Roger McCarthy
@rogermccarthy.bsky.social
'Prince, I can hear the trumpet of Germinal,
The tumbrils toiling up the terrible way;
Even to-day your royal head may fall,
I think I will not hang myself to-day'.
(Chesterton)
The tumbrils toiling up the terrible way;
Even to-day your royal head may fall,
I think I will not hang myself to-day'.
(Chesterton)
Someone was just saying that UK 'Labour' are The Pathetic Sharks from Viz magazine but the Democrats are now taking their pathetic sharkery to Mariana Trench depths...
November 10, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Someone was just saying that UK 'Labour' are The Pathetic Sharks from Viz magazine but the Democrats are now taking their pathetic sharkery to Mariana Trench depths...
'When DID reading become so performative?'
November 10, 2025 at 4:14 PM
'When DID reading become so performative?'
Oh my God that's perfect!
November 7, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Oh my God that's perfect!
Nothing much because they have so fully embraced Arendt's graduation of cynicism expressed in a hierarchy of contempt that cognitive dissonance is no longer a thing for them.
November 7, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Nothing much because they have so fully embraced Arendt's graduation of cynicism expressed in a hierarchy of contempt that cognitive dissonance is no longer a thing for them.
'Look at all my flags!'
November 7, 2025 at 11:01 AM
'Look at all my flags!'
Same dazed expression just more horizontal.
November 6, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Same dazed expression just more horizontal.
Sure I've seen this scene before...
November 6, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Sure I've seen this scene before...
Turns out having a tiny population, vast swathes of literal desert and several times more sunlight hours p.a. than northern Europe that most of your people's ancestors fled from is kind of handy...
November 6, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Turns out having a tiny population, vast swathes of literal desert and several times more sunlight hours p.a. than northern Europe that most of your people's ancestors fled from is kind of handy...
Someone really needs to do some Babylon 5 Emperor Cartagia gifs.
November 5, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Someone really needs to do some Babylon 5 Emperor Cartagia gifs.
'Fried or boiled?'
October 28, 2025 at 8:41 PM
'Fried or boiled?'
'whose faces give out at every pore the instinct, the desire, the poisons with which their brains are pregnant; not faces so much as masks; masks of weakness, masks of strength, masks of misery, masks of joy, masks of hypocrisy all... stamped with the indelible signs of a panting cupidity'.
(Balzac)
(Balzac)
October 28, 2025 at 2:41 PM
'whose faces give out at every pore the instinct, the desire, the poisons with which their brains are pregnant; not faces so much as masks; masks of weakness, masks of strength, masks of misery, masks of joy, masks of hypocrisy all... stamped with the indelible signs of a panting cupidity'.
(Balzac)
(Balzac)
'The graduation of cynicism expressed in a hierarchy of contempt is at least as necessary in the face of constant refutation as plain gullibility'
(Arendt)
(Arendt)
October 28, 2025 at 2:25 PM
'The graduation of cynicism expressed in a hierarchy of contempt is at least as necessary in the face of constant refutation as plain gullibility'
(Arendt)
(Arendt)
I use it almost daily - replaces Mr Starmer the headmaster who lives in the flag cupboard and is not angry but just disappointed and this time has no choice but to call your parents...
October 28, 2025 at 12:35 PM
I use it almost daily - replaces Mr Starmer the headmaster who lives in the flag cupboard and is not angry but just disappointed and this time has no choice but to call your parents...
If only Mencken was still with us...
October 27, 2025 at 5:47 PM
If only Mencken was still with us...
Adverts should be representative of traditional British families
October 27, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Adverts should be representative of traditional British families
I genuinely envy your capacity for entirely groundless optimism: not even Panglossian as poor Dr Pangloss only argued that despite the disasters than beset him on all sides this was still the best of all possible worlds but positively Pollyanna-ish.
Meanwhile look at all of Sir Keir's lovely flags!
Meanwhile look at all of Sir Keir's lovely flags!
October 27, 2025 at 3:45 PM
I genuinely envy your capacity for entirely groundless optimism: not even Panglossian as poor Dr Pangloss only argued that despite the disasters than beset him on all sides this was still the best of all possible worlds but positively Pollyanna-ish.
Meanwhile look at all of Sir Keir's lovely flags!
Meanwhile look at all of Sir Keir's lovely flags!
This so spot on:
October 27, 2025 at 10:34 AM
This so spot on:
