Dara O'Reilly

Sign asking "Britain's most brutal race?"

Is it "The English?" I'm going to guess "The English."

Palestinian statehood is not a bargaining chip.

It is not a threat.

It is an inalienable right of the Palestinian people.

Our demands on this shameful government remain the same: end all arms sales to Israel, impose widespread sanctions, and stop the genocide, now.

Can't believe the government just banned The Animals Of Farthing Wood.

I once went to a 40th birthday party and they booked Chesney Hawkes. Played I Am The One And Only three times, including an oddly-poignant acoustic version.

"Unspecified Arizona High School Prom Queen."

"Unspecified Arizona High School Prom Queen."

Phew! Busy morning as Tim Minchin's new PR guy. Time to pour myself a cold one and check Bluesky for a bit before I schedule tomorrow's round of interviews

I know Neil Morrissey a bit, and, while perfectly capable of "having a laugh" in the right context, he is not the happy-go-lucky soul you'd imagine from his performances in "Men Behaving Badly" and "Boon.". I fear this is another poor decision by the beleaguered Prime Minister.

Easy peasy "I don't think James is anti-Semitic, but I'm sure he understands the hurt he's caused by innocently propagating anti-Semitic tropes. He should read my book Jews Don't Count (TLS Books, 2021,) or watch my C4 documentary of the same name."

Chris Philp: "The British taxpayer has put them up in hotels, and now they slap us in the face by using the money they are given to fund gambling. These illegal immigrants clearly don’t need the money they are given if they are squandering it at casinos and arcades."

Fucking Chris Philp appears to be under the impression that nobody in history has never gambled money that they needed for another purpose...

The closeness, and her tight-lipped general demeanour, gives the impression that she's a ventriloquist operating Leavitt. And I, for one, choose to believe that.

Why is she standing so uncomfortably close to Leavitt?

I don't listen to voice messages at all.

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He is very unfortunate that, from his time at Oxford University, through his legal and early political career in Arkansas, all the way to the Presidency and beyond, he has been dogged by these strangely consistent and believable yet false allegations. Truly one of the great injustices of our time.

This person is correct. The immensely powerful public figure, and former President of the United States, has not actually been convicted as a result of the over twenty credible on-the-record accusations of sexual assault leveled against him over the last fifty years.

The UK, during the Iraq war. The Fairford Five broke into an RAF based and damaged vehicles and equipment. It delayed military operations.

the group responsible were not considered terrorists, and their group was not proscribed.

So shut the fuck up, you bootlicking apologist for genocide.

I understand it was one of the last defence cases taken by a particular barrister before he joined the Crown Prosecution Service. Keir something-or-other, not sure what became of him.

Anxious Sourdough

I owned each of these albums on cassette, and only retrospectively bought reissues on vinyl.

What perfect albums came out when you were 16?*

*No retroactive cool, please. Albums that were in the house that you actively purchased and listened to

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"Well it be Shadow Office Of The Deputy Prime Minister, or Office of the Shadow Deputy Prime Minister? Who knows?"

This exchange explains exactly why Labour are going to be buried at the next election. Not the specific issue, not the Tories or whoever being particularly strong. It's that Labour come across as condescending, incompetent middle managers. Something most people have had to deal with and hate.

Brownfacing a box of raisins and mocking my surname.

Exactly what you’d expect from a right-wing hack who is the daughter of an aristocrat and ex-Tory MP.

Do we assume "Saffron Swire" is the "Saffron Augusta Petrushka Swire" listed in peerage.com as the oldest daughter of former Conservative Minister Hugo, Baron Swire? Whose mother Sasha is a scion of Russian nobility, and wrote an "entertaining tell-all" about the Cameron govt?

Everything Nick Griffin believes, with the exception of his surprisingly left economic policies, is now mainstream political argument. While his appearance on QT was personally disadvantageous for him, it unquestionably advanced nativism and neo-fascism in the UK by moving the Overton Window.

What kind of world is it that we have built here? Is it good? Is that why we are furiously arresting and denouncing everyone who says it should be different?

Jair Bolsonaro, who I do not support, had every right to try to imprison me, who I also do not support.

by Glenn Greenwald

He is so fucking good at this.

Pretty thoroughly depressing to live in a country where big, important institutions — like universities, the BBC, the Labour party — seem only ever to be run by people who seem to really dislike them.