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

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

Dude from the Longpigs stood in the EU Elections for Change UK, try asking him.

real talk (not the linked article)

Covid-19 transmission is happening in call centres, building sites, detention centres. But police don’t go there - they go to the beach. https://t.co/Bt5ynJvkdJ

— Simon Cox *isolate but organise* (@SimonFRCox) April 8, 2020

Have you got anything by the singer of the Bluetones?

A perfect day to get some washing on the line... pic.twitter.com/24cPPkLyqn

— Mark Morriss (@TheQuill) April 7, 2020

if this is going to turn into the Britpop reminiscence hour i *will* start FPing people

i’m sure nez from heavy stereo has some valuable insight to share tho

shed seven was a gulag reference

there's a perfectly "good" board just down there

vvvvv

I doubt someone who was asking "where is Jess Phillips in this shadow cabinet?" will turn around and write that intro a couple of days later but who knows really.

Anyway it does hit home that the aftermath of this will need to involve cookies for us. Tories will need to do a significant amount (far more than they would've wanted to a few weeks ago) to patch things up so they can keep the show going. It's a question of whether they will be able to, or what the repercussions of a severe shortfall would be.

xps to Tracer - bg...thank you for your service

maitlis was tweeting terf talking points a few months ago and was as fucking useless as everyone else during the election so ¯\(◉‿◉)/¯

— mark wood sexy kitten ultras (@iggigg) April 9, 2020

not clear why Martin Rossiter was tweeting this gif at Tim Shipman, but

@ShippersUnbound pic.twitter.com/hOU4GTJOYX

— Martin Rossiter (@MartinRossiter) March 29, 2020

god Twitter is a cesspit

It's important for someone to say these words. You'd just wish that someone was in the opposition.

Tories will need to do a significant amount (far more than they would've wanted to a few weeks ago) to patch things up so they can keep the show going. It's a question of whether they will be able to, or what the repercussions of a severe shortfall would be.

They will have to do an absolute shit ton, way more than they have already, but the chances of the nation joining hands and deciding that shop workers and delivery people are the real key workers and should be paid accordingly feels vanishingly small*. The government will have to make major changes to the welfare system because it will be unacceptable to the millions of middle class white collar workers who will be put out of work imminently if the existing furlough measures turn out to be inadequate. In general it's still better to keep people nominally in employment but if the lockdown maintains for six months or longer then that might just become unfeasible.

The only shortfall would occur if the government decides to stop spending, or if the sheer scale of spending required exceeds the market for gilts and tbh where else is that investor cash going to go at the moment?

*What does feel more likely and perhaps inevitable is big class action settlements for the families of people who have died because they've been forced to keep going into work but that's not going to be any help to the poor bastards themselves.

even the fucking Large Hadron Collider couldn't detect the presence of Starmer