This account is now going to be devoted purely to silly jokes, ramblings about old films, TV shows, books & ephemera, updates on me performing & pictures of Fred. Nothing serious, nothing political.
Bizarre picture selection from the BBC for the news that Huw Edwards has been charged with making indecent images of children – makes it look uncomfortably like he’s presenting the news himself.
Shit joke from my stand up act I was almost embarrassed to say but always got tons of laughs
"I'm so unfamiliar with the gym that I should really call it the James"
I regret to say the Celebs Acting Like Bellends Reddit has now been discovered by Americans who start their long-winded & underwhelming stories with "OK strap in"
@AlixEHarrow
When I was little my dad explained evolution to me by talking about“When we used to be monkeys”. Inthought he meant our family SPECIFICALLY & I was really confused why there were pictures of me as a human baby
"Disappointing that Alice Cooper, a man who used a woman's name and wore makeup, doesn't think that using a woman's name and wearing makeup makes you a woman" is an interesting one, isn't it?
So weird that William Hartnell as Dr Who is remembered as a grumpy figure, rather than, as he actually was, a jolly character who keeps saying “Hee-hoo-hoo-hoo!” to practically everything
The rest of Liz Truss’s life will be spent as the political equivalent of an actor who makes loads from appearing at fan conventions having appeared in a Star Wars film for two minutes
You know, I’ve got ever such a little bit more respect for Liz Truss rushing to help Kate McCann when she fainted than I have for people on Twitter making shitty jokes about it.
The constant going on about his dad’s job has been funny, yes, but there are some v revealing responses to this from people who don’t believe he could’ve been working class because he turned up to his son’s graduation looking fairly smart
Today, on Father's Day, I’m thinking about my dad, the things I learned about him after he was gone, and the father I am to my children, because of him.
Happy Father’s Day.
Let’s face it, if Boy George had done this to a woman there is absolutely no way it would have been ignored like it has. He would be universally reviled.
As with J K Rowling, people of course have every right to disagree with Suzanne Moore,it’s just that very few seem to disagree with things she’s actually said.
Billy Bragg & other straight white men who wade in to tell women off for having opinions on their rights are such a load of shit. Your rights have never been in question so piss off out of it.
Fair play to Johann Hari for managing to get a career again after being discredited as a plagiarist then writing a book about people’s short attention spans
I’ve nothing against Phoebe Waller-Bridge but I do struggle to see what it was about Fleabag that made Hollywood execs go “We need this woman for Bond, Star Wars and Indiana Jones NOW”
#DoctorWho
showrunner and writer Russell T Davies says his Doctors "weren’t exactly the straightest men in the past."
"You’re talking about someone who does have a lightness and a joy about him that, to me, chimes with queer energy."
I've never seen this glorious pic of Pipkins' Hartley Hare and his performer Nigel Plaskitt before so I'm sharing it because I think it needs to be seen
Dunno if straight people can get how exhausting the LGBTetc thing can be. You don't sign up to it,it's just a box you're thrown into because you're not straight. Then you're expected to follow all its rules or be some kind of disappointment to a community you never asked to join.
I think at some point, like all the rest of us, you’re going to have to accept that most people you come into contact with in your life are just trying to get on with their own lives and really don’t care that much about you.
Nearly all the pictures you'll see in tribute to Paul Darrow will be of him as Avon, which is absolutely right and proper as Darrow's performance made him one of the best TV characters there's ever been. But just by way of contrast, here he is with Jessica the dachsund.
Patrick Macnee: greatest role model for men. Brought up by lesbians who treated him as a girl, became the archetype of the English gentleman. Enthusiastically hetero but always respectful of &deferential to women. Was upbraiding co-star Ian Hendry for homophobia back in the 60s
Surely even if you’re on Just Stop Oil’s side you have to concede “They can’t go to these important family occasions” is a terrible line to take when surely their whole point was that other people’s family occasions were less important than their cause.
@tomhfh
@OldRoberts953
Are all women expected to live authentically? Is every woman at peril of having their womanhood revoked at any moment due to insufficient authenticity?