Jason Anscomb

@HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN The comics are great. Especially the early ones.

Rewatching ‘Constantine’ in 4K UHD tonight — now that the sequel is officially happening. All hail Tilda🫶

Someone asked "Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?" Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England, wrote this magnificent response: "A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace - all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed. So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief. Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing - not once, ever. I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility - for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman. But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is - his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty. Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers. And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults - he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness. There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface. Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege. And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead. There are unspoken rules to this stuff - the Queensberry rules of basic decency - and he breaks them all. He punches downwards - which a gentleman should, would, could never do - and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless - and he kicks them when they are down. So the fact that a significant minority - perhaps a third - of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think 'Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that: * Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are. * You don't need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man. This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss. After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum. God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws - he would make a Trump. And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish: 'My God… what… have… I… created? If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set."

@MattGubba @elonmusk No

Elon Musk is examining legal routes to REMOVE Keir Starmer as the British Prime Minister. Do you support @elonmusk in the fight to liberate Britain from the far-left oppression of UK Labour? YES or NO

@Crazymoments01 @elonmusk Noddy

@elonmusk How would you summarize Elon Musk in one word?

Starmer is evil

This is who @ElonMusk really is. Don’t buy a Tesla. Location: Tesla European HQ, Amsterdam.

@MattGaw Pleasure Matt.

Huge thanks to @jasonanscomb for the new paperback cover of #InAllWeathers. Coming to bookshops in January. waterstones.com/book/in-all-we…

How Musk broke Twitter and helped elect Trump (Location: Tesla European HQ, Amsterdam)

Wonderful creativity from the kids at Christmas! 🎄

This is an important case (someone I know). Please take a look as it as it has the potential to change important laws if the case is successful. crowdfunder.co.uk/p/8-year-famil…

@rustyrockets @TuckerCarlson

Ok it is a very impressive magic. 😂

thought I’d share this golden clip while everyone is aimlessly waiting

@jon_lockett @implausibleblog Baby Jimmy Saville family

@implausibleblog Such hardship. The Johnsons seen here with their nanny! It’s like a scene from Shameless!

Emily Maitlis, "You are funny, let's be honest. You call David Cameron a posh boy but Boris Johnson has been to the exact same school and had the same upbringing, is absolutely fine" Nadine Dorries, "No no no, I have to address that" Emily Maitlis, "They're all very privileged people, but somehow you chose the one you love" Nadine Dorries, "Noooo.. Boris Johnson had no money growing up.. He knows what hardship is like" Krishnan Guru-Murthy, "He went to Eton, what are you talking about" Nadine Dorries, "He went on a scholarship" Rory Stewart, "No he didn't"

No piece of commentary I’ve seen captures what 14 years of Tory rule have done to Britain than this brilliant takedown by Jonathan Pie. Listen and quake with anger……

This is incredible 🤣🤣

Hayao Miyazaki reacting to Al "art"