Chris Addison

I intend to use this new, less-sullied place to: 1) Make gently humourous observations about everyday life; 2) Post charming pictures; 3) Crush my enemies utterly beneath my heel.

Netflix are releasing a Christmas movie about a bodyguard. So may I attempt to be the first to say: 🎶And Iiiiiii will always love Yuuuuule🎵

This is just the maddest argument. These people would trap us in poverty to keep a decade old commitment, which no one ever actually made, to an electorate which no longer exists.

Some ground rules that have helped us: - Go outside your bubble, try new social media channels - Don’t underestimate the power of WhatsApp (although less so in the U.S.) - Post on the Instagram grid, not just stories - Watch every Instagram video until the end before sharing - IGNORE THEM

After the first round elections, Congressman André Janones created a WhatsApp channel titled “Lula’s Army.” It ballooned to 10 million people following his commands on how to behave online to counteract Meta’s far-right-favouring algorithms. The right knows how to use socials. We must learn, too.

I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

Talking about Rejoin certainly flushes out all of the people who must be allowed nowhere near any Rejoin campaign that intends to win.

25 October 1923 | A Polish Jewish woman, Lina Blitz, was born in Nowy Sącz. During the war, she lived in Antwerp. In 1942, she was deported to #Auschwitz. She did not survive. --- Women at Auschwitz Lesson: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/2022_kobiety_en/ Podcast: https://youtu.be/ijTxtbNlJO8

A lot of commentary on Sky about how England “can’t buy a win” and had victory “cruelly taken from them again.” This seems to disregard the fact that they basically threw those games away by not being good enough.

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Ugh. The whiny needledicks pulling the handcart to hell. I’d take whatever “feminine energy” is over brittle masculinity any day. Go to therapy and leave us all alone, you broken boys.

I am BEREFT that I have no tickets to RAYE at the Albert Hall tomorrow. I tried EVERYTHING to get some, but life was not playing. It will be outstanding. A gig for the ages. Have the best time, if you’re going. Get a bit teary for me.

Record time getting off plane to getting in car at London City just now. Three minutes flat. Incredible scenes. What an airport.

The great Rachael Smith. Always brilliant.

19 October 1910 | Norwegian Jew, Leopold Bild, was born in Oslo. A shoemaker and musician. He arrived at #Auschwitz on 1 December 1942 No. 79075 He perished in Golleschau subcamp on 1 February 1943. --- Our podcast about sub-camps of Auschwitz: https://youtu.be/fsfWaHNu7A0

16 October 1938 | A Hungarian Jewish girl, Klára Boda, was born. In July 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber. --- A short video showing the ruins of gas chamber and crematorium III: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ipQmBPAlJQ8

Found the Liverpool branch of Aveda.

Another year, another rallying call to stop the right wing entryists from wrecking yet another of our nation’s treasures.

Walked along the beach at Cannes, marvelling at the rich, ageing biltong bathing there. Remarkable. Now I have this in my head. youtu.be/bU_bGYaa3FY?...

The standard argument is if you tax the rich they’ll leave the country and make the place poorer. On the other hand, if you don’t tax them and they stay, they pull this shit, making the country *much* poorer in so many ways.

People priced out of employing Tilly Norwood forced to look at Tilly South Norwood or even Tilly Penge.

Arriving at Nice airport to go to a work thing. Plane parks by the perimeter fence, as far away from the terminal as possible. However, this does mean I just walked down a plane gangway onto the Cored’Azur tarmac, wearing sunglasses. Golden Age of Hollywood achievement unlocked.

Exactly this. When people complained about us removing the non-dom status, they predicted a mass exodus. This of course never came because things like enforcement of contract law and a lack of gulags is actually quite attractive.

12 October 1911 | A Czech, Anton Nozicka, was born. A welder. In #Auschwitz from 23 December 1942. No. 84935 He perished in the camp on 15 March 1943. --- Video about the history of Auschwitz: https://youtu.be/Fxnl5HTygrs

Tonight! RTÉ One! Episode 3 of our bonkers, dark caper, Tall Tales & Murder. Vapes! Confessions! Bees! Filth! All eps on RTÉPlayer right now. (On the Beeb and iPlayer in a few weeks.)

A man just asked me if I knew "the way to the nearest fucking Wickes." I told him to mind his Bs and Qs. No you resign.

Still. Nice to know she was chosen to novelise that Amazon show I was briefly in.

now i lay me down to sleep i'll catch that bird who goes meep meep if i die before i wake, acme co has sent a fake

Dear tv and radio producers. Thankyou for the invitation. But, no, I do not want to appear on your show to defend the idea that I am English, after 50 years of living and working here, because the increasingly feral right want to turn this into a "debate" and you cannot see how you're being played

Thanks, Ole, and nice name ref. It land SOON.

Nailed it. 🔨

An aristocratic British military man leading a disastrous charge. Plus ça change. #CelebrityTraitors

When you want to make your clematis more of a feature. #LadyGarden

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Meanwhile, in Germany. It's Jews v Nazis again. It's interesting (and terrifying) how it's the half of Germany that didn't spend decades having the kind of long, hard look at itself no other country's ever attempted in which this shit is happening.

He can survive this - by abseiling off the roof and riding a jet ski to the Bahamas

Yes. Those eggs aren't powdered, pal.

I'm half way through S1 of Tall Tales and Murder, and I'm absolutely loving it. Dark as hell, many deep laughs, slightly surreal in parts, great performances from all, lovely to see younger folks like the amazing Ella Lily Hyland and Casey Walsh doing great work. Don't miss it!

6 October 1908 | A Pole, Juliusz Kolaczek, was born in Dziedzice. An engineer. In #Auschwitz from 29 May 1941. No. 16845 He perished in the camp on 8 November 1941. --- Online lesson "Poles at KL Auschwitz”: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_2020_06_polacy/

Irish friends! Episode 2 is on shortly on RTÉ1. Have at it!

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1 October 1936 | Dutch Jew, Andries Jacob Stad, was born in Enschede. He was deported to #Auschwitz from Westerbork in January 1943. He was murdered in a gas chamber after the arrival selection. --- A video about gas chambers and crematoria of the Auschwitz camp: https://youtu.be/-A05i25j9Ck

Once, when working on a TV show, I came into the office to find one of the writers in a dinner suit. I asked him what do he was going to that evening. He said he wasn't going to a do, he'd missed wash day and this was all he had left.

30 September 1942 | A French Jewish boy, Daniel Serge Szuster, was born in Paris. He arrived at #Auschwitz on 2 August 1943 in a transport of 1,000 Jews deported from Drancy. He was among 727 of them murdered in gas chambers after the selection.