I’m Reminded Of This By Allsopp’s Tweet

This infamous article in the 'Atlantic' was the thing that sprang to mind reading Katie Allsopp's (now-deleted) Tweet about her horror when her train stopped at York and people who’d been to the races got on:

She was immediately defended by people who clearly shared her horror at the thought of people drinking champagne on their train, though I’m sure they were all the sort who’d deem you ‘racist’ if you complained about Notting Hill carnival-goers boarding your Tube munching fried chicken and swigging rum. Requests for what, exactly, they had done besides having obviously had a good day out were utterly ignored.

Instead, it was the usual 'How dare you think I don't have a good point!' from the Z list 'celebrity' who has just discovered social media is a two-way street...

I’m Sure The US Treasury Would Be Delighted If You Cut Them A Cheque, Abigail

The sub-heading reads:

"She is one of the heirs to the Walt Disney fortune – and has long argued for rich people like her to pay more tax. Now she is working out how best to meet the challenge of Trump, Musk and the politics of chaos"

She being Abigail Disney... 

“I spend a lot of time trying to think of reasons to be optimistic, because I don’t know how to function without that. And I want to find the energy and the grit for a really long fight. This isn’t just four years … you know, there’s a whole civilisation-level reset to be done. I mean, I heard the other night when Trump spoke, he mentioned that we would get Greenland one way or another. And then there was laughter. Laughter! I just thought, ‘Oh, we have sunk so low.’”

What did you expect, applause? 

The film-maker (and the grand-niece of Walt Disney) is speaking to me on video call from her home in Manhattan. She talks with a mixture of speed, eloquence and certainty – partly because her view of Donald Trump and his allies is all about something with which she is well acquainted: wealth, and what it does to people.

She doesn't appear to believe it's done anything bad to her. Only other people. People she disagrees with politically. 

I then mention something she well knows: that Trump’s sidekick Elon Musk is also from a very wealthy background, having started his first business ventures with money provided by his father, and then becoming rich beyond the dreams of avarice. This, she tells me, partly explains the frazzled morals of someone who has just imposed all those cuts to overseas aid, with apparently no regard for the consequences.

Well, those 'consequnces' aren't falling on the people who elected his boss: 

Among the schemes Musk has frozen, Disney points out, was the Pepfar programme, AKA the President’s Emergency Plan for Aids Relief, which is estimated to have saved 25 million lives by supplying medicine to people with HIV and Aids around the world. “There are people suffering and dying today because of that cut,” she says. “There are children who have HIV who shouldn’t because of Elon Musk. Now. As we sit here and talk.” She exhales.

And how do the American people feel now their taxes aren't going to people halfway around the world that they have no connection to or responsibility for, or didn't you think to ask them? 

“That natural human proclivity to say, ‘Hmm, that doesn’t feel right’ – he doesn’t have it. Trump doesn’t have it.

Actually, they do, they just think that robbing the US taxpayer to pay for things like this isn't right.  

They’re spending no time in shame, and shame is a righteous emotion. It’s not an emotion you want to live in, but it’s an emotion you want as a motivator sometimes. And where is it? Where’s the shame?”

We got rid of it because you progressives wanted to, remember? 

And by the way, how much tax have you voluntarily paid to the US Treasury, or are you just like all those others who whine that people like you should 'pay more tax' yet never actually do? 

The Next Mutt To Be Added To The Dangerous Dogs List?

Fincham appeared at Southend-on-Sea Magistrates' Court facing two counts of being in charge of a dangerously out-of-control dog on Wednesday. The 32-year-old pleaded guilty to the charges, which included a separate incident involving a woman occurring in Grays, Essex, in June 2024, although no injury was reported on that occasion. The former TOWIE regular was sentenced to six-weeks behind bars after the judge determined handing Fincham a further suspended sentence was not appropriate.

