tangentially this has been doing the rounds on twitter recently. are there any chickens here perchance. will they be coming home to roost any time soon. /fin

RT 🔒 >> He also followed that Assaf Kaplan unit 8200 guy (no relation to Ivor) on twitter vefore he even got the ominous sounding 'social listening role' in labour

the Times of Israel is considered one of the more respectable papers in the entity for what it's worth. this isn't just some crazy guy in the Jerusalem Post.
blogs.timesofisrael.com/author/liron...

"Sources told Jewish News the surprise move was 'not down to any political reasons', but they remained tight-lipped about what had prompted the development." www.jewishnews.co.uk/velleman-res...

more details of the chap here. bit of an operator by the sounds of it.
skwawkbox.org/2025/04/04/j...

one bizarre thing about that old Ford/Goodwin book on UKIP is that its data clearly showed the UKIP vote as coming from "ex Labour voters" who last voted Labour some time in the 70s/80s! – ie they would be better described as "ex Tory voters", but their narrative constantly tries to elide this.

the other thing the report doesn't seem to go into is the allegations that HBOS parted company with Reeves when it became clear that she was taking time off to go canvas while claiming she had a dental appointment or something.

have to say I found Candy's account more plausible lol

one funny thing I read on wikipedia is that Bowie says he was on 10g coke a day during the shoot, didn't have to "act" since he was barely on the planet as it was etc; Candy Clark in contrast recalls that Bowie was clean as a whistle and punctiliously professional throughout.

last time I saw it was on BBC2 as a teenager and I was kinda baffled by it so was slightly reassured to find out this wasn't just me being an ingenue.

... which is online here!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6TA...

Nosfera³ perhaps.

Dafoe is clearly having a whale of a time.

incidentally my favourite version of Dracula is the BBC 1977 version starring Louis Jourdain as the count with an amazing turn by Susan Penhaligan as a truly terrifying Lucy.

read that play for English Lit O-level. loved it.

some context from the other place