Martin Concagh

I know this is an extremely FT skeet, but I think it’s true: the most interesting way to analyse Taylor Swift is that she is the most successful female entrepreneur in the history of the world.

‘Chickens for Colonel Sanders’ is a surprisingly powerful political alignment in this day and age and I believe it comes down entirely to social media

Thing about Zack Polanski is he probably wouldn't be leader of a GPEW that had gotten serious post-2015, but the other parties have become so unserious that an okay public speaker who doesn't buy Westminster's mannered groupthink looks like Sturgeon or Blair at the peak of their powers by comparison

Literally did more than Just Stop Oil

"Because of what happened at that conference, there has been, behind all our deliberations this week, a heightened awareness that now, more than ever, our Government must succeed. We just must, because now there is even more at stake than some had realised."

Me whenever a Twitter user starts complaining about BlueSky

“Bluesky isn’t fun” problem and “Bluesky is the only social media platform where you will actually see the news” problem are the same problem

he’s right and he should speech it

One of the most un-fun feelings in the world

this reactionary turn is one part disciplining labor for having the temerity to talk back and one part trying to arrest a perceived social reproduction crisis by disciplining elite institutions.

grow the fuck up

I think he benefits a bit from being such a bad writer, in that a lot of his audience aren’t actually parsing what he’s trying to argue and assume it’s something more interesting and coherent

Nostalgia is the mind killer

The "lanyard class" should almost always be parsed as an attack on women who work, and the enforcement of norms that make workplaces better for them.

Important to understand that Hasan Piker is not just dumb & deeply disingenuous, but also a bad person

False claims - including this one - circulate on here and on Meta’s platforms. But it is strategically brain dead for the government not to be trying to move politicos away from X, where this stuff circulates straight into political commentary freely and where the owner hates and opposes you.

“You’ve turned into the wrong Mitford sister” is one of the most underrated and prescient lines in the whole of The Thick of It

Oh my godddd this is britain if you dont want to see an ad featuring a sexless interacial couple LEAVE

Four black and white panels of a boy and girl sitting on steps. 1st panel: Charlie Brown is approaching and the boy says “Well! Here comes ol’ Charlie Brown!” 2nd panel: As Charlie Brown passes, he says “Good ol’ Charlie Brown…yes, sir!” 3rd panel: “Good ol’ Charlie Brown…” 4th panel: Once Charlie is gone, “How I hate him!”

The first Peanuts strip by Charles M. Schulz was published on October 2, 1950.

like a lot of rapid changes in opinion, this is personal

if you are a sports fan in this demographic, or even sports-adjacent, you almost certainly know someone who has ruined their life with sports betting

Very obvious that a lot of people don’t have something to the effect of the latter

I’m sometimes nostalgic about going to IKEA and Costco with my mum when I was a kid. But I’m 27 now and fortunate enough to live in a city where I can get on a bus and go to a cool bar and hang out with my friends

You gotta know the guy who pitched this had the best meeting of their life

the meta ai video slop TikTok is I think the first tech thing where I have been 100% on the side of the Luddites (vernacular usage, I know the actual Luddites were more complex than that, nerds). Usually I think there's a little too much of that reflexively on the left tbh, but no this shit sucks.

I thinks a lot of tradwife stuff becomes much more explicable when you think of it as a form of drag

Still half expecting to read that Max Payne and Margaret Thatcher are returning for Avengers: Doomsday

The 2000s Harry Potter film series got extremely lucky that none of the main cast members flamed out, dropped out or had especially difficult teenage years

A lot of political drama fans don’t like this show but I personally enjoyed it a lot. Come for Rory Kinnear’s uncannily accurate Boris Johnson impression, stay for Alison Janney’s terrifying platinum blonde bob.

YouTube video by Netflix The Diplomat: Season 3 | Official Trailer | Netflix

Netflix’s The Diplomat became a West Wing fanfic (and a very specific WW fanfic ship at that) so subtly I didn’t even notice.

youtu.be/l6UX4V71jzc?...

Also, I don’t think we can say the attempt to push out Starmer has failed yet