Mick

I'll bite. What is the benefit we gain from politicians being able to 'thoughtfully' say in private 'blacks, British Bangladeshis, British Pakistanis, British Indians, mulattos....all the same, and clearly from the look of them not-integrated?'

Imagine being the Kyiv correspondent for CBS News, calling into the morning news meeting, and hearing this fellow telling you what to cover.

He's strikingly incapable of setting out *why* something is bad. Everything he writes is a search for labels that avoid having to make an argument - Reform's policies are 'racist', these protests are 'un-British'. You are the prime minister! Explain why they are wrong!

I realised recently that I'm never on here in the evenings (#totp excepted) and this is the reason.

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A work of art

if that HIGNFY Euan Blair fuckup had been about a right-winger it'd have had full front-page scandal coverage in the Mail followed by frontpage coverage across the board for the next week, days of "BBC in crisis" headline coverage by the BBC, and parliamentary questions about Tim Davie's future

I found myself staring at his shirt hoping to see a 3D yacht appear.

What is this?!!!

Johnny does not lie. It is magnificent. Do not watch if you have any fear of water whatsoever.

Monday

Utterly lovely!

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Barely a fortnight has passed since Kemi Badenoch’s reflexive and incredibly OTT hostility to the government’s proposals for digital ID.

A club statement from Blackpool saying Steve Bruce has been sacked along with coaches Steve Agnew and Stephen Clemence. Stephen Dobbie and Steve Banks will take temporary charge.

You don’t have to be called Steve or Stephen to work at Blackpool, but it does help.

I completely agree with this paragraph in Giles Coren’s column about department stores. Going out is the point

I can’t stand modern Glasgow. A city that is strangely smug about its own decay.

Glasgow City Council have decided that this is the perfect time to start strimming around the road at the end of my street. Fucking morons

Reason the BBC works is its universality. If you replace that with a subscription, it is gone forever.

Lisa Nandy: Replace BBC licence fee with mix of funding

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Don’t it make you feel good?

Batshit.

I know there are a lot of injustices out there in the world, but Elkie Brookes really doesn’t get enough credit for being a fucking brilliant singer. Thanks for your attention in this matter.

When you look at some of the front pages in The Telegraph, the Mail and the Herald this week, and then see this you can’t help but feel that decline is just driving newspapers mental. Utterly, utterly mad.

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To be honest it says more about the conditions derelict buildings can deteriorate to in Glasgow. It’s blustery down here, but not that bad. That a building, on a major thoroughfare, can become so fragile is scandalous.

Neu!'s 1972 debut. A krautrock milestone that influenced countless artists over the years : Eno, Bowie, Iggy Pop, PIL, Radiohead, etc. The epic, beautiful 10-minute opener, Hallogallo, alone, is worth the price of admission but the rest of the record is also worth listening to. Pioneers.

YouTube video by Tom Evans Castrol GTX advert 1984

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I once got thrown out of a pub in the Lake District after making a friend snort beer out of his nose with my impression of Ted Heath speaking French. True story.