Ian Hall
@ian64.bsky.social
I have lovely grey hair. Which I keep in this bag.
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And still, there are those who say that Americans can’t do irony.
November 28, 2025 at 7:24 AM
And still, there are those who say that Americans can’t do irony.
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Nobody could accuse #RecipeOfTheDay of being a looker but who cares when this Burnt Onion and Aubergine/ Eggplant Dip tastes so good? (Please note: it’s a rhetorical question!) There’s a reason my last book has a chapter in it called ‘A Loving Defence of Brown Food’. www.nigella.com/recipes/burn...
Burnt Onion and Aubergine Dip
I get many requests for this decidedly brown dip of silky savouriness, the first recipe in my chapter A Loving Defence of Brown Food in Cook, Eat, Repeat, so creamy that you would never guess it’s act...
www.nigella.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Nobody could accuse #RecipeOfTheDay of being a looker but who cares when this Burnt Onion and Aubergine/ Eggplant Dip tastes so good? (Please note: it’s a rhetorical question!) There’s a reason my last book has a chapter in it called ‘A Loving Defence of Brown Food’. www.nigella.com/recipes/burn...
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As Jesus once put it: "what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and then have to pay the mansion tax?"
November 28, 2025 at 12:11 PM
As Jesus once put it: "what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and then have to pay the mansion tax?"
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Terrible to see the west coast gang culture infiltrating the UK
November 28, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Terrible to see the west coast gang culture infiltrating the UK
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because that’s not how copyright works, you dipshit
Quentin Tarantino bashes ‘The Hunger Games’ for “ripping off” ‘Battle Royale’ on Bret Easton Ellis’ podcast:
“I do not understand how the Japanese writer didn’t sue Suzanne Collins for every f***ing thing she owns.”
“I do not understand how the Japanese writer didn’t sue Suzanne Collins for every f***ing thing she owns.”
November 28, 2025 at 12:12 PM
because that’s not how copyright works, you dipshit
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We have got to make politics intellectual again. It is the only way that societies thrive is when politicians have the capability to actually think and reflect deeply:
![I confess that I always had difficulty with interpreting the Biblical precept to love our neighbours “as ourselves” until I read some of the words of C.S. Lewis. He pointed out that we don't exactly love ourselves when we fall below the standards and beliefs we have accepted. Indeed we might even hate ourselves for some unworthy deed.
None of this, of course, tells us exactly what kind of political and social institutions we should have. On this point, Christians will very often genuinely disagree, though it is a mark of Christian manners that they will do so with courtesy and mutual respect. [Applause] What is certain, however, is that any set of social and economic arrangements which is not founded on the acceptance of individual responsibility will do nothing but harm.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xbnsfdtxoothg654ujxe3p25/bafkreicrdgbtvm54qnmttwe6crhxwt4be5v3izjmqtnvlxmaljwg5wolai@jpeg)
November 28, 2025 at 12:15 PM
We have got to make politics intellectual again. It is the only way that societies thrive is when politicians have the capability to actually think and reflect deeply:
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Weird the way the entire world went mad and only the creator of the IT Crowd was unaffected.
November 28, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Weird the way the entire world went mad and only the creator of the IT Crowd was unaffected.
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They're utterly clueless.
Keith Urban Just Performed A Gay Anthem For Trump At Mar-A-Lago—And It's One Big Yikes
www.comicsands.com
November 28, 2025 at 12:16 PM
They're utterly clueless.
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The world survived content warnings on Looney Tunes, pal. Do you think you're better than Bugs Bunny? Do you?
Peter Kay: I wouldn't put Phoenix Nights on Netflix as I didn't want a trigger warning
Peter Kay: I wouldn't put Phoenix Nights on Netflix as I didn't want a trigger warning
But comic reveals he HAS written a film based on the sitcom
dlvr.it
November 28, 2025 at 12:17 PM
The world survived content warnings on Looney Tunes, pal. Do you think you're better than Bugs Bunny? Do you?
