Twlldun
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Pragmatism. Is that all you have to offer?
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I remember it being about empire of the sun, too, but can’t remember where I read / heard that.
December 1, 2025 at 7:19 PM
I remember it being about empire of the sun, too, but can’t remember where I read / heard that.
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Patrick Marber says Stoppard really liked Jaws a lot and watched it often. Don't know whether that also plays into it.
December 1, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Patrick Marber says Stoppard really liked Jaws a lot and watched it often. Don't know whether that also plays into it.
The *first* reason I think it’s bollocks is Tom Stoppard didn’t write a BBC radio play between 1972 and 1982.
That David Mamet anecdote about Tom Stoppard and Jaws is bollocks isn’t it?
December 1, 2025 at 6:51 PM
The *first* reason I think it’s bollocks is Tom Stoppard didn’t write a BBC radio play between 1972 and 1982.
That David Mamet anecdote about Tom Stoppard and Jaws is bollocks isn’t it?
December 1, 2025 at 6:49 PM
That David Mamet anecdote about Tom Stoppard and Jaws is bollocks isn’t it?
I’m trying to think and off the top of my head I’ve got Truss sacking Kwarteng and Major sacking Lamont (and that was a technical resignation because he wouldn’t accept a demotion) and then it’s…who? Selwyn Lloyd in 1960, and that was the beginning of the end for MacMillan
It's an axiom of UK politics that PMs don't sack chancellors and everyone seems to have, deliberately or not, forgotten that.
December 1, 2025 at 3:44 PM
I’m trying to think and off the top of my head I’ve got Truss sacking Kwarteng and Major sacking Lamont (and that was a technical resignation because he wouldn’t accept a demotion) and then it’s…who? Selwyn Lloyd in 1960, and that was the beginning of the end for MacMillan
Tony Hopkins gives you close on sixty years top notch performances and also some ripe ripe ham
This is a Bill Simmons game, but you’re stranded on a desert island. You can only have one actor’s filmography. You get it all, including cameos. But just the one performer.
I’m taking Cate Blanchett: Talented Mr. Ripley, LOTR, Life Aquatic, Black Bag, Tár, Ponyo, Hot Fuzz, Eyes Wide Shut, Thor
I’m taking Cate Blanchett: Talented Mr. Ripley, LOTR, Life Aquatic, Black Bag, Tár, Ponyo, Hot Fuzz, Eyes Wide Shut, Thor
December 1, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Tony Hopkins gives you close on sixty years top notch performances and also some ripe ripe ham
Yeah it needs to be someone who wasn’t a supporting character
Probably needs a Rees-Mogg, Williamson or Raab to fully enter "hang on, these are the same arseholes we kicked out" territory.
December 1, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Yeah it needs to be someone who wasn’t a supporting character
I don’t think anyone will much notice with Gullis but surely sooner or later the embracing of Tory retreads is going to take the shine off Reform’s outsider charm?
December 1, 2025 at 12:13 PM
I don’t think anyone will much notice with Gullis but surely sooner or later the embracing of Tory retreads is going to take the shine off Reform’s outsider charm?
Another day of 6 music running on a ludicrous made up scandal that makes no sense but gets Dan Hodges excited.
December 1, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Another day of 6 music running on a ludicrous made up scandal that makes no sense but gets Dan Hodges excited.
Great, Monday and I’ve been reminded of the existence of the worst ever social media account
There is not a single thing posted by this account that I believe to be something she observed in real life.
December 1, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Great, Monday and I’ve been reminded of the existence of the worst ever social media account
Telegraph headlines that double as reminders of what your student gatherings were like:
November 30, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Telegraph headlines that double as reminders of what your student gatherings were like:
Just went to sell some deer carcasses at the butcher in Saint Denis in Red Dead Redemption Online and he said to me “I’ve known Sam Freedman long enough to know it’s mostly bluster”, which absolutely threw me.
