every British political journalist is only capable of discussing politics in the context of Westminster gossip and whether things are good or bad for politicians and their careers specifically.
This is why it’s good that Lewis Goodall is there to show you why it’s better they don’t discuss ideas.
The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again just a terrific title for a novel
unfortunately I have to announce that David Runciman’s been writing about the “alt-left abandoning biology” in the London Review of Books after previously swearing off entering the trans debate
no other country could produce Robbie Williams
despite my ambivalence towards them there’s no country better at the laddy singalong than the English.
Farage talking about taking a chainsaw to spending in the councils they’ve won is funny. Good luck even finding the money to buy that chainsaw you speak of.
gentrification levels in central Manchester: just watched the pigeons nibbling on some sushi
john ganz thinks the white lotus is evil but that it’s gauche to take a position on israel’s genocide of palestinians
concerned about the damage Microsoft is doing to language when it describes its own “designer” function on PowerPoint as capable of creating “beautiful” slides
saluting everyone I see in the pub at lunchtime on Blue Monday
not long after the news I was driving down a spooky country road that put me right in the mood of Lost Highway. he was really a one of a kind visual filmmaker.
we go again 2026
*struck down by an illness at the beginning of January* well, it’s time to abandon literally every resolution I made for 2025
I love when Vic Mackey goes undercover in The Shield. no one on planet earth dresses and looks more like a cop.
I have never had a meal deal
just had one of those moments where a declarative statement walked its way into my brain that I simply have to post
the signals I am sending on my Goodreads “to read” list
i saw the peepee grow
I’ve been repeatedly watching the Trump/ Biden Chinese AI song and really holding space with that
There Will Be Blood, now there’s a movie title
what a pleasure it is to just say the words “Metaphor: ReFantazio”
would love to own a house just to have the opportunity to power wash my driveway 😢
whoooo remembers your man in the teletech t shirt front and centre at the hartlepool riots
never acknowledged or condemned
computers turn on so quickly these days
when did everyone start prefacing their replies with “I mean,”? it comes across as very pompous
I think it’s the same people who describe things as unserious
buying additional leave so I can “finally catch up on the London Review of Books”
women don’t understand being a summoned entity created by the hymn of the fayth
You mean within two clicks I can find the person who dismissed Lanark as “of its time” has wall to wall five star reviews of YA? I can’t wait to hate read this every time I log a new book