But of course, as a 'celebrity', despite pleading guilty, he still doesn't want to accept the consequences: 

But the former pen salesman has since appealed his prison sentence and has been granted bail pending its outcome.

And it's not an XL Bully for a change: 

As Fincham walks free on bail after the dog attack trial, neighbours living on the same road as his family home have described the large Cane Corso as 'scary', whilst revealing they had not seen the disgraced dog owner for some time.

Hopefully, if he loses the appeal, they won't see him again for a while... 

One neighbour, who did not wish to be named, said: 'I'm a bit nervous of dogs anyway, but it is a scary looking dog.' 

'He's quite an intimidating looking dog.'

'I was always quite glad I was at the other end of the road because it's quite a boisterous dog,' the neighbour continued, quipping how it was a dog breed that you would be nervous to have 'around children'.

'It's a fair sized dog I would say and it was the appearance was not very nice,' they added. Another neighbour, who is also a dog owner, said: 'He looks like a fighting dog, a bully faced dog - Elvis I think.'

It's the next breed we'll start hearing about, as all the pitnutters and morons move on from the XL Bully... 

If It’s That Easy For Them To Do, Maybe You’re Not As Good As You Think You Are?

"A modern classic by Keira Knightley" reads the provisional cover of the actor’s debut children’s book, I Love You Just the Same. Set to be published next October, the 80-page volume, written and illustrated by Knightley, is about a girl navigating the changing dynamics that come with the arrival of a sibling. The Pirates of the Caribbean star is the latest in a long list of celebrities to have turned to writing children’s books. McFly’s Tom Fletcher and Dougie Poynter have been hovering at the top of the bestseller chart since the publication last month of their latest book The Dinosaur that Pooped Halloween!. Earlier in the year, David Walliams dominated with his newest book Astrochimp. The entertainer has sold 25m copies of his children’s titles in the UK alone, according to Nielsen BookData.

And? So what? Well, it seems there's a big upwelling of jealousy... 

“These celebrities do not need any more money or exposure, but plenty of genuine writers do,” says the author, poet and performer Joshua Seigal. When news broke of Knightley’s book deal, authors expressed frustrations online; in one viral tweet, the writer Charlotte Levin joked about deciding to become a film star.

Well, go for it, girl!  

Authors say that stars wading into children’s publishing discredits the efforts and talents of non-celebrity authors. “Writing for children is an art,” says Seigal. “It requires skill, practice and discipline. I work really hard on my art, and it’s quite galling that people seem to think it is something that’s easy to do.”

Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. But they are producing something the audience wants. If you aren't, maybe the fault is within you. 

“Before landing a publishing deal, I had sent over 180 queries across three manuscripts over four years,” says the author James A Lyons. “Non-celebrities face hundreds of rejections and ghosting, and not a fast-tracked ticket to the front of the queue.”

Writing is a business. Give the audience what they want is the key to success. It seems that this is indeed what they want. Crying about it isn't going to help.

Will Gen Z Survive?

They seem determined not to...

Experts have warned against a new Gen-Z health fad of drinking dead bacteria, which they claim could damage gut function and cause bowel issues. Also known as postbiotics, the supplements are growing increasingly popular among young people on social media.

Ah, social media, you have a lot to answer for! Is this fad being driven by vacuous slebs? Reader, you know it is: 

Last month, US supermodel Bella Hadid, 27, launched Picklesecco, a 'gut-healthy, postbiotic potion' that claims to support digestion and the nervous system, balance the gut microbiome and 'conjure clarity and vision'.

Sarah Miles drinking her own urine seems almost tame these days... 

In a video viewed more than 300,000 times, US health influencer Cecily Bauchmann said daily postbiotics helped to get rid of her bloated stomach. And in another clip seen more than 10,000 times, TikToker Brianna Wehan claimed that taking postbiotics had helped her 'debloat and ease my discomfort with my tummy issues'.

What do real science degree types say? 

'Would I take them? Absolutely not,' said Dr Christopher Stewart, professor of human microbiome research at Newcastle University.

