Scott Matthewman

Maybe somebody can take over the place and, you know, make it an actors’ centre or something

@McivorJaymey @marksandspencer @GBNEWS Every year, whiny little bigots go down the “it doesn’t say Easter on the box!” route under the mistaken belief that they will appear strong and correct, instead of the pathetic little arseholes they really know themselves to be

Any chance I can get an Easter Egg please M&S? Will they ever learn 🙈 It’s like they do it on purpose to offend. Easter is not National Chocolate Day. Which extremists are you trying hard to not offend? @marksandspencer @GBNEWS

Discovering that GitHub Issues actually does support inter-issue block dependencies has been a game changer. It feels like a half-complete feature (no gh or MCP support, adding multiple dependencies in one go is a pain) but still essential. My Friday evenings are so exciting.

@danny__kruger That’s an awful lot of words to say “I’m an ineffectual man who enjoys stoking up fear and hatred because bigotry’s the only thing that gets me hard”.

Nick Timothy and Nigel Farage are right, and Sadiq Khan and Keir Starmer are wrong. Small groups of people, of whatever religion, praying in public places is fine. And as a Christian country we should allow a special privilege for churches to lead services in our national spaces, like the Palm Sunday celebration that happens in Trafalgar Square. What we don't want is mass ritual observances intended to claim the civic realm for another religion, or assert the domination of another culture over our own Christian traditions. What happens in our national spaces is not neutral. People use Trafalgar Square, for celebrations and demonstrations, to make a point about the kind of country they want us to be. The Palm Sunday pageant reminds us of who we are - not as individuals (many or most of us don't identify as Christians at all) but as a national community, with the roots of our institutions in the ground of the Bible and our most solemn communal moments, from coronations to funerals, mediated through the liturgies of the Church. A mass Adhan held there, or in any town square, is making a different point: that Britain is not a Christian country, and that - inshallah - one day it shall be Muslim. This is unacceptable to the British public and indeed incompatible with our constitution. As ever with these debates, the issue is partly one of kind and partly one of degree. There is an issue with Islam itself as a religion which in most interpretations does not admit of pluralism or freedom of conscience, and therefore is inherently aggrandising, including over territory. But with a bit of confidence and a bit of toleration we could handle that - if it were not for the issue of degree. It is the scale of Islam in Britain, and the ambition of its leaders for greater scale, that makes the problem. The numbers of people who assembled for the adhan in Trafalgar Square, clearly and openly claiming the territory for a faith with no connection (indeed, with strong doctrinal disagreement) with the model of Western liberal democracy that Britain has developed and exported to the world - that is the problem. The numbers, whether everyone there understood it this way or not (and I suspect many did), convey an explicit threat to the foundations of our country. Being relaxed about other people's religion is a good thing, a very British thing. I don't mind modern druids dancing around Stonehenge in my constituency (arguably, though the historicity is tenuous, they have a claim to the place). I don't mind small groups of Hindus or Buddhists or Muslims demonstrating the reality of Britain's religious toleration by worshiping in Trafalgar Square. But let's not kid ourselves about this adhan, or pretend that we're just seeing another harmless expression of Britain's religious diversity. We are seeing an abuse of liberalism, led by people who are not themselves liberal; or - let us imagine they are acting in good faith - who are themselves deceived about what they are doing. It should not happen again. And it would be good to hear the Church of England say so.

#THEATRE #REVIEW Where There Is No Time @7DialsPlayhouse 'feels like it has more to say about the importance of maintaining one’s heritage when commercial pressures push in the other direction' ⭐️⭐️⭐️ thereviewshub.com/where-there-is… #London

@DavoFromWales @JoshPhillipsPhD @returnofgrupey That screen grab was doing the rounds last year, the first time white supremacist numpties got their panties in a bunch. The Mail website doesn’t include the current year in its datestamps

@scottm @JoshPhillipsPhD @returnofgrupey He even removed the year from the picture. AI warrior!

