There's dozens more paragraphs of tweet bilge if you can face it.
It's just so brainless and tacky now, our politics. I'm sick of it. Can't we go back to how it was? Like, tomorrow is Sunday. Everybody's free. So there ought to be a serious lengthy interview on tv of a leading politician. All this social media shit is no substitute for that. It looks like more democracy but it means less.
We need Walden to interrogate Starmer on the source of his right-wing inclinations.
"Pwime Minister, it has been alleged that your Irish advisor Morgan McSweeney is whispering things in your ear..."
I'd pay to see it. SKS would be good, I think, going by his Desert Island Discs interview, but do we have a Walden? Surely we do. We're not that far gone.
There's dozens more paragraphs of tweet bilge if you can face it.
It's just so brainless and tacky now, our politics. I'm sick of it. Can't we go back to how it was? Like, tomorrow is Sunday. Everybody's free. So there ought to be a serious lengthy interview on tv of a leading politician. All this social media shit is no substitute for that. It looks like more democracy but it means less.
But these things do exist, you’re just too “Guardian and BBC for me!” To realise
It’s called the long form podcast
Three hours with Joe Rogan examines a politician much more intensely than any 40 minutes with Brian Walden in the 1970s
There is no hiding in 3 hours. Even if the questions are generally soft (and they are not always, with Rogan, he’s very good at sliding in some tricky stuff amid the banter) your persona is revealed
Trump did Rogan. Kamala Harris refused - and it’s one of the reasons she lost. She bottled it
The success of the long form podcast shows there is a real hunger for highly detailed and forensic politics (and detailed science, history, football, astrology, quantum sexodynamics, whatever). It’s one of the more encouraging signs of the times. People DO want seriousness
There's dozens more paragraphs of tweet bilge if you can face it.
It's just so brainless and tacky now, our politics. I'm sick of it. Can't we go back to how it was? Like, tomorrow is Sunday. Everybody's free. So there ought to be a serious lengthy interview on tv of a leading politician. All this social media shit is no substitute for that. It looks like more democracy but it means less.
We need Walden to interrogate Starmer on the source of his right-wing inclinations.
"Pwime Minister, it has been alleged that your Irish advisor Morgan McSweeney is whispering things in your ear..."
I'd pay to see it. SKS would be good, I think, going by his Desert Island Discs interview, but do we have a Walden? Surely we do. We're not that far gone.
That Desert Island Discs is your equivalent of HYUFD's "Boris wins back x-amount of voters according to that one poll"
There's dozens more paragraphs of tweet bilge if you can face it.
It's just so brainless and tacky now, our politics. I'm sick of it. Can't we go back to how it was? Like, tomorrow is Sunday. Everybody's free. So there ought to be a serious lengthy interview on tv of a leading politician. All this social media shit is no substitute for that. It looks like more democracy but it means less.
But these things do exist, you’re just too “Guardian and BBC for me!” To realise
It’s called the long form podcast
Three hours with Joe Rogan examines a politician much more intensely than any 40 minutes with Brian Walden in the 1970s
There is no hiding in 3 hours. Even if the questions are generally soft (and they are not always, with Rogan, he’s very good at sliding in some tricky stuff amid the banter) your persona is revealed
Trump did Rogan. Kamala Harris refused - and it’s one of the reasons she lost. She bottled it
The success of the long form podcast shows there is a real hunger for highly detailed and forensic politics (and detailed science, history, football, astrology, quantum sexodynamics, whatever). It’s one of the more encouraging signs of the times. People DO want seriousness
Meh. I don't really care about Trump's 'persona', nor Harris' or Starmer's for that matter.
I care about policy, and being pinned on pie in the sky funding of said policy.
Rogan, fascinating though the Trump podcast was, is a very poor substitute for a weighty political interview.
I can report that despite Sir Keir Traitor’s bleatings, e-gates have not been opened for Brits in the EU. He’s gonna have a lot of disappointed British voters fuming at him on holibobs this summer. What an idiot
I can however report that I am now in my…. HUNDREDTH COUNTRY. A lifetime goal achieved
100 countries!!
Yes ok it’s Luxembourg. So also possibly the most boring country on earth. But that’s kind of fitting
Go everywhere, young man!
But he said we were all excited by his prime negotiation win. This can't be right
It’s such desperately crap basic retail politics. If you can’t deliver, don’t promise. Instead he promised and he hasn’t delivered
He will hack off another million holidaying British voters this summer, for no reason at all other than that he is terrible at comms
The structure of the deal is a mistake.
Should have been
- 3 years fishing rights - If, after that, e gates are implemented for less than x% of journeys, or less than x billion in orders from common European defence fund, then no extension.
The Spectator is running a piece saying we might be excluded from the Defense Fund anyway, by the French
So what did Starmer actually get for giving away TWELVE YEARS of fishing rights (when the French were terrified we’d play hardball)? He got absolutely nothing. He got empty promises that mean absolutely nothing (as we now see). He’s a fucking shrieking poo-faced moron and dangerously incompetent. Everything he touches turns to dreck
I hate to break it to you but your hero Boris Johnson effectively negotiated a permanent fisheries agreement. While it could in principle lapse in 2026 so do other parts of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement, carefully chosen by the EU to be an unacceptably high cost for the UK, including energy trading.
There's dozens more paragraphs of tweet bilge if you can face it.
It's just so brainless and tacky now, our politics. I'm sick of it. Can't we go back to how it was? Like, tomorrow is Sunday. Everybody's free. So there ought to be a serious lengthy interview on tv of a leading politician. All this social media shit is no substitute for that. It looks like more democracy but it means less.
But these things do exist, you’re just too “Guardian and BBC for me!” To realise
It’s called the long form podcast
Three hours with Joe Rogan examines a politician much more intensely than any 40 minutes with Brian Walden in the 1970s
There is no hiding in 3 hours. Even if the questions are generally soft (and they are not always, with Rogan, he’s very good at sliding in some tricky stuff amid the banter) your persona is revealed
Trump did Rogan. Kamala Harris refused - and it’s one of the reasons she lost. She bottled it
The success of the long form podcast shows there is a real hunger for highly detailed and forensic politics (and detailed science, history, football, astrology, quantum sexodynamics, whatever). It’s one of the more encouraging signs of the times. People DO want seriousness
I love this form of questioning. The BBC approach of "why do you hate the voters" is totally unhelpful in understanding a politician - it is just circuses: fine if you want to see politician x discomfited, but not helpful in building a philosophical apptoach to a future.
There's dozens more paragraphs of tweet bilge if you can face it.
It's just so brainless and tacky now, our politics. I'm sick of it. Can't we go back to how it was? Like, tomorrow is Sunday. Everybody's free. So there ought to be a serious lengthy interview on tv of a leading politician. All this social media shit is no substitute for that. It looks like more democracy but it means less.
We need Walden to interrogate Starmer on the source of his right-wing inclinations.
"Pwime Minister, it has been alleged that your Irish advisor Morgan McSweeney is whispering things in your ear..."
I'd pay to see it. SKS would be good, I think, going by his Desert Island Discs interview, but do we have a Walden? Surely we do. We're not that far gone.
That Desert Island Discs is your equivalent of HYUFD's "Boris wins back x-amount of voters according to that one poll"
Did you catch it? You should for balance. It's only fair. Eg I listened to all of Enoch's "rivers" speech the other day with my red wine and nuts before dinner.
I can report that despite Sir Keir Traitor’s bleatings, e-gates have not been opened for Brits in the EU. He’s gonna have a lot of disappointed British voters fuming at him on holibobs this summer. What an idiot
I can however report that I am now in my…. HUNDREDTH COUNTRY. A lifetime goal achieved
100 countries!!
Yes ok it’s Luxembourg. So also possibly the most boring country on earth. But that’s kind of fitting
Go everywhere, young man!
But he said we were all excited by his prime negotiation win. This can't be right
It’s such desperately crap basic retail politics. If you can’t deliver, don’t promise. Instead he promised and he hasn’t delivered
He will hack off another million holidaying British voters this summer, for no reason at all other than that he is terrible at comms
The structure of the deal is a mistake.
Should have been
- 3 years fishing rights - If, after that, e gates are implemented for less than x% of journeys, or less than x billion in orders from common European defence fund, then no extension.
The Spectator is running a piece saying we might be excluded from the Defense Fund anyway, by the French
So what did Starmer actually get for giving away TWELVE YEARS of fishing rights (when the French were terrified we’d play hardball)? He got absolutely nothing. He got empty promises that mean absolutely nothing (as we now see). He’s a fucking shrieking poo-faced moron and dangerously incompetent. Everything he touches turns to dreck
I hate to break it to you but your hero Boris Johnson effectively negotiated a permanent fisheries agreement. While it could in principle lapse in 2026 so do other parts of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement, carefully chosen by the EU to be an unacceptably high cost for the UK, including energy trading.
Then why did the EU insist we agree to extend it by 12 years when 5 years until the next re-negotiation would have done fine?
Luxembourg feels quite German so far. But then I’ve only been here about an hour, so I’ve only seen 90% of it
Some years ago when the children were young we stayed overnight in Luxembourg on our drive to Italy
The hotel did a BBQ but about 2.30am with indigestion from the BBQ we checked out for the long drive
Later in the early hours we were stopped by the police to allow s long convoy of cruise missiles through
The kids talk about it to this day
I LOVE LUXEMBOURG
They’ve sent me to a rather charming little medieval town, curved around a meandering river - Clervaux. Where they are having a Provençal market festival in a place that feels like a prosperous corner of Germany inhabited by Belgians talking French underneath an Austro-Hungarian castle
Thank God we brexited to get away from stuff like this
Plus an inexplicable American tank. Sherman?
It is indeed a M4 (the Sherman was the British name, strictly speaking, and when one has Malmesbury around ...). From the Battle of the Bulge, in that location, no less, it seems. Ergo highly explicable when all is known.
Thank you. I’ve now bought Antony Beevor’s Ardennes: Battle of the Bulge, as my accompanying book for this Luxembourg jaunt. I had no idea so much of it was fought here. As in, literally, right here in the pretty piazzas and lanes of Clervaux. Apparently the GIs that first came here thought it would be a cushy posting. And then….
Kurt Vonnegut was one. Captured and held in Dresden during the firestorm bombing. Hence Slaughterhouse Five.
There's dozens more paragraphs of tweet bilge if you can face it.
