Jem Roberts, Author

In endless ways, Chappell Roan is the new Barbara Dickson.

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Police arrest 474 people at protest over Palestine Action ban in London Number of arrests was highest recorded in relation to single operation in at least past decade, according to Met police

Headline should be

'Rapists and murderers of the Met humiliate themselves in front of the entire world'.

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Crowfunding, yes.

I wanna wake up in the city that never poos.

Have you ever ridden a cock horse to Banbury Cross to see a fine lady upon a white horse? No, see, that’s why advertising doesn’t work.

Death of a publishing dream: how the Unbound revolution b... The literary disrupters enjoyed great success with their crowdfunding model, signing authors that other publishers overlooked. And then the money ran out…

I’m surprised the Observer’s Unbound exposé doesn’t mention that all forms of crowfunding have been utterly screwed by the ruination of social media by billionaire CEOs, so it’s no longer a workable model for 99% of creatives. Our audiences were destroyed. observer.co.uk/news/busines...

Guardian Culture routinely deploys their most ignorant and prejudiced airheads to review the art they are least likely to understand or appreciate. It’s been the same for decades.

Lenny Henry is lighthearted in off-the-cuff solo comedy about suicide – review When it debuted, Duncan Macmillan’s play felt like a new way to talk about depression and suicide, but in the 11 years since, it already feels less radical

Lest anyone imagine The Independent is much better – this person got paid to write for them, and used 'cliché' as an adjective, with no accent on the E.
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This is why AI is everywhere. Shit writers who should be legally prevented from creating any form of text.

Wodehouse in Wonderland review – less than spiffing portrait of the artist as a light comedian Robert Daws stars as the great comic author in this one-man show but is let down by lukewarm humour

Tiny-brained word-spewer Arifa Akbar hates Wodehouse In Wonderland and knows sod-all about the greatest writer of the 20th century – so rush to get a ticket. If 'Guardian Culture' hates something, it can only be superb. www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/a...

It must be a tragic life for William, now there’s no way he’d be able to get his Wish Wellingtons on his feet.

Fred Basset would surely be dead at least 6 times over by now. Serve him right too.

It’s important to maintain a ‘might do’ attitude.

My favourite bit of James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’ is the bit at the end where it says ‘Well done! You are now clever: TELL EVERYBODY.’

G.T.H.O.C.

They say that English is one of the most difficult languages, but I’ve really never believed it. I mean, even Kid Rock can speak it.

'Cliché' is a noun, 'clichéd' is the adjective.

'Cringe' is a verb, 'cringeworthy' is the adjective.

Try harder, folks.

I just want Jimmy McGovern to write a modern version of Beowulf, in which Beowulf is a psycho Tommy Robinson-lover always having loud parties with his meathead mates, and Grendel and his mother are victimised outsiders new to the estate who dare to complain. Go to it, Jim.

Using @Grok for anything would be like watching Elon Musk piss into a bottle, and then offer it to you as ice tea, and you drinking it down to the dregs while maintaining eye contact.

I have never been to New York, but I have been to Glasgow, which at least means that I've been to Comic Book Movie New York.

This week's dead cat is the bizarre concept of the 'woke Tory'.

File alongside the virgin mother, the compassionate billionaire and the clever Reform voter.

55 is a hell of an age to finally realise that human morality genuinely exists, but I'm glad Parker & Stone have, and that they have a platform like South Park to share their discovery.

They use terms like 'Corbynite' to try to dismiss basic decency as some kind of cult.

But you notice we don't have words like 'Farageite', because we already have plenty of words for people who follow Nigel Farage.

Those were literally the days. Miss you, Neil.

Reform voters identify with sitcom character designed from top to toe to be both disgustingly venal and staggeringly stupid: how can this be? www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...

Some people take moderation to excess.

I was horrified when I traced my genealogy back beyond three generations – it turns out pretty much all of my ancestors from 1900 back were bigots, racists, misogynists and pretty much nationalists, and not remotely woke. Some even tolerated slavery. Wish I hadn't found out now.

Who is ‘The It Girl’ at the moment? Is the post vacant? I’d quite like a go if so.