taraconlan.bsky.social
Journalist writing about media for the Guardian & others since all this was just Gracie Fields. taraconlan.com
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Hope so too, she & Michael were delight to interview. Hope the new custodians don’t fleece the franchise & go down the ‘Ah Mr Bond, I’ve been expecting you…r Amazon parcel’ route & lose the mystique but fear they won’t be able to resist the💰 pressure
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👏👏
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Maybe he’ll use one of his Amazon pickers to do the job
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Obvs meant to say Michael G Wilson
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Copilot is that colleague nobody wants to get at Secret Santa time
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Steady on!
Actually, come to think of it I do. What sorcery is this that you know that?
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Oh they look lovely 😍
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Thanks
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Thus making it a Paunch & Trudeau Show
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Time and time again the Covid Inquiry has heard that health systems and other public services are less prepared for a crisis than they were before the pandemic. As a campaign we need to keep the pressure up to make sure the UK is fighting fit when the next crisis hits.
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She’s doing very well on the mixed doubles ladder
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Omnishambles has the onomatopoeiac edge for me plus polycrisis immediately makes me think there’s a problem with Bridge Farm’s indoor veg growing housing but that’s probably just my The Archers-addled brain
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Or embrace the farming element and call it Shitgate
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the times as in a busy world with so many entertainment choices on streaming, Mobile and gaming many don’t have the time to commit to soaps these days
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and Lygo said, ‘will have an impact for the people who work on the soaps team’ but ‘ we will do what we can to mitigate the impact on our people’ & money invested ‘ in programming that can help ITV grow reach in a very very competitive market’. Note the emphasis on ‘very very’ there. Sign of…
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As one of the producers said, if some people’s minds aren’t changed at least hopefully there’s been education and understanding
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Yes producers had couple of people who worked on that show advise them
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Worth noting the original Australian version of the show won an International Emmy and was put on the National Curriculum. Think Minnow’s iteration might have similar impact
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and we end up with combustible events like last summer’s race riots.’
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joint EP Emma Young said: ‘People might find it uncomfortable to hear the things they hear but you … have to understand why they feel like that. I did not want it to be preachy at all.” C4 docs chief Alisa Pomeroy said if the views aren’t aired,’we simply drive them online, where they metastasise…
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C4’s production portal for first time ever. Credit to C4 and makers Minnow Films for making such a difficult show on such a difficult subject. As co-EP Liam Humphreys of Minnow said: “It’s really important to engage with people who have different opinions [and ask] why do they think like that?” &…
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equality has now led to discrimination against men. A world where trust declines, truth is not universally accepted, the gender divide is widening and young people increasingly feel they are missing out is a dangerous world. We could lose the
connections that bind us into community.’
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This gap reflects and is surely related to an attainment gap between young men and young women, particularly pronounced for white working-class men. Figures like Andrew Tate and Jordan Peterson use this perhaps explaining why 45% of young men
said they feel that promoting women’s…
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And warns ‘for the first time, we have seen gender rather than education drive an ideological split
where young women hold more liberal views on gender politics, immigration and racial justice than
their male peers; in older generations, views are much more similar across genders….
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In a bold, brave speech Mahon she called out the ‘tech titans’ who ‘are so hellbent on the potential profitability of what they deem to be free speech that they are perfectly happy to eradicate truth and facts along the way.
These are massive issues which we ignore at our peril’