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simon evans

8 months

Reviews for Simon Evans “A Masterclass *****” (Scotsman) “Outstanding ****1/2” (Chortle) “Dynamite’ **** (Times) New show Have We Met? has been forged in Edinburgh over August 2023 and is now ready to scythe through Middle England.

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simon evans

@TheSimonEvans

4 years

Their their.

Sam Smith shares 'stages of quarantine meltdown' from self-isolation

The singer, 27, shared their varying 'stages of a quarantine meltdown' as they spent time at home amid the coronavirus outbreak on Thursday.

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This is the correct way to stack clouds and is just one example of the instinctive Japanese knack for storage solutions which makes living even in Central Tokyo surprisingly manageable.

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3 years

Crouch now has two tweets in the all time celebrity top ten and I'm not sure anyone saw that coming.

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7 years

I think this, by Wendy Cope, might be the greatest love poem ever written.

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4 months

Any student of human nature will know exactly what is going on here. This final sadistic humiliation has broken her, this switch in tone from familiarity and festivity to the kind of municipal sweets one might be offered after giving blood. It’s mean spirited and dismissive and…

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21 days

It is, because he was. #GlinnerWasRight And that's why I'm proud to say that I've been in his corner to some very small degree for some time. But what's really heartening is to see all the people who let him down, cut him off, crossed the road and looked the other way, his…

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If #GlinnerWasRight isn’t trending, it bloody well ought to be…

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4 years

Greatest photograph of all time?

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5 years

My wife's take - "He died at 95, and the world's 14 year olds [including our own] are in tears. That's a pretty great accomplishment."

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@nytimesarts

5 years

Stan Lee, who helped create Spider-Man, the X-Men, the Fantastic Four, Iron Man, the Hulk, Thor and many other Marvel Comics superheroes, has died at 95

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4 years

"May I ask, France, how you were dressed on the evening in question?"

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3 years

Just heard that Sean Lock has died. The usual form of words is well known in such circumstances but honestly I can hardly bring myself to write them. This feels too absurd to be true. Utterly, utterly horrific. Like opening the front door to the find that the street has gone.

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4 years

I was a bit "meh" until I saw The Baby Jesus.

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4 years

The BEST Christmas photo EVER!! #dogs #puppies #puppy #Christmas #NATIVITY

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4 years

"JK Rowling talking about the 20th anniversary of Harry Potter. I don’t think anyone has milked a small wizard this much since Debbie Magee." (via a friend on WhatsApp)

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9 months

Extraordinary interview. I don't think I have ever seen such obvious bias, such hostility to one side of what was introduced as a debate. The second half basically amounted to the host asking Peter Tatchell and Grace Blakely 'What are we going to do about him, eh?"

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9 months

This is the most astonishing interview. Graham Linehan ( @Glinner ) has been vindicated over and over regarding the medical abuse of children by gender clinics, and he's correctly pointed out that central figures within “gender identity” theorizing have sexualized children. For…

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1 year

As well as being a snooker venue The Crucible was of course a play by Arthur Miller about the damage wrought on a community by treating tiresome, hysterical attention-seeking adolescents with vastly more patience and credulity than they deserved.

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1 year

What an extraordinary picture this is from Getty Images, one of the most dramatic to ever emerge from the World Championship at the Crucible. #Snooker

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4 years

It's my Dad's 90th birthday today. He's safe at home, in Norfolk with my Mum, I've just spoken to him and he's in good spirits but I'd still like to show him a bit of twitter love. Anyone who saw my current tour show will know what a stand up geezer he is. One like = One love.

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8 months

No one needs to hear my thoughts on trial by media or believing survivors or “why now?” One thing I do want to say though. Brand is not now and never was a comedian. He was never on the “comedy circuit”, which is now being traduced as an unreconstructed sewer of nodding,…

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2 years

Barry Humphries is 87. He has just handed Huff post their arse, in a cut glass vase.

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1 year

“We know they are lying, they know they are lying, they know we know they are lying, we know they know we know they are lying, but they are still lying.” Attributed to Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn

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3 years

Prince Philip has been a public figure, and a grown man, my whole life, and you either get that or you don't. But I will say, seeing the various reactions on here, I have never felt more sure of my politics in that particular regard, than I do today. And I am immensely grateful.

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2 years

Bit pissed but still, if this is the hill my twitter account dies on, so be it. C***. And I censor the word only so that the sentiment is likely to survive.

