I turned on the radio. Django came sweetly out of the speakers with his beautiful, burned, spiderweb hand.
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How should we respond to terrorist atrocities? To trucks full of militias suddenly attacking towns and murdering civilians in the street?
Here's how certain people have responded.
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Any Americans who do engagement-farming posts complaining about British food should have their accounts immediately deleted, no reprieves, and then be locked in a cellar and fed only American cheese for a week.
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This isn't an argument from me for or against the bill, but people are saying the U-16s social media ban will "back parents up" in regulating their teens' phone use.
Fine, OK, maybe. But surely this is the definition of nanny state behaviour?
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I'm all for regulating kids's phone use. It's addictive and debilitating and can expose them to huge risks.
You know whose job it is to keep my kids of social media? Mine.
I say they can't use it. So they don't. It's actually pretty fucking simple.
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Note I said simple, not easy.
Peer pressure exists, but Jimmy Twatnose from school isn't in charge in my house, I am.*
We do slack off on their screen time limits, regret it and re-impose them, but they use the apps we say they can. That's our job.
*lol no, my wife is
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Jun 12
I wanted to write a coherent post about Zack Polanski's mad genocide grift and the number of lies he tells, but I just don't have it in me.
All I can think of when I think of his incessant poasts is that gif of a hippo farting and spraying its filth over a 50-yard radius.
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Jun 12
Carole’s thinly veiled signal was heard loud and clear
Jun 12
This is such a smart hire by Bari Weiss & a reputation-destroying one by Trevor Phillips whose mouth one can only presume was stuffed with gold.
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This Ireland/Israel boycott has had more build-up and faff than a big Corrie storyline.
Either play them or don't. They're 'genocidal' or they aren't, but JFC just get on with it. Supposedly it's about them not you, so have some courage and just do it.
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Jun 12
Me looking at the countless people queueing up to criticise, sanction or boycott Iran and Palestine's football teams...
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Jun 11
Complaining about nightlife when you *checks notes* choose to live in Soho is like living in South Kensington and complaining about the museums.
Or moving to Hackney and grumbling about creatives. Living in Richmond and hating green space.
It's all getting a bit silly, isn't it?
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Jun 10
Just putting this out there: MUPPET DOCTOR WHO—in which everyone is a Muppet, except for The Doctor, who's Peter Hitchens.
The BBC is no longer going ahead with a #DoctorWho Christmas special this year and is seeking new production partners after Russell T Davies and Bad Wolf exited the sci-fi franchise.
“And so GOODBYE from me to Doctor Who but HELLO to a big new future for the show, as the BBC announces it’s putting the show out to tender," Davies wrote. "You’ll have to wait a bit longer for new Doctor Who… but you’ll be waiting for MORE Doctor Who than a one-off. So it’s worth it!” variety.com/2026/tv/global/d…
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I didn't call any of you "shit hires". I referred to the outlet as "excreteo" - & before I knew who had decided to join it.
You linking this to skin colour is a deeply pathetic reach - indicating the sort of "journalism" your "independent media" outlet will no doubt produce 🙄
Jun 9
So there we have it: @Daniel_Sugarman has just called me - a brown skinned woman - and three other journalists of colour incl one with Jewish ancestry - sh*t hires.
This is why we need independent media more than ever.
@mehdirhasan @zeteo_news
Community note
Sugarman did not call the journalists "sh*t hires"; he referred to Zeteo as "Excretio" and stated there were "no particular surprises" in the announcement. x.com/Daniel_Sugarma… x.com/Daniel_Sugarma…
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‘OK, get his guard down, wait until he lunges at you and then hit him on the nose with ‘Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England’
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Jun 8
One of the most discouraging aspects of Twitter is discovering that many people simply don't care what's actually true.
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Jun 8
In all the far too many years of my life I've been on this wretched app I think this might be the most thin-skinned thing I've ever seen.
And the sheer numbers of people applauding him.
"Hur hur lol yeah great kick her Hugh'.
Jun 7
Thanks for your critique, Janet. We actually tried a couple of episodes where House (Hugh Laurie) (please put the brackets in the right place) gets it right first time, but they were only 6 minutes long. NBC weren’t happy. Then we tried some where House never gets it right and the patient dies. The audience wasn’t happy.
One could apply your trenchant analysis to other art forms: JS Bach wrote 30 Goldberg variations on the same chord structure; Frida Kahlo painted 50 portraits of herself; Henry Moore, what??
The point is, or was, variations on a theme; if all you see is hospital, medical blah blah, then it wasn’t meant for you.
Nonetheless, I look forward to your first novel!
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Jun 8
Well lookie here, fuckos.
A dignified and decent apology from Hugh, who readily acknowledges he was out of order, the reason being he was drunk and already upset about something else.
It's tough being right all the time but I bear it with fortitude.
x.com/hughlaurie/status/2064…
Jun 8
I’m sorry if people have been having a go at you because of my tweet. Not at all the plan. I was very slightly drunk and already upset about something that had nothing to do with you. If it’s any comfort, I got it in the neck too. I’m a thin-skinned twat, apparently, even though it wasn’t my skin. I was sticking up for the writers who I adored. Obviously I shouldn’t have cited Bach/Kahlo/Moore - asking for trouble - and would have done better to go for the 10,000 blues songs written around the same 12 bar chord structure. I’ve listened to most of them and will keep doing so. Because we love what we love.
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Janet and Hugh are both good sorts, and I'm sorry something had upset Hugh. I hope everything is OK.
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Me during Pride month: have a nice time, do your thing, enjoy equal rights, keep the noise down
Brands during Pride month: ANAL SEX! BUMMING! FUCKING EACH OTHER UP THE ARSE! AMIRITE? RIGHT LADS? YEAH. BUTTFUCKING! RIGHT UP THERE. LUBE IS IT? YEAH. ANAL! NICE ONE.
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Jun 8
Made a mistake lodging a strong opinion about the Hugh Laurie thing.
I had several interesting and nuanced responses from mutuals who both agree and disagree. All good, edifying stuff.
And now, here come the dickheads!
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Good. Let's talk about Marwan Barghouti.
Imprisoned for 25 years.
An inter-Parliamentary Union report found he was not given a fair trial.
Nelson Mandela: “What is happening to Barghouti is exactly the same as what happened to me."
Free Marwan.
freemarwan.org/
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