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Chris Brookmyre
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Chris Brookmyre
@cbrookmyre
This account is now dormant. Hope to resume one day when the laughably insecure Nazi bawbag has sold up. Meanwhile, find me at @brookmyre.bsky.social.
Joined June 2012
- I used to have a lot of respect for Robert Peston, but throughout this election he's been so far up Boris Johnson's arse he can see Laura Kuenssberg's feet.
- Nadine Dorries' comms people must genuinely detest her. It takes a deep and cold kind of hatred to be complicit in letting a person humilate herself like that, and I totally respect them for it.
- I know everybody's dunking on Kirstie Allsopp, but her remarks nonetheless speak to an uncomfortable truth regarding the younger generation's judgment and priorities, particularly when it comes to choosing their parents.
- As Truss succeeds Johnson, I am reminded of a time I had norovirus on holiday. I had been wracked by vomiting until I wished I was dead, and when it finally subsided, along came a merciless onslaught of diarrhoea.
- I can't see Dominic Cummings without remembering that he retrospectively edited his blog to make it look like he predicted the pandemic. Any claim ever made about his abilities or achievements should be refracted through the knowledge that he is a laughably vain cheat.
- She got caught slipping him the questions, didn't she.While prepping to interview Boris Johnson tomorrow, by mistake I sent our briefing notes to him in a message meant for my team. That obviously means it’s not right for the interview to go ahead. It’s very frustrating, and there’s no point pretending it’s anything other than
- It is hard to feel compassion towards someone who goes abroad to support a radical group that detests our country's values, but she was clearly not bright enough to know better, and that's why I don't think Liz Truss should be stripped of her citizenship.
- It's amazing how men who"react instinctively" in assaulting women are so much better at restraining themselves when faced with a man twice their size.
- Hats off to Andrew Tate. An ordinary wanker merely masturbates, but it takes a supreme alpha wanker to actually fuck himself.
- Amazing to think that only this time last week Downing St was flat-out denying Dominic Cummings had even gone to Barnard Castle. Nobody in government has even acknowledged that particular lie, far less apologised for deceiving the press and the public.
- My computer asks me "Are you sure?" when I try to quit a document, but the government doesn't think it's wise to check if we're sure we want to quit the EU.
- So Ireland have a tea sock and we have a wank sock.
- I'm almost admiring of Laura Kuenssberg's chutzpah in not mentioning in this piece that Boris Johnson has been twice sacked for lying. Any other journalist might think it the kind of detail that adds an important element of perspective.
