love* in the time of plague (and by love* i mean brexit* and other dreary matters of uk politics)

yeah i saw the taped up benches on brockwell park at lunch (not all of them, mind). i just think there is no reason why “your daily exercise” doesn’t need to be “going out for some fresh air”. i mean i’ll use the “weak argument” that older people may want to rest, but i really mean anyone.

speaking of which an older lady went past a yong man reading on one of the untaped benches and i thought she was going to finger wag but she just said she was pleased to see him taking it easy on one of the free benches <3

congrats to lambeth council on finding shelter for local homeless people before taping off their benches, they deserve full credit for their humanity

unless...

it's almost as if as a society we have a stupidly normative and ablist idea of what constitutes fitness, health and exercise.

Just working class people being killed by bosses.

Fuck capitalism. Bus driver killed by coronavirus 'told his pay would be cut if he missed work' https://t.co/snrLaVeeuw

— Charles Britton 🏳️‍🌈 (@LUBOttom) April 8, 2020

Fucking scum

Some bus companies also intervened cause drivers were not charging fares - saving themselves too much contact with potentially infectious passengers and also helping out presumably essential workers heading to their jobs

Hope bad things happen to the people behind these decisions obv

that's awful, they are probably children and mothers and fathers and lovers and human beings

Rishi Sunak saying that Boris is sitting up in bed and 'engaging positively' with the nursing staff

first time for everything

Can’t believe our nhs has become so overstretched that nurses don’t even have time to hold a pillow down for 2 minutes

Suggests that prior to today he wasn’t sitting upright or able to engage with staff, despite ‘being in good spirits’.

tbf if he had been he probably wouldn't have been in ICU

Rishi Sunak saying that Boris is sitting up in bed and 'engaging positively' with the nursing staff

Code for leching.

possibly code for unable to speak

gurgling positively

He looks like he’s going to gorge himself with toblerone and drive to Dundee in his bare feet pic.twitter.com/3AKYqFJjua

— Owen Jones🌹 (@OwenJones84) April 8, 2020

Need to bring back hanging for landlords only:

3 junior doctors working at St George’s Hospital in Tooting. Landlord not happy to let us stay and tenancy runs out start of May. Does anyone know of any 3 beds in the tooting area to rent? #nhs #tooting @piersmorgan @Carra23 @GNev2

— Alexander Cairns (@AlexanderCairn6) April 8, 2020

scum of the earth.

"woke maitlis"

emily maitlis,,,, welcome to the #resistance

Emily @maitlis summing up our current situation perfectly pic.twitter.com/6MzcSAAsuo

— Tim Burgess (@Tim_Burgess) April 9, 2020

more like stirred in her sleep Maitlis

"woke maitlis"

scum of the earth.

Maitlis hasn't been sleeping, she's been aggressively pushing back against the only elements within British politics willing to seriously address any of these issues. Now that they've been neutralised, she needs someone else to sneer at.

Yeah but there's no play on "woke" there 😂

lol, sorry, blinded by my loathing of her and Newsnight in general.

It's an introduction to a wider discussion that would have been determined by a broader editorial group and while it's factually largely accurate it's not as if it represents Maitlis going daringly off-script at some people on social media seem to be suggesting. Do Newsnight presenters write their own links/introductions?

Jason Harewood, 27, pleaded guilty to contravening the requirement as to the restriction of movement during the emergency period and drug related offences, after he was caught distributing drugs on his pedal bike in Islington with no reason to be outside.

I mean.... the reason's right there...

the man’s an essential frontline worker ffs

Maitlis had borderline Corbyn derangement syndrome for 5 years and has a pathological hatred of the left, and now she's a big hero because the LOTO is so fucking milquetoast even the bbc political dept can conduct more pointed criticism of the govt than the opposition leader + milk a bit of lame applause from easily impressed melts!

i feel like maitlis is the ultimate disciple of the paxman school of journalism whereby one feigns scrutiny by grimacing and appearing annoyed. i would say it replaces journalism with spectacle if it weren't so fucking boring.

lots of FBPE/spiders/flags/melt crew whatever the fuck that lot are mutating into now, they are so easily impressed by empty rhetoric, but they virulently despise anyone who actually represents change. They are the lamest fucking cunts in this country.

It took me a good couple of minutes to remember what the spider thing was and I wish I hadn’t

I'll never forget the bbc's muted coverage of the UN rapporteur on poverty, and totally blanking out the BMJ report on PIP reform disabled deaths when we actually had an opposition party that was pushing them hard on this every week. They all go fuck themselves forever.

It's the difference between the same sentiments or even the same policy coming from People Who Understand How The World Works vs Overgrown Students And Geography Teachers. People whose natural home is either in the technocratic centre or the corporatist right, and who look and sound the part, are given the benefit of the doubt that they know what they're talking about, everyone else isn't.

There’s still tons of spiders out there even after the country has left the EU!

what were Spiders? that unfunny fake email complaint dude?

also rhetoric above action because all these cunts are the "i want to talk to the manager" crew, their problem is not that a manager and an exploitative hierarchy exists, they just want it to serve them properly?

oh no now i remember the spider brooch

ffs

That and people listing bell and Sebastian song titles on the slack have ruined my birthday

A tweet by Tim Burgess of Emily Maitlis. Quality stuff.

i work tirelessly to bring u the highest-quality tweets

Have you got anything by the singer of the Bluetones?

That and people listing bell and Sebastian song titles on the slack have ruined my birthday

Mornington Crescent.

Mornington Crescent.

Why did that post twice?! It wasn't funny the first time.

It was funny the second time.

It was even funnier the second time!

Do Newsnight presenters write their own links/introductions?

Not usually but sometimes. Ros Atkins writes a lot of his own links for Outside Source. It depends on the presenter and the story - no way to know in this case unless you work on the show. Frankly it's more heartening to me if it came from a producer as they usually are doing what they hope their bosses will like, so it kind of (hopefully) signals a deeper understanding within the show of the issues - rather than Maitlis 'going off on one'.

Have you got anything by the singer of the Bluetones?

― Did somebody just say eat? (Tom D.), Thursday, 9 April 2020 bookmarkflaglink

Will have a look