In the late 80s I used to do standup at a Soho club called Raging Bull, run by the young Eddie Izzard. At half-time we shared our dressing room with male strippers from The Paul Raymond Carnival of Erotica. They would sit naked in their chairs, casually chatting and masturbating, but not for pleasure, merely…
‘Everyone will have the food they need,” declared Michael Gove to Andrew Marr last Sunday, denying both the lies of Project Fear and the hysterical, biased, ill-informed and suppressed research of his own department. On Tuesday, as the Commons camera drifted past Ken Clarke, I saw the Brexit cheerleader Iain Duncan Smith picking his nose…
I always maintain that I take on a persona when writing columns for the Observer: that of an adopted man, from a relatively normal social background, who is an obvious victim of imposter syndrome. I don’t so much write the columns as transcribe them. The adopted man stands at my shoulder, just out of sight,…
How many small plastic toy egg casings could be hidden in, for example, a Michael Gove? And, if we knew this figure, and had an accurate idea of potential volunteer multiple plastic toy egg couriers, could we extrapolate from it the volume of goods that might be secretly transported, in this fashion, both in and…
I woke early on Monday morning, and sat bolt upright clutching my chest, with the sense that something was afoot. Over the Atlantic, in Washington, a mysterious grey-haired child, with the face of a wizened old man, burst forth from a vast blue egg, laid unnoticed overnight in the White House garden, and declared as…
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Lucinda Locketts, Twitter
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Bobby Bhoy, Twitter
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Richard Herring, Comedian
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Dominic Cavendish, Telegraph
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Len Firewood, Twitter
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John Robins, Comedian
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Dominic Cavendish, Daily Telegraph
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Patrick Kavanagh, Guardian.co.uk
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Neolab, Guardian.co.uk
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Tweeter Kyriakou, Twitter
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Danazawa, Youtube
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Iain, eatenbymissionaries
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Visualiser1, Twitter
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Anon, BBC Complaints Log
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Brendon, Vauxhallownersnetwork.co.uk
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Maninabananasuit, Guardian.co.uk
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Ishamayura Byrd, Twitter
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Rubyshoes, Twitter
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