Every Tuesday at 8.45pm, I stand in the silent lane alone and bang my Le Creusets in support of a group of brave people who must never be forgotten; unsung martyrs who, through no fault of their own, have found themselves working at the very heart of a terrible unfolding disaster of an unprecedented scale…
During my mandated morning meanderings my mind returns to one of my favourite books, Arthur Machen’s 1924 non-novel, The London Adventure. Alternatively titled The Art of Wandering, the absurd work is 96 years old but has never felt more contemporary. The haughty writer-narrator, newly bound by the responsibility of fatherhood, must now write for money…
Here inside, I am losing it. I watched Carry on Screaming and enjoyed it unreservedly. My right arm seems to have stopped working, making it difficult to do Nazi salutes at the television whenever a government minister comes on. And I found myself asking a pigeon, sitting on the fence outside the kitchen window, how…
To combat corona, the government are reassembling the Isaac Levido-led team that won the election. The virus is sure to be defeated by cynically re-edited footage of Keir Starmer appearing confused or by faking Facebook posts and temporarily renaming the Conservative party website coronavirusgohome.com. You cannot beat Covid-19 with lies. That plague ship has sailed.…
“Am I right in remembering you cultivate a colony of head lice in your cellar, Lee?” Nicola Bridgens, former artist in residence at London Zoo, for whom I once provided the voice of a depressed black widow in an insect house installation, called me, coveting my Pediculi humanus capitis. Ten years ago, my little boy…
“When the government closed the pubs, I said – I didn’t mince my words, I said to them myself, HURRY UP PLEASE IT’S TIME.” MS Toilets, The Wetherspoonland, 1922 A public health official friend tells me her colleagues now call the Covid-19 virus “Wetherspoon’s Mumps”, a darkly comic response to Wetherspoon boss Tim Wetherspoon’s initial…
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Spanner, dontstartmeoff.com
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Tres Ryan, Twitter
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Joe, Independent.co.uk
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Brendon, Vauxhallownersnetwork.co.uk
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Esme Folley, Actress, cellist, Twitter
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Zombie Hamster, Twitter
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John Robins, Comedian
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Tweeter Kyriakou, Twitter
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Len Firewood, Twitter
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Carla, St Albans, Dailymail.co.uk
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Iain, eatenbymissionaries
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Anon, BBC Complaints Log
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Genghis McKahn, Guardian.co.uk
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Sweeping Curves, Twitter
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Dave Wilson, Chortle.com
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Al Murray, Comedian
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Patrick Kavanagh, Guardian.co.uk
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Dominic Cavendish, Telegraph
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Karen Laidlaw, Edfringe. com.
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Peter Ould, Youtube
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Shane, Beverley, Dailymail.co.uk
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Contrapuntal, Twitter
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Henry Howard Fun, Twitter
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General Lurko 36, Guardian.co.uk
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Microcuts 22, Twitter
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BBC iPlayer edition of discussion of Stewart Lee on A Good Read
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Guest1001, Youtube
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Lee Mack, Mack The Life, 2012
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Lucinda Locketts, Twitter
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Richard Herring, Comedian
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Nicetime, Guardian.co.uk
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Anon, westhamonline.com
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James Dellingpole, Daily Telegraph
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Leach Juice, Twitter
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Etienne, Chortle.com
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Maninabananasuit, Guardian.co.uk
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NevW47479, UKTV.co.uk
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Neolab, Guardian.co.uk
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Cabluigi, Guardian.co.uk
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Yukio Mishima, dontstartmeoff.com
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Dominic Cavendish, Daily Telegraph
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Anonymous, don'tstartmeoff.com
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Johnny Kitkat, dontstartmeoff.com
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98rosjon, Twitter
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Robert Gavin, Twitter
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Frankie Boyle, Comedian
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