Playwright, Screenwriter, Wit. It Happened To Me.

Stockholm, Sweden
Joined May 2017
RT @worstall: I want people who do assisted suicide to face prosecution. For murder too. Rather than the free for all being proposed. I'm…
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So, there could be one second left on the clock, and a QB could spike the ball on first down. The refs put one second back on the clock. On second down, does it again, and on third, and fourth. Opposition takes over and does the same. The game never ends. Unlikely, I admit.
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It’s a symptom of stress. Under duress, people return to the familiar.
This is not a serious Government. We have soaring unemployment, plans to stop the right to trial by jury, the hospitality sector's breaking, homelessness, and climate change crises - while nothing's being done to tackle those issues, *this* is the legislation they're pushing...
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For us. For fairness. Politics isn't working. For far too long. Put big light on. Barm cakes. Putting the heart back into communities. The Smiths. But not Morrissey, obviously. People up and down this country. Decency. Hard working people. Communities. Picky teas. For our city-region. For all city-regions. Everton. Next door but one. Since 2001. Buses. Yellow buses. Hard working buses, up and down this country. Price caps. Price freezes. Giving back. Not taking enough to begin with. People are sick and tired. Wealth tax. Fairness. Tax land, tax money. Tax wealth. Tax growth. Tax growth to make growth. We're all immigrants, aren't we? No more being in hock to the bond markets. Increase borrowing. Increase spending. Doorsteps. What I'm hearing on the doorsteps. Good touch for a big man. We do things differently here. Wherever here might be. Politics of that which we have in common is moreso in common with unity than that which divides us can divide us from us. Chippy tea. Sad smile. Grass. Selfies. Fourteen years of Tory hurt didn't stop me dreaming. Jogging by the motorway. Like my grandad and his grandad before him. Chuckle. Little chuckle. Well, some people might say that. Guitars. Music. Nothing more esoteric than Elbow. I like Oasis, but I don't condone all the fighting and wouldn't like them now. Bricks. Houses. Terraced houses. Council houses. Ordinary people. Ordinary people like you and me, who haven't got embarrassing comments in their past because they've barely said anything of note. Politics, eh, who'd go into that? No, I wouldn't say I'm a saviour exactly. But the Labour Party has to be saved and I'm the only one who can do it. Milquetoast? I'm not really familiar with the term, but I like milk and I love toast, haha. They serve toast in the breakfast clubs, and we should honour Sir Keir's legacy really. Fantastic Prime Minister. Just not for very long. I love this country that I love, I'm very patriotic. But the flag is divisive, and we need to have a debate about that. A debate about whether or not it's divisive, about which I have no opinion. I went to Cambridge, and I'm not afraid to admit that. Ordinary lad done good. I've seen the system from the inside. I've seen the system from the outside. I've seen the system from Merseyside. It's not working. Not for ordinary folk like you and me. I'm a man, and I'm not afraid to admit that. But it is divisive, and we should have a debate about that. The North. People say it's grim up north, hah, maybe that's why we're more realistic up here. We know the problems people are facing, because we're the ones what's facing 'em. Regional inequality is something I'm passionate about. It's not fair that pints are only £7 in Manchester when pub landlords in London are raking in much more. Minimum wage for pints. Get young people earning, so we can tax them. Doe eyes. Glasses. I'm a bit older, a bit wiser, a bit heavier, haha. Ask me mates, they'll tell you. Don't ask them, actually. They're made of cardboard. I've always cared about equality. Sharing is caring, as my kids say. I think my wife taught them that. As PM I will do everything in my power to put every town in this country on the map. Of this country. Manchester feels half the world away. I've been lost, I've been found, but I don't feel down the back of the sofa for loose change. Not a bad idea though, in fairness. Fairness. Barrow-in-Fairness. In fairness, fairness isn't a bad idea to be fair. I'm from Wigan, me. As honest as can be. Uncle Joe's Mint Balls. Change. Believe in change. Believe deeply in unspecified change. And hope. Hope deeply for belief in unspecified change. Keep calm and carry the shopping back from the car in one go. For Andy. For us. Forever.
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Rest in peace, Ike Willis.
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Christmas Eve, 1983. A former Rat Pack star is alone at the Betty Ford Centre. An alcoholic, thrice-married recluse. No more Hollywood, no White House parties or game shows. Where did it all go wrong? 16th-20th Dec Book Now oldredliontheatre.co.uk/it-h… – at Islington, London
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I’ve been watching darts for fucking donkeys years now and I don’t think I’ve ever seen an ending to a match like that 😂 I need a cigarette after that and I don’t even smoke.
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Perhaps this is the one thing that could bring this fractured nation together. ✌️
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Because of the imminent closure of Typepad, the blog of the late great Prof Norman Geras has to move. I have migrated it to a (temporary) home at WordPress-dot-com. Please share this tweet and stress-test the installation. Link to follow. I'm aware of the glitch with image links.
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It Happened To Me - Hollywood Biography - 3 "Hansler embodies the character well, with a likeable manner, in this interesting recount of Peter Lawford's life." #Review #Theatre #London #RatedReviewed @CamdenFringe @GatehouseLondon @ChillingOutProd ratedreviewed.co.uk/2025/08/…
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#BreakALeg #OpeningNIght to cast and crew of It Happened To Me @GatehouseLondon @CamdenFringe until Saturday How does one man go from a Hollywood legend to a nobody? Peter Lawford is here to tell you how. @ChillingOutProd #theatre #fringe Tickets from buff.ly/dEalope
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Opening Wednesday @GatehouseLondon @CamdenFringe It Happened To Me Sitting alone on Christmas Eve in the Betty Ford clinic, Peter Lawford, once a Hollywood icon, is ready to tell you where it all went wrong. @ChillingOutProd #theatre Tkts just £12: buff.ly/dEalope
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Do you know who Peter Lawford was? No? You're not alone. But it's time to tell his story of once being friends with Frank Sinatra and Marilyn Monroe It Happened To Me @GatehouseLondon @CamdenFringe 6 - 9 August @ChillingOutProd #theatre #fringe Tkts: buff.ly/dEalope
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In 1962 he was friends with Frank Sinatra and Marilyn Monroe. 21 years later Peter Lawford was an alcoholic, thrice-married recluse. But why? It Happened To Me @GatehouseLondon @CamdenFringe 6 - 9 Aug @ChillingOutProd #theatre #fringe Tkts from buff.ly/dEalope
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Once a member of Hollywood's elite, yet by sixty, Peter Lawford was an alcoholic, thrice-married recluse. So where did it all go wrong? It Happened To Me @GatehouseLondon @CamdenFringe 6 - 9 August @ChillingOutProd #theatre #fringe Tickets from buff.ly/dEalope
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How does one man go from a Hollywood legend to a nobody? Peter Lawford knows just how It Happened To Me will tell you his story, so it's time to listen. @GatehouseLondon @CamdenFringe 6 - 9 August @ChillingOutProd #theatre #fringe Tickets from buff.ly/dEalope
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