Mike Cormack
@bucketoftongues.bsky.social
High school principal. Book reviewer/opinion writer/cultural essayist. Scottish. My book "Everything Under The Sun: The Complete Guide To Pink Floyd" out now https://t.ly/JbwNl. My Substack on culture and politics https://t.ly/5hKp_
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Britain is in a hole. Real wages have barely risen in 17 years, and the public realm is fraying. Our politics is increasingly fractious as a result. The underlying reason? The biggest productivity slowdown in the G7.
November 17, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Britain is in a hole. Real wages have barely risen in 17 years, and the public realm is fraying. Our politics is increasingly fractious as a result. The underlying reason? The biggest productivity slowdown in the G7.
International war crime (alcoholic drinks vision)
Mate just ordered a couple of pints of Guinness in Madrid.
November 17, 2025 at 7:27 AM
International war crime (alcoholic drinks vision)
"What we've seen this week" - what we've seen for 10 years
November 17, 2025 at 3:26 AM
"What we've seen this week" - what we've seen for 10 years
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hey man, let me help you out here with a little tip in the form of jingle *you don't win friends with salad voice* you don't EVER fuck your students! you don't EVER fuck your students
November 17, 2025 at 12:24 AM
hey man, let me help you out here with a little tip in the form of jingle *you don't win friends with salad voice* you don't EVER fuck your students! you don't EVER fuck your students
They could also ply out their gold teeth and shave their heads
The Sun has been told Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood will on Monday propose confiscating jewellery, watches, necklaces from asylum seekers to meet asylum costs
This reflects the most controversial aspect of the Danish scheme - the Jewellery Law. The toughest Labour MPs thought this was OTT
This reflects the most controversial aspect of the Danish scheme - the Jewellery Law. The toughest Labour MPs thought this was OTT
November 17, 2025 at 12:35 AM
They could also ply out their gold teeth and shave their heads
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It's a real "I Am Spartacus!" "NO! *I* AM SPARTACUS!" "I Am Spartacus, Too!" moment for the entire pedophile movement...
bsky.app/profile/junl...
bsky.app/profile/junl...
epstein emails released and everyone coming out as a pedophile to defend donald trump
November 17, 2025 at 12:13 AM
It's a real "I Am Spartacus!" "NO! *I* AM SPARTACUS!" "I Am Spartacus, Too!" moment for the entire pedophile movement...
bsky.app/profile/junl...
bsky.app/profile/junl...
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The Epstein Files are the new government shutdown are the new 2024 elections are the new indictment for mishandling classified documents are the new indictment for election interference are the new indictment for campaign funding violations are the new conviction for defamation and adjudication of
November 13, 2025 at 12:08 AM
The Epstein Files are the new government shutdown are the new 2024 elections are the new indictment for mishandling classified documents are the new indictment for election interference are the new indictment for campaign funding violations are the new conviction for defamation and adjudication of
Remembering this classic
November 12, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Remembering this classic
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Conservative Shadow Culture Secretary Nigel Huddleston tells GB News that the BBC should "grovel" to Trump.
Amazing how many British 'patriots' are spending their time telling our national broadcaster to prostrate itself before a hostile foreign leader
Amazing how many British 'patriots' are spending their time telling our national broadcaster to prostrate itself before a hostile foreign leader
November 11, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Conservative Shadow Culture Secretary Nigel Huddleston tells GB News that the BBC should "grovel" to Trump.
Amazing how many British 'patriots' are spending their time telling our national broadcaster to prostrate itself before a hostile foreign leader
Amazing how many British 'patriots' are spending their time telling our national broadcaster to prostrate itself before a hostile foreign leader
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November 9, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Have a horrible chest infection. No medicines doing anything so went, as last resort, to hospital. What do they do? Prescribe me this. I look it up, and it's honeysuckle, forsythia, ephedra, rhubarb, and menthol. Fucking TCM.
November 7, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Have a horrible chest infection. No medicines doing anything so went, as last resort, to hospital. What do they do? Prescribe me this. I look it up, and it's honeysuckle, forsythia, ephedra, rhubarb, and menthol. Fucking TCM.
"You mean all those people just pretended to like me because I was king?"
The former king of Spain, Juan Carlos, published a memoir this week, detailing the accidental shooting death of his younger brother nearly 70 years ago, his abiding respect for the nation’s former dictator and his sense of isolation since abdicating.
