Simon Kane

This is so crap and so predictable.

I love WHSmith and shops like it. It's not just nostalgia; shops like that are a reason to go into town and be part of your community at the weekend. My high street is dying as everything is ordered online now. Town is increasingly beauty salons & charity shops.

Jesus. Another boarded up unit. This is all so fucking wasteful. Running everything for the benefit of speculation rather than commerce is so destabilising. All the pointless destruction of stuff that made things feel normal, even the dull shit. The knock-ons always unforeseen, chaotic.

Simon Kane: Theme Parks vs Immersive Theatre: Which Is More Honest? YouTube video by Ben Yeoh Chats

My god, what have I done... I did enjoy talking to Ben Yeoh about Shakespeare, Shunt, the documentary on Punchdrunk I'd caught the night before, and mainly me, me, me. Thanks for having me on, Ben! youtu.be/YwdlBltbTnY?...

Anti-vaxers are the actual pits. This needn’t happen, and is caused by them and them alone. No excuse to not vaccinate your children for the sake of a healthier society.

What the Palestine Action judgment means – and what it does not mean 13th February 2026 The High Court rules against the government, but not with enthusiasm * This morning the High Court handed down its judgment in the Palestine Action proscription challenge. I wrot…

"it meant if an organisation was proscribed for one purpose... it also criminalised expression of support too."
I wonder if MPs who voted to proscribe PA were actually aware of this. @stellacreasy.bsky.social, for example? (Not a pile-on. Genuinely curious.)
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Keir Starmer's Brutal Treatment of Andy Burnham Has Destroyed All Illusions About His Premiership The true motivations of this Prime Minister can now be seen by all, argues Labour MP Clive Lewis

Damning piece from Labour MP @labourlewis.bsky.social about what the Andy Burnham saga has revealed about Keir Starmer

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An excellent cartoon horse with great hair and a huge dong - flanked my many smaller creature

I hosted a quiz tonight where I threw in a bonus ‘draw
me a Goddamn horse’ round. The results were enchanting 🧵

You
voted...
Jesus, I give up. You know what you voted for.

Text: “A friend said those of us who live in Minneapolis should write about what's going on here for folks who live elsewhere. You need to know that whether you're a Republican, Independent or Democrat, the Constitution is being violated by our federal government. This is not about catching criminals, or even deporting people. It is about punishing an entire state, including citizens, for not supporting the president. Everyone in my part of Minneapolis is affected. On our streets, ICE is stopping people of color and demanding their papers. In America. US citizens do not have to prove citizenship to ICE. Yet people are being intimidated, some cases beaten up and detained, for requiring ICE to follow the law. ICE needs a judicial warrant to enter homes. Yet there are documented cases of them ignoring the law - violating a bedrock constitutional principle. Americans of color are staying home, afraid to go to work, school, to grocery shop, or fill their cars with gas. This isn't just "illegals" or immigrants with valid work permits, it is citizens who have had their cars rammed by ICE for merely looking Hispanic. Businesses are closing. Schools are 50 percent full. When they are open, fascists are calling in bomb threats because the president decided to make us a meme. After a daycare teacher with a valid work permit (through 2030) was snatched from her workplace, parents (and grandparents) have had to organize to watch their SCHOOLS, to make sure conditional rights are observed. This is being repeated throughout Minnesota. Imagine trying to do your job or live you life while also taking volunteer shifts to make sure the federal government doesn't act extrajudicially. Because of ICE's documented abuses, neighbors have organized to monitor federal actions. This observation is legal, as long as it doesn't interfere with a valid action. Yet since ICE killed Renee Good, they are increasingly stopping this observation, breaking car windows and …”

People not in Minnesota: please read this excellent summary of what life is like in Minneapolis since the murderous scum ICE swarmed here. And more are on their way. By local reporter / writer / bike dude / legend @dbrauer.net .

As a Trusted News Source... "WORK FOR A KING NOT A CLOWN"    Iranian artist Soheila Sohjkanvari's "Leave to Remain" features a number of old passports stamped with inc...

NOO BLOG in which I catch an Embassy changing its flag – Unattended Articles: As a Trusted News Source... slepkane.blogspot.com/2026/01/blog...

