David Stubbs

HIT THE NORTH - Series 2 of my Northern Arts podcast begins Friday 30 October 2026! : youtu.be/V-LSmdz-h0w?... #HitTheNorth

It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.

I ain't stockpiling shit because fuck these corrupt, scaremongering cunts preparing the ground for huge increases in "defence spending", ie a financial boost to the arms trade, who evidently have the ear of key people in government, paid for by welfare cuts.

If you're going to defund any wing of the BBC, don't defund BBC3, Radio4 Extra, whose net contribution has been modest in the scheme of things but positive. Defund BBC News, which, in its assiduous promotion over the years of Nigel Farage, has brought us to the brink of fascism.

How have I never seen this before? youtu.be/NnEzkeaopmA?...

holy smokes, conan strikes up a chat with a random lady on the subway and she immediately starts riffing on his level, no problem.

Billionaire JK Rowling is to be the subject of a BBC Scotland doc. Rowling spends much of her time and part of her huge wealth funding anti-trans law suits and organisations. You can tell a lot about a person by their yacht. So let's take a look at Rowling's 300ft yacht Samsara.

Decoding 'grievance artist' Melanie Phillips and the framing of protests in Europe. A very useful and necessary piece from @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social

I wrote about Elon Musk's fake flying car and its mid-air collision with lazy "CEO said a thing!" pseudo-journalism:

Using “holibobs” should result in your passport being confiscated for five years.

I'll tell you something about my political views, our prospects right now - nothing, but nothing would give me greater pleasure than to be proven dead wrong.

Quite.

This Reform Undercover thing is wild. Whether or not these recordings were obtained ethically, they're saying what they're saying. They are monstrous, racist, misogynistic, predatory cunts and we can't let them anywhere near power.

At this stage, what are the arguments against letting these fuckers fail?

It’s the little chuckles at the end of this that really highlight what a howling vacuum of insight and morality Adam Boulton is.

This Sally Rooney decision is such authoritarian bullshit. But also a challenge. Where are you? Those who are very quiet except when you aren't? Where are you?

Love that they cant actually just interview JK on her trans views cause she is so rabid she wouldnt be able to hold it together and it would just reveal how much of a raging untethered madwoman she’s become

Indeed, this RAF plot business is the most rampant bullshit and right now I think there are people from media outlets including The Guardian to politicians who fucked up on this who are hoping it can be slowly drawn out and ultimately forgotten about, with only the stench of suspicion lingering.

Make a war film rubbish The Buns of Navarone The Beer Hunter The Flirty Dozen Go Tell It To Blyth Spartans Toyah! Toyah! Toyah! S*M*A*S*H

It's possible to hold two thoughts in your head at the same time. For instance, Ed Sheeran is a spineless, capitulating, mealy mouthed twat. And his music is utter shit.

The Daily Telegraph strikes again.

Yes, you are a tiny number of unified wackadoodle cranks, forcing yourselves upon millions of people.

Does Israel have the right to exist? 1: Exist where? Within what boundaries, what territory it has expanded into? Answer 2. No - because the notion of a nation's "right to exist" is a nonsense. Was anyone against Czechoslovakia splitting in two because it violated Czechoslovakia's right to exist?

If Sadiq Khan is a trans ally, why is he allowing JK Rowling’s Harry Potter to take over the Christmas lights in Oxford Circus? Email him now and ask him to pull the plug on transphobia. goodlaw.social/e1ae3f

NEW | A corrective to the obituaries… HERE LIES JEFFREY ARCHER The death of one of Britain’s most infamous liars brings back memories of Monica Coghlan. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/here-lies-...

Yeah, this is going well. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Holy shit.

They say if you can't think of anything nice to say about someone when they die that's because there's nothing nice to say, because they're, say, a disgraced Tory arsehole who wrote piss awful novels. If it turns out someone drove from Dundee to bludgeon him with a lump hammer, the same obtains.

A bit of 70s pop culture history, a complete episode of "Lift Off With Ayshea" from 1974 with The Bay City Rollers, who were MASSIVE at the time www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJip...

I'm dismayed about the Green Zionism/racism vote as I think it will be a hindrance - and Zionism, a contested term is one I'd personally avoid. But I'm not going to listen to bad faith centrists who have remained silent as the genocide has unfolded, only to erupt indignantly over issues like his.

Just watched this, Bruce Dickinson on 8 untouchable albums: Iron Maiden “Killers” Deep Purple “Made In Japan” Deep Purple “In Rock” Jethro Tull “Aqualung” Led Zeppelin “IV” Judas Priest “British Steel” UFO “Strangers In The Night” Rainbow “Raising”

Croatia 0-6 England. Poor old Croatia. It's their racist fans I feel sorry for.

Years of extremist media using phrases like 'Sadiq Khan's hated ULEZ cameras' in their headlines surely contributes to people like this becoming radicalised to commit terrorist acts?

Massive crowd outside Palantir’s HQ. Throw this evil corporation out of our public services.

Don’t care for Banksy’s latest. Lazy and preachy.

Local HERO in Kansas gets arrested for slashing ICE agent's tires. In an effort to deescalate the surrounding crowd, the cop arresting him yelled that the Kansas man is being arrested for slashing tires. The crowd cheered in response to that and basically gave the man a standing ovation.

Jimmy Fallon sat Will Ferrell next to Chad Smith (the drummer from Red Hot Chili Peppers) and the internet lost its mind.

NEW | Another day, another columnist selectively quoting Orwell… ALLISON PEARSON’S ACTION MAN FETISH A deranged defence of the SAS and a dismissal of war crimes accusations is exactly what we expect from one of the Telegraph’s worst. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/allison-pe...

I'm so very sad to hear of the death of Esther Ranzen who played an important role in reuniting me with Nicky Winton - the man who saved my life. It's so desperately sad that she couldn't choose assisted dying as was her wish.

One thing that's going to have to disappear from future credits as seen in Succession, Colin From Accounts, erc - grainy, flickery, Super 8-type images capturing the childhood moments of grown up characters. All of my videos of my kids as infants could have been taken yesterday.