If I was putting out a video denying criminal behaviour, I would do as many takes as it took to make sure there didn’t have to be an obvious edit before the word “consensual”.
Hi! I’m an American on Twitter, and I’m going to make a definitive statement about another country’s cuisine by comparing all the restaurants I know in America with all the places I saw during a ninety minute stopover at Charles de Gaulle airport. And no, I will NOT back down.
I’ve just put a thousand pounds on Boris Johnson using the phrase “the biggest stitch-up since the Bayeux Tapestry” in his first column. If I’m right, I stand to win £1,002.
“After he criticised Boris Johnson for doing 70mph through a school playground, the Mail can exclusively reveal that Sir Kier Starmer was seen doing 70mph on the M6.”
The Mail says Keir Starmer "flouted lockdown guidance" at the start of September 2020, by being given a birthday cake.
The UK wasn't in lockdown at the start of September 2020.
You lefties might not like it, but this is absolute peak debating performance.
1. Claim Gary Lineker wouldn’t criticise Qatar.
2. When presented with a clip of Lineker criticising Qatar on national TV, claim it has “nothing to do” with your point.
“We called him Paedo Steve because he used to say ‘I have images of child sex offences if anyone wants to see them’ but we always thought he was joking” - the people who we pay to solve crimes.
@5tevieM
When we emptied our parents’ house we talked about how we had to be unsentimental because we couldn’t possibly keep much. Then we talked into the garage, my sister picked up an old teapot stand, and I said “not Betsy the Teapot Stand!!”.
Honestly, the way Boris Johnson has been treated by his own party is such a disgrace that, if any Conservative MPs had any honour, they'd all resign immediately and force by-elections in every single Conservative-held seat.
Doctors is less of a programme, more of a training scheme that happens to get televised. And the fact is that writers, actors and crew can only improve at writing, acting and crewing if they are given the chance to actually do it, so I’m interested to see how the BBC replaces it.
Nadhim Zahawi, bashing out an op-Ed about why speeding tickets should be abolished from a lay-by on the M4, as the policeman who stopped him patiently waits with the breathalyser.
Some ~personal news~: after seven years as the Impartial Observer-In-Chief at The Neutral News Outlet Which Just Reports The Facts, I’m going to join the Foundation For Smashing Lefties as their Trotbasher General. Thanks for all the memories guys, and don’t worry - I’ll be back!
Prince Charles got into Cambridge with a B in history and a C in French. He left with a 2:2 in history. But, sure, Oxbridge has always been about recruiting the brightest kids who contribute to its academic standing.
While we’re all talking about whether Stanley Johnson, having allegedly broken his wife’s nose, should be given a knighthood, I think it’s also worth remembering that Boris Johnson has nominated someone who punched his own mum for a knighthood.
Managers who can’t tell if their employees’ work is getting done if they’re not there to see it remind me of babies who think their soft toy has disappeared because it’s behind them.
You know how comedians have their little gangs, who all appear on each other’s gigs/podcasts/tv/radio? Well, do *they* know which one of them is the weak link who’s gotten a bit lucky, or is that something we can only see from the outside?
I hope Russia offers a reward for stopping Prigozhin, because I’m a sub-editor at a British tabloid newspaper and I have a “BOUNTY ON THE MUTINY” headline ready to go.
Now the government has picked fights with Gary Lineker and David Attenborough, they should really cement their popularity and go after Martin Lewis and Your Mum.
I was told the National Comedy Awards had a podcast category but not a radio category (or even a combined audio category) because “Radio was seen as being not very diverse”. So congratulations to the nominees!
@BeeBabs
What I love about this sort of thing is that I will never, ever wonder if similar mistakes are being made in cities I don’t know. Driving from the Hollywood sign to the Golden Gate Bridge in half an hour? Sure, sounds about right!
It’s not the cowardice of standing down that gets me, because of course Parliament is better off without these people, but you just *know* they’ll be in the Telegraph every week explaining what everyone else is doing wrong.
If David Beckham wants to take millions of pounds from a brutal theocracy that criminalises being gay, he can sign for Manchester City like everyone else.
I agree that rich people should pay extra to use the NHS. Not at the point of use, obviously; that would be cruel. And even a post-hoc billing system wouldn’t quite work (eg if their income was reduced). So how about we just take a little bit more out of their income every month?
It could be that the taste of food is simply a matter of preference reinforced by centuries of culture, history, migration, trade, economics and genetics, or it could be that Italians are too stupid to have heard about paprika. It’s definitely one or the other.
This is a really good piece by
@PrivateEyeNews
about the newspapers who fail to mention the fact that they’ve employed sexual predators in their reporting on sexual predators. I hope the Eye look into any other newspapers, unnamed here, that do this!
