keewa 🇵🇸 Joe Lycett has made us look like dipshits because he thinks our industry sucks, but he doesn't realise why we are dipshits: It's because our industry sucks. -My piece in the new statesman

Have you noticed how the rod stewart looking plumbing tycoon guy is back on the BBC after saying 'someone should kill him' about Sadiq Khan. But we're all very concerned with politician's safety. It's the most important thing.

I am always grateful when people who do not live in fear of the U.K.’s libel laws say something I consider to be true but inadvisable for me to comment on, particularly with regard to the topic of transphobia and its most fervent spokespeople.

re rachel riley i’m just reminded of how many people were losing work, livelihoods, being ostracised for publicly expressing opinions as rational and irrefutable as, “actually i think it’s bad israel are bombing civilians” six months ago

In the final years of South African Apartheid, the white government decided it must 1) overthrow the government of Angola 2) install a puppet regime in Namibia 3) attack Zimbabwe 4) attack Botswana 5) attack Zambia in order to survive. This did not work

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I'll tell you what I think about Stop The War. They get some things wrong, but they take war seriously as the dreadful human disaster that it is, rather than as a backdrop for stupid and tedious jibes by the most boorish and bullying people in politics.

Watching an old Star Trek episode in which they leave a historian on a planet and come back and he's immediately turned it into a facsimile of Nazi Germany and I'm like yes I recognise this type of guy.

Any time anyone criticises the foreign policy consensus, no matter how badly they have fucked it, the response is just 'you just love The Baddies you do'. Are we not tired of this? Have we not had enough of this childishness?

Millions of us have been calling for a ceasefire to stop the loss of life and prevent a wider conflict.

Political leaders have chosen to ignore us — and their failure to facilitate de-escalation has endangered everyone.

The world is in a truly perilous state. It’s time to…

You ever think about how we're told that Iran are a bunch of frothing religious zealots who can barely hold back from starting a world destroying war but we keep relying on them showing restraint when the US or Israel provokes them for no reason.

Seeing a high profile violent attack or crime and then immediately without evidence ascribing it to a minority that you hate is pretty much the textbook definition of bigotry. I think we should be clear about this. It's no small thing.

Have you noticed that ever since the sensible grown ups got back in charge they keep nearly starting WW3? Anyway thank goodness those dangerous cranks aren't in charge instead.

Really can’t fathom why this story is so little well known or discussed in this country - it’s very revealing about how the security state works

You're looking at German police officers arresting Jewish citizens for opposing genocide.

Yes, think we can all agree this is definitely washing away German's obscene historic sins.

I thought the Fallout TV series was pretty good!
Huge L for the folks who are like 'this series is getting less political'.

It must be quite disorientating to be able to see media bias, but have no explanation for it happening at all. Because of course any meaningful analysis of media. Well that’s hard left conspiracy theories.

I think the idea it’s imperative to Get The Tories Out at this election, but the last one was a free hit where everyone could indulge themselves, is a pretty major insult to the public’s intelligence.