Jen Offord

Suspect is incredible. Maddening, devastating and brilliant.

Labour really needs to get this "difficult bit" done and dusted, because I am fully bored of hearing about these daft fucking racists.

What a great time to consider buying my Sports Book Awards 2023 shortlisted book, The Year of the Robin, tho? amzn.to/3uH7LQr

Well look at that, Arsenal - you didn't fuck it up!

🙌🙌🙌

You did it!

😅 I pray to the gods of not fucking it up, on your behalf.

It's not possible that Arsenal fuck this up, is it?

What a couple of weeks Joey Barton is having. We love to see it. 🤞he's about to bag the first treble of his career.

The good news is that the DVSA have Beyoncified the test booking system, so now you have to queue for 45 minutes before they tell you there are no damn tests.

Really, is it surprising that a man who won't publicly state how many kids he has, whose two previous marriages ended with him cheating, isn't fussed about toxic male behaviour? 🤷🏼‍♀️ who cares what this walking jizz stain thinks about Adolescence.

Boris Johnson made an entire career - including his tenure as PM - out of being an opportunistic cunt, and truly we should have zero energy left to expend on his desperate attempts for attention. Normalise not caring about what irrelevant people think (or profess to think for £).

"Prosecution rates remain painfully low" - one of the most stupid aspects of revenge porn law is that you have to be able to prove the intent to cause harm, which can be pretty intangible and really ought to be taken as a given.
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What is this unfamiliar sensation of warmth on my skin?

Yes, agreed.

You've probably seen it by now? I mean, that kid... (Erin Doherty as well, obvs)

Adolescence is astonishingly good. My heart has been in my throat the whole time. The writing is brilliant, the acting is perfect. So, so good.

I had no idea! The shift after 2010 was bad enough. I got out in 2014, four years was more than enough.

Exactly. I was a civil servant for 9 years, I know a lot of civil servants. They have not been having a nice time of it.

Under-performing civil servants to be incentivised to leave jobs in new plans The pay of top officials could be linked to performance under reforms expected to be set out next week.

Civil servants are protected by the same employment law as anyone else. They are not bulletproof ffs. This "they're so rubbish and we simply can't fire them" spiel is straight out of the Tory playbook. Disappointing from @teamlabouruk.bsky.social
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Forgot to say yesterday (World Book Day) I wrote a book, too. It's about football, family, and modern Britain in general, not just Charlton Athletic, so there's a chance you might be interested. amzn.to/3xCSbak

Just spotted someone walking down the road with a framed, cinema-sized The Mummy Returns poster.

Yvette Cooper to reject call to widen extremism definition The home secretary rejects the central findings of a report she commissioned last year.

If hating women to the extent of committing acts of violence against them isn't extreme, then I guess it must be... completely normal? There is, at least to some extent, a cause and effect here. Sighs forever.
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The way that certain bad actors have politicised the murder of three little girls to further their own agendas and the willingness of so many others to go along with it has nothing short of horrified me. We live in utterly terrifying times.

Absolutely REELING from the suggestion that a woman (Kim K) who has dedicated her entire life to cashing in on all other women and indeed her own kids for the sake of a few quid and some new body parts *might* be *a bit* of a wanker.

Screen grab of latest 'The Ground Jewels' podcast in a podcast app.

A little bonus "Best of" episode to end the year from The Ground Jewels podcast

From @charlesdagnall.bsky.social last January to @jim.londoncentric.media last month.

With @adamrutherford.bsky.social @jenoff.bsky.social @jonnyowen.bsky.social et al filling this festive sandwich

Hope you enjoy.

The fact that Gregg Wallace doesn't understand how literally STEEPED in misogyny that response is, tells me absolutely everything I need to know about Gregg Wallace, tbh.

Entirely possible I've misunderstood a. The Canadian situation and b. Case law, so again, genuine question, not an assertion.

Listening to this now. Really interesting, and I remain on the fence. Wondering about the chat around Canada, and how that couldn't happen here because of differences in our legislative processes. What about case law, though? Could that not result in goalposts being moved? Genuine question, btw.

My bro just found a list of essential hand luggage items that he'd written when we were going on holiday as kids. Delighted to report that Boglins met the threshold for this.