trying to escape the prison of impulse. inspired by twitter, prince, data, marcel duchamp, mata hari, kelis, gore vidal & those hallucinations i used to have
GREAT BRITAIN HAVE THEIR FIRST MEDAL AT PARIS 2024, and it's on the opening day!
Yasmin Harper and Scarlett Mew Jensen take BRONZE in the women's synchro 3m springboard🥉
#Olympics
#Paris2024
#BBCOlympics
urgent reminder: if you're British and have reached a point today where you're discussing arcane rules for who can and can't be the Dem VP candidate but you can't name who the current Irish Taioseach is, now is the time for you to log off, take a walk, do yoga, touch grass (etc.)
i'm sorry but this recording turning out to be the only thing that came out of the government building that £2.6m white house ripoff press conference room that they ended up never using is the most delicious Chekhov's Gun reveal i've seen in years
Exclusive: Senior Downing Street staff joked about holding a Christmas party in Number 10 just four days after event is alleged to have taken place last December
Watch full video here:
it's seen as cringe because a lot of people seem to think of it as a halcyon time where nothing bad was happening (which couldn't be further from the truth), but fuck me.... that show is still one of the most terrific spectacles I've ever seen
with the Olympics coming up this week I am reminded that the London 2012 Opening Ceremony is my Roman Empire and every time I watch it I cry and nothing will ever top this
love that the face of a baby - one of the more generally indistinguishable traits of a baby - has been scribbled out here, but their exceptionally distinct name *and birthday* have been left up
COST OF LIVING CRISIS?(left to right… 45p, 27p, £1.60p). Beans don’t have to mean HEINZ. Look beyond the expensive packaging and Krafty brand advertising that makes shareholders rich. We did. All delicious on toast!
people think the UK is cooked and it is, but also we're about to enter a hot discourse decade of everyone realising Germany rested on its laurels for ages and is falling off hard rn
Ed Miliband shows his nasty side as he attacks Carla Denyer with lies about the Greens not committed to infrastructure. This is a picture perfect illustration of how centrists hate socialists more than fascists.
RT 🔒
[cost of living crisis]
Martin Lewis, literally sobbing: I actually can't help people any more because of how bad the situation is.
literal journalist: ok mate but it's 6.55am. are you pregnant? do women have willies???
imo ULEZ is regressive and should be changed. my proposal for an obvious compromise solution is to have every range rover that goes inside the M25 napalmed
it sounds weak and facile, but it's time for cultural sanctions on Russia as well as economic ones - confiscating hosting the Champions League final, throwing them out of Eurovision, etc. Putin's regime places more importance on this sort of stuff than you'd think!
I made my mind up about Keir Starmer's character years ago. It’s an account of what felt like intimidation by a senior barrister against a pupil barrister - me.
It’s a highly personal account I share now for the first time, as Sir Keir is poised to lead Labour into government.
@RtHonJon
I’ve never held office, but if I was an MP I’d have been supportive of building all sorts of things - including prisons.
Why isn’t Starmer building them?
the UK's film and TV industry is worth about £13bn a year to the economy, works wonders in soft power terms fairly regularly, and she's probably just got herself an in on a writing internship for one of the most famous shows in the country off the bat with this. u sure
As someone who has no reason to be self conscious about their height, I find it incredibly striking how brutally quite a lot of women talk about height. There's a good reason the self consciousness exists
why are men so self conscious about their height like there are many more important flaws to be self conscious about for example the lack of emotional intelligence
"£20 a week is about two hours extra work every week, we will be seeing what we can do help people perhaps secure those extra hours”
On
#BBCBreakfast
Work and Pension Secretary Thérèse Coffey says the increase to universal credit was always temporary.
it's ludicrous and unreasonable but frankly if you don't have the savvy to prax the 5th in these circumstances you are probably not long for this world anyway
Right, so you broke the heavily advised social mores of your chambers, and a senior figure there basically gave you a "think about what you're doing and stop being silly, because this is clearly unprofessional" hard stare? Yes, this clearly reads badly on him, not you
Emily Brothers is set to be the first ever trans MP elected (openly trans at the time of their election) for the Labour Party in Isle of Wight East. Brothers is also disabled + registered blind. Some real ceilings set to be broken tonight!
@harrisonjbrock
reading your piece and genuinely... how after a decade in the industry is he still so thin-skinned that he's sending out DMs like this over pieces that are just not that deep 😭
Each year on Remembrance Sunday, we assemble at the Cenotaph to honour the sacrifice of the fallen and pay tribute to the servicemen & women we place in harm’s way.
Today - as every day - we will remember them.
#LestWeForget
Jesus fucking christ at the line just now on the BBC News At Six - "the first job of the Chancellor is to show they can keep borrowing under control". I'm sorry WHAT
“I’m never going to say.”
After exactly 11 seconds of scrutiny from
@IainDale
, Nadine Dorries finally names the government adviser she accuses of altering her advice to Boris Johnson.
