Paul Carroll

This priest is being too hard in himself: Billy Corgan isn’t his fault

The BBC really needs to be called out for its double standards. Think of the fuss it made when Gary Lineker - a sports presenter - expressed a political opinion. Yet the BBC is happy for one of its main news presenters to peddle this right-wing nonsense in a highly partisan right-wing newspaper.

This is among the worst ideas I have ever heard

Stop what you are doing and look at this lovely story. A photography student in the 80s took pictures of punks and mods on the street in Preston. He’s now tracked them down and photographed them again. The pictures and stories are really ❤️ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The Red Wall is a myth, a spook story that British politicians must worship at the altar of: do what I tell you or the Red Wall will get you. It is made up. It has long since lost contact with its original definition. It encourages people to confuse places and people. It is past its sell by date.

Bit late to be subtweeting Paulie Walnuts but, sure, go ahead

Love this

Watching these AI-first mistakes being walked back over the next several years will be really really funny

Superman, Preston, 1978/79 (I think, I was very young)

Despite all the disruption, the way television and movies and music worked before 2000 was absolutely fucking fine.

Wired still not beating its reputation as a supreme producer of crap, I see

As someone who has done this, I wonder how many people writing these pieces are shit parents and refuse to acknowledge that could possibly be the case?

Gladwell has 10,000 hours experience making arguments based on factual errors.

Can someone please do a graph showing the money paid out to every single person on PIP compared to the tax not taken from millionaires and billionaires? It will tell a story about modern Britain. I cannot tell you how fucking impossible they make it to claim PIP. Stop attacking disabled people.

Is right

Half the city would insist they have a blue wall, tbh

Yes, though I was very amused that in their regression they had a dummy variable for Merseyside because they couldn't even explain it with reference to their other formulations

I can’t compete with this

Roman centurions of a cold evening at the Wall…

Until the next wind changes direction once again

No argument

Even Dennis Skinner saying “I solemnly swear that I will bear true and faithful allegiance to the Queen when she pays her income tax” is part of the British political tradition. People haven’t had to make a Christian oath since the mid nineteenth entry. Get over it, Matthew.

The thing about City’s owners that I will never understand is how they can possibly see cheating and buying off referees as winning. Like, how can they do all they’ve done to cheat and yet still feel any joy in the contest? Baffling. I hope they sell up and fuck off

The thing about City’s owners that I will never understand is how they can possibly see cheating and buying off referees as winning. Like, how can they do all they’ve done to cheat and yet still feel any joy in the contest? Baffling. I hope they sell up and fuck off

Say what you like, Joseph Stalin was a hell of an administrator

It's watching like Top Gear do a review of Pablo Escobar's lovely fleet of cars.

Top flight English football is a sham. Corrupt and devoid of meaning. If the Premier League bottle the punishment of City, I am done with it

You know, I’m starting to wonder if Trump might be a baddie

I do wonder about the overlap between the kind of readers who decry “plot armor” and sadists. There are writers who I fell out of love with because I got tired of sucker punches disguised as realism. I can *absolutely* be trained not to emotionally invest in your characters.

So, happy 89th anniversary of the day Oswald Mosley tried to sell fascism to Liverpudlians—and someone concussed him with a brick

It was odd to discover how many liberal-left, centrist, conservative right opinion formers did not know how broad the consensus on this question was when the 'can Sunak be English' debate began **18 months** ago already!

This is bang on and once you see it you can’t unsee it

1/x Two of the best-known coats on any high street began as working kit for sailors on cold decks. Both carry names from my little corner of the North Sea: Duffel, a small town near Antwerp, and the Dutch word "pij". The story of the duffel coat and the peacoat. #maritimehistory

Hammersmith Apollo. A beautiful venue with great acoustics that might as well be Tatooine’s premiere auditorium

Lanterns was, ultimately, really really good. The finale drew on lots of Tolkien-esque notions of destiny, duty, and pity. Some great performances too. Has also nudged me towards a Friday Night Lights rewatch

You want to ask AI to tell you about something? Go right ahead. Be aware that it’s a probabilistic word prediction machine, but go ahead. Then dressing that up in the aesthetics of a fake focus group is a sort of new-clothes-ing that implies a breathtaking level of stupidity and gullibility

Well done, the crowd’s 13

Cheats and, apparently, the temperament of a 5 year old. Get to fuck, you gold aeroplane pricks

Look, I was brought up a Catholic - Catholic school, Celtic fan Glaswegian family - and just found it all nonsense from a very young age. The current Bishop of Rome though…

Young Gamgee’s second greatest moment after “PO-TAY-TOES”