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Dickheads of the Month: June 2023

As it seems that there are people who say or do things that are remarkably dickheaded yet somehow people try to make excuses for them or pretend it never happened, here is a collection of some of the dickheaded actions we saw in the month of June 2023 to make sure that they are never forgotten.

Who could have guessed that OceanGate sending people to the Titanic wreck in a steel tube that can only be opened from outside, which is operated with a knockoff Xbox controller, that has no communications system or a rescue beacon in case of trouble could go wrong?

...although why The Sun and Daily Mail splashed that over their front pages the following morning, rather than their boy Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson having several hundred people vote to agree he was a liar does post a few pertinent questions

...and then billionaire manchild Elon Musk had a meltdown all because Snopes pointed out that Starlink were providing the internet support for the ship the death tube submarine was launched from. But on the plus side, at least he didn’t accuse anyone mounting the rescue operation of being a paedophile, so I guess that counts as personal growth

...and then along came proven liar Boris Johnson to use his Daily Mail column to waffle some utter bollocks about “pushing human frontiers” instead of “rich people having a jolly at something which was discovered in the mid-1980s” all as an excuse to have a pop at his political opponents...sorry, let me narrow that down, his left-wing political opponents, given both sides of the aisle are sick and fucking tired of him at this point

The tantrum thrown by proven liar Boris Johnson when he reached the “...and find out” part of the transaction after he was found to have breached ministerial code, lied to parliament, and when facing a potential suspension he resigned as an MP so he could harrumph about Harriet Harman having it in for him as if the five Tories on the panel also didn't vote for him being a sociopathic fuckwit who thinks the rules don't apply to him while pretending he was thrown out by an undemocratic cabal while coincidentally dodging a by-election

...with sycophants such as Andrea Jenkyns and Brendan Clarke Smith eager to prove their mettle as proven liar Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson's versions of Lauren Boebert and Marjorie Taylor Greene

...and yet in spite of Jacob Rees Mogg and Lia Nici (to name but two) all talking a big game prior to the vote that proven liar Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson was an honest and decent man, when the vote came they abstained en masse, leaving him with just seven votes saying he wasn't a bullshitter

In the mind of Luke Akehurst sharing a stage with Ken Loach is now grounds to be dismissed from Keir Starmer’s Labour Party and not, say, deciding that Jamie Driscoll - the democratically elected as mayor of North Tyne - is not good enough to be included on the longlist for the prospective Mayor of the North East as they want another Blairite drone installed, and may as well tar Ken Loach as an antisemite in the process when scrambling to give a reason

...and yet when Keir Starmer’s Labour Party were asked for the reasoning for Discoll not being considered they fobbed that off with saying they wouldn't comment on individual cases...while “a source” repeated the incoherent babble about Ken Loach which echoed what Luke Akehurst and Lee Harpin were posting to their personal Twitter accounts on the subject to the letter

...and then it was the turn of Paul Richards to state the Starmerite case with an appearance on Newsnight where he debated Driscoll...if by “debated” you mean yelling pre-prepared soundbites at him while dodging Driscoll’s direct questions about what rules he had broken or if he was calling Ken Loach an antisemite, while also acting like an arrogant twunt not least when he leterally said “I know more about the North East than you” or comparing Driscoll to David Brent in a line he was sure sounded more cutting when Akehurst and/or Harpin handed him the piece of paper with the comment written on it

Ultra-relatable nice guy Rishi Sunak decided to prove what an ultra-relatable nice guy he is by suggesting to people concerned that their mortgages would be increasing yet again hold their nerve as opposed to, oh I don’t know, his neck between their ever-constricting hands

Billionaire manchild Elon Musk got Pride Month off to a great start by planning to force a notification to every Twitter user when Matt Walsh’s transphobic documentary went live on the platform - and when Twitter's brand security manager told him that was a fucking insane idea, Musk forced them to resign

...and by the end of Pride Month billionaire manchild Elon Musk decided that the words “cis” and “cisgender” were slurs and using them would lead to an immediate Twitter ban, all because one of the right-wing meatbags that he's desperate to appeal to as nobody else is dumb enough to pay to use a free social media platform cried about being called cis, but remember the billionaire manchild is all about that FREEZE PEACH

One question about Matt Walsh and that transphobic documentary of his: why does he show so many pictures of naked minors?

Frowning thumb Joe Rogan somehow manages to be pig ignorant about vaccines and how they work, yet also knows full well what he's doing when he’s siccing his followers into harassing Dr Peter Hotez to the point they show up to Hotez’s house and films themselves yelling incoherently at him all because he refused to appear on Rogan's podcast alongside Robert Kennedy Jr for fear of giving Kennedy and his utterly batshit opinions credibility - especially as Rogan would, by balance of probability, have been backing up Kennedy throughout

Not only is Kari Lake still screaming that she didn't lose the Arizona gubernatorial election last November, she's now also screaming about Donald Trump being charged with breaking the law and started babbling like a crazy person about using the NRA as a militia to overturn whatever verdict

In the space of a week Keir Starmer’s Labour Party twice got caught trying to bury bad news when attention was elsewhere, firstly by ditching their green energy pledge when Trump was arraigned under the misguided belief that papers wouldn't be looking to put anything but Trump being arraigned on the front pages, and then ditching their Universal Childcare pledge when proven liar Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson was harrumphing out of Commons

...and a week later Keir Starmer’s Labour Party were at it again, sneaking out that they were backing out of the North Sea oil pledge just as the video of the Tory HQ pissup from December 2020 was released to the public

To nobody's surprise Suella Braverman was not happy when the Rwanda deportation policy was ruled unlawful. Also to nobody;s surprise, her response was the exact sort of buzzwords Tufton Street handed to her which would also be on the front page of the next day's Daily Mail

Barking MP Margaret Hodge definitely does not like it when anybody suggests her talk where she howled about people with “different faces” and “different food” moving into middle class areas sound remarkably like Margaret Hodge being comfortably racist in her centrist safe space

Of course Nadine Dorries is the sort of person who will show up on TalkTV saying she won't trigger a by-election even if she were elevated to the House of Lords - and then a few hours later trigger a by-election by announcing her immediate resignation as an MP as she wasn't elevated to the House of Lords

...only for it to turn out that, while Nadine Dorries made a big song and dance of her immediate resignation to any TV channel that would give her an inordinate amount of time to screech about resigning, she hadn't actually gone through with the tedious details of actually resigning

...and then Nadine Dorries started demanding all the evidence from the enquiry that saw her precious BoBo found to have been guilty of the things he was caught doing multiple times, because she wanted to perform her own investigation - and did I mention she still hasn't resigned after saying she was resigning with immediate effect?

...and then in stomped Lee Harpin to yell at any journalists who reported on the words which Hodge had said, because apparently it is not in the matter of public interest to report a sitting MP using a pet shop’s worth of dogwhistles in a speech and asking if Keir Starmer’s Labour Party intended to actually say or do something about this

In the space of 24 hours the BBC interviewed Andrew Tate and Philip Schofield, meaning that they platformed somebody who is on rape charges in the UK and a litany of charges including people smuggling in Romania, then somebody who is in the public eye because GB News would rather talk about that story (with heavy homophobic overtones) than dare mention the whole “Tories being bigger shits than usual over that Covid inquiry” thing that is actually headline news

...which looked particularly good when Andrew Tate was charged with rape and human trafficking by Romanian authorities three weeks after the BBC interview. Funny how BBC Verify wasn't brought up at that moment, eh?

The grown-up in politics that is Keir Starmer showed just what a political grown-up he is by harrumphing that children should not identify as cats - in other words, regurgitating that culture war bollocks Katharine Birbalsingh has been spouting for months almost word-for-word that we’ve also seen GB News pick up on, all pretending the source isn't some American alt-right douche twisting schools having cat litter in classrooms so kids have somewhere to pee when the school is in lockdown due to there being an active shooter into the usual gender-based culture war bollocks

...although that didn't stop Kemi Badenoch demanding a snap Ofsted inspection of the school where nobody identified as a cat contrary to what Birbalsingh of GB News repeatedly claimed even after it was proven the entire story was complete and utter bollocks

Quite the stance from Rick Scott when saying that anybody who does not share his exact political ideology is not welcome to live of vacation in Florida, then banging on about liking “freedom” in the same sentence

We have reached the point where Rosie Duffield feels empowered enough to tweet out casual transphobia knowing that Keir Starmer’s Labour Party won't do a damn thing about it, since they haven’t done a damn thing about the numerous complaints of her homophobia and transphobia before

The lack of self-awareness from Lance Armstrong when he decided to get in on the anti-trans grift and deciding the platform he'd use was to wail about fairness in sports is quite astounding, given the amount of asterisks the Tour de France now has entirely because Lance was so disinterested in fairness in sports he took so many steroids his balls shrivelled up and died

Washed-up husk of a sitcom star Roseanne Barr decided to try for the double whammy of not only denying that the Holocaust happened, but saying that the Holocaust should have happened due to Jews causing all the problems in the world. Gee, I wonder why her career is deader than a diplodocus...?

