman cannot be criticised for her politics or competence.

Acknowledge, we humbly beseech thee, a sheep

when a comediän jaçks-œff in front of women nònconsensűally

Jet fuel can't melt steel breems

lol

Me: (Just a regular ordinary lawyer, and definitely not a crackpot pursuing a wacky personal jihad) The gender wars

incredible quote lol

when you’re trying to evade capture after WWII ends:

i semi-regularly think about this concept and way of describing it and crack up. absurd

Just as you thought food delivery companies couldn't inflict any more misery on society: Instead of using lowly-paid gig economy contractors to deliver groceries, they're replacing humans with robots, who, in turn, force humans off the pavement into road traffic.

This is absolutely transcendent, divine almost, the most perfectly Kemi Badenoch statement: inane and irrelevant in the first place, and on further investigation, incoherent and imbecilic. She could not be less suited to public office but at least she comes with amazing gaffes!

Britain’s top selling right wing politics magazine, here: one straightforward fascist (Murray); a fascist and convicted sex offender (Taki); a raging far right wacko done for assaulting his wife (Liddle) and the crackpot editing the whole thing is Michael Gove, a former senior minister.