Isn't ms Graham the leader most likely to withdraw Unite funding from Labour?
KS likes trashing his own party's finances.
― the pinefox, Wednesday, 25 August 2021 14:43 (two years ago) link
she has said there must be a review into Labour funding, but I don't know how that will end. Also she said ‘Keir Starmer is failing working people’ so he is trying to put a brave face on his man being the wooden spoon, despite apparently having the biggest campaign war-chest from some undisclosed donors.
― calzino, Wednesday, 25 August 2021 14:51 (two years ago) link
and Coyne had Jess Phillips campaigning for him!
― calzino, Wednesday, 25 August 2021 14:53 (two years ago) link
with her unerring instinct for understanding the political opinions of the man on the Clapham omnibus
― Neil S, Wednesday, 25 August 2021 14:54 (two years ago) link
speaking strewth! + cor blimey! to power
― calzino, Wednesday, 25 August 2021 14:59 (two years ago) link
Luke Akehurst was congratulating the dark-money funded, Murdoch backed candidate for his courage in "in taking on the machine".
― calzino, Wednesday, 25 August 2021 15:05 (two years ago) link
Whatever the rights and (many) wrongs of Ofcom’s decision, this BBC report is a disgrace. Misgendering trans people, describing the tiny LGB Alliance as a “rival” to Stonewall, falsely describing it as campaigning “for” gay people (it does no such thing). https://t.co/70ZnCobShR— Matt Wells (@MatthewWells) August 25, 2021
is the bbc worse than it used to be, article 3456785768239
― ufo, Thursday, 26 August 2021 08:21 (two years ago) link
it seems the writer John McAnus has a strong bias against Stonewall and is a dedicated transphobe. Quite in the mainstream of Beeb and Graun reporters then.
― calzino, Thursday, 26 August 2021 09:52 (two years ago) link
Either Tom Cruise has had a different car stolen in Birmingham every day for the last three days or it's a slow news week.
― Believe me, grow a lemon tree. (ledge), Sunday, 29 August 2021 08:53 (two years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E-GGcuJX0AM78Ow?format=jpg&name=900x900
genuinely sick-making
― calzino, Tuesday, 31 August 2021 09:57 (two years ago) link
although I did lol at Rosen's "Long Govid" quip
― calzino, Tuesday, 31 August 2021 09:58 (two years ago) link
Yes, you'd have to be a useless fool to write this.
Is this a long-running series from ZW on 'I used to think X ... then I realised Y' ?
― the pinefox, Tuesday, 31 August 2021 10:05 (two years ago) link
google searching "zoe williams I used to.." does bear this out
― calzino, Tuesday, 31 August 2021 10:07 (two years ago) link
well the top 2 are I used to tut at people who wear glasses and I used to believe hay fever didn't exist.
― calzino, Tuesday, 31 August 2021 10:10 (two years ago) link
The four words any young journalist dreads seeing anywhere near their article. pic.twitter.com/JUv4QsK3O7— Europe's Leading Soccer Futurologist (@TreborRhurbarb) September 2, 2021
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 2 September 2021 18:17 (two years ago) link
Utterly bizarre feature
Multi-author glossy weekend feature vs tucked in the back pages somewhere. pic.twitter.com/XpeBeeTWU9— libcom.org (@libcomorg) September 5, 2021
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 5 September 2021 10:30 (two years ago) link
this is the highlighted "culture" article today, was thinking of submitting it for the worst music writing thread https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/sep/05/jailhouse-rock-how-historys-crimes-live-on-in-music
― fc_TEFH28mo (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 5 September 2021 10:37 (two years ago) link
"the punk bank with whom he recorded the song No One Is Innocent"
typo otm
― cheesons to be rearful (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 5 September 2021 10:40 (two years ago) link
lol duncan campbell is a fairly legendary and deservedly respected crime reporter, fairly evidently a long way out to sea when tasked with mapping pop
(the book he's talking abt looks p interesting tho, i already had my eye on it)
― mark s, Sunday, 5 September 2021 11:20 (two years ago) link
you'd think a seasoned crime writer touching on the subject of crime and murder intersecting with music might have heard of Burzum though
― calzino, Sunday, 5 September 2021 11:29 (two years ago) link
tbh no i would not
― mark s, Sunday, 5 September 2021 11:32 (two years ago) link
(a) he's 77 and (b) he's married to julie christie :0
= he has better things to think abt
― mark s, Sunday, 5 September 2021 11:34 (two years ago) link
and he's a billy bragg fan!
― calzino, Sunday, 5 September 2021 11:35 (two years ago) link
when he was chatting up Julie she thought he was the UB40 singer
― calzino, Sunday, 5 September 2021 11:40 (two years ago) link
has he had relayshuns with girls of many nayshuns i ask myself
― cheesons to be rearful (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 5 September 2021 11:45 (two years ago) link
it's a shame that none of that "rap" music the young people listen to has ever covered criminal activities
― fc_TEFH28mo (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 5 September 2021 11:47 (two years ago) link
can't lie i had a real soft spot for Billy before he became a Lib Dem
― cheesons to be rearful (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 5 September 2021 11:48 (two years ago) link
also before he promised not to turn me away even if i was gay
you'd think a seasoned crime writer touching on the subject of crime and murder intersecting with music might have heard of Burzum Pimp C though
― calzino, Sunday, 5 September 2021 11:50 (two years ago) link
Jailhouse Rock is the last word in hard-boiled murder raps tho
― cheesons to be rearful (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 5 September 2021 11:51 (two years ago) link
George Formby - Leaning On A Motherfucking Lampost
― calzino, Sunday, 5 September 2021 11:53 (two years ago) link
George also did Suck My Blackpool Rock tbfttl
― cheesons to be rearful (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 5 September 2021 11:56 (two years ago) link
(b) he's married to julie christie :0
Crikey. Book does look v. interesting.
