Rufus (Gerrard-) Wright

Wishing everyone who celebrates Canadian Thanksgiving a very happy whole pie.

Fans of my old radio show ONE will be delighted to learn that some sketches by me and @danielmaier.bsky.social from that brilliant comedy series are reprinted in this charming book.

Like a lot of things with RFK Jr if someone just said this to you and wasn’t in charge of medicine in America you’d go: ooooooookay and keep pressing the elevator button

A man in a suit stands at a microphone which has been mounted on the roof of a van. There are loudspeakers at his feet, and a building behind him. He has an arm raised, and is flinching as projectiles are hurled at him, because he's a fucking Nazi

Ah, happy 88th anniversary of the day Oswald Mosley tried to sell fascism to Liverpudlians – and someone concussed him with a brick

A Pitchfork review for One Battle After Another that call it a “nerve-wracking masterpiece”, written by one Paul A. Thompson

Nice try, “Paul A. Thompson”

Top Tip: to replicate the practice of nervously posting something you're a bit unsure about on social media - then immediately deleting it, so you get the dopamine hit of typing it out but entirely without consequence or anyone actually noticing, post it on Bluesky instead.

feels like yet again time to mention that the *videogames* industry (that's a creative industry, which people do creative degrees in) brings in more than twice the amount to the British economy as the fishing and steel industries *combined*

Attention: The U.S. is no longer rated a “full democracy” by many indexes. It is often classified as a “flawed democracy” or “electoral democracy with deficits.”

A dating app for cockneys in trilbies called Mindr

YOUR POEMS Washing by Annie Thompson The sun is out, shining bright, So washing in to give it a spin. Washer going at full speed, before the sun goes in. Come on washer, do your stuff, Hurry up. Oh crickey, it's too late, the sun's disappeared and grey clouds are about. And, yes, here comes the rain, It's raining cas and dogs. So out comes the clothes airer Again....

This is actually the original draft of the 1984 hit “Here comes the rain again” by Eurythmics, Annie Lennox writing under the nom-de-plume Thompson.

Who called it the Riyadh Comedy Festival and not Saudi With A Chance Of Meatballs?

"We have a debt crisis so I've joined the party that was in power for 14 years and under whom debt massively grew."

"Commentator of the Year"

How do people from Northern Ireland pronounce ‘now’?

It is possible to cherish the BBC as an institution while also saying that BBC News is failing very badly, day after day, in its duty to inform and that it always fails in a right-wing direction. It desperately needs to recover its integrity

My first ever day on a film set I had a one on one scene with Robert Redford. The movie was Spy Game: he was charming and kind and gallant. And beautiful. America… poor crisis ridden America- you’ve lost a true old fashioned icon.
Here’s a sketch of him from the film.

YouTube video by BBC News Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, says UN commission of inquiry | BBC News

Israel has committed #genocide in #Gaza, says UN’s rights commission
Netanyahu and his henchmen need to be brought to the Hague – they have forgotten...
youtu.be/nOda0SlHZww?...

hours after the government condemned racism and hate speech on the country’s streets, it welcomes the world’s foremost racist and user of hate speech

Wait till the end…

I find it really disturbing that the vice president of the united states of america spends time arguing with random posters on social media sites.

We’re in York for a wedding and I said it’s nice it being surrounded by northern accents again and my Dutch bf goes ‘I feel like I’m in Chicken Run’

Jeremy Clarkson @JeremyClarkson We paid for Angela Rayner's education. We paid her wages when she worked for the local council. We paid her wages when she became an MP. We even paid the settlement that enabled her to buy a house. Tax payers have funded every aspect of her entire life. 12:59 PM Sep 5, 2025 915.6K Views 35K Likes

Foul privileged misogynist blue-tick wanker who got rich off the public purse says what?

Jeremy Clarkson's parents made a fortune by designing very famous toy Jeremy Clarkson's mum always believed her son would not have had the TV career he did without Paddington Bear after the family played a big part in creating the ironic character

Jeremy Clarkson's parents ripped off Paddington without paying royalties and then talked Michael Bond into giving them the worldwide merch rights and then got rich off it. Clarkson's education was paid for by someone else's effort.

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The Telegraph Rayner tax scandal - £40k tax dodge - Statement Angela Rayner dodges £40,000 stamp duty Deputy Prime Minister reduces tax bill for Hove flat by declaring it as her main residence [Photo: Angela Rayner pictured at the weekend in Hove, where she has just bought a flat Credit: Dan Charity/The Sun on Sunday] Robert Mendick Chief Reporter. Amy Gibbons Political Correspondent 29 August 2025 8:57am BST

The Telegraph Money > Property > Second homes How to avoid tax on your second home From stamp duty to council tax, shield your wealth from Labour's tightening net [Photo of houses around a bay - Areas such as Cornwall have added a premium to council tax bills for second homes Credit: iStockphoto] Fran Ivens Senior Money Writer 29 August 2025 1:21pm BST

On the same day in the Telegraph:

Cooper in 2021: "If there arent the safe legal routes for family reunion we end up with more people being driven into the arms of criminal gangs"

Cooper yesterday: "we are bringing forward new rules to temporarily suspend new applications under the existing family reunion route"

Let's cut to the chase. Those who know history will recall Hitler's #EnablingAct of 1933 allowing his government to enact laws without the consent of the Reichstag. it's the cornerstone of Hitler's dictatorship. And here we are. Trump bypasses Congress, waves a wand, things happen & they're all bad.

I came across this user comment while looking for some Nick Drake demos on YouTube just now. Have a read - it's rather magical. Original link: youtube.com/watch?v=fBdb...

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My painting RED BEACH CHAIR

Just for perspective, a few weeks ago roughly 100,000 turned up for the London Trans+ Pride march. By contrast fewer than 3,000 ACROSS THE WHOLE COUNTRY, have turned up to anti-asylum "protests". Yet we are meant to take the latter as "the voice of the people" and the former as "the minority".