I am doing a workshop on 4 October in Margate at @margatebookie.bsky.social about 'writing Margate'. So I thought it apt to publish the final part in a Margate trilogy that I have dragged out over a few years. medium.com/@iainaitch/e... Bookings at: www.margatebookie.com/write-up/iai...

I am doing a workshop on 4 October in Margate at @margatebookie.bsky.social about 'writing Margate'. So I thought it apt to publish the final part in a Margate trilogy that I have dragged out over a few years. medium.com/@iainaitch/e... Bookings at: www.margatebookie.com/write-up/iai...

The catering at this rapture is terrible

He’s gone completely now, hasn’t he? I’d encourage an intervention, but the alternative may be worse

Theory: much of this is explained by journalism being quite a young business (crap money at lower levels, lot of bottlenecks, people age out). A lot of political journalists barely remember Westminster before things went nuts c2014. Not enough of the lobby grew up in peacetime.

Did a work post about the idiocy of the ah-ce... asse... paracetamol connection with autism.

Anyway, there’s only one kind of rapture that matters.

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Is babies bursting a big problem in the US?

Hey! Maybe you can wash the tylenol out of your system with bleach or sunlight.

Remember when our only worry was the 80 bins that Rishi Sunak was going to save us from?

The government knowingly putting false information in the label of a drug is crossing a Rubicon that should not be taken lightly

JFC the President of the USA, repeating debunked conspiracy nonsense from behind the seal, that even his crank conspirasist health advisors are not claiming, relayed live all around the world. People will fkn die, because this shitstain needs the stories about Homan and Epstein to go away.

We are going to discover that Tylenol is produced by a company owned by someone who once slighted Trump, or by a competitor to someone RFK Jr. owns shares in, aren‘t we?

BBC push alert tomorrow: ‘The Rapture is here. Why this could be good news for Reform UK’

Trump and Kennedy throwing away years of vaccine work with this mix of myth, rumour, half truth and fantasy. It’s like watching a nation’s cognitive decline in real time.

If Labour had an ounce of sense, tomorrow they would announce that people with ILR will now be able to vote in UK elections. There you go. That's 175,000 people who aren't gonna vote Reform added to the franchise.

"I'm cancelling your show ... for a week!"

This episode of South Park with the Ai ‘real life’ Trump and Kennedy is a bit far fetched

Inject it 💉 into my veins arstechnica.com/health/2025/...

Trump just announced that he always knew more about autism than the experts who‘ve studied it. Obviously, a very stupid, barely literate man with no expertise thinks he knows better than thousands of experts scientists. Not to worry, he has a man whose brain was partially eaten by worms to advise.

Low key amusing that the American right may have inadvertently rejuvenated the late night talk show format. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Kind of despair at Labour accepting the premise of the Farage deportations policy for those with permanent leave to remain. Maybe call out his well-known links to fascist ideas and actual fascists instead?

they're not even bringing a knife to a gun fight. they're bringing one of those joke guns which fires out a hankie reading "Bang" except it doesn't read "Bang" it reads "he's right, vote for us", this metaphor doesn't work at all I know I'm just really fucking mad okay

When your response to fascism is that 'the numbers don't add up' then you've lost all sense of what matters to humanity.

It’s so funny to read this sentence and then see some pundit op ed guy be like “what happened to the left?”

Turns on LBC. Hears a bloke say there are 15 billion Muslims in the world, who are all picking on Israel. Turns LBC off.

And in failed state news…

Pyongyang-style

The number of people providing 35 hours or more a week of unpaid care increased from 1.1 million in 2003/04 to 1.9 million in 2023/24. New requests for support increased from 1.8 million in 2015/16 to 2.1 million in 2023/24, mainly from working age adults www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...

Could Your Party be the first left faction to split without a single paper sold?

Who put this filth in front of are kids? Islam, polygamy, witches, camp, political rosettes, arse slapping, Brian Cant… The broken BBC circa 1977.

“Staff from working class backgrounds continue to be underrepresented in the charity sector, & the real living wage helps to ensure no one has to turn down a job because they don’t have access to savings or financial help from family” #charities #dei

After Wednesday’s weird regal blow by blow account of Trump and Chas, we now have live sports commentary of a boat crossing the channel. Expecting Xm (expected migrants) stats alongside Mo (manufactured outrage) and Ls (left split) numbers on screen.

Looks like much of the subs money may go to paying fines to the ICO. What an utter farce.

BBC’s Iain Watson: “The division between Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana has just got deeper - she is being reported to the ICO for her membership drive by the former Labour leader’s supporters in ‘Your Party’”

The Your Party fiasco does bring up questions over data. Data is one of the big power factors in politics now, so will the legal battles be over who owns that. And will the ICO be the overall winner here?

GB News question at the press conference… “Sir, why are you the best and are you God?”

Your Party had the numbers and the data to take a bite from lots of parties’ numbers. Destroyed their own (ahem) momentum and then credibility. Quite extraordinary.

Meanwhile, at ‘Your Party’…

Christ. Your Party seems to have split already and a row is breaking out over memberships/dues.

I think this meeting could have been an email. #trump #starmer

Trump not sure what his job is, but has a go at guessing. #chequers #trumpintheUK

Gammons announce only French immigrant they are happy to accept as part of one in one out deal.

Really hoping Trump comes up during this meeting. Appears to have had a two burger lunch.

Trump is grasping his evil white claw, lest it wreak havoc.

Jane, Larry and Steve. What the hell is this business meeting? It’s like the world’s worst Zoom call. #trumpontour

Shame on Downing Street for going along with this. So much for being committed to a free press

Good to see this lot at Windsor Castle youtu.be/7ZqZgmpq1nw?...