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Also if you’re unwilling to be confrontational with powerful people you just should not be a journalist. You aren’t cut out for it.

I can’t tell if it’s cowardice or some fucked up sense of decorum that makes no sense in the current environment with this fuckin guy

The fun part is that Pollard was obviously a screeching right wing crackpot fifteen years ago when he worked for the Times and it’s not like he’s got much worse since, he’s only got less concerned about trying to hide it.

Or did they spend most of those years rolling around gargling in fake terror in breakfast TV studios, sending pissy WhatsApp messages to Times journalists and thrapping their genitals with a union flag oven glove. Was this type of behaviour indicative of innovative thinking and smart leadership.

Consider: what did key figures in creating the Sir Keir project spend their time in opposition doing? Did they spend it thinking up new ideas for how to tackle the increasingly urgent problems that were already blaring sirens and flashing klaxons by the mid 2010s?

(Year eighteen of the actual crisis, I think, but year ten of the crisis being immediate and undeniable).

What would it look like, if we punished ideas that the Sun would hate, and instead rewarded politicians for e.g. bullshitting, scaremongering, boasting, lying, sneaking, wrecking and a host of other destructive behaviours? Might it not look very much like this, going into year ten of The Big Crisis.

In fact, two days with Graham has probably turned the journalist in to one of those darned "trans activists" we're always been told are everywhere. The bit at the end of the article where Graham is using ChatGPT to build a trans fetish videogame is really something.