Featured podcast — This week, @hugorifkind.bsky.social joins @aiannucci.bsky.social. Are plumbers more 'real' than economists? The parallels between Marco Rubio and the general in Dr Strangelove. And, does 'Epic Fury' mean what Pete Hegseth thinks it does? opiniontoday.substack.com/i/189978417/...

Lovely moment towards the end of this where @aiannucci.bsky.social recalls some genuine improbable farce around Dr. Strangelove. bsky.app/profile/aian...

If you can, listen to Armando Iannucci on BBC Radio 4 - Strong Message Here share.google/oIENFTOaBps6... Brilliant take on Trump and Iran.

Minutes away…

In The Loop (2009) dir. Armando Iannucci

So good I’ve listened twice.

He’s sitting plumped up on the Board of Peace

Some of them are asking for their billion dollars back

The Board of Peace is a Sack of Bollocks

The Board of Peace is a Crock of Shit

The ‘Board Of Peace’ is a Pipe of Mayhem

New Ep now up. Stewart Lee and I discuss swearing at the BAFTA’s, Blair’s legacy and Gerry Adams trampolining naked with a dog. #StrongMessageHere www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

"Strong Message Here" is an instant download for me. Consistently on point, funny. The presenters corpsing at their own riffs is very infectious, makes you run with ideas you might not if delivered soberly. Politicians should try it. "Here's our manifesto" [silence, suppressed hilarity]

Yikes! I almost forgot.

New Ep now up. Stewart Lee and I discuss swearing at the BAFTA’s, Blair’s legacy and Gerry Adams trampolining naked with a dog. #StrongMessageHere www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

If a Tony Blair documentary on channel 4 had ended with Blair trampolining naked with a dog History would judge him better. Strong Message Here: History Will Judge You (with Stewart Lee) Episode webpage: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... Media file: open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselecto...

If you’re a fan on being bloody furious, Labour MP Karl Turner, on #Radio4Today at 7.10, is worth a bloody listen.

OPINION TODAY featured podcast — Stewart Lee and @aiannucci.bsky.social look away from the present day and think about how history will judge politicians. Plus, the politic-speak creeping into Royal statements, and the furore over language at the BAFTAs. opiniontoday.substack.com/i/189236045/...

…who knew naked trampolining was a thing? And with a dog thrown in for good measure? This episode will make you laugh out loud!

Thoroughly enjoyable conversation between @aiannucci.bsky.social and a lady who may not have written a certain book about Meta. Didn’t get the chance to ask my question about how satire can be used as a form of resistance (by us quiet bat-people) against the mystic narratives held by big tech. 😅

History Will Judge You (with Stewart Lee) Strong Message Here Today 09:45 BBC Radio 4 With the rise of AI, will they be writing history in the future? Stewart and @aiannucci.bsky.social look at some recent ex-prime ministers, and how they try and shape their legacy. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

🚨Tonight Sky Arts (Freeview chan 36) at 9pm. NT Live: Dr Strangelove. 🎭 Saw this in London a year or so ago. 5⭐ & worth another watch IMHO. Faithful stage adaptation by @aiannucci.bsky.social (The Thick Of It, Veep, Death of Stalin), co-adapted & directed by Sean Foley. (Pic credits: Manuel Harlan)

He’s sitting plumped up on the Board of Peace

Cheers Tom. #StrongMessageHere

OPINION TODAY featured podcast— @aiannucci.bsky.social is joined by @nataliehaynes.bsky.social and Michael Gove. Gove offers insight into how transparency can often mean the opposite. Plus, who has the dubious honour of being 'the Liz Truss of ancient Rome'. opiniontoday.substack.com/i/188476750/...

I thought I would hate listening to Strong Message Here this week as it had Gove on it but @nataliehaynes.bsky.social and @aiannucci.bsky.social made it very funny indeed

Strong Message here, on BBC Radio 4 today at 9:45! Me, Michael Gove and @aiannucci.bsky.social talk transparency. Listen to the longer version on BBC Sounds… www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

🔺 NEW: The world is sleepwalking into disaster with artificial intelligence that will create an elite class living in luxury while the majority languish, a former Google executive has warned ⬇️

Stew on Starmer stumbling, scuttling, A on starmering; both excellently dissecting the swamp.

Psychodrama with Stewart Lee #StrongMessageHere

A good, chewy one up tomorrow . Natalie and I discuss ‘Political Transparency’ with Michael Gove.

This from 2001 bsky.app/profile/aian...

We have noted your name and have scheduled the day of your reckoning.

Delighted a lot of you are enjoying this. Stewart Lee and I discuss how best to punish Andrew and the inappropriate use of the word ‘stumbling’ in the phrase ‘Stumbling from one crisis to another.’ #StrongMessageHere . On #BBCSounds, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all the others too.

Delighted a lot of you are enjoying this. Stewart Lee and I discuss how best to punish Andrew and the inappropriate use of the word ‘stumbling’ in the phrase ‘Stumbling from one crisis to another.’ #StrongMessageHere . On #BBCSounds, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all the others too.

Properly laughing in the car about the sinister 'containment' - like Chernobyl.

Great, loved it! Reducing Andrew’s name to Andrex was priceless stuff 😂

Latest #StrongMessageHere with @aiannucci.bsky.social and Stewart Lee is unsurpassed in documenting the rapid, sordid, political downfall of Les Wheating MP. Also, why ‘psychodrama’ is just a 21st Century synonym for a classic establishment-engineered scandal: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

You WILL enjoy this. Stewart Lee and I discussing language and the week’s politics. #StrongMessageHere . On #BBCSounds, Apple Podcast app, Spotify, and all the others too.

Second Strong Message Here post of the day - this episode about the art of saying sorry might have been helpful to Jim Ratcliffe. bsky.app/profile/rola... www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...