It's just so brainless and tacky now, our politics. I'm sick of it. Can't we go back to how it was? Like, tomorrow is Sunday. Everybody's free. So there ought to be a serious lengthy interview on tv of a leading politician. All this social media shit is no substitute for that. It looks like more democracy but it means less.
But these things do exist, you’re just too “Guardian and BBC for me!” To realise
It’s called the long form podcast
Three hours with Joe Rogan examines a politician much more intensely than any 40 minutes with Brian Walden in the 1970s
There is no hiding in 3 hours. Even if the questions are generally soft (and they are not always, with Rogan, he’s very good at sliding in some tricky stuff amid the banter) your persona is revealed
Trump did Rogan. Kamala Harris refused - and it’s one of the reasons she lost. She bottled it
The success of the long form podcast shows there is a real hunger for highly detailed and forensic politics (and detailed science, history, football, astrology, quantum sexodynamics, whatever). It’s one of the more encouraging signs of the times. People DO want seriousness
Meh. I don't really care about Trump's 'persona', nor Harris' or Starmer's for that matter.
I care about policy, and being pinned on pie in the sky funding of said policy.
Rogan, fascinating though the Trump podcast was, is a very poor substitute for a weighty political interview.
HARDtalk used to fill that space until the Beeb canned it
I can report that despite Sir Keir Traitor’s bleatings, e-gates have not been opened for Brits in the EU. He’s gonna have a lot of disappointed British voters fuming at him on holibobs this summer. What an idiot
I can however report that I am now in my…. HUNDREDTH COUNTRY. A lifetime goal achieved
100 countries!!
Yes ok it’s Luxembourg. So also possibly the most boring country on earth. But that’s kind of fitting
Go everywhere, young man!
But he said we were all excited by his prime negotiation win. This can't be right
It’s such desperately crap basic retail politics. If you can’t deliver, don’t promise. Instead he promised and he hasn’t delivered
He will hack off another million holidaying British voters this summer, for no reason at all other than that he is terrible at comms
The structure of the deal is a mistake.
Should have been
- 3 years fishing rights - If, after that, e gates are implemented for less than x% of journeys, or less than x billion in orders from common European defence fund, then no extension.
The Spectator is running a piece saying we might be excluded from the Defense Fund anyway, by the French
So what did Starmer actually get for giving away TWELVE YEARS of fishing rights (when the French were terrified we’d play hardball)? He got absolutely nothing. He got empty promises that mean absolutely nothing (as we now see). He’s a fucking shrieking poo-faced moron and dangerously incompetent. Everything he touches turns to dreck
I hate to break it to you but your hero Boris Johnson effectively negotiated a permanent fisheries agreement. While it could in principle lapse in 2026 so do other parts of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement, carefully chosen by the EU to be an unacceptably high cost for the UK, including energy trading.
But this is not true. The French were very worried they’d only get one year. Or 2 or 3 at best. Or possibly an even worse deal than now. I know this because they told me, and not just trawler guys, people in Breton politics who do this stuff for a living
Starmer gave them twelve fucking years and got fuck all. Let’s face it, he’s a truly terrible prime minister, the verdict is in, he’s so bad he’s potentially treasonous - and I mean that word precisely, following the Chagos Surrender (which is so weirdly bad for Britain even his aides cannot explain it)
There's dozens more paragraphs of tweet bilge if you can face it.
It's just so brainless and tacky now, our politics. I'm sick of it. Can't we go back to how it was? Like, tomorrow is Sunday. Everybody's free. So there ought to be a serious lengthy interview on tv of a leading politician. All this social media shit is no substitute for that. It looks like more democracy but it means less.
But these things do exist, you’re just too “Guardian and BBC for me!” To realise
It’s called the long form podcast
Three hours with Joe Rogan examines a politician much more intensely than any 40 minutes with Brian Walden in the 1970s
There is no hiding in 3 hours. Even if the questions are generally soft (and they are not always, with Rogan, he’s very good at sliding in some tricky stuff amid the banter) your persona is revealed
Trump did Rogan. Kamala Harris refused - and it’s one of the reasons she lost. She bottled it
The success of the long form podcast shows there is a real hunger for highly detailed and forensic politics (and detailed science, history, football, astrology, quantum sexodynamics, whatever). It’s one of the more encouraging signs of the times. People DO want seriousness
There's dozens more paragraphs of tweet bilge if you can face it.
It's just so brainless and tacky now, our politics. I'm sick of it. Can't we go back to how it was? Like, tomorrow is Sunday. Everybody's free. So there ought to be a serious lengthy interview on tv of a leading politician. All this social media shit is no substitute for that. It looks like more democracy but it means less.
But these things do exist, you’re just too “Guardian and BBC for me!” To realise
It’s called the long form podcast
Three hours with Joe Rogan examines a politician much more intensely than any 40 minutes with Brian Walden in the 1970s
There is no hiding in 3 hours. Even if the questions are generally soft (and they are not always, with Rogan, he’s very good at sliding in some tricky stuff amid the banter) your persona is revealed
Trump did Rogan. Kamala Harris refused - and it’s one of the reasons she lost. She bottled it
The success of the long form podcast shows there is a real hunger for highly detailed and forensic politics (and detailed science, history, football, astrology, quantum sexodynamics, whatever). It’s one of the more encouraging signs of the times. People DO want seriousness
Rogan is rather tabloid. It's not quite what I meant. But yes, it's lengthy alright and he's quite personable.
There's dozens more paragraphs of tweet bilge if you can face it.
It's just so brainless and tacky now, our politics. I'm sick of it. Can't we go back to how it was? Like, tomorrow is Sunday. Everybody's free. So there ought to be a serious lengthy interview on tv of a leading politician. All this social media shit is no substitute for that. It looks like more democracy but it means less.
We need Walden to interrogate Starmer on the source of his right-wing inclinations.
"Pwime Minister, it has been alleged that your Irish advisor Morgan McSweeney is whispering things in your ear..."
I'd pay to see it. SKS would be good, I think, going by his Desert Island Discs interview, but do we have a Walden? Surely we do. We're not that far gone.
That Desert Island Discs is your equivalent of HYUFD's "Boris wins back x-amount of voters according to that one poll"
Did you catch it? You should for balance. It's only fair. Eg I listened to all of Enoch's "rivers" speech the other day with my red wine and nuts before dinner.
Like Sir Keir and his Father working in a factory, my Dad listened to it, so I know what it's like
There's dozens more paragraphs of tweet bilge if you can face it.
It's just so brainless and tacky now, our politics. I'm sick of it. Can't we go back to how it was? Like, tomorrow is Sunday. Everybody's free. So there ought to be a serious lengthy interview on tv of a leading politician. All this social media shit is no substitute for that. It looks like more democracy but it means less.
But these things do exist, you’re just too “Guardian and BBC for me!” To realise
It’s called the long form podcast
Three hours with Joe Rogan examines a politician much more intensely than any 40 minutes with Brian Walden in the 1970s
There is no hiding in 3 hours. Even if the questions are generally soft (and they are not always, with Rogan, he’s very good at sliding in some tricky stuff amid the banter) your persona is revealed
Trump did Rogan. Kamala Harris refused - and it’s one of the reasons she lost. She bottled it
The success of the long form podcast shows there is a real hunger for highly detailed and forensic politics (and detailed science, history, football, astrology, quantum sexodynamics, whatever). It’s one of the more encouraging signs of the times. People DO want seriousness
Liz Truss has correctly pointed out that this is a weakness in the UK media ecosystem. They have Joe Rogan and we have Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart.
I can report that despite Sir Keir Traitor’s bleatings, e-gates have not been opened for Brits in the EU. He’s gonna have a lot of disappointed British voters fuming at him on holibobs this summer. What an idiot
I can however report that I am now in my…. HUNDREDTH COUNTRY. A lifetime goal achieved
100 countries!!
Yes ok it’s Luxembourg. So also possibly the most boring country on earth. But that’s kind of fitting
Go everywhere, young man!
But he said we were all excited by his prime negotiation win. This can't be right
It’s such desperately crap basic retail politics. If you can’t deliver, don’t promise. Instead he promised and he hasn’t delivered
He will hack off another million holidaying British voters this summer, for no reason at all other than that he is terrible at comms
The structure of the deal is a mistake.
Should have been
- 3 years fishing rights - If, after that, e gates are implemented for less than x% of journeys, or less than x billion in orders from common European defence fund, then no extension.
The Spectator is running a piece saying we might be excluded from the Defense Fund anyway, by the French
So what did Starmer actually get for giving away TWELVE YEARS of fishing rights (when the French were terrified we’d play hardball)? He got absolutely nothing. He got empty promises that mean absolutely nothing (as we now see). He’s a fucking shrieking poo-faced moron and dangerously incompetent. Everything he touches turns to dreck
The Morning Star is running a piece saying if Nigel Farage becomes PM it might become illegal to join a trade union in this country.
So there you have it. This jumped up public schoolboy with bad teeth masquerading as the saviour of the working class is actually, once he's conned his way into power on the back of their votes, planning to stomp on them at the behest of his capitalist paymasters.
Ah the morning star, that well known bastion of truthfulness, a paper that makes Richard Nixon look positively candid
There's dozens more paragraphs of tweet bilge if you can face it.
It's just so brainless and tacky now, our politics. I'm sick of it. Can't we go back to how it was? Like, tomorrow is Sunday. Everybody's free. So there ought to be a serious lengthy interview on tv of a leading politician. All this social media shit is no substitute for that. It looks like more democracy but it means less.
But these things do exist, you’re just too “Guardian and BBC for me!” To realise
It’s called the long form podcast
Three hours with Joe Rogan examines a politician much more intensely than any 40 minutes with Brian Walden in the 1970s
There is no hiding in 3 hours. Even if the questions are generally soft (and they are not always, with Rogan, he’s very good at sliding in some tricky stuff amid the banter) your persona is revealed
Trump did Rogan. Kamala Harris refused - and it’s one of the reasons she lost. She bottled it
The success of the long form podcast shows there is a real hunger for highly detailed and forensic politics (and detailed science, history, football, astrology, quantum sexodynamics, whatever). It’s one of the more encouraging signs of the times. People DO want seriousness
Meh. I don't really care about Trump's 'persona', nor Harris' or Starmer's for that matter.
I care about policy, and being pinned on pie in the sky funding of said policy.
Rogan, fascinating though the Trump podcast was, is a very poor substitute for a weighty political interview.
If it’s such a poor substitute why did the Harris campaign do their very best to avoid it while pretending not to, to the extent some say it cost her the election?