I'll skip them too then. 

How It Started...

Dorset councillors are due to discuss a motion to declare a nature emergency but the presenter said the proposals did not go far enough. In a letter to the authority, Packham said its use of "glyphosate across Dorset’s urban areas is simply mind-boggling". Dorset Council said it welcomed his interest and urged people to watch the meeting on Thursday evening.

,...how it's going: 

 

Declaring a nature emergency means the council commits to consider nature recovery in future decision-making. Mr Ireland said: "The issue of glyphosate has been the most controversial clause and has resulted in an in-depth discussion. "As a result the wording has been tweaked to accurately reflect that Dorset green space teams and highways are reluctant users of the herbicide and, when genuine alternatives become available, we will implement them. "I do appreciate we need to get rid of glyphosates but we do have uses where we can't get rid of them completely - Japanese knotweed is one. "I would like to think that by the end of the term of this Liberal Democrat administration, we have eliminated it completely, but now is impossible."

Because Japanese knotweed is more pernicious and harder to get rid of than a bandwagon-jumping BBC celebutard. 

H/T: Ian J via email

Congratulations, Banksy, You're Now In The People Trafficking Trade...

A rescue boat financed by Banksy has been seized by Italian authorities after being involved in an effort to rescue 37 people from the central Mediterranean sea, the British street artist and the vessel’s crew have said on social media.

Because unlike in Britain, the authorities are fed up with z-list celebutards helping illegal immigrants into their country, and are determined to stop them.  

In a statement posted on his Instagram channel on Wednesday, Banksy said the migrant rescue vessel he funds, the MV Louise Michel, had on Monday night “rescued 17 unaccompanied children from the central Mediterranean”.

He added: “As punishment, the Italian authorities have detained it – which seems vile and unacceptable to me.”

As 'vile and unacceptable' as helping criminals, Banksy? Guess it's not surprising from someone who routinely helps themselves to other people's property for their childish daubings.  

Go Back To Flogging Kias, Bob!

Film actor Robert De Niro was scheduled to accept a leadership award from the National Association of Broadcasters, but the group has rescinded the award after the celebrity spoke out against Donald Trump outside his criminal trial in New York this week, the Hill and the Huffington Post report.

Whoops! Consequences rarely visit Hollywood's Golden Boys and Girls!  

A spokesperson for the group told The Hill on Thursday that their event was “proudly bipartisan” and said: “While we strongly support the right of every American to exercise free speech and participate in civic engagement, it is clear that Mr. De Niro’s recent high-profile activities will create a distraction from the philanthropic work that we were hoping to recognize. To maintain the focus on service of the award winners, Mr. De Niro will no longer be attending the event.”

And did he have anything to say for himself? 

In a statement to the Hill, De Niro did not protest the decision, and said he continued to appreciate the group.

Heh! He's expecting the award in the future when the fuss gies down. How brave.  

In his most biting comments, De Niro spoke of Trump through the lens of the largely Democratic city whose voters know Trump well and roundly rejected him at the polls. “We New Yorkers used to tolerate him when he was just another grubby real estate hustler masquerading as a big shot, a two-bit playboy lying his way into the tabloids,” he said. “A clown ... No one took him seriously. They take him seriously now.”

And he's now got a bigger chance of winning, thanks to the overreach of liberal morons like you, Bob. 

I Don't Want To Hear The Met Police Whining About Lack Of Funding Anymore...

...not when they are wasting it like this:

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) recommended that the former Love Island presenter receive a caution after an incident with her boyfriend in December 2019, but this was overturned after an appeal from the Met Police and she was instead charged with assault by beating.

Flack was found dead in February 2020 aged 40 and a coroner later ruled she killed herself after learning prosecutors were going to proceed with an assault charge.

And why shouldn't they? Why should her status as a (minor) celebrity spare her the same charge that would be applied to some drunken Romford slapper reeling out of a nightclub having assaulted someone in the ladies?  

