Jon Dryden Taylor

Whack over any questions and I’ll be happy to answer x

*looks around nervously*

Near and far, closer together

if you’re planning to wait for all the sensible, reasonable columnists who said that they *weren’t* transphobic, they just had reasonable concerns, to rush to the defence of trans people who now need to change their driving licenses, do pack plenty of food and water, you’ll be waiting a while

Liars update

I thought that there was nothing this lot could do that could shock me any more, but here we are.

This graphic is from a poll which has the Greens level with Labour on 28%, rising to 30% among likely voters.

This is the most dishonest PM and government we've ever had. And we had Johnson's Tories.

Mortified for you x

That’s not what you said though pal. It was you asking why someone with multiple Emmys, two Tonys and an Olivier is famous that people (correctly) found a bit dumb.

I have read that book, and yet I am on this earth for a finite amount of time.

Wrote this for @newsocialist.bsky.social six years ago and think it stands up pretty well, particularly this bit on what the Labour right actually believes.

newsocialist.org.uk/plea-wavering-…

The folk who told me I was a resentful, foolish crank for thinking the Labour Right were truly dreadful corrupt people propped up by a smug, incurious commentariat seem to be apologising awfully quietly.

I don’t know what happened to the apostrophe there but since my phone ate it, here’s a replacement

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Out of pocket is now usually used in the American way to mean unacceptable behaviour, where wed say out of order.

Well played.

Two minutes into Traitors and there is already a gay I would die for.

I cannot stress enough how much this was the consensus in Actual 2003

S4 Fry and Laurie came out while I was a student and the consensus was that it was ‘disappointing’

Breaking news! Hadley Freeman has finally written a column that isn’t banging on and on about how we must persecute more trans people! I wonder what her other interests… oh

Bigots are so endlessly weird

The Labour right is obsessed with the idea that constantly saying ‘I’m fucking brilliant, me’ is excellent politics, when in fact it is always incredibly cringe.

The Guardian has done a ‘how will the budget affect you?’ calculator which is literally impossible to use if you don’t have a car. A wee bit on the nose, that.

Wycliffe star Jack Shepherd dies aged 85 after 'short illness' RIP.

We worked together on my dad's last radio play- most of our scenes were duologues- and he was the most generous of actors to perform with. RIP.

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That’s two General Elections in a row won by straight up frauds on platforms of lying and drivel, then pivoting to both pleasing themselves with dumb, nasty culture warrior horseshit and very nasty authoritarianism. Almost like there is political/media class unity about those things, where it counts

I see that eighteen months into this Sensible, Moderate, Thank God The Adults Are In Charge government we have reached the ‘let’s steal jewellery from refugees!’ stage.

We really do need to find a way for noisy Sensible Moderates to finally admit they’ve horrifically fucked it, in a way that they’ll find acceptable. It’s going to be hard, because so many of them relentlessly clowned themselves by advocating for horrible cranks who have total contempt for them.

Ffs I was there in July as well! Straight from the station to stage door, lovely.

Leicester Curve, Wolves Grand, Canterbury Marlowe, Brighton Theatre Royal. The Fab Four.

Hmmm. ‘Black and midnight hags’ though.

(Wait I am in a theatre. Does typing a quote count? Sorry castmates…)

LISTEN TO THIS.

I mean, I would say that, but listen to this.

I see the cosy Facebook fash have finally killed off Big Brother, then- a franchise which for a while back in the day made this country look a lot more accepting and diverse than it is. An all-white, all straight final with a Turning Point spokesperson in there feels very 2020s.