Peter Mitchell

If you can’t do the cosy time, don’t do the cosy crime

No! Fuck off!

Manchester is, in my experience, unmatched for pubs that look great from the outside but inside turn out to be somehow simultaneously deserted and aggro, with massive screens playing rugby for three unhappy people, Manchester-themed murals everywhere and fucking Benwell Bunsenburner on the speakers

Pete runs for refugees, round six For the sixth time, I'm hustling the rickle of bone and hair I'm ashamed to call my body around the 13.1 miles of the Great North Run for the benefit of Action Foundation - a top-notch charity who do

This year - for the sixth time - I'm doing the Great North Run for @actionfdn.bsky.social, a North East charity who persist in treating refugees and asylum seekers like people instead of problems. Please give generously, if you've cash to spare! ajbellgreatnorthrun2025.enthuse.com/pf/peter-mit...

I should have specified - 1930ish-1937! Lots of good work on Boer camps etc obv

Very chuffed indeed to find that my essay for @corridor8.bsky.social on the @nenature.bsky.social archive is amongst Jonn's list of interesting other stuff this week:

this is how he sleeps. you have to step over him to leave the room. he's a prick

I've been on most of the SSRIs and don't recall that ever being a thing! The only thing I'm not allowed atm is grapefruit :/

I know this is an image that gets invoked to exhaustion, but there's clearly a reason for that isn't there. Look at that face! Impossible to see it and not want to tell it "Sir, sir! Darren's farted again. Can you make him stop please Sir"

the look of a history teacher (who fancies himself a bit of an intellectual, in his modest way! likes a bit of opera, goes to lectures, takes the TLS) once again utterly baffled that, by no process he can reconstruct, he has been utterly outmanoeuvred by a class of barely-literate year 8s

whomst could possibly have foreseen, etc

Beginning to feel genuine awe at Starmer's ability to come up with ideas that (a) everyone hates passionately, (b) make everything worse, and (c) include an extra little unnecessary clause or addendum rendering them hilariously hostage to fortune in a way that can only be some kind of kink

fellas is it gay to know when there's going to be a hurricane

Running and raising money for Palestinians I'm running two races this September in order to raise money for Medical Aid for Palestinians: the Great North 5km on 5 Sept, and the Great North Run Half Marathon (21km) on 7 Sept. We all know about

My friend Ed is doing the Great North Run for Medical Aid for Palestinians: please give generously to alleviate the unimaginable suffering in Gaza and inflict some on Ed, who actually deserves it ajbellgreatnorth5k2025.enthuse.com/pf/edward-an...

This letter is already at over 1000 signatures, showing the level of support in UK academia for these students - and hopefully increasing pressure on the Home Office and FCDO. Still open to sign.

In the sea, under certain circumstances, seals have more than once been mistaken for men.

This is going to be class, especially if you love books about why that thing you like is bad, actually

I've heard complaints that they've ruined the landscape of southern Northumberland, a landscape that within living memory was poisoned, reshaped, overlaid w/ an absolutely monstrous heavy-industrial infrastructure & pretty much turned inside-out like a flensed whale to get at the coal underneath it

Former senior UN relief official Jan Eliasson has dismissed these air drops as an "ineffective sideshow". But of course, they're not aimed at stopping the genocide. Nothing Starmer does is aimed at stopping the genocide. Its aimed at managing the domestic politics of his complicity in the genocide.

Music to this reel should’ve been Hamburger Lady by Throbbing Gristle

When I did a story on conditions in migrant hotels, there was a woman who would have to wash the spicy sauce off the pasta - in the sink - because there was no meal suitable for her toddler. She felt like a bad mum who couldn’t feed her own child

Is this Gaza’s ‘bomb the tracks’ moment? With Gaza’s annihilation in plain sight, the question is what can compel global intervention to end Israel's genocide — and what form it will take.

What is not unique about the genocide in Gaza is that world leaders — the only people with the means to stop it — have known about Israel’s actions, and its intentions, since day one. And they have done close to nothing to stop it.
www.972mag.com/gaza-genocid...

Nature's Cure: a day out in Gosforth Nature Reserve Exploring how nature shapes our lives with a group of North East asylum seekers and refugees Photo: Simone J. Rudolphi. As part of our Nature’s Cure project, we’ve been working with local communities ...

In which I go to Gosforth Nature Reserve with a group of people with lived experience of the asylum system, and listen to the inside of a tree: www.nhsn.org.uk/natures-cure...

Saw that the paramedics tried to do chest compression on Hulk Hogan, that’s where they went wrong, three of those and he was out. They should have put him in a sleeper hold and tried dropping his arm

Highway to the Comfort Zone Sarah Manvel reviews "Top Gun: Maverick," with Tom Cruise and Miles Teller.

I heartily dislike TOP GUN MAVERICK but it was very easy to acknowledge they were right about Glen Powell; I've known jackass flyboys like that all my life www.criticsnotebook.com/2022/05/top-...

this is such a cool review, 100%, bang on, no notes

When people say 'unis should shrink' they really mean 'other people's children shouldn't go', 'people not like my friends and family shouldn't go', 'I don't care about the regional economies of England, Wales and Scotland' and 'I want to cover the tracks of my allies and their vandalism'.

A SKELATAN DOING A DRAMATIC WRESLING MOVE OFF THE TOP ROPE TO SLAM HULK HOGANS RACIST ASS INTO DA GRAVE "OFF THE TOP ROPE " "MAY ALL RACESTS REST IN PISS" "YOU WONT BE MISSED" - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN

BYE - dashare.zone ADMIN

Dunno if this stuff really works when you write for 'The Critic' tbh

yeah but how frequently do most people think about Tim Minchin