The one thing that GB News shows any form of aptitude for is sinking even lower, as ably demonstrated by Lewis Schaffer saying on air that Covid doesn't exist and government aides know this - leading to Leo Kerse trying to diffuse the situation (and desperately try to avoid Ofcom fines) by claiming this was a joke when it clearly wasn't, while drawing attention to the fact Kerse was sat there looking gormless as Schaffer said it

There was two issues with Fiona Bruce blurting out that Question Time vets audience member’s social media before letting them on: firstly that’s creepy as fuck, and secondly if they vetted people’s social media then they should be able to tell if somebody is a Tory councillor or has stood for election as a member of the National Front, but apparently that slips their attention quite a lot

...especially the following week, where Question Time thought nobody would notice UKIP’s Cain Griffiths was in the audience and, by complete coincidence, was given the first question of the night where he said something remarkably dogwhistly about Rishi Sunak

Thanks to Philip Collins we know there is a place for racism in Keir Starmer’s Labour party: as Starmer’s speechwriter, given Collins responded to Rishi Sunak tweeting in support of England at the Ashes by dogwhistling very fucking loudly about how Sunak should be supporting India - and when called on it, said his half-Indian children support India as if that somehow counters telling somebody born in Southampton they can't support England

Once again the BBC proved just how spineless they are by benching Clive Myrie from hosting their news programming because he made jokes about proven liar Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson when hosting Have I Got News For You - that is the HIGNFY which the BBC legal department reviewed the script for prior to the taping, the taping which was a day before the BBC aired the episode, so had plenty of opportunities to remove the “offensive” material if they so wished - but, of course, before it aired the Daily Mail hadn't had the chance to whinge and the BBC overcompensated in a way that only serves to make them look both weak and totalitarian - just as they did with Gary Lineker

Perhaps if Brendan Clarke-Smith spent a fraction of the energy he puts into yelling on Twitter at women who criticise him into being an MP, maybe his constituents wouldn’t already be planning for life after him

Soon-to-be-convict Andrew Tate decided to share his wisdom with the world and says that depression isn't a real thing. That sound you heard was innumerous people bookmarking that tweet, ready to quote it back to him for the inevitable “I’m so depressed in jail” whining he’ll be giving us soon enough

...and then billionaire manchild Elon Musk parroted those same arguments, and as is typical of him he attempted to pass the comments off as his own because all he can do is copy, paste, or do a racism

Waffling gargoyle Nigel Farage was quite upset that his bank wants nothing more to do with him or his business. Of course, what he neglected to mention was his account is with Coutts, which has just the one branch and you need to have savings worth at least £3m to open an account, as that little detail wouldn't fit in with pretending he isn't a grifting turd with a lot of gullible saps making it possible for him to open an account with Coutts that £500,000 worth of Russian money can be deposited into

How can Chelsea Mitchell be the “fastest girl in Connecticut” as she has dubbed herself when she came sixth in a race which featured one trans athlete - a trans athlete who didn't win the race, who Mitchell had beaten in races several times that season, and contrary to Mitchell��s claims had no role in her failing to get a scholarship - due to the minor fact that Mitchell had already got the scholarship she claims to have been denied. But no, may as well get on that Riley Gaines grift instead

Failed nepo baby Lawrence Fox not only seemed to be weirdly determined to make Pride Month all about himself, but spent Fathers Day lurching around all on his lonesome on his patio burning Pride flags and posting the video of him doing so to his Twitter

No, seriously, why did Colleen Ballinger think the best way to address grooming allegations was to whip out a ukelele and sing for ten minutes while skipping over that whole “apologising” part of an apology video - and then release the apology singalong a second time, but with better reverb?

The paupers at Disney are apparently so hard up for cash that, rather than pay somebody to create the opening titles for Secret Invasion, instead they just used AI art, which is really good to know just before they hike the subscription fee for their streaming platform

Perhaps if Time did their research they wouldn't have run the headline suggesting the Kakhova Dam collapse could be Ukraine's Chernobyl, what with Chernobyl being Ukraine's Chernobyl and all that

...although the New York Times decided to one-up them with a headline about Alternative für Deutschland staging a comeback meaning the far-right have taken control of Germany for the first time

Beanie-wearing testicle Tim Pool got so wound up at Tom Morello bringing up the German saying that if nine people sit at a table with a Nazi without protest meaning there are ten Nazis at the table (I wonder why that triggered Tim so much...?) that he responded in the only way he knew how: by recording a cover of Killing in the Name so cringe-inducing that it's barely worth pointing out that it's obvious he doesn't even know what the song’s about

...and because beanie-wearing testicle Tim Pool is such a mature and serious person, the mere suggestion that his cringe-inducing cover version of Killing in the Name has shitty audio is enough to get him red-faced and ranting about a psy-op which meddled with its audio somehow, which is one of the many reasons his interview with Emma Vigeland was hilarious even before the beanie-wearing testicle started crying on his own show

It was quite amusing to see the far-centre extremists ranting and raving about the Percy Shelley poem which Jeremy Corbyn tweeted, because they are that far removed from common sense that they see Corbyn tweet something so immediately assume it was his work and so must be chastised and criticised immediately - which worked out so well for them that even The Guardian said they were being moronic

Perhaps the Tories shouldn't let Oliver Dowden handle PMQs anymore if the best he can offer is trying to make a direct comparison between the £200m+ of taxpayer’s moneys that (Tory peer) Michelle Mone siphoned off into her bank accounts with Angela Rayner claiming a pair of Air Pods on her expenses

And finally, there’s registered sex offender Donald Trump completely and utterly losing his shit to being charged for stashing classified documents by his toilet in his bathroom, which for some reason has a chandelier in it

#dickheads of the month

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mariacallous · 2 years

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One of the Tory party’s leading Brexit supporters has raised concerns about plans to scrap 2,400 EU laws by the end of next year – as fears grow that the policy will overwhelm the civil service and bring government to a virtual standstill.

Former environment secretary Theresa Villiers, who backed Brexit in 2016, told the Observer that the proposals would take up vast amounts of civil service time and would involve undoing legislation that, in many cases, was broadly popular and good for the country.

Other senior Tories are growing concerned that the EU retained law bill, championed by Jacob Rees-Mogg before Rishi Sunak sacked him on becoming prime minister, is in danger of becoming an ideological millstone.

During his leadership campaign against Liz Truss, Sunak backed plans to strike as much EU legislation as possible from the UK statute book in what seemed like a bidding war for rightwing votes among the Brexit-supporting Tory membership.

But since he became prime minister there have been suggestions that he might water down the plans by extending the “sunset clause” for scrapping bills by three years to the end of 2026. But Tory whips fear that doing so will provoke a backlash from rightwingers led by Rees-Mogg.

Villiers – a former MEP – made it clear, however, that the Rees-Mogg proposals appeared unrealistic, and cited particular concerns about the effects of scrapping EU rules on the environment.

“We don’t even know exactly how many laws there are relating to the environment that would be impacted by the bill, but groups have counted up to 570 that need to be looked at in what is a relatively short period of time,” Villiers said.

“That is an immense amount of work to do, and my fear is that the work may not be completed by either the 2023 or 2026 deadline.”

Legislation such as the deposit return scheme – which was designed to encourage recycling of items such as plastic bottles and was broadly popular both with the public and the drinks sector – had taken years to get on to the statute book but was now under threat, Villiers said.

“That was committed to in 2018, so it’s been four years and it is not yet being implemented. That demonstrates that even relatively politically straightforward change isn’t that easy. And 18 months is demanding. We need to ensure the bill works.”

Some senior Conservatives believe that the bill will have to be, at the very least, extensively amended to make it less prescriptive, so it focuses only on pieces of legislation that are obviously redundant and easy to strike off the statute book, and that do not need to be replaced with replica UK laws.

Former cabinet minister Damian Green, who opposed Brexit, said there were real questions about what would be put in place of legislation that would be scrapped, and how fast that could be done. “My fear is a practical one. These regulations will need to be replaced in a very short space of time otherwise there will be laws with big holes in them” he said. “I hope someone in government has thought through the practicalities of this.”

Another Tory MP who opposed Brexit, Richard Graham, said: “The question for government is whether the sheer volume of laws that need conversion is a practical and desirable goal before the next general election. The alternative is to focus on a smaller number, where conversion leads immediately to changes – highlighting the opportunities of leaving the EU by amending our own laws. For many of us, that is both more practical and has more political benefit for those who voted to get Brexit done.”

Opposition to the bill is also mounting from business groups, legal experts and unions, all of which say it is causing unnecessary uncertainty over which laws will apply in just over a year’s time.

Jonathan Jones, who headed the government legal service from 2014 to 2020 and dealt with the complex legal challenges of Brexit, said: “I think it is absolutely ideological and symbolic rather than about real policy.”

A government spokesperson denied that there would be any major change to the bill, despite Whitehall sources confirming that there were signs of a rethink being under way.

The spokesperson said: “The government is committed to taking full advantage of the benefits of Brexit, which is why we are pushing ahead with our retained EU law bill, which will end the special legal status of all retained EU law and make it more easily amended, repealed or replaced.

“This will allow us to ensure our laws and regulations best fit the needs of the country, removing needless bureaucracy in order to support jobs, whilst keeping important protections and safeguards.”

