The only #George that matters.

Happy William Shatner Day!!

I've worked on housing & mental health in Islington & Hackney North for nearly 20yrs. The number of stories of indispensable support, advocacy, or simple acts of kindness from Corbyn or Abbott I hear about from clients has always been a consistent & pronounced feature

Peter Weir is retiring
What a track record:
The Cars That Ate Paris
Picnic at Hanging Rock
The Last Wave
Gallipoli
The Year of Living Dangerously
Witness
The Mosquito Coast
Dead Poets Society
Green Card
Fearless
The Truman Show
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

For those carping about Putin's rigged election, just a little humility about the fact that during Putin's reign not one single UK PM has come to power through winning a general election, and the current one was appointed by just a couple of hundred people.

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Clash of the Shite-ones round 2 bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-…

'Our film shows where dehumanization leads at its worst ... We stand here as men who refute their Jewishness and the Holocaust being hijacked by an occupation which has led to conflict for so many innocent people.' Jonathan Glazer calls to ceasefire

Brilliant work (as ever!) from Kelechi Anucha on the ‘After the End’ project on how public health emergencies have narrated their endings.

What is the actual fucking point of the Labour Party - beyond making us eat exactly the same shit as the Tories, except fed to us by a patronising middle manager type telling us to pretend it's a choo choo train?

Regular reminder to the Labour Party that a country can’t “run out of money” and it doesn’t have a “credit card”, literally or metaphorically. A-level economics isn’t that hard. I’m sure you could get some textbooks off Amazon.

'This house will become a shrine, punks, skins and rastas will all gather round and hold their hands in sorrow for their fallen leader. And all the grown ups will say, 'but why are the kids crying?' - 'haven't you heard, Rik is dead!, the people's poet is dead'.
#RikMayall

I think just 1000 tea bags would have been fine.

20 years ago today was my dad's 51st and final birthday. From memory, he was describing his novel approach to managing his iatrogenic diabetes by eating more sugar.

He was awesome.

‘I’m paranoid about everything in my life. Even at home on my stationary bike, I have a rearview mirror.’
RIP Richard Lewis

Come do a PhD with me at QMUL Centre for Psychiatry & Mental Health exploring dementia and MLTCs in people experiencing socioeconomic deprivation using mixed methods. Due to start Oct 24 for three years. Applications will close 1st May.

Contact me at [email protected] to chat more.

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RIP Paul Neary

1949-2024

Inker, writer, penciller, editor. Thank you for all the beautiful work over the years 🙏

RIP Paul Neary who had quite an influence on my comic reading youth from his annual covers, to his work for Marvel UK-artwork and editorial skills
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