Ben Dunnell
@bendunnell.bsky.social
Your mother’s in a care home and SHE’S BEEN DRUGGED? TO KEEP HER QUIET? FOR THE CONVENIENCE OF THE STAFF? (Personal account.)
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It’s so noticeable when you compare TV news coverage. The news should be scary and serious. Today’s breezy tone is all wrong. Watch a 1970s episode of Newsround and it - seriously - addresses the audience in a more adult fashion then the main news does now.
Again, I would advise people to go read the media from 50 years ago. Sure, there was absolutely an awkward stiffness that the death of deference got rid of and I prefer it but they talked to you like adults in a way that very few newspapers do today.
I don't think it's all of it by any measure but I do absolutely believe that the political media's raging anti-intellectual streak has got worse with time and has ended up influencing the way MPs talk, and what they choose to talk/think about
November 29, 2025 at 12:02 AM
It’s so noticeable when you compare TV news coverage. The news should be scary and serious. Today’s breezy tone is all wrong. Watch a 1970s episode of Newsround and it - seriously - addresses the audience in a more adult fashion then the main news does now.
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ah yay yes, let's bring in the rape apologists
Sultana says she would reverse the expulsions of SWP and other communists kicked out for "dual membership" in recent weeks
November 28, 2025 at 11:01 PM
ah yay yes, let's bring in the rape apologists
Oh, the temptation to write in and suggest another topic for Moore Moments: “in a moving conversation with herself, Hannah Ingram-Moore explores why no-one just fucks off out of public life in disgrace any more.”
November 28, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Oh, the temptation to write in and suggest another topic for Moore Moments: “in a moving conversation with herself, Hannah Ingram-Moore explores why no-one just fucks off out of public life in disgrace any more.”
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Jesus fucking Christ.
November 28, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Jesus fucking Christ.
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What a great headline
November 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
What a great headline
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Details of CPUK’s Black Friday deals attached.
a man in a purple vest and bow tie is making a funny face .
ALT: a man in a purple vest and bow tie is making a funny face .
media.tenor.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Details of CPUK’s Black Friday deals attached.
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‘we were only at the reform conference because there was a nice cathedral nearby’
November 28, 2025 at 5:53 PM
‘we were only at the reform conference because there was a nice cathedral nearby’
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Stop it with all this made up nonsense not-a-real-thing ‘Black Friday’ crap, please…just let me enjoy my Dolmio Day in peace.
November 28, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Stop it with all this made up nonsense not-a-real-thing ‘Black Friday’ crap, please…just let me enjoy my Dolmio Day in peace.
This is probably true, and arguably has one of its worst manifestations in Ed Miliband’s online output, which ought to be considered career-endingly cringe-inducing for a senior politician, but which is illustrative of where we are now.
I don't think it's all of it by any measure but I do absolutely believe that the political media's raging anti-intellectual streak has got worse with time and has ended up influencing the way MPs talk, and what they choose to talk/think about
I don’t think this is a “politicians have got dumber” issue for the most part. If you look at the *actual CVs* of previous cohorts of MPs, their background is not radically different when you account for, you know, the fact the economy is different! It is primarily a media and ecosystem issue.
November 28, 2025 at 4:07 PM
This is probably true, and arguably has one of its worst manifestations in Ed Miliband’s online output, which ought to be considered career-endingly cringe-inducing for a senior politician, but which is illustrative of where we are now.
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Just cancel your Netflix subscription and stop buying avocados. You'll be fine
November 28, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Just cancel your Netflix subscription and stop buying avocados. You'll be fine
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So, my home town is having a meltdown on social media because a 50 year old brick and concrete bus shelter is being taken down to make way for a modern replacement.
Facebook posts commenced. Several a day on the Community pages.
An online petition was started.
And now... This.
Facebook posts commenced. Several a day on the Community pages.
An online petition was started.
And now... This.