The Met has now said it is making “further enquiries” into potential new witness evidence relating to the actions of officers in appealing against the initial CPS decision not to charge Flack.

Incredibly, it appears the higher ups in the Met Police have got wind that some officers in their farce might just have carried out their job 'without fear or favour' and they are determined to nip that sort of thing in the bud in case it catches on!  

The TV star’s mother, Christine Flack, told the Mirror: “We won’t stop until we get the truth. Something very unusual happened to Carrie at the police station that night, but no one kept a proper record explaining why.”

“As a family, we have been left with important unanswered questions.”

Your daughter decided the police would never dare arrest her and charge her for assault on her boyfriend. Thankfully, she was wrong. QED. 

'Gosh, How Unexpected' Said Nobody, Ever...

Actress and TV presenter Danielle Mason...

Sorry, Reader, no idea...

...claims her 12-year-old son, who has autism, hasn't been to school for over a year due to a lack of funding for his special educational needs - and says 'he'll never go back because his confidence has been knocked so much'. Mason, 41, who lives in Bracknell, says her son Rudy, who should be in Year Eight, has been declined a place at numerous schools in Berkshire after he was excluded 21 times from his last school, The Brakenhale School.

Twenty-one times...! 

Speaking to MailOnline, the mother-of-two claims that the schools 'cannot cope' with her son's EHCP [Education, Health and Care Plan] due to a 'lack of government funding' - and that he's received homework for the first time in a year this week. She says her daughter Delilah, who also has an EHCP due to mental health problems, is currently in Year Six at primary school, and has also failed to get a place at several senior schools.

Two children with mental health issues? Gosh, what are the odds?  

The mother claimed her son would be excluded for 'silly reasons' such as coming in wearing his trainers instead of his school shoes, while other days he was 'triggered' when the school couldn’t handle his needs properly.

But sweetie, those aren't 'silly reasons', are they? 

Danielle revealed it has become like a full-time job trying to find a place for her children's educational needs.

It's probably the only full-time job she's ever had. And she's failing at it miserably. 

When You Really Don't Want To Know What A 'Celebrity's' Rider Is...

*shudders*

There's A Simple Answer, Isn't There?

A Jamaican used the 'right to family life' to dodge deportation before going on to commit murder, it can be revealed today.

He claimed it would breach his rights to be separated from his UK-based family, including son Nico...

Oh..? 

...who went on to be convicted alongside his father of a horrific knife murder.

So deport both of them! Then they can stay together, can't they?

An open letter campaigning against the Jamaica flight was signed by supermodel Naomi Campbell, actress Thandiwe Newton and broadcaster and historian Professor David Olusoga. 

And I wouldn't care too much if all these blood-on-their-hands slebs joined them on the flight out of the UK...

But It Was Your Only Good Song, Pat...

Singer Pat Benatar said she will stop performing her song Hit Me With Your Best Shot in light of...

Eh..? 

...recent mass shootings in the US.

Well, that just leaves 'Love Is A Battlefield' ... until someone has a word with you about that whole situation in the Ukraine, eh? 

“Fans are having a heart attack and I’m like, I’m sorry,” Benatar, who is in the middle of a US summer tour, said. “I tell them, if you want to hear the song, go home and listen to it. [The title] is tongue-in-cheek, but you have to draw the line.”

“I can’t say those words out loud with a smile on my face, I just can’t. I’m not going to go on stage and soapbox – I go to my legislators – but that’s my small contribution to protesting,” Benatar said. “I’m not going to sing it. Tough.”

I guess fans might as well just stay home altogether. The sound's better, it's cheaper and you've got enough money, right, Pat? 

Not Quite, Amber, Not Quite...

...it's a setback just for you. And 'freedom of speech' doesn't mean automatic belief in whatever you choose to say. 

Heard, 36, then blamed star attorney Camille Vasquez and Depp's other legal experts.

