Gary Kaill

Blows my mind that the writer of one of the finest experimental novels of recent years cannot find purchase with the UK's allegedly 'No one publishes the stuff we dare to!' indie publishing sector. Generic, humdrum, feelings-fodder trumps the technically advanced, poetucally astute always.

The UK govt: "Hmm, we might have to ban VPNs & a whole range of otehr basic privacy safeguards, to Protect The Children, y'know."

Also the UK govt: "It's perfectly fine to let Nazi billionaire & friend of Epstein Peter Thiel trawl through the entire corpus of NHS personal data on your children."

'poetucally' trumps 'poetically', too.

Blows my mind that the writer of one of the finest experimental novels of recent years cannot find purchase with the UK's allegedly 'No one publishes the stuff we dare to!' indie publishing sector. Generic, humdrum, feelings-fodder trumps the technically advanced, poetucally astute always.

Sarah Vine • @WestminsterWAG• •9h g Islamists screaming allahu Akbar outside villa park - and the person who gets arrested is a 17-year-old boy who goes to debate them. Meanwhile, a woman is condemned for 'face-crime'. What is going on?

What’s happened here is that, by sticking to their guns and refusing to be intimidated and shitehoused, the club and police have thankfully prevented Parliament and the press inciting rioting and running battles in the streets of a major city.

The first thing Yaxley-Lennon did on leaving court was to thank Elon Musk for funding his legal costs.

That's Elon Musk who has repeatedly called for civil war in the UK.

As of typing this - all of the major politicians and platforms maintain a presence on X and it is time for them all to leave.

Jeffries: "The Trump administration and Mike Johnson are running a pedophile protection program. That's the reason they refuse to swear in Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva."

And with 53% of respondents in the British Social Attitudes survey recording themselves as “no religion”, it’s hard to argue that we are a Christian country. The country is what it is now; not what it was 100 years ago.

Bet365 CEO Denise Coates paid herself £277,000,000 this year, and £410,000,000 in 2020.

This was more than 20,000x the Minimum Wage that she paid most of her workers.

The betting industry needs to be taxed, heavily.

Can anyone explain how exactly a tiny clique of wankers that nobody likes managed to not only seize power within their own party, but won a national election

Americans want to watch charismatic people solve moderately difficult problems on a weekly basis. That’s it. And a group of fomo execs and techbros who don’t watch TV drove one of the most profitable industries in the US off a cliff rather than accept that.

Calling Kier Starmer “low fat Nigel Farage” is one the best burns I’ve heard for a long time. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Really important to recognise that this is a Labour Cabinet Minister LYING in the Commons in order to support their ludicrous commitment to the idea that THE ACTUAL POLICE are antisemitic for wanting to ban thugs.

'fake video' Jesus.

The world is not out to get you. That's paranoid thinking. There are, at most, three to fifteen people out to get you, working day and night on your downfall. Relax.

Oh, bravo! 😄😄👏👏
#Fistophobia

“My government has a relentless focus on looking after British citizens. Unless you’re kidnapped at sea, in which case good fucking luck I guess LOL”

This is grim & dangerous over reach.

This is a government that have lost the moral argument & are still selling arms to Israel. Now further cracking down on dissent.

Absolutely the opposite of what they should be doing - so of course this is what the Labour Government choose.

If YOU, the UK government, actively conflate Jewish people in the UK with the genocide in Gaza, haven't you just done exactly what the terrorists want you to do?

Haven't you just stepped inside the whole racist, essentialist beliefs of such people, and taken a seat?

He knows it. They know it. They've always known it. Amongst themselves, they joke about it. They tell stories about it. They swap advice on how to deal with it.

But most importantly, to everyone else, they lie about it.

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“Every film is political. Most political of all are those that pretend not to
be: entertainment movies. They are the most political films because they dismiss the possibility of change. In every frame they tell you everything's fine… a continual advertisement for things as they are.”

- Wim Wenders

Entirely different side, isn't it? So many likeable players. Lawal a proper old school Stoke colossus.

there have been a lot of rubicons crossed, norms destroyed, principles abandoned, ideals betrayed over the past 10 months

but this seems like a truly significant turning point

Wonderful thread.

I read Deighton as a teen - a very uncool choice back then. Time to re-investigate.

My French mother and my foreign-born (of Irish and Belgian parents) father made their lives in this country, worked for the wellbeing of its citizens (she as a teacher, he as a GP), and are buried here. Farage would see them as worthless foreigners. He is an evil man.

Independent front page: Trump tells PM: Use the military to stop the boats

The Times front page Immigration is destroying UK, Trump tells Starmer President says to use military to stop crossings

The Guardian Trump tells Britain to 'call out the military' to control its borders

The iPaper Trump urges Starmer: use military to stop migrant boats

Honest to god. I dread to think what the front pages of the tabloids are, given these are the supposedly serious papers.
The immigration ‘debate’ has become a ruinous madness.

(Trump also said he’d settled the war between Azerbaijan and Albania, so why are we listening to *anything* he says?)

🚨NEW: "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" just dropped its first response to ABC, FCC chair, and Disney firing Jimmy Kimmel.

Trump ain't sleeping tonight. 🤣

This is a must-watch. 🔥

Leadership

“Hey why don’t you invest billions of dollars in a factory here, and every four years we’ll flip a coin and maybe a posse of mouthbreathing thugs will throw hoods over your employees’ heads and fly them to a foreign prison”