Thank you!

Thank you!

Why yes, this is turning into a full blown lurgy, and I am supposed to be spending the day in Sussex with the family tomorrow for my dad's 87th birthday, and then having my niece to stay in Friday night 😑😑😑😑

Sounds likely, eh

she's right, of course.

Betting on a deadline extension now up to 63% (and rising) on Polymarket. Someone thinks they know something
polymarket.com/politics/trump

It's definitely a sore throat now 😩

awwwh, happy anniversary, you two!

ugh, hope yours comes to nothing!

thanks - me too!

thank you - I'm hoping it comes to nothing!

huh, I have the beginnings of a sore throat, and I could really do without being ill this week, so I would appreciate it if the sore throat would go away.

can't see that the insurers are going to cover this, though, so it's an epic clusterfuck

god she is fucking awful

increasingly torn between a) hoping he has what must be a long overdue stroke or heart attack very soon and b) hoping he lives long enough to find himself at the Hague.

I'm not sure you can insure against "thinking booking an actual Nazi with a verifiable track record of overt, ugly antisemitism won't get you into trouble and potentially end up with you having to cancel the whole shebang", though

Kinds of begs the question who the GIBBERING FUCK these stakeholders were

well, quite. Can you imagine the uproar if they'd book someone who'd idk released songs called "Slavery was good, actually", or similar?

yes, quite

you can bet though that plenty of people will blame (((them)))

From a 'walks dog in Finsbury Park' angle this is a screaming result

also, I'd have thought it *unlikely* that the insurers will step up to cover the costs of cancelling, because I'm not sure you can insure against an entirely foreseeable uproar about booking an actual Nazi.

yes, I'm pretty sure this is exactly what they hoped would happen, innit. So bloody cynical of them.

Blaming the Home Office for your failure to go "hm, maybe we shouldn't be headlining someone who's repeatedly demonstrated he's a Nazi" is a bit fucking rich, tbh.

This should always have been the end of it.

yes, quite. This is probably exactly what they wanted.

the cynic in me wonders if this isn't exactly the outcome Wireless wanted: now they don't have to extricate themselves expensively from whatever contractual agreements they had with West.

I mean, the bloody Wireless festival should have cancelled his performance in the first place; it shouldn't have come to the point of needing the Home Office to step in.

UK government bans Kanye West from entering country Rapper, who is legally known as Ye, has been criticised for making antisemitic remarks including voicing admiration for Adolf Hitler

Good. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/a...

yes - he's completely out of his depth. The situation has escalated horribly, which because he's mad, bad and stupid, he didn't expect and now he doesn't know what to do, so he's doubling down on the insanity.