November 28, 2025 at 1:03 PM
So, my home town is having a meltdown on social media because a 50 year old brick and concrete bus shelter is being taken down to make way for a modern replacement.
Facebook posts commenced. Several a day on the Community pages.
An online petition was started.
And now... This.
Facebook posts commenced. Several a day on the Community pages.
An online petition was started.
And now... This.
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There was no state. Who does she think crucified him, an anarchist collective?
November 28, 2025 at 11:22 AM
There was no state. Who does she think crucified him, an anarchist collective?
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Hong Kong fire and Grenfell are just alike. Fire spreading through unsafe building materials installed due to penny-pinching, killing dozens. One difference: before the HK fire is even out three executives at contractors have been arrested, eight years after Grenfell no-one has been arrested.
November 27, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Hong Kong fire and Grenfell are just alike. Fire spreading through unsafe building materials installed due to penny-pinching, killing dozens. One difference: before the HK fire is even out three executives at contractors have been arrested, eight years after Grenfell no-one has been arrested.
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Will we ever be able to tell if Nigel Farage has ever had contact with instruments of the Russian state? Impossible to know.
November 28, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Will we ever be able to tell if Nigel Farage has ever had contact with instruments of the Russian state? Impossible to know.
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The (obvious in advance) limits of the government's strategy since it took office: a budget in which the majority of individual items poll well, yet people think it is the most unfair budget since YouGov started polling on this question.
% who say each 2025 Budget policy was the 'right thing to do' (1/3)
Increase gambling taxes: 82%
Freeze rail fares: 82%
Reducing energy bills by £150 a year by reducing green levies: 75%
Increasing minimum wage: 71%
Mansion tax: 67%
Decreasing biz rates for retail/hospitality/leisure: 64%
Increase gambling taxes: 82%
Freeze rail fares: 82%
Reducing energy bills by £150 a year by reducing green levies: 75%
Increasing minimum wage: 71%
Mansion tax: 67%
Decreasing biz rates for retail/hospitality/leisure: 64%
November 27, 2025 at 11:12 PM
The (obvious in advance) limits of the government's strategy since it took office: a budget in which the majority of individual items poll well, yet people think it is the most unfair budget since YouGov started polling on this question.
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you call it diarrhoea I call it
November 27, 2025 at 5:44 PM
you call it diarrhoea I call it
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They’ll have left a trail to follow
November 27, 2025 at 10:11 PM
They’ll have left a trail to follow
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Difficult to square the fact that without the UKs independent (or in reality, very much not independent) nuclear deterrent, we would be a small player in even European defence - even more so now Germany is investing hundreds of billions in its manufacturing might for defence.
Btw I don't think it is good that UK voters and governments from both ex-main parties seem to care less and less about the effective practice of the military way rather than pantomime militarism.
But many need to stop kidding themselves about the state of UK defence politics
But many need to stop kidding themselves about the state of UK defence politics
November 27, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Difficult to square the fact that without the UKs independent (or in reality, very much not independent) nuclear deterrent, we would be a small player in even European defence - even more so now Germany is investing hundreds of billions in its manufacturing might for defence.
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VERY funny
A mansion tax is one of the most popular things that Labour has done - 67% in favour, 19% against.
November 27, 2025 at 9:44 PM
VERY funny
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The "don't have an extra kid if you can't afford it" brigade get awfully upset when you suggest they don't stay in their £2m house if they can't afford it, don't they?
November 27, 2025 at 6:09 PM
The "don't have an extra kid if you can't afford it" brigade get awfully upset when you suggest they don't stay in their £2m house if they can't afford it, don't they?
These people are, to use a technical term, fucking mad.
November 27, 2025 at 9:25 PM
These people are, to use a technical term, fucking mad.
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It is fascinating how, of all the bigotries, transphobia does seem to be the one that means you never ever get to be normal again?
The man is beyond unhinged
November 27, 2025 at 8:39 PM
It is fascinating how, of all the bigotries, transphobia does seem to be the one that means you never ever get to be normal again?