Lest we forget, Boris Johnson, still the MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip, has been on holiday since 7th July.
107 days.
Oh apart from a quick jaunt to the USA to do a speech for £135,000
I feel certain this revelation will end him. Your welcome.
#AwsomePowerOfAMurphyTweet
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I am aware of a distressing incident in the Channel this morning and I am being kept constantly updated while agencies respond and urgently establish the full facts. My heartfelt thoughts are with all those involved.
In February & March last year, a friend of mine who runs a UK ventilator manufacturing firm, wrote to the government FOUR TIMES offering his ventilators at cost. He got no reply so sold them instead to Germany.
He isn’t a Brexiteer and he didn’t have Boris’s mobile number.
After 100 years of pollution turned the hands black, Big ben looks gorgeous restored to its original colour of Prussian Blue with gold inlay
#LondonCalling
It’s not all men, no. Of course it isn’t. But if a plane was crashing somewhere in the UK every day of the week then wouldn’t we want to maybe talk about what we’re teaching our pilots?
Taylor Swift is an incredibly caring and open hearted person. That’s all I can say and it’s not like anyone is claiming otherwise but please take it from me, her empathy and compassion is astonishing.
Alastair Campbell - “Peter Stefanovic’s video has had 12 million views. Every day he asks BBC why will you not play these clips of Johnson in Parliament lying at dispatch box. PM’s are meant to resign if they lie at dispatch box”
BBC interviewer “Do people care?”
YES
@BBCNews
The beggars belief. An adviser to Liz Truss, through a shell company owned with his wife, has made approximately £30m PROFIT on masks that don’t work.
Read this thread. And write to your MP!
Coming up: the most extraordinary thread I’ve ever written. On how we blew over £150m and Andrew Mills (a Government adviser) seems to have made a fortune.
But let’s start with introductions. THREAD /1
Andy Robertson’s response to being pelted with lighters while he was taking a corner:
“It just great that I’m inspiring so many people to give up smoking”.
♥️
So…
- Illegal to use monarch in political advertising
- Aston Martin is Canadian owned
- Great to see the British football team line up
- Film & creative arts education is being slashed
I missed anything?
Hi
I’m a right wing bigot in a largely left leaning liberal industry reliant on the strength of personal relationships why don’t you want to work with me?
Wait, I’m confused.
The Tory party made her leader.
The British people made her PM.
Are they now saying they know better than the will of the people?
Are they saying party members can change their minds?
Crazy idea.
On the face of this, the BBC's position appears to be: we don't show Johnson lying in parliament because we assume people don't care.
The beeb gets huge amounts of unjustified abuse but this really is tragic and the corp should clarify its position very quickly.
Alastair Campbell - “Peter Stefanovic’s video has had 12 million views. Every day he asks BBC why will you not play these clips of Johnson in Parliament lying at dispatch box. PM’s are meant to resign if they lie at dispatch box”
BBC interviewer “Do people care?”
YES
@BBCNews
Jane Hill simply unable to hide her consternation here.
A government in need of 30k ventilators, that stayed out of the EU program because “we can do it ourselves” has delivered just THIRTY in one week. Holy shit
A fun little clip - why we give lens choice such attention. As you see, it’s not just about how much of the room we see. There a whole bunch of other considerations that this doesn’t explain but it’s useful anyway.
Dear actors who do self tapes,
I am so sorry. It’s an appalling process & I wish I could make it better. Please know that your work is seen and considered. Please also know that, if you don’t get the role, it’s very, very likely it’s not because you “weren’t any good”.
Thanks x
I had lunch with Sam Neill today (I’m lucky enough to be working with him) And while we sat there hacking away at our craft lunch with wooden cutlery, I learned two things:
1. He loves pigs.
2. He fucking hates right wing bullshit.
I really, really like him. You would to.
Prince Harry voluntarily withdraws from royal duties and loses stipend, financial support & security protection.
Prince Andrew has royal duties stripped from him for raping a trafficked teenager but he doesn’t lose a penny.
I would like to apologise for the historical inaccuracy of Mary Cratchit’s casting in
#AChristmasCarol
, which appears to have upset those of a Daily Mail disposition. As brilliant as she is in the role, the story is clearly set in London and yet Vinette is from Bradford. My bad.
I thought this 🧵 might be worth posting for people with an interest in directing & what goes into the sausage, so to speak.
It's the visual style bible I put together for A SPY AMONG FRIENDS; how I proposed we would create & depict the world of Alex's extraordinary scripts. 1/8
This goes out to my British friends: Enjoy 2023 guys. Have fun, work hard, laugh whenever you can and don’t for fuck’s sake do anything that requires an ambulance or any form of healthcare.
