That's what I thought you'd say, you dumb fucking horse.

Starship Troopers (2025)

BBC's chronic America-brain in action. The brand name "Tylenol" means zero to most license-fee payers.

The case for not "relitigating Brexit" - that it would mean a return to division and a grievance mouthpiece for the far right - is completely dead.

Analogy slightly breaks down as wouldn't want anyone who also wanted Paul Hollywood.

It is genuinely absolutely bonkers that one year into a massive new government majority, all the discourse is about what will happen under the allegedly inevitable majority by another party. Much of it is the govt’s fault but not all - this very much has not happened under past unpopular govts!

"Mr Brexit" is an absolutely poisonous thing to be known as now. You couldn't invent a more unpopular name. When are Labour going to start using it?

He wouldn't have been able to make Father Ted today because he isn't funny today.

Get fucked (LBC not Jonathan)

I'll have more to say on Reform's proposals to scrap ILR at some point but for now I'll just note this - anyone telling you this is a popular idea doesn't know the polling. Overwhelming majority of public back giving people who work and pay taxes most or all rights after 5 years or less

Is that the argument? That it's bad because it won't make as much money as he says?

The population of my little flag heavy town in NE England is predominantly white, there are few members of ethnic minorities. Yet the first bus, at 0600, to leave for nearby Teesside was mainly passengers from ethnic minorities. Many were wearing lanyards, uniforms etc. Strange that....

And this is why Ed Davey has to make announcements on log flumes - how can he compete when Farage lobs a hand grenade into the political debate and everyone seems to try to discuss it like it’s reasonable, not just bigoted hatred dressed up as an immoral and impractical policy.

Do YMCA

As CNN offers daylong saturation coverage of the podcaster’s funeral, I went back and checked to see how CNN covered Melissa Hortman’s memorial on 6/28, where Walz spoke and Biden/Harris attended. It got about four minutes during the hours it was happening—less than Jeff Bezos’s wedding that day.

Stuff like this is why I'm not massively worried about the prospect of Farage being Prime Minister because, whatever the polls say, he won't be.

So many ways in which that’s a terrible policy but one of them would certainly be “a Reform government suddenly discovering how many British people also have an Irish passport”

I see the Yanks are going even more nuts than usual.

You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes. #romancelandia

Shortly after the publication, Yanis Varoufakis and Ken Loach fell out terminally over their billing on this article.

Bring on Eze, you Lego-headed LinkedIn set piece weirdo mediocrity.

I see Mikel Arteta is overthinking it to the point of bafflement again. #thefootball #trossard

Can barely move for the wall to wall coverage of the Lib Dem conference, with their 72 MPs. Quite right that they're getting so much more attention than Reform.

on a music walking tour in Manchester and regret to inform that this is roughly where the stage was when Dylan was called Judas

We're at the point where the Trump does something worse than Watergate daily, often multiple times a day. And none of it makes news; it's just normal now.

Fucksake, this #discourse AGAIN? Yes this platform is smaller, very observant. But I don't spend all day being force fed Nazi slop or getting harassed by Nazis on a Nazi platform specifically engineered to amplify Nazis. It's not a hard decision, let's all just move on.

Post now deleted, more or less confirming it was a DM. Great opsec!

Simpsons (similar caveat) Cheers Frasier Arrested Development (until it returned) Bilko Porridge (last two possibly the same show) Alan Partridge (entire body of work) Larry Sanders Show Father Ted BoJack maybe

Every time you see Stephen Miller speak, you just assume this footage will be used in the inevitable documentary about how all this was allowed to happen. It really is a curse, living through interesting times.

Not the biggest issue, but still important: regardless of whether he's doing it on purpose or his brain is mush, there should be a steep political price, with the media questioning his fitness every day, for the President showing he doesn't know the meaning of "asylum." (Same goes for "tariff.")

Tony Blair used to talk about the difference between the 3-second, 30-second & 3-minute conversation - the point being that simplistic policies, that poll well, collapse under the more sustained scrutiny of an election or time in govt. So what happens when there is *only* the 3-second conversation?

Hardly surprising that clout addicts like OJ and the Novara gang like monetisation more than they hate fascism.

this exists it is called thinking

every Friday news drop is like

This is very serious from Trump's former attorney comparing him to Goebbels, Hitler and Putin, *but also* Ty Cobb looks like this, and "or witticists, as they were called at the time" has absolutely sent me. Coen Brothers directing a live action Simpsons episode.

Clown show

It’s been sad this year watching how the White House press corps refuses to back each other up. Here a female journalist is insulted and denigrated and the next male reporter just moves on to a new question. You’re all in this together, folks. Time & again, they won’t stand up for their colleagues.

"That's the point of immigration" says Lutnick, whose grandfather arrived in New York from Grodno in 1913 with no money and no formal education.

To raise $100bn at $100k a pop, that's a million visas. 1) Good luck getting companies to pay for a million of these visas; 2) Good luck getting a million of the "people at the very top" to come to your mad country.

According to Prime Video's auto-generated subtitles, Leo the MGM lion's roar translates to "Love it."

A+ content from The Onion as usual

Look, I know there are lots of arguments about which generation is the best, but it's obviously the one who got to watch Bugs Bunny and Laurel & Hardy in the morning, a Tom & Jerry after final score, then Starsky & Hutch before bed.

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Hey Vatican, come get your boy.

"Can we honestly rule out"

Hang up his WHAT

Delighted and proud my son starting a modern languages degree next week. The academic skills and cultural knowledge he'll gain will be priceless, including in a jobs market stuffed with mid-ranking STEM graduates who've been coded into obsolescence.

Is there anything to be said for another reshuffle?

"We hate you, unlees you already hate us and will never vote for us, in which case we like you" is not a broadly winning strategy but it's what they're going with.