RIP Steve Albini.
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- Mon 13 May, 2024 12:36 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Weekend 11th and 12th of May 2024
- Replies: 29
- Views: 171
- Mon 13 May, 2024 12:00 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Weekend 11th and 12th of May 2024
- Replies: 29
- Views: 171
Re: Weekend 11th and 12th of May 2024
Some people getting rather excited that Israel won the UK audience vote, but doesn't this really just show FPTP in all its glory? If you wanted Israel, you vote Israel. If you didn't, there were maybe a dozen reasonably credible choices (and of course lots more in total) Agreed. And frankly who giv...
- Sun 12 May, 2024 11:45 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Weekend 11th and 12th of May 2024
- Replies: 29
- Views: 171
Re: Weekend 11th and 12th of May 2024
Plenty of reports on Xitter of people who wouldn't usually watch Eurovision voting for israel, it's not exactly a scientific survey. Plenty of bullshit from idiots on the far right saying they voted for Israel 20 times or whatever, which given it was a phone poll would have meant they'd have to hav...
- Sun 12 May, 2024 11:10 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Weekend 11th and 12th of May 2024
- Replies: 29
- Views: 171
Re: Weekend 11th and 12th of May 2024
Went wandering in Calderdale with my friend today and it was so hot we stopped off in a little village called Norwood Green for a drink. https://i.postimg.cc/0NtWT8d3/signal-2024-05-12-165719-002.jpg Looks nice doesn't it? Guess how much it cost for a pint of bog standard pale ale? £6.30. I actually...
- Sat 11 May, 2024 11:52 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Weekend 11th and 12th of May 2024
- Replies: 29
- Views: 171
Re: Weekend 11th and 12th of May 2024
Quite rightly the UK's awful Eurovision entry is the only one to receive 0 points from the public vote. Good. The memory of it is still causing me psychological trauma.
The Irish were robbed.
The Irish were robbed.
- Sat 11 May, 2024 11:24 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Weekend 11th and 12th of May 2024
- Replies: 29
- Views: 171
Re: Weekend 11th and 12th of May 2024
They have not, at least round here.
- Sat 11 May, 2024 10:18 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Weekend 11th and 12th of May 2024
- Replies: 29
- Views: 171
Re: Weekend 11th and 12th of May 2024
It has to be Ireland or failing that Armenia, anything else would be a travesty.
I'm off out to see if the Northern Lights are going to make another appearance.
I'm off out to see if the Northern Lights are going to make another appearance.
- Sat 11 May, 2024 9:44 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Weekend 11th and 12th of May 2024
- Replies: 29
- Views: 171
Re: Weekend 11th and 12th of May 2024
Yesterday the sharp-eyed daughter spotted a bumblebee nest in the lawn, now marked with a stick . She also transplanted some of last year's wildflower seedlings to the front of the house, and this morning I watched a bumble enjoying the flowers :-) Good stuff. Not much in the way of bumblebee actio...
- Sat 11 May, 2024 9:20 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Weekend 11th and 12th of May 2024
- Replies: 29
- Views: 171
Re: Weekend 11th and 12th of May 2024
The UK's Eurovision entry made me cringe so much I fear I may have done myself a mischief.
Ireland's was best by a mile so far.
Ireland's was best by a mile so far.
- Fri 10 May, 2024 12:24 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 9th May 2024
- Replies: 20
- Views: 178
Re: Thursday 9th May 2024
So Steve Albini died yesterday.
- Thu 09 May, 2024 11:49 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 9th May 2024
- Replies: 20
- Views: 178
Re: Thursday 9th May 2024
Ok so what do we do when Refit's away enjoying a well deserved holiday?
First one up and about starts a new thread for the day?
I can guarantee that won't be me so have at it.
First one up and about starts a new thread for the day?
I can guarantee that won't be me so have at it.
- Thu 09 May, 2024 11:36 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 9th May 2024
- Replies: 20
- Views: 178
Re: Thursday 9th May 2024
Question Time came tonight from Stoke. When the audience was asked to raise their hands if they thought Natalie Elphicke would be an asset to the Labour Party guess how many did so? That's right, not one of them. For the Conservatives we had Nigel Huddleston. Nigel was so insipidly dull it's almost ...
