This is great, surely? A fantastic journalistic tool.
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This is great, surely? A fantastic journalistic tool.
Homework is basically just teaching kids to have a shitty work-life balance and to work for free outside their contracted hours.
Including some ideas for any think tanks trying to work out what they're going to do this autumn. thecritic.co.uk/what...
Loads of us here know the feeling. Pimping a book is the last thing you need as a writer, ugh, dirty. Started reading this, it's great. And the title alone sums up everything we all feel about the current state of the world. Surrender. Let this book swallow you. Tom's a good 'un. Buy it. ❤️
Yes!
...an iPad. It's a Sanctuary School; classes each have instant translation software so they can welcome and befriend kids who've arrived from anywhere in the world, getting away from God knows what. That's what they use in the script. Because of course that's what you do. It's basic. Hello. Welcome.
I mean, I don't know man. When my kids' writing group was sketching out the story for the film (we shoot in Spring!) we talked about finding this girl from 1912 in the school cellar. They said well maybe our characters find her, think maybe she's foreign because of her odd clothes, so they use...
...FLED to Britain. We were a place of sanctuary. We should be proud of who we were. My little chest filled with national pride - Britain, a refuge! The narrative we have now is that we're a fist-hearted bunch of arseholes and nobody's allowed in. Oh God what a mess it all is.
Patriotism hit me hard in school, early 1960s. It was just a primary school but there was a LOT of celebrating the empire etc. We heard about how great Britain was because of its people. Britons were open and hospitable. We rooted for the underdog. The Huguenots and others fleeing persecution..[1/2]
I think they're just toying with us now.
Starmer could have said: Vandalism isn't patriotism; daubing red crosses on Chinese takeaways and writing racist graffiti isn't patriotism; perfomatively sitting in front of a flag or tying one to a mosque isn't patriotism; Patriotism is about making this country safe, happy productive for all.
reposted this earlier. classic.
“I don’t want asylum seekers to live on my street” is genuinely a wild thing to say as a notionally progressive politician
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The Guardian has today printed the names, and where possible, images, of all the media workers killed in Gaza, as part of an international day of action involving more than 150 media organisations. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Morning commuters from Glasgow to Edinburgh will see their fares drop by 48% today. Scottish Greens, trade unions and commuters worked together to demand the removal of peak rail fares. Today, peak rail fares are scrapped for good!
THEY MIXED THE COWBELL TOO LOW
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Let the record show that this old man has been FLOORED by CMAT.
Yeah, he gets a lot of criticism these days, John Cleese, but I'll say this for him: he knows his way around an owl.
Did my own research and discovered Alex is right: it is literally impossible to buy a loaf of normal bread in Starmer's Britain. It's becoming extinct.
Starmer is simply not the man to respond to this dangerous moment in history. Labour must get rid of him.
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right?
Thank you. Within 10 seconds someone suggested Keanu Reeves, so he wins I'm afraid. x
Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival
oh brilliant, search over THANK YOU x
Still time, Mr President. We proved 28 years ago we can do a quick turnaround when things happen just before press day.
Superb.
YES YES YES
did a double-take at dido
Didn’t you call them chavs and yobs for 20 years until you realised you could ventriloquise your posh-boy racism through them?
It’s the anniversary of Princess Diana’s death in 1997. Here’s BBC One breaking into possibly the most unfortunate scene imaginable to initially tell people that something had happened. m.youtube.com/watch?v=FPhC...
yep
No offence to everyone on this social media platform, but are you really all 'exhausted'? I wonder if there's a connection at all.
No quite with you. My point was the lack of condemnation from a Labour MP. There was assault, and attempted forced entry.
Please, please tell me - in the context of racist violence keeping our streets anything BUT fucking safe - that these words from a local Labour MP weren't actually the first words he said. Instead of "I strongly condemn this disgraceful, reckless hooliganism". Fuck's SAKE.
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He honestly is.
Blasphemy's not what it used to be.
Right?
I mean, full disclosure, me, but he and everyone else did this for Equity minimum just so it could get made. I bloody love him. www.mixcloud.com/espeee/the-h...
Michael Palin was in The Death of Stalin, which might be the best political comedy of the 21st century, so I don’t think he just shut off his brain in 1983.
Old man, legend, comedy genius, national treasure, certified Top Human Being, speaks his mind. "We couldn't make that movie now..." THAT's the thing you want to write a biting little essay about? Right, let's put MICHAEL FUCKING PALIN in his place. Step outside, breathe the rain-polished air, mate!
Just spent two minutes shouting at Bluesky because it insists there are no updates on The Absence Within The White House, then remembered I've got his stupid name muted.
