Van Badham
@vanbadham.bsky.social
Guardian columnist, co-hosts The Week on Wednesday podcast, makes theatre, yaps a lot. Contact me: https://linktr.ee/vanbadham You should totally buy my book, QANON & ON: A Short and Shocking History of Internet Conspiracy Cults. It’s bonkers.
YES: my adaptation of “Animal Farm” is coming to Adelaide Fringe in Feb, performed by the renowned Conundrum Theatre of Singapore. Attached is a fun promo from the 2021 Black Swan production in Perth: the Singaporean version is
EVEN MORE bonkers, book here: adelaidefringe.com.au/fringetix/ge...
EVEN MORE bonkers, book here: adelaidefringe.com.au/fringetix/ge...
January 21, 2026 at 10:59 PM
YES: my adaptation of “Animal Farm” is coming to Adelaide Fringe in Feb, performed by the renowned Conundrum Theatre of Singapore. Attached is a fun promo from the 2021 Black Swan production in Perth: the Singaporean version is
EVEN MORE bonkers, book here: adelaidefringe.com.au/fringetix/ge...
EVEN MORE bonkers, book here: adelaidefringe.com.au/fringetix/ge...
It is not acceptable to pay ANY workers in Australia $2.50 an hour a so the union movement is fighting Carnival Cruises doing this on their Australian ships through appalling, exploitative loopholes.
Summary attached - and more information and a call to action here: www.mua.org.au/MUA/Content/...
Summary attached - and more information and a call to action here: www.mua.org.au/MUA/Content/...
January 20, 2026 at 4:32 AM
It is not acceptable to pay ANY workers in Australia $2.50 an hour a so the union movement is fighting Carnival Cruises doing this on their Australian ships through appalling, exploitative loopholes.
Summary attached - and more information and a call to action here: www.mua.org.au/MUA/Content/...
Summary attached - and more information and a call to action here: www.mua.org.au/MUA/Content/...
This @leftistlogician.bsky.social should have more followers based on the attached skeet alone. Please share - i need more people who understand that if you can’t build socialism without shitcanning Democrats, you don’t know shit about socialism but you’re sure awesome at helping fascists.
January 19, 2026 at 2:19 AM
This @leftistlogician.bsky.social should have more followers based on the attached skeet alone. Please share - i need more people who understand that if you can’t build socialism without shitcanning Democrats, you don’t know shit about socialism but you’re sure awesome at helping fascists.
A diversity of ordinary Minnesotans screaming ICE agents out of a supermarket with “Bitch ass white boys, get the fuck out! You’re fucking cowards!” is the energy that will save America.
January 12, 2026 at 12:34 AM
A diversity of ordinary Minnesotans screaming ICE agents out of a supermarket with “Bitch ass white boys, get the fuck out! You’re fucking cowards!” is the energy that will save America.
If you need a timeline cleanse, this just happened on Threads and it saved me from despair. Zoom out.
January 9, 2026 at 11:27 PM
If you need a timeline cleanse, this just happened on Threads and it saved me from despair. Zoom out.
So what Trump’s just admitted before the entire world media is that he leaked classified military operational information that put US serving personnel lives at risk.
January 5, 2026 at 9:34 AM
So what Trump’s just admitted before the entire world media is that he leaked classified military operational information that put US serving personnel lives at risk.
WALL STREET JOURNAL WITH THE STORY: so, Trump was supplying Epstein with teens on “house calls” from the Mar-a-Lago spa until one - who was 18 - put a complaint in with a paper trail. But the complaint was CURIOUSLY never taken to the police.
December 31, 2025 at 7:23 AM
WALL STREET JOURNAL WITH THE STORY: so, Trump was supplying Epstein with teens on “house calls” from the Mar-a-Lago spa until one - who was 18 - put a complaint in with a paper trail. But the complaint was CURIOUSLY never taken to the police.
If you are feeling low or sick or really down about the world, I can personally recommend watching the video of Anthony Joshua slapping the living shit out of Trumpist Jake Paul as balm for the soul.
December 21, 2025 at 2:54 AM
If you are feeling low or sick or really down about the world, I can personally recommend watching the video of Anthony Joshua slapping the living shit out of Trumpist Jake Paul as balm for the soul.
If you’re trying to process how an antisemitic massacre happened in Australia - and how you can show meaningful solidarity to the Jewish Australian community in its wake - I had the honour of previewing this book of exceptional personal essays and I recommend it.
www.dymocks.com.au/ruptured-by-...
www.dymocks.com.au/ruptured-by-...
December 21, 2025 at 2:51 AM
If you’re trying to process how an antisemitic massacre happened in Australia - and how you can show meaningful solidarity to the Jewish Australian community in its wake - I had the honour of previewing this book of exceptional personal essays and I recommend it.
www.dymocks.com.au/ruptured-by-...
www.dymocks.com.au/ruptured-by-...
Congratulations to the UK’s Anthony Joshua for his victory over Trumpist piece of shit Jake Paul in the ring, and congratulations to the writer of the photo caption below for its victory over our hearts.
