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Leamas Redux Once again we watched the old BBC adaptations of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and Smiley’s People. Once again we noticed little details we hadn’t noticed before, and also wondered about…

Let me spoiler the first series for you
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Wonder if Reform decide to go all-in with the MAGA emulation, and will claim any loss in G&D is the result of phoney ballots.

"so arbitrary and based on vibes and always pretends to be savvy."

Dude that's literally like 95% of politics social media

I presume that whoever came up with the top left speech bubble is quietly seething that, as usual for Private Eye, everyone else's shit ideas from the caption brainstorm also got included so that no-one's feelings were hurt.

Johnny Diamond just said "Of course the big news of the day is the return of The Muppets..." which works whichever way you look at it. #BBCR4Today

Reading Ben Elton's autobiography, I'm amazed to discover the existence of a 2018 Elton-scripted Kenneth Branagh film, in which Branagh plays Shakespeare and the plot 'turns on the mystery of Hamnet Shakespeare's death, along with the lack of family closure on that tragedy'. Anybody seen it?

Don't agree with Cato Inst on much. But:

Very glad they have quantified what has been obvious for years.

Stefan Collini has a study of Tawney in one of his books, might be "English Pasts".

Leonard Parkin is an example of an old-school presenter giving a completely softball interview to Thatcher, very obvious sympathies coming through (got complained about on Right To Reply).

Hmm... Walden let his antipathy towards the Left bleed through a few times, but he wasn't soft on people he agreed with either. We now know just how close he was to Thatcher.

Frost could be hard when he wanted to (hence Frost/Nixon), his tragedy is he let it all slide away.

Dan Hodges of the Mail (yes the Mail!) is spot on here. Why is it whenever there is a scandal that involves #Trump and/or #Russia, #Farage and #Reform stay silent? even when it involves figures like Peter #Mandelson, which is highly embarrassing for Labour.
Who is Farage really acting on behalf of?

Yeah but what about their digital fingerprint

@film-authority.bsky.social now on High School

As the holes get bigger eventually the problem becomes ridges on a lower surface

So one guy has 2 eyes and a mouth, and so does the other one... checks out. Once you see it you can't unsee it, and also chopping your head off won't affect your intelligence

I get the Greens win Gorton and Reform win Denton and we have to keep doing this again and again.

The Cybertruck was bad, but there's no way I'm driving something that looks like that. Terrible for parking.

To save time, why don't we make all peerages temp appointments that have to be renewed every year? Then we won't have this fuss about having to cancel the rotten apples.

"Our guys were winning until they counted the other votes that came in and their leads *magically* disappeared."

Now he's not in the Lords, can he stand as a candidate for a seat in the Commons again?

Other than the fact drinking habits have completely changed and most of the people this is meant to appeal to will have died of liver failure by the next election sound policy guys.

Celebrate Black History - The Criterion Channel The story of Black Americans is, in many ways, the story of America itself. Though the African American experience has long been relegated to the margins of the big screen, a vital cinematic legacy en...

So, of course, there are certain films that I really wanted that didn't fit. I tried to weave as many of those into the blurbs as I could.

Also, as you'll find, many of them are available on Criterion Channel.

My readers are discerning people, which is why I have so few of them.

The UK has memory-holed how much attention Russell Brand was getting. These people seem exciting, for a time. Colin Wilson was their archetype.

Some of its best friends are African landscapes.

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They may be top podcasters but I'm a top blogger, which is a harder gig as you have to appeal to people who can read
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Banter Heuristic

were an electroclash duo formed by Dietrich Dietrich and Ralf Flugelzeit. They released 17 albums on MoogJockey between 2001 and 2023 before returning to their previous careers in interior design and banking.

Casting his pods, but they're not growing.

These guys pass on their genes constantly. The trouble is they end up on surfaces that can't nourish them.

Especially as the billionaires paying for the whole pantomime expect a full fat libertarian manifesto.