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[Adam James Pollock @AdamPollock]

Living in Britain today is just being forced to endure a ceaseless bombardment of policy decisions designed to make like utterly miserable. An eternal bleak midwinter. Generational demoralisation.

[Adam James Pollock @AdamPollock]

Here’s an example of the ableist language used by the Labour MP, Lauren Edwards, who is bringing back the flawed assisted suicide bill.

Does she really seem like the sort of person who cares about disabled people?

[Adam James Pollock @AdamPollock]

It would appear that a Labour MP is bringing forward the assisted suicide Bill this week once again.

The same assisted suicide that has already been rejected. The same assisted suicide Bill that doctors, disabled people, Royal Colleges all say is unsafe.

Awful and out of touch.

[Adam James Pollock @AdamPollock]

At pub with wife

[Adam James Pollock @AdamPollock]

As I wrote last year in @TheCriticMag:

https://t.co/p5BbjKaujG

[Adam James Pollock @AdamPollock]

Margo is helping me to restock the Margaux

[Adam James Pollock @AdamPollock]

Awoken on a Sunday morning to an unexpected delivery day. Sometimes I forget that not every part of this nation’s economy is closed before 1PM on a Sunday.

[Adam James Pollock @AdamPollock]

Big scone for dinner tonight. The question remains: jam or cream first?

[Adam James Pollock @AdamPollock]

Mustard wishes you all a happy Saturday

[Adam James Pollock @AdamPollock]

A welder’s wage in America in 2015, $28/hr, is more than the average hourly wage in Britain in 2026.

We are not a serious country.

[Adam James Pollock @AdamPollock]

Today was delivery day, six bottles of Le Plus de la Fleur de Boüard 2001, so I was obliged to open one with supper. Still full of fresh fruit after 25 years.

Since some of you often ask: the bowl and glass are from Villeroy and Boch, the decanter is from Riedel.

[Adam James Pollock @AdamPollock]

Chorizo in a red wine and tomato sauce, with rice and chives

[Adam James Pollock @AdamPollock]

Back in Belfast this evening.

More trouble is expected, but not enough to deter this vintage DeLorean driver.

[Adam James Pollock @AdamPollock]

I was on the streets of the Belfast riots, from before the first stone was thrown, until the rain began to extinguish the burning cars near midnight.

What I saw, in my latest for @TheCriticMag: https://t.co/0L5VyefPWb

[Adam James Pollock @AdamPollock]

Completely incorrect, critically under-informed, utterly daft opinion masquerading as journalism here.

Blaming misogynistic, Andrew Tate-esque “macho” men, and also foreign billionaires on the other side of the world, for our own Government’s policy failures is a wild take.

[Adam James Pollock @AdamPollock]

As of this afternoon, there is no way to get from Dublin to Belfast using public transport, because of riots in Northern Ireland.

My grandparents are stranded at Dublin airport entrance lobby, where they will have to remain overnight. Not really ideal for elderly people.

[Adam James Pollock @AdamPollock]

I was on @TalkTV earlier today speaking about my experience on the streets during the Belfast riots.

I was asked whether violence was inevitable, and spoke about whether any lessons had been learned following last summer’s immigration-related riots.

[Adam James Pollock @AdamPollock]

It’s heartening to hear that Andrew George MP has decided to bring forward a Bill on affordable housing, as his constituents wanted, rather than an assisted suicide Bill.

I sincerely hope that Lauren Edwards MP chooses to listen to her constituents in this way, too.

[Adam James Pollock @AdamPollock]

Cars assumed to belong to immigrants or foreign nationals being set alight in Belfast tonight. Many of these houses also had windows smashed.

Eventually, emergency services were able to extinguish the fires, but pockets of intense damage remain across the city.

[Adam James Pollock @AdamPollock]

What was most fascinating about the Belfast riots tonight was just how many of those masked up and involved were children and teenagers.

Many of those at the front of conflict with police couldn’t have been older than 13 years old, bedecked in child-sized balaclavas.