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As it stands, there's a very good chance that the Conservative Party will cease to meaningfully exist. It will go the way the Liberals did after 1918. A fossil representing a political sensibility which no longer has much relevance.
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Highest level: "Actually launched".
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fyi @danielwaweru.bsky.social @peterjosyph.bsky.social
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A concept that could be revived in the digital age: Golden Oldie Picture Show. Which sort of exists already in various amateurs playing around on YouTube, so why not give them a decent budget to try harder.
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One of those mainstream-as-fuck characters where it seems he has the potential to do something truly extraordinary and different late in his career. On the scale of Max Wall working with Samuel Beckett.
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The trouble with too much veneration of the "golden age", much of it involved taking whatever you were given because there wasn't much else. As soon as more options existed, ratings fell. Noel understood this, cannily getting in to the nostalgia business early with "The Time Of Your Life" 1983.
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He brought that mood to LLBS, slightly "irreverant" but able to push limits a bit more because it was a "family audience" rather than a children's morning show.
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Swap Shop had a very odd mood, the whole thing about "Eric" being off-screen controller. Almost like it was on the edge of some sort of anti-showbiz absurdity or wall-breaking but just couldn't take that idea any more seriously than TV itself. Like Chris Morris's older cousin who didn't read much.
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I also saw Du Blonde a few weeks ago, however they've been around for years and the latest album was last year
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Heartworms debut album just came out. I saw the tour:
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I've also seen it claimed that the old Netflix political fantasy "Designated Survivor" has had a wave of interest. I watched it last year, and... I suppose parts of it count as "relevant":
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It was a different time.
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Are they going through a pupal stage and transforming into helicopters
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Previously they sold our country in a share offering in 1986.
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Would be worth reanimating the corpse of Enoch Powell for 60 seconds to see what he makes of this. That should be quite long enough. Don't encourage him.
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Morrissey
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Some guys are into that
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Prime candidate for a human worker who could be replaced with AI.
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Sword Play
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Avoid the excesses of previous adaptations - no gadgets, no fights, no implausible supervillains, except Thasymachus.
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I'm afraid we're getting budget issues, Joe.
Yeah I know, these quavering half-men don't grasp your vision, I argued back at them for what felt like several minutes.
It's going to be "The House That Got Lots Of Scam Phone Calls". Can you rewrite around that?
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The Fleming Bond is closer to the hitman in Graham Greene's "A Gun For Sale" right down to facial scar and rising self-doubt. Note that he also reads Eric Ambler novels and sympathetizes with Castro.
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Though Connery is actually a bit smarter - read Oriental Studies at Cambridge, rather than the hitman lunk who slowly becomes conscious across the books.
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Goldfinger changes the plot. No nuclear bomb in the book. So the film is actually a bit cleverer.
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Like the King in "Hop-Frog" by Edgar Allan Poe.
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Fyi
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The Warday timeline:
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They really existed in 2016-9.