@darcyswickham.bsky.social
Paddy in London. Or a Londoner, former Paddy depending on how you see it.
November 29, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Insane that the SWP are still a thing after the disgrace of their protecting comrade delta. Lost half their membership, lost all credibility, destroyed any chance of their becoming anything more than a sleazy little cult, but still, no shame and have the gall for stunts like this.
Joyously the clause saying you couldn’t be in any other parties has been very clearly stated for *weeks*. It’s just clear that for some reason the SWP lot had been convinced that wouldn’t be applied to them.
November 29, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Insane that the SWP are still a thing after the disgrace of their protecting comrade delta. Lost half their membership, lost all credibility, destroyed any chance of their becoming anything more than a sleazy little cult, but still, no shame and have the gall for stunts like this.
Watching Richard e Grant meander around his house. He spends most of ghr time talking about his late wife. It’s unbearably charming.
November 29, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Watching Richard e Grant meander around his house. He spends most of ghr time talking about his late wife. It’s unbearably charming.
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To give an idea of the breadth of events at @allgoodbookshop.co.uk, last night was the launch of The Geometry Of The Last Supper and tonight's is the launch of Why I Failed In Porn.
November 29, 2025 at 4:07 PM
To give an idea of the breadth of events at @allgoodbookshop.co.uk, last night was the launch of The Geometry Of The Last Supper and tonight's is the launch of Why I Failed In Porn.
What is actually going on?
November 29, 2025 at 4:06 PM
What is actually going on?
I have it for breakfast.
UPDATE: in the btl comments quite a few people are livid with my suggestion that nobody really wants to eat Christmas pudding at the end of the Christmas Day meal.
No review from me today cos it’s the @ft_weekend.com CHRISTMAS SPECIAL, edited by @harrietfl.ft.com. It’s a banger and ever better in print. A top team including @nigella.bsky.social @timhayward.bsky.social @jancisrobinson.com and, er, me nominate the Christmas food must haves.
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November 29, 2025 at 3:57 PM
I have it for breakfast.
Did a spoken word last night and the promotion matieriak is pleasingly paced
November 29, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Did a spoken word last night and the promotion matieriak is pleasingly paced
Niche. But what about the followers of Comrade delta?
Sultana says she would reverse the expulsions of SWP and other communists kicked out for "dual membership" in recent weeks
November 29, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Niche. But what about the followers of Comrade delta?
I think a sign of getting older is learning to let go. Wife mad? Concede. Works wants a change? Let it go. That slice of pizza won’t tear off? Turn the plate.
Exceptions apply. You play your shit music on my bus without headphones, I’m calling you a prick and eating your cat with a fork.
Exceptions apply. You play your shit music on my bus without headphones, I’m calling you a prick and eating your cat with a fork.
November 28, 2025 at 8:44 PM
I think a sign of getting older is learning to let go. Wife mad? Concede. Works wants a change? Let it go. That slice of pizza won’t tear off? Turn the plate.
Exceptions apply. You play your shit music on my bus without headphones, I’m calling you a prick and eating your cat with a fork.
Exceptions apply. You play your shit music on my bus without headphones, I’m calling you a prick and eating your cat with a fork.
Why is Badenoch trying to talk about Christianity when she’s one of those online atheist bores?
November 28, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Why is Badenoch trying to talk about Christianity when she’s one of those online atheist bores?
No. No it was still racist back then. It was very much racist in 2005.
Nigel Farage asked about Reform MS Laura Anne Jones (who the Senedd Commissioner found had used a racist term in a staff WhatsApp chat in August 2023 while discussing TikTok writing: “No chinky spies for me.”)
"Well, she used a word that colloquially, probably was meant in a nice way 20 years ago."
"Well, she used a word that colloquially, probably was meant in a nice way 20 years ago."
November 26, 2025 at 8:14 PM
No. No it was still racist back then. It was very much racist in 2005.
Wait, this could work for me.
Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
November 26, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Wait, this could work for me.
That time of year where I sell my soul to the spectator for a cheap bottle of whiskey.
November 26, 2025 at 6:33 PM
That time of year where I sell my soul to the spectator for a cheap bottle of whiskey.
I like beinf a very typical boorish looking man as this never occurred to me growing up. Dad looked down on people who couldn’t sew like.
