I'm sorry everyone. I do a really good Morgan McSweeney impression and I'd had a few drinks and the lads said, "You know what would be hilarious?" and now here we are

"Barely legal" here translates as "not legal"

toy company CEOs: "at long last, we have created the Sinister Talking Doll Factory from the acclaimed movie 'Don't Create the Sinister Talking Doll Factory'" futurism.com/artificial-i...

Fascinating how many people in the replies fixated on the charisma issue, arguing that charisma is sinister and lack of it implies competence. Not necessarily so

The more you look into the Prescott memo, the worse it gets

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All PMs are flawed but I think if you have no coherent vision, no ability to make decisions quickly, no humour or charisma when addressing the public, no strong roots in your party, no talent for charming MPs and no control over your own office, then you are unlikely to be able to turn it around

"It's structural" "would any of the replacements be better?" - it really is just this simple, that the government would be better if it had a prime minster.

Addendum: I quickly wrote something partially about the results, and the potential for misunderstanding, but also about history's profound irony. open.substack.com/pub/arutherf...

Obviously it had better dialogue and characters but this was the message of Succession: the empty banality of the rich and powerful. Separate from the abuse, Epstein's popularity epitomises the allure of wealth and influence absent any of the qualities that most people look for in their friends

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The whole ruling class loves Pedophile Finance Guy, a lovely Finance Guy that molests children! *two decades later* We regret to inform you the Finance Guy is a Pedophile

My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far

Not sure if the Republican Party was wise to stake everything on a senile paedophile

Discovering some albums I’ve missed via MOJO’s EOTY list and this is something special open.spotify.com/album/4soTMR...

Really wild how all these Harvard scientists and mathematics guys constantly talked about how Jeffrey Epstein was this brilliant, "misunderstood" man and then you read his emails and he's clearly a barely literate lecher, extremely easy to understand

In 1996 I did a little in internship at BBC Westminster. At the time, Robbie Gibb was one of the producers there. Even in that period, he was self evidently a pro-Tory apparatchik, who made no attempt to hide his agenda from his colleagues or even from the little work experience kid.

TV conspiracies: we’ve hacked their computers but they’ve perfectly cleaned up the evidence! Real conspiracies: To: conspirator From: famous person Attachment: evidence.png

The idea that Trump built a durable, multiracial working-class coalition was always overstated. trib.al/dLMgsJZ Exit polls from New Jersey and Virginia show the GOP lost overwhelmingly among all three voting blocs: voters under age 30, Black voters, and Latinos.

Odds of Ed Miliband being next PM are hugely underrated.

A lot of people are huffing that this is a Johnny Cash reference. So what? It's a shitty thing to say and a 72-hour suspension is nothing. I would just not joke about shooting people I guess (not that it never crosses my mind)

This must be the first Guardian story about Zohran Mamdani: a piece about when he was a rapper and got Madhur Jaffrey to lip-sync in one of his videos. The following year he quit the rap game to get elected to the New York State Assembly www.theguardian.com/music/2019/m...

Presumably this means they asked him for evidence that he'd been hacked and he couldn't provide any because he hadn't been hacked

Let the swans dance! www.euronews.com/2025/11/11/r...

"Please don't make me use my powers as prime minister I am just a small boy"

Three points I keep repeating 1. Left and liberal voters actually really exist 2. The right and "centre" are trying to rule without liberals - they are way out over their skis 3. Reports of right wing total information control are greatly exaggerated

Wrote about Robbie Gibb, Michael Prescott and their role in the war on the BBC www.thenerve.news/p/bbc-tim-da...

Very nice endorsement of 33 Revolutions Per Minute by Rob Hirst. I think he means it's long

The story of Labour continues, from Attlee to Callaghan. Such big personalities. Such drama. So much achieved despite everything. Some lessons here for the current government

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Anti-racism is of course welcome but the nonsensical phrase “woke right” is a very clear sign that a writer as lost it

This is a good question to play with. I would say yes: Suede and Slowdive for starters. Even without new material, some bands are much better live performers now than they were first time around. Any more?

Joke of the day from Moscow: Russia tried to unveil its first humanoid AI robot, Aidol. Key word: tried. The robot collapsed during its debut, forcing organizers to cut the presentation short. Their rushed attempt to lift the prop only made things worse.

I had no idea Maitlis said this. Barmy

"Although young trans people were most frequently and viciously targeted by Trump, the report found that “transgender youth under 20 were quoted in just 6% of articles. Who did msm corporate media turn to? Trump, a member of his administration, or other Republicans were quoted in 50% of articles"

Obvious solution to the But Bond Died problem: what if Bond is now also Tron from the computer and now he's played by beloved beloved character actor Jared Leto

“It’s impossible to reboot Bond” says production team who decided Bond first got his licence to kill in the 21st Century, as Daniel Craig, then got incredibly old within two films and was being put out to pasture, but also had Sean Connery’s 1960s car. It’s Bond. Just do whatever the fuck you like.

Anyone on the left who thinks that the BBC falling would help their politics, here and abroad, is an unbelievable fool

Is anyone else also internally screaming about this BBC nonsense? I feel like someone's pumping hallucinogenic gas into my house. Nothing makes sense

The Tories' famous popular touch in action again

"The world's richest man continually manipulates his company's AI to lie about science and promote white supremacism" sounds like some hack sci-fi writing, but it's just our current reality

I'm never sure why loving your children is meant to be incompatible with being a monster to other people's. I think that's standard self-interest www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...

Again, this isn't unique to Americans, I think it applies to most citizens of developed Western countries.

This is worth reading... the economy still matters, stupid.

Spotify's algorithm seems to have given up on me. I just made a playlist of 20 songs from 2025 and it's recommending six Wet Leg songs, two Wolf Alice songs and two others that I already know. I swear it used to be better

Fierce and fascinating News Agents episode on the BBC crisis. Man alive they hate Robbie Gibb

Time to stop dooming over the shutdown deal and focus on what really matters: Pointlessly hostile left-coded Star Wars hot takes.

Lots of people comparing Senate Democrats to Charlie Brown trying to kick the football, but that analogy only works in a version where Lucy has told Charlie Brown she's going to pull it away, and also that afterwards she's going to have Snoopy executed in a foreign prison

Bring back comparing politicians to a range of animals

I fear we are seeing in the UK what has become abundantly clear in the US: for all their power and privilege, elites and institutions are absolute cowards in the face of right-wing authoritarianism. Weak, weak, weak, as Tony Blair once said