Well, they haven't done that, because that's not possible. The reporting of this is framing it completely wrongly.

I think it's at least as good an idea as that show where they try to find stuff people dropped in the Lakes, and that's on the BBC.

My first term at university we actually got snowed in on campus. The only people who really enjoyed it were the international students experiencing snow for the first time.

It’s not your language that offends. It’s your racism.

Also I don't see an acknowledgment that he got the basic facts on which he based his racist comments wrong

Against fitting in Between dissolution and crystallisation

I wrote this rather odd and personal piece over New Years, and it has received so much positive echo from so many people, including allowing me to reconnect with long lost friends. You might find it useful too.

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A car company not knowing what accountability means is a bit on the nose as well.

Why don't we all quit it too? Stupid waste of time and money.

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

Maybe the way they interpret and define their jobs is part of the problem? Same for politicians of course, and they are at the root of potentially 7 PMs in 10 years.

Loving all the Lobby hyperbole, focusing on the most extreme of criticisms to avoid the legitimate ones. Treating incredibly serious issues like wrestling commentary is the criticism. It's been a criticism for decades and they always demure, deny, and deflect: "we're just doing our jobs!"

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I'm going to double down here. Starmer deserves to go and may well do so but much of the Lobby is acting like the Big Brother crowds of old, not fucking Woodward and Bernstein.

That was precisely the tone I observed earlier this evening on the BBC news channel as they filled airtime whilst Starmer talked to his MPs. Not sure why you're quite so upset.

No, I've studied and taught political communication for 30 years and this has become worse and worse in recent years in my professional opinion. I am not a supporter of this government.

Sure but they're reporting it with such relish, as if the drama is all there is.

Keep seeing this Copilot ad in which a woman pulls off a shit-hot 'business negotiation' by tapping away at Copilot to ask its advice every 20 seconds, as if that would put you in a position of strength rather than implying that you didn't have a fucking clue what you were doing.

Watching the BBC news channel. It's like watching the Superbowl. Febrile, empty commentary, the journos besides themselves with excitement. A bad sign of people completely divorced from the realities of life.

Of course, this is all great fun for the lobby correspondents. This is what they think their job is. Drama and scandal. It might be me following this stuff for thirty years or so, but it's starting to get tiresome now.

Did Sauron make him a better offer?

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They should be named and recalled.

Abject idiots who think they won because of him, and anti-woke people should all be recalled.

I mean in politics you win or lose elections, and the other sides have a lot to do with it, but the false notion of campaign gurus being behind wins persists. Even if it were true, winning elections and governing are completely different things. Why is this beyond so many people?

Both (unsubtle)digs that he made all the decisions?

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Oh asteroid please come and release us.

I'm sure many have already said it but reading that opening statement for the first time just now, how appalling the tone, the untruths, just everything about it.

Excerpt from a Guardian story: "Norway’s head coach Magnus Brevik, assistant coach Thomas Lobben, and staff member Adrian Livelten were also banned for 18 months for their involvement in the scheme, which made the jumpers’ suits larger and therefore reduced their descent rate due to the bigger wingspan. One study in the scientific journal Frontiers found that every 2cm in suit size circumference reduced drag by 4% and increased lift by 5%. It said that a 2cm change in the suits was equivalent to an extra 5.8 metres in jump length. However Bild has now claimed that jumpers have switched to other methods to game the system when they are measured for their suits, data for which is taken by a 3D scanner from the lowest point of their genitals. They include injecting acid into their penises or putting clay in their underwear to make their measurements temporarily bigger and therefore their suits looser for when they compete. The newspaper quoted a doctor, Kamran Karim, who said: “It is possible to achieve a temporary, visual thickening of the penis by injecting paraffin or hyaluronic acid. Such an injection is not medically indicated and is associated with risks.”"

ski jump penis doping story only underscores the advantages of shape and drape over slim fit clothing

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Every American needs to watch this: