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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 5m

V decent of you. Just gotta keep keeping on.

Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 9m

Email today telling me I am not “ethnically English”, and instead of reacting in anger or with insults when I’d respond with a picture of my parents it’s like the “are these cows small or far away?” scene.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 14m

Modern racism is fascinatingly stupid, in that in the 90s and 2000s, there were all sorts of racist things people would say about mixed race people but they weren’t confused and perplexed by your existence.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 15m

Yeah, for sure, completely agree: billionaires just are “built different” for this reason I think.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 16m

Some people have just marinated themselves in a mad milieu, and are in for a shock when they actually come into contact with the actual public.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 19m

Yeah, this is something that would have got you kicked out of Farage era Ukip!

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Amy Lawrence @amylawrence.bsky.social · 1h

"People are describing that ‘you guys changed our life’. I mean, what does that mean?" Exclusive Mikel Arteta interview for the New York Times On olive trees, ideas, curiosity, club culture and healing the poison in his veins www.nytimes.com/athletic/766...

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Mikel Arteta exclusive interview: ‘I have poison in my veins at Champions League defeat. It left a scar’ (Gift Article)

The Arsenal manager speaks to The Athletic about the pain of defeat and why the Premier League title is 'just the beginning'

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 35m

(I also don’t think I did do this, I can’t stand Late Junction.)

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 52m

No, the mindblowing thing about the long Nandy snooze is both Keir and Andy are genuinely cultured people.

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Scandifriend @scandifriend.bsky.social · 1h

Again what exactly does Nandy do all day?

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Nick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social · 1h

I hate this so much. The BBC should be providing good quality, good value programmes that the private market won't cover. You and Yours (which I kind of hate), Thinking Allowed and Free Thinking are exactly the sort of programming that the BBC is i) good at, ii) not haemorrhaging money to make.

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BBC to cut raft of Radio 4 programmes including You and Yours

The corporation said it would be investing in a new consumer programme, while announcing more cuts.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 1h

Right, a lot of travel, some philanthropy. (Philanthropy is just a great way to spend your life: you get to meet a lot of interesting people, you know that you are making a positive contribution to the world, doesn’t have to be full on)

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Wolfson History Prize @wolfsonhistory.bsky.social · 1h

We asked this year’s Wolfson History Prize shortlisted authors to invite us into their research. Learn more about Lyndal Roper and ‘Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants’ War’ in our Q&A below. @basicbooksgroup.bsky.social ⬇️ www.wolfsonhistoryprize.org.uk/qa-lyndal-ro...

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Maria Sobolewska @profsob.bsky.social · 1h

MUCH better late than never. Step two is to take this moral line and stress test it against policy

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 2h

There is a rather wider minority for abolishing the Monarchy (about 1 in 5 to 1 in 4) than for the controversy of whether only white people can be English (1 in 10). It is weird the media classes are so rarely across how niche this 'controversy' is - about 1/4 Reform voters, but few others

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Kevin McKenna MP @kevinmckenna.co.uk · 2h

Not only a fringe view currently being aggressively promoted for desperate reasons, it’s not even an interesting talking point as most pub conversations settled this decades ago. Less than 16% support for the (nonsensical in the case of Englishness) race essentialist view. Boring as well as nasty

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 2h

This is why I thought he’d be inescapable. Speeches to everywhere that would have him about any topic and so on.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 9h

Yes, thank you, I have noticed that the Republicans have changed since 2012. You really do need to get over your need to patronise everybody. Perhaps try engaging with what people have actually written and are talking about...

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 9h

Just got served an advert in which a man talks at length about how a American asset manager is going to build data centres in the United Kingdom, which will raise our energy costs, where the punchline is 'therefore, time to get a solar panel fitted'.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 10h

I don't know how I can be more explicit with you that I am not talking about voting or electoral performance. Yes, the Republican party does worse among financial elites than it used to. That's not what I am talking about!

