Alistair Barrie
@alistairbarrie.com
Comedian, allegedly. Latest special 'Woke in Progress' out now on ITVX: www.alistairbarrie.com
Admittedly I’m not an economist, but that description of his post at least makes more sense than his post. I’m glad you’ve translated it but beyond ‘I scared Supreme Court Trillion dollars’ I can’t really follow a word of it.
January 12, 2026 at 10:42 PM
Admittedly I’m not an economist, but that description of his post at least makes more sense than his post. I’m glad you’ve translated it but beyond ‘I scared Supreme Court Trillion dollars’ I can’t really follow a word of it.
Also, surely people want drugs in nightclubs, so we should let them have those yes? What with the no kids being around. And the orange juice ban? 🤪
January 12, 2026 at 10:28 PM
Also, surely people want drugs in nightclubs, so we should let them have those yes? What with the no kids being around. And the orange juice ban? 🤪
You think the orange squash bit sounded sane???
January 12, 2026 at 10:25 PM
You think the orange squash bit sounded sane???
Sorry Kemi, just checking - child porn is ok if it's made by companies, yes?
Wow. And there was me thinking child sex abuse was horrific, but it turns out all a paedophile ring needs to do to make their activities acceptable is apply to Companies House.
*Next week: Should kiddie porn attract VAT?*
Wow. And there was me thinking child sex abuse was horrific, but it turns out all a paedophile ring needs to do to make their activities acceptable is apply to Companies House.
*Next week: Should kiddie porn attract VAT?*
Kemi going to bat for the non-consensual, violent, child porn app formerly known as X.
January 12, 2026 at 9:33 PM
Sorry Kemi, just checking - child porn is ok if it's made by companies, yes?
Wow. And there was me thinking child sex abuse was horrific, but it turns out all a paedophile ring needs to do to make their activities acceptable is apply to Companies House.
*Next week: Should kiddie porn attract VAT?*
Wow. And there was me thinking child sex abuse was horrific, but it turns out all a paedophile ring needs to do to make their activities acceptable is apply to Companies House.
*Next week: Should kiddie porn attract VAT?*
Sorry, but this is more idiotic word salad anthropomorphising Grok. Grok is an AI program. It’s not a human. Humans using Grok is the problem. Therefore humans, or one in particular, can not only ‘control’ Grok, they can turn it off.
Stop pretending we’re in the f*cking Matrix. We’re not.
Not yet.
Stop pretending we’re in the f*cking Matrix. We’re not.
Not yet.
BREAKING: Keir Starmer says the Government will "control" Grok if Elon Musk and X do not
"This Government will be guided by its values. We'll stand up for the vulnerable against the powerful. If X cannot control Grok, we will and we'll do it fast"
"This Government will be guided by its values. We'll stand up for the vulnerable against the powerful. If X cannot control Grok, we will and we'll do it fast"
January 12, 2026 at 7:23 PM
Sorry, but this is more idiotic word salad anthropomorphising Grok. Grok is an AI program. It’s not a human. Humans using Grok is the problem. Therefore humans, or one in particular, can not only ‘control’ Grok, they can turn it off.
Stop pretending we’re in the f*cking Matrix. We’re not.
Not yet.
Stop pretending we’re in the f*cking Matrix. We’re not.
Not yet.
But I don’t think she actually gets properly Barbiefied until an ‘industry figure’ tells her she needs to ‘doll herself up a bit’ before she’ll be able to get on TV.
January 12, 2026 at 4:23 PM
But I don’t think she actually gets properly Barbiefied until an ‘industry figure’ tells her she needs to ‘doll herself up a bit’ before she’ll be able to get on TV.
Yes. And very much the school of ‘people I would actively cross the street the street to avoid appear to be echoing my prejudice, so I am happy to see them as sword bearers of a fundamental truth ON THIS ONE OCCASION’.
January 12, 2026 at 1:30 PM
Yes. And very much the school of ‘people I would actively cross the street the street to avoid appear to be echoing my prejudice, so I am happy to see them as sword bearers of a fundamental truth ON THIS ONE OCCASION’.
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A man whose word can be relied on.
January 12, 2026 at 11:34 AM
A man whose word can be relied on.
What’s possibly slightly more depressing is this person saying he found himself engaging with ‘hardcore feminists’ which he would never have done until he found their views on ‘the trans thing’ simple ‘common sense’.
And the smug presumption the ‘issue’ is now ‘settled’ & ‘common sense’ had won.
And the smug presumption the ‘issue’ is now ‘settled’ & ‘common sense’ had won.
January 12, 2026 at 11:34 AM
What’s possibly slightly more depressing is this person saying he found himself engaging with ‘hardcore feminists’ which he would never have done until he found their views on ‘the trans thing’ simple ‘common sense’.
And the smug presumption the ‘issue’ is now ‘settled’ & ‘common sense’ had won.
And the smug presumption the ‘issue’ is now ‘settled’ & ‘common sense’ had won.
