In 2024, Bet 365's CEO got a salary - not total package, just salary - of £94.7m. A lot of people have to lose their bets to pay that. We should be MASSIVELY curtailing betting, not promoting it further. It's a cancer in society.

A long time since I cared about Bond (esp. now it's Amazon's baby) but the obvious answer is: ignore it. Reboot with a fresh cast. To do anything else requires such mindfuckery and jiggery-pokery as to be ridiculous. Each new Bond was always a notional reset anyway. radaronline.com/p/james-bond...

Ah, thank you again. This is the article I was looking for. It's by Claude Chabrol not Truffaut.

Here's the April 1955 Cahiers du Cinema (they seem to have most every issue if you search for "Cahiers du Cinema): archive.org/details/les-...

I know it's a long shot but anybody know if there's an online copy of François Truffaut's review of “Rear Window” from Cahiers du Cinéma (April 1955)?

Oh look. There really are "no go areas" in England. And they're marked by St George's flags www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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The BBC is surely meant to be woke? It's always been about basic decency. Somebody needs to be imo because the general tone in online spaces is horribly aggressive atm. I don't really understand all the director general stuff but it would be nice to have a media channel that is mostly kind. 😒

You can be assured that tendentious memo by Michael Prescott, and the co-ordinated combination of the Telegraph, Mail, Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage and the White House means that the BBC hit job has been long in the planning, and has some insider help

Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?

There's a link you will be able to access in the comments to the original post (if you haven't spotted it already)

That kind of block can be implemented anywhere, including (if you're running your own web server) just serving up a different page to a block of IPs.

I hadn't realised that loony paranoid Yanks were doing this to themselves and UK readers for no reason, but it doesn't surprise me given they did the same thing at the point there was an equally daft Yank moral panic about how UK libel laws might impact random bloggers with no money

WTF?

It’s ironic that the BBC’s leadership has come unstuck over supposed bias against a right-wing US President when, for many in the UK, the real issue has been the perception of BBC bias against progressive politics, whilst it has regularly given airtime to the politics of the further right.

I can only agree

This was a diagram illustrating a piece I wrote in @prospectmagazine.co.uk in January 2024. Some faces have since changed but you get the general gist …

What you’re witnessing is a populist assault on the BBC. This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting. iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...

🔴The UK Must Urgently Distance Itself From Elon Musk and Space X, Warns Parliamentary Report The UK’s infrastructure has become far too reliant on the far-right billionaire, who could ‘politicise’ our reliance upon his companies, the report warns bylinetimes.com/2025/11/04/t...

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Rewatching 'The Creator'. Don't remember the aspect ratio being this wide. Insane.

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

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Tonight's film. More Melville.

Saturday Toaster Action.

Or can he? @barneyfarmer.bsky.social

Don't you just love Saturday mornings when you can hear everything that goes on next door? Him, shouting: "Want to know how much I've booked our hotel for? Three thousand seven hundred..." Me, thinking: let's push the boat out and use a second coffee pod of the morning...

Assuming Musk gets $1 trillion today and dies at age 95 without eating a single extra penny, he could buy a $66 million mansion daily for the next 41 years (14,965 days). Billionaires shouldn’t exist, let alone a trillionaire. #EatTheRich www.mansionglobal.com/articles/hon...

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No, Dyson is the name of the creator not the monster.

Tonight's film. Of course it's this. GDT's Frankenstein.

It's not just that Tesla would pay him that much. It's that HE would agree to be paid that much, to shackle the company w/ that kind of burden. It's appalling, especially when you think of all the people he fired at Twitter, the US government, & USAID who were making a pittance compared to him.

Which one is more English?

Word of the Day is ‘catchfart’ (17th century): an obsequious individual who sucks up to the boss and always follows the political wind.

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Melville I've not seen. Need it to be good.

Fucking despise this place some days. Lists are so passive aggressive.

They are spreading David.

Because nothing says "remembrance" quite like a piece of ugly imported plastic zip-tied to a lamppost for the next twelve months...

"Clanker" is clearly a much better word and a dictionary should be celebrating it over soul-numbing corporate slop such as "vibe coding" which is phrase not a word, as well as a red flag to avoid the kind of prick you'd use it.

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Insane. Anybody with an ounce of IT knowledge knows that, for it have had proper security, it should have been "Louvre12".

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Why tax the rich when you can pay young people less and try austerity again?

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On the other site, an 18-year-old Zohran canvasser described the legendary Wallace Shawn as "the actor who plays Dr. Sturgis on Young Sheldon" which is honestly adorable