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5 years

How long will it burn under normal conditions?

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3 years

Hi @EE I have been a tolerably satisfied customer for many years but I will be heartily pissed off if I hear that you have altered your marketing strategy one iota to placate an increasingly shrill and deranged activist desperately trying to maintain post - Brexit relevance.

Femi

@Femi_Sorry

3 years

Hi @EE , I was on Orange since I started using mobile phones and switched to you almost as soon as you took them over. But I will switch service provider immediately if I hear of one EE advert placed on that channel. #DontFundGBNews

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4 years

Did he really say this, though?

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4 years

99% of advice in men's magazines could be boiled down to "like this".

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2 years

Brighton cafés. Please stop trying to make your own baked beans. Heinz nailed the bean decades ago. Those of us who like them, this is what we want. Not some artisan abomination in runny stock floating with chopped onions and leaves like a fucking casserole.

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4 years

So, what do you reckon? Will John Boyega still be able to find work in TV and Hollywood, despite passionately espousing the beliefs and supporting the causes that literally every other actor, studio, brand and corporation in the World also appear to be committed to right now?

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9 months

My two penn'orth on the Glinnerectomy. You might feel you have heard everything you need to on this issue but I assure you there are at least three new nob gags in this piece to restore order and sanity. Humourless scolds have taken over comedy

Humourless scolds have taken over comedy

The cancellation of Graham Linehan is a new low for the Edinburgh Fringe.

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5 years

@simonblackwell @HackneyAbbott I've literally just got home from a train journey made bearable only by not one but two of M&S bizarrely colourful canned cocktails. I rarely see eye to eye with Ms A but I'll not have her shamed for this sort of bollocks.

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4 years

I find it genuinely astonishing that people like Pullman can make literally hateful, vicious, bilious generalisations about anyone or anywhere, let alone a country that has been so generous in recognition of his talents and still think he's just one of the weary good guys.

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4 years

Of course Meghan Markle is attacked by the British press because she's black, and of course Prince Harry is right to defend her. What a foul country this is.

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2 years

@almurray @RealJSadowitz If you can identify the Iine that got you cancelled then I for one am willing to nick it. And I think every other comic should too. This is our Spartacus moment.

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5 years

One day Burke will be adequately acknowledged as the grade one seer he was. It might even happen while he's still alive.

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5 years

It's 1985. James Burke is walking around in some hills. And then he delivers a scintillating piece to camera about how politics is going to change in the digital age. Totally. Crazy.

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5 years

I don't think "England" has a problem with her being black, even to the extent that she is, but I think they might start to have a problem with being called racist every time they roll their eyes at the Royals spouting bullshit and behaving hypocritically.

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22 days

I have just checked to see if Tom Lehrer is still alive... and do you know what? He is. And furthermore, he is 96... Today! Born April 9th 1928. That has quite frankly made my day.

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2 years

If you think this is accidental, you should hand in your badge.

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#AccidentalPartridge

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3 years

The Eve of Battle. Southgate now in crude peasant disguise, walking among the fires and tents of the encampment, just out of range of the Italian stronghold. Smoke, song and distant laughter rising up in the stillness of the summer night.

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5 months

I seriously hope Aviva take a massive hit over this. I hope their share price plummets, as it should, and I hope they suffer an exodus of white male talent that knows it isn't wanted. Absolutely disgraceful rhetoric. It's relentless, just fucking relentless.

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@prwhittle

5 months

Why just white males? This openly-stated discrimination from the top, especially when sexist attitudes are more likely to be ingrained in non-white men, illustrates what this is really about : not social justice , but an attack on white men.

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7 years

I am at Hove station. A "train" is due! The excitement is palpable. The young are wondering aloud what it will look like.

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6 years

It's a funny thing you know, how many left wing comedians have an anecdote about a cab driver offering unwanted political opinions. Hardly ever happens to me. You know who I do find are prone to offering unwanted political opinions? Have a guess.

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5 years

It is a small consolation that perhaps a few thousand young folk who are puzzled what all the fuss is about will investigate Scott Walker today and will have their minds quietly blown.

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2 years

Some reflections on time, love and loss. I would love as many as possible to read this. I posted it earlier but accidentally locked, for patrons only. This is open to all. Chronicle of a Death Foretold

Chronicle of a Death Foretold | Simon Evans, but digitally.

