Bobby Deluxe posted:

Thinking a lot about Devon on the latest KJB episode saying that left wing conspiracy theories tend, on the whole, to be things that actually happened in publicly available documents.

And even if you point any of that out, you're still somehow a crazy commie doing an antisemitism.

Maugrim posted:

I mean... She staggers so close to an understanding there.

jaete posted:

It's "funny" how, as a fairly casual observer of news these days, everything Brexit-related has clearly been of lesser importance in the media for many years straight now. For example this thing which apparently will gently caress everything up even harder from 1st October, so who's talking about it then? Less than a month to go, does anyone anywhere give a poo poo?

The goddamn media is such cancer, geez

Perhaps some speciality papers (FT maybe?) are actually writing about this poo poo, but apparently the rest of the nation will only find out after the fact

Apraxin posted:

Haha, I missed this at the time, but last week the Graun had Tracy Ann Oberman as their weekly guest for one of those lifestyle/culture columns where they have a different minor celeb answer 20 questions about themselves - 'what would your supepower be?', 'what's the most expensive thing you've ever bought?' 'who would you say sorry to, if you had the chance?' - just the usual puff piece stuff. Except this time, they had a question that doesn't seem to have been posed to any of their previous guests:



Love the British media.

Noxville posted:

Lmao

https://twitter.com/siennamarla/status/1435902586142474243?s=21

BalloonFish posted:

Also, I know it's the modern Torygraph and all, but the mood whiplash is incredible. 18 months ago the GE result meant that the stalwart yeomen of Britain had decisively, overwhelmingly, finally rejected all forms of left-wing politics and thought forever and we were going to be a sceptred isle of free enterprise, property rights and common sense for ever more.

Now there's been a 1.25% tax rise and suddenly we've become a Soviet republic and the NHS is destroying capitalism...[I can barely type that with a straight face, although it's yet another entry in the "right-wingers making reality sound much more awesome than it actually is" list]

Failed Imagineer posted:

Tweet gone already.

The BBCs education editor doesn't seem to know how to thread tweets, but click through if you really want to see a series of tweets fellating Williamson

https://twitter.com/branwenjeffreys/status/1438122952420114436?s=19

Just lol at the BBC

peanut- posted:

I'm more confused by the idea of what would constitute a program made by British TV network in Britain using British actors that is not "distinctively British".

They list Fleabag, Gogglebox, Downton Abbey, Bake Off and The Bodyguard. So they're going to make it law that TV companies have to carry on making the same kind of programs they're already making?

Lungboy posted:

Random Integer posted:

I don't understand how even the most out of touch old Etonian type cant tell that "drive a van filled with amazon tat, which you can do on a regular license" and "drive a big loving truck loaded with thousands of litres of flammable liquid, which you can't do on a regular license" are massively different things.

Failed Imagineer posted:

https://twitter.com/PoliticsForAlI/status/1442749903675998208?s=19

Read this and involuntarily shuddered lol.

From Galaxy Brain to Galaxy Britain

OwlFancier posted:

It's genuinely amazing, labour voters don't like him, tory voters don't like him, the only people who do like him are the people broken in the brain enough to vote for the loving wet blanket party.

TheRat posted:

Isn't Hislop fairly close to Helen Lewis?

BalloonFish posted:

This sort of "ordinary working people rejected looney left Labour" thing really winds me up.

It's always helpful to have figures to deploy to these sorts of people:



Even in 2019 (let alone 2017), the plurality of voters who are in work (taking out the retired and the unemployed, although the unemployed also mostly voted Lab) voted Labour. The only ones that didn't were those on household incomes above £100k.

It was the overwhelming desire of people 50+ and retired to vote Conservative, and the geographical loving that FPTP generates, that delivered Johnson's majority.

Chuka Umana posted:

Tony Blair should pull a Churchill/Gladstone and become prime minister into his 80s. I know even some of the Labour left are envious of the way Blair could win those landslides.