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Nathaniel Tapley
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Terrible news, chums... Gleeful Beast, head writer on Netflix's Bad Dinosaurs. Jokemonger for shows you hate. Maker of historical podcasts. Chief Sparkle Enthusiast at Sparklegoose! He-flapper.
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All right - I've done a comedy writer and producers starter pack for everyone who's into that sort of thing. And YES, I've forgotten you, so remind me that you exist and YES I will put you on it (unless you have slighted me in some unremembered way in the last 20 years). go.bsky.app/AkQCH7U
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I’m a bleeding heart pinko who thinks that migrants are people and believes that people deserve to live wherever they want. But I could be the most hardheaded British patriot and still support migration to this country because nobody has ever demonstrated that it’s a bad thing!!!
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I actually don't know if anyone who hasn't worked with the BBC knows how much threat it's under. I do a lot of stuff for Radio 4 (never been an employee) and about 80% of senior producers and experienced staff have left now. Forced out, offered redundancy, told they'd need to move to Glasgow or go.
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Nothing warms my heart as much as seeing someone doing this. The world is *full* of people doubling down on shit they don’t even believe out of a sense of pride, and seeing someone graciously acknowledge being wrong, in full public view, is quite inspiring.
Reminder that Violent J of Insane Clown Posse has the correct response to a lot of the shitty things he said in the early days.
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I just cannot take this shit seriously. If you're a senior Labour figure and think that the party's stance is cowardly but are too afraid to put your name on the record saying it YOU ARE A COWARD.
Senior Labour figures have expressed dismay at the Party's "cowardly" and "incompetent" response to Tory shadow minister Katie Lam calling for legal migrants to "go home".

"What’s the point of us saying we’re anti-racist when we fail to call out racism," said one MP.
Exclusive: Labour Anger Erupts Over Party's Response To Katie Lam Immigration Row
"What’s the point of us saying we’re anti-racist when we fail to call out racism," said one MP.
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
Ha ha! That was a fun podcast!
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was literally just researching this yesterday for a personal project. This is perfect??? Bluesky has the juice.
New episode of Future Imperfect out! @lollardfish.bsky.social and @profgabriele.com explain who the Carolingians were. I discover I am VERY INTO bits of history where everyone is known by faintly insulting epithets (Louis the Bald, Louis the Fat, Charles the Simple). shows.acast.com/future-imper...
Who were the Carolingians? | Future Imperfect
with David Perry and Mat Gabriele
shows.acast.com
Couldn't be bothered to dig my copy out, but here's Ian Hamilton on the LRB on the incident:
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WE ARE PLAYING LIVE on Friday 14th November at the New Cross Inn, London. It's going to be AWESOME! Last year we played there and it was absolutely fantastic. Come along! SEE YOU THERE! YEAH! www.seetickets.com/event/7-seco...
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we can't get back the men we've 'lost' to these horrific ideologies because we never had them in the first place. it's been 84 years but dorothy thompson still says it best at the end of 'who goes nazi," which you should read if you haven't. the link: harpers.org/archive/1941... . the quote:
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Idi Amin deported 80,000 Asians from Uganda in 1972. So although the Conservatives want to propose the first mass deportation of legal migrants since Idi Amin - especially with the retrospective changes in ILR - Lam is proposing to deport 20 times as many people as Idi Amin.
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Tory policy is to revoke permanent residence (ILR) for everybody who does not earn £38k - deporting most nurses who have ILR

This is put in the video as "who is unlikely to contribute more than they cost"

