the day after the deadline: can the union survive brexit and other deep questions

render unto gammon the things that are gammon's

such as their delicious free-range flavour

http://www.blackcatimporters.com/image/cache/data/1243269642-228x228.jpg

"mum, please let me slowly die from scurvy"

in other food news

Gerry Adams is set to publish a cookery book, with recipes that will reveal the "best-kept secrets of the Irish peace process".
Appearing at the Feile an Phobail festival in west Belfast on Monday night, the former Sinn Fein president said the recipes would be based on cooking that sustained republicans through many years of negotiations.

The Irish Times reports the publication is to be called 'The Negotiators' Cook Book' and will be printed by Sinn Fein.

“The British never fed us. They never had any food. But as intrepid republicans and being blessed by one or two great cooks these are the recipes that sustained the Irish negotiating team," he said.

“It contains some of the best-kept secrets of the Irish peace process.”

― Rogan Twort's highly portable product (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 7 August 2018 11:10 (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

potato surprise

― mark s, Tuesday, 7 August 2018 11:13 (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

jesus

it was an open goal except it was me that was kicked into it and instead of the back of the net it was the back of hell where i belong

putting the m into omg

just received the embargo notice for the forthcoming david cameron autobiography - there's been lots of trade rumours but this is the first time we've had confirmation the title really is "Sourdough Starter: My Life in 23 Breads". & an early glimpse of the cover too! pic.twitter.com/8yzYZAZ3U7

— LRB Bookshop (@LRBbookshop) August 7, 2018

David Camerom

https://www.google.com/search?source=hp&ei=EpRqW_OAOMvNwQKUkrbgCQ&q=9780333761571

It was a joke

Yes, but it is nice to remember to check the joke.

joke news

LOL @ Boris, displaying a deft touch as always, being the one to finally shift the focus from Labour and anti-Semitism to the Tories and Islamophobia.

master tactician playing 5D chess

another stunning flan.

Media people and artists tend to be unthinking soft centrists (not hard ones, the hard ones are active players where soft ones are passive receivers of hard ideology), because they don't read about politics and get their sense of reality from the same place most people do, media

— Matthew Collings (@m_collings) August 8, 2018

I didn't realise Matthew Collings was a Canary RT'ing variety of the twitter Corbynites these days!

I love Collings in a lot of ways, which is not an endorsement of his politics, but he always seems like a thoughtful guy

Can't argue with anything he says on that thread. I didn't always like the art he repped for but his ch4 show was good stuff

he's far from the worst artist who talks about art imo

The art world is either very left Labour or fairly FBPE, with the exception of a few Tories (who are Remain anyway because of ease of travel in the EU).

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/aug/08/visas-refused-for-a-dozen-authors-invited-to-book-festival?CMP=share_btn_

talking of ease of travel, this is something...

According to Barley, the dozen authors were asked to provide three years’ worth of bank statements to demonstrate financial independence, despite being paid to participate in the Edinburgh book festival, and having publishers and the festival guaranteeing to cover their costs while in the UK.

Suzy otm

I know the words "purity test" were directed at me last week but even I don't have the strength for this:

https://mronline.org/2018/08/06/social-imperialism-in-the-21st-century/

why do people leave communism for good

because they're bourgie cunts

Things that don't need unpicking..

Boris Johnson faces anger in his constituency but Tommy Robinson sympathiser thinks he is 'a legend'

Forgot to add- Independent article headline

Evil arsehole

Every time I read something by Louis Allday I want to link to that 'Anti-Imperialism of Idiots' article again and again and again.

oh i wouldnt read something by louis all day

you didnt

tomorrow, this thread will actually be occurring on THE DAY AFTER THE DEADLINE btw

it seems "pre-eminent left-winger" Paul Mason is still without a club!

rah!

Every time I read something by Louis Allday I want to link to that 'Anti-Imperialism of Idiots' article again and again and again.

here it actually is: https://leilashami.wordpress.com/2018/04/14/the-anti-imperialism-of-idiots/

there's no way I'm going to read allday denouncing mason or jones again, but I didn't find reading this polemic against grand narratives from someone who wrote a book with robin 'corbyn is a stalinist/putinist/assadist worm who should be put to sleep' yassin-kassab v edifying either. I don't think ppl on either side of the regime change issue have a monopoly on placing grand narratives over lived realities, supporting brutal regimes in far off countries, or peddling racism, conspiracy theories and atrocity denial

Boris to be investigated by a Tory party panel. The 1.5d chess view would be that losing the whip and being ineligible for this year's leadership challenge would probably be a good thing for him.

can't wait to find out whether there's a place for racist cunts in the Tory party

Baroness Warsi found out that certain types of Asian MPs (i.e. ones that stfu about Tory Islamophobia) are tolerated, but not her type.

Source close to Boris Johnson: “The world has gone mad. Or specifically the people at Matthew Parker Street (Conservative Central Office) have gone mad. They and Number 10 would be very, very wise to calm this down very, very quickly.”

— Lewis Goodall (@lewis_goodall) August 9, 2018

BJ is like 2 steps from going full Mosley

You can just smell the desperation coming off him.

i expect a glowing Channel 4 documentary will be next

That statement looks like a threat.

Can see them working on an update to that Boris doc just about now.xp

These Fuckers

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/aug/09/revealed-detail-of-exclusive-russian-deal-offered-to-arron-banks-in-brexit-run-up

Atkinson wrote in a letter to The Times: “As a lifelong beneficiary of the freedom to make jokes about religion, I do think that Boris Johnson’s joke about wearers of the burka resembling letterboxes is a pretty good one.” Describing it as an almost perfect visual simile, he added: “All jokes about religion cause offence, so it’s pointless apologising for them. You should really only apologise for a bad joke. On that basis, no apology is required."

I assume that was Ron Atkinson?

Idly wondering if there some taxonomy of which papers call him a Blackadder star vs Mr Bean.

Whatever the exact opposite of a surprise is:

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/aug/09/britains-richest-man-to-leave-uk-for-tax-free-monaco

Sorry for a link to the Express, and sorry for a link to the Express very slightly rewriting a Telegraph story, but I thought it worth noting as one of the very occasional times when you feel a stab of sympathy for May.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1001590/Brexit-news-EU-leaders-compromise-deal-Theresa-May-free-movement

may has sent messages to irish govt asking them to stop taking the border so srsly pls

great diplomacy at work