Former King of Spain, Juan Carlos, Details Death of Brother in Memoir
He wrote about the accident that killed his brother nearly 70 years ago. The book also describes his respect for Gen. Francisco Franco, the former dictator.
nyti.ms
November 7, 2025 at 7:21 AM
"You mean all those people just pretended to like me because I was king?"
I'm watching the Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee episode where Jerry Seinfeld meets Matthew Broderick. It's fascinating how they have identical outfits (navy blazer, shirt, jeans, trainers), but one is awful and one is subtly stylish.
October 30, 2025 at 9:47 AM
I'm watching the Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee episode where Jerry Seinfeld meets Matthew Broderick. It's fascinating how they have identical outfits (navy blazer, shirt, jeans, trainers), but one is awful and one is subtly stylish.
Online Man Is Angry
October 30, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Online Man Is Angry
I am trying to lose weight aged 46 and I can attest to this. My treadmill and rowing machine are instruments of horror.
October 29, 2025 at 11:52 PM
I am trying to lose weight aged 46 and I can attest to this. My treadmill and rowing machine are instruments of horror.
It's fascinating how weird and unsettling men can be when refracted through how women experience them.
A writer tried dating alt-right men as an experiment to learn about them. There is so much going on here I don't even know where to start
www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/love-sex/...
www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/love-sex/...
October 29, 2025 at 11:45 PM
It's fascinating how weird and unsettling men can be when refracted through how women experience them.
Friends defamiliarised. An alien poetry reading of The Big Bang Theory. I love it and hate it.
AI sitcom accidentally a Lynchian fever dream. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and insane lament.
October 29, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Friends defamiliarised. An alien poetry reading of The Big Bang Theory. I love it and hate it.
fuck off Elon you weapons-grade muppet
Elon musk: ‘Civil war in Britain is inevitable. Just a question of when.’
October 29, 2025 at 8:15 AM
fuck off Elon you weapons-grade muppet
She also had a great turn as Mrs Munt, Emma Thomson's aunt in Howards End, 1992. (By complete coincidence, her son Samuel West played Leonard Bast.)
RIP to Prunella Scales. Sybill Fawlty was one of the greatest comic creations. There's no Basil without Sybil.
But I will probably remember her most fondly as Martin's Mum in Cabin Pressure.
But I will probably remember her most fondly as Martin's Mum in Cabin Pressure.
October 29, 2025 at 7:38 AM
She also had a great turn as Mrs Munt, Emma Thomson's aunt in Howards End, 1992. (By complete coincidence, her son Samuel West played Leonard Bast.)
"There is a better way to engage with the United States in 2025 than to flatter Trump and look for compelling business deals. It starts by acknowledging that America’s democratic decline and its pugilistic turn on the global stage are real"
Be exceedingly careful who and what you make a deal with www.thebulwark.com/p/the-transa...
The ‘Transactional’ Trap
America’s partners shouldn’t think they can deal their way out of Trumpian chaos.
www.thebulwark.com
October 29, 2025 at 2:37 AM
"There is a better way to engage with the United States in 2025 than to flatter Trump and look for compelling business deals. It starts by acknowledging that America’s democratic decline and its pugilistic turn on the global stage are real"
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BBC journalist barred from leaving Vietnam and repeatedly interrogated
BBC journalist barred from leaving Vietnam and repeatedly interrogated
BBC ‘deeply concerned’ for journalist’s wellbeing after Vietnamese police withhold their ID card and renewed passport
Vietnamese authorities have barred a BBC journalist from leaving the country and subjected them to days of interrogation, in a press freedom case that comes to light during a high-profile visit by Vietnam’s leader to the UK.
The journalist, a Vietnamese citizen who lives and works in Thailand, had returned to their home country in August to renew their passport, according a source with knowledge of the situation. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 29, 2025 at 12:10 AM
BBC journalist barred from leaving Vietnam and repeatedly interrogated
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it". Or a woman, in this case www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Gambling does not cause any ‘social ills’, lobbyist tells incredulous MPs
Head of UK’s Betting and Gaming Council was asked to repeat claim as she spoke against increasing taxes on sector in November budget
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 3:30 PM
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it". Or a woman, in this case www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
I wonder why...
Trump's fakes numbers keep increasing: "$17 trillion but it's gonna be $20, $21 trillion, and that's numbers that have never been heard of before."
October 28, 2025 at 8:07 AM
I wonder why...
Now I'm no expert on racism but I suspect this guy is a big flaming racist
May I present a former clerk to Justice Gorsuch.
October 27, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Now I'm no expert on racism but I suspect this guy is a big flaming racist