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Two things.
Mandelson being given ambassador job. Utter disgrace.
But this type of Shitefull behaviour was an everyday scandalette under Johnson.
The current administration still aren’t a patch on the last bunch of inept and corrupt posh boys.
Mandelson being given ambassador job. Utter disgrace.
But this type of Shitefull behaviour was an everyday scandalette under Johnson.
The current administration still aren’t a patch on the last bunch of inept and corrupt posh boys.
February 5, 2026 at 3:46 PM
Two things.
Mandelson being given ambassador job. Utter disgrace.
But this type of Shitefull behaviour was an everyday scandalette under Johnson.
The current administration still aren’t a patch on the last bunch of inept and corrupt posh boys.
Mandelson being given ambassador job. Utter disgrace.
But this type of Shitefull behaviour was an everyday scandalette under Johnson.
The current administration still aren’t a patch on the last bunch of inept and corrupt posh boys.
The most cost effective way of achieving was resisted over a decade ago by MPs like Jacob Rees Mogg who are no longer there. Politicians are merely the guests staying there. The tax payer owns the place, how are MPs able to contest how taxes get spent? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Parliament revamp could cost £40bn and take 61 years
MPs and peers are presented with two renovation options and told to make a decision by the mid-2030s.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 5, 2026 at 3:43 PM
The most cost effective way of achieving was resisted over a decade ago by MPs like Jacob Rees Mogg who are no longer there. Politicians are merely the guests staying there. The tax payer owns the place, how are MPs able to contest how taxes get spent? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Absolute chills
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
#Pinks #ProudBlue
February 5, 2026 at 12:40 PM
Absolute chills
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Weird and almost universal revisionism today. Even at the time, it was pretty clear that Mandelson wasn't appointed *despite* his dodgy links but *because* of them. Trump's Washington is a dirty swamp. Mandelson was deemed a man able to swim in it. This wasn't a secret. Everybody said it out loud.
February 4, 2026 at 8:55 PM
Weird and almost universal revisionism today. Even at the time, it was pretty clear that Mandelson wasn't appointed *despite* his dodgy links but *because* of them. Trump's Washington is a dirty swamp. Mandelson was deemed a man able to swim in it. This wasn't a secret. Everybody said it out loud.
Apparently taxis to move asylum seekers are poor value because the providers are willing to rip off the taxpayer. So why aren’t the cab firms the bad guy here? Why isn’t the Daily Mail berating the greed?
February 5, 2026 at 8:48 AM
Apparently taxis to move asylum seekers are poor value because the providers are willing to rip off the taxpayer. So why aren’t the cab firms the bad guy here? Why isn’t the Daily Mail berating the greed?
February 3, 2026 at 9:53 PM
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Up at Silverwood Park in St Anthony, MN, they built an ice carousel. Drill a hole in the ice, put in an outboard motor, cut the ice in a big circle, fire up the outboard, ice carousel.
People do fun weird shit outside in Minnesota all winter long. Park was packed. It’s delightful here.
People do fun weird shit outside in Minnesota all winter long. Park was packed. It’s delightful here.
February 3, 2026 at 1:17 AM
Up at Silverwood Park in St Anthony, MN, they built an ice carousel. Drill a hole in the ice, put in an outboard motor, cut the ice in a big circle, fire up the outboard, ice carousel.
People do fun weird shit outside in Minnesota all winter long. Park was packed. It’s delightful here.
People do fun weird shit outside in Minnesota all winter long. Park was packed. It’s delightful here.
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Tomorrow I fly back to the Lofoten Islands in the Norwegian Arctic. Last year the first night we arrived I filmed this outrageous combination of full moon rainbow combined with Northern Lights. Hard to imagine how this year could top it, but fingers crossed!
February 2, 2026 at 5:19 PM
Tomorrow I fly back to the Lofoten Islands in the Norwegian Arctic. Last year the first night we arrived I filmed this outrageous combination of full moon rainbow combined with Northern Lights. Hard to imagine how this year could top it, but fingers crossed!
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I absolutely burst out laughing
February 2, 2026 at 9:13 PM
I absolutely burst out laughing
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Melania sounds like the official veterinary term, Trump what they call it in the villages.
February 2, 2026 at 12:17 AM
Melania sounds like the official veterinary term, Trump what they call it in the villages.
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We're staying with Harold & Muriel Felshaw who have an electric organ.
February 2, 2026 at 8:48 AM
We're staying with Harold & Muriel Felshaw who have an electric organ.
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My fave Kubrick anecdote: David Prowse on acting in A Clockwork Orange:
'So you want me to carry Patrick Magee, who weighs 17Olbs, plus the wheelchair, another 30lbs, so 200lbs, down the stairs & then do a dialogue scene?'
'Yeah, you can do it.'
'I know but your name isn't One Take Kubrick, is it?'
'So you want me to carry Patrick Magee, who weighs 17Olbs, plus the wheelchair, another 30lbs, so 200lbs, down the stairs & then do a dialogue scene?'