The more I read this, the more I realize how it is utterly illiterate. How exactly do you decolonize someone’s birthplace? He lived there. No one came in and conquered his house. It’s just a house of a man that exists. These people are exhausting 🙄

If you really did read it in the Mail, why are you illustrating your tweet with a year old screengrab? This is from March 2025 as the current website clearly shows. Did it take you a whole year to read a right wing rag’s distorted take, designed to agitate sad little white supremacist arseholes?

@returnofgrupey It’s really a thing. I read the article. Real interviews and quotes

@squeakytoy As the musical guests with host Christopher Biggins

This reminds me of when I lived in the UK and never knew who any of the celebrities were on celebrity game shows. Excited to see how Ant & Dec inevitably figure into all this though

Not sure I want to take UI advice from the Twitter team to be honest. The collapsing tab bar is great in some circumstances. And every user starts on an expanded tab view, which animates out of the way when enabled. It’s more intuitive than a side menu that offers no hints that it’s there, say

There is a circle of hell reserved for wankers who keep their backpacks on in a crowded bar. Especially when they keep turning round as they’re placing their order, walloping the people next to them as they holler for Tarquin and Jessica to tell them which craft ale they want

@thekatebutch Anybody who chucks rudeness and downright abuse at any queen is a fan only of their own misery. Thank you for such a great contribution to a series which has brought so much entertainment.

can’t even lose drag race without the cunts coming out the woodwork lol

@Nigel_Farage @TheSun What do you care when your paymasters use rubles

New polling in @TheSun shows Brits of every age group want to keep Winston Churchill on the £5 note.

Trying to build a chat interface into my theatre DB with Apple Foundation Models and… it could be going better #SwiftUI

@MForstater How can it be an expert charity when it’s led by two women who’ve been laughed out of courts around the world because they confused being opinionated arseholes with being experts?

The Hampstead ponds case is back on! 💥As an expert charity it is arguable that Sex Matters has standing 💥The City's arguments on the merits were "brief and unpersuasive" 💥 Even if the original decision was out of time it is arguable that time limits should have been extended following FWS.

@squeakytoy @SUPERSTISM What. Is. Happening.

🚨 HBO confirms “The Pitt” are were once they are did. They became the first ever to have the first as in the era of that when of a digital streaming and the media began. Congratulations 🎉

Nobody quite writes about actors and technique like Isaac Butler. His @Slate piece about Jessie Buckley is worth your time. slate.com/culture/2026/0…

@travelingflying This was a tedious little racist rant the first time you morons found this clip years ago. Being a fascist seems so dull and dreary, have you ever tried not being an arsehole?

BBC kids’ show is claiming that Black people build Britain. This indoctrination needs to end. This forced rewriting of history is awful. They’re doing this to erase the past and replace it with propaganda to make people accept cultural replacement.

All the other contestants of BBC/ALW musical talent shows are now gearing up for queries from relatives along the lines of, “so why haven’t you won an Oscar yet…” Many congrats to Jessie Buckley

Because I only watch it online, I somehow missed that I was a week behind on #TheGreatPotteryThrowdown. As with so many of these shows, any one of the finalists would have been a worthy winner, but bravo to Fynn who was consistently strong every week.

@420_bluejay @mushycrouton @JohnRawlin92241 If you really were upset about people claiming to speak for people based solely on their own belief, you’d be going after all the gender critical monsters who continually pretend that everybody else is as spiteful bitter and hateful as they are

@mushycrouton @JohnRawlin92241 Really? Have you spoken to "most" gay people or would that be you making a blanket statement that you have zero proof to back up. That's what you do though isn't it, just spout absolute shit and hope you don't get called on it.

Ultimately, terfs’ only interest is to undermine and sabotage the LGBTQIA+ community to weaken it and make it easier to roll back our rights This is why terfs go mask off homophobia at gay people. If they can’t use us as weapons, they’ll vilify us for our own sense of community