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Were you up for Boris Johnson? – politicalbetting.com
Were you up for Boris Johnson? – politicalbetting.com
His constituency might be why Boris Johnson resigns as PM before the next election
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Good riddance
Johnson won’t stand in Uxbridge next time, and indeed will probably never again contest a parliamentary election.
His political career is finished, and the question is simply what £$€¥ he can extract from his retirement, as a figure of fun.
https://twitter.com/timspector/status/1482712498616868873
Laters.
step-mower, surely?
https://www.evertonfc.com/news/2451049
(I've often wondered whether it's possible to annoy absolutely everyone with a single word)
Read this remarkable article about diversity and Wokeness in Hollywood and US TV:
https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/hollywoods-new-rules?fbclid=IwAR1iYqNdMGhl68_fw_otlewrIEmL8YYkjGO9bR1C5_UHjzDA5ZsUu1X90Ao
If the US streamers just pump out unfunny PC comedy and tediously liberal movies they won't prosper, either. Perhaps the Koreans will take over, because they don't give a shit and they are highly creative. Squid Game
I can vouch for the paragraphs about the endless hunt for "diversity hires". It is the same in the UK (if not quite as bad). Every job has to go to a Woman or a "BIPOC" (think BAME plus Native Americans)
What is extraordinary in America is that they now have strict racial quotas for movies that want to be considered for the Oscars:
"So, in September 2020, the Academy launched its Representation and Inclusion Standards Entry platform (or RAISE). For a movie to qualify for Best Picture, producers not only had to register detailed personal information about everyone involved in the making of that movie, but the movie had to meet two of the Academy’s four diversity standards—touching on everything from on-screen representation to creative leadership. (An Academy spokesperson said “only select staff” would have access to data collected on the platform.)
"The Academy explained that movies failing to meet these standards would not be barred from qualifying for Best Picture until 2024. But producers are already complying: In 2020, data from 366 productions were submitted to the platform.
"Meanwhile, CBS mandated that writers’ rooms be at least 40 percent black, indigenous and people of color (or BIPOC) for the 2021-2022 broadcast season and 50 percent for the 2022-2023 season. ABC Entertainment issued a detailed series of “inclusion standards.” (“I guarantee you every studio has something like that,” a longtime writer and director said.)
A telling remark:
"How to survive the revolution? By becoming its most ardent supporter. “Best way to defend yourself against the woke is to out-woke everyone, including the woke,” one writer said. Suddenly, every conversation with every agent or head of content started with: Is anyone BIPOC attached to this?"
The funniest TV show in years, and absolutely non-PC (except they have multiple black actors in 18th century Russia? - but why not, it works). Still amazing it got made
I remember the shellshocked look on Stephen Twigg's face. As I was told it at the time, he had a nice little number of a job lined up and had never expected to win Enfield Southgate. He obviously made the best of it, but it clearly came as a complete surprise.
PS Serious point, though: are the Tory MPs for Scotland revolting? I've lost track.
The BBC should be partnering with them and harnessing it. Co productions with the BBC having initial UK screening rights is something they should do more of.
Sue Gray approved an honour for disgraced financier Lex Greensill after pressure from superiors
In email she said: “Grr…but okay”
Qs about her independence come as sources warn report no longer likely to land this week, prolonging Boris purgatory
https://twitter.com/Gabriel_Pogrund/status/1482730903981993994?s=20
I find the overall demographics of his seat still quite hard to read even though Labour would surely win it if they get 300+ seats nationally or in a by election. I was surprised Labour got over 40% there in 2017 but the Tories completed thrashed Labour in the Hillingdon Council elections in 2018.
NEW - No10 source says that it is “not true to suggest he was warned in advance”.
In response to questions about whether the PM was aware of concerns expressed by people within No10 ahead of the May 20 event.
https://twitter.com/robpowellnews/status/1482725335024250887?s=21
I offer insightful political analysis, you are a partisan shill.
Boris lost me over the Paterson debacle and partygate, but I think he will survive the Sue Gray report and the May elections will now be the moment of greatest danger for him, which by that time we should be in an endemic and hopefully calmer waters to replace him
I could be wrong, but I am far from convinced he will go quickly and today's newspapers really had nothing further to add or provided the silver bullet
A sad tale indeed.
https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/politics/scottish-politics/3846792/heres-what-all-6-scottish-tory-mps-say-about-boris-johnsons-lockdown-party-scandal/
You reference to "partisan rubbish" is what I struggle with. I don't think it's partisan to point out that having a PM who is a congenital liar and prone to bouts of corruption or, at best, dodgy dealings is partisan. Yes, I'm a Labour chap. But I would never have directed similar attacks at, for example, Theresa May, as I think she was basically honest and decent. Boris isn't, simple as that.
They’ve probably got about another year, before the window of opportunity closes completely as the market consolidates to a few big players. Dusting off the massive back catalogue, and licensing it to everyone around the world, would be a great start.
(As an aside, trying to explain the concept of the licence fee to most foreigners, is even more weird than trying to explain the concept of the NHS).
If they cling on to their present dwindling fee, which is evermore unsustainable, they are doomed to become one of the irrelevant state broadcasters of old Europe, somewhere between RTE in Ireland and RAI in Italy. Still significant at home but dwarfed globally, and increasingly ignored on any wider stage
I actively want the BBC to survive, as a great British institution (and brand). But they need to wise up. To be fair I think plenty of people within the BBC know this. As it is so bloody obvious
He has some style.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dJswJ2h8N0
I was a fan of Reign, an unfathomably silly but entertaining take on a young Mary Queen of Scots, but a relative couldn't get into it because rather than attempt fake french accents everyone was British. No accounting for taste
What was weird about Bridgerton, which in any case is completely fictional, was the show works just fine and I never once questioned there being black aristocrats, but there is like one scene only that seeks to explain it, which seemed needless as it woul djust raise questions where there were none.
The question is whether the coming week sees further revelations as we wait for Sue Gray to report.
Unlike Theresa May who looked frankly glad to be out of it in 2019, this has been Boris Johnson's life goal and he will be dragged out kicking and screaming by either the Parliamentary party acting out of motivated self-interest or, and this is my preference, a vengeful electorate delivering Johnson and the Conservatives the kind of defeat which will make 1906 and 1997 look like mild setbacks.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-10400775/MICK-HUME-think-Boris-BBCs-obsessive-campaign-destroy-disgrace.html
How do these people hold down a job?. Seriously
Not sure the management, politicians or public has grasped this yet.
Moreover, as an aside, there WERE quite a few black people in 18th century aristo Russia. Not as many as implied in The Great but certainly some. The blue-blooded writer Alexander Pushkin was inordinately proud of his part-African heritage
https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2017/dec/19/pushkins-pride-how-the-russian-literary-giant-paid-tribute-to-his-african-ancestry
Check - var overturns 4th Leeds goal
Youtube views also come from some very wierd places. My wife knows all sorts of obscure British and American TV shows of past decades, from her previous job of teaching English as a foreign language.
The BBC are a bit slow but mass uploads eventually get taken down I think. I know there used to be pretty much the whole backlog of HIGNFY on youtube.
Apple TV casually dropped $45 million on one sci fi series, Foundation
Amazon Prime spent $80 million on the first season of The Wheel of Time. It hasn't done very well, meh, fuck it, make something else
One season of The Crown costs Netflix about $120 million
The Marvel series Hawkeye costs $25 million for EACH EPISODE - same as Wandavision and Loki
How can the BBC hope to compete with this?