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Highlighting the racism of Nigel Farage, as a child or adult, will only backfire. It's doing his advertising for him. His potential voters LOVE the racism.
Better to highlight that Reform will tank the economy and everyone will be skint, they'll shut down the NHS, they're controlled by Moscow, etc.
Better to highlight that Reform will tank the economy and everyone will be skint, they'll shut down the NHS, they're controlled by Moscow, etc.
November 28, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Highlighting the racism of Nigel Farage, as a child or adult, will only backfire. It's doing his advertising for him. His potential voters LOVE the racism.
Better to highlight that Reform will tank the economy and everyone will be skint, they'll shut down the NHS, they're controlled by Moscow, etc.
Better to highlight that Reform will tank the economy and everyone will be skint, they'll shut down the NHS, they're controlled by Moscow, etc.
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This will be excellent as ever. Although the thumbnail looks like a Youtube advert where Toby is about to sell me hypnotism to stop me smoking.
Two episodes for my Absent Friends obituary show this year. So grateful that the station continue to allow me to do this. 27th and 28th December:
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 Extra - Absent Friends 2025 - The 7th Dimension, Episode 1
Toby Hadoke pays tribute to the sci fi, fantasy and horror artists whom we lost in 2025.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 10:16 AM
This will be excellent as ever. Although the thumbnail looks like a Youtube advert where Toby is about to sell me hypnotism to stop me smoking.
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There was no state. Who does she think crucified him, an anarchist collective?
November 28, 2025 at 11:22 AM
There was no state. Who does she think crucified him, an anarchist collective?
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I like to put a plausibly-deniable typo in every external document I work on. I've just sent off a funding proposal with the word "sharted" instead of "shared" on p79.
November 28, 2025 at 12:20 PM
I like to put a plausibly-deniable typo in every external document I work on. I've just sent off a funding proposal with the word "sharted" instead of "shared" on p79.
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My favourite sketch that never got filmed for the Russ Abbot show while I was working on it as a tiny human writer was “Russ is the waiter at the revolving restaurant at the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa.”
That’s one hell of a pitch. Still funny. Shaun Micaleff would have pulled it off…
That’s one hell of a pitch. Still funny. Shaun Micaleff would have pulled it off…
In other news, today, I am going up the post office tower.
a cat is hanging from a very tall building
ALT: a cat is hanging from a very tall building
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November 28, 2025 at 12:22 PM
My favourite sketch that never got filmed for the Russ Abbot show while I was working on it as a tiny human writer was “Russ is the waiter at the revolving restaurant at the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa.”
That’s one hell of a pitch. Still funny. Shaun Micaleff would have pulled it off…
That’s one hell of a pitch. Still funny. Shaun Micaleff would have pulled it off…
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Hooray! The only thing apparently worth saying about comedy - that it’s being gagged - is being said once again by someone who’s done absolutely fucking fine by being allowed to do whatever comedy he wanted in an extremely friendly environment that no longer exists, for purely economic reasons.
Peter Kay: I wouldn't put Phoenix Nights on Netflix as I didn't want a trigger warning
Peter Kay: I wouldn't put Phoenix Nights on Netflix as I didn't want a trigger warning
But comic reveals he HAS written a film based on the sitcom
dlvr.it
November 28, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Hooray! The only thing apparently worth saying about comedy - that it’s being gagged - is being said once again by someone who’s done absolutely fucking fine by being allowed to do whatever comedy he wanted in an extremely friendly environment that no longer exists, for purely economic reasons.
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She is so profoundly intellectually incurious that I find myself fascinated how she ever learnt how to *speak*.
Also the Romans literally had a welfare system that included cash transfers for poor children. (And subsidised grain for low income workers...).
There was no state. Who does she think crucified him, an anarchist collective?
November 28, 2025 at 11:28 AM
She is so profoundly intellectually incurious that I find myself fascinated how she ever learnt how to *speak*.
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There's an interesting article on the making of the ad here: www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/camp...
November 28, 2025 at 11:00 AM
There's an interesting article on the making of the ad here: www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/camp...
