I think it’s super-great that GBNews is able to use its broadcast licence to give credibility and legitimacy to its overtly racist and would-probably-lead-to-the-loss-of-its-broadcast-licence-if-it-broadcast-them-on-the-main-channel YouTube videos.
1) What the actual fuck how did this just get normalised in the space of three years…. Oh yeah everyone just hanging out on Twitter like boiling frogs
2) not broadcast, as they aren’t quite ready to push Ofcom on this. This is the “good stuff” for unregulated YouTube.
2) not broadcast, as they aren’t quite ready to push Ofcom on this. This is the “good stuff” for unregulated YouTube.
December 3, 2025 at 8:39 PM
I think it’s super-great that GBNews is able to use its broadcast licence to give credibility and legitimacy to its overtly racist and would-probably-lead-to-the-loss-of-its-broadcast-licence-if-it-broadcast-them-on-the-main-channel YouTube videos.
Maybe the EU is just taking account of the needs of small children who like to rub silky labels against their face while sucking their thumb and clutching their toy elephants?
You ever thought of that?
You ever thought of that?
December 3, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Maybe the EU is just taking account of the needs of small children who like to rub silky labels against their face while sucking their thumb and clutching their toy elephants?
You ever thought of that?
You ever thought of that?
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Was reminded of my very favorite tweet of all time today:
December 2, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Was reminded of my very favorite tweet of all time today:
Every time I see something like this in The Times I remember that guy who said I was insane for suggesting the editorial line was shifting towards the radical right and I chuckle
Some people’s brains are absolutely cooked.
Some people’s brains are absolutely cooked.
This is a borderline psychotic thing to put in a newspaper.
This is the point where the anti-Reeves stories tip into madness. Criticise her performance all you like but what the hell is this?
December 3, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Every time I see something like this in The Times I remember that guy who said I was insane for suggesting the editorial line was shifting towards the radical right and I chuckle
Some people’s brains are absolutely cooked.
Some people’s brains are absolutely cooked.
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it should probably be a bigger story that the richest man on earth and leading Republican is a fucking Nazi
media needs to stop beating around the bush. this is Nazi shit.
media needs to stop beating around the bush. this is Nazi shit.
December 3, 2025 at 5:03 AM
it should probably be a bigger story that the richest man on earth and leading Republican is a fucking Nazi
media needs to stop beating around the bush. this is Nazi shit.
media needs to stop beating around the bush. this is Nazi shit.
Suggestion:
We should chase them to the airport with pitchforks and flaming torches.
They might get the message then.
We should chase them to the airport with pitchforks and flaming torches.
They might get the message then.
- @richardmilne.ft.com also writes today in a column about the super-rich who move for tax, and then move again - and how protests over the Swiss referendum on inheritance tax showed how readily some would consider their options for relocation www.ft.com/content/ca43...
The super-rich who move for tax, and then move again
Swiss referendum on inheritance tax showed how readily some would consider their options for relocation
www.ft.com
December 3, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Suggestion:
We should chase them to the airport with pitchforks and flaming torches.
They might get the message then.
We should chase them to the airport with pitchforks and flaming torches.
They might get the message then.
You know how they replaced all the shiny wrappers in a box of Quality Streets with slightly dull paper ones for environmental reasons?
We should do that with the Royal Family.
We should do that with the Royal Family.
December 2, 2025 at 9:19 PM
You know how they replaced all the shiny wrappers in a box of Quality Streets with slightly dull paper ones for environmental reasons?
We should do that with the Royal Family.
We should do that with the Royal Family.
The that old Hollywood maxim of “nobody knows anything (but some nobodies get paid millions to make bad decisions anyway)”
I still can't believe Sony sold K-Pop Demon Hunters to Netflix thinking it would be a flop, but are betting that basketball movie with a goat is going to be a huge hit in cinemas.
December 2, 2025 at 8:20 PM
The that old Hollywood maxim of “nobody knows anything (but some nobodies get paid millions to make bad decisions anyway)”
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If you’re a freelance writer, what’s your one tip for staying on an even keel?
Mine is the Bathternoon (or freelancer’s spa). If it’s all getting a bit on top, or you’ve hit a wall with a project, grab a book, and some foam, and (if you can) grab a bath. This has kept my head together so many times.
Mine is the Bathternoon (or freelancer’s spa). If it’s all getting a bit on top, or you’ve hit a wall with a project, grab a book, and some foam, and (if you can) grab a bath. This has kept my head together so many times.