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hjohn3 · 2 years

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The End of the Lord of Misrule

The Legacy of Boris Johnson

By Honest John

TOM PAXTON the well known left wing 1960s and 1970s American folk singer wrote a song in 1969 called The Ballad of Spiro Agnew. It referenced Richard Nixon’s Vice President, who ultimately resigned in disgrace for tax evasion. The song consisted of one eighteen second line: “I’ll sing of Spiro Agnew and all the things he’s done.” and that’s it: no more lines. It is tempting, as the two and a half years of Boris Johnson’s premiership reaches its undignified and sudden end, to attempt to reprise Paxton and to point out what an utter waste of political and governing time has been the tawdry reign of this man and his contemptible acolytes - two and a half years of broken promises, rule breaking, nasty divisive populism and utter incompetence, in which nothing of importance was achieved. But that would be to let the horror that was the Johnson regime off too lightly, to try to pretend, like the Democrats have mistakenly tried to do in the US since the eviction of Trump, that the nightmare is over and we can all simply draw a line and, in the dishonoured Johnsonian phrase, “move on”. However, that is not possible.

Let’s first of all consider the legacy Johnson claimed for himself in his self serving non-resignation speech: the alleged achievements constantly cited by the Daily Mail and the Daily Express, and parroted, drone like, by Johnson’s fans on social media, on radio phone ins, and in vox pops on the streets of the U.K. We hear continually that “Boris”:-

1. Got Brexit done;

2. Led us through the pandemic with a fast and efficient vaccine roll out;

3. Led the world in the defence of Ukraine against Russian aggression; and

4. Got the big calls right.

It’s pretty meagre pickings even if it wasn’t being put forward by a cynical right wing media that colluded every step of the way in Johnson’s misgovernance or by individual citizens apparently deluded, in denial, or both. It also doesn’t stand up to even cursory scrutiny.

The Brexit “deal” that Johnson signed in 2020 is predicted by the Office of Budgetary Responsibility to result in a 4% shrinkage of the British GDP by 2025; direct investment from abroad in the British economy fell by 17% in 2020/21; key industries such as hospitality, fruit farming and haulage continue to experience severe workforce shortages thanks to the non availability of EU labour; a just-in-time set of supply chains, perhaps permanently damaged by the Covid contraction, have seen this impact exacerbated by trade barriers put in place following Britain’s withdrawal from the EU, adding to the cost of trade and increasing inflationary pressures. The Northern Ireland Protocol is set to be scrapped by the very government that introduced it to the negotiations with the EU. The Protocol, which guarantees frictionless trade within the island of Ireland will be sacrificed and ensure a hard trade border exists between the Republic and Ulster, to the disbenefit of both. The failure of the absurd Jacob Rees-Mogg and his confected “Department for Brexit Opportunities” to identify a single measurable and uncontested benefit of Johnson’s “oven ready” deal, speaks for itself: even under its own terms, the hard Brexit Mogg and his like drove, and Johnson supposedly got “done”, has delivered nothing.

The claim that Johnson provided inspired and effective leadership during the pandemic is even more spurious. The Johnson government’s response was characterised by chaos, incompetence, failure to take scientific advice, too late lockdowns and the award of corrupt contracts for equipment and supplies to Tory donors, marking the beginning of an endemic governmental corruption that has been perhaps the overriding feature of the Johnson regime. The much vaunted vaccine roll out was indeed impressive and owed nothing, with the single exception of vaccine procurement, to the actions of government: the NHS, Public Health and the Universities stepped up to do what they do, despite ten years of systematic underfunding by a Tory government obsessed with financial austerity, which had left our health systems uniquely exposed to Covid-19. One statistic above all should give the lie to the claim that Johnson “led us through the pandemic” like some latter day Moses: 181,000 British citizens have died of the disease at the time of writing: the highest per capita death rate in the western world outside the United States. At the last, the grotesque spectacle of law breaking at the heart of government during the height of the pandemic, tells everything that needs to be known about the extent to which this government provided leadership, moral or otherwise, in the battle against the most existential crisis facing the country since the Second World War. Johnson’s response, on just about every quantifiable measure, was an utter disgrace.

Johnson as war leader was supposed to relaunch his battered premiership in the light of Partygate but always lacked credibility, not least because the U.K. was not actually at war. The supply of British weapons to Ukraine has undoubtedly assisted that country’s resistance to the Russian invasion, but was at one with an overall NATO response of support to President Zelensky’s government. Although Johnson took numerous and transparently obvious photo opportunities in Kyiv, it is clear most of Britain’s swift response to Ukraine’s calls for help was masterminded by Defence Secretary Ben Wallace, and had very little to do with Johnson himself.

“Getting the big calls right” is perhaps the most commonly cited praise for Johnson by his dwindling band of followers. It is as curious as it is tedious because it implies he got numerous “little calls” wrong which, presumably included disobeying the law, being openly corrupt, trashing the country’s unwritten constitution and breaking manifesto promises by the dozen. It is a plea for perspective and tolerance and is as mendacious as it is dim witted. This man got no calls right at all, regardless of size. Instead of leadership, the country was offered excuses, deflection and lie after lie after lie. Instead of vision, it was presented with “wedge” politics, designed to pit different sections of the community against each other, while hopefully shoring up just enough votes of the frightened, the bigoted and the wealthy to give the Tories an electoral advantage under First Past The Post. Instead of competence, we were forced to watch a cavalcade of absurd self inflicted error, of dishonesty as policy and ludicrous excuses for scandal after scandal. No excuses, however, can be made, or sympathy given to a Prime Minister unique in his cynicism, uselessness and criminality. Big calls? He failed them all.

But if Boris Johnson was simply the worst Prime Minister the country has seen in modern times, then it might be possible to rebuild respect for politics after the gargantuan task of Augean stable cleaning required by his successors, but unfortunately his legacy is too malign for that. Johnson was not just a tousled haired Clown Prince that made knowing idiots laugh, he was the Lord of Misrule in all its literal malignant meaning. The damage he has wrought may take years to put right.

For the record: this is a man who lied to the head of state in order to prorogue Parliament, an act found to have been illegal by the Supreme Court; who oversaw a manifesto promise to curtail the role of that Court as punishment for daring to challenge his unconstitutional action. This is a Prime Minister, who, by changing the rules, sought to make corruption acceptable and the ministerial code of conduct irrelevant; a premier who even in the last days of his sordid regime is willing to put peace in Northern Ireland in jeopardy to deliver its hard Brexit in full and provoke a reaction from the EU he hopes can revive the feelings of antipathy to Europe he exploited so cynically in 2016 and 2019. This is a man whose government, in its dreadful Police, Crime and Sentencing bill seeks to suppress legitimate public dissent and in its Rwanda off shoring policy plumbs new depths of immorality, law breaking and racism; a government that deliberately dabbles in proto fascism. This is a man, who in his utter disregard for the unwritten conventions that hold British democracy together has set a baleful precedent one day for a serious, competent and ideologically driven successor to take Britain down a route of democratic authoritarianism.

There is nothing remotely funny or admirable about this Lord of Misrule or the nodding dogs who have sustained him, several of whom are now lining up to replace their one time hero, citing integrity and values they never once upheld when serving in his cabinet. The experience of Boris Johnson’s premiership has laid bare the frailty of the UK’s constitution and revealed deep societal divisions driven by a broken economic model, a ruinous class system and an inequality so deeply ingrained it is quite literally strangling the nation. However, if the country’s recent awful descent into absurdity and amorality achieves one good thing, it will be the determination of the non Tory majority of the U.K. to expel Johnson’s remnants, continuity candidates and apologists from power and to rebuild the sense of pride, decency and honesty, which, in the past, has driven this country’s greatest political achievements.

9th July 2022

With thanks to Val Michej for her passionate denouncement of Johnson’s resignation speech, which contributed to this piece

#british politics #boris johnson #british government #political corruption

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year-of-the-rabid-dog · 3 years

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|“Analog Nightmares: The Shot On Video Horror Films of 1982-1995″|

Author; Richard Mogg

#analog nightmares #books #horror #horror movies #analog horror #horror movie info #richard mogg

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riotatthemovies · 3 years

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Thank you Richard Mogg for joining us in the second of our weekly videos leading up to this months Terrible Two Day fest!

#terribletwodayfest #terrible two day fest #terribletwodayfest2021 #bmovies #no budget movies #bmovie #weird #comedy #gross #shocking #richard mogg #analog nightmares #rockmoe #stay awesome

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moviesandmania · 6 years

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Analog Nightmares: The Shot-on-Video Horror Films of 1982 - 1995

Analog Nightmares: The Shot-on-Video Horror Films of 1982 – 1995

Analog Nightmares: The Shot-on-Video Horror Films of 1982 – 1995 is a 2018 American book by Richard Mogg (director of Massage Parlor of Death ; Bigfoot Ate My Boyfriend; Teenage Slumber Party Nightmare; Easter Bunny Bloodbath; et al), issued by RickMoe Publishing.

