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and yet he became a reactionary, despite people dying of adverse drug reactions
There are some truly unhinged bits in the piece about Glasman, as to be expected when dealing with Glasman, but seriously what the actual? That's...one hell of a conflation of terminology.
November 23, 2025 at 4:22 PM
and yet he became a reactionary, despite people dying of adverse drug reactions
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"We grant people different rights based on their genetic heritage and on which scrap of land they happened to be born on. That’s mad, isn’t it?"
I just think, when debating immigration and so on, that we should try not to lose sight of the fact that "nationality" is a made up thing.
I just think, when debating immigration and so on, that we should try not to lose sight of the fact that "nationality" is a made up thing.
Why does nationality matter, anyway?
Deciding someone's legal rights based on a nebulous combination of birthplace and parentage is a bit weird
www.newstatesman.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:33 AM
"We grant people different rights based on their genetic heritage and on which scrap of land they happened to be born on. That’s mad, isn’t it?"
I just think, when debating immigration and so on, that we should try not to lose sight of the fact that "nationality" is a made up thing.
I just think, when debating immigration and so on, that we should try not to lose sight of the fact that "nationality" is a made up thing.
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Whenever this is mentioned, it is obligatory to post xkcd 2381, in which @gretchenmcc.bsky.social shares forbidden linguistic knowledge with the masses.
November 21, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Whenever this is mentioned, it is obligatory to post xkcd 2381, in which @gretchenmcc.bsky.social shares forbidden linguistic knowledge with the masses.
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Exactly this
See people saying "Scientists need to rebuild trust" and my reaction is invariably "Ex-fucking-SCUSE me?!?"
Countless influential powers keep metaphorically urinating all over scientists and then we get told "You guys need to stop stinking of piss if you want to be taken seriously"??
See people saying "Scientists need to rebuild trust" and my reaction is invariably "Ex-fucking-SCUSE me?!?"
Countless influential powers keep metaphorically urinating all over scientists and then we get told "You guys need to stop stinking of piss if you want to be taken seriously"??
I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.
November 19, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Exactly this
See people saying "Scientists need to rebuild trust" and my reaction is invariably "Ex-fucking-SCUSE me?!?"
Countless influential powers keep metaphorically urinating all over scientists and then we get told "You guys need to stop stinking of piss if you want to be taken seriously"??
See people saying "Scientists need to rebuild trust" and my reaction is invariably "Ex-fucking-SCUSE me?!?"
Countless influential powers keep metaphorically urinating all over scientists and then we get told "You guys need to stop stinking of piss if you want to be taken seriously"??
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I absolutely agree that if foreign companies want to interfere in our democratic processes, we should fight them! Give us our orders, General Heath!
November 19, 2025 at 9:25 PM
I absolutely agree that if foreign companies want to interfere in our democratic processes, we should fight them! Give us our orders, General Heath!
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look if Allister (autocorrect hates your wrong name) Heath is taking a bold stance against the influence of state-like foreign corporations in UK politics, I say welcome to the resistance brother
November 19, 2025 at 9:22 PM
look if Allister (autocorrect hates your wrong name) Heath is taking a bold stance against the influence of state-like foreign corporations in UK politics, I say welcome to the resistance brother
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What's that, Grand Admiral Heath? They're using aggressive, clandestine tactics to suppress unionisation? You're so wise: yes, we must wash the pavements with their blood. Thankyou for your leadership.
November 19, 2025 at 9:29 PM
What's that, Grand Admiral Heath? They're using aggressive, clandestine tactics to suppress unionisation? You're so wise: yes, we must wash the pavements with their blood. Thankyou for your leadership.
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An unnerving thing I have alas had cause to learn the last couple of years is quite how much of grief presents not as sadness but as anxiety. "Why am I feeling frightened of nothing? Oh. Oh, right."
November 19, 2025 at 5:03 PM
An unnerving thing I have alas had cause to learn the last couple of years is quite how much of grief presents not as sadness but as anxiety. "Why am I feeling frightened of nothing? Oh. Oh, right."
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This kook gave this video to LibsOfTikTok, who presumably thought this was a normal thing to do and not visibly psycho shit. Even on Twitter it landed like a wet fart in an elevator.
These people have no idea how to handle Kat and they’re terrified she’s going to win.
These people have no idea how to handle Kat and they’re terrified she’s going to win.
