I honestly think the quote from the article here is one of the most contemptible sentences I've ever read. "Get the credit" I mean really. "I'm doing war crimes but only a little bit and with my fingers crossed behind my back like me like me" look at yourselves you pathetic little shits

You fucking coward. You snivelling complicit piece of shit. Fuck you. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/ce...

I’m personally told young irish people in a London pub to shut up when they’ve sung this But criminalising it is very, very silly

Eid Mubarak yo x

My article for @thestage.co.uk sounding the alarm about the collapse in new play production in the UK.

I believe this is the first time there's not been an Eid prayer at al-Aqsa since 1967

Democratic consultants: To replicate Mamdani’s success with the young people we must appeal to their short attention spans with memes and TikTok Mamdani (actual quote): In the fifth century in what we now know as Ireland, a British warlord named Coroticus had laid waste to the countryside

when your ears are pushed back cos you're mad at the fence riding up your arse, but refuse to stop sitting on the fence for Reasons

Frankie Boyle had a bit on imposter syndrome where he suggested that while working class people might often very wrongly feel like they don't deserve to be somewhere, posh people often use the same phrase to simply explain away the normal human response to having been promoted beyond your abilities

Been catching up on 'Golden Age' American TV drama that I'd never bothered watching at the time, and though I'm still 2 episodes from the end, I'm comfortable saying the Sopranos biggest achievement is in establishing a mode of TV storytelling that was substantially improved upon by Mad Men.

“This is one of the most grotesque crimes of our time.”

nobody needs Eternal Val Kilmer

quite simply one of the worst music takes I've ever seen

Anas Sarwar makes crass remark about photo which made him "look like a stroke victim". Wonder if he's aware that a high percentage of the photos taken of him make him look like he should be sitting in the corner wearing one of those wee hats with the propeller on top.

Having forgotten entirely about this whole thing, I looked at this picture and my brain immediately spat out the phrase "Legs are coming soon! Are you excited?"

The Israeli government is now doing to southern Lebanon what it has done to Gaza. Horror and death on an unimaginable scale. And still our governments supply weapons, intelligence and diplomatic support. #PartyToTheCrime

I'm afraid a lot of Democrat-inclined people in the States are simply going to have to get used to the rest of the world using "America" and "Americans" to name the perpetrator of their country's actions on the global stage, sorry

It's good to see a Labour PM say this true thing about the Tories, but it would admittedly be several orders of magnitude better if the same wasn't also true of his own party

[Rubber Bandits voice] Zohran Mamdani he's in the Ra

New York: We have a massive Irish diaspora, let's have a St Patrick's Day Parade! Montreal, Boston, Philadelphia: Great idea! Right in the centre of town! Sydney, Auckland, Montserrat: Fun! Us too! London, Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham: Nice one! Glasgow, you in? Glasgow: ... All: Glasgow?

I think it's actually fine for the Mayor of New York not to have any position at all on the question of a united Ireland. (though If he'd responded by singing Go On Home British Soldiers it would ofc be only correct to reply with "slaaay", "my mayor", and "this man has the rizz")

They better hope they can find a way to make the hypnoboob stuff work for them like, because it doesn't seem to be so far and they haven't found anything else yet

For those of us around 40, the marches against the war on Iraq were our fist taste of a protest movement we independently joined aged around 13 or 14. 'Thatcher' was a bogey word in the primary school playground, but really we came of age politically in anger against 'Bush & Blair'

Breaking News: A New Jersey woman who took part in pro-Palestinian demonstrations at Columbia University in 2024 has been released from a federal detention center in Texas, where she had been held for more than a year. She has not been charged with a crime. nyti.ms/4sJs8In

My next play is going to be about a nice man who is nice. It will be called The Nice Man Who Is Nice and all these dipshits better shell out for a fucking ticket or I'll break their necks

This sort of loser chat might be funny if it didn't plausibly point to a kind of tantrum-inspired nuclear detonation

Father of six, grabbed in front of his crying children as he was about to take them to school.

we need to establish a middle way between the slim fit suit / skinny jeans excess of the last 20 years and whatever direction we're currently heading in the field of Men's Trousers

He looks like if The Matrix was about being cis.

This kind of shit is one of the most annoying things about awards chat. The most nominated film in history, by virtue of not also becoming the most awarded film in history, somehow ends up with 'Biggest Loser' hanging round it's neck. Beyond stupid.

europeans when asked to help unblock the strait of hormuz

As this story demonstrates, Al Pacino is a terrific actor and a weird little guy. Hollywood needs more people who are both terrific actors and weird little guys

Always a bit annoying when you click the link because you're interested and it turns out to be the sort of piss take 'amusing chatter at a dinner party' genre of Guardian article. Here the author was half cut when he watched the film and doesn't remember the middle of it 👍🏻

Are AI toys for young children a good thing or bad? Excited to read on to find out! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Watson is featured in this mural at Hampden Bowling Club, commemorating another match on what once the site of the original Hampden Park. Unfortunately there is talk of the land being sold to developers.

I'd say the first aim of the shady government deal broker is to not end up with a Files named after you in the papers

the picture used in this article about the social ills of junk food advertising has made me want to buy and eat six (6) cheeseburgers

Local master spin doctor here

Sarah Sackman: "The British governments position is clear, we want to see a de-escalation of this conflict" .. and that's why we're allowing the US to use British military bases to bomb Iran! Sackman & the govt are treating us like fools.

You and me, we'd refuse to do this. We'd refuse to pretend it was unknown who hit the school, that it wasn't even suggested the yanks did it. We wouldn't struggle to answer the question of whether of not incinerating a school full of children was a war crime. They do it, though.

Have to eat some shit on this one tbf don't I. Starmer's position is weak and complicit but it's evidently not this

Thinking about how a populist protest-song artist like Country Joe would, in today's irony-poisoned culture, likely be dismissed as cringe and corny, and concluding that the effects of postmodernism have been deeply reactionary

In no way should we even begin to accept the bombing of a school full of children as part of the inevitable "realities of war" and anyone engaged in trying to convince you otherwise is a proponent of a grave and catastrophic evil

Have looked up the opinions of Sopranos fans on the internet who assure me this was genius and who am I to argue