- Thu 09 May, 2024 5:45 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 9th May 2024
- Replies: 20
- Views: 178
Re: Thursday 9th May 2024
Looks marvellous.
Mind you Leeds feels like the Mediterranean today.
Mind you Leeds feels like the Mediterranean today.
- Thu 09 May, 2024 4:45 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 9th May 2024
- Replies: 20
- Views: 178
- Thu 09 May, 2024 3:44 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 9th May 2024
- Replies: 20
- Views: 178
Re: Thursday 9th May 2024
It's been interesting seeing the fall out from Elphicke's welcome into the Labour party from its centrist cheerleaders. Noticeably there's been an almost complete split between male commentators like Raphael Behr above who see it as pragmatic politics, and female commentators like Marina Purkiss and...
- Thu 09 May, 2024 1:42 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 9th May 2024
- Replies: 20
- Views: 178
- Thu 09 May, 2024 1:36 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 9th May 2024
- Replies: 20
- Views: 178
Re: Thursday 9th May 2024
I wonder what Nandy is going to have say about her newly acquired comrade. Let's hope she does a better job than Anneliese Dodds this morning. That was painful.
- Wed 08 May, 2024 6:37 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 8th May 2024
- Replies: 14
- Views: 213
Re: Wednesday 8th May 2024
Kinda stunned by this to be honest. Steve Albini, US alt-rock musician and producer, dies aged 61 https://www.theguardian.com/music/article/2024/may/08/steve-albini-us-alt-rock-musician-and-producer-dies-aged-61 I've got a ticket to go and see his band Shellac on Jun 3rd, the first time they've tour...
- Wed 08 May, 2024 4:03 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 8th May 2024
- Replies: 14
- Views: 213
Re: Wednesday 8th May 2024
So today we learn that according to the Labour Party Natalie Elphicke is more representative of their values than Diane Abbott.
What a joke.
They'll be welcoming Gullis next.
What a joke.
They'll be welcoming Gullis next.
- Wed 08 May, 2024 1:42 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 7th May 2024
- Replies: 16
- Views: 229
- Tue 07 May, 2024 11:41 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 7th May 2024
- Replies: 16
- Views: 229
Re: Tuesday 7th May 2024
Ak from Monday... Because whichever Leeds winner last week that was, the Greens have just suspended them. They most certainly have not much to the consternation of the Mail, Telegraph and apparently your good self. Are you sure you want to continue this because lying with dogs and getting fleas is s...
- Sun 05 May, 2024 11:52 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: May Bank Holiday Weekend
- Replies: 60
- Views: 691
Re: May Bank Holiday Weekend
And Refitman is right. I watched Jacqui Smith on Kuenssberg and her smug superior attitude towards the left and anyone with any sympathy for the Palestinians was appalling. Apparently a Labour leader must be a statesman and rise above the views of the party and its voters. Let's have a think about w...
- Sun 05 May, 2024 11:35 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: May Bank Holiday Weekend
- Replies: 60
- Views: 691
Re: May Bank Holiday Weekend
Looks like at least one of the Leeds winners for the Greens referred to by Sky yesterday could be a potential embarrassment to them. I presume you're talking about Mothin Ali who won the Gipton and Harehills ward which is literally just over the road from me? Have you watched the video of the speec...
- Sun 05 May, 2024 10:19 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: May Bank Holiday Weekend
- Replies: 60
- Views: 691
Re: May Bank Holiday Weekend
It's Nicolas Cage time again...or is it? Arcadian https://www.imdb.com/title/tt22939186/ Nicolas Cage is the father of two teenage sons in a post apocalyptic rural Ireland teeming with monsters. So far so good you might be thinking, I certainly was, but then nothing happens for half an hour until Ca...
- Sun 05 May, 2024 7:18 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: May Bank Holiday Weekend
- Replies: 60
- Views: 691
Re: May Bank Holiday Weekend
Oh dear, Dan Hodges has decided to pick a fight with Marina Purkiss and it's going about as badly for him as you would expect. I'm beginning to suspect he humiliates himself like this deliberately for the masochistic sexual thrill of it.
- Sun 05 May, 2024 2:29 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: May Bank Holiday Weekend
- Replies: 60
- Views: 691
Re: May Bank Holiday Weekend
Another question for the BBC is why the Lib Dems or Greens weren't invited onto Kuenssberg's programme after making gains in the local elections, while three Tories made an appearance despite making huge losses.
