The funniest part about this line of thinking is later Clive Barker revealed just how homophobic his publisher was, and I think about the number of times this has happened that we will never hear about. www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/0/clive-b...

It's crazy that, in terms of video storage, 50 short years is the difference between losing TV footage forever because video tape was too precious a resource not to reuse, and Ring doorbells keeping everyone's footage on their servers in case they might, at some indeterminate point, pay to view it.

The fucking thing is, it's not that Reform wouldn't be worse than Labour. It's that the fact that Reform exist doesn't get Labour off the hook for not being better.

Yes, what if we moved the goalposts again so that this abysmal piece of shit, this walking affront to the democratic process, could just jail anyone he wants rid of? Much to think about

Thought you'd be free of my nonsense when I am finally gathered up into the arms of the Lord? Think again, assholes.

"...and they stole the election from me, Keith....you know that....STOLE...but I got back at them....I'm never going to see heaven, Kenneth..." *nandos going cold on the table*

Good. Perhaps some Very Serious Guys will feel obliged to explain why they thought protecting arms manufacturers from red paint, and then arresting loads of pensioners, vicars etc, was a matter of unquestionable national security

Can these creeps stop having public political fantasies about what they want to do to women?

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Wanna see the most "Late 90s edgy" album cover I've ever seen? One that at the time was trying to scream "there is some dark shit on this album, you are not ready" but looks a bit naff in retrospect?

A respectable good-faith spokesperson will pop along shortly to explain a whole new bit of science they've just discovered that will still implicate evil trans people, Rapid-Onset Being A Completely Different Person From Who We Originally Thought Syndrome or whatever

Impossible to overstate the extent to which this is a novel and manufactured moral panic

Finally something most of the country agrees with him on.

EEEXIIIIT LIIIIGHT EEENTEERR NIIIIGHT TAAAAKE MY HAAAAND CHAOS WITH ED MILLIBAND (hyeh hyeh)

idk how to rebuild society for this but i don't think people should be allowed to talk like this without it going very poorly for them

I never took it but a bunch of my college friends did jiu-jitsu and the first thing they taught you was how to open in any real fight, which was to put up your hands and say “hey man, I don’t want any trouble”

Disappointed that the MEN Gorton and Denton hustings does not include my daughter's favoured candidate, Sir Oinks-A-Lot of the Monster Raving Loony Party.

Going out on a limb to say 'ideally yes'

This is essentially my overarching theory of art: nothing more there than there needs to be. Some songs need three chords, some need an orchestra and the art part is in deciding which. Same with sticky toffee puddings, apparently.

Been to a few schools, so there's varying answers, but Patrick Stewart, Jo Cox, Shannon Matthews and that guy who tried to blow up an airliner with his underpants.

Monorail! Monorail! Monorail!

“Just make the words different colours, it’ll be fine”

That's gonna hit some people square in the adolescence.

Hey! You know how much John McTern and his fellow sensibles love to tell us we are 'impossibly naive'?

THREAD 🧵: The Epstein files are real. The antisemitism they're fueling is also real. And right now, the second part is getting almost no attention.

That's a napkin, but I thought for a second he had a Union Jack* phone case, which would be levels of desperate heretofore unseen. *flag. whatever. i don't care.

We already have these but I can recommend them highly enough.

Sarah Pochin looks fit to stand up and punch him. This is the thing these dickheads really hate, being ridiculed. It's not the only way to deal with them (there's [REDACTED]) but it is quite effective.

The number of people who think this is "sensible" politics and don't understand why it's a massive uncrossable red line for millions of Labour's supposed core constituency continues to blow my mind. All the minor percentage shifts in NHS waiting lists will never make up for this nativist cruelty.

20 years? We're asking people to live in uncertainty for 20 years? Think back to who you were 20 years ago? Are you the same person? All of this to satisfy the unsatisfiable.

Interestingly, at no point has Raph changed his opinion or acknowledged he was wrong. Just a weird system whereby the correct opinion changes like the weather.

My dad wanted to call me Wulf and my brother Conan (he was big into Celtic mythology for a while, although he reckons we're actually of Pictish descent. God knows if we are). For years I assumed this had been a joke until my mum informed me that no, he had been entirely serious.

The same artist also did one of a skeleton riding a motorbike, and a female warrior with massive norks.

Started watching Small Prophets. Recognised my local branch of Wickes as where Michael works.

You know, the Labour peer who was key to Starmer's operation and was mates with a paedophile even after they found out about. No, not him, the other one.

Wes Streeting tells house guests where the upstairs toilet is:

Viz used to do a thing about people ostensibly smiling while actually displaying their inner malevolence and hoo boy is this byline photo of Wes Streeting a candidate for that.

Trump's dead

Cool how Streeting has published all the texts that show him having cool and progressive opinions. I'm sure that's all of them and no more will come to light later that he's trying to get ahead of.

U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.

Both, apparently. If I were him my first press conference would be me just sat there eating a pile of bacon sandwiches and raising a middle finger.

Why the *fuck* do all the media people think Streeting is a good "media performer"? What is it about him that appeals to them?

Using my apparently barely-suppressed rage to my advantage by going to the tip to hoy a load of stuff into skips.

Downing Street sources now reporting that the falcon cannot hear the falconer and that a blood-dimmed tide is loosed.

27 February

I wish more bands had a fanbase like Pulp's. One website with loads of rarities, live recordings and demos and stuff available to download. Radio sessions etc appearing within a few days. Magic. I presume you need a label willing to look the other way which many bands don't have, but still.

Ask any Cocteau Twins fan whether it matters if lyrics are in English or are in fact probably a load of bollocks.

“I’m mad I can’t understand Bad Bunny’s lyrics because they’re not in English” my brother millions of metalheads around the world have been happily listening to incomprehensible Finnish shrieks and Japanese death grunts since we were teens, you’re just boring and racist

I just slammed the door on a Labour canvasser. I didn't actually intend to, and she seemed polite so I feel pretty bad. She got a few words out and I just said "I'm one of the fleas you shook off" and slammed the door. I'm clearly angrier about all this than even I thought.

I do wonder who the ambassadors between these 2 neighbours are though...