Fact is, if you want big detailed interviews then, these days, podcasts like Rogan’s are IT. Tho I agree with @williamglenn that the UK sadly lacks an equivalent, to date. But Rogan shows it can work. The success of podcasts like TRIHistory likewise shows a hunger for real clever welll-informed detail, not pap
I’ve just noticed on my itinerary that on top of the exclusively 4 and 5 star hotels, with free lunches etc - I ALSO have a “daily allowance of €100 for food and alcohol”
That’s every day on top of everything else
That’s quite ridiculous. Enormous fun but insane
That’s what happens I suppose when you have a GDP per capita of $130,000 but hardly any flint knapping travel hacks come visiting. You have plenty of budget to spare
There's dozens more paragraphs of tweet bilge if you can face it.
It's just so brainless and tacky now, our politics. I'm sick of it. Can't we go back to how it was? Like, tomorrow is Sunday. Everybody's free. So there ought to be a serious lengthy interview on tv of a leading politician. All this social media shit is no substitute for that. It looks like more democracy but it means less.
We need Walden to interrogate Starmer on the source of his right-wing inclinations.
"Pwime Minister, it has been alleged that your Irish advisor Morgan McSweeney is whispering things in your ear..."
I'd pay to see it. SKS would be good, I think, going by his Desert Island Discs interview, but do we have a Walden? Surely we do. We're not that far gone.
That Desert Island Discs is your equivalent of HYUFD's "Boris wins back x-amount of voters according to that one poll"
Did you catch it? You should for balance. It's only fair. Eg I listened to all of Enoch's "rivers" speech the other day with my red wine and nuts before dinner.
Like Sir Keir and his Father working in a factory, my Dad listened to it, so I know what it's like
Ah so you haven't. I'll see if I can link it on some future thread one day.
I can report that despite Sir Keir Traitor’s bleatings, e-gates have not been opened for Brits in the EU. He’s gonna have a lot of disappointed British voters fuming at him on holibobs this summer. What an idiot
I can however report that I am now in my…. HUNDREDTH COUNTRY. A lifetime goal achieved
100 countries!!
Yes ok it’s Luxembourg. So also possibly the most boring country on earth. But that’s kind of fitting
Go everywhere, young man!
But he said we were all excited by his prime negotiation win. This can't be right
It’s such desperately crap basic retail politics. If you can’t deliver, don’t promise. Instead he promised and he hasn’t delivered
He will hack off another million holidaying British voters this summer, for no reason at all other than that he is terrible at comms
The structure of the deal is a mistake.
Should have been
- 3 years fishing rights - If, after that, e gates are implemented for less than x% of journeys, or less than x billion in orders from common European defence fund, then no extension.
The Spectator is running a piece saying we might be excluded from the Defense Fund anyway, by the French
So what did Starmer actually get for giving away TWELVE YEARS of fishing rights (when the French were terrified we’d play hardball)? He got absolutely nothing. He got empty promises that mean absolutely nothing (as we now see). He’s a fucking shrieking poo-faced moron and dangerously incompetent. Everything he touches turns to dreck
The Morning Star is running a piece saying if Nigel Farage becomes PM it might become illegal to join a trade union in this country.
So there you have it. This jumped up public schoolboy with bad teeth masquerading as the saviour of the working class is actually, once he's conned his way into power on the back of their votes, planning to stomp on them at the behest of his capitalist paymasters.
Ah the morning star, that well known bastion of truthfulness, a paper that makes Richard Nixon look positively candid
There's dozens more paragraphs of tweet bilge if you can face it.
It's just so brainless and tacky now, our politics. I'm sick of it. Can't we go back to how it was? Like, tomorrow is Sunday. Everybody's free. So there ought to be a serious lengthy interview on tv of a leading politician. All this social media shit is no substitute for that. It looks like more democracy but it means less.
But these things do exist, you’re just too “Guardian and BBC for me!” To realise
It’s called the long form podcast
Three hours with Joe Rogan examines a politician much more intensely than any 40 minutes with Brian Walden in the 1970s
There is no hiding in 3 hours. Even if the questions are generally soft (and they are not always, with Rogan, he’s very good at sliding in some tricky stuff amid the banter) your persona is revealed
Trump did Rogan. Kamala Harris refused - and it’s one of the reasons she lost. She bottled it
The success of the long form podcast shows there is a real hunger for highly detailed and forensic politics (and detailed science, history, football, astrology, quantum sexodynamics, whatever). It’s one of the more encouraging signs of the times. People DO want seriousness
Meh. I don't really care about Trump's 'persona', nor Harris' or Starmer's for that matter.
I care about policy, and being pinned on pie in the sky funding of said policy.
Rogan, fascinating though the Trump podcast was, is a very poor substitute for a weighty political interview.
If it’s such a poor substitute why did the Harris campaign do their very best to avoid it while pretending not to, to the extent some say it cost her the election?
Fact is, if you want big detailed interviews then, these days, podcasts like Rogan’s are IT. Tho I agree with @williamglenn that the UK sadly lacks an equivalent, to date. But Rogan shows it can work. The success of podcasts like TRIHistory likewise shows a hunger for real clever welll-informed detail, not pap
Oh I agree with the popularity of podcasts and celebrate that, not least because they strip back the form to just voice and perhaps a little music, there is little to distract. I increasingly get my news from them, particularly Al Jazeera.
The reason Harris didn't do Rogan, imo, is that many voters want the shallow personality politics that you are celebrating Rogan offering, and she is something of a personality vacuum, especially when compared to Trump.
If politics is entertainment, as it is for many, Rogan is perfect. I didn't say that Rogan isn't important in politics, just that if we want politicians who actually make things happen, subjecting them to Rogan is a poor substitute to subjecting them to e.g Andrew Neil.
I can report that despite Sir Keir Traitor’s bleatings, e-gates have not been opened for Brits in the EU. He’s gonna have a lot of disappointed British voters fuming at him on holibobs this summer. What an idiot
I can however report that I am now in my…. HUNDREDTH COUNTRY. A lifetime goal achieved
100 countries!!
Yes ok it’s Luxembourg. So also possibly the most boring country on earth. But that’s kind of fitting
Go everywhere, young man!
But he said we were all excited by his prime negotiation win. This can't be right
It’s such desperately crap basic retail politics. If you can’t deliver, don’t promise. Instead he promised and he hasn’t delivered
He will hack off another million holidaying British voters this summer, for no reason at all other than that he is terrible at comms
The structure of the deal is a mistake.
Should have been
- 3 years fishing rights - If, after that, e gates are implemented for less than x% of journeys, or less than x billion in orders from common European defence fund, then no extension.
The Spectator is running a piece saying we might be excluded from the Defense Fund anyway, by the French
So what did Starmer actually get for giving away TWELVE YEARS of fishing rights (when the French were terrified we’d play hardball)? He got absolutely nothing. He got empty promises that mean absolutely nothing (as we now see). He’s a fucking shrieking poo-faced moron and dangerously incompetent. Everything he touches turns to dreck
The Morning Star is running a piece saying if Nigel Farage becomes PM it might become illegal to join a trade union in this country.
So there you have it. This jumped up public schoolboy with bad teeth masquerading as the saviour of the working class is actually, once he's conned his way into power on the back of their votes, planning to stomp on them at the behest of his capitalist paymasters.
Ah the morning star, that well known bastion of truthfulness, a paper that makes Richard Nixon look positively candid
I can report that despite Sir Keir Traitor’s bleatings, e-gates have not been opened for Brits in the EU. He’s gonna have a lot of disappointed British voters fuming at him on holibobs this summer. What an idiot
I can however report that I am now in my…. HUNDREDTH COUNTRY. A lifetime goal achieved
100 countries!!
Yes ok it’s Luxembourg. So also possibly the most boring country on earth. But that’s kind of fitting
Go everywhere, young man!
But he said we were all excited by his prime negotiation win. This can't be right
It’s such desperately crap basic retail politics. If you can’t deliver, don’t promise. Instead he promised and he hasn’t delivered
He will hack off another million holidaying British voters this summer, for no reason at all other than that he is terrible at comms
The structure of the deal is a mistake.
Should have been
- 3 years fishing rights - If, after that, e gates are implemented for less than x% of journeys, or less than x billion in orders from common European defence fund, then no extension.
The Spectator is running a piece saying we might be excluded from the Defense Fund anyway, by the French
So what did Starmer actually get for giving away TWELVE YEARS of fishing rights (when the French were terrified we’d play hardball)? He got absolutely nothing. He got empty promises that mean absolutely nothing (as we now see). He’s a fucking shrieking poo-faced moron and dangerously incompetent. Everything he touches turns to dreck
I hate to break it to you but your hero Boris Johnson effectively negotiated a permanent fisheries agreement. While it could in principle lapse in 2026 so do other parts of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement, carefully chosen by the EU to be an unacceptably high cost for the UK, including energy trading.
Then why did the EU insist we agree to extend it by 12 years when 5 years until the next re-negotiation would have done fine?
We got no time limit on the agreement on food exports ,for one thing. There may be others:
According to EU sources, access to British fishing waters will be granted until the end of June 2038, an extension of 12 years. But in return, the agreement on easier checks for food, animal and other agricultural products, known as sanitary and phytosanitary goods (SPS), will be indefinite. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/may/19/uk-eu-brexit-reset-talks-starmer-summit
I can report that despite Sir Keir Traitor’s bleatings, e-gates have not been opened for Brits in the EU. He’s gonna have a lot of disappointed British voters fuming at him on holibobs this summer. What an idiot
I can however report that I am now in my…. HUNDREDTH COUNTRY. A lifetime goal achieved
100 countries!!
Yes ok it’s Luxembourg. So also possibly the most boring country on earth. But that’s kind of fitting
Go everywhere, young man!
But he said we were all excited by his prime negotiation win. This can't be right
I hope he got community noted if he said it on Twitter.
There's dozens more paragraphs of tweet bilge if you can face it.
It's just so brainless and tacky now, our politics. I'm sick of it. Can't we go back to how it was? Like, tomorrow is Sunday. Everybody's free. So there ought to be a serious lengthy interview on tv of a leading politician. All this social media shit is no substitute for that. It looks like more democracy but it means less.