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As Jesus said: “You’re on your own mate, not my problem”
Kemi Badenoch says welfare spending is unchristian
Kemi Badenoch says welfare spending is unchristian
Kemi Badenoch says welfare spending is unchristian
www.thetimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:07 AM
As Jesus said: “You’re on your own mate, not my problem”
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Britain’s top selling right wing politics magazine, here: one straightforward fascist (Murray); a fascist and convicted sex offender (Taki); a raging far right wacko done for assaulting his wife (Liddle) and the crackpot editing the whole thing is Michael Gove, a former senior minister.
November 28, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Britain’s top selling right wing politics magazine, here: one straightforward fascist (Murray); a fascist and convicted sex offender (Taki); a raging far right wacko done for assaulting his wife (Liddle) and the crackpot editing the whole thing is Michael Gove, a former senior minister.
What a joyless, nasty piece of work. Her party will die like a dispersing cloud of farts and everybody (except pricks) will benefit from that demise.
Kemi Badenoch says welfare spending is unchristian
Kemi Badenoch says welfare spending is unchristian
Kemi Badenoch says welfare spending is unchristian
www.thetimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:09 AM
What a joyless, nasty piece of work. Her party will die like a dispersing cloud of farts and everybody (except pricks) will benefit from that demise.
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hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha *inhales* hahahahahahahahaahahahahahaha etc
Kemi Badenoch says welfare spending is unchristian
Kemi Badenoch says welfare spending is unchristian
Kemi Badenoch says welfare spending is unchristian
www.thetimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:05 AM
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha *inhales* hahahahahahahahaahahahahahaha etc
I love the lame simplicity of radio ads.
'I've just booked a holiday at Flybastards! They were really affordable and relaxing.'
'Really? That's great!'
'YES! THEY'RE BRILLIANT!'
'SUPER!'
(Copywriter waits for huge cheque).
'
'I've just booked a holiday at Flybastards! They were really affordable and relaxing.'
'Really? That's great!'
'YES! THEY'RE BRILLIANT!'
'SUPER!'
(Copywriter waits for huge cheque).
'
November 28, 2025 at 11:06 AM
I love the lame simplicity of radio ads.
'I've just booked a holiday at Flybastards! They were really affordable and relaxing.'
'Really? That's great!'
'YES! THEY'RE BRILLIANT!'
'SUPER!'
(Copywriter waits for huge cheque).
'
'I've just booked a holiday at Flybastards! They were really affordable and relaxing.'
'Really? That's great!'
'YES! THEY'RE BRILLIANT!'
'SUPER!'
(Copywriter waits for huge cheque).
'
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The only funny thing Rob Schneider ever did was fall face first down some stairs on the set of Judge Dredd & that’s still way more than Andrew Doyle ever managed
November 28, 2025 at 10:56 AM
The only funny thing Rob Schneider ever did was fall face first down some stairs on the set of Judge Dredd & that’s still way more than Andrew Doyle ever managed
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Thank you for the kind words of support at this very difficult time
Does anyone know a good lawyer?
I need to sue the Internet.
I need to sue the Internet.
November 28, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Thank you for the kind words of support at this very difficult time
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Trump has said he will "permanently pause migration" to the US from all "third world countries".
First, “permanently” is not a “pause”. Secondly, “third world countries”. It’s not the 1980s, you backwards buffoon.
First, “permanently” is not a “pause”. Secondly, “third world countries”. It’s not the 1980s, you backwards buffoon.
Trump says US will 'permanently pause migration' from 'third world countries'
The president did not name which countries would be affected, but vowed to remove anyone "not a net asset" to the US.
www.bbc.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Trump has said he will "permanently pause migration" to the US from all "third world countries".
First, “permanently” is not a “pause”. Secondly, “third world countries”. It’s not the 1980s, you backwards buffoon.
First, “permanently” is not a “pause”. Secondly, “third world countries”. It’s not the 1980s, you backwards buffoon.