Donaeld the Unready

Auden knew how to write sure enough

The nightingales are singing in
The orchards of our mothers
And hearts that we broke long ago
Have long been breaking others
Tears are round, the sea is deep
Roll them overboard and sleep

it might seem surprising that the people who said “look, let trans people live their lives, but i have Reasonable Concerns about sports and toilets” aren’t up in arms about this, but what you have to remember is that those people who said that are liars who were lying

Four arrested after Tower of London display case containing State Crown defaced The group Take Back Power says its members poured custard and apple crumble on the Crown Jewels display.

Pudding on the Glitz

Four men in parkas forcing a furious polar bear into a cage.

“And what is the charge? Eating a seal? A succulent Chinese seal? GET YOUR HANDS OFF MY PENIS!”

It's the only place I've had egusi soup in the UK that has made me feel as uncomfortable as the stuff in Benin City made me feel.

Uwagboe's on Leith Walk will provide this for a heftier price than they did when they were just a wee takeaway providing surprised drunks with some solid jerk rice and turkey.

Some orange lacquered corpse gleefully grabbing a pointless, manufactured award he deserves less than the syphilis that is turning his debatable brain into Swiss cheese.

My preeeeccioooouuuussssssss.

Irish Minister for Health calls the UK's descent into transphobia out for what it is.

Oh that? Yeah that's just my PGA Prize for Medicine, yeah got it for giving Tiger some Viagra when he was in a tight spot.

At least we can all look forward to the 95th minute Haitian goal that seals their victory and sends Scotland home despite their incredible win against Brazil in the first match. #ScotlandsGonnaScotland

Whoever has been doing the BBC Sport Text Updates for this War and Peace length world cup draw deserves to be SPOTY.

"You wouldn't know them, they went to my school."

We're watching the wholesale burning of every scrap of dignity afforded to trans people in the UK, their rights, their medical services, their employment, their place within society, their bodily functions.

It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country.

Again: the project is clearly to drive trans women, in particular, out of public life altogether.

It's worth noting that the Government has a massive majority and could fix this in an instant with a one-line piece of legislation. It doesn't want to.

Joanne will never run out of money because people keep buying her stuff, and so this will keep happening. SLAPP after SLAPP until trans people are completely drummed out of public existence and nobody will do a thing about it

There's a really sick part of the Press who think anyone who receives any form of state money other than a pension should sit quietly in their own misery.

What's this? Someone using their Personal Independence Payments to pay for things to become personally independent?

What les autres might be encourager to do is as yet unknown.

"In America it is thought wise to totally punt an Admiral under the bus from time to time pour encourager les autres."

Theatre archaeology

My partner recommends Trudi Canavan's Black Magician trilogy, and I'd like to throw in all of Robin Hobb's work because she is just the best at writing awkward idiot teenage boys and I wish I'd read them when I was one so I could've been less of a dick.

I avoided him for most of my teen years on the basis I thought the Discworld series were silly and for kids and then I read Jingo and realised my mistake.

For non-fiction I think Dava Sobel's book on Longitude is excellent and The Shetland Bus and Sea Dog Bamse are both good reads (to keep it naval). I'd also recommend Peter Ross's books on graveyards and churches.

*Tom Holt. I've also just really enjoyed Alan Moore's latest The Great When.

K.J. Parker "Sixteen Ways To Defend a Walled City" and the rest of that trilogy and The Two of Swords trilogy and a lot of his work under his real name of Tok Holt for 14

Ah the bam's bam.

Fucking typos, I'll deport myself.

Sinilarly, a lot of people I know who have been in the UK for a decade or more, have Settled Status or are dual nationals are looking at leaving because they're scared for themselves or their kids or they just hate the direction the country is moving. And I'm one of them.