Yesterday, a Republican tried to give me holy water and Trump perfume because I’m “demonic.”
Extremely normal stuff coming from an extremely normal party.
Extremely normal stuff coming from an extremely normal party.
November 17, 2025 at 11:53 PM
This kook gave this video to LibsOfTikTok, who presumably thought this was a normal thing to do and not visibly psycho shit. Even on Twitter it landed like a wet fart in an elevator.
These people have no idea how to handle Kat and they’re terrified she’s going to win.
These people have no idea how to handle Kat and they’re terrified she’s going to win.
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I am not typically one to indulge in, 'You do not hate the press enough.' but there is something deeply and profoundly wrong with the New York Times.
November 17, 2025 at 12:20 AM
I am not typically one to indulge in, 'You do not hate the press enough.' but there is something deeply and profoundly wrong with the New York Times.
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Heard about this over the years, but never watched it until now. Absolutely fantastic, they literally don't make them like this any more. 40 years old so slower paced yet also at a breakneck pace at the same time, in a way that modern series absolutely refuse to do
Great news - one of the best mini-series ever with a dazzling & eccentric screenplay by Troy Kennedy Martin & superb direction by Martin Campbell is back on iplayer.
If you haven’t seen it then you’re in for a real treat.
Come for Bob Peck, stay for Joe Don Baker.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
If you haven’t seen it then you’re in for a real treat.
Come for Bob Peck, stay for Joe Don Baker.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Edge of Darkness - Series 1: 1. Compassionate Leave
Thriller set in a world of obsessive state security. Ronald Craven is haunted by the murder of his daughter and begins his own investigation into her death.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Heard about this over the years, but never watched it until now. Absolutely fantastic, they literally don't make them like this any more. 40 years old so slower paced yet also at a breakneck pace at the same time, in a way that modern series absolutely refuse to do
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I reckon a shared national popular culture is just as important (if not more important) than a fact based, impartial news service for liberal democracy to work.
November 10, 2025 at 2:56 PM
I reckon a shared national popular culture is just as important (if not more important) than a fact based, impartial news service for liberal democracy to work.
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NEWS! BBC appoints Big Sam to shore things up until the end of the season newsthump.com/2025/11/09/b...
BBC appoints Big Sam to shore things up until the end of the season
Sam Allardyce has been spotted outside BBC headquarters, as rumours swirl that he’ll be brought in to steady the ship until the end of the season.
newsthump.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:57 PM
NEWS! BBC appoints Big Sam to shore things up until the end of the season newsthump.com/2025/11/09/b...
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James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, has died. tinyurl.com/j7cau27e
I met him when we were part of a panel discussion on how to improve the portrayal of scientists in TV & in film. I remember most his very dead-fish handshake.
He really didn't like women in science. 📰🧪
I met him when we were part of a panel discussion on how to improve the portrayal of scientists in TV & in film. I remember most his very dead-fish handshake.
He really didn't like women in science. 📰🧪
November 7, 2025 at 11:12 PM
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, has died. tinyurl.com/j7cau27e
I met him when we were part of a panel discussion on how to improve the portrayal of scientists in TV & in film. I remember most his very dead-fish handshake.
He really didn't like women in science. 📰🧪
I met him when we were part of a panel discussion on how to improve the portrayal of scientists in TV & in film. I remember most his very dead-fish handshake.
He really didn't like women in science. 📰🧪
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All time great. That's the rest of the weekend sorted.
Great news - one of the best mini-series ever with a dazzling & eccentric screenplay by Troy Kennedy Martin & superb direction by Martin Campbell is back on iplayer.
If you haven’t seen it then you’re in for a real treat.
Come for Bob Peck, stay for Joe Don Baker.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
If you haven’t seen it then you’re in for a real treat.
Come for Bob Peck, stay for Joe Don Baker.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Edge of Darkness - Series 1: 1. Compassionate Leave
Thriller set in a world of obsessive state security. Ronald Craven is haunted by the murder of his daughter and begins his own investigation into her death.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 1, 2025 at 7:29 PM
All time great. That's the rest of the weekend sorted.
