I said when I left The Guardian two years ago, in regards to the debate about gender, people like to say both sides are equally passionate - but only one side demands censorship. That is still true today
I have to say that I am struggling with this notion of a super-majority.
I was brought up to believe that a 52:48 ratio gives the winning side free rein.
Excl: Here's what happens if you scrape Betfair data for bets on a July election.
This graph cuts off at the end of 21 May, the day before Sunak announced the election.
There's a flood of bets that day - before Rishi formally told the cabinet and stood in Downing Street.
Lesser fucking mortals? My Mum was turning up to her shitty, low paid job when she had terminal pancreatic cancer, she then held on to life by the skin of her teeth so she could meet my baby daughter before falling into a coma hours later. Go fuck yourself!
"Ocean temperature record broken" "hottest month since records begun" "wettest season ever" are going to keep chugging along in the background, a faint background buzz you all ignore, until suddenly it'll wreck your lives and sentence your children to early graves.
Just finished the final edit of The Dungeon on Blood Island - a sequel to Deathtrap Dungeon and prequel to Trial of Champions. Amazing cover by Iain McCaig, fantastic internal illustrations by Krisztian Balla and a beautiful new map by Leo Hartas. @fightingfantasy@scholasticuk
July 29th 1962 fascist Oswald Mosley tried to lead a march through Manchester. He was attacked by anti-fascists who knocked him to the ground. He was escorted away by 250 police, who were unable to prevent him being pelted with eggs. Milkshakes were unavailable #NigelFarage
I can’t stress enough that the antecedent to the Holocaust was Hitler’s desire to purge the Greater Reich of Jews just as Trump is promising to “cleanse America” by rounding up the “illegals.”
The first issue,
my first issue (26),
the 10th anniversary issue (90),
and now... hang on... number 500?!
(No Fiend Factory in this one. 🙁)
#WhiteDwarf through the ages.
13 May 1943 | Sara Cohen was born in Groningen in The Netherlands. She was a Dutch Jewish girl, a daughter of Jozef and Carolien. In February 1944 she was murdered in a gas chamber of #Auschwitz.
She lived 9 months.