Journalist/author/PhD Eng Lit/owner of French House Party Carcassonne @FrenchHousePart & awestruck admirer of experimental genius who invented meringue.
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Such sad news. It made me recall some 20 years ago when I took my son - then 13-14 years old - to an event at Stratford & did the backstage tour. Patrick Stewart turned up & my son was incredibly excited. Shakespearean enthusiasm? No: “It’s Professor X!” he cried. Happy memory.
SIR PATRICK STEWART (1940-2026)
Before everything else, Patrick was defined by being born and bred in Yorkshire, the proud county in the north of England which he loved to the end. You could hear it in his accented voice and in the stern honesty with which he told you what he thought and felt. Yorkshiremen have no truck with half-truths or avoidance of big issues. He wore his heart on his sleeve, which made him a man to rely on, to admire and in my case, love.
We first met as ambitious young actors with the Royal Shakespeare Company half a century ago but we weren’t in the same productions. My first strong memory was a few years later, meeting him in the street in central London when he told me about an offer to take over a leading part in 'Star Trek'. “But Patrick think of your stage career in the UK. Do you really want to risk—getting lost in Hollywood for years and years?”. Well, he took the risk and thank goodness for us all that he did for not just his devoted Trekkies but film and theatre audiences, who marvelled at his using international celebrity to star in a string of cinema successes ('X-Men' of course) and in great classical plays by Shakespeare, Ibsen, Arthur Miller, Peter Shaffer, Pinter and Beckett at Stratford-upon-Avon, in London’s West End and on Broadway.
America was his adopted home, where he met his adored Sunny who has cared for him through sickness and health, through thick and thin. But he never forsook his origins: and the proudest achievement of the most respected and beloved actor of his generation on either side of the Atlantic, was his appointment as Chancellor of Huddersfield University in Yorkshire.
His farewell performance in 'Avengers: Doomsday' is yet to be seen.
Ian McKellen 29 October 2026
Photo: University of Huddersfield
Moira Martingale retweeted
This is without a doubt the best political “ad” I have ever seen. Using Waffle House to get you to vote Democrat is brilliant. Someone on Mayor Pete’s team knows what they’re doing
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BREAKING: MIC DROP! Senator Mark Kelly delivers the best takedown of Trump's failed Iran War that we've ever heard — just in time for the midterm elections!
This is an absolute slam dunk...
"We had a President take this country to war without a strategic goal, without a plan, without a timeline, and without an exit strategy. And now he's stuck. He doesn't know what to do," Kelly said, while campaigning for Senate candidate Troy Jackson in Maine.
"I sit on the Armed Services and the Intelligence Committees, both of them. And I will say, from what I know about this, the Iranians weren't any closer to developing a nuclear weapon this year than they were when I first got to the United States Senate in 2020," said Kelly. "And it's this President who, by the way, tore up the deal in 2018 that started them to enrich the uranium at a higher level."
"So if you think there was a problem, this President created the problem!" he continued. "But he didn't need to go to war and put Americans in harm's way. We have now 20 deceased service members. Over 800 injured."
By now, most discerning people have come to realize that this war was never about nuclear weapons. Trump launched this war because Israel convinced him that he could win a quick, splashy victory and Israel wanted this war because they want to destroy a regional adversary. American interests were never at stake.
"And what did the American people get out of this?" asked Kelly. "They got nothing. They got higher gas prices. They got higher food prices."
"We've got service members deployed for record numbers of days on the USS Abraham Lincoln. And I understand going on cruise can be hard. It's challenging," he went on. "But really, they had eight service members who tried to commit suicide because of the conditions aboard the ship. And I've got to tell you, the worst thing about that, by far, for me, was to see the Secretary of Defense go straight to camera and say, there's no problem, and we give commanders everything they need. That is not leadership."
"Leadership has taken some responsibility for whatever the situation is," added Kelly. "And by the way, how hard would it have been for him to say, hey, I recognize there's a problem. We're going to look into the problem, and we're going to make things better for these service members because they deserve that. It's not hard to do. This Secretary of Defense was incapable of doing that."
Kelly is right to lay the blame for this disastrous war as much at Hegseth's feet as Trump's. Our booze-breathed, Fox News-fried "Secretary of War" is more interested in posturing as a tough alpha male than he is in actually leading our troops.
These midterm elections are, among other things, a referendum on this war. If you're sick of wasting blood and treasure on endless wars, vote blue!
Please ❤️ and share if you think that Mark Kelly nailed it!
Moira Martingale retweeted
The Epstein Files…
This clip is everywhere right now.
If true, it changes everything.
How much more is still hidden?