I wrote for @theobserveruk.bsky.social on the special needs problem highlighted by the budget and the big political battle over it coming next year.
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November 30, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Just went to sell some deer carcasses at the butcher in Saint Denis in Red Dead Redemption Online and he said to me “I’ve known Sam Freedman long enough to know it’s mostly bluster”, which absolutely threw me.
All news is local
November 30, 2025 at 1:22 PM
All news is local
Huge fan of the classic understatement on this recreated vintage poster
November 30, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Huge fan of the classic understatement on this recreated vintage poster
Dogs put down the Queens tail real antique jump
November 30, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Dogs put down the Queens tail real antique jump
Wise words from Your Party
I don't understand what is written on the screen in this photo, but it gives me life. Is it Dostoevsky?
November 30, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Wise words from Your Party
Honestly, I have *no* idea whether this attempt at a scandal will actually take hold but it really does say something about the tories that they are trying to do this over something confused, deeply technical and - let’s be honest here - deeply boring.
This OBR/Treasury row on who said what, when... is very muddy and complicated.
A few points:
• idea that the OBR said on Oct 31 Reeves was already meeting her target by £4b isn't really the full picture - fcast excluded the welfare u-turns since March (some media have pointed that out, others not)
A few points:
• idea that the OBR said on Oct 31 Reeves was already meeting her target by £4b isn't really the full picture - fcast excluded the welfare u-turns since March (some media have pointed that out, others not)
November 30, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Honestly, I have *no* idea whether this attempt at a scandal will actually take hold but it really does say something about the tories that they are trying to do this over something confused, deeply technical and - let’s be honest here - deeply boring.
YASSSSSSS! GET IN! MAXIMUM CHAOS!
November 30, 2025 at 10:48 AM
YASSSSSSS! GET IN! MAXIMUM CHAOS!
Apparently the government trying to make the gilt market more in its favour is akin to insider trading, and the FCA should be involved, according to the tories and Dan Hodges. I mean, what the fuck are you people talking about?
The government attempted to move the gilt market to benefit…the government. Film at 11.
November 30, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Apparently the government trying to make the gilt market more in its favour is akin to insider trading, and the FCA should be involved, according to the tories and Dan Hodges. I mean, what the fuck are you people talking about?
I’m enjoying the shuddering 180 from “Rachel Reeves should resign because the economy is in the toilet and we are all doomed” to “Rachel Reeves should resign because the economy is not in the toilet and we are not all doomed”. It really is the perfect reverse ferret.
November 30, 2025 at 9:41 AM
I’m enjoying the shuddering 180 from “Rachel Reeves should resign because the economy is in the toilet and we are all doomed” to “Rachel Reeves should resign because the economy is not in the toilet and we are not all doomed”. It really is the perfect reverse ferret.
These 4 bits of dialogue, one comic monologue, one serious monologue, and two back and forths, all on the same subject - mortality - immaculate writing
November 30, 2025 at 9:21 AM
These 4 bits of dialogue, one comic monologue, one serious monologue, and two back and forths, all on the same subject - mortality - immaculate writing
This is how I discover that Mark Chadbourn has blocked me, I assume for my repeatedly saying in threads “Mark Chadbourn is such a bullshit merchant”
PENTAGON PIZZA TRACKER ISNT REAL PENTAGON PIZZA TRACKER ISNT REAL PENTAGON PIZZA TRACKER ISNT REAL PENTAGON PIZZA TRACKER ISNT REAL PENTAGON PIZZA TRACKER ISNT REAL
November 29, 2025 at 11:26 PM
This is how I discover that Mark Chadbourn has blocked me, I assume for my repeatedly saying in threads “Mark Chadbourn is such a bullshit merchant”
He really is the strangest communist
Soon small businesses won’t have to wait for Small Business Saturday to get attention from their Mayor.
Some changes that they can look forward to:
Some changes that they can look forward to:
November 29, 2025 at 11:04 PM
He really is the strangest communist