@charlieholland.bsky.social Hi Charlie - My colleague Dave Huxley and I are doing some research for our next music hall book and came across these articles - have you seen them before? The articles are from The Red Letter but may have been reprinted elsewhere best Dave James

They also started the news piece on the genocide in Gaza with “famine is now unfolding in Gaza” which is absurd framing - famine isn’t “unfolding”, Gaza’s population is being starved deliberately. Nobody would say “gunshot deaths are unfolding”.

@musichallsociety.bsky.social hello hive mind! I'm doing some research on The Argyle Birkenhead and a term that keeps coming up is a top-boot dancer. What is this? It seems to be exclusively women. TIA

Left: Bridget Phillipson, "We're getting on ad delivering the change that people voted for.. Delivering Labour values and action" Right: Met police arrest 83 year old Reverend Sue Parfitt, "I'm here to stand up for the people of Palestine.. We are losing our civil liberties"

WATCH: “This is f*cking kidnapping! That’s not your badge… I do have a little bit of education… get the f*ck out of here, racial profiling is illegal…” A brave woman melts ice 🧊 💪🏽 www.instagram.com/reel/DLOWbEs...

This is absolutely brilliant satire that succinctly explains how the Daily Mail radicalises people.

‘The Culture War is Dead: Long Live the Culture War’ Julian Petley explains why the University of Sussex 'freedom of expression' case is so concerning

In America, even with a valid study visa, you can be picked up off the street at random and detained by homeland security (if you’re a Muslim that co-writes something that the government doesn’t agree with). Land of the free? Whoever told you that is your enemy. This is Soviet level shit.

It looks like I’ll be migrating away from Elon’s cesspit - what’s the water like over here?