A final and typically selfless act to be among the people to share in the miracle of eternal life Réquiem æternam dona ei, Dómine

Following the death of Pope Francis, at this most sensitive of times for the Catholic religion, please pray for the soul of Dave Allen, who couldn't be here to do his best material.

“Well, seeing as I’m here already…”

But surely vibes trump the rule of law? That's what we're being told anyway...

I’m sorry the Holy Father never got to publish his widely anticipated encyclical Ite Ad Taberna

Freestyle Chess is a somewhat self-indulgent pastime for the world's elite players and a money-making promotion for a chess website with a very aggressive business model that offers an instantly forgettable experience to grassroots players of the proper game...

And so said every football club owner right before they sacked the manager...

Paul Nuttall is clearly advising Farage on how to do the Walter Mitty thing...

He never met him though (being in the same room doesn't really count), so perhaps he should have taken more time to consider what to type. Walter fucking Mitty 🙄

Definitely a job for the police and if all else fails, a good kick in the nuts should do the trick...

We've started to address the "men can be women" insanity finally. I realise that the pronoun insanity can't be resolved by litigation in the same way as it's a cultural/generational thing, but can we have some pushback over that daftness as well now? 🤨

What an absolute ghoul...

All about the vibes still then...

One suspects that it's because he was slightly more liberal (comparatively speaking) than previous Popes rather than anything to do with hating Catholics.

It's interesting to recall how daring this seemed at the time. Even writing *about* it felt like something liable to get me cancelled & I didn't risk offering it to anyone to publish. web.archive.org/web/2015110107…

With the bible verse famously being "Be a a horrible bastard to your neighbour, but love thyself" (Matthew 15:10 or something)

Crucial point by Michael Foran here. The Supreme Court has now explicitly dismissed the contention that, once a single sex facility is provided, the provider must case-by-case assess each instance a trans person seeks entry. A real world example… 🧵 x.com/michaelpforan/…

Unconfirmed atm but hearing the new pope will very likely be catholic. It’s worked for the Vatican in the past and theres a certain ‘if it ain’t broke’ attitude in their thinking on this one. Will be interesting to see either way.

One can agree with this while quite reasonably pointing out that Badenoch used it as a wedge issue at the expense of pretty much every other strand to equalities for which she was responsible. This shouldn't be overlooked, but it's usually a casualty of this whole insane period.

Of course...for him to understand this would require him to be able to work collectively for the national good rather than his own personal self-gratification. The former just isn't in his nature, in fact it's anathema to him.