Twlldun
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Pragmatism. Is that all you have to offer?
I do wonder what impact this would have. I’m aware there are essentially blocs at play now, right bloc and left bloc, but there are a substantial number of Reform voters who are “none of the above” types and certainly any remaining Tory voter who hasn’t jumped ship to Reform by now must hate Reform?
For a long time, I thought a Reform-Tory pact couldn’t happen, because it would require the Conservatives to accept they were the junior partner. But Badenoch is so crap that I now think…maybe it could?
Farage tells donors he expects Reform UK will do an election deal with Tories
Rightwing populist party could pursue a merger or pact with the Conservatives
www.ft.com
December 2, 2025 at 10:46 PM
I do wonder what impact this would have. I’m aware there are essentially blocs at play now, right bloc and left bloc, but there are a substantial number of Reform voters who are “none of the above” types and certainly any remaining Tory voter who hasn’t jumped ship to Reform by now must hate Reform?
Yeah, I am an incredibly jaundiced “am probably voting [spit] Lib Dem until this pairing in Downing Street are gone” disaffected left winger who is *bristling* at the inanity and insanity of the press approach to Starmer and Reeves
I, a person who wants Rachel Reeves to not be chancellor of the exchequer, am increasingly tired of the number of shitty ways that the press are trying to stop her being chancellor of the exchequer
December 2, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Yeah, I am an incredibly jaundiced “am probably voting [spit] Lib Dem until this pairing in Downing Street are gone” disaffected left winger who is *bristling* at the inanity and insanity of the press approach to Starmer and Reeves
I find all land irredentism faintly ludicrous, apart from my quixotic quest to reclaim The Lost Lands for Greater Wales, which is deadly serious
i just find land irredentism so funny, man. would i like it if Quebec or Alberta left confederation? no
would i throw a nationalist fit over trying to reclaim them? also no
would i throw a nationalist fit over trying to reclaim them? also no
December 2, 2025 at 7:17 PM
I find all land irredentism faintly ludicrous, apart from my quixotic quest to reclaim The Lost Lands for Greater Wales, which is deadly serious
Right?
Sun Ra on a Tuesday!😱😱😱
December 2, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Right?
It’s not that I question the algorithm as such, but I am intrigued that Spotify thinks the thing I really want at 4:30 on a Tuesday afternoon is a playlist consisting of Sonic Youth, Duke Ellington and Pavement. Why Tuesdays? Why 4:30?
December 2, 2025 at 4:55 PM
It’s not that I question the algorithm as such, but I am intrigued that Spotify thinks the thing I really want at 4:30 on a Tuesday afternoon is a playlist consisting of Sonic Youth, Duke Ellington and Pavement. Why Tuesdays? Why 4:30?
But I’ve been assured by people having 5 day twitter meltdowns on this subject that this isn’t true
David Miles (of the OBR) at the Treasury Select Committee: Reeves’ speech was not inconsistent with the OBR’s assessment.
December 2, 2025 at 11:27 AM
But I’ve been assured by people having 5 day twitter meltdowns on this subject that this isn’t true
Dear Sir,
I wonder if you have noticed that Beethoven’s Xmas Adventure exist? Yet again, it’s one rule for maverick cops stopping terrorist attacks over the Xmas period and another for man’s *supposed* best friend, well, not best the way you are treating us here let me tell you
Yours
I wonder if you have noticed that Beethoven’s Xmas Adventure exist? Yet again, it’s one rule for maverick cops stopping terrorist attacks over the Xmas period and another for man’s *supposed* best friend, well, not best the way you are treating us here let me tell you
Yours
December 2, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Dear Sir,
I wonder if you have noticed that Beethoven’s Xmas Adventure exist? Yet again, it’s one rule for maverick cops stopping terrorist attacks over the Xmas period and another for man’s *supposed* best friend, well, not best the way you are treating us here let me tell you
Yours
I wonder if you have noticed that Beethoven’s Xmas Adventure exist? Yet again, it’s one rule for maverick cops stopping terrorist attacks over the Xmas period and another for man’s *supposed* best friend, well, not best the way you are treating us here let me tell you
Yours
We could have the “is Die Hard a Xmas movie” debate or we could ram rusty needles into our eye sockets whilst listening to Cliff Richard on endless loop, at this point its entirely touch and go which is the most painful
December 2, 2025 at 10:22 AM
We could have the “is Die Hard a Xmas movie” debate or we could ram rusty needles into our eye sockets whilst listening to Cliff Richard on endless loop, at this point its entirely touch and go which is the most painful
I am not particularly an apologist for Keir Starmer but I do find it inspiring that he’s somehow managed to become prime minister without noticing who the Tory party are
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 10:11 AM
I am not particularly an apologist for Keir Starmer but I do find it inspiring that he’s somehow managed to become prime minister without noticing who the Tory party are
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Muppits Die Hard @ The Wardrobe Theatre — Guy Forks
Welcome to the party, pal!
