Simon Pegg

@simonpegg.bsky.social

Same name, not *that* one though. 49, Movie lover, lives in the East. (UK) Rarely manages a serious post on any social media platform. 'Drinking Chololate Enthusiast' - Not my words, but the words of Hotel Chocolat

All Badenoch / Tories had to do was sit back, and not do anything, until after Clacton to keep all focus on Farage, and a gradual downfall of reform over the next few months. Badenoch then has a great idea: 'Let's endorse a former Neo-Nazi as a local councillor, how could that possibly hurt us?'

When people deliberately use their craft to stoke and fuel division, hate, attract criticism, and do so in full knowledge they're making the world a worse place, it's astonishing that people think we shouldn't consider, or indeed speak, ill of those individuals when they're no longer around.

The fact there weren't any contrarians online telling us to have a nasty word or two to share when Sam Neill passed should be *some* indication that it's not necessary to be a contrarian if a majority of people online are literally sharing Liddle's own words online now he's dead.

I have never seen a social platform so united as on the death of Rod Liddle. Right across the spectrum on here. Not even the standard self-righteous micro-bollockings in the replies. Imagine what kind of cunt you have to be to stem the high-handed whining on BLUESKY. Remarkable.

I'm not going to speak ill of Rod Liddle. Not for any sympathetic reasons, but we all got caught out when Widdecombe died, and I could just do without the possibility of having to consider deleting posts here before I know more.