Fundamentally, we really should emphasise that Westminster has gone weird in a way that is utterly disconnected from the rest of the country.

I had endometriosis for 25 years and not a damn thing was done in that time, no one should live with or be regularly expected to live with extreme pain.

I can't believe they cancelled my favourite show after one series! They should have let it run for 8 seasons, like that show I used to like but now hate with an incontinent passion.

Hard to imagine something I'm going to work harder to avoid seeing

Mockery is a legitimate form of protest and people underestimate how much bigots hate it.

I mean, there's a clue in the name.

If someone had told me 20 years ago "In 20 years you'll be using a much shittier, buggier version of photoshop, but you won't own it! You'll rent it for a quarter of a thousand dollars every year!" I would have murdered them

The BBC are really going out of their way to not call these The Peter Files.

Ironically, Barnum’s and Bailey’s respective kids—Sid and Marty—both ran away one night to join corporate America.

Strong urge to apologise to Rosamund Pike. Not for the texting, I wasn’t there, just in general.

In the very early days of mobile phones, I was at the theatre with my mum when her phone went off. Her ingenious solution was to surreptitiously kick it under the seat in front and then start tutting like it had nothing whatsoever to do with her.

Because this is so like something that happened in an episode of Peep Show I'm worried some people think it didn't happen but I swear blind it did. Have you ever had a sitcom moment? Have you ever gone down a hill in tin bath moments after saying "There's no way I'm getting in that bath"?

Whenever a post does well about two hours later I start to feel quite grumpy about it and wish I’d never said anything.

I’m really good at drawing quite badly but I’d drop it in a heartbeat to draw quite well.

Didn’t know this. Today’s favourite fact.

I’m reminded of being stuck at a wedding with some cousin’s boyfriend who found out I was a bookseller so thought I’d want to know the only book he’d read was Mr Nice.

There was a tweet doing the rounds last week that basically alleged men finding women sexually attractive was gay.

Reading.

One the one hand it's interesting how we mythologise artists and on the other hand this is as dumb as nails.

Still thinking about a Reddit post I saw just before I went to bed last night asking if we know for sure that the Boards of Canada brothers 'actually exist in the form we believe them to' 😭😭😭

Who can honestly say they haven’t been so worried they’ve accidentally fancied a trans person that they have a room plastered with photos of their neck to check the width?

“You can prove anything with facts” says awful prick.

I think this is a shame. Not only does it make northern Scots feel like they matter it was a remnant of regional television. The ghost of Grampian.

It’s going to be a difficult few months for people who don’t like biopics and only quite like The Beatles.

I deleted my Linktree a while ago because I thought the prices were beginning to take the piss considering how not especially useful I’ve found it but bloody hell. Delete delete delete.

IMPORTANT: For any artists/writers/etc etc, using Linktree to point people to their work, from 5 July, they'll be feeding all imagery you use on your landing page into DALL-E by OpenAI. I deleted my account this morning.

Actor Fredi Washington wearing an anti-lynching armband in 1938.

Obviously before he joined Take That.

Found it.

I’ve been watching Widow’s Bay and The Boroughs at about the same time and Widow’s Bay is better. The Boroughs isn’t bad but it doesn’t feel new or special.

“Overpriced and boring” is pretty close to “I didn’t want a stupid freedom festival anyway”

Big Train chat has reminded me of one of my favourites. I always refer to Ventriloquist dummies as “the old fashioned scary ones” now.

I’d say the tedious fucking ashtray disqualified himself from Desert Island Discs with this interview in March 2015. See also: not being invited on A Good Read or Front Row. The man’s got nothing. He is the Archbishop of Fuck All.

Just done that thing of being so long on the internet you feel grubby. Like you’ve been looking at porn for hours. I imagine.

I love my print of Tuesday (the cow being beamed up by the UFO). Go take a look.

I love this publicity photo for Big Train. A former screensaver of mine.

Something good came out of Half Man. This piece of writing saying why it was bad.

“Oh I see what’s happened Mr Farage, You thought the interview was done at Broadcasting House? No it’s on an actual desert island. *shouting over the waves as the boat speeds back to the super yacht* “I’m sure Lauren will be here in a few months. You’ve got your cigars? All the best then!”

I'm sick of very rich people moving to places that have a cool reputation because of the vibrant nightlife and then complaining about the vibrant nightlife.

I'm getting some more postcards printed soon so you can buy packs of five. If there's one of my pictures you'd think would make a good postcard but I haven't thought of it please let me know. (but I might say no because I'm a fussy arse) My prints and bits are here. marswasrubbish.etsy.com

A man who once played Paul McCartney in a film got off with my then girlfriend and I was really jealous of him but then he disappeared from acting. I didn’t kill him or anything I’m just adding colour.

It’s wonderful how this story just keeps giving. Did you see Have I Got News For You on Friday? The first ten minutes was on this. You could sense the joy and relief that for once the jokes weren’t lowkey about the world ending.

“I’ve been on Question Time 400 times but not being asked to name my 8 favourite songs from adverts has hurt me deeply.”

Cultural criticism has become bored & started to consume itself. "I'm just gonna say it: The big problem with books is all the words" "Visual art nowadays relies too much on the sense of sight. So dull" "Would films be better without sound & the moving image?" "Hear me out: Dance without movement"

“Your sister’s nice”

Is he hoping we’ve forgotten when Nigel Farage was the opposite of banned from shows and he was bloody everywhere? Chummy guest appearance on Harry And Paul for instance.

When I worked for Foyles, briefly, I was one of the oldest people there and was in my 30s but I don’t remember everyone only liking books from the last 20 years. That’s changed.

I feel the same way about libraries. I only read a few books a month and there’s bloody loads in there. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...