My kid and I watched a terrible French film with werewolf content (Family Pack) to help her with her French for GCSE. She has just suggested that a sequel would have to be called Family Pack 2: Electric Loup Garou, and I think my work here is done.
November 14, 2025 at 9:40 PM
My kid and I watched a terrible French film with werewolf content (Family Pack) to help her with her French for GCSE. She has just suggested that a sequel would have to be called Family Pack 2: Electric Loup Garou, and I think my work here is done.
God, just seen a chap who had his wife’s last words to him tattooed on his leg and am wondering whether having “Stop nagging, Ush” etched on the back of my hand would improve my life.
To be clear, I was trying to stop her accidentally injuring herself, and would nag again.
To be clear, I was trying to stop her accidentally injuring herself, and would nag again.
October 10, 2025 at 2:11 PM
God, just seen a chap who had his wife’s last words to him tattooed on his leg and am wondering whether having “Stop nagging, Ush” etched on the back of my hand would improve my life.
To be clear, I was trying to stop her accidentally injuring herself, and would nag again.
To be clear, I was trying to stop her accidentally injuring herself, and would nag again.
My partner recently moved into a boat and discovered that firewood can be obtained from Log Man John. This has led to intense speculation about the powerful Man-John family’s grip on modern life. Neither of us has yet dared enquire after his (presumed) brother, Scat.
October 4, 2025 at 2:44 PM
My partner recently moved into a boat and discovered that firewood can be obtained from Log Man John. This has led to intense speculation about the powerful Man-John family’s grip on modern life. Neither of us has yet dared enquire after his (presumed) brother, Scat.
Got kettled tonight for the first time in ages. Really scary clash between police and protesters at one point.
October 2, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Got kettled tonight for the first time in ages. Really scary clash between police and protesters at one point.
Celebrating three years of very uncomplicated joy and companionship today. It’s been sweet and hot and very funny. Long may it last.
October 2, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Celebrating three years of very uncomplicated joy and companionship today. It’s been sweet and hot and very funny. Long may it last.
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Yes, *this is the moment* in history to start watering down legal protections against hate speech. Incredible.
Streeting suggests hate speech laws should be revised, saying they have had 'unintended consequences' - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Streeting says there are ‘unintended consequences’ of hate speech laws after arrest of Father Ted writer – UK politics live
Health secretary says government needs to balance legislation so police are ‘not just policing tweets’ following detention of Graham Linehan over posts on transgender issues
www.theguardian.com
September 3, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Yes, *this is the moment* in history to start watering down legal protections against hate speech. Incredible.
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This, from the Quakers, is worth reading. It's a serene, confident, utter rebuke of the hate and fear that's peddled by Sex Matters. The last two pages are smokin'. If you're on the wrong side of the Quakers, you really need to sit down and have a good chat with yourself.
This, from the Quakers, is a pretty good example of how to resist pressure from bigot lobbying groups. Effectively “we legally can allow trans people to use the loo, we morally should, and we tried it and nothing bad happened”
www.quaker.org.uk
August 28, 2025 at 6:52 PM
This, from the Quakers, is worth reading. It's a serene, confident, utter rebuke of the hate and fear that's peddled by Sex Matters. The last two pages are smokin'. If you're on the wrong side of the Quakers, you really need to sit down and have a good chat with yourself.
I sometimes worry that if I were to ever transition, I would look like JD Vance.
August 15, 2025 at 7:29 AM
I sometimes worry that if I were to ever transition, I would look like JD Vance.
Ten years sans booze today. Not uncoincidentally, it would also have been S’s 60th. The last few weeks have been very full of her, somehow.
August 10, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Ten years sans booze today. Not uncoincidentally, it would also have been S’s 60th. The last few weeks have been very full of her, somehow.
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Sunday Independent...
August 3, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Sunday Independent...
I just told my mum that Tom Lehrer had died, aged 97, and she responded “taken too soon”. I’m inclined to agree.
July 27, 2025 at 9:55 PM
I just told my mum that Tom Lehrer had died, aged 97, and she responded “taken too soon”. I’m inclined to agree.
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I will not support any UK party in 2025 that does not explicitly state its support for the rights of transgender people. This party does not yet meet this criterion.
Not even 24 hours and 180,000 of you have now signed up.
Billionaires already have three parties fighting for them. It’s time the rest of us had one.
Join us: yourparty.uk
Billionaires already have three parties fighting for them. It’s time the rest of us had one.
Join us: yourparty.uk
July 25, 2025 at 7:55 AM
I will not support any UK party in 2025 that does not explicitly state its support for the rights of transgender people. This party does not yet meet this criterion.
I have just eaten two perfectly ripe plums from the fridge and have concluded that William Carlos Williams can not be held responsible for his crimes.
