Charlotte

love this Morgan!

One of Britain’s most senior police officers has launched an angry tirade against Extinction Rebellion protesters going “all floppy” when they get arrested. Sir Stephen House, the deputy commissioner of the Metropolitan police, said the tactic of going limp was a “flipping nuisance” as it required extra officers to drag protesters away. House told a London assembly police and crime committee hearing: “We have asked them to stop being floppy. And that might seem like a silly thing to say, but when we arrest them and pick them up, they go all floppy, which is why you see four or five officers carrying them away. It’s a complete waste of officers’ time, and a complete pain in the neck.” Extinction Rebellion: how successful were the latest protests? Read more House also expressed annoyance at how the tactic made the police look heavy-handed. He said: “The problem with them going floppy and four offices carrying them away [is that it] looks to the general public like police are overreacting here. We’re not making them go floppy. They’re just sort of being a nuisance.”

This gets progressively funnier with every use of the term "floppy".

Richard II: Guys vs Dolls

doing a new challenge: the "bareback london", in which you get your phone stolen so have to rely on using memory and actually reading signage to make your way around the city

Very good advice to find after a day of doomscrolling

my most parasocial relationship (derogatory) is with someone on another team at my regular quiz night

“stop worrying about the bats and the newts” is genuinely quite a grim thing to say!!!

No growth on a dead planet is such a good slogan, it desperately begs the question why Rachel Reeves decided to use the word “growth” to justify her anti-planet economic policy in the first place

Full Faithful endgame is actually more devastating than I could have imagined #TheTraitors

come now, I’ve read the Bible, Frankie and Charlotte should’ve kissed #thetraitors

idk man it feels a bit not good to be mouthing off week after week that there’s no money for disabled people and everyone needs to work themselves into an early grave and then going and spending £9 billion on nuclear bombs

Huge mental and optical gymnastics required to insist that what Musk did was anything other than a Nazi salute. We can debate what it means, the fact that he did a Nazi salute, but it's as clear a sieg heil as you'll ever, ever see.

I’m days behind on traitors because I am in previews, please be gracious on this

devastating when one of your favourite faithfuls uses a long word and you know their minutes of screen time are numbered

I'd like everyone to know that the hot to go dance in ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs is "quite rough on the wrists" as my party bard put it

we sent every frog in Egypt to stand outside a temple and act as our alarm system via a warlock patron, then realised the mark we had been waiting for inside was an illusion and had never either entered nor would leave

oh totally totally not for me

quick question, has anyone looked into william shakespeare’s obsession with cowslips

cannot express enough how little i need a wrap up of my year from, for eg, my banking app, dishwasher tablets, and supermarket shops. it would be so unbelievably fine for me to not have that.

One Partridge to rule them all,
One Partridge to find them,
One Partridge to bring them all and in its Pear Tree bind them.
In the land of Christmas where the rest of the gifts lie.

i've just never ever ever been sat watching act one of wicked the musical and thought, wow, i wish that whole thing was 60% slower and had a pause every other minute

I am shaking. I am relieved. I am devastated. I am furious. I am bereft.

The puberty blocker ban is a death sentence for some
particularly vulnerable trans youth. It is unconscionable.

When will the people with the power to help sit up and listen?

It’s a scandal. A cover up. A crime. I’m so sad.

My cat, an idiot: Those ornaments look exactly like my toys. Why can’t I play with them?

Me, pinnacle of animals: That felt frog wearing a top hat is to celebrate The Lord

this is actually False, I fake proposed because we learned last year that it’s the funniest way to respond to almost all situations

my fiancée won taskmaster live today (her birthday <3) and I fake proposed because I can’t bear anything not to be about me

i am super biased here because i am an academic and would like to continue to be one *but* i do feel there comes a point where you have to ask yourself what the point of ‘the economy’ is if it doesn’t support education or healthcare or the arts or housing or food or water and utilities

Israel has obliterated the mausoleum of Simon Peter, the Apostle of Christ, in Shama, southern Lebanon.

A sacred site that has stood for over 2,000 years, now lies in ruins.

This is not “self-defense”.

This is a war crime and a crime against history.

vi arcane I’m free on Tuesday

thank you!!!!