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 10h

Yeah, it really does help the Tories that Labour's own fantasy provides its own push factor, that the choice at the next election is 'one party I fear will do damage to the social fabric, one to the economy, both at best indifferent to my social values' does give 'my tax cut' an extra appeal.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 11h

Yeah, I don't mean this in a 'they are superior to us' way, but I do basically think if you are a billonaire, you are built differently to most people simply because you haven't tapped out.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 11h

Particularly in a constituency system - the Republican party has many other pathologies, but it is absolutely *for* traders in Wall Street who are currently a stranded asset because they live in a blue state.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 11h

And also my point wasn't about elections or voting, like, the "people that a successful centre-right project should want more of" are part of, but by necessity never going to be the whole of the coalition.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 11h

The tragedy of it is that they just visibly are not going to go for the big swings that WB often has done, for good and for ill.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 11h

Yeah, I think under Ellison, Paramount has had a pretty good streak of 'I enjoyed that in the cinema. I doubt it would hold up at home, but I don't care' movies.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 11h

Yeah, this is why I continue to be 'three series and out' is that I just think the idea that 'this year's seven year old will be willing to come back aged 13'...come on now.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 11h

I never understood how that show ran for so long. It was so boring. Claire's tedious job. Whatever the hell was going on with whichever Mara it is playing Zoe's performances. Dull, dull, dull.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 11h

Yeah, same, it's just a very enjoyable group to spend time with.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 11h

This is closely linked to why I don't have a billion dollars and never will, but if I had a billion dollars, I would just retire to my modernist mansion and not bother with this nonsense:

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 11h

What on earth has happened to his face?

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 12h

Holborn and St Pancras has zone one's most Reform-friendly ward, fun fact.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 12h

Both local parties are very well established, though some of the content of the Greens' leaflets has had a weird 'guy who has just googled Camden and has a lot of tedious received wisdom about elections' air.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 12h

I don't know, I maintain that the big challenge with the later books is that 'adapting a children's book about a teenager' hits big problems because on screen the audience goes 'teenagers don't DO that', which doesn't matter on the page.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 12h

I basically never watch a TV show that is newly hatched.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 12h

No wonder they're combining it with 'the one involving a compromised VIP who is heavily implied to be Prince Andrew'.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 12h

I don't watch Slow Horses and thought 'maybe it's just one of the more difficult books to adapt' and then looked, and to be fair I can see how 'a plotline based on the Salisbury murders' is going to struggle to be adapted to 'the world in 2026'.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 12h

Episode set in the past with none of the main cast that is about how the lovable nanna met her dead husband.

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Matt Fallaize @mattfallaize.bsky.social · 12h

I am now dreading the idea of a Netflix Casualty, in which the bloke who has failed to properly secure his ladder, the distracted mum on her phone on the school run and the lovable nanna with dementia who's gone to the shops all get four episode character arcs.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 12h

Same, I wish I could stop myself doing it because it really marrs my enjoyment of TV that I am sitting there going 'cut that', 'excise that', 'that is redundant'.

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Jonny Morris @jonnymorris.bsky.social · 12h

I find myself mentally editing stuff as I watch it, could have cut that whole scene, could have come in later, could have left earlier, this is telling us stuff we already know etc. People used to say that TV drama was slower in the 60s and 70s. They don't say it so much anymore.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 12h

Yeah this is why I just bounce off so much TV now, I become almost overwhelmed with a desire to start editing it myself.

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𝔐𝔞𝔤𝔫𝔢𝔱𝔰 🧲 @magnets.eurosky.social · 12h

"modern TV" is like 3 blockbusters which go for 8 seasons, a million passable shows which go for 2 seasons and get killed off for not hitting metrics, a few well-thought-of microseries, and procedurals which started in the early 00s

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 12h

No, I don't watch very much TV, I'm not going to give my hour a day to a children's show that I don't have nostalgia for.

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