guy-forks.com
December 2, 2025 at 9:44 AM
They should make a Muppet Die Hard
The Muppet Christmas Carol is not a Christmas film
December 2, 2025 at 9:43 AM
They should make a Muppet Die Hard
Bluesky problem
A bunch of fucking dipshit American leftists who don’t know what democratic centralism is are going to reply to this assuming it’s about Iowa or something, aren’t they?
December 2, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Bluesky problem
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They are pining for the USS Gerald Ford..
December 2, 2025 at 8:36 AM
They are pining for the USS Gerald Ford..
Am enjoying Owen desperately trying to give her an out (in what - one assumes - is the most flattering clip of the interview) and her happily blazing past it and saying no, actually, Pol Pot is our model here
Zarah Sultana apparently wants to nationalise the entire economy including the Internet.
December 2, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Am enjoying Owen desperately trying to give her an out (in what - one assumes - is the most flattering clip of the interview) and her happily blazing past it and saying no, actually, Pol Pot is our model here
Finally, someone is coming for the Norwegians, and not a moment too soon
December 2, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Finally, someone is coming for the Norwegians, and not a moment too soon
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I read a version that was about Empire of the Sun, which he went on to write anyway. Seemed more likely.
December 1, 2025 at 8:02 PM
I read a version that was about Empire of the Sun, which he went on to write anyway. Seemed more likely.
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I remember it being about empire of the sun, too, but can’t remember where I read / heard that.
December 1, 2025 at 7:19 PM
I remember it being about empire of the sun, too, but can’t remember where I read / heard that.
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Patrick Marber says Stoppard really liked Jaws a lot and watched it often. Don't know whether that also plays into it.
December 1, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Patrick Marber says Stoppard really liked Jaws a lot and watched it often. Don't know whether that also plays into it.
The *first* reason I think it’s bollocks is Tom Stoppard didn’t write a BBC radio play between 1972 and 1982.
That David Mamet anecdote about Tom Stoppard and Jaws is bollocks isn’t it?
December 1, 2025 at 6:51 PM
The *first* reason I think it’s bollocks is Tom Stoppard didn’t write a BBC radio play between 1972 and 1982.
That David Mamet anecdote about Tom Stoppard and Jaws is bollocks isn’t it?
December 1, 2025 at 6:49 PM
That David Mamet anecdote about Tom Stoppard and Jaws is bollocks isn’t it?
I’m trying to think and off the top of my head I’ve got Truss sacking Kwarteng and Major sacking Lamont (and that was a technical resignation because he wouldn’t accept a demotion) and then it’s…who? Selwyn Lloyd in 1960, and that was the beginning of the end for MacMillan
It's an axiom of UK politics that PMs don't sack chancellors and everyone seems to have, deliberately or not, forgotten that.
December 1, 2025 at 3:44 PM
I’m trying to think and off the top of my head I’ve got Truss sacking Kwarteng and Major sacking Lamont (and that was a technical resignation because he wouldn’t accept a demotion) and then it’s…who? Selwyn Lloyd in 1960, and that was the beginning of the end for MacMillan
