12YO girl signed up to do “stand up comedy” at the talent show. 13YO boy decided to heckle her. Teacher started to tell the boy to leave her alone, but the 12YO comedian said “no, no, let him go, this is the closest he’s ever going to get to having a conversation with a girl.”

"You can always rely on the kindness of strangers", said the King drably in this years dreich royal lecture. "I believe that children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way." he continued before concluding "Don't stop. Never give up. Hold your head high until you reach the top."

FUCK OFF FIREWORKS CUNTS HOW IS SANTA SUPPOSED TO FLY HIS SLEIGH UNDER THESE CONDITIONS

Unbelievably, #DuvetKnowItsChristmas generates such good will on social media that over the years we've raised somewhere approaching a quarter of a million quid for homeless charities. If you can spare a bob or two, sling some to Centrepoint, and here's the link: www.gofundme.com/f/duvet-know...

Here's a Christmas treat for you which always cheers me up, Christopher Frayling's heraldic motto.

The fucking kitchen roll, man.... 😂😂

Some cows have been sacrificed to Mithras, I assume for his birthday 🌞🏺🐮

Isn't it funny, though, that after a year of Trump and America in general worshipping AI as the second coming, whilst brute force-attacking it onto every government system and data record imaginable, the one thing they could not and would not magically sprinkle AI onto was a drive full of PDFs. 🤔

THE DONALD J. TRUMP CENTER FOR PERFORMATIVE NARCISSISM

Walked nearly 4 miles from the hotey through Holyrood saw the ruins of an old chapel then all the way to the National Gallery where I’m taking a wee coffee break before I go check out some art 11/10 experience

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It goes above and beyond normal "rightwing politics from ethnic minorities" programming! Most of that sort of thing consciously attempts to make some sort of distinction for why the speaker is different. She doesn't! She literally tells them that she herself is inferior!

You'd have thought a review that just blew up the entire narrative that's been spun by the leading ideology on gender in Westminster would be a pretty big story. Plenty of politicians seeing their insistence on tearing down all trans healthcare to ask how the review destroys their case. But no.

The question remains why a supposedly left-wing magazine would publish a piece in support of a political party with a clearly laid out fascist agenda? bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/12/17/a...

The Peter Pan theory of democracy here: you have to keep thinking happy thoughts and never ask about fixing anything, because if you stop and ask “how come we can’t repair a bridge if one falls down any more”, then the fairy dust will wear off and we will all fall out of the sky.

We're all kind of ignoring it on here but the press and opposition just tried to topple Scotland's justice secretary over "grooming gangs," a topic Elon Musk has been pushing to the front of UK politics.

GIVE AWAY! // AKA WE DID IT AGAIN! Since The Night Guest is coming out in paperback we decided to try to gift another copy bitten by Uggi. And it went … a little *too* well. (See picture 🧵) Like and share this post and on December 30th I will select a winner and send them this teeth marked copy!

I thought I’d studied the blade, but I have merely grazed it.

busy updating the contact form's gender options to male/female/Welsh

This article does make me laugh - perfect example of high parochialism with everyone involved (not Sunder) unable to see obvious glaring inconostencies lets look at some...

Sad news today as the historic former railway bridge over the River Spey at Garmouth has partly collapsed into the river. It can no longer be crossed, which means that the Moray Coast Trail cannot now be completed in full. Thanks to Rachael Millar for providing the photos. //contd

Not a reliable method of contraception.

A winter flu surge. A looming doctors’ strike. A health system with no slack left. This is neither bad luck nor a “perfect storm” - it’s exactly what will happen when resilience is treated as optional and difficult decisions are used to excuse incompetent ones. A Saturday long read.

As Dick Van Dyke turns 100, it’s important to give thanks to the sea creatures who made that possible.

posted about my Apple ID woes, please share widely? hey.paris/posts/appleid/

The worst charts I've ever seen at work

All of this discourse is an exact, uncomplicated replication of the thinking that caused European civilisation to create the greatest humanitarian catastrophe of all time. It’s so freaking obvious that I can’t believe it has to be said

We've written & published a short summary statement regarding the Sandie Peggie V NHS Fife Health Board employment tribunal case & the judgment given yesterday. Much of the media coverage has missed key information, the most important aspect being that all claims against Dr Beth Upton were dismissed

Missed this on Saturday (because I was busy rewiring the internet), but it must have been one of the first posts about the new NSA, and it's a banger: 'This is, quite straightforwardly, a program for regime change in Europe, aimed at turning it into an illiberal polity.'

If the reporting on the Peggie decision tells us anything, it should be that the way news gets reported in this country has little to do with truth, and much more to do with narrative - as well as whose heavily spun press release lands on journos desks first.

You can almost feel the BBC breaking news journalists breaking in real-time as they struggle to report that the employment tribunal didn't find that it was ok to be a transphobe in the workplace, and the Supreme Court decision really didn't matter in this case...

One of us terribly misunderstood what “me too” was about

For football-related reasons I find myself on the @hulldailymail.co.uk website a lot. It’s very revealing of how weirdly misleading our national debate on crime is

“Tablet is a sort of crystalline fudge made from sugar, condensed milk, more milk, butter, more sugar and – that might be all, actually. It is an alchemical procedure, not a recipe.” —Don Paterson on tablet, in his memoir TOY FIGHTS (Faber, 2023) #memoir #tablet 💙📚 www.faber.co.uk/product/9780...

To caveat this a quarter of Scotland has not voted Reform and long may that continue

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD USE HYPHENS

This is truly a journey

This horrible piece demonstrates a difference in the way Reform-style white nationalism plays out in Scotland - the right can’t simply invoke the integrity and vulnerability of the white population because they already view part of that population as ‘internal others’. archive.is/2025.12.03-1...

A defiant Pete Hegseth lashed out at his critics on Thursday. “I get knocked down, but I get up again,” he said. “You're never gonna keep me down.” Revealing the secret to his resilience, Hegseth said, “I drink a whiskey drink, I drink a vodka drink, I drink a lager drink, I drink a cider drink.”

Your neighbours wanting to do their own thing is not the same as a national security threat

Make America Grate Again.