Get more from Simon Evans, but digitally. on Patreon

www.patreon.com

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11 months

worth watching. Not just to remind ourselves of everything we already know about Foucault, Butler and the rest, but also, this guy holds his tone and his nerve and takes the vast majority of the class with him and the girl who might easily have derailed it with her "we see you"

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11 months

Some receipts are heavy. Some facts are damning.

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23 days

American Pie.

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@DannyDrinksWine

23 days

Name a movie with a "Number" in the title?

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2 years

🙌🙌🙌

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4 months

Take heart. For all its misery, confusion and strife, there are still sunbeams and hope in the World. Stanley Baxter is 97, and as the chimes strike midnight, enters 2024, alive. Happy New Year!

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4 years

Anyone looking at this headline and first couple of paragraphs will conclude that Stewart called a black man an angry ape. Neither ITV nor the Daily Mail have made any attempt to illuminate the truth. Absolute disgrace. And nothing, as usual, one can do.

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Thursday's Mail: "ITN star is forced to quit in race row" ( @AllieHBNews ) #BBCPapers #TomorrowsPapersToday

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3 years

Anyone stlll discussing whether Orwell or Huxley sheds more light on the present moment, and still ignoring Kipling?

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3 years

Actually laughed out loud. Proper bark. Seriously, though - Good spot, mate. We need to be this guy, all the time.

karma

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Watch this

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6 years

Shout out to SUSSEX POLICE who just saved my wife's life. Broke down on the A27, they stood there directing traffic around her in pouring rain for two hours until the fuel change van arrived. And calmed the kids down too. Heroes.

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8 months

Fwiw this, on Brand, in 2014, was my debut routine on Stand Up for the Week. It’s not a masterpiece (and I cringe at some of the boosted “laughter track”) but then it was written and performed in a 48 hour period. And the hat was misjudged. I did not quite understand the…

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2 years

I am removing the word "writer" from my CV.

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1 year

Good morning, from the front “garden” of my seaside pre retirement facility. I am 58 years old today and have decided to fully embrace my inner eccentric old bugger.

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5 years

This bus looks the way websites look when there isn't a strong enough signal for them to load properly.

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4 years

If Timpson don't regard themselves as key workers...

James Timpson

@JamesTCobbler

4 years

We are temporarily closing all our 2150 shops by Monday March 23rd at 5pm, and going in to hibernation...we hope it won’t be for too long. All our wonderful colleagues will remain on full pay, and will look forward to seeing you when we re open. Thank you.

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3 years

Finally, some good news.

BBC News (UK)

@BBCNews

3 years

Slow walkers may be nearly four times more likely to die from Covid, study finds

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3 months

I doubt there are many low key unexamined cultural experiences more unifying for people like me than having spent a few afternoons decorating the spare room at some point ever so slightly more happily thanks to Steve Wright. RIP.

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4 years

Are you having - and I cannot emphasise this enough - a fucking laugh?

Cambridge University

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The University defends the right of its academics to express their own lawful opinions which others might find controversial and deplores in the strongest terms abuse and personal attacks. These attacks are totally unacceptable and must cease.

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2 years

I always wondered where my old wanking hat had gone.

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3 years

I have tried to ignore twitter and be with my family more over Christmas so maybe it’s just my immune system is weakened or my instruments need centering but Jesus the deliberate misrepresentation and disgusting smear content is surely higher than usual, no?

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4 months

@mattyglesias @KyleWOrton And the British Navy before them. A noble tradition.

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3 years

Just in the nick of time.

Sky News Breaking

@SkyNewsBreak

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Government has announced all travellers to England from overseas will need to test negative for COVID-19 before they are allowed to enter the country For more on this and other news visit

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2 years

RIP Lionel Blair. He joins Una, Humph and Iain in Comedy Heaven. The joke that starts at 4.35 is so perfect, funny and unbelievably filthy for the 6.30 slot, that you can hear Barry Cryer having what sounds suspiciously like an orgasm over the laughter

I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue—The Complete Lionel Blair (1993-2007)

A compilation of every single Lionel Blair joke (as well as a few with Una Stubbs and Christopher Biggins) from the BBC Radio 4 panel game "I'm Sorry I Haven...

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4 years

Dads of daughters, brace yourself.