🇺🇸 WE THE PEOPLE
We're not done yet.
Keep your eyes on this page.
Follow @_WWG1WGA47 for what's next.
Moira Martingale retweeted
During the January 6th attack on the nation's Capitol, Daniel Rodriguez drove a stun gun into the neck of Officer Mike Fanone. He was knocked unconscious, had a heart attack and suffered a traumatic brain injury. It ended his career.
Rodriguez got over 12 years in prison for his assault on police. On day one, Donald Trump gave him a "full, complete and unconditional pardon" and sent him home.
This is far and away the most corrupt White House in American history.
Moira Martingale retweeted
There it is MAGA! Your orange racist child-raping cult leader has already declared victory in the midterm elections! So no need to worry about all that pesky voting. What will you do with all that free time? Get your tooth cleaned? Date night at Applebee’s with your sister-wife?
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Moira Martingale retweeted
‘It’s the latest attempt to draw a line between the president and Epstein…’
@lewis_goodall analyses the White House's reaction to the former Miss Switzerland accusing Trump of rape.
Moira Martingale retweeted
Girls as young as fourteen were forced to "entertain" the President.
As young as 14.
Fourteen.
Four fucking teen.
That's an eighth grader.
The President is a sexual predator.
Moira Martingale retweeted
"The Epstein Storm is Coming
We put this story in the clips yesterday because we didn’t see it until we were almost done writing, but it’s a HOLY SHIT story that includes a new allegation of rape against Trump.
While the big newspapers are pretending this is no big deal, House Democrats released a 50-page report yesterday that details Trump and his cronies’ efforts to hide the full Epstein files.
There is so much new info here, and it’s all very disturbing. Todd Blanche literally cut off Ghislaine Maxwell when she was going to talk about Jane Doe and told her not to talk about “indivduals.”
But the most upsetting is that Beatrice Keul, a former Miss Switzerland, told the committee that Trump violently raped her, leaving her bruised and bleeding.
Rep. Jamie Raskin is calling on DOJ to appoint a special counsel to investigate Trump and Epstein. When that doesn’t happen, we’re gonna need our people to have gavels and subpoena power to go after this fucker.
... Police and the El Paso, Texas, branch of the NAACP are condemning a group of people, possibly including youths, who were shown wearing Ku Klux Klan-style white robes and hoods in viral social media videos.
‘Shove That Ballroom Up Your Fat A$$’ open.substack.com/pub/adampa…
Moira Martingale retweeted
После того, как Трамп объявил награду в размере 1 миллиона долларов за раскрытие избирательного мошенничества, сенатор Чак Шумер поделился аудио- записью 2021 года, в которой Трамп попросил министра иностранных дел Джорджиии найти 11 780 голосов, чтобы отменить его поражение на президентских выборах 2020 года.
"Я уже нашел это, Дональд Трамп. Где мой 1 миллион долларов?"
"Вы можете перевести его напрямую 10 000 избирательным работникам, которые добровольно отделяют свое время, чтобы предотвратить ваши попытки украсть промежуточные выборы."
Moira Martingale retweeted
Trump is a sex criminal. He's been one for decades. I've published multiple books on his sexual depravities and penchant for sexual violence. Nothing in this horrifying report is a surprise. To vote for Trump or his party is to knowingly vote for monsters. yahoo.com/news/politics/arti…
Moira Martingale retweeted
🇺🇸 🇨🇭 Former Miss Switzerland accuses Trump of rape
Beatrice Keul claims that the US president raped her at New York's Plaza Hotel in 1993.
According to The Telegraph, her testimony was included in a report by Democrats in the US House of Representatives.
“Upon entering, Trump reportedly grabbed Keul from behind and forcibly raped her; in the process, tearing her dress and causing bleeding and bruising on multiple parts of her body,” the report states.
The report also says that Keul described the alleged rape as “brutal.”
In October 2024, the woman publicly accused Trump of sexual harassment at the Plaza Hotel in 1993 for the first time. However, the former model said at the time that things had gone no further. Now, new details of the alleged incident have emerged.
Republicans dismissed the allegations as fake news ahead of the US midterm elections.
What do you think? Is it true or not?
Moira Martingale retweeted
Alex Pretti's father: Our son was shot and killed by the government, federal immigration agents, on January 24th, 2026. We learned about his death from the media as we saw him being shot repeatedly in the back after helping a woman from his community. This was not a protest that Alex was at. His hands were in the air, and his face was on the ground when he was executed by ICE agents. We know exactly what our eyes saw. No one from the federal government called us on that day. But they did go on TV to tell lies about Alex. No one has called us since. No one has recanted those lies.