But these things do exist, you’re just too “Guardian and BBC for me!” To realise
It’s called the long form podcast
Three hours with Joe Rogan examines a politician much more intensely than any 40 minutes with Brian Walden in the 1970s
There is no hiding in 3 hours. Even if the questions are generally soft (and they are not always, with Rogan, he’s very good at sliding in some tricky stuff amid the banter) your persona is revealed
Trump did Rogan. Kamala Harris refused - and it’s one of the reasons she lost. She bottled it
The success of the long form podcast shows there is a real hunger for highly detailed and forensic politics (and detailed science, history, football, astrology, quantum sexodynamics, whatever). It’s one of the more encouraging signs of the times. People DO want seriousness
Meh. I don't really care about Trump's 'persona', nor Harris' or Starmer's for that matter.
I care about policy, and being pinned on pie in the sky funding of said policy.
Rogan, fascinating though the Trump podcast was, is a very poor substitute for a weighty political interview.
If it’s such a poor substitute why did the Harris campaign do their very best to avoid it while pretending not to, to the extent some say it cost her the election?
Fact is, if you want big detailed interviews then, these days, podcasts like Rogan’s are IT. Tho I agree with @williamglenn that the UK sadly lacks an equivalent, to date. But Rogan shows it can work. The success of podcasts like TRIHistory likewise shows a hunger for real clever welll-informed detail, not pap
Oh I agree with the popularity of podcasts and celebrate that, not least because they strip back the form to just voice and perhaps a little music, there is little to distract. I increasingly get my news from them, particularly Al Jazeera.
The reason Harris didn't do Rogan, imo, is that many voters want the shallow personality politics that you are celebrating Rogan offering, and she is something of a personality vacuum, especially when compared to Trump.
If politics is entertainment, as it is for many, Rogan is perfect. I didn't say that Rogan isn't important in politics, just that if we want politicians who actually make things happen, subjecting them to Rogan is a poor substitute to subjecting them to e.g Andrew Neil.
I strongly disagree. The 3 hour Rogan interview goes deep simply because it is so long. It shows you the real person. And it only works because Rogan is affable charming and interested, no one would do a 3 hour interview with Emily Maitlis constantly trying to catch you out and call you a racist. It’s childish and stupid
Kamala Harris refused to do it because they were rightly scared she’d be revealed as shallow, boring, clueless and dumb. That’s what Rogan can do with his deceptive charm and 180 minutes to work with
OTOH I agree entirely with the Andrew Neil idea. He’s getting on a bit but he’s still got vim. A 90 minute interview on the “Andrew Neil Podcast” should be compulsory for all British politicians at least once a year
There's dozens more paragraphs of tweet bilge if you can face it.
It's just so brainless and tacky now, our politics. I'm sick of it. Can't we go back to how it was? Like, tomorrow is Sunday. Everybody's free. So there ought to be a serious lengthy interview on tv of a leading politician. All this social media shit is no substitute for that. It looks like more democracy but it means less.
But these things do exist, you’re just too “Guardian and BBC for me!” To realise
It’s called the long form podcast
Three hours with Joe Rogan examines a politician much more intensely than any 40 minutes with Brian Walden in the 1970s
There is no hiding in 3 hours. Even if the questions are generally soft (and they are not always, with Rogan, he’s very good at sliding in some tricky stuff amid the banter) your persona is revealed
Trump did Rogan. Kamala Harris refused - and it’s one of the reasons she lost. She bottled it
The success of the long form podcast shows there is a real hunger for highly detailed and forensic politics (and detailed science, history, football, astrology, quantum sexodynamics, whatever). It’s one of the more encouraging signs of the times. People DO want seriousness
Meh. I don't really care about Trump's 'persona', nor Harris' or Starmer's for that matter.
I care about policy, and being pinned on pie in the sky funding of said policy.
Rogan, fascinating though the Trump podcast was, is a very poor substitute for a weighty political interview.
If it’s such a poor substitute why did the Harris campaign do their very best to avoid it while pretending not to, to the extent some say it cost her the election?
Fact is, if you want big detailed interviews then, these days, podcasts like Rogan’s are IT. Tho I agree with @williamglenn that the UK sadly lacks an equivalent, to date. But Rogan shows it can work. The success of podcasts like TRIHistory likewise shows a hunger for real clever welll-informed detail, not pap
Oh I agree with the popularity of podcasts and celebrate that, not least because they strip back the form to just voice and perhaps a little music, there is little to distract. I increasingly get my news from them, particularly Al Jazeera.
The reason Harris didn't do Rogan, imo, is that many voters want the shallow personality politics that you are celebrating Rogan offering, and she is something of a personality vacuum, especially when compared to Trump.
If politics is entertainment, as it is for many, Rogan is perfect. I didn't say that Rogan isn't important in politics, just that if we want politicians who actually make things happen, subjecting them to Rogan is a poor substitute to subjecting them to e.g Andrew Neil.
I strongly disagree. The 3 hour Rogan interview goes deep simply because it is so long. It shows you the real person. And it only works because Rogan is affable charming and interested, no one would do a 3 hour interview with Emily Maitlis constantly trying to catch you out and call you a racist. It’s childish and stupid
Kamala Harris refused to do it because they were rightly scared she’d be revealed as shallow, boring, clueless and dumb. That’s what Rogan can do with his deceptive charm and 180 minutes to work with
OTOH I agree entirely with the Andrew Neil idea. He’s getting on a bit but he’s still got vim. A 90 minute interview on the “Andrew Neil Podcast” should be compulsory for all British politicians at least once a year
Boris famously skipped doing an interview during the 2019 election campaign with Andrew Neil and it didn't affect him though.
There's dozens more paragraphs of tweet bilge if you can face it.
It's just so brainless and tacky now, our politics. I'm sick of it. Can't we go back to how it was? Like, tomorrow is Sunday. Everybody's free. So there ought to be a serious lengthy interview on tv of a leading politician. All this social media shit is no substitute for that. It looks like more democracy but it means less.
But these things do exist, you’re just too “Guardian and BBC for me!” To realise
It’s called the long form podcast
Three hours with Joe Rogan examines a politician much more intensely than any 40 minutes with Brian Walden in the 1970s
There is no hiding in 3 hours. Even if the questions are generally soft (and they are not always, with Rogan, he’s very good at sliding in some tricky stuff amid the banter) your persona is revealed
Trump did Rogan. Kamala Harris refused - and it’s one of the reasons she lost. She bottled it
The success of the long form podcast shows there is a real hunger for highly detailed and forensic politics (and detailed science, history, football, astrology, quantum sexodynamics, whatever). It’s one of the more encouraging signs of the times. People DO want seriousness
I love this form of questioning. The BBC approach of "why do you hate the voters" is totally unhelpful in understanding a politician - it is just circuses: fine if you want to see politician x discomfited, but not helpful in building a philosophical apptoach to a future.
Well he didn't tease out the real Trump, did he? Nov 5th proved that. Or alternatively proved he isn't influential at all. Just like celebs for the left are overrated.
No, when I lament the lack of lengthy serious interviews of politicians (since I agree your point about the tedious sterile gotcha approach we seem to always get) I am not thinking of the likes of Joe Rogan.
There's dozens more paragraphs of tweet bilge if you can face it.
It's just so brainless and tacky now, our politics. I'm sick of it. Can't we go back to how it was? Like, tomorrow is Sunday. Everybody's free. So there ought to be a serious lengthy interview on tv of a leading politician. All this social media shit is no substitute for that. It looks like more democracy but it means less.
We need Walden to interrogate Starmer on the source of his right-wing inclinations.
"Pwime Minister, it has been alleged that your Irish advisor Morgan McSweeney is whispering things in your ear..."
I'd pay to see it. SKS would be good, I think, going by his Desert Island Discs interview, but do we have a Walden? Surely we do. We're not that far gone.
That Desert Island Discs is your equivalent of HYUFD's "Boris wins back x-amount of voters according to that one poll"
Did you catch it? You should for balance. It's only fair. Eg I listened to all of Enoch's "rivers" speech the other day with my red wine and nuts before dinner.
Like Sir Keir and his Father working in a factory, my Dad listened to it, so I know what it's like
Ah so you haven't. I'll see if I can link it on some future thread one day.
All Desert Island Discs are on Spotify, so I have it at my fingertips should I ever feel like listening. I caught him on a podcast I really like called Football Cliches; guests have to name their obscure and quirky, leftfield likes and dislikes of football - Sir Keir's likes were "football, celebrations and goals"
As for Powell, like him or loathe him, every politico should watch his interview/war with David Frost, a veritable battle. It used to be on YouTube, alas no more. But I have the DVD... although no DVD player... I can't very well put it on for the boys in the car... young Enoch and Nigel are still at the Peppa Pig stage
I can report that despite Sir Keir Traitor’s bleatings, e-gates have not been opened for Brits in the EU. He’s gonna have a lot of disappointed British voters fuming at him on holibobs this summer. What an idiot
I can however report that I am now in my…. HUNDREDTH COUNTRY. A lifetime goal achieved
100 countries!!
Yes ok it’s Luxembourg. So also possibly the most boring country on earth. But that’s kind of fitting
Go everywhere, young man!
But he said we were all excited by his prime negotiation win. This can't be right
It’s such desperately crap basic retail politics. If you can’t deliver, don’t promise. Instead he promised and he hasn’t delivered
He will hack off another million holidaying British voters this summer, for no reason at all other than that he is terrible at comms
The structure of the deal is a mistake.
Should have been
- 3 years fishing rights - If, after that, e gates are implemented for less than x% of journeys, or less than x billion in orders from common European defence fund, then no extension.
The Spectator is running a piece saying we might be excluded from the Defense Fund anyway, by the French
So what did Starmer actually get for giving away TWELVE YEARS of fishing rights (when the French were terrified we’d play hardball)? He got absolutely nothing. He got empty promises that mean absolutely nothing (as we now see). He’s a fucking shrieking poo-faced moron and dangerously incompetent. Everything he touches turns to dreck
I hate to break it to you but your hero Boris Johnson effectively negotiated a permanent fisheries agreement. While it could in principle lapse in 2026 so do other parts of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement, carefully chosen by the EU to be an unacceptably high cost for the UK, including energy trading.
Then why did the EU insist we agree to extend it by 12 years when 5 years until the next re-negotiation would have done fine?
We got no time limit on the agreement on food exports ,for one thing. There may be others:
According to EU sources, access to British fishing waters will be granted until the end of June 2038, an extension of 12 years. But in return, the agreement on easier checks for food, animal and other agricultural products, known as sanitary and phytosanitary goods (SPS), will be indefinite. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/may/19/uk-eu-brexit-reset-talks-starmer-summit
Indefinite presumably as long as we agree to dynamic alignment on regulations under the jurisdiction of the ECJ.