By cutting Cinematography and Editing from the show, the Oscars declare themselves as nothing more than a celebrity and marketing circus.
Photography & editing is filmmaking. It’s as simple as that.
I REALLY encourage you to read this astonishing piece. Few of us in our later years will be ready to overturn our fundamental beliefs; that alone takes a kind of bravery. But Hastings’s message here could not be more apposite.
This is fucking disgusting. Please write your MP. This cannot be allowed to pass into law and if it does I will vote for any party that commits to overturning it.
An inverted clapperboard (“end board” or “tail slate”) means it’s the end of a take.
That is Rutgar’s reaction to what will doubtless have been collective on-set congratulations for one of the greatest deaths in cinema history.
What a wonderful little outtake!
Watching self tapes in the last couple of weeks has brought home how hard it must be for actors who never get to meet or interact with the director or writer.
I sent an hello/introduction video to them all before hand but it’s made me feel the industry needs to change.
THREAD
I’ve never met
@RalfLittle
, we’ve never worked together nor have our paths crossed at events etc. Perhaps one day they will. Whatever the case I will always respect him for today; the day he thoroughly owned
@Jeremy_Hunt
Football has come home! A stunning victory by the
@Lionesses
.
Huge congratulations to Sarina, Leah and the whole team. Football pitches across the country will be filled as never before by girls and women inspired by your triumph.
#WEURO2022
Your daily reminder
@BorisJohnson
. You don’t get to ignore rule of law, shut down journalists & experts, put lives at risk to keep your adviser in a job & then tell us how “proud” you are & we should just “move on.” NO WAY
#NotMovingOn
#ThisIsNotGoingAway
Has
@btsport
and it’s presenter Jake Humphrey acknowledged this and apologised for his comments stating as fact that the delay and trouble was due to fan behaviour?
UEFA bears “primary responsibility”
Police didn't intervene when locals attacked fans
Criticised for use of tear gas on blameless fans
No evidence to support ticketless fans claim
Authorities attempted to avoid responsibility
🔺 EXCLUSIVE: Britain’s super rich have grown their combined fortunes by 8% to a record £710bn in just 12 months, this year’s Sunday Times Rich List has found
I don’t like to tweet criticism of TV drama commissioners but...
WILL YOU PLEASE STOP WITH THE “NEXT TIME ON...” TRAILERS AT THE END OF EACH EPISODE! THE EPISODE ITSELF IS THE HOOK FOR THE NEXT ONE, YOU DON’T NEED A SHITTY, INSECURE 30” MASH UP THAT SPOILS THE FUCKING PLOT!!!!
Rishi Sunak hasn't a fucking clue what he's talking about. From an industry the taxpayer & the most vulnerable dug out of its self made grave just over a decade ago, he hasn't a fucking clue what he's talking about. Don't preach to us about 'viability' you preening piece of shit.
THIS is an English Nationalism I can celebrate. One I will wave our flag for and makes me tear up. One that rejoices in what we share TODAY, not the myths and crimes of our past.
Netflix airing AI-falsified images in a documentary as if they are researched archive is a fucking disgrace.
No amount of word salad statements from the filmmakers, now they have been caught, can excuse or justify it.
A Netflix documentary deliberately misled. It’s that simple.
No.
I am free to say whatever I please. I am free to abuse my neighbours, insult my wife and, if invited onto Question Time, proclaim whatever the hell I want.
And in return, everyone else is free to ignore me, divorce me or stop watching my films.
It’s really quite simple.
We're all agreed Michael Peña is in the top 5 best screen actors in the world, right?
I mean people have some pretty fucked up opinions on here but I want to know that one's settled.
Can you begin to imagine a senior futures trader at Goldman Sachs issuing a statement that, after conversations with hundred and hundreds of his industry peers, they are forming a voluntary fund to support NHS and other vital workers?
Girl/Haji is the most celebrated, beautifully made and innovative UK drama series not to be recommissioned that I can think of. Imagine what it would have been had Netflix (US) backed it on release.
“I was born in this country!!”
What a pitiful prick. So what? The fuck has that got to do with anything?
We’ve taught these morons that Britain is special, that its achievements are our own glories. It’s a delusion that cripples us.
I keep thinking about Alex Scott refusing to speak for fear of bursting into tears during the wrap up of the BBC coverage. I think I'll remember that for a long long time.
Journey’s End is outstanding, fresh & often overwhelming movie. Saul Dibb’s direction is beautifully judged,
@Laurie_Rose
’s photography delicate but visceral and every moment of the 6 central performances is masterful.
#JourneysEnd