Paul McGee
@paulmcgee.bsky.social
Semi-pro loudmouth. No break greater than 4hrs yesterday.
"My mind ain't so open that anything could crawl right in..."
"My mind ain't so open that anything could crawl right in..."
Pinned
Moodier Blues IV
Soft music with hard corners
www.mixcloud.com
Something to listen to, should you be so inclined. www.mixcloud.com/Paul_McGee/m...
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'He's got to sell Ukraine to Russia' - Freudian by the President on that Air Force One clip.
November 26, 2025 at 7:18 AM
'He's got to sell Ukraine to Russia' - Freudian by the President on that Air Force One clip.
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And another! Stories and interviews with the team behind one of the BBC's greatest ever TV dramas – "a revenge thriller, a mystical nuclear-and-environmental-apocalypse fable, a clear-eyed political document of the mid-1980s, a ghost story" – by me for @thequietus.com thequietus.com/opinion-and-...
Why Edge Of Darkness makes so much sense in 2025 | The Quietus
Judge Rogers speaks to several key members of the team who made the ecologically-minded thriller for the BBC
thequietus.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:38 AM
And another! Stories and interviews with the team behind one of the BBC's greatest ever TV dramas – "a revenge thriller, a mystical nuclear-and-environmental-apocalypse fable, a clear-eyed political document of the mid-1980s, a ghost story" – by me for @thequietus.com thequietus.com/opinion-and-...
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Timeline.
🔴13 Nov - Ronaldo gets red card in Portugal’s game v ireland. (Should miss opening 2 games of World Cup.)
🟠18 Nov - Ronaldo meets Donald Trump at White House.
🟢25 Nov - FIFA clears Ronaldo to play in World Cup from start.
🔴13 Nov - Ronaldo gets red card in Portugal’s game v ireland. (Should miss opening 2 games of World Cup.)
🟠18 Nov - Ronaldo meets Donald Trump at White House.
🟢25 Nov - FIFA clears Ronaldo to play in World Cup from start.
November 25, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Timeline.
🔴13 Nov - Ronaldo gets red card in Portugal’s game v ireland. (Should miss opening 2 games of World Cup.)
🟠18 Nov - Ronaldo meets Donald Trump at White House.
🟢25 Nov - FIFA clears Ronaldo to play in World Cup from start.
🔴13 Nov - Ronaldo gets red card in Portugal’s game v ireland. (Should miss opening 2 games of World Cup.)
🟠18 Nov - Ronaldo meets Donald Trump at White House.
🟢25 Nov - FIFA clears Ronaldo to play in World Cup from start.
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We should stop dignifying people with high minded descriptors. Sometimes people are Just Cunts.
November 25, 2025 at 6:32 PM
We should stop dignifying people with high minded descriptors. Sometimes people are Just Cunts.
Narrator: Michael Prescott, David Grossman and Robbie Gibb were all unavailable for comment.
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Narrator: Michael Prescott, David Grossman and Robbie Gibb were all unavailable for comment.
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UK now at the point where the former Chair of the Racial Equalities Commission is calling for campaigns of terror against people of colour on the streets of the UK
Trevor Philips in the Times, calling for a Trump/Miller-style of random deportations based on skin colour.
archive.ph/RlXPj
archive.ph/RlXPj
November 24, 2025 at 11:05 PM
UK now at the point where the former Chair of the Racial Equalities Commission is calling for campaigns of terror against people of colour on the streets of the UK
"And that's the second one from Bovril Amphetamines, in session for us tonight, one of my favourite sessions for quite some time, as a matter of fact. Coming up next, the b-side of the new single by Bogshed - played the other side at completely the wrong speed last week... *chuckles*"
November 25, 2025 at 8:26 AM
"And that's the second one from Bovril Amphetamines, in session for us tonight, one of my favourite sessions for quite some time, as a matter of fact. Coming up next, the b-side of the new single by Bogshed - played the other side at completely the wrong speed last week... *chuckles*"
Thank God for the alt-text here, that's all I can say.
November 24, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Thank God for the alt-text here, that's all I can say.
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Contributing to Star Wars discourse by saying you can watch the 1980 New World cash-in written by John Sayles Battle Beyond the Stars right now, nobody can stop you or nothin'. youtu.be/igPrv6LTjKA?...
