"Olly Robbins is not a shouty man. He did not thump the table, or launch into a tirade against Starmer for how he has been treated. Instead, he quietly and methodically demolished Number 10’s latest convoluted explanation of the indefensible."
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I’ll never forget watching The Wicker Man with my outer Hebridean mum. “I just don’t know where there got all that wicker from”
strange these op-eds about women being too angry have all come out the last few days when during the same time there's also been a massive investigation published on an online rape academy with millions of viewers a month and none of them have bothered to even cover it, even as news
Dear @labourpartyuk.bsky.social you may wish to fix this.
This is so good
Weird that at no point in that Hershey's film trailer do they mention it tastes a bit of sick. Maybe they're saving that for the final reveal?
I was at the Islamabad Peace Talks and they didn't disappoint.
In the words of JD Vance "What goes on tour, stays on tour."
And in the words of Jared Kushner "SPRING BREAK."
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She is delivering what Elon Musk would call an epic spicy roast of Orbán
I believe the phrase is "Hang it in the Louvre"
how do we get JD Vance to start speaking at Reform press conferences
How's that going?
"Radio 4’s average listener is 60. The typical Radio 2 listener is 51. Radio 1, which supposedly is intended for under-25s, has an average listening age of 38. All three of those are clearly too old."
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We are on to ep4, it is great. The performances are wonderful.
The embarrassing truth about Trump's "total victory" in Iran, by me for @thenewworldmag.bsky.social
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If there is a nuclear attack tonight then I have a great post about the FIFA peace prize ready to go.
Harold Pinter poem or presidential statement on Truth Social?
Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.
If I was an undecided voter in Hungary, I imagine a visit from a sweaty weirdo in eyeliner whose boss is enthusiastically posting about genocide would probably swing it
between the weather and the bank holiday and the president threatening genocide, I am finding it mighty hard to get back into the swing of work, I must say
Martin's book is absolutely splendid, please join us in Nottingham on May 12.
And the winner of the Understatement of the Century award is ...
Exclusive from @jamesrball.com for @thenewworldmag.bsky.social
Sir Ian Cheshire will be the new chair of Ofcom. Now, will it finally regulate GB News properly?
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Facebook is an amazing place
Truly embarrassing, from Martyn Brown in The Express
When you've already got your own TV station, also having your own podcast doesn't seem much to boast about
Oh Bondi, no more
On the great Kanye West divide, by Lucy Reade for @thenewworldmag.bsky.social
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When i was a kid in Switzerland, there was a family circus that used to come to town regularly, and my dad became friends with some of the people running it. We used to go down and see the show and I remember there was a guy who span plates as an act and one night he just kept smashing plates…
