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Chairman Moët @chairmanmoet.bsky.social · 2h

Something I've been thinking about is how in all the recent talk around how doomed the Tories are nobody has suggested, as a solution, a completely implausible return of Johnson as leader. Which... feels like progress?

James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 6h

It's almost exactly four years since Tim Shipman's notorious "Boris Johnson squats like a giant toad" tweet.

Seems like important context given how we often talk as though the next election – four years away – is a done deal.

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Chairman Moët @chairmanmoet.bsky.social · 3h

Not sure why the whole bedhead and Barbour, posh wellies and a pooch Sunday morning thing winds me up so much but it does.

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Chairman Moët @chairmanmoet.bsky.social · 6h

Having a cup of coffee in Gail's like a cliché Sunday morning twat.

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Chairman Moët @chairmanmoet.bsky.social · 7h

Everyone else has forgotten about Trump's shuttering of USAID but the experts the Nobel committee bring in to help them decide who should win the peace prize won't have and will be fully aware of the huge amount of damage it has caused.

Chairman Moët @chairmanmoet.bsky.social · 18h

Not sure "White House anger" merits a front page splash when they're already angry over the lack of North Sea drilling, the mayor of our capital, our crime rate, the recognition of a Palestinian state, off shore wind farms etc and it'll be a whole different set of issues next week.

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Chairman Moët @chairmanmoet.bsky.social · 23h

When my daughter's primary ran a lockdown drill they told the kids they were practising in case a cow tried to break into the school. Then two of the teachers ran around outside, dressed up as cows, loudly mooing and trying to get in, while the kids hid under their desks. They had a brilliant time.

The Times & Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 1d

Lockdown drills are becoming routine across the country, says Victoria Young. She asks the experts how parents should handle them

The latest US import? Preparing your child for a school attack

Lockdown drills are becoming routine across the country, says Victoria Young. She asks the experts how parents should handle them

www.thetimes.com

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Chairman Moët @chairmanmoet.bsky.social · 1d

It's notable how in politics, especially today, how those that seem almost hilariously bonkers are also the ones who are the most (darkly) consequential.

Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 1d

And that’s not even the end of pope-related weird news today, because it’s also the 37th anniversary of Ian Paisley denouncing John Paul II as the Antichrist in the European Parliament and being ejected by a Habsburg crown prince who is alleged to have punched him...

Odd this day

11 October 1988

mulberryhall.medium.com

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Chairman Moët @chairmanmoet.bsky.social · 1d

The best example was Fern Brady's What a Combo where she asked her guests what their favourite food combo(?) was and even she lost interest in the format about 20 seconds after she'd explained it.

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Chairman Moët @chairmanmoet.bsky.social · 1d

Is there some sort of law that means comedians can only have a podcast if it's centred around an incredibly clunky concept?
Sarah Millican opening Pie in the Sky by asking Stephen Merchant what pie filling would represent his childhood?

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Chairman Moët @chairmanmoet.bsky.social · 1d

Rachel Reeves just opened a new bottle of gin

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 1d

oh no

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Chairman Moët @chairmanmoet.bsky.social · 1d

The graphics for this Policy Exchange event makes it look like Chris Philp is being goaded by his gang into mugging you

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Chairman Moët @chairmanmoet.bsky.social · 1d

I think so. Also he doesn't want to wear anything too expensive in case he passes a shallow pond and sees a child in trouble

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Chairman Moët @chairmanmoet.bsky.social · 1d

In absent moments I catch myself wondering about Pete Singer's jacket on the episode on Hegel and Marx and the thinking, or lack of it, that lead to it being worn.

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Chairman Moët @chairmanmoet.bsky.social · 1d

I occasionally wonder why the BBC doesn't recommission something similar to this as it was brilliant and the only outlay appeared to be a corner of a studio, a sofa and a couple of camera operators. But if they did, who around today could possibly fill the role of Bryan Magee?

Angie Hobbs @profangiehobbs.bsky.social · 4d

BBC4 is repeating Bryan Magee’s 1987 series, The Great Philosophers, and I introduce it next Monday 13th at 22.30. I remember being very impressed when it went out that my wonderful PhD supervisor, Myles Burnyeat, was in the very first episode!

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Chairman Moët @chairmanmoet.bsky.social · 2d

Things I've been pondering - why everyone seems convinced now is one of the worst times for the UK state when far worse times (1970s,early 80s) are in living memory?
- why politicians always assume causes and solutions to our problems are UK specific when other countries seem to have similar issues?

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Chairman Moët @chairmanmoet.bsky.social · 2d

The other option of course is to chain a pair to your neck, like they do with pens in banks, but frankly like wearing elasticated trousers or comfortable shoes that's just a sign you've given up on life.

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Chairman Moët @chairmanmoet.bsky.social · 2d

The only way to operate as someone who needs reading glasses is to have at least 347 pairs left all over your house. Any less than that and you will spend at least 6 hours a day looking for a pair.

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Chairman Moët @chairmanmoet.bsky.social · 2d

Look, unless the Norwegians are genuinely terrified he might invade, the dissolution of USAID by itself guarantees Trump will never win the Nobel peace prize.

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Chairman Moët @chairmanmoet.bsky.social · 2d

It's funny when a new threat to children's educational development/attention span/mental health turns up old ones become almost wholesome. Would any parent today complain about children reading comic books? Gathering in the front room to watch terrestrial TV?

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Chairman Moët @chairmanmoet.bsky.social · 2d

Badenoch and Jenrick are psychologically incapable of following the strategy that everyone seems to believe is the only one that will save the party.

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Chairman Moët @chairmanmoet.bsky.social · 2d

Spent my afternoon walk listening to podcasts telling me how we now know what the Tory party stands for: sound money. Not culture war issues. Sound Money.