You need to not hold back on your opinions so much Joe π ππ
You need to not hold back on your opinions so much Joe π ππ
I like Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal. I also like cats.
The constant need for journalists to ask dumb questions to bored celebs still promoting their latest gig got old long ago.
Oh for the days where we knew bugger all about these people and their opinions π
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I don't know how true this is but I read the other day that there are only two countries in the world where representatives of the state religion automatically get seats in Parliament.
One is Iran, the other is the UK.
In his interview with Sayeeda Warsi, Nick Robinson said: "he gives an example of where in another area, the debate about trans rights, you end up with police arresting a man at an airport for allegedly being anti-trans, something I think almost no one defends now." Robinson was referring back to comments made by Jonathan Hall KC ("do you remember the non-crime hate incidents, the arrest of Graham Linehan.") As the BBC's own reporting (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c07p7v2nn8mo) makes clear Linehan was arrested "on suspicion of inciting violence" for a tweet which read "If a trans-identified male is in a female-only space, he is committing a violent, abusive act. Make a scene, call the cops and if all else fails, punch him in the balls" and he went on to add "I hate them. Misogynists and homophobes. Fuck em.β Both Nick Robinson's description of the reason for Linehan's arrest ; and his description of Linehan's attitude towards trans people, are grossly inaccurate. Linehan was arrested on suspicion of inviting violence and he could hardly have been more explicit about how he feels about trans people.
I've made a further complaint to the BBC about the hideously bigoted - and inaccurate - Radio 4 Today programme.
I wonder if the NHS realises that delays in diagnoses result in higher costs longer term or whether the system is so complexly fucked that thereβs nothing they can do about it.
A promo quote for Her Name Is Alice βA mother-daughter love story about fighting a world stacked against you. Brilliant and super relevant.β INDIA WILLOUGHBY
Paperback out today.
Just in time for Motherβs day.
Not all mothers want chocolates or hand lotion. Mothers are more than lavender soap and talc. More than sauvignon blanc and flowers.
And some need a kick up the backside.
Go on. You know you want to.
www.carolinelitman.com/her-name-is-...
I thought it was the proper lastβ¦ Iβve just had a read and thereβs no Christmas special but thereβll be a movie then other series sometime next year but in a changed setting in the East End.
Prequels aside, I didnβt realise that was the last Call the Midwife?! π
On Friday, I was chatting to someone I've known at work for 18 years and she's lovely, yet still when I mentioned my partner, I instinctively looked for a sign of disapproval on her face.
It's an odd feeling that's almost impossible to prevent.
The reason the middle-class media has not reported Hannah Spencer being attacked by right-wing transphobes is that it needs to preserve the nice, coffeee-round-the-kitchen-table, middle-class view of transphobia, not the thuggish fascist reality.
This is where 'they' comes in handy.
It's so easy not to be a dick and you're right, we shouldn't have to keep correcting people's assumptions.
Aside from being a drag, straight people don't understand the subtle fear that comes whenever we out ourselves.
Ashley not being able to hold it together here is so good π
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Thatβs one I could only watch once. I canβt watch much horror, esp that kind.
I heard Scream 7 was panned, and very controversial outside the movie
Thisβll be before your time but I went to see βSe7enβ at some multiplex in Watford when it came out. Worst cinema experience ever. Teenagers a couple rows in front smoking, getting up, talking, the lot.
Ofc π
The names were always the best bit πππ
Kenneth Williams as The Khasi π
Quiet birthdays can be the best as long as youβre doing what you want π
Funny how anti-trans berks are fond of using βbeardβ in the pejorative when that knob in the sandwich board has the biggest beard going π¬
I donβt know which cinema you want to but we avoid the Odeonβs and the multiplexes.
Picturehouses and art house cinemas attract cinephiles and old people like me who arenβt about titting around π
People like Linehan love stuff like this. The attention alone is gold dust but attention that feeds into his victim/persecution complex is next level.
Poor Helen was never off the phone π¬
Rome was so good! Dear Ray Stevenson there and Kevin from Greyβs.
So violent (and sexy) but I guess it had to be π
Name a tv show with 2 or less seasons.
Mile High (2003-2005)
Brilliant! π
Got thoseβ¦ plus a few others π