jameskettle.bsky.social
Writes the words that others say. Wrote a play that was on in the West End, won a BAFTA for annoying David Beckham.
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It would also split the PLP along hard to predict lines.
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It would be a desperate gambler’s throw. The Stay Out line would be “Westminster never tried to make it work, we need to get rid of the lot of them”. And even if they lost, the ensuing reaction would surely still be a huge electoral fillip for Farage.
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We have to start talking to Hitler at some point. Why not start talking to him now? Or once Stalin’s finished
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We would need to send the evidence of the Polish invasion to Berlin for analysis first
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Jeremy Hunt didn’t when he was bcc’ing the BSkyB process to BSkyB…
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Both a feelgood story and a depressing parable about the declining value placed on creative work
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I agree entirely but think it will not be obvious to Wes till after it has happened.
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This sort of thing is I guess what Stephen is thinking of www.theguardian.com/politics/201...
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These Tory party friendly platitudes, are they what we know as “hard truths”?
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That weird guy who used to be MP for Rochdale? Bold choice
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When I first had an office at the BBC, the previous occupants had covered one wall with Steve Bell cartoons and a sign saying something like “the wall of comedy death”.
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Is it about trying to preserve self respect by attempting to jam Trump into another paradigm that you find easier to get behind?
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Fairly sure this was remade as the video for Rio
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Although I admit to finding this funny at the time, I suspect it is illustrative of his character.
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More relevant Southampton FC data - in 2001, Glenn Hoddle walked out on us to manage Spurs prior to a north London derby FA Cup semi final. Lowe’s response was to order the printing of thousands of saints branded t shirts prior to the semi reading “Be A Gooner For The Day”.
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Because the funding models are all broken, you have to go bigger and bigger and bigger to get eyeballs and make any money at all. Something being good doesn’t offer any ROI benefits compared to something being unignorable.
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Imagine being a professional comedy writer watching PMQs ;)
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See also “it is time for me to tell the hard truths that I have always believed and you want to hear”
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No one needs this, but because the funding models that used to allow for imaginative television have all been disrupted, we’re increasingly pivoting towards using beloved IP as a margarine that has to be spread over as many slices of bread as possible.
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His entire credibility, such as it is, I guess depends on people not noticing.
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I cannot think there are many saints fans who do not find themselves every day thinking “how tf is anyone taking Rupert Lowe seriously”. Shows I suppose how little people pay attention to us, they’d notice if Peter Ridsdale was an MP, and it’s basically no different.
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…and as there wasn’t enough of it, we’re kicking him out
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I’m sure the Secretary of State has a plan.
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I mean they could recast the kids every couple of years like the Crown and it still make tons of cash. They won’t, but they could!
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I think if you want to throw enough money and people at the problem, you can definitely make it in ten years. That’s the key variable, as always…
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“When the President humiliates someone on live television prompting a series of crisis conferences and the rearming of an entire continent, it’s important to take him seriously but not literally.” Cont p94, 250k to the usual account
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Twitter tbc
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I mean, it’s an interval. Who doesn’t like an interval? Not the people who sell choc ices, that’s for sure.
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When I done a play it was about 100 mins and one of the critics said the interval was unnecessary. Which I disagreed with, cos on press night it meant I could run down the road, neck a pint in the Worlds End away from
any of the audience and top up my Dutch courage for act two.
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I don’t want to sound like I’m indifferent to drag queens or the regions. I’m not. It’s just that it’s a bit like worrying about the diversity in the line up of the Titanic band.
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They think things like drag queens or representing the regions are of central importance, while the entire financial basis of UK TV production sinks beneath the waves.