December 2, 2025 at 6:25 PM
If you’re a freelance writer, what’s your one tip for staying on an even keel?
Mine is the Bathternoon (or freelancer’s spa). If it’s all getting a bit on top, or you’ve hit a wall with a project, grab a book, and some foam, and (if you can) grab a bath. This has kept my head together so many times.
Mine is the Bathternoon (or freelancer’s spa). If it’s all getting a bit on top, or you’ve hit a wall with a project, grab a book, and some foam, and (if you can) grab a bath. This has kept my head together so many times.
When you’re so drunk you pull your jeans on over your head by mistake, but not so drunk you can’t find the scissors.
December 2, 2025 at 6:56 PM
When you’re so drunk you pull your jeans on over your head by mistake, but not so drunk you can’t find the scissors.
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This is actually the most pathetic government of my lifetime? They are ADDICTED to saying 'a big boy made me do it' about everything
Does he also believe in the Tooth Fairy? That, and other questions raised by this excellent piece: www.ft.com/content/cc83...
December 2, 2025 at 10:50 AM
This is actually the most pathetic government of my lifetime? They are ADDICTED to saying 'a big boy made me do it' about everything
Oh good.
I wonder when those substantial tax increases will be announced.
My guess remains: too late to allow the government to deliver substantial improvements to public services before the next election, but just late enough that voters will still be pissed off about them at the next election.
I wonder when those substantial tax increases will be announced.
My guess remains: too late to allow the government to deliver substantial improvements to public services before the next election, but just late enough that voters will still be pissed off about them at the next election.
Miles not backing down on this point despite repeated questioning. Reeves did need to find substantial tax increases. Contradicts a huge amount of the media coverage in last two days.
December 2, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Oh good.
I wonder when those substantial tax increases will be announced.
My guess remains: too late to allow the government to deliver substantial improvements to public services before the next election, but just late enough that voters will still be pissed off about them at the next election.
I wonder when those substantial tax increases will be announced.
My guess remains: too late to allow the government to deliver substantial improvements to public services before the next election, but just late enough that voters will still be pissed off about them at the next election.
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Great, Chris Mason is crying now.
December 2, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Great, Chris Mason is crying now.
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Just imagining how much better it would be if ALL news stories about vaccine-preventable illnesses were illustrated with pictures of people with the disease, not pictures of needle injections. If you must show something that people will find scary & unpleasant, make it the disease, not the cure.
I'm so tired of measles.
I'm also tired of people using needle shots on stories like this.
Show what measles looks like.
I'm also tired of people using needle shots on stories like this.
Show what measles looks like.
Gallatin Co. reports 2nd measles case, warns of exposure sites nbcmontana.com/news/local/g...
December 2, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Just imagining how much better it would be if ALL news stories about vaccine-preventable illnesses were illustrated with pictures of people with the disease, not pictures of needle injections. If you must show something that people will find scary & unpleasant, make it the disease, not the cure.
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Finally reunited🧡
When Afghanistan fell to the Taliban, 10-year-old Arman* fled to the UK with his aunt and was separated from his parents & siblings.
He waited YEARS for the moment he could hug them again. It finally happened a few weeks ago.
No words can describe this.
When Afghanistan fell to the Taliban, 10-year-old Arman* fled to the UK with his aunt and was separated from his parents & siblings.
He waited YEARS for the moment he could hug them again. It finally happened a few weeks ago.
No words can describe this.
December 2, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Finally reunited🧡
When Afghanistan fell to the Taliban, 10-year-old Arman* fled to the UK with his aunt and was separated from his parents & siblings.
He waited YEARS for the moment he could hug them again. It finally happened a few weeks ago.
No words can describe this.
When Afghanistan fell to the Taliban, 10-year-old Arman* fled to the UK with his aunt and was separated from his parents & siblings.
He waited YEARS for the moment he could hug them again. It finally happened a few weeks ago.
No words can describe this.
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When you try to explain why scripted development can take so long, it's almost embarrassing to have to tell people that it does not boil down to some very specific, rigorous process, but rather that it might take you 5 days to write a draft, and seventeen weeks to get each set of notes back on it.
