Very much enjoyed this deliciously deadpan reminder of Kwarteng's record as chancellor in this piece www.ft.com/content/1518...
Leslie Schofield with no moustache, though. Unnerving.
I've just (thanks to The Golden Girls) been introduced to the idea of Gene Shalit. It's like someone watered Robert Winston with Baby Bio
Job done: #SheepOfTheDay gathered and waiting to be sorted
Your regular reminder than a large majority of voters - and overwhelming majority of Labour voters - favour giving settled migrants access to the welfare state after five years or less. The Home Secretary is not reforming rules in line with public opinion. She is doing the opposite.
If Reform had won, Labour's statement would be that this result is a stark reminder we need to listen and learn from voters who rightly feel betrayed by modern politics.
But the Greens won by a comfortable margin, so it's: these voters are stupid and also sinister and, ugh, Muslims
TERRAHOPS
As ever, I don't imagine myself representative of anyone but me. But if I'd had a vote in Gorton I'd have agonised, then done whatever felt most likely to stop Goodwin. After Starmer and Mahmoud's responses I now feel quite motivated to vote *against* Labour?
Wrote about what it felt like to have Ian McKellen and Golda Rosheuvel staring directly into my soul and telling me how I'm going to die while seeing An Ark at The Shed
Exciting post from @barbarawhitfield.bsky.social and @fingerprintedns.bsky.social this morning!
#SheepOfTheDay entertaining the punters at Bentham mart with her ear-waggling tricks
*Not so fun fact. Matt Goodwin was my dissertation supervisor.
Only briefly mind. I swapped after he said that my idea - a study and survey on the politics of the homeless (less than 1% vote) - was of "no academic interest".
I got a 1st 🎓
I think comments—annoyingly—automatically come as direct messages as well as appearing under the post they’re in response to now. I haven’t sent you anything else, though
Hi Chris, it’s just a comment on one of your photos, so far as I know:
With most psychedelic drugs, you never know what you're going to get. But this mysterious mushroom from China - without fail - causes users to hallucinate tiny people: crawling up walls, popping out from under furniture and marching under doors. www.bbc.com/future/artic...
And for our last free article of the day, in light of Sinners earning a record number of Oscar nominations, here's our review from @charlespulliam.bsky.social.
If you're a subscriber, should also check out my interview with Autumn Durald Arkapaw, who was *also* nominated today for her cinematography work on Sinners
Sinners breaking the record for most Oscar nominations ever
Nigella replacing Prue on HBO
Today is a historic day
First review of the new year is for 28 Years: The Bone Temple, which surprised the hell out of me with its dark humor and the way it turns the larger franchise on its head. Nia DaCosta *gets* it
*whispers*
*hey, most of the world, you know we should boycott the Olympics and the World Cup, right*
I am wondering at what point some variant of "it would be good for Beitain to move closer to Europe" becomes a significant strain of thought in Europe again. I understand why there is caution - but it still feels like there must come a point where the advantages outweigh the bullshit
This is the Bigfoot read I didn't know I needed from @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social
I realise I'm just a freak, but living in a multicultural city is the best thing of all time, it's just the best possible human experience and i can not understand why anyone on earth would be like "weve got to destroy this"
This is quite a post
www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/reality-is...
🫤
Why is everyone going on about 2016? Wait til it’s ten years ago, at least.
Trump to Reuters about the midterm elections: "When you think of it, we shouldn't even have an election." www.reuters.com/world/us/fiv...
Jenrick's pitch appears to be: 'In government, I helped ruin the country.
'With Reform, I deserve another chance'
there’s always a tweet
This is 1934, and OED’s first evidence for the slang use of both adjective and noun is from 1923. It clearly hadn’t been heard in Philadelphia engineering circles (the firm in question also produced a ‘Hump’ furnace)
