flightofthebumbledee

Lancashire expat now living on the dark side. Married to @MrApparently. Mother of 2. Master of none.

[Jonathan Pie @JonathanPieNews]

Removing comedy sketches because the iPlayer curators assume the public can’t handle intent or context isn’t protecting anyone - it’s just lowering the bar until nobody’s allowed to be funny without a signed risk assessment.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Stop treating the adult population like children and stop allowing adults who behave like despotic toddlers to decree what the rest of us are allowed to watch.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library was the best contribution to child literacy ever made by a celebrity. Our paths crossed once, in the 90s, backstage at a talk show, and I was completely tongue-tied and starstruck. RIP Dolly. You were a complete, irreplaceable one-off.

[The Heretical Liberal 🇨🇦 @Rob_ThaBuilder]

The only thing more ridiculous than a womens league holding an emergency meeting to try to figure out what a woman is, is a womens league holding an emergency meeting to try to figure out what a woman is and being unable to reach a decision 🙄

Like guys, if this is the question thats flummoxing you, you might want to pack it in. Life gets a lot harder than this.

[alistair green @mralistairgreen]

It’s all over. World Cup over , Wimbledon over. Nothing to distract you but the terrifying reality of your own thoughts now. Never mind, it’ll be autumn soon where everything dies.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Amnesty is no longer the organisation that defended all who were persecuted for their freedom of speech. It has become a self-appointed, vainglorious policeman of wrongthink. It tweets out ideological slogans. It demonises those who disagree with those slogans. It intervened in FWS v Scottish Ministers, on the side of those determined to keep men in women’s prisons and rape crisis centres.

Some of us haven’t forgotten that Amnesty stopped supporting the since-murdered prisoner of conscience Alexei Navalny because they deemed he’d said unacceptable things in the past. They reversed that decision due to public backlash, exactly as they withdrew the recent defamatory report, before I or anyone else had responded to it, because they panicked on seeing the reaction. A cynic might think they changed their minds on both occasions, not on principle, but because they were afraid of losing money.

You cannot be simultaneously an impartial defender of freedom and speech and a wealthy international witch hunter that publicly vilifies and intimidates small campaigning groups with whom you disagree. As for ‘silencing’ Amnesty, I have neither the power nor the desire to do so. I want them to explain as loudly and extensively as possible why they are using their might and formerly lustrous reputation to attack small non-violent campaigning organisations with legally protected beliefs.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Taking our clothes off in public when we don't get our own way is totally something we women do, so this definitely isn't something that would only occur to a narcissistic male bully.

[Pelagius 🦁 @pelagiusreborn]

Two very ancient phenotypes will be at play this Saturday

[JamesFennell MBE @FennellJW]

The last match up this big between England and Norway was at Stamford Bridge... in 1066...

We won that one, but lost to France in the final. 960 years of hurt..

[weird medieval guys @WeirdMedieval]

i cant shake the feeling that anthony gordon took an arrow for me at agincourt in a past life

[Peter Crouch @petercrouch]

If anyone gets hit by lightning it’s me isn’t it

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

A judge is prioritising a man's narcissistic demand for validation by instructing the women in court to collude in that man's fantasy against their will and against their own interests.

[Big Timi @OrevaZSN]

The extinction of the dinosaurs is technically the highest ratio of birds killed with one stone.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

You mean men, men who claim to be women. You are a national broadcaster that consistently obfuscates facts around sex because you’ve taken an ideological position the public overwhelmingly rejects. This isn’t news, it’s propaganda.

[Darlington Nursing Union @DarlingtonUnion]

Female changing room

[Liam Gallagher @liamgallagher]

@OasisPlanet_ @NoelGallagher And rightly so it’s a fucking classic and I sound BIBLICAL on it

[Iain Cameron @theiaincameron]

England v Ghana is the World Cup’s only group-stage match where both countries' capitals sit right on the Prime Meridian

England has London, where the Prime Meridian was fixed. Ghana has Accra, the only other world capital to sit on the zero degree longitude line.

Stay tuned for more cutting-edge, geography-based World Cup analysis.

[Katharine Birbalsingh @Miss_Snuffy]

Age 11 - feel free to block puberty.

But whatever you do, don’t go on social media until you are 16.

We have lost our bloody minds. 🤯😵‍💫

[Iain Cameron @theiaincameron]

Scotland v Morocco is the World Cup's only group-stage match where both sides' national animals are impossible to see in the wild.

Scotland's national animal is the mythical unicorn. Morocco's is the Barbary lion, which is now extinct in the wild.

Come on, Scotland! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Stay tuned for more cutting-edge, geography-based World Cup analysis.

[Iain Cameron @theiaincameron]

Canada v Qatar is the World Cup's group stage match with the biggest disparity in land size.

Canada covers almost 10 million km². Qatar covers just over 11,600 km². You could fit more than 850 Qatars inside Canada.

Stay tuned for more cutting-edge, geography-based World Cup analysis.