God I had a tedious conversation at a friend’s house on Sat with someone who definitely veers to the ‘trans is just blokes in dresses’ view of the world. Telling me RG & Chapelle were tackling ‘taboo’ subjects & me wearyingly pointing out the difference between ‘tackling’ & mentioning. And comedy.
January 12, 2026 at 11:15 AM
God I had a tedious conversation at a friend’s house on Sat with someone who definitely veers to the ‘trans is just blokes in dresses’ view of the world. Telling me RG & Chapelle were tackling ‘taboo’ subjects & me wearyingly pointing out the difference between ‘tackling’ & mentioning. And comedy.
Whilst encouraging more of it on our streets:
January 12, 2026 at 8:35 AM
Whilst encouraging more of it on our streets:
Already have, already do.
Hoping to open the batting next time I return cos I’ve GOT to be better than Crawley.
(And congratulations. Again. Through gritted but resigned teeth.)
Hoping to open the batting next time I return cos I’ve GOT to be better than Crawley.
(And congratulations. Again. Through gritted but resigned teeth.)
January 12, 2026 at 7:23 AM
Already have, already do.
Hoping to open the batting next time I return cos I’ve GOT to be better than Crawley.
(And congratulations. Again. Through gritted but resigned teeth.)
Hoping to open the batting next time I return cos I’ve GOT to be better than Crawley.
(And congratulations. Again. Through gritted but resigned teeth.)
Horrific sensationalism from those rabid lefties at The Telegraph here.
What they obviously FAIL to mention is Nigel Farage can’t set FOOT in London without footpads SEIZING all the Rolexes he keeps sewn inside his jacket.
(He can’t set foot in Clacton either, but that’s cos he doesn’t want to.)
What they obviously FAIL to mention is Nigel Farage can’t set FOOT in London without footpads SEIZING all the Rolexes he keeps sewn inside his jacket.
(He can’t set foot in Clacton either, but that’s cos he doesn’t want to.)
"Disappointing Number Of Deaths in the Deadliest Place On Earth", writes the Telegraph
January 12, 2026 at 7:20 AM
Horrific sensationalism from those rabid lefties at The Telegraph here.
What they obviously FAIL to mention is Nigel Farage can’t set FOOT in London without footpads SEIZING all the Rolexes he keeps sewn inside his jacket.
(He can’t set foot in Clacton either, but that’s cos he doesn’t want to.)
What they obviously FAIL to mention is Nigel Farage can’t set FOOT in London without footpads SEIZING all the Rolexes he keeps sewn inside his jacket.
(He can’t set foot in Clacton either, but that’s cos he doesn’t want to.)
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If you told a Sun journalist appearing on Question Time you weren’t sending a car for them they’d throw a tantrum to make Elton John blush.
*Thought*
Is this what has actually happened? 🤔
*Thought*
Is this what has actually happened? 🤔
January 11, 2026 at 10:39 PM
If you told a Sun journalist appearing on Question Time you weren’t sending a car for them they’d throw a tantrum to make Elton John blush.
*Thought*
Is this what has actually happened? 🤔
*Thought*
Is this what has actually happened? 🤔
If you told a Sun journalist appearing on Question Time you weren’t sending a car for them they’d throw a tantrum to make Elton John blush.
*Thought*
Is this what has actually happened? 🤔
*Thought*
Is this what has actually happened? 🤔
January 11, 2026 at 10:39 PM
If you told a Sun journalist appearing on Question Time you weren’t sending a car for them they’d throw a tantrum to make Elton John blush.
*Thought*
Is this what has actually happened? 🤔
*Thought*
Is this what has actually happened? 🤔
The future is no longer quite so bright, but you might enjoy this from Timbuk3’s not very difficult second album.
Dirty Dirty Rice
YouTube video by Timbuk 3 - Topic
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January 11, 2026 at 8:09 PM
The future is no longer quite so bright, but you might enjoy this from Timbuk3’s not very difficult second album.
Added to which, as he has a blue tick he can still create sexualised images of dead people and children and to stop him having the right to do that is an infringement of his basic civil liberties, right?
Oh hang on. No. It’s deeply twisted shit which any sane human would utterly condemn.
Oh hang on. No. It’s deeply twisted shit which any sane human would utterly condemn.
January 11, 2026 at 8:04 PM
Added to which, as he has a blue tick he can still create sexualised images of dead people and children and to stop him having the right to do that is an infringement of his basic civil liberties, right?
Oh hang on. No. It’s deeply twisted shit which any sane human would utterly condemn.
Oh hang on. No. It’s deeply twisted shit which any sane human would utterly condemn.
Yup. But it’s all basically an extension of the same principle:
People need to use public transport rather than drive.
They should fly less.
They should pay more for every stream.
Streamers should pay creators properly.
Etc etc etc.
But they won’t.
Humanity is killing itself with convenience.
People need to use public transport rather than drive.
They should fly less.
They should pay more for every stream.
Streamers should pay creators properly.
Etc etc etc.
But they won’t.
Humanity is killing itself with convenience.
essentially repeating @jamesdaustin.bsky.social's point that people say they want a nice high street and yet aren't using their high street, in order to add: people need to also actively choose to spend more in brick and mortar shops than they would online, even if it feels unfair!
