Thistle&Lark (he/him)

Freelance journalist. Religion, new communities, poetry, spirituality and public life. Tolkien, Alice Munro, the prophet Isaiah.

[Thistle&Lark (he/him) @bacribbin]

'You have been told many lies of Middle Earth. Some go so deep, that even the rocks and the root believe them.'

[richard bacon @richardpbacon]

Often when people get angry - they’re not angry at Tel Aviv.
It’s a beautiful city. They’re angry at Netenyahu and Ben Guvir. They’re heard testimonies from British Drs who’ve treated kids who’ve been shot by snipers in the testicles. Bombs dropped on central Beirut during the school run without warning. They’ve angry not at Tel Aviv but at the 20,000 children that have died violently (UNICEF). Or the nearly 90% of homes damaged or destroyed. All 36 hospitals in Gaza damaged (none are now fully functioning). They’re angry that some hospitals were targeted with double tap strikes. Isreal is beautiful. But the reaction to what Netenyahu has done, with the help of UK intelligence, is perfectly reasonable.

[Thistle&Lark (he/him) @bacribbin]

@BenInRushcliffe That's where's I'm at. Get him on side, and hopefully the whole party will work together.

[Thistle&Lark (he/him) @bacribbin]

@SangitaMyska @hopenothate have in the past been able to identify anonymous twitter trolls

[Thistle&Lark (he/him) @bacribbin]

@ptgorst Absolute class.

[Thistle&Lark (he/him) @bacribbin]

@NickCohen4 I got so bored I left. You can tell it was originally written to be series 4 of the show, it's so episodic. The only character I was remotely interested in was that wrestler Hutt.

[Thistle&Lark (he/him) @bacribbin]

@JamesPearceLFC that was a celebration that told me Jones is leaving.

[Danny @dlmjnk]

Robbo: “We didn't care about football for weeks. None of us wanted to train. You were getting treatment off physios and physios didn't want to treat you. That is the reality of it.”

And we wonder why they’ve had a poor season.

[Samuel @samuelap1_]

Anyone who is honest in their analysis and worldview wouldn’t be afraid of saying this season was always going to be a write off. I love the players, manager & club so much for how they handled things this season.

[Thistle&Lark (he/him) @bacribbin]

@DAaronovitch @B0ATsmith Which holy book? Do you mean the bible?

[John Petrie #European @Petrie_JohnC]

Private Eye gets this spot on - sad to lose Kuenssberg and Mason 😂

[Sun Politics @SunPolitics]

"I LOVE OUR COUNTRY...AND ONE OF THE THINGS I LOVE IS GOOD MANNERS"

Chancellor Rachel Reeves confronts an angry heckler moments ago in a petrol station in Leeds

[Thistle&Lark (he/him) @bacribbin]

@forwardnotback that's a great line, would work well as an epigraph for a poem

[Thistle&Lark (he/him) @bacribbin]

@paulmasonnews Maybe do a substack about this?

[Thistle&Lark (he/him) @bacribbin]

@young1economist @paulmasonnews So have prices.

[Thistle&Lark (he/him) @bacribbin]

@J_Bloodworth We've got the green and thr reform plumber, what would the lib dem and tory plumbers look like?

[Thistle&Lark (he/him) @bacribbin]

@samuelap1_ Very well argued, but what about out of possession? Why do we give up the ball and concede so easily?

[Paul Mason @paulmasonnews]

https://t.co/nr5jrv76oT

[Thistle&Lark (he/him) @bacribbin]

@forwardnotback 😂

[Thistle&Lark (he/him) @bacribbin]

@samuelap1_ Unlike with Kier Starmer, fan and media sentiment don't have real power. There's every chance Liverpool come roaring back next season.

[Thistle&Lark (he/him) @bacribbin]

@helenlewis He says Helen Andrews has more balls than you. Given Andrew's views on the relative worth of men and women, this would satisfy her.