side note but £1700pcm for a one bedroom flat in Colliers Wood, a not especially glamorous neighbourhood in quite deep zone 3, is fucking bananas, London renting has just gone fully insane
BBC news headline showing "Team GB face uphill task for four-man bobsleigh medal"
Seems a bit unfair — surely they'll only have trained to go downhill?
Apologising for choice of language isn’t really a real apology
I don’t disagree
Did not expect him to apologise quickly (if it is a real apology…)
To be clear I mean ratcliffe’s comments
Posting for accountability. I will not watch a game until he retracts or apologies for these comments
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What Europe could do is threaten to boycott the World Cup. It won't. But that might actually work. Trump wants his big show.
I can’t believe what I’m watching
YEEEEEEEEEEAHAAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAAAAA
Also feels particularly perverse to have a perpetual 9% income tax hike on everyone in the nether region between the repayment threshold and the 'interest outstrips repayment' figure. Very rough maths suggests that's anyone on between £28,470 and about £60k, which is mad.
What came first, the rain or the forest?
Okay in fairness he has done very well other than that
Keeper should be doing better there tbh
There is a certain power that comes from having the balls to admit you were wrong about something and that, with the wisdom of time, you wouldn't say thet now. Odd how rarely people online seem to realise that.
I think people are looking for the “one quick trick” of making “arguing for fundamental rights” less hard: oh, it was in the past, he’s apologised. Does not matter! He gets fundamental rights just by being a human being.
Very good. I would add on “8)” - people going “it was a long time ago” are contributing to the same problem of “citizenship is conditional” that they are trying to oppose. He could have sent those tweets today and he would still be a British citizen.
There should be literally no circumstances, ever, where citizenship is can be revoked. If you literally sign up to fight for an opposing army in a war, then we should prosecute you for treason not revoke citizenship
The most stressed out I've ever been about Christmas was when I was 16 and I got my first ever job, working at M&S in Dundrum. As soon as I started I kept hearing these myths about the Christmas Eve Waste Sale, where all the food that wasn't sold on the 24th was marked down 90%.
have you been living in a cave?
It never occurred to me that Christmas songs would have music videos
Robin Ince once more showing what an amazing person he is. It's tragic that we are in a world where opposing transphobia and hate means having to resign, while being transphobic and hateful means getting regularly featured by national media outlets.
This is the saddest day of my professional life. Today is not only the final recording of the latest series of The Infinite Monkey Cage, it is my last ever Monkey Cage. I never thought that I would have to leave the show. I always imagined going on until | dropped dead under the studio lights due to a brain aneurysm caused by my final attempt to understand notions of quantum gravity or the shock of being told about fly maggot infestations in the sacks of macaque monkeys. I resigned in September, after sixteen years of dedication to the show, A show that I named and helped develop over all those years. Unfortunately, my opinions outside the BBC have been considered problematic for sometime, whether it has been voicing support for the trans community, criticism of Donald Trump, numerous other outlandish opinions, including once gently criticising Stephen Fry. These things were considered to conflict with being a freelance BBC science presenter
In a recent meeting where BBC Studio executives again voiced problems with me, I realised my choices. Obedience and being quieter to remain making Monkey Cage, or 'Resign and have the freedom to speak out against what I believe are injustices'. • I chose the latter. It broke my heart. I love this show and I love the audience, and it is because of the audience in particular, that this decision was so difficult to make. I kept thinking about all the extremist voices promoting hate and division. They are being given so many platforms, while voices that represent kindness, open mindedness, empathy seem to be scarcer and scarcer. I felt I couldn't pamper myself with the luxury of silence. One of my many privileges is that I am able to resign and I can speak out even if it is to the detriment of my career.
I have thought a lot about my heroes, Sinead O Connor, James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, and so many more. I think of Sinead's words, "the job of an artist is to be themselves at any cost". James Baldwin said prejudice was really just a word for cowardice. Audre Lorde, viewing her life, wrote that her only regrets were her silences. I think of my father as I resign, he brought me up to believe in fairness , justice and kindness. Though my heart is broken, it is also full of fire. I apologise to our incredible listeners for my departure, your love of the show means a great deal. I am so sorry to let you down. I hope that you can understand my reasoning. I have to accept that I am not what the current BBC expects of their freelance presenters.
Despite this I should add that I have always worked far more than my contracted hours to try and ensure the show was always the best it could be, as well as making myself accessible and responsive to the audience wherever and whenever I met them. Every night, we have recorded, I have been filled with determination to make the best show possible. This was not "just a job" I hope that with my departure I can be a better ally to the LGBTQ community, to the neurodivergent community, to activists fighting against those who aim to brutalise society, to those currently in prison on hunger strike, and to all those who fight for a more inclusive world. From many conversations, I know there are many Monkey Cage listeners who support these communities and activists too. The strawberry is dead. Long live the strawberry. B
Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
My wife has now had to use her Firm Voice to stop me asking people to use headphones or turn down their phones, so bad are the threats of violence I'm receiving. It's not just Airport Behaviour, people are losing object permanence and a theory of mind that lets them know they might be annoying.
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FORMULA 1 IS GOOD AGAIN EVERYTHING IS FINE I LOVE THIS SPORT I'VE NEVER SAID IT'S A HUGE PILE OF SHIT THAT MAKES ME HATE MY LIFE THANK YOU KINGS
Very proud to support @abbiellewelyn.bsky.social who is swimming 5k to raise money for Alzheimer’s society. She’s gonna smash it. Would be very grateful for anyone who would like to support her too 🫶🏻
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Don't attack them for being hypocritical, attack them for being homophobes.
It is, again, something that sets them out from the British public, even on the right.
