Ben Dunnell
@bendunnell.bsky.social
Your mother’s in a care home and SHE’S BEEN DRUGGED? TO KEEP HER QUIET? FOR THE CONVENIENCE OF THE STAFF? (Personal account.)
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On every public policy committee I sat on - gambling, drugs, animal experiments, law of homicide and others - someone would ask ‘But what would the Daily Mail say about our recommendations?’ I now regret that we never gave the right answer. ‘We shouldn’t care.’
November 30, 2025 at 7:37 AM
On every public policy committee I sat on - gambling, drugs, animal experiments, law of homicide and others - someone would ask ‘But what would the Daily Mail say about our recommendations?’ I now regret that we never gave the right answer. ‘We shouldn’t care.’
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The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
Bookselling is like the most "people go to the store and buy what looks cool to them without a particular agenda" type business left, and your purchases have a huge influence on what is ordered, what is displayed, and what is recommended.
November 29, 2025 at 6:44 PM
The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
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So long you expect footnotes.
November 29, 2025 at 11:29 PM
So long you expect footnotes.
The other thing Letts would like to add but doesn’t, even though he’s thinking it: “they’re both women.”
"Rachel Reeves will have to resign because of the markets" is apparently the new "Labour will need an IMF bailout because of the markets".
November 29, 2025 at 11:27 PM
The other thing Letts would like to add but doesn’t, even though he’s thinking it: “they’re both women.”
“It could be the end of the match if John Higgins wins this frame”, says Seema Jaswal, as ever presenting the snooker as if she’s addressing a primary school child. No, Seema, it will literally be the end of the match if he wins this, unless they just decide to play on for no reason.
November 29, 2025 at 9:29 PM
“It could be the end of the match if John Higgins wins this frame”, says Seema Jaswal, as ever presenting the snooker as if she’s addressing a primary school child. No, Seema, it will literally be the end of the match if he wins this, unless they just decide to play on for no reason.
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I think I speak for the entire world of outside observers when I say: please please please please please vote for Option B
Here are the options for how the leadership of Your Party will work, being voted on by members shortly (results tomorrow)
In short:
Option A = single leader (Corbyn v Sultana, most likely)
Option B = A 'collective' leadership, effectively of three non-MP members from the central committee
In short:
Option A = single leader (Corbyn v Sultana, most likely)
Option B = A 'collective' leadership, effectively of three non-MP members from the central committee
November 29, 2025 at 2:32 PM
I think I speak for the entire world of outside observers when I say: please please please please please vote for Option B
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Serious question for anyone who knows about design in tv:
Why do newspapers in dramas never look like real newspapers?
Why do newspapers in dramas never look like real newspapers?
November 29, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Serious question for anyone who knows about design in tv:
Why do newspapers in dramas never look like real newspapers?
Why do newspapers in dramas never look like real newspapers?
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Your Party running a sortition exercise for their founding conference then purging nearly 10% of those selected to attend isn't doing anything to dispell the notion that they're less a political party and more a performance art piece meant to mock the entire concept of left-wing organising
November 28, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Your Party running a sortition exercise for their founding conference then purging nearly 10% of those selected to attend isn't doing anything to dispell the notion that they're less a political party and more a performance art piece meant to mock the entire concept of left-wing organising
Well, that money she’s sitting on won’t spend itself.
Sultana has refused to enter the “He does look a bit like Jesus now that you mention it Party” conference.
Absolutely ludicrous cranks.
Absolutely ludicrous cranks.
November 29, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Well, that money she’s sitting on won’t spend itself.
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They remind me of a couple who stayed together for the kids and the kids turned out to be shite
Sultana and Corbyn act like they were put together in a competition by Simon Cowell and now they're contractually obliged to go on tour
November 29, 2025 at 3:35 PM
They remind me of a couple who stayed together for the kids and the kids turned out to be shite
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Sultana and Corbyn act like they were put together in a competition by Simon Cowell and now they're contractually obliged to go on tour
November 29, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Sultana and Corbyn act like they were put together in a competition by Simon Cowell and now they're contractually obliged to go on tour
This is superb.
