Cosmopeleton

Bullshitter.

[Cosmopeleton @Cosmopeleton]

"...we've come to accept their duplicity as part of their charm, and their defence, that it's only really celebrities and people that deserve intrusion who are affected, while superficially true in this case, is actually the biggest lie of them all."

https://t.co/lh5cNp8UPA

[Joseph Attard @josephattard02]

Between Russell Brand & David Walliams I hope we can all agree that 1999-2009 represents a near-unprecedented nadir in British popular culture.

If you didn't live through it, you have no IDEA how bad it was. A beige horror show managed by some of the worst people imaginable.

[Jay 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @jordanpbanks]

"The age of consent in France is 15."

David Walliams:

[The Hollywood Reporter @THR]

Stacy Keach, Who Played Badasses With the Best of Them, Dies at 85 https://t.co/EGYX8MsxNJ

[Joe @moyesboyjoe]

Put this video on 2x and she actually sounds normal, not even joking

[Cosmopeleton @Cosmopeleton]

Strands #983
“Work it out”
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[Cosmopeleton @Cosmopeleton]

Connections
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[Cosmopeleton @Cosmopeleton]

Wordle 1,971 3/6

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[Scarred for Life @ScarredForLife2]

WITCHFINDER GENERAL (1968): One of the 'Unholy Trinity' of early folk horror films. Vincent Price is perfectly cast as the thoroughly reprehensible Matthew Hopkins. Which is strange, as the real Hopkins died of tuberculosis aged 27!

[Cosmopeleton @Cosmopeleton]

@CharlotteCGill https://t.co/AZB24utVeo

[Alastair Hilton @London_W4]

Heading home right now and i think this perfectly encapsulates life under the Labour Party in Britain. Lovely people thought it would be nice to display a copy of a Canaletto painting by the canal in London. Scum decided to spray paint it and destroy it. The beautiful picture is now taken down and just awful hardboard to look at. Meanwhile, the vermin who spray painted it will be given money by Andy Burnham out of hardworking taxpayers money. They’ll be paid to be scum with all the excuses in the world for their behaviour. All whilst the culture and the beauty all around us is taken away. Britain in 2026. It doesn’t have to be like this.

[Cosmopeleton @Cosmopeleton]

@alexrubner He's been shot by both sides... x. #DanNeidle

https://t.co/IRgyntzhFC

[Jonathan Sloman @SquidyUK]

Here another horror I was in the audience for to witness live.

[Laurence Fox @LozzaFox]

Karma is a bitch.

[Beige @Beigerevenge]

Oof, Jonathan Ross again - ‘The comedy awards is 15 years old – 15 years old! And like most 15-year-olds, it’s drunk, it’s unpredictable and it’s probably going home with David Walliams’

[Barbara Rich @BarbaraRich_law]

Vienna in exquisite autumn light the past few days … and yet always with its darker history underfoot

[Felicity Campbell @feli_campbell]

David Walliams has just released one of the most sickeningly calculated PR statements I have ever read, and he only did it because the High Court finally threw out his expensive legal injunction to keep his name a secret.

ITV and The Guardian have officially named him as the television star accused of preying on girls as young as 15.

Look at the exact language his crisis managers instructed him to publish today. He claims he simply behaved "thoughtlessly" during "casual sexual relationships" and regrets not taking people's feelings into account. He admits to a power imbalance but insists he never abused it.

You do not have a casual, thoughtless sexual relationship with a 15-year-old. You cannot dismiss allegations of preying on teenagers as just being a bit clumsy with women's emotions.

We are watching the exact same playbook we just saw collapse in Southwark Crown Court.

Another untouchable television darling, protected for decades by a complicit media, using high-priced lawyers to gag the press while trying to reframe predatory behavior as a minor lifestyle quirk.

The darkest part of this entire scandal is how the British entertainment industry operates.

They knew exactly who these men were. They did not just cover for them. They handed them prime-time family television slots, gave them awards, and literally published their children's books, all while leaving young girls to deal with the trauma in total silence.

The expensive legal injunctions are finally failing. The dam is breaking, and the networks that enabled them are going to have nowhere left to hide.

[Dorothy Byrne @dorotheabyrne]

I would like to give immense personal thanks to Jemima Goldsmith. It was Jemima who alerted me to Russell Brand when I was Head of News and Current Affairs at Channel Four because she believed, based on her own experience, he was a danger to other women and must be exposed.

[Christopher Snowdon @cjsnowdon]

The British state is far more corrupt than people realise. This is banana republic stuff. https://t.co/jvvpLw6Qas

[London & UK Street News @CrimeLdn]

This in Brent council building this morning