Martin Headon
@martinheadon.bsky.social
Tall thin colourful man working in advertising, living in Camberwell, and cycling in Kent. Labour moderate. Favourite phrase: "two things can be true at once", which I'm hoping I'll feel minded to deploy less often here than I do at The Other Place...
Also minor point, but if 45% of your group is over 35, and 10% are over 55, maybe you need to look for another name than "contrarian youth"?
November 13, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Also minor point, but if 45% of your group is over 35, and 10% are over 55, maybe you need to look for another name than "contrarian youth"?
If you see this post an album cover with a motor vehicle in it
November 8, 2025 at 10:35 PM
If you see this post an album cover with a motor vehicle in it
Gender fluidity famously has no connection with popular music.
November 8, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Gender fluidity famously has no connection with popular music.
A movie you've seen more than 7 times, as a GIF.
November 1, 2025 at 7:53 PM
A movie you've seen more than 7 times, as a GIF.
Animal Protection Index has a few thoughts on this.
November 1, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Animal Protection Index has a few thoughts on this.
I'm still struggling to figure out who this slogan is talking to?
I can't vote her out for years.
The only person who can axe her is Starmer.
And if she puts up tax it'll be at his instruction and with his support.
Is she trying to change his mind?
Make it make sense.
I can't vote her out for years.
The only person who can axe her is Starmer.
And if she puts up tax it'll be at his instruction and with his support.
Is she trying to change his mind?
Make it make sense.
October 30, 2025 at 7:32 PM
I'm still struggling to figure out who this slogan is talking to?
I can't vote her out for years.
The only person who can axe her is Starmer.
And if she puts up tax it'll be at his instruction and with his support.
Is she trying to change his mind?
Make it make sense.
I can't vote her out for years.
The only person who can axe her is Starmer.
And if she puts up tax it'll be at his instruction and with his support.
Is she trying to change his mind?
Make it make sense.
"Boyband Five" sounds like what a state-sponsored boyband might be called in some kind of dystopian future, after Boybands One to Four erred from their agreed messaging.
October 28, 2025 at 3:39 PM
"Boyband Five" sounds like what a state-sponsored boyband might be called in some kind of dystopian future, after Boybands One to Four erred from their agreed messaging.
Sad to report I missed out on the Ballon D’Or, too.
October 10, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Sad to report I missed out on the Ballon D’Or, too.
Seems a bit unfair on Victoria Coren Mitchell when it was clearly a failure of the scriptwriters / fact-checkers / production team.
October 4, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Seems a bit unfair on Victoria Coren Mitchell when it was clearly a failure of the scriptwriters / fact-checkers / production team.
Sorry but this is, and again sorry for using a technical writing term, rubbish.
September 30, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Sorry but this is, and again sorry for using a technical writing term, rubbish.
You'd have thought the bottom paragraph was the unfortunate young man's biggest mistake, but apparently not.
September 21, 2025 at 3:31 PM
You'd have thought the bottom paragraph was the unfortunate young man's biggest mistake, but apparently not.
Is James Esses being paid by the Wes 4 Leader campaign?
September 16, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Is James Esses being paid by the Wes 4 Leader campaign?
Well I guess that's fucking fine then, fucking thanks.
September 14, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Well I guess that's fucking fine then, fucking thanks.
Lemon *what*, sorry?
September 7, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Lemon *what*, sorry?
Thought for a second that the Guardian blind date WAS Nick Cave and Roberta Flack.
August 30, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Thought for a second that the Guardian blind date WAS Nick Cave and Roberta Flack.
Was it, by any chance, taken by a professional photographer at the match pointing their camera at the player and pressing the shutter several times as they were about to hit the ball?
August 28, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Was it, by any chance, taken by a professional photographer at the match pointing their camera at the player and pressing the shutter several times as they were about to hit the ball?
I thought long and hard about this intractable philosophical debate, and then someone told me what the "A" stood for.
August 26, 2025 at 7:55 AM
I thought long and hard about this intractable philosophical debate, and then someone told me what the "A" stood for.
The proscription of Palestine Action is almost certainly wrong and very certainly counter-productive. But also, this is pretty disingenuous from both arrestee and journalist, when the whole protest was literally about deliberately holding a sign that might well get you arrested.
August 9, 2025 at 1:31 PM
The proscription of Palestine Action is almost certainly wrong and very certainly counter-productive. But also, this is pretty disingenuous from both arrestee and journalist, when the whole protest was literally about deliberately holding a sign that might well get you arrested.
Yes.
(Plus if I was Labour I'm pretty sure I'd be happy to have landed a blow on Farage, and ignore what's mostly a bit of mildly disingenuous pearl-clutching when asked about it in a poll.)
(Plus if I was Labour I'm pretty sure I'd be happy to have landed a blow on Farage, and ignore what's mostly a bit of mildly disingenuous pearl-clutching when asked about it in a poll.)
August 5, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Yes.
(Plus if I was Labour I'm pretty sure I'd be happy to have landed a blow on Farage, and ignore what's mostly a bit of mildly disingenuous pearl-clutching when asked about it in a poll.)
(Plus if I was Labour I'm pretty sure I'd be happy to have landed a blow on Farage, and ignore what's mostly a bit of mildly disingenuous pearl-clutching when asked about it in a poll.)
Far be it for me to doubt the motivations of our ever-vigilant civil libertarians, but isn't it odd that 2 out of 2 examples of the alleged infringements of the Online Safety Act relate to their ability to whip up anti-immigrant sentiment?
July 29, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Far be it for me to doubt the motivations of our ever-vigilant civil libertarians, but isn't it odd that 2 out of 2 examples of the alleged infringements of the Online Safety Act relate to their ability to whip up anti-immigrant sentiment?
Is this good? Should we be encouraging more career-suicide bombings?
July 20, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Is this good? Should we be encouraging more career-suicide bombings?
It wouldn't. This is a stretch of your own imagination and is not even remotely hinted at in the terms of reference of the inquiry.
July 15, 2025 at 9:50 AM
It wouldn't. This is a stretch of your own imagination and is not even remotely hinted at in the terms of reference of the inquiry.
Guardian's resident Letby Truther scraping the bottom of the barrel here. But second-most read story on the site so I guess they let him carry on.
July 14, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Guardian's resident Letby Truther scraping the bottom of the barrel here. But second-most read story on the site so I guess they let him carry on.
You missed the K out, guys
July 10, 2025 at 6:00 PM
You missed the K out, guys
This also seems pretty mask off.
July 1, 2025 at 11:57 AM
This also seems pretty mask off.