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold
July 11, 2025 at 12:13 PM
I have just eaten two perfectly ripe plums from the fridge and have concluded that William Carlos Williams can not be held responsible for his crimes.
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold
I came to the kitchen to check the weather this weekend. And then played the concertina, went for a shower and set the dishwasher running. The fact that I do not have an ADHD diagnosis is both a miracle and a triumph of a system designed to be too labyrinthine for anyone with ADHD to get diagnosed.
July 4, 2025 at 5:06 PM
I came to the kitchen to check the weather this weekend. And then played the concertina, went for a shower and set the dishwasher running. The fact that I do not have an ADHD diagnosis is both a miracle and a triumph of a system designed to be too labyrinthine for anyone with ADHD to get diagnosed.
Twelve years since Sheila left. Someone smarter than me recently called her “a universe in a person” and she was.
July 3, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Twelve years since Sheila left. Someone smarter than me recently called her “a universe in a person” and she was.
Spotify has just served up the Turtles’ Elenore, which contains some of the finest “will this do?” lyrics ever written. “You’re my pride and joy, etcetera” and “I really think you’re groovy: let’s go out to a movie” live in my head rent-free.
July 2, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Spotify has just served up the Turtles’ Elenore, which contains some of the finest “will this do?” lyrics ever written. “You’re my pride and joy, etcetera” and “I really think you’re groovy: let’s go out to a movie” live in my head rent-free.
There is a cherry on my kitchen floor. It has been there for a couple of days. It is so beautiful, gleaming, dark, against the pale blue of my floor, that I can’t bear to clean it up.
July 1, 2025 at 7:23 PM
There is a cherry on my kitchen floor. It has been there for a couple of days. It is so beautiful, gleaming, dark, against the pale blue of my floor, that I can’t bear to clean it up.
Young Lucy Dacus really is bloody marvellous. Quite glad that I was at that gig with child 2 and not GnR with child 1, though he seems to have had a good time.
June 26, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Young Lucy Dacus really is bloody marvellous. Quite glad that I was at that gig with child 2 and not GnR with child 1, though he seems to have had a good time.
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JK Rowling here advocating the harassment and abuse and public shaming of anyone going to the toilet who doesn’t immediately conform to her prescriptive standards of what a man or woman looks like.
June 23, 2025 at 8:06 AM
JK Rowling here advocating the harassment and abuse and public shaming of anyone going to the toilet who doesn’t immediately conform to her prescriptive standards of what a man or woman looks like.
Child 2: There were so many Union Jacks up in the canteen that I had to check if WW3 had broken out. Turned out it was just fish and chips day.
June 14, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Child 2: There were so many Union Jacks up in the canteen that I had to check if WW3 had broken out. Turned out it was just fish and chips day.
For anyone who’s ever wondered what happens if you put fig leaf syrup into coffee, I can confirm that it rides the thin boundary between pleasant/weird and unpleasant/weird incredibly tightly.
June 8, 2025 at 11:30 AM
For anyone who’s ever wondered what happens if you put fig leaf syrup into coffee, I can confirm that it rides the thin boundary between pleasant/weird and unpleasant/weird incredibly tightly.
This morning’s passive aggressive text to the children:
I should not have to have a house rule that the person responsible for cleaning bolognese out of the gramophone horn is the person responsible for putting it in there. And yet…
I should not have to have a house rule that the person responsible for cleaning bolognese out of the gramophone horn is the person responsible for putting it in there. And yet…
June 6, 2025 at 8:45 AM
This morning’s passive aggressive text to the children:
I should not have to have a house rule that the person responsible for cleaning bolognese out of the gramophone horn is the person responsible for putting it in there. And yet…
I should not have to have a house rule that the person responsible for cleaning bolognese out of the gramophone horn is the person responsible for putting it in there. And yet…
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It is absolutely intolerable that the Labour Government has another committed transphobe as their preferred candidate as new head of the EHRC.
I rather doubt that the Women's and Equalities Committee has even been consulted.
I rather doubt that the Women's and Equalities Committee has even been consulted.
June 5, 2025 at 4:10 PM
It is absolutely intolerable that the Labour Government has another committed transphobe as their preferred candidate as new head of the EHRC.
I rather doubt that the Women's and Equalities Committee has even been consulted.
I rather doubt that the Women's and Equalities Committee has even been consulted.
The guy directing people out of the tube at Euston is telling the men getting on the escalator off, repeating “Ladies first please: women are vulnerable.” I have questions.
June 5, 2025 at 7:58 AM
The guy directing people out of the tube at Euston is telling the men getting on the escalator off, repeating “Ladies first please: women are vulnerable.” I have questions.