I'm amused that I didn't even know who Matthew Parris was at the time of this poll. Happier days of ignorant bliss! Bragg is a wanker but I still consider In Our Time a decent program and I guarantee whichever cunt replaces him when he succumbs to dementia will be a thousand times worse than him.
― calzino, Wednesday, 29 September 2021 22:17 (two years ago) link
Was gonna say, Webb and Baddiel would have gotten way more votes this time 'round.
― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 30 September 2021 10:09 (two years ago) link
And Alain de Botton way less.
― Starmer: "Let the children boogie, let all the children boogie." (Tom D.), Thursday, 30 September 2021 10:30 (two years ago) link
Did everyone forget who Will Self was?
― Mark G, Thursday, 30 September 2021 10:35 (two years ago) link
45 years ago today (4 November 1977), the New Statesman published this article about divisions in the Communist Party of Great Britain. It is the first written use that I have found of the term ‘tankie’ to describe someone who (uncritically) supported the Soviet Union. pic.twitter.com/plCY3gk9Ge— Evan Smith (@evansmithhist) November 4, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 4 November 2022 12:05 (one year ago) link
This is a very … peculiar framing, but I do wonder where all the Statesman’s sugar daddy money has gone. The magazine’s professional irritants (and Will Lloyd, who commissions the worst of them) can’t be that expensive to run. pic.twitter.com/gLn4cK157g— Elvis Buñuelo (@Mr_Considerate) November 18, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 18 November 2023 15:14 (six months ago) link