When using SPS checks as a means of hindering imports is a breach of WTO rules, and any Government worth shit would be complaining about it to the WTO, not giving concessions to ask them to kindly desist. Of course that definition excludes the Governments of Starmer and Sunak, who had both staked their reputations on a 'grown up' deal with the EU, a fact that ensured the EU has continued to rip the piss.
Even very pro-EU commentators are saying Sir Suez has been done up like a kipper, so there is very little point in coming here trying to polish a turd.
There's dozens more paragraphs of tweet bilge if you can face it.
It's just so brainless and tacky now, our politics. I'm sick of it. Can't we go back to how it was? Like, tomorrow is Sunday. Everybody's free. So there ought to be a serious lengthy interview on tv of a leading politician. All this social media shit is no substitute for that. It looks like more democracy but it means less.
But these things do exist, you’re just too “Guardian and BBC for me!” To realise
It’s called the long form podcast
Three hours with Joe Rogan examines a politician much more intensely than any 40 minutes with Brian Walden in the 1970s
There is no hiding in 3 hours. Even if the questions are generally soft (and they are not always, with Rogan, he’s very good at sliding in some tricky stuff amid the banter) your persona is revealed
Trump did Rogan. Kamala Harris refused - and it’s one of the reasons she lost. She bottled it
The success of the long form podcast shows there is a real hunger for highly detailed and forensic politics (and detailed science, history, football, astrology, quantum sexodynamics, whatever). It’s one of the more encouraging signs of the times. People DO want seriousness
Meh. I don't really care about Trump's 'persona', nor Harris' or Starmer's for that matter.
I care about policy, and being pinned on pie in the sky funding of said policy.
Rogan, fascinating though the Trump podcast was, is a very poor substitute for a weighty political interview.
If it’s such a poor substitute why did the Harris campaign do their very best to avoid it while pretending not to, to the extent some say it cost her the election?
Fact is, if you want big detailed interviews then, these days, podcasts like Rogan’s are IT. Tho I agree with @williamglenn that the UK sadly lacks an equivalent, to date. But Rogan shows it can work. The success of podcasts like TRIHistory likewise shows a hunger for real clever welll-informed detail, not pap
Oh I agree with the popularity of podcasts and celebrate that, not least because they strip back the form to just voice and perhaps a little music, there is little to distract. I increasingly get my news from them, particularly Al Jazeera.
The reason Harris didn't do Rogan, imo, is that many voters want the shallow personality politics that you are celebrating Rogan offering, and she is something of a personality vacuum, especially when compared to Trump.
If politics is entertainment, as it is for many, Rogan is perfect. I didn't say that Rogan isn't important in politics, just that if we want politicians who actually make things happen, subjecting them to Rogan is a poor substitute to subjecting them to e.g Andrew Neil.
I strongly disagree. The 3 hour Rogan interview goes deep simply because it is so long. It shows you the real person. And it only works because Rogan is affable charming and interested, no one would do a 3 hour interview with Emily Maitlis constantly trying to catch you out and call you a racist. It’s childish and stupid
Kamala Harris refused to do it because they were rightly scared she’d be revealed as shallow, boring, clueless and dumb. That’s what Rogan can do with his deceptive charm and 180 minutes to work with
OTOH I agree entirely with the Andrew Neil idea. He’s getting on a bit but he’s still got vim. A 90 minute interview on the “Andrew Neil Podcast” should be compulsory for all British politicians at least once a year
I'm not sure we are disagreeing that much. Neil>Rogan>Maitlis. I enjoy Rogan's interviews (though the opportunity cost of 3+ hours means I rarely listen). But where in Trump's interview did Rogan pin him on anything important?
There's dozens more paragraphs of tweet bilge if you can face it.
It's just so brainless and tacky now, our politics. I'm sick of it. Can't we go back to how it was? Like, tomorrow is Sunday. Everybody's free. So there ought to be a serious lengthy interview on tv of a leading politician. All this social media shit is no substitute for that. It looks like more democracy but it means less.
But these things do exist, you’re just too “Guardian and BBC for me!” To realise
It’s called the long form podcast
Three hours with Joe Rogan examines a politician much more intensely than any 40 minutes with Brian Walden in the 1970s
There is no hiding in 3 hours. Even if the questions are generally soft (and they are not always, with Rogan, he’s very good at sliding in some tricky stuff amid the banter) your persona is revealed
Trump did Rogan. Kamala Harris refused - and it’s one of the reasons she lost. She bottled it
The success of the long form podcast shows there is a real hunger for highly detailed and forensic politics (and detailed science, history, football, astrology, quantum sexodynamics, whatever). It’s one of the more encouraging signs of the times. People DO want seriousness
Liz Truss has correctly pointed out that this is a weakness in the UK media ecosystem. They have Joe Rogan and we have Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart.
They are already housing and feeding me in fine style, I’ve got Moselle wine tastings and boutique chocolate experiences and all the rest - but chucking in an extra €100 a day for snacks and champagne simply as I wish, that’s right up there with Maldivian hospitality
There's dozens more paragraphs of tweet bilge if you can face it.
It's just so brainless and tacky now, our politics. I'm sick of it. Can't we go back to how it was? Like, tomorrow is Sunday. Everybody's free. So there ought to be a serious lengthy interview on tv of a leading politician. All this social media shit is no substitute for that. It looks like more democracy but it means less.
But these things do exist, you’re just too “Guardian and BBC for me!” To realise
It’s called the long form podcast
Three hours with Joe Rogan examines a politician much more intensely than any 40 minutes with Brian Walden in the 1970s
There is no hiding in 3 hours. Even if the questions are generally soft (and they are not always, with Rogan, he’s very good at sliding in some tricky stuff amid the banter) your persona is revealed
Trump did Rogan. Kamala Harris refused - and it’s one of the reasons she lost. She bottled it
The success of the long form podcast shows there is a real hunger for highly detailed and forensic politics (and detailed science, history, football, astrology, quantum sexodynamics, whatever). It’s one of the more encouraging signs of the times. People DO want seriousness
Liz Truss has correctly pointed out that this is a weakness in the UK media ecosystem. They have Joe Rogan and we have Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart.
"We need independent media. We need the Joe Rogans and Ben Shapiros of the UK."
A 'media ecosystem' is what emerges givent the conditions of a free press and free speech - which in the UK we very largely have.
What the existence of a free press and free media cannot predict is outcomes. You might get Bernard Levin, Brian Walden, Andrew Neil, Jeffrey Goldberg, Ezra Klein and Joe Rogan; or you might not. A free press and media is, axiomatically, not planned.
There's dozens more paragraphs of tweet bilge if you can face it.
It's just so brainless and tacky now, our politics. I'm sick of it. Can't we go back to how it was? Like, tomorrow is Sunday. Everybody's free. So there ought to be a serious lengthy interview on tv of a leading politician. All this social media shit is no substitute for that. It looks like more democracy but it means less.
But these things do exist, you’re just too “Guardian and BBC for me!” To realise
It’s called the long form podcast
Three hours with Joe Rogan examines a politician much more intensely than any 40 minutes with Brian Walden in the 1970s
There is no hiding in 3 hours. Even if the questions are generally soft (and they are not always, with Rogan, he’s very good at sliding in some tricky stuff amid the banter) your persona is revealed
Trump did Rogan. Kamala Harris refused - and it’s one of the reasons she lost. She bottled it
The success of the long form podcast shows there is a real hunger for highly detailed and forensic politics (and detailed science, history, football, astrology, quantum sexodynamics, whatever). It’s one of the more encouraging signs of the times. People DO want seriousness
Meh. I don't really care about Trump's 'persona', nor Harris' or Starmer's for that matter.
I care about policy, and being pinned on pie in the sky funding of said policy.
Rogan, fascinating though the Trump podcast was, is a very poor substitute for a weighty political interview.
If it’s such a poor substitute why did the Harris campaign do their very best to avoid it while pretending not to, to the extent some say it cost her the election?
Fact is, if you want big detailed interviews then, these days, podcasts like Rogan’s are IT. Tho I agree with @williamglenn that the UK sadly lacks an equivalent, to date. But Rogan shows it can work. The success of podcasts like TRIHistory likewise shows a hunger for real clever welll-informed detail, not pap
Oh I agree with the popularity of podcasts and celebrate that, not least because they strip back the form to just voice and perhaps a little music, there is little to distract. I increasingly get my news from them, particularly Al Jazeera.
The reason Harris didn't do Rogan, imo, is that many voters want the shallow personality politics that you are celebrating Rogan offering, and she is something of a personality vacuum, especially when compared to Trump.
If politics is entertainment, as it is for many, Rogan is perfect. I didn't say that Rogan isn't important in politics, just that if we want politicians who actually make things happen, subjecting them to Rogan is a poor substitute to subjecting them to e.g Andrew Neil.
I strongly disagree. The 3 hour Rogan interview goes deep simply because it is so long. It shows you the real person. And it only works because Rogan is affable charming and interested, no one would do a 3 hour interview with Emily Maitlis constantly trying to catch you out and call you a racist. It’s childish and stupid
Kamala Harris refused to do it because they were rightly scared she’d be revealed as shallow, boring, clueless and dumb. That’s what Rogan can do with his deceptive charm and 180 minutes to work with
OTOH I agree entirely with the Andrew Neil idea. He’s getting on a bit but he’s still got vim. A 90 minute interview on the “Andrew Neil Podcast” should be compulsory for all British politicians at least once a year
Boris famously skipped doing an interview during the 2019 election campaign with Andrew Neil and it didn't affect him though.
Yes that was pathetic cowardice ‘ As I said I’d basically make this a legal requirement. 90 minutes with Andrew Neil (or his equally flinty successor)
I actually agree with @kinabalu on this even if we disagree on the details. We need much more in depth adult interviews in British politics, and at a proper length. An hour at least not some random 20 minutes on Newsnight. For me Rogan shows the way, and shows that people will literally watch/listen for 3 hours
There's dozens more paragraphs of tweet bilge if you can face it.
It's just so brainless and tacky now, our politics. I'm sick of it. Can't we go back to how it was? Like, tomorrow is Sunday. Everybody's free. So there ought to be a serious lengthy interview on tv of a leading politician. All this social media shit is no substitute for that. It looks like more democracy but it means less.
We need Walden to interrogate Starmer on the source of his right-wing inclinations.
"Pwime Minister, it has been alleged that your Irish advisor Morgan McSweeney is whispering things in your ear..."
I'd pay to see it. SKS would be good, I think, going by his Desert Island Discs interview, but do we have a Walden? Surely we do. We're not that far gone.