NB: video does not say EU settled status is exempt

No govt since Idi Amin has done this
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This was fun! Have a listen #medievalsky
New episode of Future Imperfect out! @lollardfish.bsky.social and @profgabriele.com explain who the Carolingians were. I discover I am VERY INTO bits of history where everyone is known by faintly insulting epithets (Louis the Bald, Louis the Fat, Charles the Simple). shows.acast.com/future-imper...
Who were the Carolingians? | Future Imperfect
with David Perry and Mat Gabriele
shows.acast.com
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Re: Trump & Venezuela: Trump’s ego needs a war, so he can have “victory.” (See his triumph arc). High MAGA people wrote of expecting far more civil violence; instead, inflatable frogs. Hence, I speculate, Venezuela. A war he believes he can celebrate on 250th anniversary.
Yes, please.
(if anyone would like to maybe start some sort of campaigning or pressure group of and on behalf of immigrants with ILR and settled status in Britain then I would be interested in helping, or indeed trying to get it off the ground myself, email in bio, etc)
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Really important case - a free & democratic society where people can freely choose their leaders & representatives are core rights protected by the Convention - but unless governments are required to act on them, they remain theoretical. Given increasing insecurity, this couldn’t be more urgent👇
Breaking: EX-MPs TAKE CASE AGAINST UK GOVERNMENT’S FAILURE TO INVESTIGATE FOREIGN INTERFERENCE TO EUROPEAN “SUPREME COURT”

THREE FORMER MPs; Caroline Lucas, Alyn Smith and Ben Bradshaw - claim the UK government is failing in its duty 2 protect elections from foreign interference
New episode of Future Imperfect out! @lollardfish.bsky.social and @profgabriele.com explain who the Carolingians were. I discover I am VERY INTO bits of history where everyone is known by faintly insulting epithets (Louis the Bald, Louis the Fat, Charles the Simple). shows.acast.com/future-imper...
Who were the Carolingians? | Future Imperfect
with David Perry and Mat Gabriele
shows.acast.com
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I’m glad senior Labour figures are feeling like this, but they need to translate their feelings into action. Real action, not just complaining to journalists on background. Get your damn house in order.
Senior Labour figures have expressed dismay at the Party's "cowardly" and "incompetent" response to Tory shadow minister Katie Lam calling for legal migrants to "go home".

"What’s the point of us saying we’re anti-racist when we fail to call out racism," said one MP.
Exclusive: Labour Anger Erupts Over Party's Response To Katie Lam Immigration Row
"What’s the point of us saying we’re anti-racist when we fail to call out racism," said one MP.
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
There's an entry in Alan Clark's diaries where he invites the local National Front leader to his office and explains that he's pretty sympathetic and as close as they'll get to getting elected, so they may as well give up in his constituency.
As Stuart Hall pointed out, Thatcher’s Conservative Party absorbed enough National Front ideas and policies that they effectively wiped them out in 1979; the Monday Club contained many people who thought, if they didn’t explicitly say, that people who weren’t white should be deported. It’s not new.
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I sat in the British Library reading League of Empire Loyalists, BNP & National Front literature for my book and even they claimed to promote *voluntary* repatriation. Forcible deportation was always the ghost behind those ideas, but it’s amazing that UK politicians don’t even bother to hide it.
To be clear: deportations to increase cultural homogeneity is the text book definition of ethnic cleansing. Demands that come even close to this are so far outside any democratic norm and the rule of law. What has happened to a country when this is not condemned in the strongest possible terms?
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To be clear: deportations to increase cultural homogeneity is the text book definition of ethnic cleansing. Demands that come even close to this are so far outside any democratic norm and the rule of law. What has happened to a country when this is not condemned in the strongest possible terms?
See this is relevant again this morning. This bloody country...
My dad was very proud of this document. He took it with him all the time, tucked inside his passport. He was also very proud of not being English, of being a citizen rather than a subject, and of believing that "all men are created equal" rather than "except that one family with magic blood".
Just noticed Jenrick is actually doing the beginning of this bit now...
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you can currently claim at least partial child benefits if you're earning up to 80k so that would be, in theory.......basically all parents on ILR and settled status? wtaf
Here Lam explicitly sets out her proposal - which is official Conservative Party policy - to deport long-standing legal permanent residents who have *ever* claimed any benefit, including the state pension or child benefit (even if the child is British), or who earn less than £39K.
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Platner actually says in the clip something like "I've been out in public with this tattoo at the beach, at pools, at locker rooms, and nobody's ever called me a Nazi."

How is the next sentence not "And now I can't stop thinking about all the people who I scared and made feel unsafe."