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Jem Roberts, Author etc.
@jemroberts.bsky.social
Dad/folklorist/historian/comedian. Douglas Adams’ official biographer, among many things. Official chronicler for ISIHAC, Blackadder and Fry & Laurie.
@talesofbritain.bsky.social @fabfools.bsky.social
www.jemroberts.com www.talesofbritain.com
How execrable a human being – let alone a prime minister – do you have to be, for anyone sane to even imagine for one millisecond that this foul NHS-flogging thumb-faced piggy thug could be in any way preferable?
November 12, 2025 at 10:16 AM
They spout these obvious, provable lies so they can then say “Well if both sides think we’re biased we can’t be!” – Disingenuously ignoring the fact that one side is composed entirely of amoral, trolling, scheming pantomime villains.
November 12, 2025 at 9:54 AM
November 9, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Of coooourse she did. I'll have to DM her about her Dad's behaviour.
November 9, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Good, another reason to hate Lovecraft besides the fact that OLD DEAD OCTOPUS MONSTERS ARE NOT FRIGGING SCARY.
November 8, 2025 at 2:59 PM
RIP Pauline Collins, a corking Bobbie Wickham.
November 6, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Previous Tory governments leaked wrongly released prisoners on an almost weekly basis – but sure, put pressure on genocidal war criminal David Lammy because of a few prison errors.
November 6, 2025 at 10:17 AM
I suppose three attempts at a live action Fungus the Bogeyman might be a bit much.
November 6, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Is this an epitaph, or a message unemployed creatives send to those still clinging on to their media jobs, for now?
November 4, 2025 at 10:56 AM
For over a year now, I have owned the international (non-UK/Aus/NZ) rights to all my books, yet I can't seem to find a single American/German/French/Italian publisher who wants to publish the last and greatest 100% Official Douglas Adams biography…
November 3, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Happy Samhain/Hallowe’en/Friday! 🎃
October 31, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Now, there's a real Queen to mourn. RIP Prunella Scales.
October 28, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Is Claudius talking about Sejanus here, or did the Sybil give him a 2,000 year premonition of the evil horror of Nigel Farage?
October 26, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Just imagine thinking this Louis Theroux non-story reflects badly on anyone except the child-murder-promoting demons at British Airways, though.
October 26, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Kathy Staff has been reincarnated as the new Labour Deputy!

That's great news, I really did miss Kathy Staff, she was great.

I'm not voting Labour, though. I have both a heart and brain.
October 26, 2025 at 8:54 AM
They knew what to do with Nigel Farages back in the '40s. Why have we devolved so badly as a nation?
October 24, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Philip Pullman's Northern Lights finale spoilers:

IT WAS ALL A DREAM!!!

(and God smells)
October 23, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Finally finished Ben Elton’s memoir. Superlative title aside, he’s right about Stewart Lee only just qualifying to lick his boots, and the Brian Blessed/Keanu Reeves is at once both everything and nothing. Recommended.
October 20, 2025 at 10:22 AM
The BBC 'leans to the right' in much the same way that Paris 'leans to France'.
October 18, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Violence comes from the Left in the same way that tomato juice comes from an orange.

If violence really did come from the Left this world could be a Utopia.
October 14, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Why have they made a prequel to Ben Elton's 'All Is True' and not got Ben Elton to write it? Seems a bit rude. 'Hamnet', apparently.
October 13, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Neil Innes has shown up in this 40-year-old colouring book I never bothered to do much with.
October 11, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Was this written by AI? #kebabisfuel #eattolive
October 11, 2025 at 3:24 PM
When you’re limping through a valley of shit, sometimes a puddle of vomit can look like a birthday cake.
October 11, 2025 at 10:44 AM
I wish the world would just return to some vague semblance of dull stability and sustainability, so I can redivert my energy into less essential things, like campaigning to bring back flavoured Twiglets. Especially Curry flavour, whose memory doesn't even survive as a small jpeg of the packet.
October 10, 2025 at 10:42 AM