Mattmoo

"The day that will live in infamy" has mostly died of neglect.

wtf is a FIFA peace prize? that's like being an NFL laureate in physics

Exactly. For clarity, it should be “Friday afternoon reunion cum-drinking session.”

Just the best headline.

Jonathan Gullis, The Seagull's Lament A New Yorker Profile

🚨Some personal news.

I'm thrilled to announce that I've just filed my first copy for The New Yorker.

A profile of Jonathan Gullis.

"You get the sense that offstage, Jonathan Gullis struggles with being Jonathan Gullis."

open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...

'Do you know what you look like, with your good bag and your cheap shoes? You look like a rube. A well-scrubbed, hustling rube. Good nutrition's given you length of bone but you're not more than one generation from poor white trash.'

@mrjamesob.bsky.social

To be fair, it happened to me when I got on the train this morning.

Not sure why.

Awaiting results.

A lot of journos got addicted to the years of chaos. It made for clicks and content and that's deeply fucking problematic if we want this country to actually work.

Yes - hold the government to account and do it robustly. But partisan news coverage has leaked into mainstream from the GB news sewer.

Watched BBC 6 o clock news. Just a completely unserious broadcast. Chris Mason, acting like a children's entertainer, giving a prolonged impenetrable editorial. Not a whiff of informative content about the Budget or what it means for the country. Just playschool blah blah bollocks.

A lot of Brexiters seem very bothered that a politician might have lied...

No that's not *your* on *our behalf*. Your job is to report the story, presenting all sides fairly and then *we* call it. What Mason is saying here is fundamentally not what the bbc is for!

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A quick reminder of who Nigel Farage was most concerned about when Putin's tanks first rolled into Ukraine

install a conservatory to own the libs. perfect.

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Abysmal, mindless, utterly zombified. You can't even call it policymaking because that implies a degree of thought which simply isn't present. Pretty soon they might actually hit Cameron's 'tens of thousands' target and then they'll shit themselves with horror at the consequences.

'This isn't an opinion. This is counting.'

Also Labour MPs know it’s not a vote winner, they just want to do it because they think it’s right. How’s that become such an alien concept in our politics?

Headline on The World at One just now:

"Sir Keir Starmer has denied putting the Labour Party before the country by ending the two-child benefit cap".

Can we please go back to reporting the actual news, not someone's partisan take on it?

"We are freezing known Russian assets" says Rachel Reeves

"But let me be clear, I don't actually mean the member for Clacton"

"… we are ramping sanctions… freezing known Russian assets… I don't actually mean the honourable member from Clacton."

I'm sure Rachel Reeves didn't say that to Nigel Farage "in a hurtful or insulting way" at least, "not with intent…"

I think that's what an alleged racist said recently…?

Ask the 35 who has 3 accidental children to pay for when he's 55?

Rent-a-mental. Lol.

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.

They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

Harsh.

Can I add water?

Lighten up.

It was only bants.

My attendance record in the European Parliament was the 4th worst out of 751 MEPs, yet I managed to turn up to vote AGAINST plans to tackle Russian misinformation.
Thankfully this is of no interest to the media.

journalists asking cabinet ministers why there’s so much chaotic crazed speculation about the Budget might want to question their own role in this

If the media wants to hyperventilate over the polling that puts Farage in No.10, perhaps they could put the same energy into scrutinising his every link to Russia, his dodgy donors, his US/Trump/far right connections, his brazen racism, his councils’ incompetence and his barrelling Brexit shitshow.