Is it because she doesn't have any Greens or Lib Dems on speed dial?
Is it because she doesn't have any Greens or Lib Dems on speed dial?
- Sun 05 May, 2024 2:16 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: May Bank Holiday Weekend
- Replies: 60
- Views: 691
Re: May Bank Holiday Weekend
Charitably, she was letting Braverman hang herself, but surely some balancing comment on the rest of the diatribe was essential? Indeed, she was equally quiescent when interviewing Mark Harper yet as if by magic as soon as Pat McFadden appeared she began channelling her inner yappy dog and went for...
- Sat 04 May, 2024 8:49 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: May Bank Holiday Weekend
- Replies: 60
- Views: 691
Re: May Bank Holiday Weekend
Wow indeed, I'd even go so far as to offer a blimey.
- Sat 04 May, 2024 8:42 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: May Bank Holiday Weekend
- Replies: 60
- Views: 691
Re: May Bank Holiday Weekend
I see Lawrence Fox and Dan Wootton have both had tantrums and pledged to leave London.
Seems rather presumptuous of them to assume they'll be welcome anywhere else in the country.
Seems rather presumptuous of them to assume they'll be welcome anywhere else in the country.
- Sat 04 May, 2024 3:56 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: May Bank Holiday Weekend
- Replies: 60
- Views: 691
Re: May Bank Holiday Weekend
So despite the kerfuffle it looks like Khan's going to win comfortably after all and even increase his vote share. We heard the same drivel last time when pundits were claiming Shaun Bailey was running him close without a shred of evidence. As for Susan Hall the funniest thing about her defeat is sh...
- Sat 04 May, 2024 2:44 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: May Bank Holiday Weekend
- Replies: 60
- Views: 691
Re: May Bank Holiday Weekend
I've never seen anything like it in Leeds. Labour lost every ward with high Muslim or student populations, from Headingley to Harehills, all to the Greens. Those are some of the longest serving councillors in the city who would never have dreamed they'd be voted out. I can only imagine they're furio...
- Fri 03 May, 2024 1:44 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 2nd May 2024
- Replies: 27
- Views: 417
Re: Thursday 2nd May 2024
What no exciting results yet?
In the meantime how about a bit more from Barbara and Ernie?
In the meantime how about a bit more from Barbara and Ernie?
- Fri 03 May, 2024 12:33 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 2nd May 2024
- Replies: 27
- Views: 417
Re: Thursday 2nd May 2024
You know sometimes coming from the borders is a bit of a curse, when confronted by the smug arrogance of the English home counties as a
Heinz 57 mix of Scots and Northern English I end up getting pissed of on behalf of both. Which I'm sure isn't entirely healthy, but it is fun.
Heinz 57 mix of Scots and Northern English I end up getting pissed of on behalf of both. Which I'm sure isn't entirely healthy, but it is fun.
- Fri 03 May, 2024 12:04 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 2nd May 2024
- Replies: 27
- Views: 417
Re: Thursday 2nd May 2024
God that was tedious. Remind me never to go to Northstow, which is apparently a posh new town North of Cambridge that doesn't have any shops. What it does have however is a well to do audience who were the most Tory friendly we've had in a long time. Bim Afolami was the first Tory MP not to be laugh...
- Thu 02 May, 2024 11:22 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 2nd May 2024
- Replies: 27
- Views: 417
Re: Thursday 2nd May 2024
For all those who think Fiona Bruce is biased against Labour it's as nothing compared to her obvious dripping contempt for the SNP. Kate Forbes is barely being allowed to finish a sentence while one after another clueless English idiots are allowed to belabour her with simplistic, ill informed garba...
- Thu 02 May, 2024 10:32 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 2nd May 2024
- Replies: 27
- Views: 417
- Thu 02 May, 2024 6:41 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 2nd May 2024
- Replies: 27
- Views: 417
Re: Thursday 2nd May 2024
No QT review tonight I'm afraid. There's no earlier live broadcast on the iPlayer due to the elections. I'll still give it a watch later and comment if anything interesting happens. What a lovely day for taking part in the democratic process. After a splendid sunny walk to the polling station, I eve...