That Desert Island Discs is your equivalent of HYUFD's "Boris wins back x-amount of voters according to that one poll"
Did you catch it? You should for balance. It's only fair. Eg I listened to all of Enoch's "rivers" speech the other day with my red wine and nuts before dinner.
Like Sir Keir and his Father working in a factory, my Dad listened to it, so I know what it's like
Ah so you haven't. I'll see if I can link it on some future thread one day.
All Desert Island Discs are on Spotify, so I have it at my fingertips should I ever feel like listening. I caught him on a podcast I really like called Football Cliches; guests have to name their obscure and quirky, leftfield likes and dislikes of football - Sir Keir's likes were "football, celebrations and goals"
As for Powell, like him or loathe him, every politico should watch his interview/war with David Frost, a veritable battle. It used to be on YouTube, alas no more. But I have the DVD... although no DVD player... I can't very well put it on for the boys in the car... young Enoch and Nigel are still at the Peppa Pig stage
I think I could name three better quirky and left field likes I have in football, and I don't even care for the game.
I can report that despite Sir Keir Traitor’s bleatings, e-gates have not been opened for Brits in the EU. He’s gonna have a lot of disappointed British voters fuming at him on holibobs this summer. What an idiot
I can however report that I am now in my…. HUNDREDTH COUNTRY. A lifetime goal achieved
100 countries!!
Yes ok it’s Luxembourg. So also possibly the most boring country on earth. But that’s kind of fitting
Go everywhere, young man!
But he said we were all excited by his prime negotiation win. This can't be right
It’s such desperately crap basic retail politics. If you can’t deliver, don’t promise. Instead he promised and he hasn’t delivered
He will hack off another million holidaying British voters this summer, for no reason at all other than that he is terrible at comms
The structure of the deal is a mistake.
Should have been
- 3 years fishing rights - If, after that, e gates are implemented for less than x% of journeys, or less than x billion in orders from common European defence fund, then no extension.
The Spectator is running a piece saying we might be excluded from the Defense Fund anyway, by the French
So what did Starmer actually get for giving away TWELVE YEARS of fishing rights (when the French were terrified we’d play hardball)? He got absolutely nothing. He got empty promises that mean absolutely nothing (as we now see). He’s a fucking shrieking poo-faced moron and dangerously incompetent. Everything he touches turns to dreck
The Morning Star is running a piece saying if Nigel Farage becomes PM it might become illegal to join a trade union in this country.
So there you have it. This jumped up public schoolboy with bad teeth masquerading as the saviour of the working class is actually, once he's conned his way into power on the back of their votes, planning to stomp on them at the behest of his capitalist paymasters.
Ah the morning star, that well known bastion of truthfulness, a paper that makes Richard Nixon look positively candid
There's dozens more paragraphs of tweet bilge if you can face it.
It's just so brainless and tacky now, our politics. I'm sick of it. Can't we go back to how it was? Like, tomorrow is Sunday. Everybody's free. So there ought to be a serious lengthy interview on tv of a leading politician. All this social media shit is no substitute for that. It looks like more democracy but it means less.
But these things do exist, you’re just too “Guardian and BBC for me!” To realise
It’s called the long form podcast
Three hours with Joe Rogan examines a politician much more intensely than any 40 minutes with Brian Walden in the 1970s
There is no hiding in 3 hours. Even if the questions are generally soft (and they are not always, with Rogan, he’s very good at sliding in some tricky stuff amid the banter) your persona is revealed
Trump did Rogan. Kamala Harris refused - and it’s one of the reasons she lost. She bottled it
The success of the long form podcast shows there is a real hunger for highly detailed and forensic politics (and detailed science, history, football, astrology, quantum sexodynamics, whatever). It’s one of the more encouraging signs of the times. People DO want seriousness
Meh. I don't really care about Trump's 'persona', nor Harris' or Starmer's for that matter.
I care about policy, and being pinned on pie in the sky funding of said policy.
Rogan, fascinating though the Trump podcast was, is a very poor substitute for a weighty political interview.
If it’s such a poor substitute why did the Harris campaign do their very best to avoid it while pretending not to, to the extent some say it cost her the election?
Fact is, if you want big detailed interviews then, these days, podcasts like Rogan’s are IT. Tho I agree with @williamglenn that the UK sadly lacks an equivalent, to date. But Rogan shows it can work. The success of podcasts like TRIHistory likewise shows a hunger for real clever welll-informed detail, not pap
Oh I agree with the popularity of podcasts and celebrate that, not least because they strip back the form to just voice and perhaps a little music, there is little to distract. I increasingly get my news from them, particularly Al Jazeera.
The reason Harris didn't do Rogan, imo, is that many voters want the shallow personality politics that you are celebrating Rogan offering, and she is something of a personality vacuum, especially when compared to Trump.
If politics is entertainment, as it is for many, Rogan is perfect. I didn't say that Rogan isn't important in politics, just that if we want politicians who actually make things happen, subjecting them to Rogan is a poor substitute to subjecting them to e.g Andrew Neil.
I strongly disagree. The 3 hour Rogan interview goes deep simply because it is so long. It shows you the real person. And it only works because Rogan is affable charming and interested, no one would do a 3 hour interview with Emily Maitlis constantly trying to catch you out and call you a racist. It’s childish and stupid
Kamala Harris refused to do it because they were rightly scared she’d be revealed as shallow, boring, clueless and dumb. That’s what Rogan can do with his deceptive charm and 180 minutes to work with
OTOH I agree entirely with the Andrew Neil idea. He’s getting on a bit but he’s still got vim. A 90 minute interview on the “Andrew Neil Podcast” should be compulsory for all British politicians at least once a year
Actually a three hour interview with Emily Maitlis might be interesting because her own facade might start to break down if the guest was also allowed to look things up in real time and fact-check the fact-checkers.
The new Doctor Who is going to wind people up even more than the last one lol
Given its now on extended hiatus the rage will pass
Awaiting Disney to pay out before they set the budget. Doubt they will leave it off air for long.
They also flashed up 'introducing Billie Piper' but not 'as the doctor' so a little RTD fake out to annoy everyone He should have a full reset and have the interim Billie Piper demi doctor seek out Chris Eccleston
There's dozens more paragraphs of tweet bilge if you can face it.
It's just so brainless and tacky now, our politics. I'm sick of it. Can't we go back to how it was? Like, tomorrow is Sunday. Everybody's free. So there ought to be a serious lengthy interview on tv of a leading politician. All this social media shit is no substitute for that. It looks like more democracy but it means less.
But these things do exist, you’re just too “Guardian and BBC for me!” To realise
It’s called the long form podcast
Three hours with Joe Rogan examines a politician much more intensely than any 40 minutes with Brian Walden in the 1970s
There is no hiding in 3 hours. Even if the questions are generally soft (and they are not always, with Rogan, he’s very good at sliding in some tricky stuff amid the banter) your persona is revealed
Trump did Rogan. Kamala Harris refused - and it’s one of the reasons she lost. She bottled it
The success of the long form podcast shows there is a real hunger for highly detailed and forensic politics (and detailed science, history, football, astrology, quantum sexodynamics, whatever). It’s one of the more encouraging signs of the times. People DO want seriousness
Liz Truss has correctly pointed out that this is a weakness in the UK media ecosystem. They have Joe Rogan and we have Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart.
"We need independent media. We need the Joe Rogans and Ben Shapiros of the UK."
Well, she's the closest thing we have to Rogan's random walk nuttiness, and the niche is wide open for whenever she wishes to have a go - if she thinks that there's an audience of millions in the UK who prefer fruit loops over fruit cocktails.
There's some appetite for it; Fortean Times still has a print circulation in 5 figures. She can put her studio in a blue pyramid.
Joe Rogan's habit is to do things anyway, whilst accepting that he has no knowledge whatsoever of the subject. An ideal partner for Truss:
While admitting that he has "zero understanding" of Canada's political system, Rogan opposed Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, calling him "a fucking dictator", and called Canada "communist" and "fucked". Rogan also said that he liked Trudeau prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. ... On September 1, 2021, Rogan tested positive for the (Covid) virus. Soon after, he released an online video reporting on the status of his condition and stating that he had begun a regimen including monoclonal antibodies, prednisone, azithromycin, NAD drip, a vitamin drip, as well as ivermectin, an antiparasitic drug that medical experts say is not an effective treatment for viruses such as COVID-19. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Rogan
I don't think I've had my photo today, so ... Joe Rogan:
I can report that despite Sir Keir Traitor’s bleatings, e-gates have not been opened for Brits in the EU. He’s gonna have a lot of disappointed British voters fuming at him on holibobs this summer. What an idiot
I can however report that I am now in my…. HUNDREDTH COUNTRY. A lifetime goal achieved
100 countries!!
Yes ok it’s Luxembourg. So also possibly the most boring country on earth. But that’s kind of fitting
Go everywhere, young man!
But he said we were all excited by his prime negotiation win. This can't be right
It’s such desperately crap basic retail politics. If you can’t deliver, don’t promise. Instead he promised and he hasn’t delivered
He will hack off another million holidaying British voters this summer, for no reason at all other than that he is terrible at comms
The structure of the deal is a mistake.
Should have been
- 3 years fishing rights - If, after that, e gates are implemented for less than x% of journeys, or less than x billion in orders from common European defence fund, then no extension.
The Spectator is running a piece saying we might be excluded from the Defense Fund anyway, by the French
So what did Starmer actually get for giving away TWELVE YEARS of fishing rights (when the French were terrified we’d play hardball)? He got absolutely nothing. He got empty promises that mean absolutely nothing (as we now see). He’s a fucking shrieking poo-faced moron and dangerously incompetent. Everything he touches turns to dreck
The Morning Star is running a piece saying if Nigel Farage becomes PM it might become illegal to join a trade union in this country.
So there you have it. This jumped up public schoolboy with bad teeth masquerading as the saviour of the working class is actually, once he's conned his way into power on the back of their votes, planning to stomp on them at the behest of his capitalist paymasters.
Ah the morning star, that well known bastion of truthfulness, a paper that makes Richard Nixon look positively candid
Probably the most expensive newspaper, per page.
Absolutely - it would cost you your freedom and possibly your life if they were successful
They are already housing and feeding me in fine style, I’ve got Moselle wine tastings and boutique chocolate experiences and all the rest - but chucking in an extra €100 a day for snacks and champagne simply as I wish, that’s right up there with Maldivian hospitality
I can report that despite Sir Keir Traitor’s bleatings, e-gates have not been opened for Brits in the EU. He’s gonna have a lot of disappointed British voters fuming at him on holibobs this summer. What an idiot
I can however report that I am now in my…. HUNDREDTH COUNTRY. A lifetime goal achieved
100 countries!!
