Jesus wept

On Newsnight, Kay Burley intervenes during a discussion about survivors - out of nowhere - to say we "should accept that" Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor "was a war hero". Genuinely has to be seen to be believed 👇

Chris Mason should just go on and work for GB News now His hero worship for Nigel Farage is now just an open joke

France v Morocco having an entirely Argentinian refereeing unit is it lmao

Defunding history (of course), Computing? NURSING?! But “medicine” is protected? Nursing IS medicine. Who’s going to be doing the nursing seeing as they’ve restricted immigration?

I’m the old first-to-go-to-university son of a mechanic myself, and I did everything these guys wanted: I went to school and I got the Big D; I worked hard, I paid taxes, I was kind to children and animals, clean criminal record. Am I welcome to contribute to the Labour Party’s big ideas? LOL no.

I feel like @peoples-pop-polls.bsky.social should be making a big deal of this, starting a 1996 poll on its 30th anniversary, and featuring it in the very first group.

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Deliberately making it harder and harder for working class kids to get in to the creative arts, leaving it to be increasingly populated by rich kids and nepo babies, that's Your Labour Party folks.

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British drama school training is the envy of the world and, as more film + TV jobs are moving to the UK, our drama schools are the backbone of a global industry. These cuts are artistic vandalism and economic stupidity.

you need to understand how much of the UKs current state is down to the political-media class trying to spite everyone for laughing at them on twitter a decade ago

once again, Labour has no theory of capitalism (at least under Starmer) outside of "uhhh do cuts to meet manifesto commitments on defense and other fiscal commitments"

Track 11 is longer than 'Track 10' apparently.

Track list for ‘Music, Fashion, Film’ by Charli xcx: 1. Rock Music 2. SS26 3. Card Declined 4. Camera 5. 2007 6. I’m Afraid 7. Yeah 8. Wink Wink 9. Persona 10. Magic Metal Montana 11. No One Lasts Forever ft. David Cronenberg

The sensible, moderate, performative collapse of one of Britain's greatest export industries in the name of pleasing ordinary hard working racist Brits continues space

It’s not a ‘difficult decision’. It’s a barbaric decision. A *wrong* decision.

British journalists at The Spectator garden party.

I hate to play the hits, but whoever at the BBC decided this needed to be broadcast should be jailed. Because this is just propaganda on behalf of Reform that'll go unanswered.

What does he care?

I notice the people who kicked off at Burnham not taking questions at his Manchester speech are silent about the press not even being in allowed in the room for Farage's.

Serious questions should be asked as to how the supposedly non-biased BBC can justify airing a broadcast completely operated by Reform UK themselves. Nigel Farage should not been given complete editorial control of what is being aired on our national public service broadcaster.

I suspect Farage will announce that he’s going to resign as an MP in his video at 2pm, force a by-election and then stand again on a platform that he was forced to do it by “the establishment”.

"Making money is not a crime" says Nigel Farage, who kept his £5 million bung from a crypto billionaire completely secret until it was exposed by the Guardian

Spectacular self-delusion. “But no matter how the Balogun story ends, it wasn’t at its core about politics or favoritism...It was about righting a wrong and minimizing the damage done to a team’s chances of winning the World Cup. What nation in the same situation wouldn’t have done the same thing?”

This really is the ultimate Toxic American Exceptionalism article: Yes, we cheated, but we're proud of it because we think hypothetically you would have cheated too because we are fundamentally incapable of imagining the rest of the world functioning differently from our warped ways and mind set.

I thought this was a curve-ball article that would flip at some point, but nope - just an example of how the American mind conspires to find American Exceptionalism in every facet of society. Not all Americans naturally, but too many turning their eyes to how wretched their country can be.

Imagine writing about sport without having any sense of what makes sport precious. www.nytimes.com/athletic/742...

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ok anna please give me another example when an "automatic" red card at a world cup finals was suspended for a year. it's never happened before, and the process by which it has happened here was entirely opaque with no reasons given. and it turns out Trump has been lobbying for it. are YOU all OK?

This is even worse than the Balogun thing.

Right im finally going to watch Better Call Saul

The secret of comedy is timing

Alll those American articles about how the World Cup enabled the rest of us to see what the USA is really like have taken on a somewhat ironic tinge.

That Belgian FA statement, with alt. The can of worms FIFA have just poured over themselves is huge. This has spooked all the European FAs. Their whole deal with FIFA has ALWAYS been that you don't let the leopard bite their faces. They just chomped on Belgium's nose www.rbfa.be/en/news/upda...

There it is

quiet part out loud -- Ted Cruz thanks Trump for "getting rid of that ridiculous red card," then tells him, "there was a reason the FIFA trophy sat here for as long as it did"

'I understand sports really well,' before showing he doesn't understand how little he understands this sport. Then proceeds to questions a refs integrity, a ref who will probably end up with MAGA death threats and will get fuck all support from FIFA. I hope Belgium absolutely fucking pummel them.

"this ref who is a little bit suspect if you check his past.. he gave him a red card.. that means he cant play in the next game.. thats very unfair.. how do they penalise him for a game that hasnt been played yet.. you cant do that" Smearing the ref & saying red cards are unfair

There's a part in the book "Careless People" where the author beats Zuck at Settlers of Catan, and he is absolutely wrecked by it. Someone pulls her aside to explain everyone else has been letting him win for years. I think about this a lot re: why tech bros think everyone will love AI chatbots.

The BBC radio news bulletins lead with Reform's defence of Farage's dodgy dealings. Not the dodginess itself. Is that a normal way to report things?