'Yeah, you can do it.'
'I know but your name isn't One Take Kubrick, is it?'
January 31, 2026 at 5:24 PM
My fave Kubrick anecdote: David Prowse on acting in A Clockwork Orange:
'So you want me to carry Patrick Magee, who weighs 17Olbs, plus the wheelchair, another 30lbs, so 200lbs, down the stairs & then do a dialogue scene?'
'Yeah, you can do it.'
'I know but your name isn't One Take Kubrick, is it?'
'So you want me to carry Patrick Magee, who weighs 17Olbs, plus the wheelchair, another 30lbs, so 200lbs, down the stairs & then do a dialogue scene?'
'Yeah, you can do it.'
'I know but your name isn't One Take Kubrick, is it?'
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People that are upset about 15 minute cities.
February 1, 2026 at 1:47 PM
People that are upset about 15 minute cities.
So I take it that Melania is no Triumph of the Will.
Enten: "Historical critics don't really like Melania Trump either. Just take a look, historians' First Lady rankings -- dead last! Melania Trump"
January 29, 2026 at 3:19 PM
So I take it that Melania is no Triumph of the Will.
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This isn't mine, and I can't definitively find the original source. But I love this little bit of wisdom:
"If you're a fifteen-minute walk from a coffee shop, but the server there has to drive an hour to get to work, you don't live in a walkable city. You live in a theme park."
"If you're a fifteen-minute walk from a coffee shop, but the server there has to drive an hour to get to work, you don't live in a walkable city. You live in a theme park."
For all the fearmongering about capital flight from New York City, there’s an exodus few want to talk about: working people.
Sky-high rents and outrageous child care costs are already pushing families out of the city they keep running.
That’s what we have to change.
That’s what we have to change.
January 28, 2026 at 7:59 PM
This isn't mine, and I can't definitively find the original source. But I love this little bit of wisdom:
"If you're a fifteen-minute walk from a coffee shop, but the server there has to drive an hour to get to work, you don't live in a walkable city. You live in a theme park."
"If you're a fifteen-minute walk from a coffee shop, but the server there has to drive an hour to get to work, you don't live in a walkable city. You live in a theme park."
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SOMEONE CALL THE GUINNESS BOOK OF RECORDS. I have found the most middle class review ever on Ocado for Comte cheese.
Steady yourselves for this
Ready? You’re not even close to being ready
Steady yourselves for this
Ready? You’re not even close to being ready
January 28, 2026 at 1:57 PM
SOMEONE CALL THE GUINNESS BOOK OF RECORDS. I have found the most middle class review ever on Ocado for Comte cheese.
Steady yourselves for this
Ready? You’re not even close to being ready
Steady yourselves for this
Ready? You’re not even close to being ready
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I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
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January 28, 2026 at 5:02 PM
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
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Ever tried boiled pasta? Not as crunchy but still good
January 26, 2026 at 11:16 AM
Ever tried boiled pasta? Not as crunchy but still good
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Laugh all you want but this will win the inaugural FIFA Best Picture Award!
Amazon’s MGM studios spent tens of millions, but the documentary is projected to make just $1M in its first week.
This comes as a new report from Rolling Stone details serious labor issues and two-thirds of the film’s staff requesting not to be credited at the end of the film. trib.al/Clr03cD
This comes as a new report from Rolling Stone details serious labor issues and two-thirds of the film’s staff requesting not to be credited at the end of the film. trib.al/Clr03cD
Melania Documentary Flops as Crew Reveals Behind-the-Scenes Chaos
The first lady’s documentary was a mess in production—and now it’s struggling at the box office.
trib.al
January 27, 2026 at 10:02 PM
Laugh all you want but this will win the inaugural FIFA Best Picture Award!
This was the year I visited the Post Office Tower. I remember looking down at a scrap yard over the road, behind a petrol station in the centre of London.
The modern world in old Ladybird books
London skyline, 1968
Artist: Robert Ayton
The story of Radio
London skyline, 1968
Artist: Robert Ayton
The story of Radio
January 27, 2026 at 8:31 AM
This was the year I visited the Post Office Tower. I remember looking down at a scrap yard over the road, behind a petrol station in the centre of London.
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Imagine drumming on Double Barrel when you're 18, then going on to play on Police And Thieves, Pull Up To The Bumper, and a million crucial recordings. And, of course, Boops (a track I often get obsessed with). Like the LP title, Sly Dunbar was a Rhythm Killer. R.I.P. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVIs...
Sly And Robbie - Boops Here To Go [1987] Official Music Video Remastered @Videos80s
YouTube video by 80's 90's Music Video's Remastered @Videos80s
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January 26, 2026 at 6:31 PM
Imagine drumming on Double Barrel when you're 18, then going on to play on Police And Thieves, Pull Up To The Bumper, and a million crucial recordings. And, of course, Boops (a track I often get obsessed with). Like the LP title, Sly Dunbar was a Rhythm Killer. R.I.P. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVIs...