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A lot of people who have axes to grind are ignoring Arday's very obvious personal charisma as they want to make EDI the problem

Max Miller is not *just* a Rep from Ohio. He is a famous comedian of the vaudeville era renowned for his risque style and known as the Cheekie Chappie.

The complete humourlessness of a lot of American 80s punk meant it never took off in a big way in a lot of places

*In theory* it is probably easier to do political satire now than at any time since the 60s given quite how brittle a lot of political types seem to be

Ah yes the five genders

I regret to inform you there has been another Substack piece about why the Trads victory is inevitable open.substack.com/pub/socialma...

Reverse RumspringaWhy the "Trad Life" is Seen as an Existential Threatopen.substack.com

This White Rope are the best band to have come out of the desert scene of the 80s/90s, much better than Kyuss

This is true, Paul died in the 60s and was replaced with a lookalike

Has anyone ever written anything about the seeming link between the Straussian style close reading all the Claremonters etc are into and stuff like William Empson's Seven Types of Ambiguity? My knowledge of the former is a little vague but they seem basically similar techniques

Posting screenshots from BSky to Twitter and vice versa for sneering is one thing, but people posting on Twitter because they are mad they got flamed on BSky is just unendingly funny

Having relistened to The Vaccines first album a) It still holds up b) They got around the fact they were pretty repetitive by making the songs short c) The song about a 16 year old is if anything more noncey than it was then and it was already extremely noncey

Releasing a video to promote your new paper about how we should give up on Net Zero against a backdrop of dead grass on a day half of Suffolk is on fire

All the usual suspects on X the Everything App are trying to spin the fact Botswana's economy is in a downturn as evidence black people are incapable of self-government if you want to know how its going

Any explanation as to why The Times ran this and the TES didn't? Bigger legal budget?