The BBC hate us so much that they only had me on Question Time 38 times and have had Zia Yusuf on 8 times in less than two years, despite the fact that nobody even voted for him. Now that's what I call bias.
David Stubbs
@davidstubbs.bsky.social
Writer. Mr Agreeable in a previous life. Author of, among others, Fear Of Music: Why People Get Rothko But Don’t Get Stockhausen (Zero) and Different Times: A History Of British Comedy (Faber)
The trouble with playing NYT Connections every day is that, cumulatively, it has made me come to despise America, its customs and its ways.
"Provocative journalist whose invective-laden columns targeting the liberal-left were laced with an ebullient humour" - strapline to The Guardian's Rod Liddle obituary. Et tu. Should have read, "Racist journalist whose racism-laden columns targeting other races were laced with bullshit racism".
Perhaps the unlikeliest of comedy sketches to crop up in 2026, but also one of the funniest:
British Pork: It’s Got the Lot | SNL UK
YouTube video by Saturday Night Live UK
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Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.
When Liddle slagged off my comedy book I took it as a badge of honour as it was written specifically to be slagged off by a fucker like him. A nasty, racist sack of toxic shit who made the familiar, cynical march from liberal to far right. The world is a better place with one fewer Liddles in it.
You know those tunes you clock and then listen to dozens, even hundreds of times on repeat? Well, here's mine. Do not understand why Jam City are not so much bigger and bigger. jam-city.bandcamp.com/album/my-wor...
My World, by Jam City
9 track album
jam-city.bandcamp.com
Your stripper name is your name, plus the profession you have chosen to taken up. Here's mine. David Stubbs, the stripper.
NEW | I had to write this one. THE DAILY TELEGRAPH’S TRUE CRIME EXPLOITATION OF A WOMAN’S HORRIFIC MURDER When will we stop accepting evil being served up as entertainment? brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/the-daily-...
The Daily Telegraph's true crime exploitation of a woman's horrific murder
When will we stop accepting evil being served up as entertainment?
brokenbottleboy.substack.com
Deep Joy.
Gary Brannan@garybrannan.bsky.social · last wk.Ach, you know what? Why not. Here’s Alan Bennett’s closing monologue from ‘On the Margin’, missing for nearly 60 years, and found on a Sony CV2000 tape in the Galton and Simpson archive You, dear viewer, are one of the few people ever to have seen this. Enjoy! discover.york.ac.uk/collections/...
Sean Bell is the Sky military analyst who previously described a 3 year old Palestinian child murdered by Israel as a "little lady". Here he is describing the Iranian school targeted & bombed by the US as a "facility"
Susanna Reid: "You've been in govt for 2yrs. Why has it taken you 2yrs to decide that you can do something for bus fares?" Heidi Alexander: "So we actually did make some changes with regards to bus fares under the previous govt" Yes, you raised the bus fare cap from £2 to £3!
".. we've committed £298bn over the next 4yrs, including an additional £15bn on top of last yrs spending review settlement.. I'm acutely conscious of the impact these numbers have on ur investment decisions.. defence is up & flying again" Streeting speaking to arms manufacturers
At long, long last, the football is back! European Champions League qualifiers tonight, including Sturm Graz v Hearts, which kicks off in ten minutes.
Arsenal's Mikel Merino mocking Donald Trump right to his face!
Prashant 🌊@prasshant.bsky.social · 2w agoHere's Mikel Merino mocking you know who. 😂
The fact the right wing press will go after Burnham hammer and tongs for all the wrong reasons doesn't mean he isn't going to be a pre-destined, desperate disappointment. Mahmood, Healey. . . glib, Wonderwall vibes won't cut it. Sticking with the Greens.
Extra time. So what now, a fucking Brother Beyond 20 minute gig?
If this game goes on like this for a further ten minutes I think they should abandon it and, on the strength of last night's game, award the World Cup to England.
Madonna, I first bought records of yours in 1983 when no one knew you were white and everyone says your latest album is your best in years but go away. How would you like it if a stadium of gig of yours was interrupted midway with a five a side football match onstage?
That England-France game was so great I actually dreamt about it. Saka scored a couple more goals, making it 8-4 in total. Had I been referred to Sigmund Freud, he would have exclaimed, "Vy are you vasting my time with a simpleton like zis?"
Lucy Powell claims Labour was invented to represent the interests of working people. Rubbish Labour was established to represent the interests of the working class. Powell knows this.
I was going to watch the pointless, futile, booby prize that is the third place match between England and France, just for the sake of watching some football, albeit with no sense of jeopardy. Thought it was an 8pm kick off. Turns out it's 10pm. So I'll stay up later and watch it then.
The police in the U.K. last night were not able to keep up with the 999 calls after women were battered by their drunk boyfriends and husbands. Children too. Because England lost a football game. You fucking weak ass fragile pieces of shit. You over emotional child men cnuts.
Odious, truly odious cunts who should in jail.
Adam Bienkov@adambienkov.bsky.social · 3w agoAlmost £10 billion of the £15 billion that Boris Johnson's Government spent on PPE during the pandemic was wasted, the Covid Inquiry has concluded. The Inquiry found money was wasted on a "vast" scale, with companies with "connections to government" given first preference for contracts
If this is true it sucks beyond belief. We're watching the football. No one, but no one, including the most ardent music lover, wants to hear music when we're absorbed in the football. Infantino needs catapulting into the sea.
The Times and Sunday Times@thetimes.com · 3w agoThe half-time break at the World Cup final is expected to be around 30 minutes long in order to accommodate Fifa’s star-studded show — breaching the maximum time of 15 minutes permitted under the Laws of the Game
Say what you like about Keir Starmer, when it comes to football . . he is a total buffoon.
Tom Davies@tomdaviese17.bsky.social · 3w ago"Tottenham fans should have joined the festivities at Arsenal's parade"