So many men go through life like that. You can play poker because it's right-coded, you can't enjoy fruity alcoholic drinks because they're women-coded, you can't lick an ice cream cone because it's gay-coded. All day, every day, choosing and judging things based on coding for narrow norms.
November 26, 2025 at 5:30 PM
I like beinf a very typical boorish looking man as this never occurred to me growing up. Dad looked down on people who couldn’t sew like.
‘Everybody I know listens to The Whirly band.’
‘No, you know everyone who listens to the ‘Whirly band.’
‘No, you know everyone who listens to the ‘Whirly band.’
a 🤝 between all types of very online people, both left and right alike, is that “you have no idea what’s coming” usually portends that the thing they’re talking about is not, in fact, coming
by all indications “literally all of society mildly likes this abominable scam homunculus” is much closer to the truth. I don’t see how you can win if you are actively in denial about the reality you’re resisting
November 26, 2025 at 5:24 PM
‘Everybody I know listens to The Whirly band.’
‘No, you know everyone who listens to the ‘Whirly band.’
‘No, you know everyone who listens to the ‘Whirly band.’
Oh much more accepting. We only beat adherents with spoons now.
Is this platform still massively against AI or has it moved more towards acceptance?
November 26, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Oh much more accepting. We only beat adherents with spoons now.
Local Facebook groups, in a very posh area of London, complaining about food inflation. Noting that mice has doubled in price in the last year. Labour just ignoring this is going to lose the next election.
November 26, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Local Facebook groups, in a very posh area of London, complaining about food inflation. Noting that mice has doubled in price in the last year. Labour just ignoring this is going to lose the next election.
We’ve had, quite literally, thousands of miscarriages of justice over the last two years due to both the incompetence of magistrates and the insanely tight sentencing guidelines that are as draconian as possible for those that attempt to be law abiding, and lenient as can be for serial offenders.
oh Americans may not understand this, but a 'magistrate' in the UK is a local volunteer with typically no legal background. But it's ok, they receive about 10 days of training. And now they can send you to jail for two years without a jury!
what the fuck
November 26, 2025 at 12:27 PM
We’ve had, quite literally, thousands of miscarriages of justice over the last two years due to both the incompetence of magistrates and the insanely tight sentencing guidelines that are as draconian as possible for those that attempt to be law abiding, and lenient as can be for serial offenders.
Glasman every day
November 25, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Glasman every day
Place that was selling wine for £3 a glass is now at £8.50. Used to be our favourite lunch spot until 2022. Now I just wouldn’t think to go in there. Government hasn’t got a clue about how useless they’re being on day to day issues.
One of my mum friends works for Tesco HQ. She says homeware is counter cyclical: people can't afford a new sofa so buy cushions. I noticed lately that the posh ready meal section expanded suddenly. Made me wonder if people are switching from takeaways. And if perhaps things are going to get rough.
“Bearing down on the cost of living” latest:
November 24, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Place that was selling wine for £3 a glass is now at £8.50. Used to be our favourite lunch spot until 2022. Now I just wouldn’t think to go in there. Government hasn’t got a clue about how useless they’re being on day to day issues.
Jesus. I don’t like them, they mess up the lines of my suits. But they’re the easiest way to enable safeguarding. No lanyard? Why are you on the premises? Who are you visiting? Can’t explain, out you go.
It’s such a stupid compliant only used by complete morons who can’t think past their own nose.
It’s such a stupid compliant only used by complete morons who can’t think past their own nose.
November 23, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Jesus. I don’t like them, they mess up the lines of my suits. But they’re the easiest way to enable safeguarding. No lanyard? Why are you on the premises? Who are you visiting? Can’t explain, out you go.
It’s such a stupid compliant only used by complete morons who can’t think past their own nose.
It’s such a stupid compliant only used by complete morons who can’t think past their own nose.
They are going go eat these people with spoons.
Bessent: "You know the best way to bring your inflation rate down? Move from a blue state to a red state. Blue state inflation is half a percent higher."
November 23, 2025 at 5:05 PM
They are going go eat these people with spoons.
I should have always been it and spent too long a time trying not to be.
November 23, 2025 at 4:58 PM
I should have always been it and spent too long a time trying not to be.