“The most comprehensive, all-inclusive look at the history and evolution of shot on video horror films. In 1982, BoardingHousebecame…

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#Analog Nightmares: The Shot-on-Video Horror Films of 1982 - 1995 #Blood Cult #Boardinghouse #book #Donald Farmer #horror #Mark Polonia #Richard Mogg #shot-on-video #Sledgehammer #Tim Boggs #Tim Ritter #V/H/S

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meandrichard · 5 years

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Richard Armitage Brexit blues

I don’t always pay a great deal of attention to what you say, but having swallowed the pill and having accepted that we’re leaving, are you now campaigning for Remain..because, with respect, you make a great case for that position? https://t.co/ljXPvxDQIu

— Richard Armitage (@RCArmitage) April 5, 2019

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#Brexit #Jacob Rees-Mogg #Richard Armitage #Twitter

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ianchisnall · 3 years

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We need all politicians to work together Nicola

On Thursday this week there was a discussion in the House of Commons under the title of Business of the House and one of the MPs stood up to call for a Parliamentary debate that related to her setting which tragically was related to the way in which her local Police and Crime Commissioner has responded to the current issues on the theme of stop and search. Now this is of course a matter that MPs…

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#Jacob Rees-Mogg #Nicola Richards #Simon Foster

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psyce · 2 years

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max bemis of say anything moon knight run fucking acquired also leaving richard valley recommended by simon hanselmann of megg and mogg fame of which i just finished the crisis zone compilation today. and i got a mcdonalds iced coffee

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tellthemeerkatsitsfine · 3 years

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I just watched an exchange happen on The Last Leg s18e08, which aired (live, and that is relevant in this case) on December 13, 2019. The day after Boris won his majority, so everyone was pretty upset about that. There were two guests on the couch, and they were both asked for their views on the subject. This exchange was long-ish compared to most quotes I’d transcribe for this blog, but I think typing this one out is worth it.

Miriam Margolyes: I’m a Labour member and I’m very pissed off and miserable. But I just thought I’m not going to let him take over my life, the fucking bastard. So, you know, we’ve got to find some areas to go that make us happy. We’ve got to keep fighting. And we’ll get the shitbag out of there. I’m really disgusted by the country, I think the country’s gone wrong. And if they listened to me, they would get right again. Not that I’m a support of Corbyn at the moment, I think he was hopeless. And we need a new leader, and we’ve got to get on with it. But we mustn’t be too downhearted; it’s only for five years. I’ll only be something like 87 at the end of it.

Richard Osman: I have a feeling I might be 87 by the time Boris Johnson gets out of there.

Adam Hills: Well how did you feel today?

Richard Osman: Uh… I think that… listen, I have no swear words left, because Miriam has used them all.

Me, remembering that one time in a previous episode when Miriam Margolyes used the word “cunt” twice in one episode and everyone fell apart laughing about it while Adam tried to hold back laughter long enough to apologize for it because people must have been freaking out in his ear and it was hilarious: No she hasn’t, Richard! Not this episode, she hasn’t. Not yet, anyway.

Richard Osman: I think half the country is ecstatic, half the country is furious, which is an unusual situation be in. The people who are watching this are the furious ones, right? The ecstatic ones are not watching this. They’re in the pub, or maybe they’re queuing up at A&E going, ‘Hold on a minute, I thought this was supposed to be the best health service in the world.’ Perhaps they’re doing that. But for the ones who are furious, I will say a few things.

Listen, if Boris is going to get a majority, it’s genuinely better he gets an 80 majority than a 20 majority. An 80 majority means the following things: firstly, he doesn’t have to pander to the ERG, which is the hard right of the Tory party. That means he doesn’t have to pander to Jacob Rees-Mogg. Jacob Rees-Mogg does not have to be the leader of the House anymore, he can go back to his constituency and learn some manners. So he’s gone. He doesn’t have to pander to the DUP anymore. They’ve got their billion already, they’re not going to get another billion. He can do a softer Brexit than he would have done previously. Listen, Brexit was going to happen. I don’t want to spoil anyone’s day, but Brexit was going to happen, is going to happen, was always going to happen. He can now do it softer than he was going to.

He’s also absolutely, comprehensively, out-cunted Nigel Farage, which is great. There you go, I got one in. There was one left.

Me: Richard, I apologize. I should never have underestimated you. Obviously, I should have realized that you would not be so careless as to refer to a rant that left out the word “cunt” as using “all [the swear words]”, unless you were setting something up. Of course you were. And the set-up was brilliant, the way you positioned your speech as being the rational political analysis to contrast Miriam’s furious rant, and then slipped that in at the end. I commend you, Richard Thomas Osman, on what might be the smoothest dropping of the C bomb I’ve ever heard.

Also, quick shout-out to Adam Hills for responding with, “I apologize to anyone offended by bad language, and for the use of the word ‘Farage’.” Fucking excellent discussion all around. Now, when is the political analysis show hosted by Richard Osman and Miriam Margolyes getting commissioned? I’m already imagining all the jokes a show could make about having two hosts who are 1.5 feet apart in height.

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f0x-gl0ves · 4 years

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Bit late to the party and not sure if this counts as an actual hype post but I have limited resources right now 🥺

This is for @booshquaranzine !

Art instagram: @feralmurphy

I'm Emma/Moss A 21 y/o non binary mess from birmingham, England.

I'm a student currently studying illustration at Birmingham city uni. I have no idea what I want to do in my future but I love surrealism, comedy and I have a terrible range of music taste. Obviously the mighty boosh is a huge inspiration for me and Mr Noel Fielding is my adrogynous art god (don't get me started on mr barratt, I adore that man with every fiber of my being) ((I am also desperately in love with alice Lowe and Richard ayoade from garthmarenghi, another surreal fav)) (((basically I'm in love with most people)))

My work is definitely a broad range of multi media because I can't seem to focus in on one area!

On tumblr I mostly just post my guilty pleasure mighty boosh fanart because those lads are my go to when I don't know what to draw. The interactions I've had with our little boosh fandom have been some of the nicest I've ever had online, so thank y'all for being so cool ❤️🐊

On Instagram I upload a lot of random stuff, but I have two OC universes currently in the works: the first is a huge sci-fi comedy epic (think hitchhiker's guide and Dr who lol but with even more gay) featuring a space lesbian romance, a tiny robot superweapon, and immortal timeless jazz musicians!

(here are some bad examples)

The second is a Birmingham based comedy called cryptid chaos, involving a lazy substance abusing pest control team (think Simon hanselmann's megg mogg and owl meets ghost busters) run by a depressed demon and an clueless alien trying (and failing) to pass as a human. The plan for this was ultimately to be a multimedia show but obviously I am just one very broke student, so I'm currently uploading some very bad comics (with a couple of boosh references if you look carefully ;) )

Thanks for reading!!

I'd like to say thanks to everyone involved who organised, edited and produced the zine as well as all the talented artists and writers, you all rock 🤩

I hope you all enjoy the boosh zine! It's the first proper zine I've ever been involved with I'm so excited!!

Lots of love

Emma/ Moss X

#im actually so excited for this #like heck #a zine that my art is in #and all the writers are so talented #the mighty boosh #mightybooshquaranzine #booshquaranzine #hypepost #about me #mightyboosh #mightyboosh fanart

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confusedgenzstudent · 4 years

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MP's who voted against free school meals: Part 1

