Peter Sketch

What he said: 💯 🎯

me with a blue funnel like hat, with a stick out the top holding a red ball on a string. I have on a red capelet and am carrying a letter with calligraphy and a seal in my crooked beak. I've got a badge with a symbol on it

the guy from the original painting that's got on my outfit except it's wearing tan turnshoes

it's me, unnamed critter from bosch's triptych of the temptation of anthony!

Satire works.

That’s why it’s so important, it’s why it persists, and it’s why certain people sneer at comedy writing as an art form. It scares them.

An anniversary, a trip to Ireland, and a lot of family st... A weekend in County Fermanagh with my dad and (10) siblings to remember our mother

For my mother's anniversary this year, my family and I journeyed back to our parents' Fermanagh homeland.

On memory, storytelling, and a letter than left us stunned.

observer.co.uk/news/columni...

Delighted to say that an updated and expanded version of my series on one of the most extraordinary acts in aviation history will be running on The Up Front over the coming weeks.

And even better: it's now completely free to read.

If you see this, quote with a vampire that is not Dracula.
"Greetings, from Johannesburg!"

Scottish Crossbills are capitalised, Scottish crossbills aren't. Easy.

Reasons to visit your local haunted bookshop: Open Until Very Late (image: moonlit bookshop) Staff with nine hundred years experience (image: skeleton bookseller) Home delivery by Headless Hoseman or flying fiend (image: deliveries being made) Readings from famous authors (Image: Shakespeare zombie) Stay and browse forever (Image ghost in a bookshop)

Three @theguardian.com books cartoons from previous halloweens: 1. Haunted Bookshop

Had the pleasure of meeting Ozymandias, King of Kings, at a charity do once. He was surprisingly down to Earth, and VERY funny.

Picture of a venerable naval tortoise with a sign tied to her shell

The last survivor of the Crimean War died in 2004.

"Timothy" spent 40 years in the Navy. After retirement, having moved in with the Earl of Devon, she revealed she was a girl.

She would wander round his garden wearing a sign that said. "My name is Timothy. I am very old. Pease do not pick me up".

Dressing up as a vampire for Halloween this year. Here's a selfie of my costume.

leaf shaped animal fossil with sickle shaped branches meeting a a zigzagged axis Charnia brasieri sp nov

Shaped of the currently valid species of Charnia and their branch types

seafloor reconstruction of Charnia brasieri as a procumbent organisms living among microbial matgrounds

This #FossilFriday I’m excitedly sharing a new #Ediacaran #Charnia brasieri named for my PhD Supervisor & friend Martin Brasier who died 2014. I’ve wanted to name something for him ever since but I wanted it to be something special. When I saw the first one from Inner Meadow I knew it was the 1 🧵

There's more than one person I follow for whom "save the Duke of Burgundy" would be a description of a highly-complex historical strategy game they were playing.

Photo of two woks

Photo of a pear

Look on my woks, (yeah, my tea), and this pear!

When Christian Calgie uses "mental health" as a two-word deflection to get himself out of a hole and then sweeps back in days later to resume being a cunt, you can see why the Right just thinks all mental health disability claims are fake until proven otherwise.

The accusation is the admission.

Guys this is the ONE client you really need to double check

I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said—“Well, Seymour, I made it, despite your directions,

I'm starting to feel like I need to develop a massively racist conspiracy theory because apparently everyone else my age has one.

Something about Japan maybe? They're not appearing in many of these.

Just had lunch with a great friend and colleague who told me solemnly that the Labour Party is now controlled by the Fabians and that Fabians are radical communists. This is my first real world sighting of this amazing idea.

This is exactly right and it’s IMO part of the answer to the ifG’s very good “come on, you gotta take standards more seriously”. At any given point, at least three ministers will be “accidental landlords” (owning their own home, but in government digs). Just have it be rented out by the state!

This is good news, though I am once again left perplexed as to why Kemi Badenoch isn't more embarrassed that she visibly wasn't across her own immigration policy for *half a year*!

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look upon this one simple trick and the results will surprise you.

Honestly, the more these people opine on how awful the UK is, the more I am reminded of how much - for all its problems and indisputable weirdness - I really rather love it.

Although she thought at the time that her racist statement was the same as her leader's, not realising that Badenoch hadn't read the Tory proposal she was quoting.

I heard there was a statue tall
That sneered at folk and commanded all
But you don't really care for symbols do ya
It goes like this the feet the fist
The head that fell the aim that missed
The long lost king whose name was Ozymandias
Ozymandias
Ozymandias
Ozymandias
Ozymaaaaandias

Once upon a desert sandy
As through winds the trav'ling man he
Spied the face of Ozymandy
Lying, simply lying there
Suddenly there was some writing
Pon the plinth that he was sighting
That the sand and time were blighting
Quoth the statue, "Now despair"

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works and no worries if not.

My name is Pagliacci, Clown of Clowns. Look on my works, ye doctors; I despair.

I am rather unimpressed, but also not surprised.

Virgin put in a simple but believable bid. The trains they want to order don't even have 15kV so can't run to Germany and Switzerland. They have no interesting or radical ideas.

BUT their plans were believable and achievable.

Thread. Plans for direct trains London to Germany or Switzerland killed off because there isn't enough maintenance capacity for those trains once additional Paris trains are provided for. Boo.