Procrastination Exercise 06-01-26 Stop editing things, Simon! Sorry, me. But sometimes there's an itch you have to scratch, and sometimes that itch is wanting to see Lucky f...

Unattended Articles: Procrastination Exercise 06-01-26 (Look I just really wanted to see Lucky perform Yvan's speech form Art, OKAY?) slepkane.blogspot.com/2026/01/proc...

Pinocchio Restored! "How do you feel?" "Squidgy." "You get used to it."     Towards the end of 2022 I wrote about a few PINOCCHIO adaptations I... hadn't got ...

Unattended Articles: Pinocchio Restored! In which I see a brilliant Pinocchio and edit some mass murder from an interesting Pinocchio. slepkane.blogspot.com/2026/01/pino...

Thank you all! Clearing cookies worked! I always forget about that

Thank you all! Clearing cookies worked!

Can anyone help with this? For a week now, Outlook's not opening on my laptop. Anyone else suffering this? (it's not an app)

If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free.

consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov

Serious thing for folks to consider is, particularly for marginalized people, Grudges Are Self-Defense. What you may be interpreting as pettiness is probably closer aligned to "You have demonstrated you're not to be trusted." And knowing who REALLY has your back is more important that ever.

Ken Russell's Crabs on the Teasmade "This is the record of our second expedition to the site of Britain. It was a grim undertaking. But we had to go, otherwise all the members ...

NOO BLOG. Self explanatory really.
Unattended Articles: Ken Russell's Crabs on the Teasmade slepkane.blogspot.com/2026/01/ken-...

Flash Quotes Sure, another reason I haven't blogged so much might simply be procrastination. I didn't write much about Edinburgh, but since this year b...

NOO BLOG. Because this year I went to Edinburgh. Unattended Articles: Flash Quotes slepkane.blogspot.com/2025/12/flas... and here's to a surmountable 2026 x

RIP 2025

2025-2025

Helpings It occured to me yesterday, happily and suddenly, that my lack of engagement with the blog might not, in fact, be incontertible evidence of...

NOO BLOG! Unattended Articles: Helpings – as in "Mitchell And Webb Are Not..." But they so have. slepkane.blogspot.com/2025/12/in-r...

Dancer at Oskar Schlemmer’s Triadic Ballet, Weimar Germany, 1926. Looking quite fabulous.

The Annuals Yes, MERRY CMRIJNNAJ! By the way, I used to be crazy about Rodney Matthews , bringing my copy of "In Search Of Forever" into Art GSCE and...

NOO BLOG, in which I claim among other things that it's still December the Twenty-Seventh... Unattended Articles: The Annuals slepkane.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...

God Help Ye, Merry Gentlemen: Little and Large at Christmas YouTube video by Stuart Millard

2025's final video is now available for all.

God Help Ye, Merry Gentlemen, it's Little and Large at Christmas.

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I mean jfc CNN just *sat down and interviewed* a group of Christian nationalist leaders who want to repeal women’s right to vote! open.substack.com/pub/jessica/...

Nigel Farage schooldays letter reveals concerns over fascism Channel 4 News obtains a letter about Ukip leader Nigel Farage, from his days as a schoolboy, in which teachers are quoted as accusing him of being "racist" and "fascist".

Farage in 2013 admitting what he now says are smears in 2025
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Rich people are such miserable fucks nowadays that we’re halfway in a recession and I don’t think poor people are even jealous of their lifestyle

Now that this data is available, it must - surely - be possible to simulate building shadow positions in real time and so deliver on my great app idea.

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This is my favourite of all putdowns ever.

"Punch is a Opera. A 'Uproar' We Calls It." (in which I sort of get Punch and Judy) Presenting Percy Press' last stand, and some early hell from the Brothers Quay.  Now this is a find. Punch and Judy: Tragical Comedy ...

Happy to see this grotesquery reappear in the popular posts blog bar. Is Punch & Judy Christmasssy? Anyway, it now includes an already dated update on the Tarantino Dano foolishness – Unattended Articles: "Punch is a Opera. A 'Uproar' We Calls It." slepkane.blogspot.com/2020/03/punc...