There’s a terrible tendency that any time anyone comes along and starts saying things that are popular from a left perspective, established thinking goes ‘all very nice yes, but it’s not SERIOUS is it’ even whilst all the accepted serious people fail absolutely constantly at the absolute basics.
Well, this sucks. I put a hundred quid on Mrs Fisher, the chief dinner lady at Oystermouth Primary School in 1985
The BBC’s job is to “inform, educate, and entertain”? Let’s talk about the middle word.
What follows is the story of what we found in an FOI request (per the Observer) about the Corporation killing off plans to launch an online catalogue and failing to deliver ‘learning for people of all ages’. 🧵
Saw him do an improvised set with a load of modular synth kit at Machina Bristronica the year before last, and it was a joyous racket. (Difficult to imagine writing that sentence about any other UK Eurovision entrant, though I'm now wondering what Scooch could have achieved with a Moog System 55.)
I've yet to meet a single supporter of grammar schools who imagines their own kids going to a secondary modern - and it's the first question I ask. What if they fail the 11-plus? "Oh, if that happened, we'd go down the fee-paying route."
It should be getting evident to even the most lump-witted Labour drone that the "Ha ha, hypnotits" strategy ain't gonna get you too far this time.
On its own terms - a brash telenovela about legal brats, rather than Our Friends in the South - I still think it was great. But my lot were suckers for it, as it came out when we'd just graduated and a few of us were trainee barristers and solicitors in London. We really did know people like these
This is a wonderful piece.
...while pushing manifesto policies that go back to the idea of the household as a financial unit, in which women would once again cede independence to the titular "head".
I can see how that might stay with you for life.
At least it didn't feature Kenny Smiles. Or did it...?
Happy St David's Day. Don't have nightmares.
I bought Go+ in a Brussels record store when I was inter-railing. And then had to carry the damned thing around without breaking it for two weeks, including through a bout of dysentery
Yeah, it makes perfect sense that a beleagured BBC, dealing with constant flak from every corner of the political spectrum, would intentionally engineer a huge shitstorm at the Baftas, YOU ABSOLUTE FUCKING NUTTERS
London Centric keep on showing us what the best sort of journalism can achieve.
We wanted to understand how rugged English-Scots-Irish culture has shaped America. So we talked to three white South African billionaires at a sex party in the Bahamas.
Don't you hate it when fighting age men flee their own country, leaving their families behind, then expect other people to give them a handout.
"Mam! There's a duck in Harlech Television"
"For Girls Who Grow Plump in the Night"
@alwynturner.bsky.social selects his 70 favourite album titles from the 1970s.
thelionandunicorn.com/2026/02/14/a...
JUST TAKE MY MONEY
Indeed. The one who was in charge when the paper started publishing lucrative Kremlin advertorial propaganda, despite objections from senior newsroom staff.
No, I did not predict that one either.
If the papers don't use the headline FRAMPTON GOES DEAD when he falls off his perch, we're no longer a nation #totp
Yet another song I'll forever associate with the IRA mainland bombing campaigns, thanks to The Rock 'n' Roll Years. #totp
Seconded. Later in life, I discovered Get It Right Next Time and Night Owl, which ooze the same mood. Rafferty's a great lyricist - underrated because he's so direct and economical. And the videos are astonishing: starkly lit studio lock-ins. You can almost smell the cigarettes and whisky.
Of all the songs that sound like a bad hangover/emerging from an all-nighter at 6.30am waiting for the first bus and looking at a grey cold unforgiving sky, it's Baker Street.
Also Gerry Rafferty knew his subject and met an awful long painful alcoholic end.
They should shrink-wrap this political party and label it "REFORMED GAMMON JOINT" www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Can you imagine having such a weak hand that you feel the best two cards you can play as selling points are 'American treatment of indigenous people' and 'American healthcare'?
I maintain that if the liberation of Belsen happened today, the BBC wouldn't dare run the story without approaching Julius Streicher for comment.
