Yep, that's the one.

I wanted to see Pixies on this tour but my dad wouldn't let me to go to 2 gigs on school nights in one week and stupid 14 yo me chose to see The Wedding Present instead 🤦‍♀️

It's not politics is a profession free of mischief makers is it? Why do their work for them and damage your own profession's reputation at the same time?

I try to turn off until something is actually confirmed and this was something I felt under the Tories too and said on twitter at time.

just repeating everything briefed and becoming the briefer's mouthpiece?

Also not suggesting at all that there's no source for inaccurate stories. It's just that evaluating whether a source is telling you something insightful or just playing political games should surely come into political reporting otherwise you're just a gossip columnist.

them at all but scepticism is understandable.

Yeah, saying lay people are stupid for not correctly decoding terms used seemed a little snobbish. There's been plenty of prominent briefed stories which have turned out to be nonsense - Starmer not going to COP, Miliband, Nandy and Phillipson going in reshuffle. Not suggesting tax rises was one of

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I'm so sorry, I got one last summer, it's so stressful. All the best. X

Always strikes me in 1st episode of Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads Terry is reading a paperback on the train. Reading a completely normal activity.
In "In Celebration" Alan Bates' character mocks the cowboy novels his father reads.

Yes, in the examples given even each parties' (leaving aside that he garbled whp those parties were) positions seemed intractable, they did share an interest in resolution. Nothing of the sort with Putin.

Unconnected to anything I've said.
"The Irish" can't be lumped together in that way.
In what way do you think his statement didn't "bode well"?

I see his point. I understand completely what he was trying to say I just think he betrayed a lack of knowledge about the two situations he used as examples.
Again, lack of knowledge is fine but don't use things as examples when you don't know what you're on about.

"The Irish"? You don't think that betrays an ignorance of the situation?

But he also then said "we could have laughed at the Irish during the Troubles". He sounded completely out of his depth and rather silly.

What did Mandela negotiate with ANC?

What did he mean by Mandela negotiating with ANC?
There's nothing wrong with not having knowledge. There is something wrong with trying to wing it like this. He shouldn't be using stuff he's clearly ignorant about to draw comparisons