Someone got him to give a heart warming tribute to Ian Watkins…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92j7CuUNErI

Edit: Oh and don’t forget happy birthday Hugh Janus…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuAXoQ0luR4

He’s basically Moe Szyslak without the good looks.

If you’re not paying attention, imagine one of those granite blocks clattering into your ankles…

Doubtful, most common meal for peasants would have been a sort of stew of vegetables and oats called pottage.

A whole chicken would have been prohibitively expensive either to purchase or in lost money from sale at market, same for pork or beef.

Fish though would be plentiful and cheap and a valuable source of protein. Oysters were considered peasant food until pretty much the 20th century.

Wheat bread similarly would have been a rare luxury, especially made from refined white flour, rye and buckwheat, roughly ground would be far more common.

Typically living in the most rundown, shithole of a housing estate, rusted washing machine on the lawn, cracked and broken render despite the place only being built 4 years ago, rubbish everywhere, portly 50 something man in the doorway at 2pm on a Wednesday having just got up from the previous night’s special brews in front of GB News, unlit but half smoked rollie dangling from his lips as he sneers at the non-white Amazon driver who delivers his next pack of red markers so he can draw another st George’s cross on the mini roundabout at the entrance of the estate and stick it to the wokes.

Interesting fact, the same man, Thomas Midgely Jr, invented both tetraethyl-lead as a fuel additive and CFCs, almost killing everyone on earth twice over.

Karma got him in the end after he got tangled in one of his contraptions after he became bedridden with polio and died of strangulation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley_Jr.

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

If it is ruled unlawful, your prosecution would be unsound and you’d be able to get it overturned, fines repaid and maybe even court costs reimbursed.

I feel a collective legal action coming on.

Obligatory Stewart Lee:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cgeXd5kRDg

If the stories are true, everyone.

Subject: Fire. Dear Sir/Madam, I am writing to inform you of a fire that has broken out on the premises of 123 Cavendon Road… no, that’s too formal. Fire - exclamation mark - fire - exclamation mark - help me - exclamation mark. 123 Cavendon Road. Looking forward to hearing from you. Yours truly, Maurice Moss.

Ooh line go up! Big woop!

That tells you exactly nothing about what difference you would have got had we not left the union. The articles I linked above go into great detail about it, but I assume yo haven’t read them.

I’d prefer a functioning economy but what do I (and every economist in the world not on farage’s silver) know eh?

First, we’re not talking about enforcing children to go work down the mines, the article is talking about a teenager working in a food truck, no matter how click and rage baity the headline is.

All labour is inherently exploitative and learning that and the degrees with which you personally can or can’t accept is a valuable life lesson whether you learn it as a teenager when you have a familial safety net or when you’re living hand to mouth and can’t afford to speak up.

I have no moral or ethical problem with allowing a teenager who wants to working a job for which it is appropriate for them to do. Issues we may or may have with the nature of capitalist society or lack of regulation doesn’t change that.

Can I do that from Internet Explorer or do I have to use Safari?

A very similar path to me, you can’t fight it.

Bloody beaker folk, bloody coming over here rowing up the Tagus estuary from Iberia on improvised rafts with their bloody drinking vessels. We don’t want your beakers here! What’s wrong with just cupping up the water in your hands?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cgeXd5kRDg

I fail to see any issue with teenagers doing appropriate part time work. Waiting tables, serving in shops, domestic work, garden maintenance etc.

I hate to be one of those people, but I knew it would happen eventually, I worked from the age of 14 doing a newspaper round and washing dishes in a kitchen and it was the best thing that happened to me.

Its not for everyone I agree but in general it should he encouraged, especially because it gives you an early understanding of how exploitative the world of casual labour is and how to avoid getting trapped there long term.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/02/11/in-defence-of-child-labour/

As much as I despise the Torygraph, the article isn’t actually as sensationalist as the headline and accompanying imagery makes it seem.

it’s probably a better idea to call it “part-time youth employment” than the Dickensian-sounding “child labour”. But it’s very clearly a brilliant thing in the right setting: for them, and for the country.

What the author is arguing for is that teenagers should do part time work as it provides both an economic benefit (to the employer and prospective employee) and a social one as well

Within reason, kids doing part-time jobs will teach them about the world. The grimmer the work they do, the more incentivised they’ll feel to work hard at school so they can avoid a rubbish job. Alternatively, they’ll find what they want to do early in life and have a head start.

We don’t need to start chopping heads off just yet (at least not for this one specific article, there’s plenty of other things in that rag to get upset over).

Angelfire was the peak.

Since the above comment was deleted, here’s what I was replying to for anyone wondering:

That all sure sounds awfully successful and self-sufficient and “we’re a strong independent nation, we don’t need no big dumb international union”, golly. And yet, here we are talking about the UK asking very nicely for things they had before and rejected.

No, it says that the success/failure of the UK financial services sector is irrelevant to any discussion about the EU and the pros/cons of membership for the UK.

If you look at the wider economic cost/benefit analysis it’s clear as day as to the advantages we had of remaining part of the EU and that could be somewhat clawed back by rejoining the customs union.

For example:

https://obr.uk/forecasts-in-depth/the-economy-forecast/brexit-analysis/#assumptions

The post-Brexit trading relationship between the UK and EU […] will reduce long-run productivity by 4 per cent relative to remaining in the EU.

Both exports and imports will be around 15 per cent lower in the long run than if the UK had remained in the EU.

New trade deals with non-EU countries will not have a material impact, and any effect will be gradual

Or:

https://www.nber.org/papers/w34459

estimates suggest that by 2025, Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%

We estimate that investment was reduced by between 12% and 18%, employment by 3% to 4% and productivity by 3% to 4%

these forecasts were accurate over a 5-year horizon, but they underestimated the impact over a decade