[Bones McCoy]

I appear to have mislaid my deposit.
Could you spare a few coppers for a struggling actorvist?


Some reactions here:

https://www.thepoke.co.uk/2023/07/21/re ... rediction/

Delusions of grandeur yet again.

[Crabcakes]

That’s a portrait that’s as generous as Littlejohn’s decade out of date masthead. IRL Fox usually looks like he’s been sleeping rough in an ashtray the day after a drip-tray drinking contest.

[Bones McCoy]

[Boiler]

Who do I sue for the trauma that's caused?!

[Boiler]

A piece by David Aaronovitch on "How The Liberals Stole Our Babies".

Features amongst other things, the NatCon conference.

https://davidaaronovitch.substack.com/p ... our-babies

But by far the largest standing ovation of the event was given to the commentator Melanie Phillips. She delivered an address that stimulated every receptor in the auditorium, including an even more robust assault on the Conservative party for having indulged a “fetish” for the free market under Thatcher, permitted mass migration, tolerated the dismantling of ancient institutions and values and stood by while “the left” marched through the citadels of culture. She finished with a rallying cry that got the crowd off the benches and onto their feet: “There are silent millions waiting impatiently for a political class that will conserve all these things and defend the nation against those who would destroy it. The political prize is there for the taking. All that’s needed is the courage to win it!” There was prolonged and stormy applause.

[Bones McCoy]

A piece by David Aaronovitch on "How The Liberals Stole Our Babies".

Features amongst other things, the NatCon conference.

https://davidaaronovitch.substack.com/p ... our-babies

But by far the largest standing ovation of the event was given to the commentator Melanie Phillips. She delivered an address that stimulated every receptor in the auditorium, including an even more robust assault on the Conservative party for having indulged a “fetish” for the free market under Thatcher, permitted mass migration, tolerated the dismantling of ancient institutions and values and stood by while “the left” marched through the citadels of culture. She finished with a rallying cry that got the crowd off the benches and onto their feet: “There are silent millions waiting impatiently for a political class that will conserve all these things and defend the nation against those who would destroy it. The political prize is there for the taking. All that’s needed is the courage to win it!” There was prolonged and stormy applause.

Is she still batting for the former doctor Andrew Wakefield?

[Boiler]

A piece by David Aaronovitch on "How The Liberals Stole Our Babies".

Features amongst other things, the NatCon conference.

https://davidaaronovitch.substack.com/p ... our-babies

But by far the largest standing ovation of the event was given to the commentator Melanie Phillips. She delivered an address that stimulated every receptor in the auditorium, including an even more robust assault on the Conservative party for having indulged a “fetish” for the free market under Thatcher, permitted mass migration, tolerated the dismantling of ancient institutions and values and stood by while “the left” marched through the citadels of culture. She finished with a rallying cry that got the crowd off the benches and onto their feet: “There are silent millions waiting impatiently for a political class that will conserve all these things and defend the nation against those who would destroy it. The political prize is there for the taking. All that’s needed is the courage to win it!” There was prolonged and stormy applause.

Is she still batting for the former doctor Andrew Wakefield?

God knows, I tend to blank Philips whenever I hear her. My brane's fucked enough without exposure to her adding to it.

[Abernathy]

Slightly tangential, this, and it’s about 8 years old, but as Tom Conti is playing the role of Einstein (not brilliantly) in the fillum of the moment, Oppehheimer, and in the public eye, I thought I’d look him up.

Have you ever read such a load of utter wank? “Lifelong Labour Luvvie”, my arse.
I can remember being disappointed on reading this at the time.Conti is from my home town of Paisley.

Something of a travesty that such a dimwitted twat has been cast as one of the most brilliant brains of the 20th century.

Tom Conti is 82.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/artic ... CONTI.html

Why I, a life-long Labour luvvie, am backing the Tories, writes TOM CONTI

[kreuzberger]

I thought he was alright in the Opperwotsit, to be honest. And reasonably convincing, even though Einstein is unknown to me beyond sticking his tongue out. Didn't recognise him, right enough.

[Abernathy]

I thought he was alright in the Opperwotsit, to be honest. And reasonably convincing, even though Einstein is unknown to me beyond sticking his tongue out. Didn't recognise him, right enough.

Put it this way: He could just as easily have played the cartoon Einstein that watches “footie” and goes for “a cuppa”, while advertising fucking smart meters.

[kreuzberger]

...while advertising fucking smart meters.

That would have made for some tremendous product placement, "Ein hundert und vivteen comma six fucking megatonnen!"

No quite as touching as shagging the well-nourished, northern lass in Greece (or was that Leonard Cohen?), but you get what I mean.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Slightly tangential, this, and it’s about 8 years old, but as Tom Conti is playing the role of Einstein (not brilliantly) in the fillum of the moment, Oppehheimer, and in the public eye, I thought I’d look him up.

Have you ever read such a load of utter wank? “Lifelong Labour Luvvie”, my arse.
I can remember being disappointed on reading this at the time.Conti is from my home town of Paisley.

Something of a travesty that such a dimwitted twat has been cast as one of the most brilliant brains of the 20th century.

Tom Conti is 82.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/artic ... CONTI.html

Why I, a life-long Labour luvvie, am backing the Tories, writes TOM CONTI

Yeah, that's particularly woeful. "Nasty Labour call the Tories (most prominent politicians Cameron, Osborne and Bozo) Bullingdon toffs". About all we're missing is "Ed Milliband went to school in posho Hampstead" (orChalk Farm, near some council estates, as some of us would put it).

[Youngian]

I take it Paul Collier is a top academic the Daily Mail is fond of quoting.
https://fb.watch/mfisYqUBCH/

[Bones McCoy]

I take it Paul Collier is a top academic the Daily Mail is fond of quoting.
https://fb.watch/mfisYqUBCH/

I'm pretty sure that's the guy who tapped me for a "quid for a cuppa" outside Glasgow Central this afternoon.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Editor of Unherd, Freddie Sayers, with a terrifying vision of the future.

[Tubby Isaacs]

[Bones McCoy]

It's all there in Locke, Paine and Burke.

Every free Englishman's right to queue at the hospital records office for their 20 year old chest X-ray prints, while nursing a sucking chest wound.

And they were drawing from the rights enshrined in (wait for it)

Magner Carter

Editor of Unherd, Freddie Sayers, with a terrifying vision of the future.

[Tubby Isaacs]

I can't remember anybody saying this stuff years ago. It was "Blair, just fucking put it all on one IT system yesterday!"

Now it's "Blair, you want to stick us all on one IT system! Stop this now!"

[Boiler]

I take it Paul Collier is a top academic the Daily Mail is fond of quoting.
https://fb.watch/mfisYqUBCH/

I'm pretty sure that's the guy who tapped me for a "quid for a cuppa" outside Glasgow Central this afternoon.

I thought he sold men's clothing?

[Tubby Isaacs]

Infestation of clean air.