Battle Beyond The Stars
YouTube video by YouTube Movies
youtu.be
November 24, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Contributing to Star Wars discourse by saying you can watch the 1980 New World cash-in written by John Sayles Battle Beyond the Stars right now, nobody can stop you or nothin'. youtu.be/igPrv6LTjKA?...
A tremendous bit of writing on a great film.
Finally. My big 2800 word essay about One Battle After Another and its black women characters is live. www.vulture.com/article/blac...
Black Actresses Are Carrying One Battle After Another
Teyana Taylor, Chase Infiniti, and Regina Hall propel the film’s most conflicted ideas, for better and worse.
www.vulture.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:48 PM
A tremendous bit of writing on a great film.
Several people have correctly pointed out that Jimmy Cliff recorded and performed You Can Get It... on the soundtrack of The Harder They Come and had a minor 90s hit with a version of I Can See Clearly Now, so I ought to acknowledge that it's not as cut-and-dried as it might appear. 1/2
Obviously it's sad that one of Jamaican music's legendary figures has joined the ancestors, but fucking hell, The Guardian really needs to wind it in with the AI. It was Desmond Dekker who had the hit with You Can Get It If You Really Want, and I Can See Clearly Now was a hit for Johnny Nash.
November 24, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Several people have correctly pointed out that Jimmy Cliff recorded and performed You Can Get It... on the soundtrack of The Harder They Come and had a minor 90s hit with a version of I Can See Clearly Now, so I ought to acknowledge that it's not as cut-and-dried as it might appear. 1/2
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Obviously it's sad that one of Jamaican music's legendary figures has joined the ancestors, but fucking hell, The Guardian really needs to wind it in with the AI. It was Desmond Dekker who had the hit with You Can Get It If You Really Want, and I Can See Clearly Now was a hit for Johnny Nash.
November 24, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Obviously it's sad that one of Jamaican music's legendary figures has joined the ancestors, but fucking hell, The Guardian really needs to wind it in with the AI. It was Desmond Dekker who had the hit with You Can Get It If You Really Want, and I Can See Clearly Now was a hit for Johnny Nash.
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1) Start the worst European war since 1945 and commit every imaginable war crime
2) Decide how you want to be rewarded for your aggression
3) Leak the list of your desiderata to the US press
4) Wait for the US president to enforce your wish list on your victim.
Russian policy 2025
2) Decide how you want to be rewarded for your aggression
3) Leak the list of your desiderata to the US press
4) Wait for the US president to enforce your wish list on your victim.
Russian policy 2025
November 23, 2025 at 3:30 PM
1) Start the worst European war since 1945 and commit every imaginable war crime
2) Decide how you want to be rewarded for your aggression
3) Leak the list of your desiderata to the US press
4) Wait for the US president to enforce your wish list on your victim.
Russian policy 2025
2) Decide how you want to be rewarded for your aggression
3) Leak the list of your desiderata to the US press
4) Wait for the US president to enforce your wish list on your victim.
Russian policy 2025
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The glorious future which we must trash data protection and copyright for
November 23, 2025 at 11:17 AM
The glorious future which we must trash data protection and copyright for
Listening to Broadcast's b-sides/rarities comp The Future Crayon, and I don't half miss them. Trish Keenan's death was such a loss. I'd love for one of the new pop girlies to "discover" them and evangelise about them, or for an "out of nowhere" TikTok hit to put them back in the conversation.
November 23, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Listening to Broadcast's b-sides/rarities comp The Future Crayon, and I don't half miss them. Trish Keenan's death was such a loss. I'd love for one of the new pop girlies to "discover" them and evangelise about them, or for an "out of nowhere" TikTok hit to put them back in the conversation.
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If there is a CEASEFIRE in place and a country continues firing, that is not a “test“ that is a violation. There’s no wiggle room here, that is the inarguable objective reality. This is, non hyperbolically, logic that a 5-year-old would understand. But somehow it cannot be said by mainstream media.
November 22, 2025 at 4:33 PM
If there is a CEASEFIRE in place and a country continues firing, that is not a “test“ that is a violation. There’s no wiggle room here, that is the inarguable objective reality. This is, non hyperbolically, logic that a 5-year-old would understand. But somehow it cannot be said by mainstream media.
