OK let's do this. Chrimbo film marathon. Not necessarily in order of viewing. First up, cos just finished, all round classic & purveyor of many third degree burns: All About Eve [1950]

Christmas is that holiday when Hindus, Muslims, and Jews unite to enjoy a blockbuster film and some Chinese food.

Considering compiling a thread of the Chritmas movies we've been watching in the Mrs & Mr B flat

Was considering a tactical nap but then I thought that's quitters chat & decided to power through with more cheese & booze

Sounds a bit woke. Might have to write a 3000 word column in The Times tomorrow reminding readers the Christmas message is about smiting the weak & ensuring the grasping scrounging poors can't reach my unearned income in the Caymans

George Michael died on Christmas Day in 2016. He will be remembered for his incredible songwriting talent, his gorgeous vocals and for the greatest non-apology video of all time, following his arrest for cottaging.

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'Lack of evidence' is a pretty thin excuse for an alleged crime that happened in front of tens of thousands of people and was broadcast on national TV. In reality, wishing defeat to a genocidal occupation force is not a crime. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/d...

merry christmas to everyone celebrating today and good luck to everyone who is working through and/or enduring it

Getting into the [literal] Christmas spirit

Wallace voted Reform, Gromit is Waiting 4 Wes

I was born in April 1805 Napoleon was master of Europe Only the BRITISH FLEET stood before him Oceans were now battlefields

Maybe you haven't heard David Rakoff's remarkable report about his time as "Christmas Freud" in the window of Barney's, in New York? It aired in 1996 on This American Life, and it makes a perfect gift for fans of psychoanalysis, shopping, or secular Judaism. www.thisamericanlife.org/47/christmas...

The UK papers have been fawning over Radiohead this past year because Greenwood and Yorke have said dodgy statements concerning Israel. It wouldn’t last. Now the papers have turned on them (their music sucks now, apparently) for supporting the European Convention for Human Rights

"We saw you from across the bar and thought you should be deported."

Just a reminder: you are NOT unusual, weird, or unlovable if you have: - no one to see on Christmas Day, - no presents, or - no contactable relatives. Very few people live the idealised version on TV. Those of us who live differently—whether by choice or trauma—matter as much.

Andy Palmer.

you are fucking kidding. i am almost 40.

Hope you lot all have a cracking one x

Merry Christmas, fuckos!

To everyone preparing Christmas Dinner for Care Leavers, the homeless and those on their own, wishing you a great day. May the set up go well and the day be successful. If you want to donate to a great charity check out Quilts 4 Care Leavers (q4cl.org.uk).

It’s a Wonderful Life. Basically a Yom Kippur film. Based on a short story by a Jewish writer, one that is clearly based on the Dickens.

Ho Ho Holy Communism! Merry Christmas x

Proper heartwarming this

If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career

Merry Christmas to those of us who have a difficult enough time of year as it is.

Yes. We're spending £476m on the militarisation of Calais - where babies are being tear gassed. The fact people are hearing this for the first time is exactly why I made it the subject of the Christmas Day message. We could be spending that money instead on a fair and managed migration system.

Feels like the President being a pedophile rapist should be a bigger story.

I swear British transphobia is essentially QAnon w/ a Gail's loyalty app.

Ordered some prints of mum for christmas from snaps I had on my phone, and erm, this happened…

“Don’t abandon your family” - Person Most Deserving of Being Abandoned by their Family, 2025

These freaks like Ditum make it sound like people are going into a "chat room" and being talked into cutting off their family like they've joined a cult, but it's far more likely it was an extremely difficult decision made after the parent was extraordinarily bigoted for their entire life.

Terfs always be like "how dare you not consent to be being bullied & deprive bullies like me or your families of our enjoyment monstering you. We must do something about this"

The Telegraph highlighting - yet missing - two vital points here. 1) We're not calling for £476m to be spent. It already is - this is about diverting it to actually helping. 2) Why "cruelty" in question? The £476m we're spending is part of an operation tear gassing babies.

It's Christmas Eve which means it is time to share the best Christmas essay ever written.

More Christmas dinner chat

No festive pie left in the chippy for later, so having a non festive chippy tea. Mustn't grumble.

Raging. Just put the bins out, then I heard a crash and saw Sir Keir Starmer running away wearing nothing but a Santa hat

if you're shooting jews at a jewish social event in the diaspora, you're not targeting the state of israel, nor are you targeting its policies, nor are you targeting anyone with the power to effect change in israel's policies. you are just targeting jews.

They want to culturally associate Christmas with pogroms again.

me getting ready to tell people i've just met at a nice party that medieval torture devices and methods were largely inventions by the victorians because they wanted to appear more refined than people centuries ago

The most wonderful time of the year.

I'm at kier starmer's for christmas. bit worried. he's gone glassy eyed and keeps telling me about his "fuck box". says it's upstairs and I should come and have a look at it.

Concentration camps.

How's the Christmas tree looking..? 🤣

This is the festive chat I bring to the Christmas family dinner

Quoting for alt text (Saw an image like this ages ago and never saved it so I'm really glad it has turned up again)

I think The Express needs to find their Xmas spirit. We're paying £476m for a regime that tear gasses babies & destroys shelters in freezing conditions. We should divert that money to a functioning and fair migration system. Tune in to @boldpolitics.bsky.social at 3pm tomorrow.