Politics

Alternative title: The one where Fran enraged a lot of thickos. It’s been an embarrassing month to be British. Flags nonces, the Gammonati, Deform voters, sex offenders, Union Jackoffs, Daily Mail readers, the Nigel Farage Fanclub, Nazis, life’s winners… Whatever your pet name for them; they’re currently out in force, vandalising mini roundabouts, zebra crossings and even war memorials with […]

No, I assure you that you aren’t stuck in an episode of Black Mirror. The tweet below is a genuine (I checked, twice) communication from the Tory party, whose lovely Michele Donelan announced at their autumn conference to a lecture hall packed with braying morons that science is TOO WOKE* and one of their ‘Long-term decisions for a Brighter Future’

Three weeks clear of the summer holidays and it’s definitely coats, boots and big cardi season, although maybe not time to stick the heating on yet – if you are one of the lucky ones able to afford such privileges that is. Bafflingly, another two weeks have disappeared since I last wrote a new blog post. I would say I’ve

In the unlikely event that you’ve spent the last week in a coma and this happens to be the first thing you see when you wake up: The Queen of England died last week. So sorry you found out this way. Queen Elizabeth II passed away at home surrounded by her family, which on balance is a pretty good way

It is officially official; Liz Truss – a woman best described as a vacant Maggie Thatcher cosplayer – is now the Prime Minister of the UK. Around 200,000 Tory members cast their votes over the summer, and a few more of them chose the terminally thick one over the absurdly out of touch one. What a mandate. As a result

And just like that*, the traditional last minute scrabble for new school shoes and search for missing PE kits has begun. The six week summer holiday is over and it’s time to get geared up for the school run again as my two, in their never ending quest to get older every single bastard year, enter years 3 and 4.

Where to even start?! Like a turd that just wouldn’t flush… It took the resignations of more than 50 Cabinet Members, Ministers and Parliamentary Private Secretaries, one desperate firing of a slimy pob-faced cokehead, and a lot of ultimatums from the few that were left (with the notable exception of Nadine Dorries, for which there is absolutely no explanation. Not