Tim Dean

I have this on Blu-ray, absolute classic but not for the faint hearted.

After a week of faffing around the @dailymail.co.uk have agreed to apologise. Here it is. Fingers crossed for fewer lies/smears dressed up as news in future

This spectacular @thetimes.com screw-up deserves much wider attention. It’s the second bullshit story that the “paper of record” has deleted in a week after Monday’s attempted hatchet job on @torstenbell.bsky.social. A sad descent for a once serious paper

If you’d asked me to guess the nadir of UK cinema going I would never ever have chosen the mid-80s, which I think of as the peak of blockbuster crowd-pleasers that everybody has seen

The fundamental problem:

58% of voters want public spending maintained or increased.

67% want taxes to stay at their current level or be cut.

In reality, it’s a binary choice. Taxes go up, or spending is cut. That’s it.

Andrew, or to give him his full title, Andrew.

Erm.... I'm sure she had lovely things to say as she collected the award!

I'm not going to spend my time at Spectator ceremonies collecting awards.

We're busy taking the fight to Reform.

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The Russian trolls, famously, aren’t allowed to google or Wiki anything. They have talking points that they are not allowed to deviate from

Lam took a bunch of X posts from far-right racists and so-called "thinktanks" and turned them into a policy that collapsed as soon as anyone actually read it/understood it.

Would have been an absolute travesty if she hadn't won!

This is good news, though I am once again left perplexed as to why Kemi Badenoch isn't more embarrassed that she visibly wasn't across her own immigration policy for *half a year*!

Tories will not deport legally settled people, Badenoch clarifies Katie Lam spoke ‘imprecisely’ in stating large number of people would ‘need to go home’, says Conservative leader

Further updates on the ignominious end to Lam's ignominious policy. Good to hear Badenoch say "But we have a principle. We don’t believe in making things retrospective." Let's hope all Britain's parties follow that principle. And for a less punitive & vindictive approach to immigration more broadly

This is really poor by BBC researchers and producers. Goodwin hasn't been an active academic for a number of years, yet is described as one (thus legitimating his relentless Reform activism and constant bad faith misrepresentation of evidence). 1/?

Genuinely interesting conversation here with someone very level headed about migration.

Brilliant news from #Netherlands!

By coincidence, this morning in 1961 the Soviets tested Tsar Bomba. The largest nuclear weapon ever detonated: roughly 3000 times the power of Hiroshima. ‬

Maniacs.

A photo of the front cover of issue 1661 of Private Eye magazine with the caption “on shelves now.” The front cover reads “New Title for Prince Andrew” and shows Prince Andrew dressed in ceremonial robes and regalia, saying “It’s the Order of the Boot!”

New Title For Prince Andrew

The new Private Eye is out now.

Minority representation on TV causes outrage

From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

Do it!

Keir Starmer's failure to stand up to this man is a cowardly and suicidal calamity

Your daily reminder that the government continues to commercially support an individual who wants to destroy it through fascist violence.

Reform are into Day Three of Racismsplaining. It's harder than it looks.
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X is a cesspit led by an unhinged billionaire who is desperately trying to stir up civil war in Britain.

Nobody with any sense or decency should be there.

No organisations, government departments, or politicians should be there.

Everyone who is, is enabling this monster.

This is unacceptable. The tech sector must be held accountable and take responsibility.

@techvsterrorism.bsky.socials Adam Hadley: "Platforms have largely given up in being proactive in finding and removing terrorist content."

"The standards across the tech sector have dropped."

Buxton: Why one small town with very little immigration turned to Reform UK How national concerns affected a local election in the heart of the Peak District.

This is an interesting piece but I just read it going “the missing bit is the section on how the internet has fried everyone’s brains”.

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"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

It's increasingly obvious that Labour's strategy - call it Starmerism, Blue Labour, whatever - has got it badly wrong. It has alienated the party's core vote while failing to win over those leaning to Reform. There was no shortage of people warning them they were getting it wrong either.

One year ago

Many have said it, but what’s great about Musk is he reads hard sci-fi and takes the exact wrong lessons from it

We tried to place this story - very expensive polling, the first of its kind, strong quantitative data about what trans people feel about Britain: bluntly there is no better way to tell the story - with the BBC but it said it was "too weak".

But it will pick up any old piece of transhating garbage.

Having been to Manchester this summer and just tapped in on a Bee Network bus the same as one does on a TFL bus in London, this has to be a good thing for the rest of England.