Mhairi McFarlane

Yeah plus I’m already seeing grumbling from their fanbase about selling out. Appealing to extremists means you have to keep extreming

Oh I’m not saying a recipe for longer term success. Yes Burnham is funny because so indicative of image as everything now. I can remember king of the north being stale compromise continuity candidate. Reminds me of friend saying: the people who claim to care the least about packaging, care the most

Both Polanski & Farage can answer a question with the fluid ease of it being what they genuinely think whereas Starmer seems like he’s rehearsing a script that he’s deeply uneasy about deviating from. It does feel as if KS is a very 20th C politician

It’s funny how authenticity in politics = ‘developing a persona which comes across as comfortable in himself’ (or herself). Come to think of it Starmer mostly seems uncomfortable

She seems to exist in the Venn where privilege becomes licence for unabashed sociopathy

Screen cliche: opening a scene at an airport with a child playing with a toy airplane, despite the fact kids are on tablets now

Extraordinary piece, brilliant writing.

Yes & the sneaky elision of family ‘row’ - of which there’s no evidence - & that cost, as in ‘their bickering is creating this bill for us all’

Yeah exactly. Imagine the outrage if he’d pulled through needing expense of 24/7 care

I wonder if partly due to the press discussing how families of killers are treated is too ‘switch to front facing camera’ for them

Discussions about ‘Adolescence’ focused on violence & misogyny in young men but it was equally interesting about how you deal with the stigma, notoriety and pain of being a relative of the perpetrator

Ian Huntley's family 'row' over funeral as whopping cost could fall on taxpayer After spending his final hours blinded in a medically induced coma, Ian Huntley's mother was reportedly handed the burden of turning his life-support machine off

Ian Huntley’s family all appear to have responded to his death in a way that is entirely in tune with public feeling, so naturally the press is trying to whip up needless antagonism towards them www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

Imagine being Husband 3 though & saying ‘it’s not your time but I’ll wait for you honey’ & then by the time she arrives there’s four more spirit husbands. He sent her back to earth to cuck him with Burton. If you can cuck a ghost

The Elizabeth Taylor story about her near death experience in 1961 where she saw her deceased third husband waiting for her suggests that heaven is polycules

Cocktails are generally either Um Bongo & half an egg cup of spirits with profit margins firmly in mind, or 4 liquors in one flaming goblet with a curl of fruit peel that immediately sends you giggly, then sexually feral

Yes that occurred!

a man in a pink shirt is sitting in a car ALT: a man in a pink shirt is sitting in a car

Yea & Jeffrey Epstein was on suicide watch and still managed to hang himself

Christ yes. I’m seeing scenes from Mayor Of Kingstown

Reminds me of my local history book about Dartford asylum where it says they experimented with not giving the inmates beer and saw an improvement in behaviour

I have no doubt but procuring a metal pole remains worthy of explanation

I’m not lamenting loss of Ian Huntley but why are prisons allowing Category A inmates to build ‘three foot spiked metal poles’ in ‘recycling classes’? As outcomes go it’s not the biggest surprise, is it? Next week: shock as the clay pigeon shooting tutorial takes a dark turn

No worries thanks for trying though! 💙💛🩵

I get this 😆

That doesn’t link to my book it’s a different author 👍🏻

😆😆 honoured to be there!

I’ve started & enjoying while finding psychically exhausting 😀

Your boyfriend looking at a meme

Ranting about how much I hate nihilism as clever in TV shows, and said = betting on people being good sometimes, isn’t emotionally naive. Omg that’s it. Not everything has to be Succession

Can’t say I blame you I’m a recidivist in this respect

I invent a Time Machine but instead of killing baby Hitler I’m finding out which clothes I don’t wear on holiday so I can pack lighter with confidence