The Iranian ambassador to the UK
Peter Sellars as Dr Strangelove
Who is the Iranian ambassador reminding me of … ? 😬
07.03.2026 19:30
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The Iranian ambassador to the UK
Peter Sellars as Dr Strangelove
Who is the Iranian ambassador reminding me of … ? 😬
Major Gowen from Fawlty Towers pulling a puzzled face
Germans now own the Daily Telegraph and Britain’s Eurovision entry is called “Eins zwei drei”
“Yeah but no”
View from apartment in St James, Barbados
Back in this magical place. I’ve really never been anywhere quite like it. The history may be bloody and stained with suffering - but Barbados is glorious.
Correction. Orwell never said this. He did however, warn that: "political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” (That's Politics and the English Language, one of my favorite essays)
Eisenhower
I once queued overnight to be the first into the Harrods sale, and bought a spoon.
I hope Arne Slot isn’t watching this terribly boring game in which nothing happens. Prick.
I’ll take a streaky nil-one frankly!
Finishing the day with Shirley
My main memory of it is the absolute psychodrama of managing George Brown.
Who can reply: anyone, nobody, people who can be normal about it.
trying out a new feature, lmk if it works
Oh now I get it. Dubai is Golgafrinchan Ark B.
This is amazing! Brilliantly done sir
RIP to hundreds of Iranians and one American vacation
Looking forward to the gung-ho supporters of the war on the British right blaming the price rise this brings on net zero policies
Honestly the collective national level of disdain for Brits living in Dubai on all my social media platforms today really is bringing the UK together as one in a way that's hard to achieve in the modern era.
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Ah this is much more @moongolfer.com’s territory - he found the story of the Burroughs psychic attack in Soho!
‘Drink…..coffee’
This is one of my pettier impulses but I want the record to reflect just how often this motherfucker said that Kamala Harris was the pro-war candidate in 2024.
And, as I’ve just learned, because of the 10cc connection it was recorded in the same studio as Love Will Tear Us Apart.
Personally I wouldn't listen to him because he sold the house out from under his ex wife while she was actively dying of cancer
Mash up of Unknown Pleasures Joy Division sleeve and Neil Sedaka.
Love Will Tear Us Apart and Neil Sedaka’s version of Love Will Keep Us Together were recorded in the same studio. (Strawberry, Stockport.)
The secret hero of Moore's Swamp Thing run.
If you're a Londoner, you should be subscribing to London Centric
Why have you obscured him behind a black star? Is he in witness protection?
A poster: NICOLE KIDMAN JAMIE LEE CURTIS SCARPETTA BASED ON THE BEST SELLING NOVELS BY PATRICIA CORNWELL Unfortunately NICOLE KIDMAN is under the face of Jamie Lee Curtis and JAMIE LEE CURTIS is under the face of Nicole Kidman
cannot emphasise enough how angry the positioning of these names makes me
Pretty uncomfortable w the implication in some of the chat today that British Muslims’ concerns are somehow less electorally valid than those of people from other backgrounds. Quite a lot of reductive implications that gaining the support of Muslim voters is somehow dishonest or gaming the system.