December 20, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Congratulations to the UK’s Anthony Joshua for his victory over Trumpist piece of shit Jake Paul in the ring, and congratulations to the writer of the photo caption below for its victory over our hearts.
“Lips that don’t stop - pop - pop!”
December 17, 2025 at 8:34 AM
“Lips that don’t stop - pop - pop!”
Aha! We finally know where that “popping” noise is coming from.
December 17, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Aha! We finally know where that “popping” noise is coming from.
The symbolism of Australians racing to donate blood to help the victims of the antisemitic terror attack in Sydney should not be underestimated.
This is a people saying: I give of my most inner self to help you, unknown friends. I give without credit. I recognise that humanity is one body.
#auspol
This is a people saying: I give of my most inner self to help you, unknown friends. I give without credit. I recognise that humanity is one body.
#auspol
December 15, 2025 at 11:02 AM
The symbolism of Australians racing to donate blood to help the victims of the antisemitic terror attack in Sydney should not be underestimated.
This is a people saying: I give of my most inner self to help you, unknown friends. I give without credit. I recognise that humanity is one body.
#auspol
This is a people saying: I give of my most inner self to help you, unknown friends. I give without credit. I recognise that humanity is one body.
#auspol
A reminder that the Australian gun laws that limited the scale of the anti-semitic slaughter in Sydney yesterday were repeatedly denounced by Charlie Kirk, who also said gun availability in the USA was “worth it to have a cost” of gun deaths every single year, “That is a prudent deal.”
December 14, 2025 at 11:51 PM
A reminder that the Australian gun laws that limited the scale of the anti-semitic slaughter in Sydney yesterday were repeatedly denounced by Charlie Kirk, who also said gun availability in the USA was “worth it to have a cost” of gun deaths every single year, “That is a prudent deal.”
More thoughts on Australia’s social media ban for teens since I first wrote about it a year ago: www.facebook.com/share/p/17i3...
December 9, 2025 at 8:27 PM
More thoughts on Australia’s social media ban for teens since I first wrote about it a year ago: www.facebook.com/share/p/17i3...
This is every Republican in the US Congress under Trump as well as the no-name seat-warmer running against @aftynbehn.bsky.social in Tennessee.
Elegant design. Says everything.
Elegant design. Says everything.
November 29, 2025 at 9:54 AM
This is every Republican in the US Congress under Trump as well as the no-name seat-warmer running against @aftynbehn.bsky.social in Tennessee.
Elegant design. Says everything.
Elegant design. Says everything.
I’m serving classic Hoodoos today and you really should leave this record lying around for your teenagers to discover, it will get them through a lot.
Brilliant reappraisal of the amazing “Stoneage Romeos” here: www.theguardian.com/music/articl... #ausmusictshirtday
Brilliant reappraisal of the amazing “Stoneage Romeos” here: www.theguardian.com/music/articl... #ausmusictshirtday
November 27, 2025 at 10:29 AM
I’m serving classic Hoodoos today and you really should leave this record lying around for your teenagers to discover, it will get them through a lot.
Brilliant reappraisal of the amazing “Stoneage Romeos” here: www.theguardian.com/music/articl... #ausmusictshirtday
Brilliant reappraisal of the amazing “Stoneage Romeos” here: www.theguardian.com/music/articl... #ausmusictshirtday
When the Australian government hang out together vs when the Trump regime hang out together.
#auspol #ausmusictshirtday
#auspol #ausmusictshirtday
November 27, 2025 at 9:54 AM
When the Australian government hang out together vs when the Trump regime hang out together.
#auspol #ausmusictshirtday
#auspol #ausmusictshirtday
Friends: do you know a Megan, who recently hurt her ankle in a Trade Joe’s parking lot and had surgery? Because her pissy ginger boyfriend is talking shit about her at Denver airport and thousands of women on Threads from *at least four* continents are gonna hunt him into his last days.
Pass it on.
Pass it on.
November 27, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Friends: do you know a Megan, who recently hurt her ankle in a Trade Joe’s parking lot and had surgery? Because her pissy ginger boyfriend is talking shit about her at Denver airport and thousands of women on Threads from *at least four* continents are gonna hunt him into his last days.
Pass it on.
Pass it on.
I am trying to understand how Barnaby Joyce thinks China’s Xi Jingping would even know *who the hell* he is.
How drunk are you, Barabbas Loins?!
#auspol
How drunk are you, Barabbas Loins?!
#auspol
November 27, 2025 at 3:56 AM
I am trying to understand how Barnaby Joyce thinks China’s Xi Jingping would even know *who the hell* he is.
How drunk are you, Barabbas Loins?!
#auspol
How drunk are you, Barabbas Loins?!
#auspol
Always thrilled to discover more fun stories on the Internet about Donald Trump hanging out with sex pests, sex pestering around like a fucking rapist.
November 24, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Always thrilled to discover more fun stories on the Internet about Donald Trump hanging out with sex pests, sex pestering around like a fucking rapist.
It’s finally happened: I am your tech overlord now.
November 21, 2025 at 2:46 AM
It’s finally happened: I am your tech overlord now.