Ally Manson 🇺🇦 🇵🇸

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My play ‘The Inheritors’ is coming to London. Do come and check it out 🙏👇🏻 📆 May 19-23 📍 @TheHopeTheatre 🎫 ℹ️ link : thehopetheatre.com/theinheritors ‘Sometimes I think you are the worst person I have ever known. Truly, deeply, undeniably the worst.’

So sad. We need more smaller venues in central London .

@benjilanyado @TheTotallyShow Really glad to hear Fantrax get the publicity it deserves. I’ve been smugly gloating about it for years about how much better it is than regular FPL. Most regular Joe’s just roll their eyes. But we know better Benji….we know so much better…

As discussed on today's @TheTotallyShow: The James Garner Index. Which players are most improved vs vs last season, and who has dropped off a cliff:

@GoodwinMJ Why are you still talking, loser?

The removal of historical figures such as Winston Churchill from English banknotes may appear trivial to some. But it isn’t. It matters far more than many people realise. Because what we are witnessing is not an isolated decision about banknote design. It is part of something much larger: a slow but relentless erosion of our national culture, identity, and collective memory. As Professor Frank Furedi has observed, we are living through what he calls “the War Against the Past.” Across the Western world, an assortment of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion bureaucrats, radical activists, and increasingly compliant public institutions are engaged in a cultural project that seeks to delegitimise our national histories and strip away the symbols that once anchored our collective identity and memory. The pattern is now familiar. Statues are toppled. Historical figures are reframed as morally suspect or “divisive”. Public institutions rename buildings, spaces, Tube lines. School and university reading lists are “decolonised”. The past itself is rewritten to emphasise only its sins while ignoring its achievements. Even the quiet symbolism of everyday life — the images on our currency, the names of our streets, the monuments in our squares — is steadily edited and sanitised. What replaces these symbols is rarely anything meaningful. Instead of historically significant figures who helped shape the nation, we are offered neutral, universal imagery that stands for almost nothing at all — landscapes, wildlife, abstractions. On the surface this seems harmless. But symbolism matters. For centuries, historical figures served as cultural signposts, reminders of the history, struggles and achievements that shaped the nation and its people. Remove those signposts, and something subtle but important begins to change. The past becomes distant. Then contested. And then disposable. Gradually, the story of a nation — its triumphs, failures, and defining moments — is hollowed out. In its place emerges a new idea of national identity that is deliberately thin: one that defines Britain not through its history or traditions but through the abstract celebration of diversity itself. In other words, the only thing that is meant to define us is that we have no defining identity at all. The endpoint of this cultural project is not inclusion but historical amnesia, or cultural erasure. A society that is detached from its past, uncertain of its traditions, and unsure of what binds it together. This is what Sir Roger Scruton meant when he wrote: “A society that loses its memory loses its identity.” And that loss happens gradually, through thousands of seemingly small decisions — a statue removed here, a curriculum altered there, a historical figure quietly replaced on a banknote. Each individual change may appear insignificant. But taken together they represent something far more profound: the slow disconnection of a people from their own history and collective memory. A people who no longer really know who “we” are. I doubt the bureaucrats who made this decision at the Bank of England fully grasp the cultural significance of what they are doing. But intention is not the point. The effect is what matters. When we remove the symbols of our past, we further weaken the very foundations of our identity. Or Orwell warned: “The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.” This is what is happening and accelerating around us. This is what Furedi meant by the “War Against Our Past”. And this is why it really matters. Not because of one banknote. But because of the much larger cultural story it represents.

YOU 👏🏻 . WERE 👏🏻 . IN. 👏🏻 CHARGE. 👏🏻 And no one will forgive or forget what you did.

@GoodwinMJ You’re a reject. No one wants you, slimeball. Feel free to close the door on your way out.

Statement: “We are losing our country. A dangerous Muslim sectarianism has emerged. We have only one general election left to save Britain. Vote Reform every chance you get. I will continue the fight. I will always fight for you. I will stand at the next general election. Matt.”

@AndyMitten @TheAthleticFC @Ankaman616 @mjcritchley Don’t allow Chelsea to worry you too much Andy. Look at their fixtures from March onwards 👀

New Talk of the Devils from @TheAthleticFC Recorded after MUFC 2 Spurs 0. Fourth straight win. With @Ankaman616 myself and @mjcritchley (brought to you in association with Chorley’s 2036 Olympic bid) Video youtu.be/mkoBrCs3VTM Words pod.fo/e/38aacc

Filmed a thing so that hopefully people will watch this thing and then put me in more things so I can pay my rent. All views/likes help because I need a job ✌️ 🎥

@lauriewhitwell Such a circus about appointing an interim too. It’ll make very little to no difference, they just want to be seen as competent but so far they have got all the big decisions wrong, even the timing of Amorim sacking is questionable.

#MUFC out of FA Cup + League Cup at first time of asking, no Europe, a 40-game season. Fewest in a full campaign since 1914-15. Caretaker into interim manager. Where is Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s regime going? While Glazers majority owners. Big questions for club’s football leaders.

@ImpressionistAL He couldn’t capitalise on anything, unfortunately. These past 6 weeks have been a shocker, results wise

Have to be grateful to Amorim for that Anfield result though, that was special, shame he couldn’t capitalise on it.

@lauriewhitwell Too many unforgivable performances under this manager in a season where top 5 is open, but 3 points from 12 v Everton, WHU, AFCB & Wolves is so far from acceptable

Pretty disastrous not to take six points from one of the worst sides in Premier League history. Awkward performance throughout, lacking any rhythm. Even with the absentees should have been able to get the job done. #MUFC

@AdamCrafton_ 3 games. 0 goals. 0 assists. And people want us to respect Ligue 1 😭

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@AdamCrafton_ That is an abomination of a decision to take Casemiro off and leaving a Ugarte and Fletcher CM

I hope there's fitness reasons Sesko and Casemiro can't play on because I felt both were playing decent roles for United so far

@katysallen1 Thank you Katy 🫶🏻

@Mano99 Amazing!! Congratulations 🥳

My play ‘The Inheritors’, which premiered in Helsinki earlier this year is heading to London next May. It bagged me a literary agent, so I guess it’s OK. Please book tickets and judge for yourself so I can pay rent. ticketsource.co.uk/thehopetheatre…

@StretfordPaddck @MrStephenHowson Spot on

🚨🗣️ @MrStephenHowson gives his review of #MUFC 1-1 West Ham 🔗 youtu.be/stIQl3dRKfY

@ManUtd Narrator: They didn’t give it all they’ve got….

Give it all you've got, United! 🗣️🔊

@mjcritchley @lauriewhitwell Last night broke me. Ruben and this team are not going to learn or improve or have sustained pressure. Turn up the heat Mark 🔥

You can't trust this Manchester United side to see a game out. Changes are often necessary. But can you trust Ruben Amorim to make the right ones? Last night, it was hard to separate United's collapse from some of the manager's choices. nytimes.com/athletic/68640…

@Steviegrieve all the best at @HelsingborgsIF 🇸🇪 Stevie 🤝, really deserved opportunity for you. 👏🏻 💪🏻