Edwin Flay

Remembering marvellous Miguel Ferrer, born today in 1955. Man, that guy could deliver a line. Like in RoboCop, when he said, "That's life in the big city". What a legend.

@Scientits Not to mention the waste involved in transporting the recycling miles into the countryside.

@PaulTempleman6 Rather implies she hasn’t bothered before now…

@Otto_English Why does anyone care what this lunatic thinks? She’s not even an MP anymore.

It's like watching the local pyromaniac, lecturing the builders, on how to dig the foundations for the replacement Scout hut to the one she burned down

@katebevan For a man who notoriously ordered the painting over of a cartoon mural to toss the term “fun police” at anyone else shows some bloody brass neck…

1. Nobody goes clubbing in a cable-knit zip-up jumper. 2. Nobody goes clubbing in a jacket and tie. 3. I have that paisley jacket the woman in the front is wearing and as much as I love it, I wouldn't go clubbing in it. 4. Nobody, but nobody goes clubbing with Robert Jenrick.

@Bang2write Toxic folks are the source of so much drama in real life; why not in fiction too?

Yup. Write toxic people in my novels all the time. Many are based on real people I have had the misfortune to know IRL.

@joncoopertweets "This pic of me eating chicken proves I don't eat steak."

Real or parody? You decide. 🤣

@CallyOrange Oh, absolutely! They know nothing about culture, they care nothing for culture, and when they deign to notice any, they feel threatened by it. Their attitude boils down to "Anything I don’t like is filthy foreign muck and there’s too much of it.”

Arts journalists: when you hear Farage, Anderson, Jenrick, Badenoch et al banging the "British culture" drum, this is your cue! Ask them what the last book they read was; when they last went to the theatre; to name their favourite films. Expose the dogwhistle for what it is.

@snigskitchen No apology needed, the FB post was more complete in any case!

@EdwinFlay Apologies for sharing a screenshot of your FB post rather than your tweet. Now remedied by RTing.

@snigskitchen Glad you liked :) Re: the inaccuracy, I had broadened it to British culture to encompass the more general attacks from the right, not Jenrick's specific remarks of the last day or so.

This perfectly sums up what the media should do about Robert Jenrick's comments on "British culture".

@NicholasTyrone When he starts up with this crap, I wish someone would ask him when he last went to the theatre, or what his favourite British film is. How he plans to fund the arts. He has no interest in or understanding of actual British culture, he's just using it to figleaf his bigotry.

So, Lee Anderson thinks anyone who doesn’t like British culture should “clear off”. But he also thinks a lot of British culture, such as the BBC, is “awful”. Does that not mean Lee Anderson should take his own advice and clear off?

@KamalaHarris @PalmerReport

Two nights ago, Donald Trump and I had our first debate. We owe it to the voters to have another debate.

@BonMotVivant @TheAVClub Random Roles; the Boardwalk Empire write-ups, which did an outstanding job of teasing out the unifying themes in each subplot every week; the review of London Has Fallen, which is the most brutal savaging I've ever read.

@npklip I WANT them to have an account so I can spam them with questions about where my bloody radiator valves have got to!

It is very telling that Evri is about the last company on Earth that doesn’t have a Twitter account. They have had my package for the last week, mind. I could have collected it myself in less time, and it started its journey in Hangzhou.

@wesleymallin I’ve never wanted to get fit more in my whole life. Probably too old to qualify now - bah!

@EdwinFlay You can't really blame them

If you harbour an ambition to go to space one day, congratulations: you've already acheived something this morning! You're already in space, you just happen to be in space on a planet. There is literally nowhere else to be but space.

@FringeGuru If that's his attitude, maybe the Scotsman's reviewer is in the wrong job?

Read the topmost quote carefully.

@mmccourty @disappoptimism In Good Omens, it's made explicit that Crowley's hardly respected by his demonic peers, who are all too busy monitoring the wrong child. And of course Rincewind is the archetype for every modern reluctant hero.

@disappoptimism @EdwinFlay I realise it's very Terry Pratchett. In Soul Music there's a secondary band who are utterly useless but of course end up playing a role. Would be awesome to have a LoTR epic with incompetent weak heroes riddled with anxiety