Nigel Adams (Selby and Ainsty),

Bim Afolami (Hitchin and Harpenden),

Adam Afriyie (Windsor),

Imran Ahmad Khan (Wakefield),

Nickie Aiken (Cities of London and Westminster),

Peter Aldous (Waveney), Lucy Allan (Telford),

David Amess (Southend West), Lee Anderson (Ashfield),

Stuart Anderson (Wolverhampton South West),

Stuart Andrew (Pudsey),

Edward Argar (Charnwood),

Sarah Atherton (Wrexham),

Victoria Atkins (Louth and Horncastle),

Gareth Bacon (Orpington),

Richard Bacon (South Norfolk),

Kemi Badenoch (Saffron Walden),

Shaun Bailey (West Bromwich West),

Duncan Baker (North Norfolk),

Steve Baker (Wycombe),

Harriett Baldwin (West Worcestershire),

Steve Barclay (North East Cambridgeshire),

Simon Baynes (Clwyd South),

Aaron Bell (Newcastle-under-Lyme),

Scott Benton (Blackpool South),

Paul Beresford (Mole Valley),

Jake Berry (Rossendale and Darwen),

Saqib Bhatti (Meriden),

Bob Blackman (Harrow East),

Crispin Blunt (Reigate),

Peter Bone (Wellingborough),

Peter Bottomley (Worthing West),

Andrew Bowie (West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine),

Ben Bradley (Mansfield),

Karen Bradley (Staffordshire Moorlands),

Graham Brady (Altrincham and Sale West),

Suella Braverman (Fareham),

Jack Brereton (Stoke-on-Trent South),

Andrew Bridgen (North West Leicestershire),

Steve Brine (Winchester),

Paul Bristow (Peterborough),

Sara Britcliffe (Hyndburn),

James Brokenshire (Old Bexley and Sidcup),

Anthony Browne (South Cambridgeshire),

Fiona Bruce (Congleton),

Felicity Buchan (Kensington),

Robert Buckland (South Swindon),

Alex Burghart (Brentwood and Ongar),

Conor Burns (Bournemouth West),

Rob Butler (Aylesbury),

Alun Cairns (Vale of Glamorgan),

Andy Carter (Warrington South),

James Cartlidge (South Suffolk),

William Cash (Stone),

Miriam Cates (Penistone and Stocksbridge),

Maria Caulfield (Lewes), Alex Chalk (Cheltenham),

Rehman Chishti (Gillingham and Rainham),

Jo Churchill (Bury St Edmunds),

Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells),

Simon Clarke (Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland),

Theo Clarke (Stafford),

Brendan Clarke-Smith (Bassetlaw),

Chris Clarkson (Heywood and Middleton),

James Cleverly (Braintree),

Therese Coffey (Suffolk Coastal),

Damian Collins (Folkestone and Hythe),

Alberto Costa (South Leicestershire),

Robert Courts (Witney),

Claire Coutinho (East Surrey),

Geoffrey Cox (Torridge and West Devon),

Virginia Crosbie (Ynys Mon),

James Daly (Bury North),

David T C Davies (Monmouth),

James Davies (Vale of Clwyd),

Gareth Davies (Grantham and Stamford),

Mims Davies (Mid Sussex),

Philip Davies (Shipley),

David Davis (Haltemprice and Howden),

Dehenna Davison (Bishop Auckland),

Caroline Dinenage (Gosport),

Sarah Dines (Derbyshire Dales),

Jonathan Djanogly (Huntingdon),

Michelle Donelan (Chippenham),

Nadine Dorries (Mid Bedfordshire),

Steve Double (St Austell and Newquay),

Oliver Dowden (Hertsmere),

Jackie Doyle-Price (Thurrock),

Richard Drax (South Dorset),

Flick Drummond (Meon Valley),

David Duguid (Banff and Buchan),

Iain Duncan Smith (Chingford and Woodford Green),

Philip Dunne (Ludlow),

Mark Eastwood (Dewsbury),

Ruth Edwards (Rushcliffe),

Michael Ellis (Northampton North),

Tobias Ellwood (Bournemouth East),

Natalie Elphicke (Dover),

George Eustice (Camborne and Redruth),

Luke Evans (Bosworth),

David Evennett (Bexleyheath and Crayford),

Ben Everitt (Milton Keynes North),

Michael Fabricant (Lichfield),

Laura Farris (Newbury),

Simon Fell (Barrow and Furness), Katherine Fletcher (South Ribble), Mark Fletcher (Bolsover), Nick Fletcher (Don Valley), Vicky Ford (Chelmsford), Kevin Foster (Torbay),

Mark Francois (Rayleigh and Wickford),

Lucy Frazer (South East Cambridgeshire),

George Freeman (Mid Norfolk),

Mike Freer (Finchley and Golders Green),

Richard Fuller (North East Bedfordshire),

Marcus Fysh (Yeovil),

Mark Garnier (Wyre Forest),

Nusrat Ghani (Wealden),

Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis and Littlehampton),

Peter Gibson (Darlington),

Jo Gideon (Stoke-on-Trent Central),

Cheryl Gillan (Chesham and Amersham),

John Glen (Salisbury),

Robert Goodwill (Scarborough and Whitby),

Michael Gove (Surrey Heath),

Richard Graham (Gloucester),

Helen Grant (Maidstone and The Weald),

James Gray (North Wiltshire),

Chris Grayling (Epsom and Ewell),

Chris Green (Bolton West),

Damian Green (Ashford),

Andrew Griffith (Arundel and South Downs),

Kate Griffiths (Burton),

James Grundy (Leigh),

Jonathan Gullis (Stoke-on-Trent North),

Luke Hall (Thornbury and Yate),

Stephen Hammond (Wimbledon),

Matt Hancock (West Suffolk),

Greg Hands (Chelsea and Fulham),

Mark Harper (Forest of Dean),

Rebecca Harris (Castle Point),

Trudy Harrison (Copeland),

Sally-Ann Hart (Hastings and Rye),

Simon Hart (Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire),

John Hayes (South Holland and The Deepings),

Oliver Heald (North East Hertfordshire),

Chris Heaton-Harris (Daventry),

Gordon Henderson (Sittingbourne and Sheppey),

Darren Henry (Broxtowe),

Antony Higginbotham (Burnley),

Damian Hinds (East Hampshire),

Kevin Hollinrake (Thirsk and Malton),

Philip Hollobone (Kettering),

Adam Holloway (Gravesham),

Paul Holmes (Eastleigh),

John Howell (Henley),

Paul Howell (Sedgefield),

Nigel Huddleston (Mid Worcestershire),

Eddie Hughes (Walsall North),

Jane Hunt (Loughborough),

Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey),

Tom Hunt (Ipswich),

Alister Jack (Dumfries and Galloway),

Sajid Javid (Bromsgrove),

Ranil Jayawardena (North East Hampshire),

Mark Jenkinson (Workington),

Andrea Jenkyns (Morley and Outwood),

Robert Jenrick (Newark),

Boris Johnson (Uxbridge and South Ruislip),

Caroline Johnson (Sleaford and North Hykeham),

Gareth Johnson (Dartford), David Johnston (Wantage),

Andrew Jones (Harrogate and Knaresborough),

Fay Jones (Brecon and Radnorshire),

David Jones (Clwyd West),

Marcus Jones (Nuneaton),

Simon Jupp (East Devon),

Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury and Atcham),

Alicia Kearns (Rutland and Melton),

Gillian Keegan (Chichester),

Julian Knight (Solihull),

Greg Knight (East Yorkshire),

Danny Kruger (Devizes),

Kwasi Kwarteng (Spelthorne),

John Lamont (Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk),

Robert Largan (High Peak),

Andrea Leadsom (South Northamptonshire),

Edward Leigh (Gainsborough),

Ian Levy (Blyth Valley),

Andrew Lewer (Northampton South),

Brandon Lewis (Great Yarmouth),

Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater and West Somerset),

Chris Loder (West Dorset),

Mark Logan (Bolton North East),

Marco Longhi (Dudley North),

Julia Lopez (Hornchurch and Upminster),

Jack Lopresti (Filton and Bradley Stoke),

Jonathan Lord (Woking),

Craig Mackinlay (South Thanet),

Cherilyn Mackrory (Truro and Falmouth),

Rachel Maclean (Redditch),

Alan Mak (Havant),

Kit Malthouse (North West Hampshire),

Anthony Mangnall (Totnes),

Scott Mann (North Cornwall),

Julie Marson (Hertford and Stortford),

Theresa May (Maidenhead),

Jerome Mayhew (Broadland),

Karl McCartney (Lincoln),

Mark Menzies (Fylde),

Johnny Mercer (Plymouth, Moor View),

Huw Merriman (Bexhill and Battle),

Stephen Metcalfe (South Basildon and East Thurrock),

Robin Millar (Aberconwy), Maria Miller (Basingstoke),

Amanda Milling (Cannock Chase),

Nigel Mills (Amber Valley),

Andrew Mitchell (Sutton Coldfield),

Gagan Mohindra (South West Hertfordshire),

Robbie Moore (Keighley),

Penny Mordaunt (Portsmouth North),

David Morris (Morecambe and Lunesdale),

James Morris (Halesowen and Rowley Regis),

Wendy Morton (Aldridge-Brownhills),

Kieran Mullan (Crewe and Nantwich),

David Mundell (Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale),

Sheryll Murray (South East Cornwall),

Andrew Murrison (South West Wiltshire),

Robert Neill (Bromley and Chislehurst),

Caroline Nokes (Romsey and Southampton North),

Jesse Norman (Hereford and South Herefordshire),

Neil O'Brien (Harborough),

Guy Opperman (Hexham),

Owen Paterson (North Shropshire),

Mark Pawsey (Rugby),

Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead),

John Penrose (Weston-super-Mare),

Chris Philp (Croydon South),

Christopher Pincher (Tamworth),

Rebecca Pow (Taunton Deane),

Victoria Prentis (Banbury),

Mark Pritchard (The Wrekin),

Jeremy Quin (Horsham),

Will Quince (Colchester),

Tom Randall (Gedling),

John Redwood (Wokingham),

Jacob Rees-Mogg (North East Somerset),

Nicola Richards (West Bromwich East),

Angela Richardson (Guildford),

Rob Roberts (Delyn),

Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury),

Mary Robinson (Cheadle),

Andrew Rosindell (Romford),

Lee Rowley (North East Derbyshire),

Dean Russell (Watford),

David Rutley (Macclesfield),

Gary Sambrook (Birmingham, Northfield),

Selaine Saxby (North Devon), Paul Scully (Sutton and Cheam),

Bob Seely (Isle of Wight), Andrew Selous (South West Bedfordshire),

#never trust a tory #tory incompetence #tory mp #united kingdom #pandemic #kids #marcus rashford

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riotatthemovies · 4 years

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So welcome back to another QUESTIONS WITH RIOT!

So here is a nice big post for you to read, see it on my tumblr page and the facebook group and maybe in a new book someday.

I will be reaching out to B movie directors and actors in the next week or so with a handful of (often similar questions) .

They are not real time interveiws , I just sent them the questions and they msgd me back. Because they are awesome people.

Todays guest that I suckered in to using their precious time to answer my questions for b movie film makers is Richard Mogg a fim maker from Vancouver. Richard chilled us with the Massage Parlour of Death! As well as hit us right in the Easter time nightmare of EASTER BUNNY BLOODBATH which just recently released a sequel. Riot at the Movies folks will remember BIGFOOT ATE MY BOYFRIEND that played on the first ever Terrible Two Day best a few years ago. On top of all that he is a writer of a few of the most detailed go to books on the genre of shot on video and low budget underground film makers.

Lets get to the questions

ADAM RIOT : SO RICHARD, IF YOU WERE GIVEN A MULTIMILLION DOLLAR BUDGET WHAT WOULD YOU DO? GO CRAZY?

Mogg: To be honest, I'd split it - but only half of what you're thinking. I'd take half and make THE ULTIMATE sci-fi Extravaganza! Then I'd make a whole bunch of small independent features. So yes, I'd make my GALAXINA but with a bunch of cheese to go with it.

