Caroline (aka beth gripps)

I’m going to coin a law - call it Maugham’s First Law - and it is that nothing Wes Streeting ever says turns out to be true. 🧵

Yes, I must get this done!

Aya! Go listen to "hexed". It's absolutely incredible.

That's great!!

A lot of people are only sharing the headline, but the subheading is, to me, worse. It's one thing to say 'we're bootlickers who don't necessarily agree with him but could conceivably use the ties we have to negotiate' and quite another to say 'we agree with him, fuck marginalised people lol'

Album of the year thus far, by the way...

I hope future Popstock releases were discussed...😇

Trump is imposing a 10% tariff on the Heard and McDonald Islands.

The Heard and McDonald Islands are uninhabited.

Dark Magus. One of the best. Not just one of the best by a group headed by Davis but one of the best by anyone ever.

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This Reddit thread of people explaining the most unhinged reason they ever abandoned a book is a delight

Excellent!

I actually recall the Joyce/Rourke interview more clearly than the cover story. 😬

It absolutely was and yes, I do remember this edition. Select was an excellent magazine in its David Cavanagh / Miranda Sawyer led heyday but it did also feel like a repository for ex-NME writers.

Disabled people are not a burden. They are our neighbours and friends — and they deserve to live fulfilling lives just like anyone else.

A statement from the Independent Alliance on cuts to welfare.

the labour party are fighting class war and they’re on the side of extreme wealth.

Zelenskyy knows what it is to fight for something bigger than yourself. Trump does not.

I've said it before but Labour are completely ignoring Scotland because they think they've "got it back". Scotland leant Labour their votes because we knew the Tories had to go and the present system gave us little other option. That's all.

Had my dispatch notice today, can't wait. 😊

Picnic By The Motorway. Just off-kilter enough to be strange but not so far that it doesn't fit on the record.

It's just because a 7" had been reissued. Once streaming is added in, it has no chance whatsoever.

Come, enter the Haus....

R.E.M. have to be a shout here too but I would say the Manics too.

Your occasional reminder that the Daily Record was the house rag of the Keep The Clause campaign, demonising gay and lesbian people.

We know now that Labour only oppose the Tories when they're in opposition but support them entirely when they're in government.

Poll average for the next Scottish Parliament election showing Labour and the SNP close around the time of the general election and then Labour collapsing into dust after they entered government.

Imagine you're facing a political party that's shat the bed as bad as the SNP and you hand them back a massive lead because you simply refuse to do anything good.

This is why Labour will fail. They have no identity beyond what the mainstream media wants. They have no concept of the extent to which Scotland leant them their vote because we had to get the Tories out. Their ineptitude is leading us straight to a Reform/ Tory pact.

Robbing a bank but misgendering somebody on my way out so the entire British political establishment has my back.

I did. Jolly good it is too.

Wealth just allows people to show us who they really are. Why they're always the absolute worst is another subject.