Lieven Vandelanotte

Screen shot from some Korean Prime video series showing a female character staring into the camera and the subtitle 'And so begins another depressing day.' (predictive text here suggested 'depressing fart' which honestly would have been better)

Good morning Benjamin

Why the Tories should move back to the centre Kemi Badenoch should stop presenting the party as anti-system and instead champion its centrist achievements

Her pitch is - explicitly! - 'Britain is a broken mess. Hire the firm that broke it, because we have more experience'. No-one would choose a plumber on that basis:

Screenshot of the list of accounts followed by my dormant account. Among them: Tommy Robinson Ted Budd Kimberly Guilfoyle Pam Bondi SECgov Paul Atkins Pete Hegseth

Screenshot of the list of accounts followed by my dormant account. Among them: Chris Salcedo Bill O'Reilly Steve Bannon Wiesguys on Newsmax Grant Stinchfield Benny Johnson Ed Henry

Well well…
I have a #TruthSocial account that I only use to develop and test an app. That account is 100% dormant and yet, all of a sudden, it is following 98 accounts.
So here's a social media platform that bypasses users' control to force content on them. Somehow, one is not surprised. #telescreen

Very grateful that Ali Smith and Sarah Wood are here to brighten a grey January by talking about Ali's wonderful novel GLYPH, out on Thursday from Hamish Hamilton ✨

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BBC Sounds - Maugham's Eye View - Available Episodes Listen to the latest episodes of Maugham's Eye View on BBC Sounds.

Three Somerset Maugham stories dramatised, with Dirk Bogarde as narrator
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Start reply with: I confirm. Confirmed, thank you. Who are you?

I might start using copilot after all. (Lolled at 'Who are you?')

Start reply with: I confirm. Confirmed, thank you. Who are you?

I might start using copilot after all. (Lolled at 'Who are you?')

Horrific beyond words...

I accused a police officer of rape, but I ended up on trial How a secret audio recording played in court helped clear a woman accused of making a false rape allegation.

This is completely shocking. The police and CPS prosecuted a woman for allegedly making up rape allegation, despite strong evidence that she had been raped.

It should have ended people's careers. It hasn't.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Just a moan. For weeks now at irregular intervals, but mostly evenings until late, hammering and drilling next door. One Saturday I got up at 1:15 am to ask them to stop drilling 😭 don't understand why this is taking so long, there's no structural work (no contractors etc) afaik

A youngish Geoffrey Palmer

U.K. CRISP PACKETS 1970 - 2000

Me, I love to read
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Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi · Made in Tehran: Iran’s Crises Years of austerity alongside the rise of an increasingly kleptocratic and predatory elite have steadily eroded the state...

‘The regime, worn down by prolonged economic warfare and austerity, has increasingly come to frame its role within the Axis of Resistance in nationalist rather than revolutionary terms.’

@eskandarsadeghi.bsky.social on Iran’s foreign policy:
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'Please, my family is starving. My family loves to eat private photos and personal data. Also, my family is allergic to copyright law.'

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It's been too long since there's been a new ill-advised by Bill Nighy episode (11 December) 😭

In fairness to her speech writer, I like the line 'This is a tantrum dressed up as politics'. It's just that it's so omni-applicable 🤷‍♂️

U.K. CRISP PACKETS 1970 - 2000

Me, I love to read
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Feels weird to me (in Flanders) to see 'Flemish' treated as a separate language (the official name of our language is Dutch here, too). Can confirm though, from a Flemish perspective this would go under 'V'.

harsh but fair

Reform’s Matt Goodwin is sure he’s the right man for Gorton and Denton. He just doesn’t know why… | John Crace Introduced by an unsupervised Lee Anderson, the byelection candidate was out of his depth immediately

A (darkly) comic sketch that turns out just sad. How have we fallen to this rubbish politics of fakery and grifterism? Tawdry and bathetic.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Okay, whoever showed MattY Scarfolk and told him it was real and the wokescolds didn't want him to know, raise your hand and confess now.

Open
Now -n- Then

Very odd how Matt Goodwin was the first person in his family to go to university when his father has a PhD and a MBA. No doubt his downward mobility is because of woke.

We interrupt this broadcast for a German compound noun.

Leaked emails show Hoover academic conspiring with College Republicans to conduct 'opposition research' on student Emails between the Hoover Institution's Niall Ferguson and well-known Republican student activists John Rice-Cameron ’20 and Max Minshull ’20 reveal coordination on “opposition research” against progr...

Niall Ferguson is a scheming little twerp who should have been drummed out of the academy long ago. The American exurbs long for his glib wisdom

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Hell yeah, Philip, now repeat it 400 more times while the chordal structure slowly shifts.

... for now 🥹🫂