Adam Riot: HOW OFTEN HAVE YOU WRITTEN SOMETHING AND SAID "OH THAT'S SO BAD, BUT I'M KEEPING IT IN"?

Mogg: Actually never... unless it overwhelmingly sucks. I've been writing scripts long enough to know you can write unlimited, but it's smarter to write what you can actually do. So write ambitiously but never against your vision. One time I thought to not include something, but after we shot the film, I was able to edit back in my original idea... so first impulses are usually the right impulses.

Adam Riot: WE DO TEND TO DOUBT OUTSELVES TOO MUCH. OF ALL THE MOVIES YOU HAVE MADE WHAT WAS YOUR FAVORITE? FROM EXPERIENCE OR FINISHED PROJECT, WHAT MADE IT YOUR FAVORITE?

Mogg: My favorite film that I've done is BIGFOOT ATE MY BOYFRIEND, which isn't gory at all but heavy in the awkward comedy I enjoy. But the real reason it's my favorite is that everything seemed to come together. It was the first time my vision matched execution, and the final product was as good/better than I had hoped. BIGFOOT was my 5th feature film, so it took that many tries to get things right - plus I had my all-star cast.

Adam Riot: WE ALL LOVED IT HERE.

HAVE YOU MADE FILMS THAT YOU HAVE NOT SHOWN TO THE WORLD THAT YOU JUST DIDN'T LIKE SO YOU HID IT AWAY?

Mogg: There are films I've done that haven't been released yet, but that doesn't have anything to do with hiding them. Sometimes it seems that opportunities come up and you have to be ready to jump in... my 3rd feature film was shot just as 2013 rang in, but that was the year I found out we were having our first baby. So after quickly moving and getting our lives set straight, I had an empty bedroom while we anticipated the baby's arrival. But did I waste the opportunity of an empty bedroom? Heck no, so I quickly shot MASSAGE PARLOR OF DEATH using the bedroom as a massage parlor. So MASSAGE took the place of that 3rd film I shot (which hasn't been released), but that's the way life happens sometimes. One day I'll release everything but timing and momentum occasionally get in the way. I still have 3 films in the can yet to be released: HOT CHICKS BLAST URANUS, DEATH RIDES OF DEATH (formerly ROLLERCOASTER KICKBACK) and my "exotic" picture JOHNNY GLOBBER.

Adam Riot: I AM ALMOST SCARED BY THOSE TITLES BUT CURIOUS AS WELL. AND LAUGHING THE MASSAGE PARLOR BECAME A BABY ROOM.

WHAT MOVIES IN A MICRO BUDGET GENRE HAVE IMPRESSED YOU RECENTLY?

Mogg: You know, I'm so obsessed with watching older films to see their overall genre evolutions that I don't get to see many "newer" films. Drew Marvick's POOL PARTY MASSACRE was a favorite, as was 2019's MORBID STORIES. I recently caught Dave Castiglione's rerelease of DEEP UNDEAD and it's a knockout with some amazing underwater photography - stuff you just don't see in a lot of micro budget flicks. And that's the great thing about lower budgeted stuff... it's made from the heart using igneous techniques rather than boatloads of money.

Adam Riot: WHAT MAKES YOU LOSE YOUR LOVE FOR INDEPENDENT FILMS, THE PEOPLE? THE MONEY? THE RESPONSE FROM FRIENDS OR BUYERS? HOW DO YOU OVERCOME IT?

Mogg: Wow, LOSE my love? That's a tricky question. I think there are personal turn-offs that might not let me get into a film, but the filmmaking spirit never leaves. Yeah sometimes the people involved are only out to "get rich quick" can be trying, or rip off artists who turn out flicks every week with no investment in their content... that's a turn off. I don't personally enjoy mean-spiritedness in movies, which is why all RickMoe titles are lighthearted and silly. But as a pure business, I think basic indifference and self-righteousness in people infront and behind the camera can really effect the product. But that's true of any business really...

Adam Riot: WE ALL KNOW THERE NEEDS TO BE SOMETHING MORE THAN MONEY. YOU HAVE BEEN MAKING WITH A LOT OF DIFFERENT PEOPLE, HOW DO YOU FEEL FRIENDSHIP IN THE INDEPENDENT FILM WORLD IS IMPORTANT AND HOW HARD WOULD IT BE WITHOUT CLOSE FRIENDS?

Mogg: Great question. Close relationships and treating people with respect is everything. Acknowledging that everyone counts and their efforts are never taken for granted is key to longevity and happiness in this business. It's true, in independent filmmaking many (perhaps all!) people involved in making films don't get paid financially... maybe they do it for a credit or recognition or even just to have fun, and we as the audience need to know that people really do put their blood, sweat and tears into these movies. Sure there are straight up jerks running around with a camera, but when you start seeing the same people out there having fun and KEEP TRYING, you really get to feel that they're being honest with the audience. Making movies IS fun - even when you're against problems - but a positive, uplifting leader can make the world of difference. And I think that positivity can draw others together. So making close friendships is really the sign that you're doing things right.

Adam Riot: WHAT'S YOUR THOUGHTS ON THE STREAMING SERVICES, DIRECT DOWNLOAD, TUBITV THAT KIND OF THING?

Mogg: ANY OPINION? Well I'm trying it now for the first time with EASTER BUNNY BLOODBATH 2: NO MORE TEARS. I went thing route (direct streaming through Vimeo) because I needed to have quick access for viewers before Easter. But also because of this damn coronavirus pandemic. So being able to have audiences access something instantly without waiting for physical mail was very important. But in general, I'm a physical media type of person. I WANT a VHS/DVD/BLU copy on the shelf to look at, admire, hold. I don't think I'll ever get away from that need to hold a film... because when everything is digital, it almost feels like it doesn't exist. Delete and it's gone forever!

Adam Riot: FOR THOSE READING RICHARD MOGGS EARLY WORK IS ON SRS IS AVAILABLE ON TUBITV NOW.

IS THERE A CHARACTER YOU SHOWED THE WORLD THAT IS ON THE TOP OF YOUR WANT LIST TO BRING BACK?

Mogg: 100% our Federal Bigfoot Investigator John Saurius (played by the incredible Kirk Munaweera) is a character I'd bring back for EVERY film. He's so applicable to any story, and he carries a comical vengeance (his dick was torn off by Bigfoot). But I'd like to see him lead a film completely too... he sorta does with EASTER BUNNY BLOODBATH 2: NO MORE TEARS, but I'd like to bring him in in a bigger way for our upcoming Noir picture.

Adam Riot :I do hope to see the son of the kung fu kid or something (smirk)

YOU HAVE WRITTEN SEVERAL BOOKS ON THE SHOT ON VIDEO GENRE, ONE THAT'S NOW BASICALLY THE GO TO ENCYCLOPEDIA FOR THE GENRE AND ON THE TWISTED HORROR LOVE FOR CHRISTMAS. IS THERE SOMETHING ELSE ON THE DRAWING BOARD/TYPING BOARD?

Mogg: YES! And thank you for asking! I learned a lot writing "ANALOG NIGHTMARES" and even more with "GIFTWRAPPED & GUTTED" and the door is always open for another... maybe even a revisit. But the next writing project excitedly being discussed is turning some of my own films into novels. And not just the movies written as stories... but actual novels based on the ORIGINAL SCRIPTS of the films we've made, including much more graphic ideas. For example, sex scenes were originally written in our early films that (of course) our actors weren't too interested in performing for no money... but NOW! Now we can really write in detail the spicy hot sex always intended! And same goes for the gore!

Adam Riot: EASTER BUNNY BLOODBATH 2: NO MORE TEARS IS ONLINE NOW AND ITS A VERSUS TITLE. TELL US A LITTLE ABOUT THE MOVIE AND TELL ME WHAT VERSUS TYPE MOVIES IMPRESSED YOU IN THE PAST.

Mogg: YES! EBB2 is a "BIGFOOT VS BUNNY" sequel! So there's an amazing climax where the two beasts meet for a showdown to the death! After shooting BIGFOOT ATE MY BOYFRIEND, I knew that the only way to bring Bigfoot back would be to pair him against and equal of physical strength... and the Bunny hit me like a ton of bricks. Plus it was great fun revisiting 2010's EASTER BUNNY BLOODBATH which isn't the best film around but was my first feature length film (which I lovingly say "taught me all the mistakes I wanted to teach myself"). So in making this sequel (after making tons of other films), I was able to re-examine my early approaches and redo things from a new standpoint. It was also fun to reuse some of the old musical cues and try to match the style of the first film. But I think the biggest difference was in the editing, because I have become a much more experienced video editor since then... learning how to better time things for a greater payoff. But as a versus film, I felt it was important to focus clearly on the Bunny storyline first, then bring in Bigfoot almost unexpectedly at the end - surprising the audience. And that's sort of the way I cut films, leaving the end to play out in a zany over the top fashion (anyone who made it through TEENAGE SLUMBER PARTY NIGHTMARE can see this). But I do love THE TOXIC AVENGER III's pair off with TOXIE and the DEVIL...

Adam Riot: Thanks so much Richard, now every get his books and get your Easter and rent or buy Easter Bunny Bloodbath 2. Stay Safe and Stay Awesome

Rent or download Easter Bunny Bloodbath 2 here https://vimeo.com/ondemand/bunny2/

Ps I will post a review of Easter Bunny Bloodbath 2 tomorrow on my social medias as well as the Riot at the movies instagram. Regardless you know I think you should see it too.

