Holborn and St Pancras byelection: Polanski is an utter failure and it's time for him to go iandunt.substack.com/p/holborn-an...
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Laura Shields
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‘Sweary and unsparing’ media and public speaking trainer. MD of Red Thread EU. Trying to improve messaging in and around the EU. Cat mum. Neurodivergent. UK-US-BE passports = confused.
@iandunt.bsky.socialReposted by @mediawhizz.bsky.social@mediawhizz.bsky.social@iandunt.bsky.social I’m sorry but what is a ‘tankie cunt’ ? I refer to the adjective. No need do explain the noun. I’m good for that.
@mediawhizz.bsky.socialOr that the world is increasingly run by deranged psychopaths
@mediawhizz.bsky.socialI could do it in one sentence. But this is a family friendly feed.
@mediawhizz.bsky.socialDo we really need a Big Read to tell us the answer?
@robfordmancs.bsky.socialReposted by @mediawhizz.bsky.socialThis is a positive development, full stop. Anti-racism norms matter, elite cues on anti-racism norms matter, a broad political consensus on anti-racism norms matter so a strong signal from the leader of a party which has been blurring red lines lately is good news.
@alfdubs.bsky.socialReposted by @mediawhizz.bsky.socialI'm so very sad to hear of the death of Esther Ranzen who played an important role in reuniting me with Nicky Winton - the man who saved my life. It's so desperately sad that she couldn't choose assisted dying as was her wish.
@mediawhizz.bsky.socialJust watched this bawled Into my lunch. Half the tears were because it was so moving …and the rest because we live in a time when privileged people who feel they have a moral duty to society have been eclipsed by crass billionaires who don’t give a shit about others.
@humanists.ukReposted by @mediawhizz.bsky.socialHumanists UK mourns Dame Esther Rantzen (1940–2026) Esther was a great champion of human dignity. She approached her final years with the same fearless determination that defined her career of advocacy, using her own experience to shine a light on the suffering caused by our outdated laws.
@michaelspicer.bsky.socialReposted by @mediawhizz.bsky.socialTrying to Tell Myself I'm Cultured by Listening to Radio 3 in the Car But Then This Happens
youtube.comTrying to Tell Myself I'm Cultured by Listening to Radio 3 in the Car But Then This HappensYouTube video by Michael Spicer
@resnikoff.bsky.socialReposted by @mediawhizz.bsky.socialI think about this interview with the distinguished philosopher Conan O'Brien a lot. I actually think this is a healthy way to live your life! www.nytimes.com/2019/01/14/a...
![Is this how you want to go out, with a show that gets smaller and smaller until it’s gone?
Maybe that’s O.K. I think you have more of a problem with that than I do. [Laughs.] At this point in my career, I could go out with a grand, 21-gun salute, and climb into a rocket and the entire Supreme Court walks out and they jointly press a button, I’m shot up into the air and there’s an explosion and it’s orange and it spells, “Good night and God love.” In this culture? Two years later, it’s going to be, who’s Conan? This is going to sound grim, but eventually, all our graves go unattended.
You’re right, that does sound grim.
Sorry. Calvin Coolidge was a pretty popular president. I’ve been to his grave in Vermont. It has the presidential seal on it. Nobody was there. And by the way, I’m the only late-night host that has been to Calvin Coolidge’s grave. I think that’s what separates me from the other hosts.
I had a great conversation with Albert Brooks once. When I met him for the first time, I was kind of stammering. I said, you make movies, they live on forever. I just do these late-night shows, they get lost, they’re never seen again and who cares? And he looked at me and he said, [Albert Brooks voice] “What are you talking about? None of it matters.” None of it matters? “No, that’s the secret. In 1940, people said Clark Gable is the face of the 20th Century. Who [expletive] thinks about Clark Gable? It doesn’t matter. You’ll be forgotten. I’ll be forgotten. We’ll all be forgotten.” It’s so funny because you’d think that would depress me. I was walking on air after that.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:qnyq7wies2uc56bzqmfz4q25/bafkreief4hu7c6hd6ymgqnsaejlaipfuj7fq4ka2tkix72pionkb3dkkdy)
@resnikoff.bsky.socialReposted by @mediawhizz.bsky.socialThe thing about the florid apocalypticism you sometimes encounter on this site is that a lot of people are less horrified by literal civilizational collapse than by the notion that our descendents are just going to keep muddling through and in less than a century nobody will remember us.
@mediawhizz.bsky.socialAnd because it was a ‘do this painful thing, get this clear benefit now’ social transaction story. Not a ‘do this, piss everyone off and only get horrible pain with no end goal in sight’ story.
@cameronclark.bsky.socialReposted by @mediawhizz.bsky.socialThe Home Office is about to discover that immigration actually has economic impacts too
@michaelspicer.bsky.socialReposted by @mediawhizz.bsky.socialMost TV is just this now.
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@jonnelledge.bsky.socialReposted by @mediawhizz.bsky.socialThe BBC news summary this morning went seamlessly from "critics warn PM scrapping triple lock would be electoral suicide" to "critics ask if PM has nerve to make tough decisions" and I don't think it's a particularly pro Burnham stance to suggest he might not be the entire problem here.
@mediawhizz.bsky.socialThey want to be regulated so that they can shift the risk onto the public.
@katie0martin.ft.comReposted by @mediawhizz.bsky.socialOOF, kids are BRUTAL
@ceej.onlineReposted by @mediawhizz.bsky.socialI do not like when the nerds who post graphs on here are all going "oof" and "jesus christ" at the same time