Pauline Kael:

Can’t recommend this recipe more highly. www.theguardian.com/food/2022/oc...

This inability to justify oneself in the grownup language of trade-offs and strategy - instead communicating solely through vague principle waffle - just makes you seem dishonest. If Reeves truly thought this, why has she kept the cap in place all this time?

not The Times doing mpreg cartoons.............we cannot let the other side of Bluesky find this

It's so funny that Your Party are using the vape colours for their youth wing posts.

Insufficient rigour, rather than ideological capture, seems to be to be the correct frame through which to view the BBC's failings. Inviting Sex Matters onto Woman's Hour isn't bad because they're a GC org....it's bad because they don't know what they're talking about! www.ft.com/content/676c...

Spoiler alert: the GNU parties will not smooth out their foreign policy differences. www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...

The two child cap is a test of the government’s seriousness: if you are serious about child poverty, you lift it, and if you are serious about not wasting money, you don’t fritter away cash on dumb things like vouchers to try and manage the PLP.

The ANC Youth League is 14-35!

Okay enough BBC chat, let’s do an oldie. Fairytale of New York……homophobic?

I don’t actually think the BBC, for all its issues, has been captured by anti-trans ideology. Their coverage of the issue hasn’t been perfect but there is a reason they’re so hated by the gender critical crowd.

make one of those gays obsessed with East Enders the Director General of the BBC

She uses the word "impartiality" here, but what Sonia Sodha wants from the BBC Director General isn't impartiality at all.

Welcome to the BBC, Bari Weiss

I know for a fact that some of you soft left divas were in the Insane Town Posse during the Labour leadership race and at least one of you must have Lisa Nandy on WhatsApp.......please, intervene! Make her make the right choice!

It is bad that the director of the BBC has resigned over a scandal people only cared about because the mentally unwell President of the United States became fixated with it, and it then went viral on the website controlled by the world's richest man.

(Marginally) more people think REFORM would be best at handling the economy than think Labour would? Keir Starmer, my dear, if you don’t do something, and quick.

My theory about Joyce Carol Oates is that all her bad posts are her charging up like Godzilla's spines until she lets loose with a radioactive blast that leaves the world's richest Nazi a pile of ash

Very good example of how AI saves time for some people by dramatically increasing the time having to be spent by others. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The BBC should have values more similar to my own not because my values are good or correct but because lefty lib people like me are huge idiots who love the concept of the bbc and alienating us leave it with no defenders

Obviously right to criticise it when it makes mistakes but the BBC is broadly very good and British people don’t realise how lucky they are to have it.

Why is the culture brief so dour and miserable? They could do some really fun stuff there!

Just saw a “Grace Blakeley” post on here. What year is it? 2021??????

It’s not the most photogenic dish and apologies for the crosspost from insta but I made a vegetarian bobotie tonight and it was so good.

siya KOLISI 💜

How can you not love the springboks

Two roads diverged…….

Watching the Springboks and I can't help imagine a scandalised Apartheid Minister of Sport saying “'n kommunis in die voorste ry!?!”

The image that launched a thousand rugby memes

WHAT A TRY

Screaming at this commentator who just called Rassie Erasmus “the devil’s ventriloquist”.

Damien McKenzie try not to look villainous challenge

Supporting Scotland is so much more stressful than supporting the Springboks. How do you people live like this?????

Scotland!

Keir Starmer will never be HER

This is so silly lmao www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politic...

The hatred the youth parliament gets is just so out of proportion. Can these people hear themselves. It’s creepy.

This is cultural vandalism. The National Arts Festival is foundational to South African theatre and a gem in the Eastern Cape. Gayton McKenzie’s Department of Culture refusing to fund it beggars belief. www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...

It’s a horrible catch-22. Try to preserve your dignity by keeping a low profile and they will post blurry pictures of you that treat you like a monstrous cryptid. Pose for a proper photo and you’ll be accused of narcissism/doing “womanface”

The UK right now: retirees interpreting being out-of-touch because they're old as an unprecedented cultural assault, while telling young people facing actually unprecedented house prices that they just need to grow up and start saving.

New Rosalía album is giving melodrama. It's giving 2Cellos. It's giving Eastern European Eurovision entrant who might be a witch. It's giving Timballo. It's giving Carrie Bradshaw showing up at Big's house with a whip. It's giving Pedro Almodóvar. It's giving Lydia Tár.

This strategy did not get Cirie the win either

Suspect we’ll get a lot of exciting celebs for season 2 of The Traitors given taking part seems to have been a net-positive for the careers of literally every single cast member.

Something else I’ve been thinking of re: the endgame is that while Joe was very active, Alan was comparatively reactive. Alan’s biggest “move” - bringing up that Joe betrayed him & Cat - was presented as something he’s rather not have had to bring up. That passive gameplay feels more Faithful-like.

Nick didn’t betray Joe! Joe came up with a plan to vote Cat off and didn’t involve Nick! That’s bad stakeholder management!

The nation to Alan Carr tonight:

The Alan Carr outsmarting all those Oxbridge fucks just by being gay and funny. This is my destiny.