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Jon Dryden Taylor

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I will either think of or say things for money.

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 1h
When you hear about musicians, comedians, writers from the 70s/80s who lived in squats, made contacts, had time to work on their stuff, get it all good n nice, it sounds like a dream. We were so close to democratising housing in this country before neoliberalism went "WE'LL TAKE IT FROM HERE, LADS!"
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 4h
It’s helpful to have an actual Labour MP saying right out that it’s not what transgender people do or say that is the problem: it’s their presence that she objects to, their existence. Yes, this is what it always was, and these people just keep winding each other up and up to ever more extreme views
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 4h
A political and media class that has gone insane. None of this shit came from the public, it is entirely our leaders and media friends who did this.
lan DuntO @iandunt.bsky.social • 3h
Cruel, pointless, impractical, and ultimately dangerous. The rooms in hospitals which will now be used to offload trans people are often required for clinical reasons ie to treat the immuno-compromised. This is the product of a country that has gone insane.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
B BC NEWS
Trans people should use hospital spaces according to biological sex,
NHS England says
New guidance says trans patients should be cared for on single-sex hospital ward...
www.bbc.co.uk
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Jon Dryden Taylor @jondrytay.bsky.social · 2h
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Jon Dryden Taylor @jondrytay.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
How Long…? Episode Two, coming Thursday!
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Clive is of course correct, and the key thing here is not that Watson has succumbed to temptation: he was a bullshit artist and a crook ten years ago too. This is just what the system looks like when there is no longer any need to pretend these people work for you, not their future employers.
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Tom Watson’s move to Palantir is the latest sign of how far the rot has spread in UK politics | Clive Lewis
When a former Labour deputy leader joins a firm built on surveillance and military targeting, it deepens public cynicism – and democracy depends on trust, says Labour MP Clive Lewis
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Jon Dryden Taylor @jondrytay.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
What I reckon.
Headline: BBC removes 11 Mitchell and Webb comedy sketches from iPlayer. There will no doubt be all kinds of attempts to spin this into a culture war, isn't that boring?
I couldn't be prouder to have worked on this show. I think we made something really good. But the first series was twenty years ago and even the best, and best-intentioned, sketches look different through a two decade lens. That's as it should be: sketch comedy is of its time and lasting is a bonus. I think it's pretty damn cool that our show has lasted long enough for a little anniversary lap of honour on iPlayer.
And if you are going to pretend that this is all about censorship and wokeflakes and whatever the Telegraph will front up a couple of hundred quid for, then the DVDs are still available in pretty much any CEX I have ever been in. So everybody wins!
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Julia Raeside @jnraeside.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A new long read that took a lot for me to write.
juliaraeside.substack.com
Me, Kate Middleton and the medical meat machine
Why women in the healthcare system will always feel like chopped liver.
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Jon Dryden Taylor @jondrytay.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Ed Sheeran has strongly held moral convictions, but they go to another school.
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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Just a reminder as the new academic year kicks off - the UK government has deliberately, ruthlessly, throttled the recruitment of international students, solely to pander to racists, and the resultant 25%+ fall in numbers can and will only accelerate some universities into bankruptcy.
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Jon Dryden Taylor @jondrytay.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The process of balding implies the existence of a process of blidlng.
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Jon Dryden Taylor @jondrytay.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Oh! I didn’t know she’d left us! I adore this book.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
They all do this: they leave the BBC talking about how glad they are to be free of the corporation’s stifling restrictions, and then it turns out all of them have the same boring-as-fuck, driving gloves Tory opinions about everything.
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Jon Dryden Taylor @jondrytay.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
We’ve got to the ‘attacking the RNLI for not letting people drown’ stage of radicalisation without the media offering one shred of reflection over whether they may be responsible.
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Jon Dryden Taylor @jondrytay.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Also, not the point I know, but why do all the fash think the whole ‘stunning and brave’ thing is such a serve? Mortifying.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
It’s not a mistake. The problem here is not a failure to understand. They all know, very well.
Mehdi Hasan & @mehdirhasan
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Exactly. This.
Kenneth Roth © @KenRoth • 6h
German Chancellor Merz seems about to make the mistake that other centrist leaders have made to fend off the far right. Preemptively implementing their program does not diminish the need for them but legitimizes and reinforces the...
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This has been presented to the public as Sensible, moderate, centrist, common sense politics.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The black outfit mask guys have had years of politicians fighting each other to win their approval, with all-channels unanimity that they are justified and correct. The granny and the vicar have had a decade of incredibly hostile screaming hatred from the very top of politics and media. Thus
Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth • 55m l
Kevin Maguire: "If you're an elderly vicar or a grandmother.. with a sign protesting against genocide.. & you're supporting Palestine Action, you're arrested.. who's more threatening, an elderly vicar/grandmother with a sign or a load of masked men.. wreaking havoc?"
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Jon Dryden Taylor @jondrytay.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Centrist Dad Pinup Marina Hyde making it unequivocally clear who she is.
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧🇬🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The media could have not platformed Nigel Farage and discredited him 15 years ago. Instead Farage got them what they wanted - Cameron agreeing to a Brexit referendum, Labour and the Tories dragged to the right. Now they want two party politics back with the Tories in power. He’s served his purpose.
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Jon Dryden Taylor @jondrytay.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
It’s interesting how the vanity always wins over the schtick. They could get all kinds of mileage out of Nige on a train. You could go ‘man of the people’ or ‘Broken Britain’ so easily but nope. The ‘it’s not safe’ spin is so transparent and weedy.
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Jon Dryden Taylor @jondrytay.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
There is literally no way to get from London to Clacton that isn’t by helicopter.