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Can I also just say that this is brilliant reporting by my pal Jude, questioning not only where Westminster's priorities lie but how we consume our news & what that means when things like this get ignored:
I also write about how little the floods have been covered in national newspapers, and how appalled I am that the Prime Minister has said nothing to the people of Monmouthshire directly. Please read and share. www.thenerve.news/p/storm-clau...
Storm Claudia puts Wales under water – why did these record-breaking floods barely make the news?
On the frontline of a deluge on the Welsh borders, Jude Rogers heard local stories of devastation and heroism – but incredibly the disaster was hardly referred to in Westminster and the national press
www.thenerve.news
November 23, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Can I also just say that this is brilliant reporting by my pal Jude, questioning not only where Westminster's priorities lie but how we consume our news & what that means when things like this get ignored:
"🎶 It is old and it is beautiful, and its colours they are fine, it was worn at Derry, Aughrim, Enniskillen and the Boyne, SING ALONG NOW!"
November 23, 2025 at 9:58 AM
"🎶 It is old and it is beautiful, and its colours they are fine, it was worn at Derry, Aughrim, Enniskillen and the Boyne, SING ALONG NOW!"
Two of the 🐐 - happy birthday to one of my legit musical influences and all-time favourite musicians.
Happy 75th birthday to Tina Weymouth. Love this photo of her and Grandmaster Flash, taken by Laura Levine in 1981. Spotted at MAC's fab Golden Age of Hip Hop exhibition in Marseille several years ago
November 22, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Two of the 🐐 - happy birthday to one of my legit musical influences and all-time favourite musicians.
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Sorry to keep banging on about it but it's literally *they are on Twitter and think it's the majority view*
This is pretty striking and makes me wonder exactly what Labour have been up to in making policy seemingly in response to / fear of the former rather than the middle group.
Why do people think England flags have been raised on lampposts?
White adults
National pride: 26%
Anti-migrant/minority sentiment: 49%
Both: 19%
Ethnic minority adults
National pride: 15%
Anti-migrant/minority sentiment: 55%
Both: 20%
yougov.co.uk/society/arti...
White adults
National pride: 26%
Anti-migrant/minority sentiment: 49%
Both: 19%
Ethnic minority adults
National pride: 15%
Anti-migrant/minority sentiment: 55%
Both: 20%
yougov.co.uk/society/arti...
November 22, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Sorry to keep banging on about it but it's literally *they are on Twitter and think it's the majority view*
Funny people can get one in the back of the head too, y'know.
November 21, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Funny people can get one in the back of the head too, y'know.
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trump is, first and foremost, a starfucker
November 21, 2025 at 9:13 PM
trump is, first and foremost, a starfucker
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If you live in the UK, especially Manchester, or if you appreciate community-based artists' co-ops, please consider donating to the Bankley Studios & Gallery's fundraiser. (My friend, Ciara, is a member,) After 35 years, they're facing unwarranted eviction. Your donation will help them fight.
Donate to Save Bankley Studios & Gallery, organized by Ciara Leeming
Bankley Studios & Gallery, one of Manchester’s longest-running creative spaces, is facing… Ciara Leeming needs your support for Save Bankley Studios & Gallery
gofund.me
November 21, 2025 at 8:40 PM
If you live in the UK, especially Manchester, or if you appreciate community-based artists' co-ops, please consider donating to the Bankley Studios & Gallery's fundraiser. (My friend, Ciara, is a member,) After 35 years, they're facing unwarranted eviction. Your donation will help them fight.
I know for a fact Fatboy Slim's label hit Lord Finesse off with a *nice* bit of scratch for "check it out now, the funk soul brother" on Rockafeller Skank, but I never did find out if they offered Angela Bassett the same deal.
There’s nothing like the dopamine hit from the first time you recognize that Fatboy Slim sampled Angela Bassett’s line in STRANGE DAYS (1995) for “Right Here, Right Now”.
November 21, 2025 at 7:52 PM
I know for a fact Fatboy Slim's label hit Lord Finesse off with a *nice* bit of scratch for "check it out now, the funk soul brother" on Rockafeller Skank, but I never did find out if they offered Angela Bassett the same deal.