David Carrington
@dwcarrington.bsky.social
Creator and procrastinator of Southend The Great. Experiencing writers block since first getting a word processor.
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For the record, Robin Ince is a superb comedian, an absolute mensch, a remarkable thinker and the kindest human you’ll ever meet. And the BBC is a genuinely great and globally unique institution that needs to stop being afraid. I think that’s where most of its faults and issues stem from.
December 13, 2025 at 11:21 AM
For the record, Robin Ince is a superb comedian, an absolute mensch, a remarkable thinker and the kindest human you’ll ever meet. And the BBC is a genuinely great and globally unique institution that needs to stop being afraid. I think that’s where most of its faults and issues stem from.
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Meanwhile Robin Ince genuinely has been cancelled for daring to voice his opinions and for defending trans people.
Where's the outrage from the "cancel culture" lot?
What are the Free Speech Union doing to help him?
Where's the outrage from the "cancel culture" lot?
What are the Free Speech Union doing to help him?
Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people
December 13, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Meanwhile Robin Ince genuinely has been cancelled for daring to voice his opinions and for defending trans people.
Where's the outrage from the "cancel culture" lot?
What are the Free Speech Union doing to help him?
Where's the outrage from the "cancel culture" lot?
What are the Free Speech Union doing to help him?
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Here is a bit of my resignation speech from last night
Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people
December 13, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Here is a bit of my resignation speech from last night
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Christmas, innit. How about we get some things for women and children with nothing who are escaping domestic violence? You can do that, as ever, via the brilliant Refuge. Check this out: donate.refuge.org.uk/page/180196/...
Buy a parcel and help give mums and their children in our refuges their first Christmas of freedom.
When a child arrives at a refuge in the countdown to Christmas, they’re withdrawn and in shock.
donate.refuge.org.uk
December 14, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Christmas, innit. How about we get some things for women and children with nothing who are escaping domestic violence? You can do that, as ever, via the brilliant Refuge. Check this out: donate.refuge.org.uk/page/180196/...
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very weird to see American speeding ticket discourse on this website. just… don’t speed? if you don’t want to get a ticket? or indeed don’t want to seriously endanger yourself, and your passengers, and other people?
December 13, 2025 at 8:34 PM
very weird to see American speeding ticket discourse on this website. just… don’t speed? if you don’t want to get a ticket? or indeed don’t want to seriously endanger yourself, and your passengers, and other people?
How about actually making the case FOR the universalism of human rights and treating people seeking asylum with dignity and compassion instead of pandering to the far right’s agenda? How about actually leading a progressive agenda worthy of the name?
Starmer urges Europe’s leaders to curb ECHR to halt rise of far right
Exclusive: PM calls for members of European convention on human rights to allow tougher action to protect borders
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 6:19 AM
How about actually making the case FOR the universalism of human rights and treating people seeking asylum with dignity and compassion instead of pandering to the far right’s agenda? How about actually leading a progressive agenda worthy of the name?
Can someone edit today’s Ashes highlights to the soundtrack of Ben Folds’ Picture Window:
“You know what hope is?
Hope is a bastard
Hope is a liar
A cheat and a tease.”
“You know what hope is?
Hope is a bastard
Hope is a liar
A cheat and a tease.”
December 5, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Can someone edit today’s Ashes highlights to the soundtrack of Ben Folds’ Picture Window:
“You know what hope is?
Hope is a bastard
Hope is a liar
A cheat and a tease.”
“You know what hope is?
Hope is a bastard
Hope is a liar
A cheat and a tease.”
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people have been saying “europe will be unrecognisable in twenty years!” for over fifty years and by people i mean cunts
December 5, 2025 at 8:40 AM
people have been saying “europe will be unrecognisable in twenty years!” for over fifty years and by people i mean cunts
Making all the references for the 20-somethings in my office today: Jackie Mason, Don Rickles, Shane Warne…
November 20, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Making all the references for the 20-somethings in my office today: Jackie Mason, Don Rickles, Shane Warne…
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But does he have what it takes to get the Labour Party back on track and turn the country around? Also no.
Is Wes Streeting a popular politician? The answer is no.
November 12, 2025 at 10:40 AM
But does he have what it takes to get the Labour Party back on track and turn the country around? Also no.
Jac Morgan is just unreal as a player.
November 9, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Jac Morgan is just unreal as a player.
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A very worrying escalation of online harassment.
Somebody has used a video of me saying "racism in football is a game of two halves" + put a fake voiceover on it saying "what I would say to the girls of Rotherham is it is a game of two halves"
x.com/EuropaIneffa...
Somebody has used a video of me saying "racism in football is a game of two halves" + put a fake voiceover on it saying "what I would say to the girls of Rotherham is it is a game of two halves"
x.com/EuropaIneffa...
Europa Ineffable on X: "In a recent panel at what looks like Labour conference, Sunder Katwala, wearing an England shirt, appeared to compare the R🦍 GANGS to a football match: "it's a game of two halves" 🥴 https://t.co/b5YNKyaQtu" / X
In a recent panel at what looks like Labour conference, Sunder Katwala, wearing an England shirt, appeared to compare the R🦍 GANGS to a football match
x.com
October 24, 2025 at 4:21 PM
A very worrying escalation of online harassment.