#rickmoe #richard mogg #easter bunny bloodbath #bmovies #thank you #riot at the movies

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rockandrollstorytime · 4 years

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Rock and Roll Storytime #6: The Rolling Stones Against the Establishment (Or: The time 3/5 of them went on trial for drug posession)

Let’s face it, I think every now and again, we all have those moments where we’re glad that we live in the time and place we do at this very moment. This particularly goes out to the musicians, who seem to get in trouble for drugs less frequently nowadays, in favor of worse charges...

But that wasn’t always so.

Once upon a time, the threat of rock stars getting long prison sentences for first time offences was very omnipresent, and this story is about that bygone era. A time and a place where even a hint of subversive behavior meant that adults lost their shit and went on literal moral crusades.

Enter Sgt. Norman Pilcher, or, as John Lennon called him in “I Am the Walrus”, Semolina Pilchard. He was a detective in his 30′s and was dead-set on getting drugs off the streets, which meant that, invariably, he primarily set his sights on rock stars. His list of arrests includes Donovan, John Lennon, George Harrison, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, and Brian Jones. He would’ve nabbed Eric Clapton, but Eric bolted out the back door as soon as he heard there was someone at his doorstep with a “special delivery.”

For now though, we’re just going to focus on the Stones, and how this whole drug trial business may have accelerated the decline of one of its members.

Given how trying to get rock stars busted for drugs was practically a sport in 1967, the now-defunct tabloid News of the World decided to capitalize on this by publishing a three-part “story” entitled, “Pop Stars and Drugs: Facts That Will Shock You.” In it, the tabloid alleged that many popular musicians of the time were not only doing drugs, but also holding drug parties at their homes, including Donovan, Pete Townshend, and Ginger Baker (R.I.P). Part Two seems to have primarily targeted the Rolling Stones, and it was alleged that Mick Jagger had taken several Benzedrine tablets, displayed a bit of hashish, and invited his companions back to his flat for a smoke, one of whom just so happened to be an undercover reporter. As it turns out, the person in question was actually little Brian Jones, who was being way too casual with his drug use. Mick tried to sue the paper over that one.

I just want to ask, how the hell did they mix up Mick and Brian? One’s blond and has a cherubic face, and the other’s brunette and has massive lips!

In either case, like with how Donovan was arrested and charged after the first issue came out, the article attracted the attentions of authorities, and in particular, one Semolina Pilchard. News of the World was also more than a little interested in avoiding a major lawsuit, even to the point of allegedly wiretapping and paying off informants (it’s shit like that which is the reason why they ultimately became defunct in 2011, after a phone hacking scandal). Ultimately, on February 12, 1967, eighteen police officers raided Keith Richards’ home, Redlands. Mick, Keith, and an art dealer friend, Robert Fraser were arrested and charged with amphetamine possession, allowing his home to be used for the smoking of cannabis, and heroin possession respectively.

In addition, salacious rumors started to swirl around that Mick was found eating a Mars Bar out of Marianne Faithfull’s... nether regions. Truth of the matter is, while Marianne was only wearing a fur rug, there weren’t any orgies taking place. She even wrote in her autobiography, “The Mars Bar is a very effective piece of demonizing. It was so overdone with such malicious twisting of the facts. Mick retrieving a Mars Bar from my vagina, indeed! It’s a dirty old man’s fantasy – some old fart who goes to a dominatrix every Thursday. A cop’s idea of what people do on acid.”

Their manager, Andrew Loog Oldham, was supposed to help these kids figure out what to do about the impending drug trials, but instead, he fled to America, leaving his role to Allen Klein (Andrew was fired in September). Lawyers told Mick, Keith, and Brian that, essentially, since they were the most visible of the Rolling Stones, to not talk to the press and even to temporarily leave the country. And so, Mick, Keith, and Brian (bringing along his girlfriend, Anita Pallenberg) set off for Morocco. This is something I’m going to have to go into more detail about another time, but suffice it to say, it ended with Anita leaving Brian for Keith and Brian being stranded in Morocco for about two days.

On May 10, Mick, Keith, and Robert were marched into court where they were formally charged with the aforementioned charges. Mick and Keith decided to plead not guilty, Robert pled guilty, and all three elected to undergo trial by jury. That same day, twelve officers raided Brian’s home, and though he allegedly tried to clean up the place before the coppers arrived, they still managed to find a “purple Moroccan-style wallet” with cannabis in it. Needless to say, Brian and his friend, Prince Stanislaus “Stash” Klossowski were also arrested and charged with drug possession. On June 2, they were formally charged in court and elected to undergo trial by jury. However, Brian decided to plead guilty, a move that would come back to bite him in the ass later on.

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Starting with Mick, Robert, and Keith’s trial, the odds were against them from the very start. For one thing, the judge they were up against, Judge Leslie Allen Block, was notoriously unforgiving. Given that two of the people on trial were Rolling Stones, it quickly became apparent that the people running the show would very much be gunning for long jail sentences. It can also be argued that, since Pilcher knew what press would come if he made some high-profile celebrity arrests and didn’t arrest anyone with a status lower than Donovan, it could easily be argued that he was only making these arrests to gain some serious cred for his task-force. Going back to the original point though, at one point, as Mick’s trial was wrapping up, the judge even told the jury to dispel any notion of reasonable doubt.

The last time I wrote this, that sounded seriously ethically dubious, even considering that the usual phrase here would be “innocent until proven guilty” (though it usually plays out the other way around, it seems). Well, I did eventually ask my mom about it (she’s a paralegal and she knows a thing or two about U.S.A. law), and she said that it would depend on the case and if the reasonable doubt presented was excluded by a previous court order.

Granted, I know that’s dealing with U.S.A. law and that I can’t find anything saying that there was a court order barring reasonable doubt, but I guess that’ll have to do.

In either case, on June 27, Mick was found guilty of illegally possessing Benzedrine (despite the fact that it was purchased legally in Italy), but because Keith’s trial hadn’t begun yet, Mick and Robert were sent to Lewes Prison overnight.

Keith’s trial began in earnest the next day, and Keith really didn’t help his case when he said, “We are not old men. We are not worried about petty morals.” However, the trial remained unfinished at the end of the day, so Mick and Robert (who were being held in a cell under the courtroom) were escorted back to Lewes.

The trial finally came to a close on June 29, and all three of the defendants were summarily sentenced. Mick was sentenced to three months for the aforementioned drug possession charges, Robert was sentenced to six months for heroin possession, and Keith was sentenced to twelve months for allowing cannabis to be smoked in his home. Additionally, all three were fined. Mick was sent to Brixton and Robert and Keith were sent to the notorious Wormwood Scrubs.

By today’s standards, these would definitely be considered harsh sentences, and might not even happen the same way (I’ll save more of these details for the ending). Back then though, surprisingly, there was actually quite a bit of support for the Stones and not just from fans. Even newspapers that had once viciously mocked them, voiced their support. In fact, William Rees-Mogg, a well-known conservative, wrote an article for The Times called “Who Breaks a Butterfly Upon a Wheel” in which he criticized Mick Jagger’s sentence, essentially saying that the only reason he got three months was because of his being a Rolling Stone, and that had he not been, the consequences would have been much less severe, considering he was a first-time offender. The Who also voiced their support for the Stones, saying “The Who consider Mick Jagger and Keith Richards have been treated as scapegoats for the drug problem and as a protest against the grave sentences imposed on them at Chichester yesterday, The Who are issuing today the first of a series of Jagger-Richards songs to keep their work before the public until they are again free to record themselves.” The New Law Journal wrote, “The three-month prison sentence on Jagger for a first offence, and the introduction at this trial of evidence about a girl in a skin rug are two disturbing features of the case.” Some fans even protested outside News of the World’s headquarters, including Keith Moon’s girlfriend (later wife), Kim Kerrigan.

However, there were still some sources who agreed with the judge’s decision. In particular, Charles Curran wrote for the Evening News: “I hold that people who break the law ought to be punished. The law that Jagger and Richards broke is not a trifle either. For it seeks to prevent people from using dangerous drugs for fun... Look at Jagger and Richards. Each of them is a millionaire at twenty-three. How does it come about that they are so rich? Their wealth flows from the fact that they are manufactured pieces of wish-fulfillment... Their lives tend to represent, in reality, what their admirers’ are in fantasy. So as long as the pop idol sticks to bawling and wailing- well, we can put up with that. But once he starts to add drugs to his drivel, society must take immediate note of it.”

The next day, Mick and Keith were released on appeal, and went to appeals court on July 31. Years later, Bill Wyman wrote, “The appeal was on five grounds: (1) That the evidence made a cornerstone of the case by the prosecution was wrongly admitted. The evidence of the girl, her dress or undress, was ‘wholly inadmissible’; (2) That if it was held to be admissible, the evidence should have been excluded by the discretion of the judge, because it was so prejudicial; (3) That the chairman misdirected the jury about what the prosecution had to prove as to the meaning of the word ‘permitting’; (4) That he failed to detail the lack of evidence regarding the knowledge of the cannabis drug; (5) That he failed to put fully the defence to the jury.” Keith’s sentence was completely overturned, while Mick was sentenced to a year’s probation, though he wound up spending another night in jail.

