Jem Roberts: Author &c.

@jemroberts.bsky.social

Dad/author/comedy historian/folklorist/performer. Douglas Adams’ official biographer. Authorised chronicler for ISIHAC, Blackadder and Fry & Laurie. @talesofbritain.bsky.social @fabfools.bsky.social jemroberts.com http://www.talesofbritain.com

I believe I sort of have a legitimate editorial reason for using AI as a tool. Could probably do several weeks/months of arduous formatting slog in an afternoon. Not going to, though. No quick fix is worth adding to such a desperate problem.

It’s just such a tragedy that now forever more Monty Python will have to be officially remembered as at least a 17% fascist-supporting, racist, bigoted comedy outfit. Right down there with Bernard Manning and Andrew Dice Clay. Chapman and Jones will never, ever stop spinning.

It's another damning spot of clear evidence of the sheer malignity of our media and society: tributes to the genuinely despicable negative presence on the planet Rod Liddle have already lingered longer in the news than several wonderful, talented people who recently passed on.

Anyone else occasionally get dizzy turns when you reflect that for most of your whole life it was a joke to call things/people ‘fascist’ – a self-mocking leftie exaggeration… until the actual fascists slipped out from under their rocks? It’s tantamount to ghosts suddenly existing.