The Venn diagram of people who complain our union isn’t strong enough and the people who complain when another union shows its strength is a perfect circle.

Robert Harris @Robert__Harris X.com Imagine Trump's messages read out by the prosecution at Nuremberg. ("A whole civilisation will die tonight.") They would have hanged any one of the defendants.

Well indeed, and again: this shit is happening because the world did nothing to even impede the obliteration of the Gaza Strip, and the men who did that took it as global permission for them to expand their murderous destruction across the entire region. And here we now are.

my youngest grandson returns from The Waste. No food again, just metal scraps. But he's so proud, and wants a reward.

"Tell me again about The Great Before. Tell me why The Green went away," he begs.

"in the Before," I begin, "people had questions about who should participate in women's sports..."

Every single British podcast has someone called ‘Producer Ben’ who speaks maybe twice per episode and has the exact same voice as all his other fellow Producers Ben.

(I don’t mean I’m habitually late. I hate being late. I mean I’m never as early as I want to be)

I think I head to accept that I am one of those people who has every intention of leaving at half past but always somehow ends up leaving at quarter to.

It's quite incredible how it's somehow taboo to say the obvious truth about the UK, which is that it's a well integrated society where most people just get on with their lives no problem. Apart from a core of extremely insulated journalists and politicians who refuse to be integrated.

‘We are not involved in this at all! Please ignore the warplanes you just saw taking off for a bombing mission’

An FA cup fifth round without a single 3pm Saturday kickoff.

Whack over any questions and I’ll be happy to answer x

*looks around nervously*

Near and far, closer together

if you’re planning to wait for all the sensible, reasonable columnists who said that they *weren’t* transphobic, they just had reasonable concerns, to rush to the defence of trans people who now need to change their driving licenses, do pack plenty of food and water, you’ll be waiting a while

Liars update

I thought that there was nothing this lot could do that could shock me any more, but here we are.

This graphic is from a poll which has the Greens level with Labour on 28%, rising to 30% among likely voters.

This is the most dishonest PM and government we've ever had. And we had Johnson's Tories.

Mortified for you x

That’s not what you said though pal. It was you asking why someone with multiple Emmys, two Tonys and an Olivier is famous that people (correctly) found a bit dumb.

I have read that book, and yet I am on this earth for a finite amount of time.

Wrote this for @newsocialist.bsky.social six years ago and think it stands up pretty well, particularly this bit on what the Labour right actually believes.

newsocialist.org.uk/plea-wavering-…

The folk who told me I was a resentful, foolish crank for thinking the Labour Right were truly dreadful corrupt people propped up by a smug, incurious commentariat seem to be apologising awfully quietly.

I don’t know what happened to the apostrophe there but since my phone ate it, here’s a replacement

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Out of pocket is now usually used in the American way to mean unacceptable behaviour, where wed say out of order.

Well played.

Two minutes into Traitors and there is already a gay I would die for.

I cannot stress enough how much this was the consensus in Actual 2003

S4 Fry and Laurie came out while I was a student and the consensus was that it was ‘disappointing’

Breaking news! Hadley Freeman has finally written a column that isn’t banging on and on about how we must persecute more trans people! I wonder what her other interests… oh

Bigots are so endlessly weird

The Labour right is obsessed with the idea that constantly saying ‘I’m fucking brilliant, me’ is excellent politics, when in fact it is always incredibly cringe.

The Guardian has done a ‘how will the budget affect you?’ calculator which is literally impossible to use if you don’t have a car. A wee bit on the nose, that.