Yes ok it’s Luxembourg. So also possibly the most boring country on earth. But that’s kind of fitting
Go everywhere, young man!
But he said we were all excited by his prime negotiation win. This can't be right
It’s such desperately crap basic retail politics. If you can’t deliver, don’t promise. Instead he promised and he hasn’t delivered
He will hack off another million holidaying British voters this summer, for no reason at all other than that he is terrible at comms
The structure of the deal is a mistake.
Should have been
- 3 years fishing rights - If, after that, e gates are implemented for less than x% of journeys, or less than x billion in orders from common European defence fund, then no extension.
The Spectator is running a piece saying we might be excluded from the Defense Fund anyway, by the French
So what did Starmer actually get for giving away TWELVE YEARS of fishing rights (when the French were terrified we’d play hardball)? He got absolutely nothing. He got empty promises that mean absolutely nothing (as we now see). He’s a fucking shrieking poo-faced moron and dangerously incompetent. Everything he touches turns to dreck
The Morning Star is running a piece saying if Nigel Farage becomes PM it might become illegal to join a trade union in this country.
So there you have it. This jumped up public schoolboy with bad teeth masquerading as the saviour of the working class is actually, once he's conned his way into power on the back of their votes, planning to stomp on them at the behest of his capitalist paymasters.
Ah the morning star, that well known bastion of truthfulness, a paper that makes Richard Nixon look positively candid
Probably the most expensive newspaper, per page.
Absolutely - it would cost you your freedom and possibly your life if they were successful
The new Doctor Who is going to wind people up even more than the last one lol
Given its now on extended hiatus the rage will pass
Awaiting Disney to pay out before they set the budget. Doubt they will leave it off air for long.
I'm not angry, I'm just...weary. Ncuti's reign was far too short, nothing really made sense, and he was hyper all the time. The loose ends (Rogue? Susan?) were untidy, the supervillains were unnecessarily CGI, and the [redacted] is stunt casting. Grrr. Will rant further after you've all seen it.
(Plus the entire plot was leaked many weeks ago, so this was not a surprise)
There's dozens more paragraphs of tweet bilge if you can face it.
It's just so brainless and tacky now, our politics. I'm sick of it. Can't we go back to how it was? Like, tomorrow is Sunday. Everybody's free. So there ought to be a serious lengthy interview on tv of a leading politician. All this social media shit is no substitute for that. It looks like more democracy but it means less.
But these things do exist, you’re just too “Guardian and BBC for me!” To realise
It’s called the long form podcast
Three hours with Joe Rogan examines a politician much more intensely than any 40 minutes with Brian Walden in the 1970s
There is no hiding in 3 hours. Even if the questions are generally soft (and they are not always, with Rogan, he’s very good at sliding in some tricky stuff amid the banter) your persona is revealed
Trump did Rogan. Kamala Harris refused - and it’s one of the reasons she lost. She bottled it
The success of the long form podcast shows there is a real hunger for highly detailed and forensic politics (and detailed science, history, football, astrology, quantum sexodynamics, whatever). It’s one of the more encouraging signs of the times. People DO want seriousness
Liz Truss has correctly pointed out that this is a weakness in the UK media ecosystem. They have Joe Rogan and we have Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart.
"We need independent media. We need the Joe Rogans and Ben Shapiros of the UK."
Well, she's the closest thing we have to Rogan's random walk nuttiness, and the niche is wide open for whenever she wishes to have a go - if she thinks that there's an audience of millions in the UK who prefer fruit loops over fruit cocktails.
There's some appetite for it, Fortean Times still has a print circulation in 5 figures. She can put her studio in a blue pyramid.
Joe Rogan's habit is to do things anyway, whilst accepting that he has no knowledge whatsoever of the subject. An ideal partner for Truss:
While admitting that he has "zero understanding" of Canada's political system, Rogan opposed Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, calling him "a fucking dictator", and called Canada "communist" and "fucked". Rogan also said that he liked Trudeau prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. ... On September 1, 2021, Rogan tested positive for the (Covid) virus. Soon after, he released an online video reporting on the status of his condition and stating that he had begun a regimen including monoclonal antibodies, prednisone, azithromycin, NAD drip, a vitamin drip, as well as ivermectin, an antiparasitic drug that medical experts say is not an effective treatment for viruses such as COVID-19. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Rogan
Rogan is incredibly clever and well informed. He’s the best paid and most listened podcaster in the world for a reason
Recall he sometimes does these 3 hour interviews several times a week, for months on end. Yet he makes them all appear effortless
The research behind the scenes must be intense and crazy
There's dozens more paragraphs of tweet bilge if you can face it.
It's just so brainless and tacky now, our politics. I'm sick of it. Can't we go back to how it was? Like, tomorrow is Sunday. Everybody's free. So there ought to be a serious lengthy interview on tv of a leading politician. All this social media shit is no substitute for that. It looks like more democracy but it means less.
We need Walden to interrogate Starmer on the source of his right-wing inclinations.
"Pwime Minister, it has been alleged that your Irish advisor Morgan McSweeney is whispering things in your ear..."
I'd pay to see it. SKS would be good, I think, going by his Desert Island Discs interview, but do we have a Walden? Surely we do. We're not that far gone.
That Desert Island Discs is your equivalent of HYUFD's "Boris wins back x-amount of voters according to that one poll"
Did you catch it? You should for balance. It's only fair. Eg I listened to all of Enoch's "rivers" speech the other day with my red wine and nuts before dinner.
Like Sir Keir and his Father working in a factory, my Dad listened to it, so I know what it's like
Ah so you haven't. I'll see if I can link it on some future thread one day.
All Desert Island Discs are on Spotify, so I have it at my fingertips should I ever feel like listening. I caught him on a podcast I really like called Football Cliches; guests have to name their obscure and quirky, leftfield likes and dislikes of football - Sir Keir's likes were "football, celebrations and goals"
As for Powell, like him or loathe him, every politico should watch his interview/war with David Frost, a veritable battle. It used to be on YouTube, alas no more. But I have the DVD... although no DVD player... I can't very well put it on for the boys in the car... young Enoch and Nigel are still at the Peppa Pig stage
Nothing worse than straining to be quirky. A lot of what gets described as authentic is actually shallow self-indulgence. Eg Boris, Galloway, Rees Mogg, all this sort of "ooo look at me being myself" sort of nonsense.
They are already housing and feeding me in fine style, I’ve got Moselle wine tastings and boutique chocolate experiences and all the rest - but chucking in an extra €100 a day for snacks and champagne simply as I wish, that’s right up there with Maldivian hospitality
We celebrate your good fortune.
Thanks. I like to imagine PB is with me in spirit as I crack open the Ruinart, so in a sense we all get to share
There's dozens more paragraphs of tweet bilge if you can face it.
It's just so brainless and tacky now, our politics. I'm sick of it. Can't we go back to how it was? Like, tomorrow is Sunday. Everybody's free. So there ought to be a serious lengthy interview on tv of a leading politician. All this social media shit is no substitute for that. It looks like more democracy but it means less.
But these things do exist, you’re just too “Guardian and BBC for me!” To realise
It’s called the long form podcast
Three hours with Joe Rogan examines a politician much more intensely than any 40 minutes with Brian Walden in the 1970s
There is no hiding in 3 hours. Even if the questions are generally soft (and they are not always, with Rogan, he’s very good at sliding in some tricky stuff amid the banter) your persona is revealed
Trump did Rogan. Kamala Harris refused - and it’s one of the reasons she lost. She bottled it
The success of the long form podcast shows there is a real hunger for highly detailed and forensic politics (and detailed science, history, football, astrology, quantum sexodynamics, whatever). It’s one of the more encouraging signs of the times. People DO want seriousness
Liz Truss has correctly pointed out that this is a weakness in the UK media ecosystem. They have Joe Rogan and we have Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart.
"We need independent media. We need the Joe Rogans and Ben Shapiros of the UK."
Well, she's the closest thing we have to Rogan's random walk nuttiness, and the niche is wide open for whenever she wishes to have a go - if she thinks that there's an audience of millions in the UK who prefer fruit loops over fruit cocktails.
There's some appetite for it; Fortean Times still has a print circulation in 5 figures. She can put her studio in a blue pyramid.
Joe Rogan's habit is to do things anyway, whilst accepting that he has no knowledge whatsoever of the subject. An ideal partner for Truss:
While admitting that he has "zero understanding" of Canada's political system, Rogan opposed Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, calling him "a fucking dictator", and called Canada "communist" and "fucked". Rogan also said that he liked Trudeau prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. ... On September 1, 2021, Rogan tested positive for the (Covid) virus. Soon after, he released an online video reporting on the status of his condition and stating that he had begun a regimen including monoclonal antibodies, prednisone, azithromycin, NAD drip, a vitamin drip, as well as ivermectin, an antiparasitic drug that medical experts say is not an effective treatment for viruses such as COVID-19. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Rogan
I don't think I've had my photo today, so ... Joe Rogan:
It infuriates me how the likes of Truss abuse the word 'independent'. They have no interest in the independence of the media, all they want is a media that reflects their own bias.
The new Doctor Who is going to wind people up even more than the last one lol
Given its now on extended hiatus the rage will pass
Awaiting Disney to pay out before they set the budget. Doubt they will leave it off air for long.
They also flashed up 'introducing Billie Piper' but not 'as the doctor' so a little RTD fake out to annoy everyone He should have a full reset and have the interim Billie Piper demi doctor seek out Chris Eccleston
Some of the Big Finish audio drama's would have made very good 'timelines'. But sadly, we're left with people vaguely running about and some iffy SFX.
And I say this as someone who has watched The Web Planet more than once.
The new Doctor Who is going to wind people up even more than the last one lol
Given its now on extended hiatus the rage will pass
Awaiting Disney to pay out before they set the budget. Doubt they will leave it off air for long.
I'm not angry, I'm just...weary. Ncuti's reign was far too short, nothing really made sense, and he was hyper all the time. The loose ends (Rogue? Susan?) were untidy, the supervillains were unnecessarily CGI, and the [redacted] is stunt casting. Grrr. Will rant further after you've all seen it.
(Plus the entire plot was leaked many weeks ago, so this was not a surprise)
(Plus he didn't do a swordfight once. NOT ONCE!)
