Well played.

Two minutes into Traitors and there is already a gay I would die for.

I cannot stress enough how much this was the consensus in Actual 2003

Breaking news! Hadley Freeman has finally written a column that isn’t banging on and on about how we must persecute more trans people! I wonder what her other interests… oh

Bigots are so endlessly weird

The Labour right is obsessed with the idea that constantly saying ‘I’m fucking brilliant, me’ is excellent politics, when in fact it is always incredibly cringe.

The Guardian has done a ‘how will the budget affect you?’ calculator which is literally impossible to use if you don’t have a car. A wee bit on the nose, that.

We worked together on my dad's last radio play- most of our scenes were duologues- and he was the most generous of actors to perform with. RIP. metro.co.uk/2025/11/25/w...

That’s two General Elections in a row won by straight up frauds on platforms of lying and drivel, then pivoting to both pleasing themselves with dumb, nasty culture warrior horseshit and very nasty authoritarianism. Almost like there is political/media class unity about those things, where it counts

I see that eighteen months into this Sensible, Moderate, Thank God The Adults Are In Charge government we have reached the ‘let’s steal jewellery from refugees!’ stage.

We really do need to find a way for noisy Sensible Moderates to finally admit they’ve horrifically fucked it, in a way that they’ll find acceptable. It’s going to be hard, because so many of them relentlessly clowned themselves by advocating for horrible cranks who have total contempt for them.

LISTEN TO THIS. I mean, I would say that, but listen to this.

I see the cosy Facebook fash have finally killed off Big Brother, then- a franchise which for a while back in the day made this country look a lot more accepting and diverse than it is. An all-white, all straight final with a Turning Point spokesperson in there feels very 2020s.

‘The dirty cranky lefties who told me exactly who he was from the start were right, but since I just sneered at them I am going to pretend that didn’t happen’

Three points I keep repeating 1. Left and liberal voters actually really exist 2. The right and "centre" are trying to rule without liberals - they are way out over their skis 3. Reports of right wing total information control are greatly exaggerated

The number of people taken in by this deeply unpleasant person is astonishing to me.

Social media makes touring an even more surreal experience. Standing at a luggage carousel at Heathrow watching a video of myself at a curtain call in Munich earlier today. Wild.

You know, it feels as if it isn’t *the left* who are the bad losers after all.

There is something grimly hilarious about all the Labour politicians lining up to pretend they’re on the same side as Mamdani after spending a decade scorched-earthing everything he stands for.

*Laughs in 2015-2019* I think we know what comes next.

If you want to experience the highest level of embarrassment it’s possible to feel for another person, the Sensible Centrists have taken to calling Zack Polanski ‘Magic Grandson’ because (a) they are terrible at jokes and (b) they think being left wing can only somehow connect to Corbyn.

Also, it’s really not great if you’re having to resort to stitching together weird Frankenstein creations to beat a party that’s polling just over a quarter of the electorate

Getting hammered & wailing into their mojitos that they told their core voters they were scum who can fuck off, imposed a lot of diet fash & upcycled racisms no one but them wanted & now they're all out of ideas 😭

Oh look, their broken system is about to fuck up, again, and they’ll tell us it’s somehow our fault, again.

'Hurray!' I think as I click Trust This Browser. 'I'll never have to go through this process again now!'

This is excellent news, especially for those of you who are about to discover it. Brilliant stuff.

'It's been lovely meeting you all... I've been totally consistent, and I am... ... a twaitor'

Here is a v sharable and relatable poem that I wrote about how Thing Were Better In The Old Days

Woah! So Labour's position really is, 'telling us off for breaching human rights undermines the case for human rights'? Proper Trumpian stuff from Labour's answer to Suella Braverman.

Paloma Faith once said something snide about musical theatre so I am hoping she goes tonight because yes I am that petty.

And again: the reason politics and media are this reckless, hateful and deliberately inflammatory is all down to decisions that were made in 2018-19 about what is acceptable conduct in public life, and we are all going to live with the consequences of that for a very long time.

folks we need to bring back forums. social media doesn't work. forums didn't work either but they were funnier and had more concentrated giant flameouts

Important to recognise that this was also the case ten years ago and more, and what we are living through now is the consequences of lots of important people and the media support system they are 100% reliant upon refusing to accept it, and continuing to force themselves upon the public regardless.

You’ll see people asking “How can Sir Keir snuggle up to the Epstein-adjacent President who is currently running an extremely authoritarian red terror” and the answer is: easily, because Britain has been doing that for years, and Sir Keir and pals were ringleaders and the most clear beneficiaries.

labour is going to let half the councils in the country go reform so 20 shitheads can keep their jobs for 8 more months

This is simply untenable. There is no way forward with media and political classes captured by the right. Every time someone commits a crime you have to pray it's not an undesirable or it's purge time, then when it turns out to be themselves again they just shrug and wait for the next one.

Charlie Kirk: “God’s perfect law says gays should be stoned to death.” Liberals: “This is an honorable man who did politics the right way. Through debate, not calls to violence.”

So if you dutifully bought the books the papers told you to in the 90s and 00s you end up with a bookshelf where two transphobes sandwich a violent racist.

“It just could not happen in Britain” feels like maybe someone should ask Peter what this meant

Your least favourite uncle here, just reminding everyone up to and apparently including the director general of the BBC that 'criteria' is a plural.

The problem with anti-woke comedy is that it has one (1) good critique: *some* lib comedians aren't funny, they just repeat their audience's values back to them. This is true! It's just that it's also true of *all* anti-woke comedy, which is intrinsically values-led and thus comedically stillborn.

simple rule: commentators who said "this won't work" fron the start should be listened to those who didn't, shouldn't

There are debates to be had about free speech or policing or whatever but that’s not what this is - these are the leading lights of the gender critical movement coming out to say Linehan’s tweet was *correct*. That violence against trans women in women’s bathrooms is justified.

Bad, bad news.

I mean the gloves could not be more off.

Still thinking about that Labour MP who, dripping with disdain, took to the socials to explain that challenging public lies is bad and wrong and only an idiot would do it. Still can’t fathom living with such a mixture of certainty and moral cowardice.

The reason we have a surge in far right politics is that all our media outlets amplify and legitimise far right views. They could stop doing so any time they like, and they don’t want to. Start from there.

Man on TalkSPORT just now: ‘It’s like Peter Finch in Network, you know, ‘I’ve had enough of this’’

I mean, hundreds of MPs and journos actively lying to the public to protect their mates who were deliberately scuttling one of only two viable parties in an enormously consequential general election does not feel very “democracy”, does it. If feels like something very different.

Are MPs supposed to conspire with media outlets to orchestrate wild hate Jihads against their own party, trying as hard as they can to ensure their own side loses elections? Are there any other examples of this happening in British history, and indeed in electoral history anywhere on earth.