THE MIDWIT CUCKOO

Tfw there's prebatched martinis in the fridge

Always funny to wind up Glaswegians with the old "Edinburgh is Scottish but Glasgow is British" routine

Lighter industrialisation meant Dublin is more like Edinburgh, an administrative/financial/juridical capital with Belfast/Glasgow/Manchester beingauthentically British/Imperial cities

WOOF

Give a man a fish and someone with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about people getting free handouts. Teach a man to fish? Yeah, that person with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about that too.

“It is unclear exactly how many parents have been deported without their children, or how many were given a choice to be deported together. Advocates say there is no national data, and the Homeland Security Department did not respond to a request for figures.”

I love them so much. You've done them real justice here.

Solid Clonliffe Road craic there

Hmmmmmmmnnnnnnn

Lol

A small dog hiding unsuccessfully behind the leg of a table

Hiding

It's already v cold here, the north easterlies flexing already

I have had to leave the house to go to farewell drinks for a beloved colleague. I don't think it hyperbolic to say that I know how Capt Oates must have felt

I tend to go on a bit in emails, a Russian colleague recently told me "I love your emails they are like poetry...so well written and...so long" ffs

I have recently started appending a bullet point summary at the end of my emails and it's...great? It's like giving your brain a little to-be-done list while increasing the likelihood people will absorb the information in your email.

Everyone getting mad at a press release because some uptown hospitality bods are bringing their brands downtown to Leith. Calm down!

Bit of a shit week for washed up rapists. Oh well.

You just know MP is packing an absolute whopper eh

As the great philosopher Micheal Portillo says even the smallest acorns grow to be mighty oaks.

Ironically, there's nothing that "shivers my timbers" less when I'm about to do the old "Pop in an oak" routine than Rednex's underappreciated Old Pop In An Oak

I reckon we’re a dying breed. People who heard The Levellers before we learned about the levellers.

( I can't share any of their work because it is all *insanely* problematic)

Lmao fucking hell.

Over the last 20/30 minutes I've discovered that my children are already significantly smarter, funnier and more creative than I am or ever will have been.

Was cycling home in a maelstrom of wetness and cold and a vision of a Hot Whiskey in the Bath struck me like a bin truck

Love to start a sentence with "I don't want to elide the demonstrable pedophilia..." Where the fucks my Centrist Dad money u cunts

I am absolutely not eliding the demonstrable pedophilia and grooming but this guys *entire fortune* (which everyone were repeatedly at pains to say they didn't know where it came from) came from the sexual exploitation of women and girls.

Whopper Chopra #BodyButterAlbums