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I've just seen someone on here say a comedy film "sucks" because, even though it made them laugh a lot, it didn't have "residual cultural value". I'm not sure I've ever seen anyone more clearly demonstrate that they have zero understanding of humanity.

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One mystery of Keir Starmer is: why is a man who does things like this, who writes handwritten notes to people he worked with but didn't know well, or for people he met briefly in the CPS, quite *SO* bad at talking to and cultivating MPs?

submitted 2 days ago • 63 comments

@vftlpodcast.bsky.social update. The shirt, manufactured before the final for Man Utd fans. Now safely in Kelly Towers. (Nb: I said it had come from Jamaica; turns out that's Jamaica, Queens, NY! 😁😁)

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

The Sun lighting the sky from the North

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Feels like quite a few people have been waiting their whole lives for the moment when being openly racist in print is no longer career ending and are determined to make the most of it.

submitted 9 days ago • 33 comments

Today’s newsletter: on the Tory party’s lurching language:

submitted 9 days ago • 34 comments

Carbon budget countdown to exceeding 1.5°C ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...

submitted 10 days ago • 10 comments

"If I was a sculptor ... but then again no..." Fair play to Bernie Taupin, but what a sweet, easy gig! Writing the lyrics to the music of a genius songwriter and performer who could belt out the contents of a microwave instruction manual and get you on your feet.

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

The perfect football couple of minutes. To go from the fear that we're being pegged back with a slender lead, to despair at the penalty being given, to elation at it being saved, to the ecstasy of scoring again, and it being such a thing of genius ... you live a long time between highs like this.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

First #fathersday in forever there will be no lunchtime pint with Pa. Treasure the moments people ❤️

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Given how much we all wish Henry VIII actually did write "Greensleeves", we should do the people of the far future a favour and add to the historical record, with supporting archeological evidence, that Elizabeth II wrote "Bohemian Rhapsody".

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