Russell Garner

Good morning to everyone except the quad bikers who returned to set off fireworks in the fields at 4.30am

Joe is a genius #Traitors

These are the most frustrating set of round tables in Traitors history

1. respect human rights 2. right to life 3. prohibition of torture 4. prohibition of slavery 5. right to liberty and security 6. right to a fair trial 7. no punishment without law 8. right to respect privacy and family life 9. freedom of thought, conscience and religion 10. freedom of expression 11. freedom of assembly and association 12. right to marry 13. right to an effective remedy (if your rights are violated) 14. prohibition of discrimination 15. derogation in time of emergency 16. restriction on political activity of non-nationals 17. prohibition of abuse of rights 18. limitation on use of restriction of rights

Friendly reminder: these are the rights we all have under the ECHR.

They're not just for a privileged few

They're for EVERY SINGLE ONE OF US

Kemi Badenoch is absolutely right about this.

At the time she hacked Harriet Harman's emails it was an offence carrying a prison sentence of up to five years

Just like you swore to me you're a curlew

I take some comfort in knowing that the removal of his title is – given this new intelligence – also a rather effective cock-blocking

"MUUUUUMMMM, you're making it go BACK IIIIIIIN"

I hear Dr. Moreau's is nice this time of millennium

What a great photo that is

I wish I hadn't clicked play on that

I mean he'll just sign an EO, that's what he does, and then nobody will follow up on it procedurally because all the procedural people have done that fealty thing

*very much not first

The Andrew formerly known as Prince #first

Give me false dichotomies or give me death.

Come on staplers can be pernickety but printers are actually demonic

I wear obvious over-ear noise cancelling headphones while I work on my bike outside and will my peripheral vision to shut down

I do think more needs to be made about how, ultimately, the whole right-wing project is about just making life worse for people.

Like, there's no economic theory there, no ideology, just the enjoyment of inflicting pain and misery on people they view as beneath them.

That's it, nothing else.

Wait no come on now

Oh I had some sympathy at part 1 but at part 2 it's GTFO my property and take the lawnmower box with you

Gutted for Michelle Agyemang, so early in her career too

At least that'll give us time to see the Brexit benefits.

you'd need time and attention and you need one to have the other and so I have neither but here I am replying nonetheless thank you for coming to my TED talk

Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.

a slightly wet decibel meter

well that was unexpectedly* violent

Yes to both of those things. 2020 really didn't help. There's an epidemic of unreported social anxiety. Created a legion of borderline agoraphobes.

I wish two things: 1. that we regulated sensibly and 2. that when we regulate, we enforce

Sorry to be tremendously serious when all I really want to say is "haha yeah". I think about this a lot.

I have a friend, nearly 80, for whom it's all but the only source of community. She deserves that, yeah. She can't just stop using it because what's left of her people, they're there. So yeah, I mean you can make a principled stand and not be there, but for some that cost is not payable.