Quoting Samuel Johnson is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Jem Roberts
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Author, performer, Briton and pop.
Official biographer, Douglas Adams, Stephen Fry & Hugh Laurie, Blackadder & ISIHAC.
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I just let Jesus into my heart. He only wanted to use the toilet.
… And finally the first night of Christopher Eccleston’s Scrooge at the Old Vic. The script’s additions were appalling, but the cast created such glorious bonhomie, it seems churlish to complain. Merry Xmas, one and all!
… Then a pilgrimage to Scrooge’s own neighbourhood in Cornhill, his office, inn, house and possible graveyard…
Here’s the short version of our Dickensian weekend in London, kicking off in his house in Doughty Street… I recommend taking off your shoes is you ever visit a museum in someone’s house, it feels far more like they invited you round personally…
Thank God someone has built a statue of a billionaire. We need more statues of billionaires. I’m so moved I think I may write a song entitled ‘More Statues Of Billionaires, Please!’ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-67394815
If you recognise bad people as bad people, and thus find the cruelty of reality very hard to deal with, here’s a lovely song you can sing along with to feel temporarily better.
‘Crash, Nigel Crash’. https://on.soundcloud.com/DHiueqFsfPXir5TW6
Crash Nigel Crash
CRASH NIGEL CRASH It was May the 6th two-thousand-ten, he mounted to the carriage, Of a golden oreole aircraft, a racist named Farage. He was 5 foot 8 of city shit, and despite a German wife, He'd mad
We had a lovely day in London yesterday. Thankfully the closest we got to any mention of war, poppies or goverment-stoked fascism was the stench of horse piss in the streets.
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