Not fit for purpose: UK commissioning process under fire
Production sector leaders are demanding radical changes to a system they describe as 'medieval'
www.broadcastnow.co.uk
December 2, 2025 at 9:07 AM
When you try to explain why scripted development can take so long, it's almost embarrassing to have to tell people that it does not boil down to some very specific, rigorous process, but rather that it might take you 5 days to write a draft, and seventeen weeks to get each set of notes back on it.
The immigration not-enjoyers have found my post.
December 2, 2025 at 9:33 AM
The immigration not-enjoyers have found my post.
How would that even work tho?
Like, what sort of situation would need to occur such that the only way to save one man’s life is for every jewish person to die?
Seems a bit far-fetched to me.
Like, what sort of situation would need to occur such that the only way to save one man’s life is for every jewish person to die?
Seems a bit far-fetched to me.
December 2, 2025 at 9:31 AM
How would that even work tho?
Like, what sort of situation would need to occur such that the only way to save one man’s life is for every jewish person to die?
Seems a bit far-fetched to me.
Like, what sort of situation would need to occur such that the only way to save one man’s life is for every jewish person to die?
Seems a bit far-fetched to me.
It’s weird how the tech bros seem so keen on destroying our cultural industries - where do they get their ideas from if not culture?
December 2, 2025 at 9:26 AM
It’s weird how the tech bros seem so keen on destroying our cultural industries - where do they get their ideas from if not culture?
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December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
To be fair she is just describing a vanilla socialist economy (social ownership of the means of production) but at the same time going straight to collectivisation at the end was pretty wild.
Zarah Sultana apparently wants to nationalise the entire economy including the Internet.
December 2, 2025 at 9:04 AM
To be fair she is just describing a vanilla socialist economy (social ownership of the means of production) but at the same time going straight to collectivisation at the end was pretty wild.
Went with the family to the cinema at the weekend to see Wicked for good and one of the adverts was an extended trailer for a cast discussion about Avatar 3 and I thought:
“Wow, it’s actually really impressive they managed to come up with away to make those Avatar films *even more* boring!”
“Wow, it’s actually really impressive they managed to come up with away to make those Avatar films *even more* boring!”
james cameron every couple of years for some reason:
December 2, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Went with the family to the cinema at the weekend to see Wicked for good and one of the adverts was an extended trailer for a cast discussion about Avatar 3 and I thought:
“Wow, it’s actually really impressive they managed to come up with away to make those Avatar films *even more* boring!”
“Wow, it’s actually really impressive they managed to come up with away to make those Avatar films *even more* boring!”
What if:
Immigration is actually really beneficial to a country and helps secure its future prosperity and long term health of its culture and isn’t a really bad thing like all those rich sociopaths who moved to Dubai say it is?
Immigration is actually really beneficial to a country and helps secure its future prosperity and long term health of its culture and isn’t a really bad thing like all those rich sociopaths who moved to Dubai say it is?
Guys, guys, guys:
what if we provide asylum to lots of refugees so that when the conflict in their homeland ends and economic reconstruction begins we have lots of social links to that country that allow us to forge mutually beneficial economic partnerships with it?
what if we provide asylum to lots of refugees so that when the conflict in their homeland ends and economic reconstruction begins we have lots of social links to that country that allow us to forge mutually beneficial economic partnerships with it?
December 2, 2025 at 8:46 AM
What if:
Immigration is actually really beneficial to a country and helps secure its future prosperity and long term health of its culture and isn’t a really bad thing like all those rich sociopaths who moved to Dubai say it is?
Immigration is actually really beneficial to a country and helps secure its future prosperity and long term health of its culture and isn’t a really bad thing like all those rich sociopaths who moved to Dubai say it is?
Guys, guys, guys:
what if we provide asylum to lots of refugees so that when the conflict in their homeland ends and economic reconstruction begins we have lots of social links to that country that allow us to forge mutually beneficial economic partnerships with it?
what if we provide asylum to lots of refugees so that when the conflict in their homeland ends and economic reconstruction begins we have lots of social links to that country that allow us to forge mutually beneficial economic partnerships with it?
December 2, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Guys, guys, guys:
what if we provide asylum to lots of refugees so that when the conflict in their homeland ends and economic reconstruction begins we have lots of social links to that country that allow us to forge mutually beneficial economic partnerships with it?
what if we provide asylum to lots of refugees so that when the conflict in their homeland ends and economic reconstruction begins we have lots of social links to that country that allow us to forge mutually beneficial economic partnerships with it?
Your AI architect:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2b-...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2b-...
December 2, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Your AI architect:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2b-...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2b-...