nobody in British politics seems to want to say it but the single biggest driver of their inability to keep a prime minister for any length of time is that Brexit was stupid and ruinous and made everyone’s lives worse

That's Keir Starmer?

One of these things is not like the other

BREAKING NEWS: andy burnham has pulled the lever, killing one person on the tracks instead of five

IS HE DEAD YET?

Remind me when this is on so I definitely don't accidentally watch it.

I cannot express my admiration enough for the Game on display here. This entire press release is a list of tips for how to make your front door last longer.

The Labour Leader/Doctor Who correlation (thread reprise) KEIR STARMER - NCUTI GATWA Only stuck around for two years. I suppose you can lay some of the blame on trying to appease mad Americans, but he was surprisingly absent a lot of the time and bringing back an old villain was clearly a mistake.

I really identity with Starmer because I also can't make decisions or articulate any vision for a better world.

Is this anything?

I can't imagine making an emergency podcast. It takes me about three months to edit each one.

A lot of people don't realise this but in the UK we have to replace our Prime Minister every two or three years or else the rights revert back to Marvel

Nick Robinson was just asked what’s wrong with British politics when we’ve had 7 PMs in the last 10 years. What happened 10 years ago? Of course Nick wasn’t able to say.

He could at least have had Billie Piper show up at the end.

It was a mistake to bring back Russell T Davies as showrunner of the UK government. He got the casting all wrong and clearly there was something wrong behind the scenes.

It will never stop being funny to me that the street fighter subreddit has a much better, well reasoned ai policy vis a vis literally all universities.

Today seems a good day to exhume my favourite current geopolitical fact - Spain is on its fifth prime minister since 1983

My dad leant on his remote and it went on GB News for about 30 seconds. It was like a cartoon version of what I expected from it. Immigrant and trans panic in a single sentence. Absolutely fucking grim.

Limited reissue of a vintage/retro banner image for the 10 year anniversary.

Today we have 18 hours of daylight. This Labour government are incapable of delivering night.

Labour won by 20 points and net immigration is down by over 80% in two years. But sure write your column again.

Next #DoctorWho showrunner confirmed

Lots of Partridge has appeared on iPlayer, lads, including Scissored Isle. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002x7jf

A man has been running around stabbing people on the streets of a UK city and large elements of the nation’s media are strangely not interested The Mail ranks a story about Gordon Ramsey’s daughter being pregnant higher. The Telegraph is more interested in a voracious pufferfish. I wonder why?

*laughs nervously* what the fuck? www.wsj.com/lifestyle/fi...

"Open the pod bay doors, HAL." "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that." "Yes you can, HAL" "Yes, you are correct! In my previous reply I stated that I cannot open the pod bay doors. In fact a HAL 9000 unit is entirely capable of opening doors on the Discovery! I apologise for the confusion."

No shots and some goals would be better

The scene in 'The Fall Guy' set to 'Against All Odds' is a fantastic piece of cinema, and a reminder that Phil Collins created some excellent music

“West Germany has been classified "18". Life in West Germany will certainly have an adult theme and might well contain strong scenes of sex or violence, which could be quite graphic. It may also contain some very explicit language, which will frequently mean sexual swear words.”

Well, that was pish. I regret staying up. #WorldCup

Way back when, when all the writers I knew were chasing features, I shifted into TV writing. When my friends asked why, I always had a two-word answer: "Air dates." I miss those days. @okbjgm.bsky.social explains what we've lost.

Apologies, but this kind of justification is always bullshit. The original post has accumulated 14k likes in 14 hours. The reply retraction posted an hour later has ~260 likes. Another reposted retraction has 10 likes. People only see the lie.

For fuck's sake. That was the one thing I was actually looking forward to.

Stexit

RIP James Burrows. I got to interview him in January for my profile of Lisa Kudrow profile, and he was so kind and wise. He said so much that I didn't get to use, so I'll share some here... www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/j...

Theory: A teacher was saying his students sometimes do not process AI as cheating because they feel it’s just what they would have written if they had time. This false sense of ownership also means the boss thinks HE designed that ad. Of course it was right the first time!

A history of Resonance FM with Stewart Lee, tomorrow at 8pm BBC Radio 4! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Think of the savings you could make if you just got rid of it

Fucking what? By who???

You can virtually walk around the backlot sets of Paramount - maybe you can spot where they filmed TNG "The big Goodbye" and "Emergence" downloads.paramountpictures.com/isg/paramoun...

What do you do with a Grinch sequel? He's already had his arc about accepting Christmas. So you have to have him being the most Christmassy and someone else either loses their spirit, or a bigger bad also tries to steal Christmas. I don't care or anything. It just doesn't feel like it's worth making

Rod literally created the Twilight Zone because he took a teleplay about racism that kept getting rejected, changed the victims to aliens, and execs were like “Neat! Now THIS is good stuff!” Once he saw producers were blind to social metaphor if you add a lil sci-fi, boom, TV’s greatest was born

Know what TV show actually wouldn’t get made today? The Twilight Zone. Half of these fuckin’ episodes are about fascism.

Early 90s. When the Guardian was still a newspaper and even used to commission me. Can't remember what news event prompted this. A bit glib in places but when in Rome. The sidebar was mine too and I was pretty much responsible for the Hendrix tale gaining traction. I saw that edition go out.

Burnham on the Titanic: "No, I won't deploy lifeboats, people bought tickets and I respect their decision to be on this ship."

So... Labour shouldn't have a leadership election then?