THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION was released 31 years ago today. One of the most popular films ever made, and among the greatest Stephen King adaptations, the making of story has as many secrets as a Rita Hayworth poster… 1/51

They really chose a great day to publish this. Impeccable timing.

And today's main story once again...

Wimbledon.

Oh, just Google the hotdog man picture yourself and pretend I posted it.

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Useful reminder from Peter Kellner on the problems we refuse to acknowledge are getting better, and the politics of hopelessness that this breeds open.substack.com/pub/kellnerp...

The even more unbelievable crime fact (which I learned relatively recently) is that burglary has fallen by more than 90% since the 1990s. Did anyone notice? Nope. Does anyone believe it? Nope. But is is true? It is!

I'm really frustrated it's necessary to say this, but it's essential people hear it! "Taking paracetamol during pregnancy remains safe." "There is no evidence taking it during pregnancy causes autism in children." "Paracetamol remains the recommended pain relief option for pregnant women." 1/2

tfw your loved ones die

oh boy this is gonna get a lot of use in the group chats

TELLING PEOPLE NOT TO GIVE THEIR BABIES TYLENOL WILL LEAD TO DEAD BABIES AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

"Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that." Looking forward to seeing Jimmy back on the air.

I love how Chris Mason's picture on his Wikipedia page looks like he's watching an illegal cockfight in a barn in Essex. Horrified, but slightly aroused and unable to stop looking.

Do actually quite like Jimmy Kimmel. Only seen bits of him while in the US but he is the second best late night host after Colbert.

Machine-gun the fuckers and drop the wreckage on the roof of the Kremlin.

doomers: there’s not going to be elections in America ever again me: if they can’t even cancel an entertainer due to popular pushback what the fuck makes you think they can cancel elections

The backlash to ABC/Disney canceling Kimmel has been swift, and severe. The whole episode underscores something I've been blogging about for a while: A lot of powerful people just don’t realize how unpopular Trump is www.gelliottmorris.com/p/a-lot-of-p...

ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel will be back on the air Tuesday, per Walt Disney Company.

What did I say about the BBC being terrible at science reporting? You don't both sides this issue, you report that one side are cranks and treat them as such.

Chris Mason was an absolutely disastrous appointment as BBC Political Editor and, although almost everyone at the BBC knows that now, short of GB News offering him a pay rise there's no way of getting rid of him.

Still can’t imagine myself being a “defund the BBC/stop paying your licence fee” type, but the existence of Chris Mason makes the idea ever so slightly more plausible.

Sometimes wonder what John Birt makes of BBC news coverage at the minute, and how he feels it is doing with the mission to explain and contextualise.

It just straightforwardly *insane* how much political chatter in the United Kingdom is about the next general election, an event that is a long way in the future, and how basically none of it is about 'uh, this policy agenda doesn't look adequate to the scale of the inherited problem'.

Genuinely believe SW1 is addicted to elections and political drama after the last decade of instability in Westminster because a whole generation of politicians and hacks got into politics or reporting on politics during that period

🇵🇱‼️ Sikorski: If another Russian missile or aircraft enters our airspace and gets shot down, don’t come here to whine. You have been warned.

With the UK government expected to imminently recognise Palestine as an independent state, our poll finds the public tends to back such a move by 44% to 18% yougov.co.uk/politics/art...

Someone’s just told him what ketamine is, haven’t they?

Actually it's pronounced "Loughborough"

okay, if they're going to insist on calling it that then this is pretty smart

Must be really embarrassing for her to be associated with a nonce.

Clear Farage hasn’t thought any of this through. Saying it’s “all about the Boriswave” then admitting they’ll have citizenship by 2029 and saying he’ll never go after citizens. And the pensioners question. A lot of Indian pensioners are still on ILR because India doesn’t accept dual citizenship.

I quite like immigration.

Absolutely beautiful

Says the man who sucked off Zuck for ten million

I saw that on the news last night and laughed out loud. I keep seeing his head as a hollow vessel with a pea rattling around in it.

Remember when we used to take the piss out of Dubya for his pronunciation?

The commander in chief of Papua New Guinea's armed forces used to be a bloke named General Jack Twat.

The amount of shit some people are posting about the UK government following the recognition of Palestine as a state....from people who wanted it. They are still not happy. Never will be it seems. Always moaning. Fucking grow up people. It's embarassing to see such behaviour from fellow Brits.

Huge if true.

What movie do you consider “perfect”?

And today’s winners at the Emirates… Liverpool.

they don't want you to joke about a man's death but then they're out there saying things like this

Per the football media narrative this season, I believe this is a win for plucky underdogs Man City against the heavy spending Arsenal who simply *must* win a title this year

Oof. Ruthless.

Reviewed Nick Clegg’s book. Didn’t think much of it, except for: “Nadine Dorries, while secretary of state for the department overseeing the internet, ‘once called me in high dudgeon, demanding to know why I hadn’t taken down tweets … I had to explain to her that Twitter was a different company’.”