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Dad filmed a clip of his daughter every week until she turned 20 Credit: YT/Hofmeester

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7 years

This Grauniad comment, under Owen Jones, is such a heartbreakingly clear summary of what should not FFS be so unachievable or hard to grasp.

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2 years

It is an honour to be able to share my thoughts on the passing of a true giant.

Barry Cryer: an incomparable comic

His timeless, immortal comedy stayed vital to the last.

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3 years

Currently being shared in my son's year group.

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3 years

Very well said.

GB News

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3 years

'You're only a victim if you respect the people who do it. I don't respect them. I treat them with most absolute disdain and contempt. They're not worthy my shining my shoe, and I'm wearing suede.' David Starkey reacts as @Nigel_Farage suggest he was a 'victim of cancel culture'

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4 years

Must admit I think cheaply of myself for not having sat here the night before and felt the healing scourge of Neptune's wrath. There is no such thing as bad weather, only inadequate armour.

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9 months

"Good evening. Alison Rose broke the rules. The country can see that, the Government can see that, but I'm not remotely shocked that Emily Maitlis can't."

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“The power of the populist is, somehow, to turn utter entitlement into victimhood.” @maitlis on Nigel Farage using his Coutts bank account closure to provoke a culture war. Coming to @GlobalPlayer

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2 months

Another day on the road, another Spoons saving British architectural and interior decor heritage. This one in Hexham used to be a cinema foyer (screen still upstairs) and is incomparably grander and more splendid than 99% if current odeons.

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5 months

What the actual living FUCK is he talking about? That isn’t a “phrase”. It doesn’t “create” any ideas of British exceptionalism. It’s a football chant, used to wind up Germany. We don’t even sing it at the French, let alone China or the USA.

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'We've got to be more open to learning from other countries' @Peston tells @IainDale why he hates the phrase 'two World Wars and one World Cup'...

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5 years

@BDSixsmith "I mean, I don't think much of historical fiction, detailing the sequence of events we all know. I suppose if an author were to use the genre to explore, speculate as to the complex, nuanced relationships that prevailed in, say, a Tudor court, that might, in theory... "

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11 months

Wow! Look at all those replies ! I bet Wickes didn’t expect this level of engagement with a simple twitter poll about bathroom fixtures. They must be delighted!

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@Wickes

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It's #InternationalBathDay ! 🫧🛁🧼 What is your favourite bath style?

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4 years

Disingenuous bullshit. From 650K follower, professional columnist who knows very well that this is not what CC is. CC is not people choosing not to do business with you again. It\s people choosing to make it impossible for anyone else to do so. It's that fucking simple.

Charles M. Blow

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Once more: THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS CANCEL CULTURE. There is free speech. You can say and do as you pls, and others can choose never to deal this you, your company or your products EVER again. The rich and powerful are just upset that the masses can now organize their dissent.

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3 years

@sahouraxo @Progrockfarmer Puts a lump in my throat every time I think of it. Might be the single most noble, dignified, exemplary act I've been aware of in my adult life. Like something from an ancient tale, those he must have known well.

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3 years

What an utterly miserable, spiteful, pointless and unprovoked little dig that is.

Prof Alice Roberts💙

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3 years

Just a little reminder today. Dead people - don’t come back to life.

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4 years

The damning study of masculinity is just to the Left of the main picture.

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7 months

Tempted to forward this to quite a few friends not on twitter, who swallowed the “hands up don’t shoot” take a knee bullshit back in 2020 and regarded my hesitation with suspicion.

#BlackLivesMatterUK

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Solidarity with those resisting Israeli war crimes and military occupation. We say FREE PALESTINE and support the practical solidarity of @Pal_action

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1 year

Very good Dom but next time see if you can get it in your potty, instead of bringing it to the table cupped in your hands?

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Everyone knows this is fucked up. Two years, for stickering? But Melia is just that little bit too unsavoury and low status for most people to risk contamination by defending. This is Orwellian. And sickening. And scary. Well done @LeoKearse

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'A man has been given 2 years in jail for stickers that say such awful, racist things like “It’s ok to be white”... To be clear, I don’t think it's acceptable. It’s definitely not ok to be white. Anyone thinking of being white should hand themselves in to the police' @LeoKearse

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4 years

This is just beautiful.

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18 days

If you look at the Telegraph twitter feed, the top ten stories are all about the serious diplomatic and military implications of the Iran strike. Sopel pulls up one story about the implications for British travellers, and acts like that's what the Telegraph is "going with". His…

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I know papers need to find a Brit angle, but maybe on reflection you don’t think this might be pathetically small beer against the scale of what is unfolding?