Zarah Sultana boycotts first day of Your Party conference over 'witch hunt' expulsions
Zarah Sultana boycotts first day of Your Party conference over 'witch hunt' expulsions
Zarah Sultana has boycotted day one of the Your Party Conference over the expulsion of members of left-wing groups.
news.sky.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:32 PM
This is superb.
Can everyone just conclude that Zarah Sultana is an unutterable moron?
November 29, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Can everyone just conclude that Zarah Sultana is an unutterable moron?
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Just catching up with the budget coverage in the papers.
November 29, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Just catching up with the budget coverage in the papers.
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But his retirement plans are now in “disarray” and “ruined” cos he’s going to have to find an additional £208.33 per month?
He has £2-4 million in savings/investments but claims he is not “cash-rich” and his house was his only “pension”
Seriously @Telegraph, where do you find these people?🤣🤣🙄
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He has £2-4 million in savings/investments but claims he is not “cash-rich” and his house was his only “pension”
Seriously @Telegraph, where do you find these people?🤣🤣🙄
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November 29, 2025 at 10:12 AM
But his retirement plans are now in “disarray” and “ruined” cos he’s going to have to find an additional £208.33 per month?
He has £2-4 million in savings/investments but claims he is not “cash-rich” and his house was his only “pension”
Seriously @Telegraph, where do you find these people?🤣🤣🙄
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He has £2-4 million in savings/investments but claims he is not “cash-rich” and his house was his only “pension”
Seriously @Telegraph, where do you find these people?🤣🤣🙄
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Imagine seeing this shambles and thinking "yes, these are the people I'd like to manage a planned economy".
Huge cheers as a speaker at Your Party conference shouts "no witch hunts, no expulsions" on stage and calls for all members of other socialist/communist groups to be allowed into the party (many have been booted out in recent weeks)
Many are astounded Corbyn's allies have expelled many Trotskyists.
Many are astounded Corbyn's allies have expelled many Trotskyists.
November 29, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Imagine seeing this shambles and thinking "yes, these are the people I'd like to manage a planned economy".
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Is the Left Foot Forward conference being livestreamed? I want to see the moment the results on the party name come through and each of the four options has a 25% share.
November 29, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Is the Left Foot Forward conference being livestreamed? I want to see the moment the results on the party name come through and each of the four options has a 25% share.
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Nice to see the 1976 Roger Moore/Lee Marvin movie Shout at the Devil getting an advertising board at Stamford Bridge with no context beyond the title.
November 29, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Nice to see the 1976 Roger Moore/Lee Marvin movie Shout at the Devil getting an advertising board at Stamford Bridge with no context beyond the title.
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Huge respect to the papers for finding both an 88 year old worried about the tax bill on her 6 bedroom Kensington house and a 20 year old fretting about only being able to save £12k a year tax free.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.
November 29, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Huge respect to the papers for finding both an 88 year old worried about the tax bill on her 6 bedroom Kensington house and a 20 year old fretting about only being able to save £12k a year tax free.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.
This really is saddening - if not surprising. And where are the solutions, other than an absolute zero-tolerance policy towards AI?
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
November 29, 2025 at 10:13 AM
This really is saddening - if not surprising. And where are the solutions, other than an absolute zero-tolerance policy towards AI?
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It’s so noticeable when you compare TV news coverage. The news should be scary and serious. Today’s breezy tone is all wrong. Watch a 1970s episode of Newsround and it - seriously - addresses the audience in a more adult fashion then the main news does now.
Again, I would advise people to go read the media from 50 years ago. Sure, there was absolutely an awkward stiffness that the death of deference got rid of and I prefer it but they talked to you like adults in a way that very few newspapers do today.
I don't think it's all of it by any measure but I do absolutely believe that the political media's raging anti-intellectual streak has got worse with time and has ended up influencing the way MPs talk, and what they choose to talk/think about
November 29, 2025 at 12:02 AM
It’s so noticeable when you compare TV news coverage. The news should be scary and serious. Today’s breezy tone is all wrong. Watch a 1970s episode of Newsround and it - seriously - addresses the audience in a more adult fashion then the main news does now.
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ah yay yes, let's bring in the rape apologists
Sultana says she would reverse the expulsions of SWP and other communists kicked out for "dual membership" in recent weeks
November 28, 2025 at 11:01 PM
ah yay yes, let's bring in the rape apologists