'I believe Johnny's attorneys succeeded in getting the jury to overlook the key issue of Freedom of Speech and ignore evidence that was so conclusive that we won in the UK.'

Different country, different laws. It's to our shame, and the shame of our debased justice system, that you won that one. 

Of course, the 'Guardian' can find someone to agree with Heard:

It will have a devastating effect on survivors, who will be silenced, now, with the knowledge that they cannot speak about their violent experiences at men’s hands without the threat of a ruinous libel suit.

No, only the ones that are lying...

Your Agent Feels The Same Way, Zoe...

“I watched a bunch of cat videos, feline videos, watching them fight.

“What I was so interested [in] is that fact that you can’t read their face at all, which is why I think people are creeped out by them. You can’t tell what they’re gonna do.”

Somewhere a Hollywood agent is ruefully contemplating the similarities... 

Never Forget The True Agenda Of These 'Animal Lovers'...

Exotic-looking pet cats like the one kicked by footballer Kurt Zouma in a horrifying Snapchat video could be banned in the UK.

Widespread fury over the shamed West Ham defender’s antics has prompted calls for hybrid Bengal animals to be outlawed.

Wait, what? Some barely human savage acts as his true nature dictates, and these people want to outlaw everyone else's pets? 

With the backing of TV animal expert Chris Packham, the Wildheart Trust has launched a campaign for a legal ban on the breeding of exotic cats with domestic cats.

Ah, say no more - publicity-hungry tv celebrity joins forces with 'young, dynamic and determined charity' that wants to get in on the 'Born Free' action...

In an open letter to environment secretary George Eustice, the charity called on the government to ‘end this cruel form of hybridisation’.

They wrote: ‘Motivated by the “designer pet” trade, fuelled by social media, the breeding of exotic felids and domestic cats (known as F1 hybrids) should have no place in the 21st century.

‘It is no less cruel than breeding a wolf with a poodle. This practice is also an escalating problem – evidenced by the dramatic rise in rescues of F1 hybrid cats in 2021.

‘We have a moral responsibility to treat animals with dignity and not as commodities to be corrupted for pleasure or commercial gain.

‘Urgent legislative action to make this form of hybridisation illegal will prevent the suffering of individual animals caught up in this trade and mitigate against future threats to wild populations of exotic felids.’

What does the public think? Are they on board with this radical agenda? 

That'll be a big 'No!' then. Probably not because they have Bengals or Savannahs, but because they have cats. Ordinary moggies. 

And they know that if this campaign succeeds the charity and this snivelling sentimental celebutard will find some way to come for them next...

"Our Campaign Isn't Working, Should We Deploy The Corbyn Killer?"

"Might backfire, get a patsy to do it - one we can dismiss as thick when it fails..."

Jon Stewart has slammed already-embattled J.K. Rowling for the goblins that run Gringotts bank in her Harry Potter film series, calling them out as an anti-Semitic trope.

*blinks* 

Stewart, who is Jewish, questioned why Rowling chose to 'throw Jews in there to run the f***ing underground bank' in a fictional world where people 'can ride dragons and have pet owls.'

Well, maybe because of this trope. Dwarves, goblins and kobolds ("You no take candle!") have been associated with mining and and hoarding in popular fiction and culture for the longest time. 

What next, a claim that Walt Disney really wanted Dopey, Sneezy, Grumpy and the gang to sing 'Oy vey, oy vey, we're off to work today..'?  

When he first saw the Harry Potter films, Stewart said he expected other theater patrons to 'be like "h*** shit, she did not, in a wizarding world, to just throw Jews in there to run the f***ing underground bank." And everybody was just like "Wizards."'

Ah, of course. It's not just Rowling who describes a fantasy world for a living, is it? It's people like this idiot, so certain that everyone should share his delusion. 

