My mum made me take 100s of NMEs and Melody Makers to the dump about 20 years ago because they 'needed the space'. Still low-key a bit cross about it!

Beating the racist far right by making yourself essentially indistinguishable from them. Well done everyone.

It's fucking disgusting. And it won't happen. Like so much of the bullshit presumably dreamt up by horrible bastards like McSweeney and Glasman and waved through by the toxic jellyfish Starmer, it will be subject to a massive backlash and be abandoned, having ruined the gov's rep still further.

I believe everything about this except the words 'Trump just sprinted past reporters'. That grotesque cunt would keel over and die if he sprinted anywhere.

Searchable database of the 20,000 Epstein files. Dig in. couriernewsroom.com/news/we-crea...

For crying out loud @zarahsultana.bsky.social

Tish's photos are so extraordinary. Every time I see them, they strike me afresh. The composition, the detail, the humanity she captures. What a talent she was.

It's wild how excited they are. Be careful what you wish for, Times readers. The Repair Shop, wall-to-wall Proms coverage and Antiques Roadshow don't happen in your much longed-for brave broadcasting new world.

My most woke opinion? DEI is great and organisations should be boasting about it not apologising for it. It's a necessary counterpoint to monoculturalism, unfairness and exclusion. The people who object to it are simply trying to defend their privilege.

This article is incredibly depressing, mainly because it's so inarguably true. We've reached the point where *any* change at the top is a good change. Because under Starmer, Labour are going to sleepwalk, zombie-like towards a Reform majority in 2029.

Pathological levels of nostalgia. Deeply, deeply unhealthy.

This whole miserable affair could have a silver lining in that it's dragged Gibb out of the shadows and into the spotlight. I suspect many more people now know about him and his entrenched bias and control-freakery than was the case this time last week.

This seems right to me. It was a sloppy piece of editing but it wasn't substantively incorrect. I'm glad the BBC aren't just sucking it up.

These people are just fundamentally disgusting aren't they? Absolute scum.

Truly beautiful insane tweet

Two of the top bosses of the BBC resigned this week, after allegations in a dossier claimed Panorama had altered a Trump quote. One problem: that dossier altered the Trump quote, too www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-e...

It actually feels like spring today. To be precise, one of those lovely mid-March days when you feel the warmth of the sun on your back for the first time in months. Only it's mid-November and we haven't had winter yet.

I dream of this. From Trump's White House lackeys, right down to the vicious ICE lunkheads, there needs to be a full public reckoning. I want to see these people in orange jumpsuits. Weeping.

This is fascinating research. It's actually quite hopeful in many ways: IF (massive 'if' given the terminal cowardice of the govt) you took Farage on rather than pandering to him, you'd have a real chance of pulling his coalition of potential voters apart. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Ah, back when the internet was fun... 'JESUS CHRIST!!'

Humans are capable of almost anything. Good or bad. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

They binned Milliband because he's Leeds.

Fucking hell. This is from 2017. Trump was president by 2017!

Evergreen.

I could 100% live with this to be honest.

Really enjoying Girlbands Forever on the iPlayer. Particularly the hilarious Kerry Katona. But I want to go for pints with all of them really! Also, this remains one of the best singles of the century to date. youtu.be/dVNdTXEJv1A?...

Unimprovable response. *chef's kiss*

Every accusation is a confession with this lot. Pizzagate/Qanon particularly.

America will have to live with the shame of making this man President forever. www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

Whether or not this is true, dear god it's patronising. Particularly given that nothing any mainstream British politician has come up with *this century* has 'added up' either. I'm not totally convinced by the Greens but look at the endless, compromised, self-perpetuating failure of the alternatives

Totally agree. There are no realistic, convincing alternatives. But if any Labour leader deserves to be robustly challenged, it's Starmer. If he doesn't want to face this kind of bullshit, he should start doing his job properly.

Finkelstein is a wildly partisan activist on certain issues who nevertheless, wants to have his cake and eat it. He also wants to be regarded as a serious and credible mainstream newspaper columnist. You can't be both.

Textbook. Why are we letting these people dictate the terms of our national life??

Wanting to defend the BBC is nothing to do with 'privilege' and even that implication is ridiculous. Where do these 'outsiders' imagine people will get their news from in the BBC's absence? Novara? Byline Times? The BBC's disappearance would just drag the Overton Window still further to the right.

I hate the way telephone hold queues make people behave. It's another miserable branch of enshittification. Just concluded a labrynthine issue with O2 - and by the time I got through to someone who was a) nice and b) able and willing to help, I was in a murderous mood and frankly, not at my best! 1

Nothing says 'Maximum Alpha' like building a 'sexy' chatbot and programming it to tell you it loves you.

This is a brilliant, heartbreaking piece of writing.

I think I do understand it but none of it reflects well on them. They are terrified. Terrified of the right wing media, terrified of Farage and most of all, terrified of Trump. Everyone in this govt will look back in 20 years and regret their cowardice. But that's how cowardice works isn't it?

Late-dropping album of the year contender. I needed this mind-wiping madness tonight! youtu.be/wZn36PEB834?...

Probably not worth bothering at this point guys...

Be much easier to just say "I'm a massive racist" and have done with it.

I suspect if we lost the Beeb it would be a 'You don't know what you've got 'til it's gone' thing. The news dept has been horrific for a while. But that's a tiny fraction of what it does. It maintains such an important set of principles and that's why the right hates it.

Not unpersuasive, this theory. The assumptions of the neolib, 'end of history' era fell apart in the global financial crisis. But rather than try and build something new, we forced austerity onto the people who had done the least to cause the GFC in order to restore the exact system that caused it.

Don't ban it. But get the fuck off it! And start regulating it properly, as a persistent and unrepentent publisher of hate speech. If that means extensive reforms to OFCOM, all the better.

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?

This is the heart of all of it. I'm appalled that Labour doesn't seem to have addressed any of this stuff. Progressives need to be willing to play as dirty as their opponents.

What bothers me is that impartiality and balance are two different and incompatible things. Impartiality means that you don't intervene to put your thumb on the scales. Balance necessarily requires that you intervene to artificially make every issue look like a 50/50.

Another entry for the bulging 'Shit Old Days' file. Drink driving was *way* less taboo even 30 years ago than it is now. People I knew used to do it all the time. Not proper hammered but certainly well refreshed. I wince when I think about it.

This line from Katie Razzall's report suggesting that the board actively prevented the BBC from getting on the front foot about this makes the whole thing feel even more murky. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...