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yeah they really couldn't it's not a show where the main thing is the plot
yeah that's a tough bit
oh I'm past that just did 6.7, dive in
I have not seen that film in 20 years and I can still hear the exact intonation
sharpest something
I hate her in season 4 but have warmed to her and am now furious at how he's mistreating her
I do genuinely feel like he likes the women he sleeps with, whereas Don just likes the way they look at him
funniest moment of the show
not wait i love Roger he's a cad but he's funny and he actually likes women shit it happened again
yes I almost posted a follow up about a response that in retrospect wasn't so much about the show but was a massively revealing insight into my own personality fuck
up to the end of 4 was a rewatch, since then it's new
halfway through the penultimate season of Mad Men and, i dunno guys, I'm starting to worry this Draper fella is not a good guy
Keep in mind that the deal to get Adams to quit was being put together by Steve Witkoff, who is also tasked with Ukraine and Gaza negotiations.
just found that ITV has a year-round, 24/7 channel showing nothing but.... Christmas movies 🤷
well sure and I'm sick of the sucking up to racists so
I imagine it's he'll, it's one of the many reasons I've never wanted to do it. But these guys clearly did so it's no good complaining about it. More to the point "people on the internet were mean to me so I had to do a racism, waa" is the stupidest piece of bullshit I've heard all day
Do you think "Please stop giving succour to racists" is just whining then?
look, it might not have worked with the public, but at least it was the wrong thing to do morally
sideways look at the news
don't suppose there's any chance this reshuffle might replace the PM with an actual leader
Having listened to Remainiacs for several years, long before they let me near the show, doing @ohgodwhatnow.bsky.social always felt like Big School. But it's been an absolute delight working Dorian and he will be sorely missed.
After 8+ years, starting with the very first Remainiacs in May 2017, this is my last show as host. It’s been a privilege and an adventure to work with so many great panellists, producers and guests and we’ve had the best listeners. Thanks to all of them. I’m still doing Origin Story though. Cheers!
Reshuffle has started Lucy Powell out as Leader of the Commons Ian Murray out as Scottish Secretary
yeah there's no defence for that
democrats.org
I know it was not all plain sailing - but it wasn't off the back of nearly two decades without significant growth and the entire state falling to bits. I really can't overstress how poor and broken the country feels now, in a way I'm not sure is always clear from outside
I am compelled by the argument which says that, whatever his other issues, Tony Blair was much much better at politics than Keir Starmer because fucking obviously. But he was also playing the game on a much easier level. He arrived to healthy public finances and a boom.
Not just 20 somethings. You can be 40 and have never really worked in a Britain not rocked by rolling economic crisis. Those younger have it worse, but at least they can leave.
Might skip lunch.
OH in a cafe: "It's gone warm again." "Yes! It's lovely." "What? No, *It*'s gone warm again. The *freezer*'s gone warm again."
Also this week: a new (old) way of dividing Europe, courtesy of the Knights of St John...
Me too but the fact we've not really had economic growth since my mid 20s and I'm now middle aged is not great really. These aren't just numbers, they're also life chances and pension plans.
Agree on robotaxis but Western European productivity, wages and living standards have gone from being roughly on a par with North America in 2008 to about a third lower
So have they stopped rejecting citizenship applications from their actual neighbours in public votes, then? Honestly, "Britain sucks!" is one thing but when people slip over into smugness about how there's no racism where they are my eyebrow goes through the roof.
so... you are on the bus then, sorry. you may be able to activate an ejector seat but you're still pretty bus-bound for at least a while
congrats on not living in britain I guess
A lot has clearly changed in Swiss political culture of late. blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...
...okay but this is a grass is always greener thing because CH is famously hostile to outsiders, there are families who've lived there generations and can't get citizenship.
Very possibly, as I can't immediately understand the parallel - not saying you're wrong, just not sure what you mean! For half a second I thought this was a covid denial thing.
"Covid", sorry?
I would love it so much if "mother of the podcast were to stick", yes
Fair bit of internal labour screaming going on that hasn't yet burst out into public view. Though since that's clearly not working one can argue it absolutely should.
was there any recourse to get the conveyancer to account for their mistakes?
Wonder if we can use this as a trigger for a national conversation about how conveyancing in this country is absolute shite? Yours, Person who owned in a flat which contained a room which wasn’t even included in the deeds, because a conveyancing lawyer didn’t notice, and who £70k TIA 🙏🏻
The world would be depressing anyway at the moment, but there is something peculiarly crushing in being on a bus that's heading straight for a cliff and everyone screaming to change direction and the guy at the wheel maintaining that only he knows how to save everyone and it's definitely this way.
okay you say this but some of us have made careers out of this shit, so i'd do it anyway and see what happens
It’s official - “Nigel Farage is right, don’t vote for him” is a demonstrably awful strategy for Labour. Boosts salience of immigration, costs votes on the left, doesn’t persuade any voters on right (why would they accept a crap knock-off when they can have the original?)
"How many planets there are understood to be in our solar system is a matter that’s changed a lot over the years. Your answer is likely to depend to a large extent on when you happened to be a space-curious child." This week's NEV column, on the planets
kind of feel a bit like you're asking for that tbh
if it's only six storeys then why the fuck did they need all that prison slave labour
no, she's a voter repellant, Farage is evil but he isn't stupid
I am so looking forward to Truss trying to defect and Farage desperately trying to stop her
there’s a tweet for every occasion
Not speaking up for their values was bad enough. Not speaking up against actual threats to the rule of law feels like a step beyond.
