It’s 2am on Thursday. Wildfires are burning in Greece, Italy, Tunisia, Portugal, Croatia and Algeria. British tourist climate refugees are, ironically, being rescued by friendly locals in small boats. Stop the boats! No! Not those boats! The other ones! The ones with brown people in them! But the main environmental news in the past few…
On Monday, as part of their ongoing fabricated culture war, a desperate Conservative government declared an incoherent assault on “rip-off” degrees. But there is no one left in the duffer-stuffed Conservative government clever enough to defend the idiotic soundbite that is “Crackdown on Mickey Mouse degrees!” And hasn’t Mickey Mouse suffered enough, being painted over…
It’s Thursday morning. Boris Johnson, who made a former KGB agent’s son a lord and attended sexy parties at his fairytale hacienda, has failed to hand over his mobile phone to the Covid inquiry as some secret spies said there might be all stuff on it. Johnson has also spaffed out another child, this time…
Shakedowns of Shakespeare scramble the settings. Here’s Romeo and Juliet as cokehead Californians, King Lear as a cattle baron, and Titus Andronicus as an ombudsman. But the text remains sacrosanct – Emma Rice’s nibbling at the pentameters of A Midsummer Night’s Dream irking Globe purists as recently as 2016. So I was surprised when, at…
At my secondary school, a friend of mine pretended to be the confidant of the tragic Scottish child star Lena Zavaroni, maintaining that time away on family holidays was actually spent visiting the ailing singer at her home in Scotland. He even went as far as appearing to receive and engage in phone calls from…
On last Sunday’s BBC politics show, presenter Laura Kuenssberg spoke to the energy secretary, Grant Shapps. On this occasion Shapps manifested as himself, rather than as one of the many false identities he used to inhabit when promoting his internet business. I always find Shapps’s appearances as himself uncomfortable, a bit like when Mike Yarwood…
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Peter Ould, Youtube
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Someoneyoudon'tknow, Chortle.com
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Shit Crit, Twitter
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FBC, finalgear.com
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Dahoum, Guardian.co.uk
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Carcrazychica, Youtube
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Slothy Matt, Twitter
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Foxfoxton, Youtube
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Richard Herring, Comedian
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Leach Juice, Twitter
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Anonymous, don'tstartmeoff.com
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Birmingham Sunday Mercury
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Anon, dontstartmeoff.com
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Lenny Darksphere, Twitter
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12dgdgdgdgdgdg, Youtube
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Cabluigi, Guardian.co.uk
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Mearecate, Youtube
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Alex Quarmby, Edfringe.com
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Etienne, Chortle.com
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Cojones2, Guardian.co.uk
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John Robins, Comedian
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BBC iPlayer edition of discussion of Stewart Lee on A Good Read
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Mrdavisn01, Twitter
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Syhr, breakbeat.co.uk
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Meanstreetelite, Peoplesrepublicofcork
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Esme Folley, Actress, cellist, Twitter
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Pnethor, pne-online.com
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Anon, BBC Complaints Log
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Brendon, Vauxhallownersnetwork.co.uk
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Emilyistrendy, Youtube
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98rosjon, Twitter
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James Dellingpole, Daily Telegraph
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Lents, redandwhitekop.com
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Neva2busy, dontstartmeoff.com
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Al Murray, Comedian
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Len Firewood, Twitter
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Joycey, readytogo.net
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Aiden Hearn, Twitter
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Karen Laidlaw, Edfringe. com.
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Dominic Cavendish, Telegraph
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NevW47479, UKTV.co.uk
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Stuart, Chortle
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Deepbass, Guardian.co.uk
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General Lurko 36, Guardian.co.uk
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Lee Mack, Mack The Life, 2012
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Pirate Crocodile, Twitter
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Genghis McKahn, Guardian.co.uk
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Mpf1947, Youtube
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Stokeylitfest, Twitter
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Maninabananasuit, Guardian.co.uk
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Sam Rooney, Youtube
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Tweeterkiryakou, Twitter
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Anonymous, The Northfield Patriot
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Shane, Beverley, Dailymail.co.uk
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Wharto15, Twitter
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Frankie Boyle, Comedian
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Neolab, Guardian.co.uk
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Iain, eatenbymissionaries
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Ishamayura Byrd, Twitter
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Anon, westhamonline.com
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Mini-x2, readytogo.net
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Yukio Mishima, dontstartmeoff.com
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Dominic Cavendish, Daily Telegraph
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Johnny Kitkat, dontstartmeoff.com
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Patrick Kavanagh, Guardian.co.uk