Actor ~ Rep'd by Henry Alexander Talent. Singing Teacher ~ Associate Teacher, Mark Meylan Studio. Dad; Carpenter; lover of country walks and gardening.
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Terrifyingly it's well over a decade since the wonderful @swkplay Parade revival. But here's a little throwback to it that I recorded recently. Still one of my favourite jobs of my whole career...
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You do start to think that Social Media has basically sent us mad. Political discourse in so many of the various online bubbles is now so divorced from reality that being popular in government is basically impossible.
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One starts to get to the point of thinking that social media and stable democracy are simply incompatible.
And this is the real post-2008 story, since the dates of slow economic growth and social media are in fact the same. theguardian.com/uk-news/2026…
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People are afraid to point out the bad arguments in their own tribe, because they rightly fear it will be interpreted by their fellows as treachery. So tribes typically have no quality control over their beliefs, except that provided by their enemies—without whom they go insane.
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If you and Donald Trump are in an enclosed space and you somehow reach the conclusion that he is the most well-read person in the room, the two of you are characters in a riddle where you are a cat.
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Voter: "I want to vote for a set of completely uncosted spending plans, fronted up by a charlatan with a cavalier approach to Putin and national security."
Pollster: "Right-wing or left-wing?"
Voter: "I'm not bothered."
Ben Walker: There is growing evidence the Greens are taking Reform votes newstatesman.com/politics/uk…
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Britain last built a major reservoir in 1992.
Our population has risen 13 million since then.
The result…
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I’m really pro-Palestine, but y’all are making it really hard to not think you’re the bad guys
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Imagine going back to the 90's and telling them progressives in the 2020's view schindlers list as being right wing.
They'd look at you as if you had three heads.
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Everyone loves Hillary Clinton when she's not selfishly trying to deny a man his glorious destiny.
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Everyone loves Hillary right up until she tries to run for office, then mysteriously they don’t like her and I’m sure it has nothing to do with the deep roots of misogyny that absolutely infect our entire society.
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A lot of the people in this skit probably denounced or hated when Trump mocked a disabled journalist but they are acting in the same cruel way he did.
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John Davidson suffers from a very rare form of Tourettes called coprolalia in which he involuntarily, shouts out the most offfensive thing possible in a situation. It is a real illness and mocking him for it is deeply innapropriate and cruel. This article explains what happens cambridge-news.co.uk/news/royals/i-…
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Trump mocking a disabled journalist: very bad
American comedians mocking a Scottish caretaker with Tourette's: extreme lolz!!!!!!
Please adjust your laws of progressive comedy discourse accordingly
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Readers added context they thought people might want to know
John Davidson suffers from a very rare form of Tourettes called coprolalia in which he involuntarily, shouts out the most offfensive thing possible in a situation. It is a real illness and mocking him for it is deeply innapropriate and cruel. This article explains what happens cambridge-news.co.uk/news/royals/i-…
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It’s fascinating how prominent MPs would take seats almost anywhere back then. Benn moved up from Bristol and Crossland went from Gloucester to Grimsby. Being a local champion is very new and I don’t think you can argue it’s improved the quality of lawmakers
#OTD 1984. Tony Benn back in the Commons after Chesterfield by-election - temporarily uniting with Kinnock, Healey and Hattersley on the campaign trail.
He calls for the “passionate advocacy of socialism” to defeat Thatcher.