Nazis though, wasn't there a big war a while back about thus
Andy Burnham Accepter@jorisbinned.bsky.social · 3h agoHello I'm an idiot
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Andy Burnham Accepter@jorisbinned.bsky.social · 3h agoCeline - Journey to the End of the Night Mailer- Executioner's Song Norman Douglas*- South Wind Hamsun- Hunger Naipaul- A House for Mr Biswas *look him up** ** don't
BeijingPalmer@beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 23h agoalright let's do real discourse: five books *by bad people* that are still good or great books V.S. Naipaul, A BEND IN THE RIVER Allison Pearson, I DON'T KNOW HOW SHE DOES IT Kevin Myers, WATCHING THE DOOR Yukio Mishima, CONFESSIONS OF A MASK Neil Gaiman, BRIEF LIVES.
Average late 19th / early 20th century British aristo's Wikipedia page:
False premise. You can only be a novelist if you are pure of heart.
Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh Scoop by Evelyn Waugh Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh Ubik by Philip K. Dick
BeijingPalmer@beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 23h agoalright let's do real discourse: five books *by bad people* that are still good or great books V.S. Naipaul, A BEND IN THE RIVER Allison Pearson, I DON'T KNOW HOW SHE DOES IT Kevin Myers, WATCHING THE DOOR Yukio Mishima, CONFESSIONS OF A MASK Neil Gaiman, BRIEF LIVES.
mcdonald's manager: show the new guy the ropes me: yeah no prob *opens drawer* we use them to restrain grimace
Celine - Journey to the End of the Night Mailer- Executioner's Song Norman Douglas*- South Wind Hamsun- Hunger Naipaul- A House for Mr Biswas *look him up** ** don't
BeijingPalmer@beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 23h agoalright let's do real discourse: five books *by bad people* that are still good or great books V.S. Naipaul, A BEND IN THE RIVER Allison Pearson, I DON'T KNOW HOW SHE DOES IT Kevin Myers, WATCHING THE DOOR Yukio Mishima, CONFESSIONS OF A MASK Neil Gaiman, BRIEF LIVES.
fucking hate it when rob gives away our lambos
Bede's World! Bede's World! Party time! Venerable!
I know we attribute a lot of wrong to social media but I’m pretty sure there was once a time when someone apologising was grounds to sheathe your weapons, not stick the boot in.
Ben Goldacre@bengoldacre.bsky.social · yesterdayApologies: I’m not online much, I haven't paid any attention to Rod Liddle for a long time, I didn't really know his extremes. I do now: I wouldn’t have posted if I'd known. I’ve seen death of difficult people up close (and its impact on others): that’s the only reason it was on my mind as an issue.
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Keith Joseph, erstwhile Thatcher cabinet Secretary of State for Education, I remember being described as ‘consistently looking like a man who’s finger has just gone through the paper’.
At least we only give our bedraggled provocateurs Spectator columns, the French give them the Prix Goncourt
A lot of people today talking about an awful person who died but i want to make everyone aware of a good person who died: Northern Irish comedian Jimmy Cricket, who you should all look up if you don’t know. 10/10 all around wife guy, dad, granddad, and just a generally solid person
Just revealed this ‘hear me out’ to Rob who is appalled
Probably not his biggest problem, but there's a man who'd be disappointed by a visit to Whitby Abbey
Reminder that when Jiminy Cricket (the grasshopper/conscience) appears in the book of Pinocchio the puppet instantly murders him
I know folk on here will stamp on the grave of the reviewer too but this is insightful with a lovely last paragraph
Rob Palk@robpalk.bsky.social · 2d agoReminded of this Will Self review of one of Rod Liddle's books, all the more damning for being scrupulously generous and fair www.theguardian.com/books/2014/m...
Giving a coin to Charon in order to travel to Hades and speak ill at them
"From 1985, [Mike] Holoway toured in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, playing Joseph, a role he reprised until 2006, totalling more than 4,000 performances spanning a 24-year period"
I think it’s probably significant that our most successful creatives (Rob Palk, hotly tipped in The Bookseller last week) were given such rich cultural experiences at an early age
This was Spike Milligan surely (Terry Wogan was the Flann O'Brien of light entertainment obvs)
James@zemblamatic.bsky.social · 2d agothe Samuel Beckett of light entertainment