100% agree (sidetracked by mark coming back). Like there’s been zero good faith on the UK side, he’s literally just like, ah well let’s not be ~silly~ about this, we’re all friends here, who needs a binding written agreement?
― gyac, Thursday, 19 September 2019 16:18 (six years ago)
Welcome back, mark. Hope you're alright.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 19 September 2019 16:19 (six years ago)
Remember when some guy "confronted" Jeremy Corbyn by punching him in the head and instead of even slightly digging into or scrutinizing the politics and affiliations of the culprit, every melt journo had a wee giggle about it instead.— ACAB Rees-Mogg (@jelly_pack) September 18, 2019
― heard about you (||||||||), Thursday, 19 September 2019 16:23 (six years ago)
I wrote music stuff for Modern Review under Kodwo Eshun
Apologies Suzy but I did lol thinking of Mr Eshun sitting on you while you tried to write up your copy.
― Ned Trifle X, Thursday, 19 September 2019 16:26 (six years ago)
And welcome back Mark. Glad they let you out!
― Ned Trifle X, Thursday, 19 September 2019 16:29 (six years ago)
At pains* to point out that Kodwo commissioned me, rather than TY/JB.
*the lanky, bony-arsed git was sitting on me the whole time obvs.
― coup de twat (suzy), Thursday, 19 September 2019 16:30 (six years ago)
He's otm only in that he's admitting that the government isn't within an ass's roar of an actual solution on the backstop.
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 19 September 2019 16:45 (six years ago)
Ministers will table "formal written solutions when we are ready" and not to an "artificial deadline"
https://i.imgur.com/SEdmZpC.png
― a wagging to the furious (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 19 September 2019 17:09 (six years ago)
all deadlines are artificial
― mark s, Thursday, 19 September 2019 17:11 (six years ago)
thread of artificial fibbing
― provisional ilx (darraghmac), Thursday, 19 September 2019 17:23 (six years ago)
Tom otm
― Let them eat Pfifferlinge an Schneckensauce (Tom D.), Thursday, 19 September 2019 17:23 (six years ago)
― Is it true the star Beetle Juice is going to explode in 2012 (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 19 September 2019 17:28 (six years ago)
Police? I’d like to report a murder: on the bottom of page 138 of David Cameron’s book. pic.twitter.com/xWvJETX1Ow— Stephen Bush (@stephenkb) September 19, 2019
I've got used to how much Bush buzzes off Cameron as a politician just by the odd comment or fifty about him in the past. He's loving the book by the look of it!
― calzino, Thursday, 19 September 2019 18:08 (six years ago)
i have no idea what he considers the "murder" there
― mark s, Thursday, 19 September 2019 18:10 (six years ago)
the blandishments in the middle I presume, but yeah!
― calzino, Thursday, 19 September 2019 18:12 (six years ago)
theresa was excellent whereas failing grayling just served, presumably
― heard about you (||||||||), Thursday, 19 September 2019 18:13 (six years ago)
maybe Karen Bradley made her fucking look good!
― calzino, Thursday, 19 September 2019 18:15 (six years ago)
xp otm, but how many roles did Cameron put him in again?!
― gyac, Thursday, 19 September 2019 18:29 (six years ago)
didnt put him with the p roles anyway
― provisional ilx (darraghmac), Thursday, 19 September 2019 18:31 (six years ago)
Grayling has become such a widely clowned figure that it seems pretty weak piss from Cameron.
― calzino, Thursday, 19 September 2019 18:46 (six years ago)
We've got Priti Patel as Home Secretary now, so the joke's on us.
― Let them eat Pfifferlinge an Schneckensauce (Tom D.), Thursday, 19 September 2019 18:50 (six years ago)
Who da thought that when we've got three Britannia Unchained lunatic extremists as cabinet ministers that everything would be so chained up
― calzino, Thursday, 19 September 2019 18:59 (six years ago)
To go back to an earlier argument I missed
At the end of all this - not sure quite what “this” is or whether it will ever end - we need to think about what “hard right”, “hard left” “far right” “far left”and “fascist” mean now, because they are being thrown around with such abandon that we will need new words soon.— Rob Burley (@RobBurl) September 19, 2019
BBC Westminster was one of the last places I worked at the BBC and there is definitely not any shred of a project to lace reporting with an agenda. We were attacked daily - the main goal each day was to be fair, and invalidate those accusations— Julia Macfarlane (@juliamacfarlane) September 18, 2019
― gyac, Thursday, 19 September 2019 19:00 (six years ago)
first step to avoid having an agenda is to admit that you've got an agenda
― a wagging to the furious (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 19 September 2019 19:08 (six years ago)
Haha yes^
― plax (ico), Thursday, 19 September 2019 19:12 (six years ago)
otm
― plax (ico), Thursday, 19 September 2019 19:13 (six years ago)
Some of the all time greats. But which one has the biggest body count? pic.twitter.com/vlZsoMwUWA— Simon Hedges (@Orwell_Fan) September 19, 2019
hedges is still making me lol
― calzino, Thursday, 19 September 2019 19:17 (six years ago)
Part of the problem with the BBC and other broadcasters is that middle-class people working there are asked to imagine how someone in Wigan might feel, and head out on gammon safari, because they cannot imagine anything other than stereotypes, which they then perpetuate.
