Bart Crisp

Very excited to get to attend one of these in person at long last

I remain very satisfied with Dame Audi Dench

The inevitable downside of 40K becoming more generally popular through Space Marine 2 is an influx of people who don't understand that the basic truth of 40K is that everyone bar the GEoM is definitely going to die

Ianucci's great failing is making dysfunction entertaining enough that the people he's trying to satirise wind up wanting to emulate the satire

Worth noting that in the UK the electorate is wildly distorted by our abysmal election system. This is not to claim though that outcomes would be necessarily or automatically better in another system

Didn't know this about Phillips. Her batting average as far as recognising a bad intervention is concerned is almost impressively low

Is there a prospective Labour leader whom this wouldn't describe? Genuinely asking

You are essentially stuck between an ageing society desiring nostalgia and / or risk removal and a shrill social media cacophony demanding everything is sorted out now. With glib supposedly edgy one-liners far too often passing as serious commentary.

As I think Labour is discovering but few in the Conservatives wanted to is this inter-connected world has few opportunities for growth in mature economies, and lots of expectations from people that governments can and will do everything to remove risk. Doesn't add up.

Or indeed who the last Labour leader was to HAVE a preferred heir - the impression I get is that it has to be pried from the fingers of every person who attains it. Even Wilson, who didn't want to win in 74, doesn't seem to have identified someone he wanted to hand off to

Hyperreality & Resistance - Bees and Spiders and Other Stuff Democratic Politics in Heightened Reality in the Second Trump Era

bees.leaflet.pub/3m5f5jfimlc2... Democratic Senators make healthy choices for themselves and their families, by not being online and living in reality where most people aren't insane white hats and black hats, and that's why us too-online folks get frustrated with them - and we're right

Specifically everyone who is in or is in a dependent relationship with the media

FWIW my position on Labour, as a Lib Dem, has pretty much always been that having to come back from the catastrophe of Corbyn was going to involve a very steep learning curve. I actually think they do show the capacity to learn, but there just isn't time to wait for them to get their act together

UK newspaper editor calls Bill de Blasio fake interview blunder ‘humiliating’ A Times associate editor reportedly addressed situation in an email to staff, saying: ‘We should have been on our guard’

The BBC will fuck things up from time to time. Lots of major news organisations do; just look at The Times having to memoryhole several fake news stories in a matter of weeks.

No one is calling for the abolition of The Times, however.

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Not sure I'd go that far, I don't think he's stopped being fundamentally an Austrian economics guy. The thing is that he understands how to evaluate threats - he doesn't look at Mamdani and think "this guy is a bigger threat to capitalism & freedom than Trump", unlike a lot of his peers

Think it comes back to the idea that we are Greece to their Rome- they see the UK as a key part of their heritage, and thus get very alarmed by the prospect of it being, as they see it, corrupted by modern and/or foreign influences

Robbie Gibb was appointed to the BBC Board by Boris Johnson, was an editorial advisor for GB News, and worked as Theresa May's Director of Comms.

He is not impartial or neutral. The government should remove him from the Board immediately to protect the BBC's independence.

While repeatedly dunking on other people for not following the same path as him. There's a lot of "I'm not owned" in a man

It's very strange, a number of observations on his Substack still strike me as interesting and thoughtful, but his social media output is frequently farcical

'They were those like Sir Oswald Mosley who were fascinated by the spectacle of brutal power. They would like to use it themselves. They grovelled to Nazi dictatorship in order that they could make people in their turn grovel to them'

Winston Churchill, 1936

Sometimes there's magic in art - the "first take" can be very powerful, and the emotional context of SS Edmund Fitzgerald makes this an absolute doozy of a story!

Interesting - it has some of the right feel, but is also a bit overly complicated for a shanty, and lacks the typical call/response structure. Reading this account though it seems like it was just a simple tune he landed on and worked up

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Can't remember who is selling it but I saw a post the other day. Kind of reluctant to search for it or give it further prominence tbh, but yeah someone is promoting a t-shirt which is essentially nod-winking about white supremacy beating down black liberation. Grim

I'm an absolute sucker for any version of this song. There's a bunch of great covers out there, especially the Longest Johns who turned it into a quasi-shanty

Exactly the right analogy

"In point of fact I do engage with culture to enrich my perspectives, as demonstrated by these two films about people kicking enormous quantities of ass"

Look, Man On Fire and Edge of Tomorrow rule but quite apart from them being pretty dated by now, posting about them to demonstrate that you DO have a rich inner life, ACTUALLY, is incredible weaksauce

A radio programme like the Shipping Forecast but it’s called Bin Day and it just reads out every single council in the country’s bin schedule

That "paper beats rock" t shirt with the sieg heil and the black power fist?

It's from Robert Tressell, so it's best understood as a description of dynamics which applied a bit over 80 years ago