Moray Hunter

SHOCK POLL: NIGEL FARAGE WILL BE PM TOMORROW IN an amazing poll conducted by The Pointless Polling Company, it was revealed that voters' intentions may well change over the next three and a half years and at present it's 100 percent impossible to guess what the next government might look like. However, 99 percent of journalists agree that it would be much more fun if we had an election tomorrow and everybody resigned and everything was chaos and Farage had a go at being PM, just for the hell of it, because it was so much fun when Brexit happened and then the government kept falling every five minutes and we could write endless pieces about (cont. p94)

Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.

Quote of the weekend from Shane Lowry on the next Ryder Cup in Ireland.
“It’ll be a little bit nicer than playing here, I know that.”

It is possible to cherish the BBC as an institution while also saying that BBC News is failing very badly, day after day, in its duty to inform and that it always fails in a right-wing direction. It desperately needs to recover its integrity

Plan? It’s back of a Farage fag packet stuff, as ever.

Next week's @newyorker.com cover. www.newyorker.com/culture/cove...

Fancy a laugh? R4 is repeating Alone series 2, just 6 years (almost) after it first aired. On the plus side, it’ll all be a surprise, even to me.
Mondays at 2.15, from today.
Starring the all wonderful Angus Deayton, Abigail Cruttenden, Pearce Quigley, Kate Isitt and @bennettarron.bsky.social

Great idea but FFS it’s got to be a message to all party leaders or you’re promoting Farage beyond his station, just as the media are doing.

Feels like putting re-entry on the ticket is the only thing that will give this dullard a chance.
Ignore the 34% (or so) and embrace the rest of us.

Gotta be. Shout out to Cai McGunnigle, too. It may be the most Scottish sounding team of all time. Is this how they’re selected?

That’s a funny way to spell propaganda….

As a bloody news headline, if you please. 😡

Hard agree. 4 eps to go. Missing it already…

‘Genteel bias: how the BBC dismantles the Left without us noticing’ BBC right-wing bias is exceptionally dangerous because it is subtle, opaque and covert

‘Genteel bias: how the BBC dismantles the Left without us noticing’

BBC right-wing bias is exceptionally dangerous because it is subtle, opaque and covert

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WeTransfer TOS says they can use all your uploaded content for genAI

Bye forever, WeTransfer.

Neil Young’s eyes obviously not part of the BBC deal. They’re extra….

I fast forwarded through to Father John Misty just fine. 🤷‍♂️

FLA 19: Moray Hunter (25/06/2023) It’s forty years since Moray Hunter’s career as a writer for television and radio got underway, with his writing collaborator John Docherty (later known as Jack Docherty*). The pair were already pa…

In #FirstLastAnything ep 19 (June 2023), I welcomed and chatted to comedy writer and performer Moray Hunter (@morayh.bsky.social) about the Celtic comedy classic #Absolutely, singer-songwriters from Rab Noakes to Colin Hay, and his key record purchases! firstlastanything.co.uk/2025/05/20/f...

Two week Trump.

Sounds about right.

Cheers. And you, Niall. 👍

Numerous projects but can't say more for contractual reasons... as in, so far, there are no contracts. But I will get chatty should they come off.....

Great quote. And I maybe find it easier than that but then look at what he came up with. Maybe I need to expend some blood?

TAYQ I’m definitely a result man. Pleased to have written it. The process I enjoy ….sometimes.

Tuesdays, mainly.

It’s him and I’m here, Niall, but unlike my alter ego, I don’t tend to say that much.

Life is good, thanks. Scribbling away at the coalface

And thanks. Appreciate the support. (Well remembered)

Ha! I wish him luck with that…

Tories are now anti being helpful to a clumsy old man.

Honestly I still can’t stop laughing 😂😅🤣

Petition: Ensure plurality of political coverage across UK broadcast media at all times We want to ensure that a plurality of views from all political parties in Westminster are represented and the nations parliaments are heard all year round, not just election times. The rules for cover...

@itvnews.bsky.social were apparently streaming Farage’s speech in Wales on TikTok today. So we can now expect Ed Davey, Adrian Ramsey, John Swinney and Rhun ap Iorwerth’s speeches being streaming too can we? This is now propaganda and has to stop. Sign petition petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...

Derek Smalls from Spinal Tap

Can I ask a practical question at this point? Are we still going to Mars?

The wonders of AI. They’re taking the piss. Get it sorted, Scotrail and Readspeaker.

Delighted to be involved in this Justin Lewis “textcast” project, now relaunched at FirstLastAnything.co.uk

Brexit betrayal, they cry.

Keep Brexit Shit!

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