Excuse me. If the film stars Alan Rickman, then it IS a Christmas movie. See also: all Harry Potter films and Love Actually.

The usurped family were not of English origin. Plenty of people in the restaurant were not as well, including an Asian family sat on the next table, who left shortly after. It's increasingly apparent now that racists feel emboldened to be openly racist. Cheers, Nigel. What a country this now is.

Was in McDonald's in Liverpool yesterday for lunch with the family and an argument broke out on another table - one family took someone else's table whilst they were at the toilet. Long story short, it ended with the father of the table-taking family shouting, "it's our country not yours".

My final gig of 2025 is this Thursday at King’s Hall in Herne Bay, again with the brilliant Catenary Wires. This time, we’re also joined by young, up and coming indie popsters, Swansea Sound. WARNING: may contain the occasional Christmas poem and song. Tickets here: brianbilston.com/events/

We kept the receipts. These comments, taken together, paint a picture of the man he is today.

A big, big thanks to Glasgow last night for a fab evening. Tonight, we’re heading to Newcastle for our antepenultimate gig of the tour. Not many tickets left for that or for Pocklington on Friday. We’re also in Herne Bay on 4 December. More info here: brianbilston.com/events/

1/5 It was entirely predictable that The Telegraph would jump on @DavidOlusoga’s Empire series to fight its right wing culture war for control of our public history. Let’s see what they’ve done:

I for one am COMPLETELY dumbfounded as to how Nigel Farage has swivelled from horrific poisonous teenage racist to the open-hearted generous empath that he is today

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

If you receive legal threats from Nigel Farage for your reporting of Reform, please get in touch. We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Hope you enjoyed today's celebration of women printmakers! 🧡💛🤎 Have a great day xx

Me watching the game #LIVNFO

I have yet to meet a Chinese mother who thinks “Western permissive ways” are superior to Chinese tiger mum parenting. If they were spying on American mums, you can be sure they are all sniggering at your incompetence. 😂😂😂

I took a mouthful of tea just before the third Scotland goal. I thought I showed remarkable self control not to a) swallow it down the wrong way and/or b) spit it all out on our relatively new carpet as I banged my fist on the armchair to celebrate. 😁🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿⚽️ #Scotland

Hahahahaha! Brilliant.

A great way to fight back against AI taking away work from creatives is to buy art by actual humans. (Reply to this post with your own art/website etc. But only if you’re an organic life-form). www.worldofmoose.com

The CURRENT sitting MP for Clacton earns £511,000 as a presenter for GB News and took £281,000 as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion. So maybe sit this one out, you rancid herring.

I grew up quite comfortable in the 80s as in always had food, clothes, even had piano lessons, but never realised how much my parents sacrificed then so that my sibs and I could have those opportunities. They never had anything nice for themselves. Every cent was saved for us kids.

Mandarin: Number Eleven Month. 😖

A tale of two halves

A tactical & data piece with in-game clips & images to explain how Arne Slot's use of Wirtz, pressing block interchange & midfield overload created problems for #RealMadrid, turning their shape into a weakness. That & much more covered. #LFC Have a read: mizganmasani.substack.com/p/how-slots-...

A big thanks to all those who came to see us at Stamford Corn Exchange last night. What a super bunch you are. Two more shows this week: tonight we’re at The Stables, near Milton Keynes and then onto Komedia in Brighton on Thursday. Tickets on sale here: brianbilston.com/events/

We're very pleased to announce Professor Kang Nee Ting as winner of the 2025 Chris Hawes Award for Outreach and Education 😀🔬👏 Kang Nee has brought #microscopy to thousands of children in Malaysia, reducing #inequality in #STEM Read more: rms.org.uk/resource/pro...

The Conor Bradley Madrid Autumn Collection:

Giorgi Mamardashvili celebrating Macca's goal ❤️ #LFC #RealMadrid #UCL #Liverpool #Redsky

What a fabulous pic. #LFC #YNWA #REDSKY

The far right on Samir Zitouni, the rail worker who saved multiple lives during the LNER attack

The Empire did not create Britain’s wealth. The Empire STOLE it.

Aston Villa tried to play game on the floor, but #LFC are a better team in that aspect. Slot's men were efficient (got deserved luck) & went back to basics with a two-man CM buildup. All of that discussed in my tactical analysis piece. Link: mizganmasani.substack.com/p/tactical-a... Please share

an iconic MOment 👑

This might very well be the greatest Halloween costume ever.

I can answer this. I interviewed Peterson's tailor a few years ago, although the interview was never published because I fell behind on work. Here is the story of this suit. 🧵

Chortle 🤭

As always, a very informative thread from THE menswear guy.

Halloween fun 😂

Today’s Halloween-based poem is called ‘Pumpkin’.

#13DaysOfHalloween Day 10 is the black brittle star, a relative of the starfish. It often lives in dense communities, spanning hundreds of square yards on an ocean floor! Despite variations in appearance and location, they exhibit remarkable population homogeneity pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37524805/ 🧪

This was the most peculiar bit about his rant. Buddhism and Rangers just don’t seem a great fit? 😂

Adverts should be representative of traditional British families

What Sarah Pochin MP sees when the Chase is on.

For ‘adverts’, see also: ‘hospitals’, ‘the Cabinet’, ‘kindergartens’, ‘the England football team’ and, of course, ‘the country’. The only way you can miss this is deliberately. And just watch them try.

GMB reporting on racism in nursing like they’re not part of the problem. What is happening to our country they ask? It’s you lot encouraging Nigel Farrage, the Tories and every news headline being about immigration you ironic fucks.

True Welsh poetry

'Solar System' quilt by Ellen Harding Baker of Cedar County, Iowa, US in 1876, she used her textile work as a teaching aid for her lectures on astronomy in the small towns of her state. Find out more in the first Womensart book, Unravelling Women's Art on textile artist rebels and pioneers!

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@lazygun.bsky.social our next holiday will be in Wales

Yucks. We don’t want your paedos.