Somebody has used a video of me saying "racism in football is a game of two halves" + put a fake voiceover on it saying "what I would say to the girls of Rotherham is it is a game of two halves"
x.com/EuropaIneffa...
Somebody has used a video of me saying "racism in football is a game of two halves" + put a fake voiceover on it saying "what I would say to the girls of Rotherham is it is a game of two halves"
x.com/EuropaIneffa...
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FM26 drops later this evening. I've had a few hours on an early, incomplete version. Here's what I thought....
I had the chance to have a tinker on an early build of FM26 last week, here's what I made of it...
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October 23, 2025 at 6:11 PM
FM26 drops later this evening. I've had a few hours on an early, incomplete version. Here's what I thought....
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I cannot quite describe how it feels to hear a proposal to deport millions of people coming from the ostensible 'right of centre' party. I cannot tell you how it feels to know this while waiting for my son's heart surgery: a claim on healthcare that would see me deported under this proposal.
Ostensibly the party of law and order with a plan to deport migrants even if they’ve done nothing more than live here legally and claim support to which they’ve contributed and are entitled. Years of targeting migrants disguised as concern about legality paving the way to this and open violence.
Here Lam explicitly sets out her proposal - which is official Conservative Party policy - to deport long-standing legal permanent residents who have *ever* claimed any benefit, including the state pension or child benefit (even if the child is British), or who earn less than £39K.
October 22, 2025 at 8:22 AM
I cannot quite describe how it feels to hear a proposal to deport millions of people coming from the ostensible 'right of centre' party. I cannot tell you how it feels to know this while waiting for my son's heart surgery: a claim on healthcare that would see me deported under this proposal.
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If *any* dependent receives *any* form of social protection at any point, you lose your legal status, as drafted. It is sloppy, mad & ludicrously extreme all at once
October 22, 2025 at 6:46 AM
If *any* dependent receives *any* form of social protection at any point, you lose your legal status, as drafted. It is sloppy, mad & ludicrously extreme all at once
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People who have come to the United Kingdom legally, played by the rules and made it their home do not need to “go home”. This is their home.
I've written to Kemi Badenoch to give her the chance to reject these divisive calls from her frontbencher Katie Lam.
I've written to Kemi Badenoch to give her the chance to reject these divisive calls from her frontbencher Katie Lam.
October 22, 2025 at 8:32 AM
People who have come to the United Kingdom legally, played by the rules and made it their home do not need to “go home”. This is their home.
I've written to Kemi Badenoch to give her the chance to reject these divisive calls from her frontbencher Katie Lam.
I've written to Kemi Badenoch to give her the chance to reject these divisive calls from her frontbencher Katie Lam.
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Labour is not sure how to respond, partly because its own policy is ambiguous
Senior Labour figures have expressed dismay at the Party's "cowardly" and "incompetent" response to Tory shadow minister Katie Lam calling for legal migrants to "go home".
"What’s the point of us saying we’re anti-racist when we fail to call out racism," said one MP.
"What’s the point of us saying we’re anti-racist when we fail to call out racism," said one MP.
Exclusive: Labour Anger Erupts Over Party's Response To Katie Lam Immigration Row
"What’s the point of us saying we’re anti-racist when we fail to call out racism," said one MP.
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
October 22, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Labour is not sure how to respond, partly because its own policy is ambiguous
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Disappointed in Labour (again) but very relieved to see this scandal gathering pace when it felt like hardly anyone had noticed it on Monday. Fair play to @sundersays.bsky.social for highlighting it tirelessly.
Senior Labour figures have expressed dismay at the Party's "cowardly" and "incompetent" response to Tory shadow minister Katie Lam calling for legal migrants to "go home".
"What’s the point of us saying we’re anti-racist when we fail to call out racism," said one MP.
"What’s the point of us saying we’re anti-racist when we fail to call out racism," said one MP.
Exclusive: Labour Anger Erupts Over Party's Response To Katie Lam Immigration Row
"What’s the point of us saying we’re anti-racist when we fail to call out racism," said one MP.
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
October 22, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Disappointed in Labour (again) but very relieved to see this scandal gathering pace when it felt like hardly anyone had noticed it on Monday. Fair play to @sundersays.bsky.social for highlighting it tirelessly.
October 12, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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No sudden rupture is now required for the far right to take power in this country. For what we're seeing is a steady normalisation of extremists by the Conservative and Labour Parties, BBC, Telegraph, Mail and others. A shift once considered unthinkable beings to look acceptable, even inevitable.🧵
October 7, 2025 at 7:43 AM
No sudden rupture is now required for the far right to take power in this country. For what we're seeing is a steady normalisation of extremists by the Conservative and Labour Parties, BBC, Telegraph, Mail and others. A shift once considered unthinkable beings to look acceptable, even inevitable.🧵
Happy new Pynchon novel release day!!!
October 7, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Happy new Pynchon novel release day!!!
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October 3, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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