Jon Dryden Taylor

Wycliffe star Jack Shepherd dies aged 85 after 'short illness' RIP.

We worked together on my dad's last radio play- most of our scenes were duologues- and he was the most generous of actors to perform with. RIP.

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That’s two General Elections in a row won by straight up frauds on platforms of lying and drivel, then pivoting to both pleasing themselves with dumb, nasty culture warrior horseshit and very nasty authoritarianism. Almost like there is political/media class unity about those things, where it counts

I see that eighteen months into this Sensible, Moderate, Thank God The Adults Are In Charge government we have reached the ‘let’s steal jewellery from refugees!’ stage.

We really do need to find a way for noisy Sensible Moderates to finally admit they’ve horrifically fucked it, in a way that they’ll find acceptable. It’s going to be hard, because so many of them relentlessly clowned themselves by advocating for horrible cranks who have total contempt for them.

Ffs I was there in July as well! Straight from the station to stage door, lovely.

Leicester Curve, Wolves Grand, Canterbury Marlowe, Brighton Theatre Royal. The Fab Four.

Hmmm. ‘Black and midnight hags’ though.

(Wait I am in a theatre. Does typing a quote count? Sorry castmates…)

LISTEN TO THIS.

I mean, I would say that, but listen to this.

I see the cosy Facebook fash have finally killed off Big Brother, then- a franchise which for a while back in the day made this country look a lot more accepting and diverse than it is. An all-white, all straight final with a Turning Point spokesperson in there feels very 2020s.

‘The dirty cranky lefties who told me exactly who he was from the start were right, but since I just sneered at them I am going to pretend that didn’t happen’

Three points I keep repeating
1. Left and liberal voters actually really exist
2. The right and "centre" are trying to rule without liberals - they are way out over their skis
3. Reports of right wing total information control are greatly exaggerated

The number of people taken in by this deeply unpleasant person is astonishing to me.

Social media makes touring an even more surreal experience. Standing at a luggage carousel at Heathrow watching a video of myself at a curtain call in Munich earlier today. Wild.

You know, it feels as if it isn’t *the left* who are the bad losers after all.

There is something grimly hilarious about all the Labour politicians lining up to pretend they’re on the same side as Mamdani after spending a decade scorched-earthing everything he stands for.

*Laughs in 2015-2019* I think we know what comes next.

If you want to experience the highest level of embarrassment it’s possible to feel for another person, the Sensible Centrists have taken to calling Zack Polanski ‘Magic Grandson’ because (a) they are terrible at jokes and (b) they think being left wing can only somehow connect to Corbyn.

Also, it’s really not great if you’re having to resort to stitching together weird Frankenstein creations to beat a party that’s polling just over a quarter of the electorate

I mean there are oceans to be discovered in ‘a classy, military one’ too

Getting hammered & wailing into their mojitos that they told their core voters they were scum who can fuck off, imposed a lot of diet fash & upcycled racisms no one but them wanted & now they're all out of ideas 😭

Oh look, their broken system is about to fuck up, again, and they’ll tell us it’s somehow our fault, again.

That would require them to be arguing in good faith, alas. When you’ve got government ministers standing up in parliament to say a ban on away fans is ‘unprecedented’ I think that ship has sailed.

'Hurray!' I think as I click Trust This Browser. 'I'll never have to go through this process again now!'

This is excellent news, especially for those of you who are about to discover it. Brilliant stuff.

I am trying to decide between the two potential meanings of this.

'It's been lovely meeting you all... I've been totally consistent, and I am...

... a twaitor'

Sceenshot of a poem. It reads You kids today, with 'net and games I fought in World War 2 You're not content with airfix planes, I fought in World War 2 In my day (nineteen ninety three), We didn't have what's yours Things were simpler, much less woke, I fought in both World Wars. School lunches, Oh! Pink custard too, Four channels on TV Not like the iphones you have now, Was simpler then, you see? "Image Macros" were all the rage, There was no twitch tv I fought in World War 2, respect The man who's forty three

Here is a v sharable and relatable poem that I wrote about how Thing Were Better In The Old Days

Woah! So Labour's position really is, 'telling us off for breaching human rights undermines the case for human rights'? Proper Trumpian stuff from Labour's answer to Suella Braverman.

Paloma Faith once said something snide about musical theatre so I am hoping she goes tonight because yes I am that petty.

I regret to inform you that ASOTV is forty years old.