Robert, who ended up serving his full sentence, apparently alleged that everything at Keith’s house that night had been his, and that he’d been taking heroin pills for an upset stomach (sort of like how Kurt Cobain claimed to be on heroin because of a stomach condition that may well have been psychosomatic).

With Brian’s trial, it is important to note that, as I’ve said, he didn’t really take the affair as seriously as he could have, Also, there’s the fact that Allen Klein, in a misguided attempt at trying to protect Brian, told him to stay away from the other Stones as much as possible, which had the effect of isolating Brian from his band even further at a time where he needed them most. In fact, according to Stash (who was later acquitted), “Brian was not OK within a month of us getting busted. I was at Robert Fraser’s apartment when Brian came in, and, much to my horror, he proceeded to hit about twenty objects, banging into the walls and ricocheting across the room like a ping-pong ball. That was the terrible effect of those downers. He took them because he felt alienated, worried, and it was the only way he could isolate himself into some kind of security blanket. It was a one-way street. He had a disaster written in neon lights all over him and none of us could do anything about it.”

In fact, Brian was in such dire straits, he wound up being admitted to the Priory Clinic for psychiatric analysis on July 5, and was discharged as an out-patient on July 12. When his trial finally came around on October 30, he admitted in court to possessing cannabis without authority, but denied that he’d used cocaine or methedrine. His defense pleaded with the judge not to send him to jail, since he’d taken responsibility for the cannabis (the prosecution was more willing to accept that Brian might not have known about the stronger drugs) and that Brian had a nervous breakdown after the arrest and had suffered greatly. In fact, Detective-Sergeant David Patrick said that, while all drugs were serious, the amount of cannabis found was relatively small, and Brian’s psychiatrist said that his client should be hospitalized rather than imprisoned, and that Brian wouldn’t be able to handle prison.

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However, it all came to naught, as the judge, Reginald Seaton, sentenced Brian to three months in jail for cannabis possession, nine months for allowing his home to be used for smoking cannabis to be served concurrently, and a fine, stating, “I have given your case anxious and careful consideration. The offence of being the occupier of premises and allowing them to be used for the purpose of smoking cannabis resin is very serious indeed. This means that people can break the law in comparative privacy and so avoid detection for what is a growing canker in this country at the present moment. No blame attaches to you for the phial of cocaine, but there are people who come to this sort of party and that is how the rot starts, from cannabis to hard drugs. You occupy a position by which you have a large following of youth, and therefore, it behoves you to set an example... Although I am moved by everything I have heard, I would be failing my duty if I did not refer to the seriousness of the offences by passing sentence of imprisonment.” Brian ended up spending the night in Wormwood Scrubs, where, apparently, guards threatened to cut off the long, blonde hair he was so proud of.

Looking at pictures of Brian right after his initial arrest and right after his sentencing, the toll that these proceedings took on his physical and mental health becomes quite clear.

As with Mick and Keith’s sentences, Brian’s conviction caused an uproar. Eight people were arrested as a peaceful protest practically turned into a riot, including Mick’s brother, Chris. In addition, The Daily Sketch wrote, “...dishing out a nine-month sentence is as likely to turn a pop star into a martyr as to deter his fans. Besides, if the Appeal Court later reduces or quashes a harsh sentence, as happened in the case of Jagger, the authority of the law is lessened.” Similarly, The Sun (yes, the same guys who botched their coverage the Hillsborough Disaster and got largely banned from Liverpool) wrote, “Such a sentence, far from convincing young people that cannabis (hemp) is harmful, is too likely to make a martyr of this wretched young man and invest it with false glamour.”

Brian, though shaken, was released the next day on appeal. What helped his case, though, was when Judge Block made a rather tactless statement: “We did our best, your fellow countrymen, I, and my fellow magistrates, to cut these Stones down to size, but alas, it was not to be, because the Court of Criminal Appeal let them roll free.”

Though Block later claimed he was being sarcastic, Les Perrin issued a statement of his own: “In view of Brian Jones being on bail it seems deplorable that a member of the judiciary should so contravene the normally accepted practice in a case being sub judice, as to joke and poke fun. He made an unprecedented observation both on the trial he conducted at Chichester, and the subsequent findings of the Court of Criminal Appeal. Is this the kind of justice Brian expects? Is this man typical of those who hold the title, the high and esteemed office to try and sentence people? How can the public believe, in the light of this utterance by Judge Block, that the Rolling Stones can get an unbiased hearing? His statement smacks of pre-judgement, a getting-together, ‘to cut the Stones down to size’ because of who they are. It is a pity that he did not observe the ethics of sub judice in a like manner to Mr Jagger, Mr Richards, Mr Jones by remaining silent.”

At the appeal on December 12, Brian’s doctors again said that he had become potentially suicidal as a result of the trial, and its effect on his mental health. When all was said and done, his sentence was reduced to three years’ probation under the condition that he pay a £1,000 fine and that he receive psychiatric help, with the judge saying, “Remember, this is a degree of mercy which the court has shown. It’s not a let-off.”

Later on, Stash would note, “An artist can be hounded into a state in which his mental health will deteriorate and that’s what happened to Brian, I’m sure. I was very angry and blamed the authorities, but ultimately, an individual has to blame himself.”

On December 14, Brian’s chauffeur found him collapsed in his flat and called 999. After an hour, Brian walked out, against doctors’ orders that he should stay overnight. He went straight to the Priory Clinic, and the next day, went in to the dentist to get two teeth pulled due to having a raging toothache. Brian later said that the collapse had been a reaction to the trial.

And even so, that is not where the story ends, though I honestly wish it did. On May 21, police showed up at Brian’s door again, this time being led by Detective-Sergeant Robin Constable. Once again, police found cannabis, and Brian was utterly distraught, saying such things as “This can’t happen again, just when we’re getting on our feet”, “Why do I always get bugged?”, and “Why do you always have to pick on me?”

Speculation exists to this day that this second search was a carefully orchestrated plant, but whether or not it was will likely never be known for certain.

While the substance was taken away for testing, Brian found himself being dragged to the courthouse shortly before 10 AM. You can probably imagine the press had a field day, and by this point, Brian was completely mentally drained.

Brian appeared in court on June 11, 1968, where this time, he pled not guilty to the charges of cannabis possession. By this time, there was a new procedure under the Criminal Justice Act, preventing the need for evidence to be given in detail in court (which was a provision that hadn’t been present the first time around). Brian also elected to once again undergo trial by jury.

Brian’s second trial occurred on September 26, 1968. He was also looking very sickly; his skin was pale, he’d gained weight, and the bags under his eyes were more pronounced now than at any other time in his life. Brian was charged with illegally possessing 144 grains of cannabis, and once again, he entered a plea of not guilty. Brian’s defense was that he’d been staying in the flat that actress Joanna Pettet had moved out of just two hours before while a house that he’d recently purchased was being decorated. Pettet later claimed that she’d left the ball of wool there, but denied any knowledge of the cannabis found inside it. Brian also claimed to have been receiving medical treatment since the last trial, and his doctor said, “Nothing suggested to me that Jones was playing around cannabis. If I put a reefer cigarette by this young man, he would run a mile.”

Chairman Reginald Seaton (the same guy at Brian’s first trial) in his last address to the jury said that the burden of proof should rest with the police, considering that all that was found in Brian’s flat was the cannabis, but no evidence that it had been smoked. Despite this though, the jury returned 45 minutes later to pronounce Brian guilty. Luckily for him, Seaton took pity on him, only giving him a fine, stating, “I think this was a lapse and I don’t want to interfere with the probation order that already applies to this man. I am going to fine you according to your means. You must keep clear of this stuff. You really must watch your step. You will be fined £50 with 100 guineas [£105] costs. For goodness sake, don’t get into trouble again or you really will be in serious trouble.”

Of this second trial, Brian himself later said, “When the jury announced the guilty verdict, I was sure I was going to jail for at least a year. It was such a wonderful relief when I heard I was only going to be fined. I’m happy to be free. It’s wonderful. This summer has been one long worry to me. Someone planted the drug in my flat, but I don’t know who. I will state till my death that I did not commit this offence.”

The rest, as most would say, is history. Brian continued to spiral out of control, losing interest in the Stones until he was eventually fired on June 8, 1969, and replaced by Mick Taylor. Twenty-five days later, Brian drowned in his backyard swimming pool at the tender age of 27, becoming one of the first members of what would eventually be dubbed the “27 Club.”

I do have a theory that Brian’s death was primarily caused by sleeping pills and alcohol, maybe even some combination of heart failure, liver failure, and/or undiagnosed epilepsy exacerbated by the side-effects of some of the drugs he was allegedly prescribed right before his death, but that, dear readers, is another story.

Meanwhile, the Stones are still rolling and Mick and Keith are still alive (obviously), the latter of whom celebrated his 76th birthday while I was writing this, by some miracle.

While I was unable to ascertain whether using one’s home for drug abuse still carried the steep penalties it did in 1967, I was able to find UK law regarding drug possession. Sentencing largely depends on the quantity of the drug and whether or not there was an intent to sell, but amphetamines and cannabis can still land you with a fine and a jail sentence of up to five years.

If there is a silver lining to be found in this whole mess, Pilcher was eventually found guilty of perjury (though not for possibly planting dope on rock stars), and was himself sentenced to four years in prison for claiming a drug smuggler was innocent and had served with the police (not true in the slightest, as he was actually caught red-handed in the act of selling).

What can I say? Karma’s a bitch.

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