And being Hollywood, stuffed with those capable of sensing a pile-on the way primitive fish scent blood in the water, he can always find people dumber than he is to cheer him on:

In light of Stewart's criticism, Sarah Silverman weighed in on the controversy, although she said she hadn't read the books or seen the films.

'After watching the below and then seeing the clip in the thread I am just kind of stunned. You know when you giggle but it’s really more fear than joy?' she wrote on Twitter.

I don't think it's either, my sweet. 

I think it's the nervous giggle of a person so desperate to be popular and down wiv da kidz, she's cozying up to the bully and cheering him on as he taunts the odd one out, the one who won't give in and give him the capitulation he demands...

"...it's 'not something that I feel I have to speak about publicly'..."

Goodness me! Has Lewis Hamilton finally run out of things to pontificate about?

The world Formula One champion has disowned his team Mercedes' sponsorship deal with Kingspan, which made combustible insulation for the tower block – but the firm's logo was still emblazoned on his car during the race.

Hamilton initially refused to answer questions on the matter at a press conference ahead of the race in Jeddah saying it was 'not something that I feel I have to speak about publicly'.

But for once, the journalists did their job: 

But when pushed he said: 'It was news to me when I heard this week.

'We know there has been a huge outcry and an amazing amount of support by people in the community.

'It is really nothing to do with me and I know Toto (Wolff, the team principal) is sorting it. Unfortunately my name is associated with it because it has been on my car, but whether that remains the same, we will see.'

Now, personally, I couldn't care less. It's another case of cancel culture, that I should be hoping fails. But isn't it nice to see Hamilton squirm, for once?  

The Dutch Tell It Like It Is...

Dutch military police, who are responsible for security at Schiphol airport, said Lennox was held because of her aggressive behaviour towards an airline official, and for being drunk in public.

“Our unit found a woman full of emotions, that wouldn’t calm down,” spokesman Robert van Kapel said. “That’s why she had to be taken into custody.”

Who is this mad drunk bint? 

Lennox, whose real name is Courtney Shanade Salter, is best known for her 2019 single Shea Butter Baby, which has been streamed almost 114 million times on Spotify.

No, really, who is she? 

“I’m being arrested in Amsterdam for reacting to a woman racially profiling me,” the American R&B singer wrote on Twitter on Monday morning, following a tweet in which she had accused “Amsterdam security” of hating Black people.

Ah. Someone playing the race card as soon as she's subjected to the restrictions other people accept with equanimity.  

Baffling Controversies...

Australian TV reporter Matt Doran has made a lengthy, unreserved apology to Adele for...

Calling her fat? Calling her a boring, untalented singer? 

...failing to listen to her new album before an exclusive interview with the singer, calling the bungle a “terrible mistake”.

Eh..? 

Doran was flown to London for the exclusive interview with Adele in the lead-up to the release of her fourth album, which he described as an “unspeakable privilege””.

Wow, really?!? 

“I made the terrible mistake of assuming we weren’t to be given a preview copy of this album because our interview was airing before it was released and Adele’s album was the industry’s most prized secret,” Doran said.

“The day after we landed in London an email came through from Sony, it didn’t mention Adele but it did contain a link to her album.

“The genuine, deadset, hand on heart truth is that I missed it. By an absurdly long margin the most important email I’ve ever missed in my life.”

If that's true, I suspect life has some lessons in store for you...

Doran said throughout the 29 minutes he was speaking with Adele, the singer was “profound” “funny” and “raw”, opening up about her experience with depression and describing it as “end of the world stuff”.

“But all that doesn’t matter because, by missing the album link, however I might try to justify it, I’ve insulted Adele,” he said.

“To Adele I say, I’ve never knowingly disrespected you by deliberately not listening to your work. I am so sorry.

“I also apologise to Adele’s Australian fans and to … our viewers, who through my error have been denied this interview and the insight to her character.”

What happened, Australia? When did you stop breeding Crocodile Dundees, and start breeding this pathetic specimen?