Back on Sounds! Some absolute gems in this, as well as some quite alarming pieces of music, and oh my GOD the Palestrina darling. Really really great curation by the Knitted Scarf. ❤️
We're all in the same boat mate. We've all got a little berth in Gilly Gilly Ossenfeffer Katzenellen Bogen By The Sea. Ee-ee-ee-ee.
The Big Toolcowski (1998) dir, Joel & Ethan Cowen
I regret to say this is very good. www.waterstones.com/book/9781738...
This is exactly the sort of thing that happens on Autumn Good Friday.
Loving it. Who's Eric Jackson?
SOTW www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTWg...
let's get it over with. the sooner we're getting a dollop more light per day the better, steam through fucking winter, head for Spring again, and bring again, tulips from Amsterdam.
Just typed that, clicked on France Musique and they're playing St Matthew Passion I REST MY CASE.
Something deep and melancholy about this day in the year. Feels like the Good Friday of Autumn.
Well I'd like to know how we get the wiiiind-fall. TAX THE BANKS, LET'S TAX THE BANKS BABY! TAX THE BANKS, LET'S TURN THE BANKS OVER!
"The Ottomans had pressed Hussein, whose phone number was Mecca 1..." This is tremendous stuff, brilliantly written.
I think if Britain colonised your country of origin you should get free BBC iplayer.
TAX THE BANKS to the tune of ROCK THE BOAT
yrs, Donald Scarpia.
Callas. Would have.
Tell me it's Callas and everyone's in tears, then everyone's applauding in tears.
I have bombed the combat zone that was in the city and which you were probably hoping to live in
Tell you what, TAX THE BANKS does have a lovely, happy, galloping ring to it.
sorry we have to bomb your city that would be immoral my city is not a combat zone I have literally just bombed it so out of the fucking way the tanks are going in
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It's very good, I think. I wrote some stuff for it, but it's the mad concept and the gorgeous imaginations of these nutty directors that make it so brilliant. The last five minutes are incredibly moving, but it's all, all of it, so FULL and CLEVER and BEAUTIFUL. Love those nutters. ❤️❤️
makes me wish I was a junior reporter again
Oh man, the old journalistic credo of "look for the mischief" still stirs in this old fatty heart. What a laugh it will be working for the Post, getting hilarious inside info on these clueless fucking eggs from their enemies. Lovely.
A lot of legitimate concerns.
From this week’s Beano.
Oh my giddy fuck some of the replies.
Tom! Arrived. Preparing to get swallowed. Thanks so much.
Oooooh! JUST what the whiskery old mystic in the woods with a way through the portal of the multiverse ordered!
fine, fine
that is BLEAK
The Guardian’s whole ‘please fund us because this is a fight against evil’ shtick would be more persuasive if they didn’t run endless pieces about e.g. why everyone is talking about avocado talc, written by someone called Avocado Talcum-Powder.
They all act like, and look like, babies. www.nottinghampost.com/news/news-op...
realistic Star Trek
The ever-eloquent @rafaelbehr.bsky.social pointedly refusing to mince his words on what Farage has done for us. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The fucking Times. Sieved. Illegitimate. Is this supposed to be who we are now? Because this can entirely fuck off back to 1939.
Mate. Sending good vibes to you and bad voodoo to whatever’s fucking you up. X
If I were Labour Prime Minister, I would simply criticise the bloke pushing mass deportations.
"It fucked the fucking function as a fucking tradefuck" no further questions.
A jury of my peers? TWELVE murderers?!
Seriously, could literally ANYONE be a better PM than Starmer? I mean, could...YOU? blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
We've forgotten who we are.
yeah, I may not be in it for long...
bingo, none of those shitheads are going to vote Labour, ever. clue's in the description "reform voters".
we resigned from Labour after decades. prob toss Greens after the election, unless things change. just a voice, one fucking voice, saying the exact opposite of the arseholes, is all we want.
fucking right. I feel weird, man...
Hello. I am an ordinary working person on a very ordinary income paying ordinary taxes. What I find unfair is the way migrant hotels are ruining the lives of the migrants inside them, and the way that peddling this nonsense makes it harder to create a system that keeps human beings safe.
Joined the Greens just to vote for Zack Polanski. Desperate to amplify a position on refugees that is a 180-degree fuck-you to the Wifebeaters and Coke-Shunters Social Club currently hogging the media. Just to try at least to pull the discourse leftwards. I don't know. I've never *been* Green...
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superb, and deeply moving. top, top tip-off, Lee. ❤️
It would have been Martin Amis’s 76th birthday yesterday. Here’s the piece I wrote on his death in 2023: