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

I didn’t think that was an MP? I think Nicky Hutchinson is a general pseud the NS uses for people who are published there.

Yeah it's almost certainly a left twitter person.

lol i thought you meant "generally a pseud" on my first read.

Bizarro journalism, in which people are asked questions and then the interviewer attempts to stop them answering. pic.twitter.com/W3uagpJLb8

— barney farmer (@barneyfarmer) September 13, 2020

Urrrrrrgh I hate sympathising with the fucking blueshirts

that's one of the most despicable elements of this culture war - you end up agreeing with melts occasionally!

just spend a few hours listening to a few Times Radio shows and then follow that Today or PM on R4 and tell me what the difference is pls

only if you really despise yourself and have nothing to live for anymore I should have added!

Lol I was getting the ads for Times Radio on Facebook and that was enough thanks

they use the same cast of dismal melts for *balance* on Times Radio, but the difference is they let people slag off the current Tory govt without interruption or as Marr would have it with impartiality!

when I was dying in bed of the 2010 swine flu once I fumbled about with the radio and became hostage to Talk Sport for a few hours. I was too fatigued to get up and change channels - that was a similar experience to me with Times Radio today with a severe hangover.

but listening to it is becoming a habit I'm noting with some concern!

Shortly after it launched I asked my "smart" speaker to play Times Radio and it played Radio X

One is a bunch of arrogant cunts stuck in the past etc

One of the Times Radio ads was about their presenters's favourite albums, that was enough without factoring in the politics

Are literally all of you listening to Times Radio? I don't even know what to make of this thread any more.

I don't want to know about Tom Newton Dumb's fave albums, although would like to hear him talking 'bout what it is like to lick Murdoch's boot polish for fifty guineas but be cursed forever!

I don't even know what to make of this thread any more.

"know your enemy" but everybody's the enemy

I put it on one day on the portable DAB to hear Hunter Davies doing his tiresome repertoire of Paul McCartney anecdotes and I was just completely hooked!

Does it have segments that are just people sitting around talking about cookery or travel or sport or whatever because you would usually trust Tory broadsheets to do that shit better than the Guardian but I couldn't for the life of me imagine wanting to listen to David Aaronovich sitting about talking politics with Hugo Whathisname.

Where is the lie

International law is a ‘political construct’ and breaking it is ‘routine’, Tory MP says https://t.co/Qvdy5XeHzU

— Jon Stone (@joncstone) September 14, 2020

Are literally all of you listening to Times Radio?

Nope. I attempted to put it on once to see where it was on the Talk/LBC/R4 scale and ended up on an indie landfill channel instead. For 5 seconds.

One of the kids in my son's year 9 tests positive over the weekend. The school tries to contact Public Health England to ensure they track and trace correctly. They CAN'T GET THROUGH to Public Health England, and today have had to send the whole year home.https://t.co/1PYTXcS9C1

— David Allison (@DavidHAllison) September 14, 2020

I suspect things like this are happening all over the country right now. Absolute shitshow doesn't even begin to cover it.

I wonder what proportion of the Cabinet would privately admit even to themselves that they are in way way way over their head and fundamentally not capable of doing their jobs.

What portion of the Cabinet's idea of "doing their job" would coincide with yours or mine?

i always hold to the "Tories know what they're doing" line as far as economic destruction is concerned but this is somewhat different, one of the unpleasant side jobs of governing a country is supposed to be dealing with shit like this and much as they don't really care they *are* also really incompetent to do that

New. @Keir_Starmer is self-isolating for Covid. Spokesman:
“This morning Keir Starmer was advised to self isolate after a member of his household showed possible symptoms of the coronavirus...

— Paul Waugh (@paulwaugh) September 14, 2020

god speed comrade rona

No ifs, no buts!

The creatures outside looked from virus to Kieth, and from Kieth to virus, and from virus to Kieth again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Eh3tun4WsAAxM04?format=png&name=large

praying for Rona!

Rona the knight-slayer!

I’m nearly sure this must be one of his children and like bitter bitter laughs

Good things are possible

Or are they

'I think we should call the authorities, yes, all of us have a responsibility to act'@Ed_Miliband tells @shehabkhan he would call the police on his neighbours if they were having a party and encourages the public to do so too https://t.co/nQI5BVmo5T pic.twitter.com/JVrGxGzudy

— ITV News Politics (@ITVNewsPolitics) September 14, 2020

The party of curtain twitching narcs is back

All the way through the initial months of the lock-down I could often hear loud groups of pissed up people in houses. How does a f/t narc work out how many people are in the house?

The Six are absolutely selling the rest of us out in some form or another, can hardly be a coincidence that the latest transgression you can be fined for is breaking “the rule of six”

Rules are rules

what happens if six people from England meet six people from Wales and cough in each others faces across the border? how about if we are all hunting grouse?

I like how the sirens wail as soon as Ed says "alert the authorities"

i for one hope that an unknowingly virus-shedding sir keir starmer has not passed the rona onto beloved lbc broadcaster nick ferrari and wish both men and their families a swift recovery, should any of them develop symptoms

https://youtu.be/c5fts7bj-so

We laugh at Ed but..

Man iviewed on Radio4: “if I found out my neighbour were a terrorist, I would report them because they’re potentially a killer. Covid in my opinion is a killer...therefore anyone who flouts the rules is basically the same as a terrorist walking down the road with a machine gun.”

— Lewis Goodall (@lewis_goodall) September 14, 2020

xps

oh the humanity. I also hope (if Keith's got da Rona) he hasn't been in contact with Rachel Reeves or Jonathan Ashworth during the pre-symptomatic most infectious period.

man on radio 4 otm, boris must be extraordinarily renditioned to a secret cia blacksite for killing 60,000 or more britons in the worst terrorist action this country has ever faced

It's weird because there is a truth and a horrible lie in the same thoughts

NEW: Boris Johnson's Rule Of 6 has a controversial exemption - for grouse shooting and similar field sports.
Upto 30 people can gather to hunt with guns cos classed as a licensed outdoor sport.
EXCLUSIVE: Cab Office drafted special meeting on exemptionhttps://t.co/ENegIZlOL1

— Paul Waugh (@paulwaugh) September 14, 2020

Oh just fuck off.

EXCL: There are currently no tests at all available in ANY of the top 10 Covid-19 hotspots in England, LBC can reveal. No walk-in, drive-through or home tests available for people in Bolton, Salford, Bradford, Blackburn, Oldham, Preston, Pendle, Rochdale, Tameside or Manchester.

— Ben Kentish LBC (@BenKentish) September 14, 2020

A friend works at a track and trace has just told me they're restricted to 60 a day bexausr the lab is the choke point