Thrilling, baffling yet energising - What fresh economic opportunities might Genghis Khan's monumental million-skull structure portend for Merv? - ThreadSky

jonnelledge.bsky.social • 30 days ago

Thrilling, baffling yet energising - What fresh economic opportunities might Genghis Khan's monumental million-skull structure portend for Merv?

Reposted from Mordant Muppetry

“tantalising” WTAF

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sianushka.bsky.social•30 days ago

No lessons have been learnt from last time. It's all "ooh isn't he terrifically naughty" from the Lobby, while the rest of us are on the phone to aid organisations in Ukraine and Uganda being told how people will die as a result of his "overnight missives".

simonfspeak.bsky.social•30 days ago

Junior common room stuff. They can’t help themselves.

adamlbrown.bsky.social•30 days ago

bbc brain - nothing can ever be good or bad, because that would be "taking sides"

paulharrison2112.bsky.social•30 days ago

Chris Mason -
Political Idiot, in Brussels

aladdinnoons.bsky.social•30 days ago

They’re really just gossip columnists / entertainment correspondents at best. Embarrassing how dumbed down these lobby hacks have become over the years. More bothered by the tittle-tattle over lunch than trying to inform the public. With few exceptions the political Lobby is shit

laikax.bsky.social•30 days ago

There's nothing tantalising about drip fed shit Mason, absolutely nothing.

fayheatley.bsky.social•30 days ago

The BBC have really lost the plot. This is proof.

alfredo-garcia.bsky.social•30 days ago

He gets 300 grand a year for this.

permaconfused.bsky.social•30 days ago

Reminds me of Graeme Garden and Barry Cryer playing 'Cheddar Gorge' on I'm Sorry, I Haven't a Clue.

mthrjo.bsky.social•30 days ago

I used to think the Charlie Stross book where Nyarlathotep winds up becoming PM & there are human sacrifices on the Mall, but almost everyone continues on with business as usual was hilariously overblown, but I now think that if Lovecraftian horrors actually existed, that’s how it would go down.

mthrjo.bsky.social•30 days ago

Including the people who stubbornly insist that magic doesn’t exist, despite all evidence to the contrary.

ndixon.bsky.social•30 days ago

What a fun and exciting time to be a journalist. Think of all the ad clicks!

countrywol.bsky.social•30 days ago

To think we could have had Jon Sopel, who scurried off to have opinions on LBC, instead of this patsy.

What's the lobby view on Mason: best of a bad job?

jonnelledge.bsky.social•30 days ago

No idea! I've never been in the lobby

countrywol.bsky.social•30 days ago

You know the people in the lobby!! They must kvetch to the non-lobbyists (I was at uni with Harry Cole; he has found the role he was born to play).

jonnelledge.bsky.social•30 days ago

on occasion but I've not encountered a strong view about Mason I'm afraid

countrywol.bsky.social•30 days ago

He'll be rotated out soon enough. I must check out what the papers think today...

alanjstedman.bsky.social•30 days ago

Ooooooohhhhh Jonn, you are a one!

briantrumpet.bsky.social•30 days ago

It looks like we need a BBC equivalent of @nytpitchbot.bsky.social if this is anything to go by. If this were happening anywhere else, it would be called a coup.

jmsclrksn.bsky.social•30 days ago

He really is a twonk

mrvimes.bsky.social•30 days ago

At govt economics briefings whenever Mason (et al) asks a
Poltical question the politician should have the backbone to say “this is a business/economics briefing - next question please”.

mokeeffee.bsky.social•30 days ago

Imagine Chris Mason reporting on Czechoslovakia in 1939.

mokeeffee.bsky.social•30 days ago

It's all a funny game to those who live off a licence fee funded salary and pension.

ottocr.at•30 days ago

He’s become so used to frotting over disaster that he no longer sees beyond its value to him as a hack

alanjstedman.bsky.social•30 days ago

That's the problem when you wear your reading glasses by mistake...you lose your all round vision

Gibb has clearly confiscated his proper glasses

timeforheroes.bsky.social•30 days ago

Hopeless, feeble and complicit. Legacy media is obsolete now, obsessed with faux-balance.

aardgoose.info•30 days ago

Reminds me of the multiparty John Finnemore sketch "Ghengis Khan", transcribed here:

https://j-f-s-p.livejournal.com/5894.html

jonnelledge.bsky.social•30 days ago

yes! love JFSP

jonnelledge.bsky.social•30 days ago

"well, no one can deny that he's rewriting the rules of politics," I chuckle, as a passing horseman parts my head from my body

crackedwindscreen.bsky.social•30 days ago

Its like its all a bit of a joke to those reporting on it.

hnsmith.bsky.social•30 days ago

Do you have a BBC political coverage narrative position to go alongside the right wing killing with kindness press narrative?

dasmunch.bsky.social•30 days ago

Any chance of an article on how the rank shitness of the Lobby damages politics and damages us all? There is a 1% chance they might listen to you

jonnelledge.bsky.social•30 days ago

I fear you over estimate my influence

dasmunch.bsky.social•30 days ago

Better than the 0% chance we all have

bendunnell.bsky.social•30 days ago

I agree.

dotlepkowska.bsky.social•30 days ago

Me too. Do it, Jonn!
This must be the weakest political team the BBC has had in our lifetimes, at a time that incisive, informed and informative, insightful analysis has never been more needed.

raymondinho.bsky.social•30 days ago

The media are loving it it's all about the clicks and engagement for them
They're addicted to the drama

deliciouslegacy.bsky.social•30 days ago

😆😆😆

petertelford.bsky.social•30 days ago

The BBC really do have a talent for picking useless political editors these days.

garygasman.bsky.social•30 days ago

Chris Mason is a Tufton St shill. The interesting thing is his voice eminates from his boxers. Talking bo**ocks.

rougues63.bsky.social•30 days ago

Mason is an idiot

fascinatorfun.bsky.social•30 days ago

👏👏👏

aloner.bsky.social•30 days ago

It's astonishing the extent to which this madness is being normalised

thatmattcarr.bsky.social•30 days ago

‘Your job may end up fucked after all this, but it’s great for mine!’ It’s the glee with which they seem to report things that might really hit people hard.

bluarepawerewolf.bsky.social•30 days ago

Does Chris Mason agree with everything The Orange Horrorclown represents, or is he just trying to say, "This is bad and we should be fucking angry and scared" without actually saying so?

michael-fox.bsky.social•30 days ago

When and how did these journalists become so addicted to roleplaying as some aloof gymnastics judge scoring the style and execution points?

I don’t think it used to be this bad when I was young, but maybe I just wasn’t paying attention

dotlepkowska.bsky.social•30 days ago

It wasn't this bad, you're right. The political correspondents of my childhood shaped my own future in the industry. Mason's comments lack any credibility and are clownish.