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James Kettle @jameskettle.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Yeah, I think Westminster deadlock really benefits the SNP atm, more than if the will for 2nd ref was in a different place

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James Kettle @jameskettle.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I am not discounting "separatist party with vested interest in Westminster gridlock holds balance of power"

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James Kettle @jameskettle.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

q5 aside, that's def true. Can see that some bits of MPFC are less accessible than others, some bits require more historical context... but tedium I don't get from it at all. And its also drenched in "WW2 is still going on" which should appeal to you...

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James Kettle @jameskettle.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Truthfully, while I love you Duncan, I could not downvote this more

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James Kettle @jameskettle.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Never really understood where this comes from, is it people watching it from the start, like a boxset binge? Cos it does take time to find its feet, but once it does its always at least interesting.

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James Kettle @jameskettle.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A lot of the Tory reaction to Rayner is oddly* (*not remotely oddly) indistinguishable from having the horn

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James Kettle @jameskettle.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

this is some serious "third party activity" shit

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James Kettle @jameskettle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Basically as with music, I think the trend is much more money going to those at the apex and harder/near-impossible to survive in the mid-range

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James Kettle @jameskettle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The economics of most podcasting is as baffling to me as I'm sure it is to you, I think like Insta comics tend to use it in an optimistic Field of Dreams "if you build it they will come" kind of way. The few that make big money distort an overall grim picture I think

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James Kettle @jameskettle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I wouldn't know about clubs and the circuit - it seems you can do decently off small theatre tours with some TV/radio work but its very old-skewing crowds (the sort of people who go to theatres and engage with TV/radio!). And you can make out like gangbusters with a big live tour.

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James Kettle @jameskettle.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Brutal piss taking by the US to praise so many of our TV shows while their tech companies destroy the financial model that allowed us to make any of them

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James Kettle @jameskettle.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

That's the one where they spend the last half hour driving round like Torchwood cos they've run out of plot

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James Kettle @jameskettle.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

(8 yo banging around in the bathroom) Me: What's all that banging 8 yo: there wasn't any banging Me: Of coruse there was banging, that's why I've come out to see what all the banging was. it's like parenting fucking nixon

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James Kettle @jameskettle.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This is all a bluff, they want to be part of a westminster-based progressive alliance for reasons

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James Kettle @jameskettle.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

They'd like Vonnegut, maybe. And Dimension of Miracles which is the same book as H2G2 to the extent of having some of the same jokes in it (the one about talking the legs off a donkey almost word for word iirc)

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James Kettle @jameskettle.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

when one is in egypt, one should delve deeply into its treasures

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James Kettle @jameskettle.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

At best you're wasting a load of your time which does have opportunity costs, at worst you're scattering rakes in your own path.

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James Kettle @jameskettle.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I think the consensus position is that knowing irony doesn't sell overseas, but accidental asininity v much on the table

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James Kettle @jameskettle.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

There is a sequel, but no one remembers it, because it is in quality terms very much a reversion to the mean

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James Kettle @jameskettle.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

For reals. This world is not meant for people like me who are so embarrassed about talking themselves up that the first time their family members find out about a play is when they see a poster on the tube

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James Kettle @jameskettle.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Just wait till you're doing it all and being paid for none of it yet for reasons

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James Kettle @jameskettle.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

It's easy to explain. The date on the picture is in roughly 134 years time.

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James Kettle @jameskettle.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

seems increasingly impossible to argue successfully with people in the modern media age, because they can just say no thanks and click to someone they agree with

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James Kettle @jameskettle.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

They absolutely wouldn't. Used to write a Yorkshire sitcom for R4, was endlessly described to me as a "working class sitcom" when it wasn't at all.

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James Kettle @jameskettle.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

They are putting in slightly more effort than I expected. I assumed they would think emulating Labour 20-24 would be trivially easy and require no actual effort on their part.

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James Kettle @jameskettle.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

He does not seem to have the confidence to face the prospect of being called out. The truly confident take it on and ride it out.

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James Kettle @jameskettle.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Noisy And Counterproductive Interventions: The Premiership of Andy Burnham, 2026-

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James Kettle @jameskettle.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

8yo: I want to keep my bedroom door open all night but I also want the cat to not come in. Me: you are behaving like every UK political party of the last 15 years

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James Kettle @jameskettle.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I have I think watched all the Clint movies and those two are EASILY the most incoherent.

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James Kettle @jameskettle.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I was confused by this initially because while it is correct, there is no "Phantom of the Cybermen"

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James Kettle @jameskettle.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

What if our civilisation was largely wiped out and in two thousand years time the only text our descendants had to reconstruct their ancient history was the Spectator tribute issue to Rod Liddle

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James Kettle @jameskettle.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I feel like I see someone being factually wrong about something to do with the Beatles at least once a day

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James Kettle @jameskettle.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I used to do this on Premier Manager 99 by filling Portsmouth with only keepers

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James Kettle @jameskettle.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Ah, the world of today, where everyone's last performance is Orson Welles in Transformers The Movie because pretty much everything is Transformers The Movie

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James Kettle @jameskettle.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

There is also a repeated motif of Bond approving of women with "masculine bottoms" which I always find funny

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James Kettle @jameskettle.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

=169. Out1 (Jacques Rivette, Suzanne Schiffman, 1990) Easily the best 13 hour conspiracy non-thriller involving lengthy (as in 45 minute plus) improvised scenes of silent improv I have ever seen

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James Kettle @jameskettle.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

=31. 81/2 (Federico Fellini, 1963) I dunno man. I'm glad for you or sorry that happened.

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James Kettle @jameskettle.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Most of what I came and saw was a peaceful protest

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James Kettle @jameskettle.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

"Most of what was committed was not arson"

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James Kettle @jameskettle.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

=211 Pink Flamingos (John Waters, 1972) Something very Lycett about this, but with a scary, aggressive edge like someone shouting the most unpleasant things they can think of, teeth bared, and don't we all feel like that sometimes

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James Kettle @jameskettle.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

=185, The River (Jean Renoir, 1951). Very activating of all the dread that accompanies parenthood and the concerns you have for your kids. Great.

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James Kettle @jameskettle.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I'm trying to improve my cinema literacy this year by watching the movies on the Sight And Sound 250 list. Random and extremely non-definitive thoughts on all of them here.

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James Kettle @jameskettle.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

As with OQS, all they've done is create a market in which they'll easily be outbid.

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James Kettle @jameskettle.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

It's good for the exercise of saying "oh nonsense" out loud

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James Kettle @jameskettle.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

The top two are much more remote than you'd think looking at a map, you can see France from Kent. Those are my pet observational theories from living in them, never lived in Essex...

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James Kettle @jameskettle.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

And so many of them - as with this one - just don't work. Why would there be more confetti? Are ostentatious weddings a hallmark of vice?

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