― coup de twat (suzy), Thursday, 19 September 2019 19:20 (six years ago)
Wait...has Hedges gone Corbynite? That’s well off brand.
― gyac, Thursday, 19 September 2019 19:20 (six years ago)
is he saying the coalition killed more ppl than Iraq ? !!!
― calzino, Thursday, 19 September 2019 19:24 (six years ago)
Part of the issue afaict is they have this weird sense that they work for the BBC, so they’re the good guys and everyone who criticises them is delusional and can’t see their obviously reasonable intentions.I mean, look at how wet this is:
Ok, you’ve libelled four people! But don’t worry we have to lie down and take it. But I have reported you to Twitter (for all the good that will do) and will be blocking you. I doubt you’ll miss my tweets.— Rob Burley (@RobBurl) September 19, 2019
― gyac, Thursday, 19 September 2019 19:24 (six years ago)
Lol yes let's put Francois in I'm a Celeb he could be our Bolsanaro.
https://amp.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/lostinshowbiz/2019/sep/19/could-mark-francois-brexit-bellower-be-tvs-next-explosive-star
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 19 September 2019 19:26 (six years ago)
xp
without so much as once having the decency to publicly discuss exactly how right wing and how fringe he thinks you have to be before you stop deserving a national media platform. i guess he figures all the Maoist guests on QT even it out
― a wagging to the furious (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 19 September 2019 19:27 (six years ago)
https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/53n9v8/the-new-wave-of-satire-for-our-morbid-political-landscape - the hedges explainer is still very good. Interesting point made about the most prominent voices on twitter being journalists.
― gyac, Thursday, 19 September 2019 19:28 (six years ago)
xp platform 👏🏻comrade👏🏻alphabet👏🏻
― gyac, Thursday, 19 September 2019 19:29 (six years ago)
― xyzzzz__,
What the hell is this? its almost unreadable
― anvil, Thursday, 19 September 2019 20:05 (six years ago)
it's The Guardian
― a wagging to the furious (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 19 September 2019 20:08 (six years ago)
She's done it again, I've just laughed so hard I'm suffering from a prolapsed rectum. Didn't read it tbh
― calzino, Thursday, 19 September 2019 20:17 (six years ago)
Ed Davey getting his arse handed to him from all sides tonight
― calzino, Thursday, 19 September 2019 22:12 (six years ago)
Tory woman is dire.
― Let them eat Pfifferlinge an Schneckensauce (Tom D.), Thursday, 19 September 2019 22:16 (six years ago)
she does well to cope with stage 3 rigor mortis and talking on live tv
― calzino, Thursday, 19 September 2019 22:21 (six years ago)
Good morning
I want someone to look at me the way Laura Kuenssberg looks at Boris when he gives a speech. pic.twitter.com/Irwgzs0mjS— Joshua Funnell 🌹 (@JoshuaFunnell2) September 19, 2019
― gyac, Friday, 20 September 2019 05:29 (six years ago)
they have definitely fucked
― Is it true the star Beetle Juice is going to explode in 2012 (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 20 September 2019 06:16 (six years ago)
and it was hawwwwwwwt
Excellent:
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/labour-plan-army-social-welfare-20100959
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 20 September 2019 06:26 (six years ago)
Lost in showbiz is a satire column in the G2 section if you're reading that without context.
― Stevolende, Friday, 20 September 2019 06:36 (six years ago)
That should be xped back to François becoming a celebrity. It's supposed to be a joke not serious.But Channel 4 did do similar with Faraday a few years ago. Had him turn up as a taking head in things like gosh weren't the 70s funny or whatever it was called. Normalised someone who should ideally have remained marginalised for dodgy politics.
― Stevolende, Friday, 20 September 2019 06:41 (six years ago)
That's Channel 4 with Farage when my phone isn't autocorrecting
― Stevolende, Friday, 20 September 2019 06:42 (six years ago)
― Is it true the star Beetle Juice is going to explode in 2012 (bizarro gazzara),
Sir, this is a Maplins
― anvil, Friday, 20 September 2019 06:42 (six years ago)
Lol remember this the next time the Telegraph is handwringing about Labour being the real racists. (Along with the time they published a Soros conspiracy theory straight out of Órban’s rhetoric.)
The Daily Telegraph removes the op-ed by the Nazi apologist after asked questions by Jewish News. https://t.co/f4HVhWI4ht— Mark Di Stefano 🤙🏻 (@MarkDiStef) September 19, 2019
― gyac, Friday, 20 September 2019 06:47 (six years ago)