Um, I liked you before you were, like, famous, yeah?

Happy birthday old chap 🙂

Heh. Capitalism will always find its way to your hypothalamus.

I was obsessed with Morrissey for a bit, but Hitler nah.

I was obsessed with Morrissey at that age. Hitler some way down the list.

& they reject arts & humanities because those are concerned with feelings, imagination and human relations, and therefore "soft".

Standard grumpy-old-man-in-the-pub talking point. It speaks to the philistinism of the conservative mind. They genuinely can't understand why anyone would want to study Art History.

The Left always fractures because we have principles we won't abandon. The Right always finds it easy to form alliances because they have no principles beyond greed, spite and fear of change, which are pretty universal 🙂

I remember that 70s fly-on-the-wall documentary about the police, in which they aggressively humiliate a woman who says she's been raped. The 70s. All sideburns and misogyny.

Imagine a staffer scrolling through all the fonts in Word looking for that one.

The Rapist Formerly Known As Prince

But they're not smooth-brained flag-wanking cardiopulmonary catastrophes. They're ordinary folk with gEnuiNe conSernZ. I saw it on the BBC.

Most Northerrn rider ever:

"1 can beans. Must be Heinz"

Schrodinger's Jew:

1. Refuses to be conflated with Israel because that's antisemitic.

2. Conflates himself with Israel to claim that opposing Israel is antisemitic.

How in the name of God did they manage to shoehorn "existential threat to Jews" in there...

Radiohead would use that as the central metaphor of a whole album.

His favourite joke style is to set up a sympathetic situation then puncture it with a cruel punchline. The woman gets raped, the child gets abused, the orphan goes hungry. & we all laugh. There's nothing subversive about his act - it's inherently conservative. I'm sure it goes down well in Riyadh.

Yup - his stage persona is the perfect poster boy for the ruling class served by the broadcast media. Sharp-suited, amoral, nihilistic. Nothing matters, everything is for the lulz. They don't just tolerate him, they made him.