(Plus it was nice to see Jodie again)
More plot holes than the mysterious case of the Swiss Cheese
There's dozens more paragraphs of tweet bilge if you can face it.
It's just so brainless and tacky now, our politics. I'm sick of it. Can't we go back to how it was? Like, tomorrow is Sunday. Everybody's free. So there ought to be a serious lengthy interview on tv of a leading politician. All this social media shit is no substitute for that. It looks like more democracy but it means less.
But these things do exist, you’re just too “Guardian and BBC for me!” To realise
It’s called the long form podcast
Three hours with Joe Rogan examines a politician much more intensely than any 40 minutes with Brian Walden in the 1970s
There is no hiding in 3 hours. Even if the questions are generally soft (and they are not always, with Rogan, he’s very good at sliding in some tricky stuff amid the banter) your persona is revealed
Trump did Rogan. Kamala Harris refused - and it’s one of the reasons she lost. She bottled it
The success of the long form podcast shows there is a real hunger for highly detailed and forensic politics (and detailed science, history, football, astrology, quantum sexodynamics, whatever). It’s one of the more encouraging signs of the times. People DO want seriousness
Liz Truss has correctly pointed out that this is a weakness in the UK media ecosystem. They have Joe Rogan and we have Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart.
"We need independent media. We need the Joe Rogans and Ben Shapiros of the UK."
Well, she's the closest thing we have to Rogan's random walk nuttiness, and the niche is wide open for whenever she wishes to have a go - if she thinks that there's an audience of millions in the UK who prefer fruit loops over fruit cocktails.
There's some appetite for it, Fortean Times still has a print circulation in 5 figures. She can put her studio in a blue pyramid.
Joe Rogan's habit is to do things anyway, whilst accepting that he has no knowledge whatsoever of the subject. An ideal partner for Truss:
While admitting that he has "zero understanding" of Canada's political system, Rogan opposed Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, calling him "a fucking dictator", and called Canada "communist" and "fucked". Rogan also said that he liked Trudeau prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. ... On September 1, 2021, Rogan tested positive for the (Covid) virus. Soon after, he released an online video reporting on the status of his condition and stating that he had begun a regimen including monoclonal antibodies, prednisone, azithromycin, NAD drip, a vitamin drip, as well as ivermectin, an antiparasitic drug that medical experts say is not an effective treatment for viruses such as COVID-19. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Rogan
Rogan is incredibly clever and well informed. He’s the best paid and most listened podcaster in the world for a reason
Recall he sometimes does these 3 hour interviews several times a week, for months on end. Yet he makes them all appear effortless
The research behind the scenes must be intense and crazy
Is there a segment you would recommend as an example of a good interview?
I think his many published faux-pas, and his bizarre behaviour, are a bigly serious problem for him, and anyone who needs 3 hours to do an interview has a problem - but I'll give him a try.
BTW I place no weight whatsoever on the circulation numbers.
Steaming along the coast of Islay just now. Low sun picking out the whitewashed distilleries strung out along the coast. Just gone past Caol Ila. The 40 yr old CalMac ferry chugging along just fine.
The new Doctor Who is going to wind people up even more than the last one lol
Given its now on extended hiatus the rage will pass
Awaiting Disney to pay out before they set the budget. Doubt they will leave it off air for long.
They also flashed up 'introducing Billie Piper' but not 'as the doctor' so a little RTD fake out to annoy everyone He should have a full reset and have the interim Billie Piper demi doctor seek out Chris Eccleston
Some of the Big Finish audio drama's would have made very good 'timelines'. But sadly, we're left with people vaguely running about and some iffy SFX.
And I say this as someone who has watched The Web Planet more than once.
They manage to get 2 of the worst 3 doctors together on screen utterly pointlessly too. Cameo for the sake of it with zero plot requirement or effect
There's dozens more paragraphs of tweet bilge if you can face it.
It's just so brainless and tacky now, our politics. I'm sick of it. Can't we go back to how it was? Like, tomorrow is Sunday. Everybody's free. So there ought to be a serious lengthy interview on tv of a leading politician. All this social media shit is no substitute for that. It looks like more democracy but it means less.
But these things do exist, you’re just too “Guardian and BBC for me!” To realise
It’s called the long form podcast
Three hours with Joe Rogan examines a politician much more intensely than any 40 minutes with Brian Walden in the 1970s
There is no hiding in 3 hours. Even if the questions are generally soft (and they are not always, with Rogan, he’s very good at sliding in some tricky stuff amid the banter) your persona is revealed
Trump did Rogan. Kamala Harris refused - and it’s one of the reasons she lost. She bottled it
The success of the long form podcast shows there is a real hunger for highly detailed and forensic politics (and detailed science, history, football, astrology, quantum sexodynamics, whatever). It’s one of the more encouraging signs of the times. People DO want seriousness
Liz Truss has correctly pointed out that this is a weakness in the UK media ecosystem. They have Joe Rogan and we have Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart.
"We need independent media. We need the Joe Rogans and Ben Shapiros of the UK."
I'd 100% listen to a Liz Truss podcast. I think it would be breathtaking. In many senses. Even the first 30 minutes of each show as she tried to work the microphone and muttered about 'the blob' would be worth tuning in for.
There's dozens more paragraphs of tweet bilge if you can face it.
It's just so brainless and tacky now, our politics. I'm sick of it. Can't we go back to how it was? Like, tomorrow is Sunday. Everybody's free. So there ought to be a serious lengthy interview on tv of a leading politician. All this social media shit is no substitute for that. It looks like more democracy but it means less.
But these things do exist, you’re just too “Guardian and BBC for me!” To realise
It’s called the long form podcast
Three hours with Joe Rogan examines a politician much more intensely than any 40 minutes with Brian Walden in the 1970s
There is no hiding in 3 hours. Even if the questions are generally soft (and they are not always, with Rogan, he’s very good at sliding in some tricky stuff amid the banter) your persona is revealed
Trump did Rogan. Kamala Harris refused - and it’s one of the reasons she lost. She bottled it
The success of the long form podcast shows there is a real hunger for highly detailed and forensic politics (and detailed science, history, football, astrology, quantum sexodynamics, whatever). It’s one of the more encouraging signs of the times. People DO want seriousness
Liz Truss has correctly pointed out that this is a weakness in the UK media ecosystem. They have Joe Rogan and we have Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart.
"We need independent media. We need the Joe Rogans and Ben Shapiros of the UK."
Well, she's the closest thing we have to Rogan's random walk nuttiness, and the niche is wide open for whenever she wishes to have a go - if she thinks that there's an audience of millions in the UK who prefer fruit loops over fruit cocktails.
There's some appetite for it; Fortean Times still has a print circulation in 5 figures. She can put her studio in a blue pyramid.
Joe Rogan's habit is to do things anyway, whilst accepting that he has no knowledge whatsoever of the subject. An ideal partner for Truss:
While admitting that he has "zero understanding" of Canada's political system, Rogan opposed Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, calling him "a fucking dictator", and called Canada "communist" and "fucked". Rogan also said that he liked Trudeau prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. ... On September 1, 2021, Rogan tested positive for the (Covid) virus. Soon after, he released an online video reporting on the status of his condition and stating that he had begun a regimen including monoclonal antibodies, prednisone, azithromycin, NAD drip, a vitamin drip, as well as ivermectin, an antiparasitic drug that medical experts say is not an effective treatment for viruses such as COVID-19. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Rogan
I don't think I've had my photo today, so ... Joe Rogan:
Can’t let that pass - what are you implying about the readership of Fortean Times? I am a subscriber and a very sceptical one at that, but I have always been fascinated by the Fortean. I’m a child of the Haunted Generation and a childhood of mad government warnings, slightly weird/off TV shows etc and the more hopeful era before modern cameras everywhere (destroying my belief in the possibility of most Fortean things steadily). It’s certainly a magazine for cranks and weirdos.
It's from an Australian perspective, but as someone who is very much on the Left, and am in no way a Joe Rogan fan, I think this is a good article about him and why people listen to him:
The new Doctor Who is going to wind people up even more than the last one lol
Given its now on extended hiatus the rage will pass
Awaiting Disney to pay out before they set the budget. Doubt they will leave it off air for long.
I'm not angry, I'm just...weary. Ncuti's reign was far too short, nothing really made sense, and he was hyper all the time. The loose ends (Rogue? Susan?) were untidy, the supervillains were unnecessarily CGI, and the [redacted] is stunt casting. Grrr. Will rant further after you've all seen it.
(Plus the entire plot was leaked many weeks ago, so this was not a surprise)
(Plus he didn't do a swordfight once. NOT ONCE!)
(Plus it was nice to see Jodie again)
Ncuti probably the wrong choice for a long run - too much in demand.
There's dozens more paragraphs of tweet bilge if you can face it.
It's just so brainless and tacky now, our politics. I'm sick of it. Can't we go back to how it was? Like, tomorrow is Sunday. Everybody's free. So there ought to be a serious lengthy interview on tv of a leading politician. All this social media shit is no substitute for that. It looks like more democracy but it means less.
But these things do exist, you’re just too “Guardian and BBC for me!” To realise
It’s called the long form podcast
Three hours with Joe Rogan examines a politician much more intensely than any 40 minutes with Brian Walden in the 1970s
There is no hiding in 3 hours. Even if the questions are generally soft (and they are not always, with Rogan, he’s very good at sliding in some tricky stuff amid the banter) your persona is revealed
The success of the long form podcast shows there is a real hunger for highly detailed and forensic politics (and detailed science, history, football, astrology, quantum sexodynamics, whatever). It’s one of the more encouraging signs of the times. People DO want seriousness
Liz Truss has correctly pointed out that this is a weakness in the UK media ecosystem. They have Joe Rogan and we have Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart.
"We need independent media. We need the Joe Rogans and Ben Shapiros of the UK."
Well, she's the closest thing we have to Rogan's random walk nuttiness, and the niche is wide open for whenever she wishes to have a go - if she thinks that there's an audience of millions in the UK who prefer fruit loops over fruit cocktails.
There's some appetite for it, Fortean Times still has a print circulation in 5 figures. She can put her studio in a blue pyramid.
Joe Rogan's habit is to do things anyway, whilst accepting that he has no knowledge whatsoever of the subject. An ideal partner for Truss:
While admitting that he has "zero understanding" of Canada's political system, Rogan opposed Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, calling him "a fucking dictator", and called Canada "communist" and "fucked". Rogan also said that he liked Trudeau prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. ... On September 1, 2021, Rogan tested positive for the (Covid) virus. