Simon Alvey

I don't see John McDonnell tbh, he hasn't gone yet - to Your Party actually led by his mate, why would he go to The Greens

The Generation Game — How Clerkenwell’s Sutton Arms Became the Quintessential London Pub — Pellicle The door at the Sutton Arms swings open and six Americans come bounding in like cocker spaniels just off the leash. After securing a table in the corner, they send emissaries to the bar. Lunchtime foo...

For years now my quiz team has had the good fortune to call this lovely London boozer our home - and this article nails why I feel so affectionate towards it
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Maybe FBPE stands for Follow Back Pro Euthanasia (of squirrels)

I find not caring is pretty effective, tbh it's worked for me about almost every British symbol for about 38 years at this point

I have come to expect this sort of nonsense from the Tories but to see it from the Lib Dems is disappointing (although maybe it is Jo Swinson's squirrel murdering coming through again)

Badenoch Vs Miliband - her fighting the owls, him giving them out

Compromise: keep Churchill on the notes but it's the dog version from the advert

"Ah this is some new meaning of the word safe I wasn't previously aware of"

I use this, substituting safe for other words, all the time

Richard III in the summer of 1485

No, horrible, not having that - I remember the days of Sky News on in the office watching a door waiting for him to be born

However this serious, terrified tone only adds to an impression of a party with no sense of humour and inability to have fun, contrasting with Trump's cruel but effective ability to make jokes - because for him the stakes are really low, whilst for Democrats they couldn't be higher

It is understandable, the story we are told is that Obama's joke at Trump's expense (actually a far classier reaction than his pushing of the racist birther myth deserved) is what pushed him to run for President and how we find ourselves here

I was listening to the superb Decemberists album Picaresque on my commute this morning (an aging hipster,me?) and reflecting on their song 16 Military Wives, which hides its anger at the Iraq war with wit. Something that American liberals have lost the ability to do

I see his boss has told him what to do next

I regret booking a supermarket delivery between 9 and 10

I don't know, Netanyahu knows this is his one chance, and he loves to watch Muslims die

For some reason this made me think about the nightmare of Elon on Desert Island Discs

Just think about the opportunity cost of having meaningful relationships with other people though?

I really hope it does

A) congratulations b) where did they take your picture?

Strong sense that I'm not going to have a foreign holiday this year...

Oh no, my Dad is going to be insufferable

Defect to Reform

love how we killed the old, frail anti-nuke ayatollah just to have him replaced with his young, healthy son who wants nukes and who just had his father, mother, wife, and child murdered on the same day by his mortal enemy. surely this will bring peace to the region

And with a very snazzy scarf

want to follow the news but can't bear thinking about ordinary Iranians, who've been stuck under such an oppressive regime for so long, who maybe got a flicker of hope, briefly, a few months ago, then watched in horror as their friends and relatives got killed by the state, and now this, unspeakable

This is basically why I hope Arsenal win the league, even doing so grindingly because at least they aren't a state entity

There's the very exciting game between Chelsea and Wrexham but the true spirit of English football is the Saudi Vs Abu Dhabi state-off happening on Tyneside

No one is going to mourn Ian Huntley, as no one mourned Ian Watkins - but that he was murdered in his cell is damning for the state of prison security

I'm reading a book about the Hunger strikers written in 1986 that clearly implies it as qell