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6 months

One of the truly great ratios of my life time. A fitting tribute to Perry, whose Chandler was - like many great comic creations - a character that confronted delusions with unvarnished truth, and laughed in the face of sanctimonious twats.

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Reminder that Friends has aged horribly & contains a lot of homo/transphobic content, especially around the Chandler character, so be careful what you share. That said, it's a tragedy to lose Matthew Perry, especially after all he has gone through & survived with addiction. RIP

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2 years

Worth having a look at the replies to this, to see the extraordinary number of people who have patiently and politely explained to cycling editor David why you do not in fact, "gotta hand it" to Bridges, and unearned themselves a block for the trouble. Also, for the jokes.

David Bradford

@DeeBeeCW

2 years

Whatever your view on trans inclusion, you have to admire Emily Bridges' courage in speaking out and setting the record straight

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simon evans

@TheSimonEvans

3 years

This is good news, though there is still a whiff of "this difficult woman and her eccentric, problematic views about biological sex, must be tolerated in a pluralist society like ours", rather than, this is what 99% of people really think, and they're right.

Douglas Murray

@DouglasKMurray

3 years

Excellent news. Congratulations Maya Forstater:

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simon evans

@TheSimonEvans

11 years

Like many writers, I have warm up rituals. Before I begin I pour a fresh cup of coffee, open a window and try to read the entire Internet.

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simon evans

@TheSimonEvans

7 years

I'm going to RT this again because is the kind of thing, or at least person, that is going to reverse global warming.

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simon evans

@TheSimonEvans

5 years

Quite how this footage has not appeared alongside any recent discussions of UK politics escapes me.

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simon evans

@TheSimonEvans

6 years

Have watched this several times today. Honestly can't think of anyone I've ever envied more. Keep your flaming dolphins.

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simon evans

@TheSimonEvans

2 years

OMG A Spaniard, playing a Cuban? Madness! Please please please god can't it all just please fuck off fuck off fuck off?

Sunday Times Culture

@ST_Culture

2 years

There has been consternation about the casting of Bardem — a Spaniard — in the role of Desi, a Cuban. Sorkin remains angry that his choice has been questioned. “It’s heartbreaking, and a little chilling to see members of the artistic community resegregating ourselves,” he says.

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simon evans

@TheSimonEvans

5 years

Anyone whose chest doesn't swell with pride watching this footage should probably unfollow me now. I try to run a broad church but I have my limits.

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simon evans

@TheSimonEvans

8 months

Universally derided, the joke doesn't even make enough sense to earn a groan. I don't understand what is going on, there are plenty of decent joke writers stlll up here but this competition seems determined to expose the Fringe itself to ridicule and contempt.

BBC News (UK)

@BBCNews

8 months

Lorna Rose Treen's zookeeper pun wins Edinburgh Fringe's funniest joke

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simon evans

@TheSimonEvans

20 days

Like a lot of people, I had a fair amount of sympathy for Schofield when he came out, and also when he was essentially hounded out of TV. But then, I had barely watched his actual show. Watching this, it is hard not to think it was poetic justice and then some. "Medieval…

Christian Concern

@CConcern

21 days

“It doesn’t seem very Christian to me for you to be so intransigent.” Philip Schofield telling @A_Minichiello to support children transitioning in 2017.

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simon evans

@TheSimonEvans

3 years

Happy birthday ME!

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simon evans

@TheSimonEvans

6 years

His old headmaster was on R2 saying he was a great example to kids that if you put your mind to it, you too can achieve your goals, and I was thinking, he's literally dedicated his life to stopping people doing that.

Ian Leslie

@mrianleslie

6 years

Jordan Pickford's 12 Rules For Life

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simon evans

@TheSimonEvans

5 years

I knew my brain was dumb but this is a new low.

じゃがりきん

@jagarikin

5 years

This GIF, Mickey is not moving at all. The human brain is so simple that it is fooled by arrows

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simon evans

@TheSimonEvans

2 years

Will Durant, whom he's quoting here, wrote an absolutely vast History of Civilisation, a multi volume liberal education in itself, and the sort of project that would be almost unthinkable today. Its wonderfully read on Audible too, much of it be the great Grover Gardner.