― How does Spock's brain come into this? (Tom D.), Sunday, 5 September 2021 12:25 (two years ago) link
Duncan Campbell has an interesting life. He had a really good TV series in 1994 accompanying his book on The Underworld which I'd like to see again.
He's often confused with the investigative journalist Duncan Campbell, who has this information on his own website:
Got the right person? This website belongs to the Duncan Campbell that revealed the existance of GCHQ and was one of the founders of UK gay rights pressure-group / charity Stonewall.Other people with the name Duncan Campbell include a singer in the band UB40, the 2014 UK Turner prize winner, a deceased firebreathing Scottish preacher, and the former crime correspondent, News Editor, and Los Angeles correspondent of the Guardian. You may be looking for the latter, especially if your interest is serious/organised crime - please check his Guardian contributor page. If you wish to reach that other Duncan, then you have not found the right web page.(This Duncan is NOT married to a famous actress, either. Sorry - you want the Serious Crime guy for that.)
Other people with the name Duncan Campbell include a singer in the band UB40, the 2014 UK Turner prize winner, a deceased firebreathing Scottish preacher, and the former crime correspondent, News Editor, and Los Angeles correspondent of the Guardian. You may be looking for the latter, especially if your interest is serious/organised crime - please check his Guardian contributor page. If you wish to reach that other Duncan, then you have not found the right web page.
(This Duncan is NOT married to a famous actress, either. Sorry - you want the Serious Crime guy for that.)
― Luna Schlosser, Sunday, 5 September 2021 12:59 (two years ago) link
also not to be confused with the not famous at all Duncan Bell, a HG Welles obsessed Cambridge polprof type who probably wouldn't be a good crime reporter
― calzino, Sunday, 5 September 2021 13:26 (two years ago) link
the idea of having to dis-confuse the two duncan campbells that are journalists is a genuine proustian madeleine of the countercultural 80s lol
― mark s, Sunday, 5 September 2021 14:15 (two years ago) link
it probably isn't the reason he married julie christie but it's not NOT the reason
One you contact by PGP key, the other via their literary agent: what a summary of differing fortunes!
― Luna Schlosser, Monday, 6 September 2021 08:05 (two years ago) link
Cunts.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/sep/06/the-imagination-fix-10-ways-to-stay-wildly-creative-as-office-life-returns
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 6 September 2021 18:38 (two years ago) link
A section of a Judith Butler interview which connects terfs with the fash was edited out
I preserved it before it disappeared. Just so everyone can be witness to their gross pusillanimity. pic.twitter.com/BgVp9QMzT5— James 💜 Loxley (@oldnorthroad) September 7, 2021
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 7 September 2021 20:02 (two years ago) link
Completely bizarre.
“ This article was edited on 7 September 2021 to reflect developments which occurred after the interview took place”
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Tuesday, 7 September 2021 20:03 (two years ago) link
developments which occurred
― fc_TEFH28mo (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 7 September 2021 20:06 (two years ago) link
fuck this rag
― 《Myst1kOblivi0n》 (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 7 September 2021 20:42 (two years ago) link
Excited for Judith Butler's I've-been-cancelled LBC slot
― he ain't perfect but fuck me he's a rheillee (imago), Tuesday, 7 September 2021 20:44 (two years ago) link
Guardian UK and US is a hell of a conflict.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 7 September 2021 20:52 (two years ago) link
i just read about the butler thing. are they going to explain the developments? if they were bullied by terfs they should say so but they won't
― criminally negligible (harbl), Tuesday, 7 September 2021 22:53 (two years ago) link
I’m pretty sure they will issue an explanation given the amount of heat they’re getting and their editorial team’s ongoing need for self-justification.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Tuesday, 7 September 2021 23:02 (two years ago) link
It's poor and it will be poor
― plax (ico), Tuesday, 7 September 2021 23:04 (two years ago) link
Yes. At a guess, it will be something like ‘now that a criminal charge has resulted from the WiSpa incident, we felt it appropriate to completely redact the question and answer from the interview’, as a fig leaf.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Tuesday, 7 September 2021 23:08 (two years ago) link
the piece was commission by the Guardian US too which makes this intervention even stranger.
Lots of DMs:Yes, they deleted a paragraph criticising gender critical feminismYes this is confusing, and (I'm told) unprecedentedYes we asked for it reinstated (or as a last resort, republished)Yes I offered a rewrite to bring it up-to-dateYes I'm now going to bed— Juliana☿ (@socialrepro) September 7, 2021
some details from the interviewer
― ufo, Wednesday, 8 September 2021 01:18 (two years ago) link