I can cope with the awkward flag-shagging, but abject failure to stand against what is clearly a far right astroturf operation is a dividing line between the Labour Party and my vote at the moment.
Jesus.
I dunno. There was a glimmer of hope after the riots last year that the law and order impulse might kick in. But no.
The failure of the government to denounce these thugs is completely fucking sickening.
The Mail is going to go full Farage. The Telegraph already has, to the absolute horror of the proper journalists still on the paper. Tony Gallagher at The Times is, as ever, waiting for Rupert Murdoch’s instructions. Their only alternative is to own the stupidity of backing Johnson, Brexit & Truss.
YOU'RE STILL ALIVE??
HOLY SHIT
You know when a famous person dies and you're surprised because you'd assumed they must already be dead? That, but for Nadine Dorries defecting to Reform.
👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Do you not also have an NI number, NHS number, unique taxpayer reference number?
I'd be surprised if it didn't but most of us hand this information over to corporations all the time in exchange for services, and the stuff provided by government seems to matter more.
last time they did this mine didn't go off, I assume SOMEONE up there dislikes me
I've just never understood why this is such a big deal. Why do I need a dozen log ins for different government services? just give me one!
That's an argument for offline versions, it's not an argument for not doing it at all
yes but with a side order of "social media is the big reason that echo chamber could develop and then swallow several newspapers"
I agree! Never understood what the big deal is meant to be. Make it easier!
Far be it from me to argue with Orwell, but it feels a lot like the main explanation there might be "we're a sodding island"
The myth of the British love of liberty is fascinating, isn't it? Absolutely no basis for the belief that I can see but just one of those things people in the media tell each other
"How many planets there are understood to be in our solar system is a matter that’s changed a lot over the years. Your answer is likely to depend to a large extent on when you happened to be a space-curious child." This week's NEV column, on the planets
always feel excited when a new version of the book arrives even though I've already read it and in practice it just means sticking one on my weird bedroom ego shelf and the rest in a cupboard
There is a substantial difference between attempting to reduce net migration from historic highs, and refusing to say the far right are wrong to demunanise migrants. You've misunderstood what people are angry about.
thanks to @dorianlynskey.bsky.social for introducing me to this movie poster, featuring a tagline that made me hyperventilate with laughter
I do not, and I shall hold off on googling to give you the pleasure
if I'm honest Tom I just wanted to write down the fact I'd spent a lot of the last few weeks learning about stone age ukraine, I've not managed to turn it into book
To put that another way, Fred Flintstone was almost certainly Ukrainian. QED.
That really limits us to a tiny handful of a Neolithic cultures. Throw in the geography too and - unless I've missed some major developments - it limits us to one: the Cucuteni–Trypillia culture of south east Europe in the 4th millennium BCE.
They're white, and live in something that resembles a town, so we are looking for somewhere in northwestern Eurasia after the dawn of urbanism. Yet we know from the lyrics to the theme song that they predate the development of metallurgy: the Flintstones are the modern *stone* age family.
This is great, but also sent me down a mental rabbit hole of trying to work out when and where the Flintstones might be set even though this is a question that makes literally no sense
From the latest edition of Viz. Ties in nicely with the latest newsletter from @jonnelledge.bsky.social
Dear Lord that's bad. (She can be sacked as Deputy PM - she can't be sacked as Deputy Leader of the Labour Party as that's an elected position).
Yeah. The people who object are not their target voters.
storm's a-brewin'
I made an unboxing video and the lighting and sound is terrible but unfortunately once you open a box you can't open it again. You have to make do with the footage you have youtube.com/shorts/826k_...
On the Rayner situation, I realise it's slightly different when you're the actual minister of gov, but I had a situation where I was stiffed by poor legal property advice too - as a journalist with over 15 years experience covering housing at the time. Erp. inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...
"Like so many positions taken by the Labour party, all the way back to Brexit, the people who are meant to be impressed by this will find it inauthentic; meanwhile everyone else will be put off by the fact the government’s taken this stance at all."
Guys will advocate for processes that by their own account have brought tragedy and misery, that everything we know suggests will make everyone involved worse off and less secure, rather than admit that maybe the 2010 to 2024 government failed through no-one's fault but its own.
yeah like I said we're exploring options now - but sorry for a long time I just literally did not have the strength. anyway, we are on it.
incredible
You probably know that the voices of Charley and Tony were sampled on a Prodigy record, but I can also add that Tony went on to become my Head of Sixth Form. His voice as a child may be annoying but as an adult he was thoroughly sound on pastoral care. He took Charley’s lessons to heart.
Okay we're down to 8, just 8 COPIES STILL AVAILABLE, free signed book with annual subs, get em while they're etc etc
Yeah, we're in talks, doubt we'll still be there by the end of the year. But my life imploded in relatively recent memory due to a major bereavement so I've not had the strength for making big changes that come with serious financial risks, sorry.
incredible
...AND Charley says here’s some more public information. jonn.substack.com/p/the-eleven...
don't stop on my account
Also this week: a new (old) way of dividing Europe, courtesy of the Knights of St John...