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Tue 22nd April 7:30pm
The Angelic, London, UK
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Much magnificence at Monday's #ACMS, hat-tip to:
🪄 the prop-free Charlie Vero-Martin, who spent NOTHING on bread
📺 child star Bart Simpson (!)
🥂 the dapper daters Alexander Richmond & Caroline Barton
🚇 Adam Larter and all his underground associates, inc @TomMayhew
ALT Charlie smiling onstage
ALT Bart Simpson staring sadly onstage
ALT Two blindfolded people in fancy outfits try to pour wine
ALT Tom dressed as a beer bottle, beside Adam in a bald cap and hand drawn cat vest
101 Rules for a Better World (By Comedians)
Sun 16th Feb 7pm
Aces & Eights, London, UK
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Because we all know how well those 400,000 vulnerable people were doing after 14 years of the Tory Party, right?
If mental health charities and disability rights charities both criticise your policy, maybe you should be the one looking for a new job.
🚨 NEW: Rachel Reeves will cut £3 billion from welfare over 4 years in the Budget, with 400,000 long-term claimants losing some benefits to push them into finding work
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You can take Jeremy Kyle off air, but so much of culture and bloody government policy is influenced by the same rhetoric.
This is the state trying to enforce something that literally changes people's bodies. Nothing in the article questions the ethics of this. Not one line.
As this scheme is linked to unemployment, it will be initiated by the DWP - an organisation that once asked my Dad "do you still need hearing aids?"
If you expect them to deal with this in a considerate, emotionally sensitive way, you really need to sign-on more.
I look forward to being sanctioned for daring to brighten my day with a McDonald's breakfast. Or being told I have to spend 35 hours a week working on my appearance, so I am "Insta-ready".
I really hope that England result makes all the Southgate haters think long and hard. We lost 2-1 against Greece at Wembley - and it could have easily been 6-1 to them. Carsley's "handbrake off" team mustered only 2 shots on target. Utterly awful performance.