Misha, a non-verbal teen with Down’s Syndrome, didn’t understand why his family had to flee Mariupol this year.
To placate him, his mother told him they were travelling to meet John Cena.
Cena heard… and went to Amsterdam to oblige.
Just brilliant.
I used to shred my favourite books and soak them in hot water, creating a drink that would make me hallucinate the plot and characters. But the novel tea soon wore off.
@drjennings
Once you’ve convinced yourself that the WEF are attempting a “great reset” then “there should be schools near where people live” becomes “WE WILL TELL YOU HOW TO LIVE”. Basically, a large section of middle-aged conservatives went absolutely fucking tonto during the pandemic.
The next podcast I launch will be called Two Comedians You’ve Already Heard Of Have An Unstructured Chat, Maybe With A Famous Guest, because as much as I like producing actual comedy, that’s where the money is.
Just reported Woody Guthrie’s Twitter account. Hopefully he’ll have to get a new sticker, maybe saying THIS MACHINE RESPECTFULLY DEBATES FASCISTS, before he’s allowed back.
If I were Keir Starmer I’d announce that no MP will be allowed a second job, with exemptions for emergencies (eg doctors). Let’s see how many MPs “decide the time is right to step away from politics”.
If you’re not using ChatGPT4 to supercharge your passive income, you’re leaving thousand-dollar bills on the sidewalk. Here are a few key tricks to boost your earnings! 🧵
The new provost of
@Eton_College
in today’s
@Telegraph
He says most of his friends are Old Etonians - and if he meets somebody who did not go there “I do admit…that it counts against them slightly.”
Was there not a candidate with a more open mind?
Just think; a British Prime Minister, elected with a stonking majority, forced out of office and then parliament just because he lied and lied and lied and lied and lied and lied and lied and lied and lied and lied and lied and lied and lied and lied and lied.
Call that justice?
Look, I understand disrupting major events such as the Test and Wimbledon, but a wedding? A private wedding? That’s going too far, in my opinion. As was, coincidentally, disrupting the Test and Wimbledon and, in fact, every single protest that has ever happened.
Someone should do a police drama about a cop on the edge who blurs the lines of what’s allowed and what’s not in order to crack the case and, as a consequence, absolutely fucks it and has to be disciplined and the criminal is free to re-offend.
If Elon only wants employees who 100% buy into his “vision” and will work whatever hours it takes to achieve that, he should simply hire his reply guys.
At the next general election Iain will be going door-to-door to explain to people under 30 that their lives are actually good (by the standards of people in 1918 or 1945), and as a result I expect the Tories to win a majority of around 50.
@Samfr
Both world wars were far worse - in UK financial terms, and human cost - than this. Financial crisis long tail then a pandemic have certainly had a terrible effect. But if we're evaluating history, calling the UK "a steaming wreck" is Inbetweeners or NYT level of analysis, no?
Zahawi came from Iraq with “nothing” at the age of 11, which makes it especially impressive that he attended the £23k/pa Ibstock Place school and then the £24k/pa Kings College School in Wimbledon. What an entrepreneur he must be!
Can’t get over this. James Not So Cleverly not answering the question and basically saying that because Nadhim Zahawi escaped a regime and built a business in the UK from scratch, that excuses his tax dodging? Says it all really.
#NadhimZahawi
Hey, remember when Westminster Council ordered the owners of the Carlton Pub in Maida Vale to rebuild it "brick by brick" after they attempted to circumvent planning permission by beginning demolition days before it got made Grade II?
@brokenbottleboy
When someone accused REM of “selling out” with Losing My Religion, Peter Buck said “yeah, we cynically released a song on the mandolin, without a chorus, to get in the charts”.
The BBC was founded on the 18th October 1922, and its first broadcast was 100 years ago today. That twenty-seven day gap remains the fastest anything has ever been commissioned.
Politics can bring out the worst in people; just because you disagree with someone’s politics doesn’t mean you can’t be polite. So, in that spirit - and even though I’m in no way a fan - I’d just like to say congratulations to Carrie Johnson and whoever the father of this one is.
Elon Musk buying Twitter is like the QAnon people getting into government; they think there's a secret back room where all the big, secret decisions are made, and if they get in there they can change the system. But there isn't a secret room, just a total perspective vortex.
It’s a good job we got all that caring about gay rights out of the way early doors, as it really frees us up to enjoy the final stages of the World Cup.
"Why would you seek advice from a policeman or a lawyer as to whether the armed gathering in the post office was in accordance with the guidelines, when Big Scoggs and Manky Pete who, may I remind you, were actually there at the time, had already assured me that it was ."
I for one am curious about the Conservatives putting out ads saying “we did Brexit! It was us, it was all us!” given the recent polling on this issue. But I suppose it’s that or the economy.