Richard Vranch

Hope all is going well in Oz. Edinburgh next week… X

Home now so probably not.

Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all:

“If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.”

Israel just killed him.

No idea whatsoever. That’s John Sessions territory.

Comedy Store Players show wonderfully surreal tonight. Then took the last 38 bus to cross the lethal waters of Essex Road.

I’m well over half way already. Loving it! Bravo esp 24 & 30. X

Whilst the police in London arrest blind pensioners in Wheelchairs for being anti-genocide, in Portsmouth the leader of UKIP makes a nazi salute at an anti migrant demo and the police do nothing. Welcome to Britain 2025.

Do any of you lot do cryptic crosswords?

I wrote one last night and I'd be delighted if folk wanted to have a stab at it and give me some feedback?

I just did it on paper, so I'll have to type it up but will send out to anyone who fancies a stab.

Feel free to RT or pass on to the CC fan you love

Richard Vranch in a Centurion Security guard's uniform, summer 1980.

I was the security guard at the 1980 Bristol Balloon Fiesta. No schools were damaged.

This'll cheer you up. Bar, food, show 7.30 to 9.30. Tix on the door from 6.30 (no booking fee) & discounts for students, NHS, 65+ With special guests @yshani.bsky.social and @marcusbrig.bsky.social

Yes please!

My Neighbour is new to Bluesky! Everybody say hello to Totoro! 🥹💚

#FindYourSpirit

Talking parrot helps bring down Blackpool drugs gang Raids in Blackpool uncovered the bird which had been taught to say drug dealing phrase,

"Hello Keith." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Sausages and cheese, German supermarket

the scenario we all feared

YouTube video by The Clunk Archive Paul Merton At The London Palladium

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The Comedy Store Players ❤️

... with special guests @yshani.bsky.social and @marcusbrig.bsky.social

Lord Dannatt urged ministers to crack down on Palestine Action at request of US firm Police officer was concerned ex-army chief, a Teledyne adviser, sought to have ‘input’ into factory attack investigation A member of the House of Lords urged ministers to crack down on Palestine Action at the request of a US defence company that employs him as an adviser. Richard Dannatt, a former head of the British army, wrote privately to two separate Home Office ministers asking them to address the “threat” posed by the group after its activists targeted a factory in 2022. Continue reading...

Lord Dannatt urged ministers to crack down on Palestine Action at request of US firm

47% of people think immigration is primarily illegal. There were 4% irregular arrivals in March

New YouGov polling. A monumental failure of our political class to educate, a monumental failure of our media to report fairly, for a generation

Last night was a belter. I think next Sunday will be too...

This was the nudge I needed to change the default search engine in my browser

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.

My Neighbour Totoro Enter a world of magic and wonder with My Neighbour Totoro - a perfect enchanted adventure! Book your tickets for My Neighbour Totoro at the Gillian Lynne Theatre

MY NEIGHBOUR TOTORO: Buy band A and B seats at special price of £65 at all performances (except Saturday Afternoons) from 19th August until 30th September 2025. BOOK BY 14th AUGUST 2025 at: theatremonkey.londontheatredirect.com/play/my-neig...

Five survivors of Rotherham grooming gangs say they were also raped by police officers Three former South Yorkshire police officers arrested in investigation into claims by the women, as young as 12 at the time

God, the number of people who were willing to believe that the South Yorkshire police were too woke to prosecute sexual abuse cases, when in fact the police force was itself an instrument of patriarchal sexual violence. It’s like a case study in the worst excesses of the British press.

This is excellent. Sunday 5.30pm at the Bill Murray. Charles Quarterman. camdenfringe.com/events/charl...

Yet despite female presenters taking over from Patrick Moore, the BBC's long-running astronomy programme is still called This Guy at Night.

Israeli public figures call for ‘crippling sanctions’ on Israel over Gaza starvation Thirty-one high-profile Israelis accuse Tel Aviv of ‘brutal campaign’ and demand permanent ceasefire in letter

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Gaza: BBC's Jeremy Bowen goes onboard a plane dropping aid The BBC's international editor was on a Jordanian flight as it dropped supplies into Gaza.

"The Israelis don't want us to film out of the window at the devastation inside Gaza. But I've spent 10 mins looking at it with my own eyes and I can tell you communities in the north of Gaza, that I knew well, are flat. There's nothing left of them."

Jeremy Bowen

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The Comedy Store Players

As unique as snowflakes - you’ll never see the same show twice!

Legendary improv troupe featuring Josie Lawrence, Richard Vranch, Lee Simpson, Rachel Parris, Niall Ashdown and Steve Edis!

Kemi Badenoch tells Sky News that she believes Israel are telling the truth about Gaza.

"What I am seeing is Israel allowing humanitarian aid to go in"