David Stubbs

Ah thank you Jason! And yeah, I loved that holy trinity (plus Duran)

1992. Played it cool, I'd been at Melody Maker a few years and met plenty of famous people. Muhammad Ali, by contrast, couldn't contain his excitement at meeting Rock Expert David Stubbs - he plied me with questions like "So what were Slowdive really like? Were they really as bad as Hitler?"

Four boycotts so far I hope there are more . . .

Women’s Institute will no longer accept trans women as members from April Exclusive: CEO says decision taken with ‘utmost regret and sadness’ after supreme court ruling on definition of a woman

Trans women has been welcomed at the Women's Institute since the 1970s and one member is in her 80's and has been a member for decades. This is pure bigotry pushed by legal threats backed monetarily by JK Rowling.

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Ilhan Omar rose from a single parent immigrant family where her dad drove a taxi to her current position. Trump is the kid of a racist wealthy slum landlord who headed multiple failed businesses. One of these people is the example of failed ambition and it's not her.
What a racist piece of shit.

Annual hearty agreement.

YouTube video by Rolo Tomasi Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead 1990

RIP Tom Stoppard.
Treat yourself to this:
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'this'll make you laugh'

Annual reminder to writers not to miss the end of November deadline to submit 2025 works to ALCS. Money for nothing, folks, the best sort.

You used to have rogues, vagabonds, ne'er'-do-wells, knaves, scapegraces, jackanapes, brigands, bounders, blighters, excrescences, mountebanks and scofflaws.
Now you just get cunts.

Twenty people allege he has a racist past. He denies it. Who’s telling the truth about Farage’s schooldays? Reform UK’s leader refuses to answer questions about his abusive behaviour, claiming there’s ‘no evidence’. We talk to victims and witnesses

He has a racist present. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Calvin and Hobbes were formative for my sense of humour, and I still dip in and out of Watterson’s strips today. Fantastic article by Luke.

If we don’t signal our virtue every now and again - then so many believe they are utterly alone - “virtue signalling” is not there to say “aren’t I good” but “there are more of us than you might imagine” and “fuck you for demanding that only the brutal and the bullies may speak”

Train worker who protected passengers in Huntingdon attack leaves hospital LNER’s Samir Zitouni, known as Sam, was seriously injured in mass stabbing and is credited with saving multiple lives

Glad to hear that Samir Zitouni has left hospital. Twenty years as a train worker in Britain, he was an onboard caterer who stepped up heroically to resist a stabbing attack, saving many lives and risking his own.
Prayers and good wishes for the recovery ahead.
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Just read seconds before you posted!

YouTube video by Robyn Robyn - Dopamine (Official Music Video)

it's here

A fantastically negative review of After Life.

The best review I have ever read of Ricky Gervais's mean spirited, ego project, After Life. Bless you Will from London.

Bloody hell, Streeting? I'd as soon keep Starmer.

I'll defend BBC News against the accusation that they are hostile to the far right. I'm sure Nigel Farage will give thanks to BBC News for building the platform for his career when no one else would give him, a no one with no voter base, the time of day. The BBC saw his potential. It paid dividends.

Yeah, there's "The BBC" and then there is "BBC News". I could quite honestly, and indeed do, go without the latter. I think it's pernicious, for creating Farage alone. But as a public broadcaster in other respects it gives supreme VFM.

While testing a top secret aircraft design during WWII, pilot Jack Woolams wore a gorilla suit and a bowler hat so that any witnesses who reported back would not be believed.

My experience also.

I'm very sorry but to do otherwise, to stay quiet would be a sin with which you could not live.

New York can finally say they’ve had a new worst day ever.

it doesn’t get any clearer that america’s betrothal to fossil fuels is about letting energy companies pick our pockets to prop up their obsolete industry

Cambridgeshire stabbing attack: ‘heroic’ train worker praised for saving passengers’ lives LNER employee Samir Zitouni, who was hospitalised after Saturday’s incident, hailed by police and transport secretary for ‘bravery beyond measure’

Get well soon, Samir Zitouri. The best of us. Go fuck yourselves with rolled up copies of your shit stirring speeches Farage, Goodwin. You are the worst of us. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Say what you like about ‘Sadiq Khan’s no-go hellscape’ – Britain’s cities prove the rightwing agitators wrong | Jonathan Liew To rightwing populists, places of fluidity and freedom will always be the enemy, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew

Jonathan Liew is now one of The Guardian's best and most conscientious voices. Which is more than can be said for one or two of his unpleasant colleagues on The Guardian's sports section. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

his own vodka

From The Office to degenerating into the nasty, punchdown, scoffing, comedically clueless, transphobic patron saint of wankers you are today. James Acaster called you out for the worse than worthless "edgelord" that you are. But you're too remote, too doubledown, too stupid to take that on board.