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BAFTA Fallout I want to start this post with a significant caveat – attempting to talk about complex, emotive and highly charged issues within the constraints of the frenzied news cycle is difficult and unpredictab...

Read my post on the fall out of last nights BAFTA's here. This is an opportunity to increase understanding of oppositional tics and acknowledge the complex realities and impacts of the condition: www.touretteshero.com/safe/2026/02...

Maybe Iran and Greenland on the same day..

Piers Morgan should never have been rehabilitated’.
This is one of the worst things I’ve ever read. Ugh. These horrible people.

Shocking that the media didn’t report on the much bigger story of your birthday … Hope it’s been excellent!

Is this not the start of Ted Lasso?

Wes Streeting.. Did Mandelson advise you to get the NHS into bed with Palantir or was it all your own idea… why on earth is the UK govt doing business with this company?

Happy birthday Mr C. Maybe your 60’s be excellent.

Ah you’re one of those alyssum seekers that are in the news all the time..

Not so much dog whistle politics, more like saying the quiet part out loud… #bbcqt

Fifteen Years… sheesh! Wiping away a tear reading #XKCD today, such tenderness… thank you for sharing the journey.

I'm sorry Dan, sending love..

Excited to introduce Vibes from Meta. Eat your slop, piggies!

Under pressure: The media physics of political scandals The story of Angela Rayner and her stamp duty underpayment is the latest example of someone facing "mounting pressure" but where does it come from?

NEW | On “mounting pressure”…

UNDER PRESSURE: THE MEDIA PHYSICS OF POLITICAL SCANDALS

brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/under-pres...

Wheelchair Access, Wheelchair Accessible Toilets, Audio Enhancement System

THE @robinince.bsky.social is a fucking delight and he has an amazing show every day at the fringe at 1.15pm. GO SEE IT, you will love it.

TICKETS: www.edfringe.com/tickets/what...

Ridiculous situation. A man who has spent the last thirty years being one of the most inventive, prolific and funniest stand-ups out there. You should make a beeline for this, I'd say.

Thirty-Two Short Stories About Death in Prison These stories don’t mention Jeffrey Epstein, but they are about him.

I wrote about Epstein’s suicide and how the disbelief about it shows a lack of familiarity with how inhuman America’s prison’s are. It remains one of the things that made people maddest (not saying jail is bad, disbelieving he was murdered).

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Congratulations!

Dexter- the musical?

160 years ago Clegg would probably have argued that abolishing the use of slaves would kill the sugar plantation industry in this country dead overnight. I mean it’s just not fair on the plantation owners is it?

Never thought I’d have to go to Wikipedia to check whether a labour prime minister was quoting Enoch Powell’s speech, but here we are: “For reasons which they could not comprehend…they found themselves made strangers in their own country” or Starmer’s “island of strangers.”

The Kinneil brass band playing outside the Barony Theatre in Boness.

A memorable trip to Bo'ness last night for the opening of Sylvia Dow's impressive and moving new play Blinded By The Light at the remarkable Barony Theatre. The play is partly about the lost battle to save the local colliery in 1982 so fitting that the Kinneil Band were on hand to welcome folk in.

Hi there! Would love to join some excellent company here..

I’m so terribly sorry for your loss..

Thank you Ian x

LAST CALL FOR #REMEMBEREDMUMS

Please could I have any late mothers in by 8 pm tonight (Saturday 29th), so I can finalise the list and get it printed out for first thing tomorrow, cheers.

DMs open until 8 pm. x

A Polaroid photo from the 1970’s of my Mum wearing an orange jumper, loading hostas into the boot of an orange VW Golf

Thank you so very much Ian, Mum would have celebrated her 90th birthday the day before Mother’s Day. She would also have been delighted to know that she was being remembered like this. There is such power, beauty and love in what you do each year.
Diana Grounds - Happy Mother’s Day #RememberedMums

Past Productions - Royal Court

Farewell to Athol Fugard. I looked up the year that Valley Song came to the Royal Court, and memories of those shows came flooding back… royalcourttheatre.com/past-product...

for "will not be fully accessible" please read as "not even vaguely accessible"...

The Guardian view on AI and copyright: creativity should be cherished, not given away | Editorial Editorial: The government’s consultation was weighted towards big tech. Now is the time for a rethink

This seems pretty rich considering the ink is still wet on the deal #TheGuardian has just signed with OpenAi www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The tech companies want this amendment to copyright because they’ve already stolen everything and want retrospective immunity, right? Exemption from the rules cos information wants to be free and all that BS.

Have written to my MP and, again, explained the idea of “property”.