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Jay Zedbee @jayzedbee.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Channel 4 reporter: Hello. I am Mr. Alias and this is my extremely suspicious comically large donation that i can only make in the form of a bag of money with a dollar sign on it. every other reform guy: seems legit! let me tell you every single way in which i and my boss have broken the law
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Jon Dryden Taylor @jondrytay.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Thrilled that Valerie Cherish is finally competing on drag race.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 03/09/2026
this, more than anything, is why the elite have continued to back him even as he plunges into historical levels of unpopularity “we can be complete assholes without consequence” is the best thing that ever happened to them and they will fight to the death to protect that right
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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Also since Orr is an academic at Cambridge who has actually been caught lying I look forward to the month of hounding on a deeply personal level and strokey chin pontificating about whether any white men should even get to be professors
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Jon Dryden Taylor @jondrytay.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Ah smashing, someone has decided to do the latest round of Noticing. Bring it.
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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Hey! Us guys at Cheese n Pickle have got a brand NEW podcast series JUST FOR YOU! How Long? With @jnraeside.bsky.social & @jondrytay.bsky.social boggling at the passage of actual time. It’s very funny and will boggle you too, if you too think 1996 was about 15 years ago. pod.link/6805050407?v...
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How Long?
Listen to How Long? wherever you get your podcasts!
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Absolutely incredible that all of this is being done under the narrative of "independent review of studies." The studies find significant benefits and no harms! Children are not being rushed into irreversible procedures! An entire government and media apparatus buying in an urban legend
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Jon Dryden Taylor @jondrytay.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Comjng September 1st. Let me and @jnraeside.bsky.social make you feel old. Like, subscribe, share!
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Jon Dryden Taylor @jondrytay.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Also (and I speak as a Gen Xer) we absolutely did call in sick.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
There are exceptions but I’ve found the lads are mostly thunderstruck at the most predictable shit imaginable; bizarrely confident in people of limited ability; wholly unable to understand members of the public who don’t behave or react as expected, and unable to think outside their own experience.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
That feels absolutely right to me, and I’ll go you one further: increasingly, and for the last five years in particular, legacy media no longer seems to *understand* the world. They can’t explain what’s happening to themselves and each other, never mind to the public.
podcasts.apple.com
Jonathan Shainin: Legacy media no longer explains the world
Podcast Episode · Media Confidential · 17 August · 39min
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Jon Dryden Taylor @jondrytay.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Such an important read. We’re through the looking glass when the official position on bullies is that if you stand up to them, you’re the problem.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Well, I could go on like this at length, but I won’t. I’ll just say that it didn’t used to be like this, and it’s like this now because of a surprisingly small number of people whose names you’ve probably heard before.
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Jon Dryden Taylor @jondrytay.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Since episode one of Ann Droid, the popular Italian dessert tiramisu has a permanent new name in this house.
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Jon Dryden Taylor @jondrytay.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Election boogaloo
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wariotifo @wariotifo.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
I think what's happened here is the press immediately recognised the obvious truth of what Hannah Spencer said but their idea of fairness/compromise is to still go in two footed on her, a vile 'leftie', and then circle back and pick up her points a few months on without acknowledging they were hers
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Crowsa Luxemburg @quendergeer.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
mermaids, stonewall, the girl guides and amnesty international were all my last territorial demands in europe
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Jon Dryden Taylor @jondrytay.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I like a good dunk on the Telegraph as much as anyone, and don’t understand why it still carries any credibility when it’s been a fash rag for years, but it’s only fair to mention that this isn’t an op ed. Moore is a wine writer. She writes articles about wine.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 30/07/2026
It is putting it mildly to describe these people as a death cult.
ALLISTER HEATH
Britain can't stop
climate change. Scrap
net zero and embrace
Mediterranean
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
A fun question: what percentage of Labour voters will back relentless crackdowns, facilitating war crimes and benefit cuts to buy bullshit AI and missiles, so long as the leader doesn’t lean into video cameras and say “Also, our supporters are scum”! Let’s find out!
most interesting thing here is that green/labour shift, indicates that the green surge was in part otherwise loyal labour voters who personally hated starmer
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Politics UK • @PolitlcsUK • 2h
NEW: A new poll shows Labour is now ahead
of Reform UK
• LAB: 28% (+4)
→ RFM: 24% (-2)...
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Steven Perkins @stevenperkins.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
It’s also completely untrue, and if we had a functioning media class in this country they’d actually get some pushback on it
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Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
whatever happened we are Not going to let political parties that scaremonger about drag queens and “gender language” pretend they’re here to defend us
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Jon Dryden Taylor @jondrytay.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
I hope your intent here is to congratulate
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Jon Dryden Taylor @jondrytay.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Why is it that when you catch yourself in the mirror looking decent and grab your phone the resulting photo is of a different and much uglier person?
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Jon Dryden Taylor @jondrytay.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Two things centrists in any country will always do: 1- say it’s important to listen to what the fash are saying 2- tell you that for Important Strategic Reasons it’s vital not to vote for anyone left wing
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
This would be good IMO: it would force lots of prominent, important people to face the consequences of their horrible choices, and it’d compel them to explain themselves. Rather than what they do instead, which is shout “Actually that was just practice, we’re back to 0-0 now”.
Michael Crick •
@MichaelLCri.. •16h
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The trouble with making it mandatory to hold an election if a ruling party wants to change its PM, is unpopular PMs would simply stay in office longer rather than risk defeat. So we'd have had Blair til 2010; Cameron til 2020;
May til 2022; Johnson til 2024; Starmer til 2029.
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 19/07/2026
Could Excel be conscious? We surveyed more than Jan 1 1900 people to find out.
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Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
I think most people don’t actually really know how bad her Twitter actually is. This is so divorced from reality, repeating a lie she got told once. I’d also take it as a very clear warning she’s going after the “gay rights movement” next. Brace yourselves.
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