Twlldun

Now, it’s fair to say “their material circumstances may have something to do with that blindness”, but they really do think protecting some ancient oak tree is more important than a mass transit system taking hundreds and thousands of road journeys off the cards

Yeah, the greens aren’t middle class hypocrites protecting their house price (oh, I’m sure there are some, sure, but on the whole), they are people who find themselves unable to see the macro when presented with the micro.

Sure, but the reaction on here was a great deal more “how dare he feel that in the first place”

Yes

This was a guy out acted by a CGI Scooby Doo ffs

I recall everyone on here getting antsy the other week about Tarantino’s criticism of Matthew Lillard but one, Tarantino loves film and has passionate opinions about film and that’s what we want from Tarantino and two, Matthew Lillard’s acting is objectively dogshit and always has been

Not *ok and even normal*, “should be encouraged”. I like artists being great haters or having weird loves, I don’t want artists replying as though dictated by a committee of PR men

As I said the other day:

bsky.app/profile/twll...

Her job approval has improved recently.

And is still 15 points below where it was when she took over, and voting intention is between 6 and 12 points below where it was when she took over but these are just DETAILS Marie her job approval has improved recently

One way we can tell that the median voter doesn’t associate the bill with Starmer is that the bill is still reasonably popular and anything the public associates with Starmer isn’t

I’m not talking about boots, I have never lived anywhere big enough to have a boots.

To those who pay attention to such things this is grim as fuck, actually.

One thing I’ve noticed since the pandemic is that every chemists I go into has six people behind the counter happily chatting away and a queue out the door that they barely glance from one hour to the next

Probably still Charles Moore

“Starmer is Netanyahu’s toady” is a mad opinion, of course/

Ah but wail till the prices go up at the pumps, they’ll definitely blame Iran then

Is there a bigger tell for “this guy is a massive racist” than “idiosyncratic spelling of pretty famous surname”

Used to take me about an hour on the bus? That’s not a massive commute what are you talking about

Just saw an American saying he always looked down on drivers until he got a massive American commute and then the massive American commute was literally from my house to Cardiff and my dude, that’s normal

Donating to my stupid run for @mariecurieuk.bsky.social is one small way you can help. www.justgiving.com/page/richard...

Have you had a recent head injury Cory

Look, eugenics is a fine and noble part of the Labour tradition Stephen

Maybe, tbf

WOW

What is going on

GoT rewatch has reached Season 4, The Hound and Arya wandering the seven kingdoms, my favourite part of the show. Great scene

share.google/Wn2FmQyaYLmT...

With Reform UK calling for the return of grammar schools, I’ve shared an excerpt from my first book The Myth of Meritocracy examining the evidence on who actually benefits from selection.

Clue: it isn’t working-class pupils. www.forthedeskdrawer.com/p/the-enduri...

Hence the confusion where it’s given him two surnames

You can’t fool me, “Blake Stephenson” is what happens when you feed pictures of Liam Fox and Chris Grayling into ChatGPT and ask it to generate a younger model