Genuinely fascinating so many Gaza independents have been elected - completely unprecedented at a general election to have this many - and v interesting to see what happens over the next 5 years with them (do they form a group? what are their views like on other non-fopo issues?)
Classic Sadiq Khan / Amy Lamé London night out. Go out in Clapham Junction (Labour run Wandsworth). Music stops at 1AM, kick out at 01:30. Nothing else open. Go for chicken and chips, told they must also close by 2AM. Get a taxi to Waterloo so I can get the jubilee night tube -
My controversial opinion is that mental health awareness has not so much led to better mental health outcomes as it has terrible people learning how to therapy-speak their awful behaviour as a way to justify it. That + justifying their own callousness/laziness.
I have to be real - Liz Truss losing, after holding up everyone onstage for 15 minutes cos she'd clearly locked herself in the bathroom so she could down a bottle of wine and pop two xans before going onstage, was probably the funniest and most joyous moment of the decade so far
"A salary of £150,000 would be comparable to the RSCPA, which pays its top earner £150,007 and recorded an annual income of £142m – more than 100 times the Captain Tom Foundation’s £1.1m"
EXC: A charity set up in the name of Captain Sir Tom Moore tried to appoint the fundraiser’s daughter as its CEO on a six-figure salary before the watchdog intervened to block the move, The Independent understands.
This is an absolute *masterclass* in coming across as sensible and apolitical while actually making a really apposite, powerful political point that gets to the heart of the issue.
One of the most sensible takes on ‘cancel culture’ I’ve seen. Sensible, honest, smart. I’m posting the video directly as Times Radio tweeted it with a clickbait and somewhat misleading headline that unintentionally confirmed his point. More of this please.
the long-running detail that neither boris nor carrie ever bothered training their dog, to the point it's a lowkey drag on their lives, is perpetually good value
and liam byrne thought he was writing to phillip hammond. afraid there are some things in political life where you're just going to have to deal with it
Speaking as someone who's experienced the current system and knows how much the incentives really do not encourage you to take the risk of going back to work if your health isn't entirely secure: this is all seriously good, positive stuff.
it's not about getting drunk on shite beer in a dimly lit room - it's about community and its ability to stem loneliness and put up bumpers that corral impressionable young men away from going off the deep end on this shit when they're under the sway of these ideologies
sorry, not sorry, not going to care about 'Give That Wolf A Banana' bc I grew up with an alcoholic psychologically abusive father in constant state of distress, anxiety & worry about the future. Hearing the key in the door every night was my 'Give That Wolf A Banana' for 20 years
FFS - BBC News going to *Dudley North* for vox pop reactions to Starmer's speech as an example of "somewhere Labour needs to win a general election". It's
#186
on their target list. The Tories got basically double Labour's vote there in 2019
why would anybody go through the gruelling process of an entire pregnancy only to abort the day before. it's almost like every instance where this actually occurs involves the mother's life being severely at risk (and the prognosis for baby not that great either)
Stella is arguing for people to be able to kill a baby the day before it is due to be born and face no consequences. This is an incredibly extreme and bad proposal.
in genuine pain laughing at
@joelnb
's description of Milo Yiannopoulos's Wikipedia profile photo as "looking like someone you run over on Grand Theft Auto"
you guys have been posting this stuff for a decade now, how do you still think you're persuading anyone by opening with "by the way I think you're a total prick"
I am seriously concerned about the appointment of someone to rewrite our school curriculum whose work has been so focussed on identity politics. Children need knowledge, skills & virtues - not a destructive focus on false concepts of gender, race & power.
I’ve just seen a letter to a lady about her state pension. The government has started calling pension a ‘benefit’, when did this gaslighting start?!
#JohnsonOut23
#JohnsonOut24
#JohnsonOut25
SNP leadership candidate Kate Forbes is attacked for being a Christian. If Forbes was Muslim, would they pick apart mainstream teaching in that religion that marriage is between a man and a woman? I doubt it. How come it’s exclusively ok to preclude Christians from high office?
🍏Brat wars come to Westminster as Sadiq Khan, the Lib Dems and... Susan Hall jump on the bandwagon
Hall says she would have given London a "brat summer" as mayor
Lib Dem source: "You can only truly be brat if you are willing to bungee jump live on TV"
Your entire ideology is based on the idea that people know how best to spend their money (so the government should tax as little as possible), and yet you treat everyone who's struggling with money like they're thick as shit.
Yet you can buy a big bag of dried pasta, that would feed a family, for about £0.50p….
If you shop and cook properly, you can eat healthy meals really cheaply.
I would love to see how she spends her salary…
A senior Labour MP has told the BBC she is frustrated with the “oxygen” that the row over Rosie Duffield’s views on transgender issues was getting.
She added: "It's all the same arguments as the gay panic in the 80s rehashed."
a partner who is able to still be good friends with their ex is often legions more rounded, grounded and secure a person in themselves than someone who has an iron rule that they can never talk to them again.
before anything else, getting a Conservative Association exec member to transfer their life savings to you at 3am so you can have chemsex with a gay escort is just quite praxis