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all hail Sean Dyche, the returning hero who was promised, the king who sleeps beneath the mountain only to come back in the time of greatest need, with the fallen warriors of past ages* by his side
*Ian Woan and Steve Stone
*Ian Woan and Steve Stone
October 23, 2025 at 9:01 PM
all hail Sean Dyche, the returning hero who was promised, the king who sleeps beneath the mountain only to come back in the time of greatest need, with the fallen warriors of past ages* by his side
*Ian Woan and Steve Stone
*Ian Woan and Steve Stone
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One week today, me and @jonnelledge.bsky.social will be EXTREMELY funny and clever at the Falmouth Book Festival.
If you're in Falmouth, or near Falmouth, or hell if you just fancy visiting Falmouth which tbh you should because it's great, book a ticket!
If you're in Falmouth, or near Falmouth, or hell if you just fancy visiting Falmouth which tbh you should because it's great, book a ticket!
Elledge and Phillips | Falmouth Book Fest
www.falmouthbookfestival.com
October 13, 2025 at 6:30 PM
One week today, me and @jonnelledge.bsky.social will be EXTREMELY funny and clever at the Falmouth Book Festival.
If you're in Falmouth, or near Falmouth, or hell if you just fancy visiting Falmouth which tbh you should because it's great, book a ticket!
If you're in Falmouth, or near Falmouth, or hell if you just fancy visiting Falmouth which tbh you should because it's great, book a ticket!
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Falmouth!* Come see me and Jonn talk about all the things at Falmouth Book Festival! It will be a very fun evening as he shouts about borders and I shout about the apocalypse and we both shout about conspiracy theories probably.
*and surrounding areas such as Penryn
*and surrounding areas such as Penryn
Two weeks' today, @tom-phillips.com and I are having a lovely chat at the Falmouth Book Festival. Come along, and watch me torn limb from limb by a rampaging mob of Mebyon Kernow activists, while Tom laughs that I got what I asked for!
Elledge and Phillips | Falmouth Book Fest
www.falmouthbookfestival.com
October 6, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Falmouth!* Come see me and Jonn talk about all the things at Falmouth Book Festival! It will be a very fun evening as he shouts about borders and I shout about the apocalypse and we both shout about conspiracy theories probably.
*and surrounding areas such as Penryn
*and surrounding areas such as Penryn
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Hwæt! 🐉
Ever wondered what the epic poem Beowulf sounds like spoken in Old English?
#NationalPoetryDay
Ever wondered what the epic poem Beowulf sounds like spoken in Old English?
#NationalPoetryDay
October 2, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Hwæt! 🐉
Ever wondered what the epic poem Beowulf sounds like spoken in Old English?
#NationalPoetryDay
Ever wondered what the epic poem Beowulf sounds like spoken in Old English?
#NationalPoetryDay
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It is bleakly funny that Tony Blair has given up all pretence and is openly going "yes, I just want to rule over something in the Middle East, please give it to me"
September 29, 2025 at 7:53 PM
It is bleakly funny that Tony Blair has given up all pretence and is openly going "yes, I just want to rule over something in the Middle East, please give it to me"
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I hope this column just says "a decades-long megadrought across the Mediterranean combined with increasingly top-heavy palace-based economies that were vulnerable to multicausal systemic instabilities"
It’s Allister’s sunny optimism that marks him out from the rest of Fleet Street
September 25, 2025 at 7:10 PM
I hope this column just says "a decades-long megadrought across the Mediterranean combined with increasingly top-heavy palace-based economies that were vulnerable to multicausal systemic instabilities"
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If you start listening to the audiobook of A Brief History of the End of the Fucking World now, you'll reach a bit about the Rapture not happening at exactly the moment that the Rapture doesn't happen.
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September 22, 2025 at 7:45 PM
If you start listening to the audiobook of A Brief History of the End of the Fucking World now, you'll reach a bit about the Rapture not happening at exactly the moment that the Rapture doesn't happen.
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I've written about Church Going (in the Larkin sense) and tenuous literary connections in Devon and beyond.
Warning: contains pictures of churches open.substack.com/pub/deepdown...
Warning: contains pictures of churches open.substack.com/pub/deepdown...
Church Going
A serious house on serious earth it is, In whose blent air all our compulsions meet, Are recognised, and robed as destinies. - Philip Larkin
open.substack.com
September 21, 2025 at 9:06 PM
I've written about Church Going (in the Larkin sense) and tenuous literary connections in Devon and beyond.
Warning: contains pictures of churches open.substack.com/pub/deepdown...
Warning: contains pictures of churches open.substack.com/pub/deepdown...