Things seen from/on the bus to Croydon this morning:
- school kids quiet and focused on their phones (used to be bedlam)
- a cool, cheap new youth club and space
- people queuing for a food bank
- people queueing for the Home Office
As the Superman movie is at pains to underline, outsourcing is not always a good thing.
Puts them in an absolutely ideal position to report stories like this:
www.thetimes.com/business/tec...
And all this week.
In the UK at least, 'tax raid' used to mean 'enforcement of the law'; since the 1990s it has increasingly been used to mean 'the government taxing people in a way I don't like'.
www.thenewworld.co.uk/phil-tinline...
When I overthrow James/ am asked to serve in his junta, I will maintain this sensible rule and add 'baked in', 'priced in', 'serious', 'humbling' and 'tax raid'.
Like Glenn Beck warning against 'crazy conspiracy theories' as he retailed guess what.
Game show idea: public figures who like warning about 'brainwashing' undergo full-fat Maoist thought reform. The winner is the one who apologises to the public first.
Ugh
Would pay to attend an extensive talk by Mr Bhatti explaining precisely how he thinks this will work, with diagrams.
If only there were an alternative
My question for you is:
Are You Stronger Than a Dog?
Though not, presumably, the weird barber shops that trouble Mr Jenrick
London Has Fallen: latest
Cf the email about his poor character written to him by his mother
It's very close though, as the clip shows. Totally agree re the Old Testament.
Hegseth keeps crying that factual media reports are fiction.
Here he is quoting Pulp Fiction as though it's the Bible.
Has this person not seen Peppa Pig?
At last! People will be able to criticise journalists!
In 2016, I spoke to veterans of Hungary's 1956 revolution for a BBC radio doc. They told me how student protesters plucked up courage, & began to shout "Ruszkik haza!" - "Russians go home!"
Now Hungarians are shouting it again.
@newstatesman1913.bsky.social
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All the President's Men - the great, consoling vision of the media as saviour - is 50 this year.
But so is Network - the great, prophetic vision of the media as sewer.
Thoughts for @thenewworldmag.bsky.social on two towering movies and what came next.
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As someone who started J-school the next year, the grizzled prof thought we incoming freshmen were all Woodstein wannabes, but Howard Beale was much more on our mind.
Iirc, when Roger Scruton got into Cambridge, his dad Jack stopped speaking to him.
Looking forward to many generously-compensated Brits explaining why this is bad actually, and dependence on the US is absolutely fine.
All the President's Men - the great, consoling vision of the media as saviour - is 50 this year.
But so is Network - the great, prophetic vision of the media as sewer.
Thoughts for @thenewworldmag.bsky.social on two towering movies and what came next.
www.thenewworld.co.uk/phil-tinline...
I’m less sanguine than manypeople about the vulnerability of the US midterms to the abuse of federal executive power (and glad that people like Marc are on the case).The threshold for a win isn’t a normal win, it’s that it has to be too big to rig. But that’s possible as Hungarian voters showed…
Do you love price gouging folks? Come to America for our World Cup!
* With our new $250 "Visa Integrity Fee" a tourist visa is now about $435.
*FIFA has got you covered with dynamic pricing for game tickets.
* Now the New Jersey Transit is offering a special, VIP "Fuck You Buddy" experience.
See also those old 1990s dystopian prophecies of 2 million unemployed if New Labour introduced a national minimum wage.