- Wed 01 May, 2024 12:51 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 30th April 2024
- Replies: 20
- Views: 284
- Tue 30 Apr, 2024 11:56 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 30th April 2024
- Replies: 20
- Views: 284
Re: Tuesday 30th April 2024
Anyway going back to Humza Yousaf. I genuinely thought the bloke (and his advisors) had a bit of political savvy and knew what they were doing. That before jettisoning their power sharing partners they'd have crunched the electoral numbers, worked through all the scenarios, and concluded they'd be f...
- Tue 30 Apr, 2024 10:28 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 30th April 2024
- Replies: 20
- Views: 284
Re: Tuesday 30th April 2024
Well I was wrong about Humza Yousaf staying in his job, so that's another one to add to the collection. In other news we had the council housing inspectors round today. They weren't very friendly (they failed to laugh at a single one of my hilarious witticisms) but they did seem to be scrupulously p...
- Tue 30 Apr, 2024 10:06 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 30th April 2024
- Replies: 20
- Views: 284
Re: Tuesday 30th April 2024
Wow, maybe one cherry picked out of context quote from Ellie Reeves isn't actually the whole story! I mean, who knew?? Having watched the whole interview there's no cherry picking required, she was talking absolute nonsense. The benefit under discussion is PIP and she started rambling about jobcent...
- Mon 29 Apr, 2024 12:41 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 27th & Sunday 28th April 2024
- Replies: 17
- Views: 2340
- Sun 28 Apr, 2024 10:35 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 27th & Sunday 28th April 2024
- Replies: 17
- Views: 2340
Re: Saturday 27th & Sunday 28th April 2024
Just asking for a friend, but were Tories this sniffy when that SNP parliamentarian defected to them recently? Of course they will usually have supported their former party, that is how it works. Oh AK, I appreciate you exist in some zero sum political world, but what's the point of being a politic...
- Sun 28 Apr, 2024 10:14 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 27th & Sunday 28th April 2024
- Replies: 17
- Views: 2340
Re: Saturday 27th & Sunday 28th April 2024
While out and about today a friend and I encountered my local 'Alliance for Green Socialism' candidate hammering little election signs into a grass verge so we stopped to have a chat. He was a lovely bloke and after a discussion about environmental collapse and the fallacy of infinite growth we ende...
- Sun 28 Apr, 2024 9:23 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 27th & Sunday 28th April 2024
- Replies: 17
- Views: 2340
Re: Saturday 27th & Sunday 28th April 2024
While it is nice to have one less Tory MP, it is rather concerning that a man who has spent the last 14 years thinking up ways to fuck the NHS, now thinks that Labour's plans are better. You should see his voting record on cutting benefits for the very people he claims he's now resigned from the To...
- Sun 28 Apr, 2024 9:18 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 27th & Sunday 28th April 2024
- Replies: 17
- Views: 2340
Re: Saturday 27th & Sunday 28th April 2024
Hmm yes, when asking a rhetorical question I often stare blankly into space for a few seconds looking confused before asking it with a raised inflection in my voice. There are two possibilities here. Chris Philp is either lying, or he's a valley girl from the 1990's. https://twitter.com/Haggis_UK/st...
- Fri 26 Apr, 2024 2:22 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 25th April 2024
- Replies: 21
- Views: 4645
- Fri 26 Apr, 2024 12:01 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 25th April 2024
- Replies: 21
- Views: 4645
Re: Thursday 25th April 2024
Thanks Roger.
People assume I sometimes exaggerate for comic effect, which when reviewing Question Time drunk is kinda part of the fun.
But as you can see from my review above sometimes just repeating a Conservatives words verbatim is funnier than anything I could make up.
- Thu 25 Apr, 2024 11:38 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 25th April 2024
- Replies: 21
- Views: 4645
Re: Thursday 25th April 2024
Question Time came tonight from Tottenham, which can be proud of the audience it provided this evening. They seemed like a genuinely compassionate and pleasant lot who needless to say had zero time for any Tory bullshit. I usually start with the Tory panellist, but after an absolutely bravura perfor...
- Thu 25 Apr, 2024 5:52 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 25th April 2024
- Replies: 21
- Views: 4645
Re: Thursday 25th April 2024
Please stop trying to make this all about Labour, when its really down to the SNP's failure. I see you don't disagree with my assertion that if this were the other way round your response would be very different. Besides, I've already said I'm far from happy with the decision Yousaf has taken today...