Jon Dryden Taylor

Also: Kristin Chenoweth completists.

And again: the reason politics and media are this reckless, hateful and deliberately inflammatory is all down to decisions that were made in 2018-19 about what is acceptable conduct in public life, and we are all going to live with the consequences of that for a very long time.

folks we need to bring back forums. social media doesn't work. forums didn't work either but they were funnier and had more concentrated giant flameouts

Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.so... • 1h With Starmer making his active pitch to out Reform Reform today, it shows just how out of touch he is with reality. Labour can never beat Reform by copying them. They are losing more support to Greens and Lib Dems than Reform, and will continue to do so while they attack marginalised groups. Dan Sohege @danielsohege…. • 22d Long thread: There are two main "defences" I see put forward of Labour which crop up: 1) If you don't vote for Labour you'll get Reform 2) It's all the fault of right wing media painting Labour in a bad light. The thing is that neither of these are actually a defence of what Labour is doing. 1/23

Important to recognise that this was also the case ten years ago and more, and what we are living through now is the consequences of lots of important people and the media support system they are 100% reliant upon refusing to accept it, and continuing to force themselves upon the public regardless.

You’ll see people asking “How can Sir Keir snuggle up to the Epstein-adjacent President who is currently running an extremely authoritarian red terror” and the answer is: easily, because Britain has been doing that for years, and Sir Keir and pals were ringleaders and the most clear beneficiaries.

labour is going to let half the councils in the country go reform so 20 shitheads can keep their jobs for 8 more months

This is simply untenable. There is no way forward with media and political classes captured by the right. Every time someone commits a crime you have to pray it's not an undesirable or it's purge time, then when it turns out to be themselves again they just shrug and wait for the next one.

Charlie Kirk: “God’s perfect law says gays should be stoned to death.”

Liberals: “This is an honorable man who did politics the right way. Through debate, not calls to violence.”

Some cracking reads in the rest of the shot, mind.

So if you dutifully bought the books the papers told you to in the 90s and 00s you end up with a bookshelf where two transphobes sandwich a violent racist.

“It just could not happen in Britain” feels like maybe someone should ask Peter what this meant

Your least favourite uncle here, just reminding everyone up to and apparently including the director general of the BBC that 'criteria' is a plural.

Oh my god you’re here! Can you sort out *waves arm* all THIS before you go?

Rob "The Stapler" Schneider announcing that Graham Linehan, Andrew "Titania McGrath" Doyle and that other balder bloke from GB news are writing a presumably execrable sitcom for him named TENURE.

The problem with anti-woke comedy is that it has one (1) good critique: *some* lib comedians aren't funny, they just repeat their audience's values back to them. This is true! It's just that it's also true of *all* anti-woke comedy, which is intrinsically values-led and thus comedically stillborn.

simple rule:

commentators who said "this won't work" fron the start should be listened to

those who didn't, shouldn't

I have been revealed online as a government asset because my dad wrote for telly and so did I.

There are debates to be had about free speech or policing or whatever but that’s not what this is - these are the leading lights of the gender critical movement coming out to say Linehan’s tweet was *correct*. That violence against trans women in women’s bathrooms is justified.

Bad, bad news.

I mean the gloves could not be more off.

Oh man, there’s a name from my childhood! In his guise as producer he was one of my dad’s closest collaborators.

Still thinking about that Labour MP who, dripping with disdain, took to the socials to explain that challenging public lies is bad and wrong and only an idiot would do it.

Still can’t fathom living with such a mixture of certainty and moral cowardice.

It's live on Sky too. I don't understand anything any more.

The reason we have a surge in far right politics is that all our media outlets amplify and legitimise far right views.

They could stop doing so any time they like, and they don’t want to.

Start from there.

Man on TalkSPORT just now: ‘It’s like Peter Finch in Network, you know, ‘I’ve had enough of this’’

I mean, hundreds of MPs and journos actively lying to the public to protect their mates who were deliberately scuttling one of only two viable parties in an enormously consequential general election does not feel very “democracy”, does it. If feels like something very different.

(Her partner is an actor I had just worked with and she was his +1). The spooky part is that *two days later* my husband was cast to play hers in a play.

That is the end of my Finty stories so I will unhijack now.

I first met her at my own wedding. I know that's a hijack but I have to say it whenever she comes up.

Are MPs supposed to conspire with media outlets to orchestrate wild hate Jihads against their own party, trying as hard as they can to ensure their own side loses elections? Are there any other examples of this happening in British history, and indeed in electoral history anywhere on earth.

In this clip, Rory says “Labour MPs put their careers on the line to stop (Old Jezza) becoming Prime Minister”, a thing that up until last year was an absolutely deranged conspiracy theory, but has now become an obvious fact, somehow without anyone having been wrong about anything at any point.

Headline from the BBC news website reading 'Hundreds attend protest over asylum seeker housing'.

Let's be clear. This is nothing. Demonstrations with thousands or even tens of thousands are frequently entirely ignored. That the BBC chooses to put this on the front page of their news website is a political decision as to what positions to push.