Latest from me, on an eternally overlooked, sniffed-at issue that is politically huge www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
January 11, 2026 at 7:54 PM
Yup. But it’s all basically an extension of the same principle:
People need to use public transport rather than drive.
They should fly less.
They should pay more for every stream.
Streamers should pay creators properly.
Etc etc etc.
But they won’t.
Humanity is killing itself with convenience.
People need to use public transport rather than drive.
They should fly less.
They should pay more for every stream.
Streamers should pay creators properly.
Etc etc etc.
But they won’t.
Humanity is killing itself with convenience.
And I fundamentally disagree with this point: ‘blusky is just as much of a liberal echo chamber as truth social is a conservative one’
(Unless, as you say, your definition of ‘echo chamber’ is so expansive as to be essentially meaningless.)
(Unless, as you say, your definition of ‘echo chamber’ is so expansive as to be essentially meaningless.)
January 11, 2026 at 7:40 PM
And I fundamentally disagree with this point: ‘blusky is just as much of a liberal echo chamber as truth social is a conservative one’
(Unless, as you say, your definition of ‘echo chamber’ is so expansive as to be essentially meaningless.)
(Unless, as you say, your definition of ‘echo chamber’ is so expansive as to be essentially meaningless.)
And the Presidency. What a winning combination. 🤯🔫
January 11, 2026 at 7:32 PM
And the Presidency. What a winning combination. 🤯🔫
If you’re talking to me, I’m not really saying this site is an echo chamber in the way sites run with an algorithm are.
But I’m fully aware there is a more liberal bias here, which is a) why I like it and b) why loads of people who’ve never even looked at this site describe it as such.
But I’m fully aware there is a more liberal bias here, which is a) why I like it and b) why loads of people who’ve never even looked at this site describe it as such.
January 11, 2026 at 7:30 PM
If you’re talking to me, I’m not really saying this site is an echo chamber in the way sites run with an algorithm are.
But I’m fully aware there is a more liberal bias here, which is a) why I like it and b) why loads of people who’ve never even looked at this site describe it as such.
But I’m fully aware there is a more liberal bias here, which is a) why I like it and b) why loads of people who’ve never even looked at this site describe it as such.
I thought I tried to make it very clear that my optimism was hardly living its best life right now as it was.
January 11, 2026 at 7:26 PM
I thought I tried to make it very clear that my optimism was hardly living its best life right now as it was.
Hm. A private members club for people who want to sexualise kids. Has a certain ‘ring’ to it, no?
Not sure how much more violence Trump needs to distract from his own ring, but I do wonder if this isn’t, & I say this deeply uneasily, a good time for Grok to get brushed under the Oval Office carpet.
Not sure how much more violence Trump needs to distract from his own ring, but I do wonder if this isn’t, & I say this deeply uneasily, a good time for Grok to get brushed under the Oval Office carpet.
January 11, 2026 at 10:51 AM
Hm. A private members club for people who want to sexualise kids. Has a certain ‘ring’ to it, no?
Not sure how much more violence Trump needs to distract from his own ring, but I do wonder if this isn’t, & I say this deeply uneasily, a good time for Grok to get brushed under the Oval Office carpet.
Not sure how much more violence Trump needs to distract from his own ring, but I do wonder if this isn’t, & I say this deeply uneasily, a good time for Grok to get brushed under the Oval Office carpet.
Pretty sure my preference for BlueSky over X doesn’t have any bearing on that. What is undeniable is echo chambers on the right have been weaponised (especially X) in a way a platform with no algorithim can’t be.
All for confronting confirmation bias, but that is different from shared opinions.
All for confronting confirmation bias, but that is different from shared opinions.
January 11, 2026 at 9:15 AM
Pretty sure my preference for BlueSky over X doesn’t have any bearing on that. What is undeniable is echo chambers on the right have been weaponised (especially X) in a way a platform with no algorithim can’t be.
All for confronting confirmation bias, but that is different from shared opinions.
All for confronting confirmation bias, but that is different from shared opinions.
I can’t believe Trump got to the Primaries, let alone the nomination.
I stood in Trump Tower in 1989 & knew he was rotten to the core then. But I am not American.
He won by a whisker in ‘16 when the polls were way off.
Was pretty sure he’d win in ‘24 cos Democrats screwed their own democracy.
I stood in Trump Tower in 1989 & knew he was rotten to the core then. But I am not American.
He won by a whisker in ‘16 when the polls were way off.
Was pretty sure he’d win in ‘24 cos Democrats screwed their own democracy.
January 11, 2026 at 9:07 AM
I can’t believe Trump got to the Primaries, let alone the nomination.
I stood in Trump Tower in 1989 & knew he was rotten to the core then. But I am not American.
He won by a whisker in ‘16 when the polls were way off.
Was pretty sure he’d win in ‘24 cos Democrats screwed their own democracy.
I stood in Trump Tower in 1989 & knew he was rotten to the core then. But I am not American.
He won by a whisker in ‘16 when the polls were way off.
Was pretty sure he’d win in ‘24 cos Democrats screwed their own democracy.