Twlldun

The Murdoch papers and the Mail, also. I mean come on, this is negative polarisation jackpot.

Netanyahu as well, no doubt? We just need George Bush and Andrew Tate and it’s basically every folk demon for the liberal left since the turn of the millennium

I mean I don’t think he’s doing it for political reasons but if he can’t make *any* capital with the progressive bloc out of the fact that Blair, Trump, Farage, Johnson; Badenoch and Liz Truss are all attacking him on it, he may as well just resign now tbh

I don’t think knowing Latin tags makes you smart, which makes me Sui generis

The Mail there, aiming at the three people in the U.K. who still trust Tony Blair on the subject of War In The Middle East, Read the Daily Mail and Yet Have Suffered Crippling Head Injuries Leading Them To Forget The Mail Think He Is Satan.

But also, who are we aiming at here - the three people in the country that trust Tony Blair on Middle Eastern wars?

Going to say this isn’t the *greatest* of attack lines.

Who actually were the Hero Voters? Labour won in 2024 because of economically insecure voters, not social conservatism.

Have been a bit frustrated by some of the conversation about Labour's voter coalition.

I've written about who the "Hero Voters" actually were, how we won them, and what we need to do to earn their support next time.

chriscurtismk.substack.com/p/who-actual...

I'm so woke I thought Sydney Sweeney was an Australian cop show.

This was a lie, though, it was miles away

Went up a hill

I have no reason to suppose that he, who would take away my Liberty, would not when he had me in his Power, take away everything else - Locke

Dipping back into radio six for a few months is bracing in this regard. You listen to the current critical faves and it’s like “oh this is quite good. And this. Not fussed on this. Oh this is great. What the fuck Hahaha, wait you are being serious?”

Reminded that every so often I hear a Sleaford Mods track and have a small giggling fit when I realise that bloke’s singing voice is meant to be serious

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned -Yeats

I just searched my email and the oddest thing about it is that they seem to have emailed me saying “let us know if you would rather not hear from us about Mother’s Day”, which I ignored, and then never actually sent me anything else about Mother’s Day because why would they?

Look, I believe we should abolish sexual stereotypes but the only ones I want contacting me for Mother’s Day are flowers and chocolate sellers and the only ones I want contacting me for Father’s Day are beer and rugby related products I don’t want Screwfix Direct asking me if my mum is dead

I mean, come on

you know who else tried to arbitrarily redesign middle eastern borders

I feel like the problem started when brands that weren’t related to Mother’s Day developed the idea they should contact me for Mother’s Day

Oh while we’re at it:
1) “It’s almost mother’s day!” in my inbox - oh yeah no problem doesn’t really apply to me any more, no offence taken though
2) “WE ARE A CONSIDERATE BRAND AND JUST WANTED TO CHECK IF YOUR MUM IS DEAD SO WE CAN STOP REMINDING YOU SHE’S DEAD AHEAD OF MOTHER’S DAY” - y tho

Churchillian

Correct. I don’t want Smol Bean talk from my bank, I want a sober tone from someone middle aged

Delicious golden slices of massive heart attacks

I reckon Reform could get past 30% in the polls if they made Returning Fried Bread To The Fry-Up the centrepiece of their offer.

A proper household deals with its own refuse properly, it doesn’t chuck it over the fence or farm it out to some cowboy. See also Begum, S.

No, I feel not one iota of sympathy for Ian Huntley. Yes, I still believe the state has a duty of care for felons, no matter how repugnant.

My most unpopular opinion is that farming out the death penalty for child murderers to the hard faced horrible cunts they share prison wings with is a societal failure and instead of relishing when one gets killed, we should be ashamed our prison system is so broken.

I mean several of his pieces were quite obviously meant to be plays first, right? Dogs is one, The Hateful 8 another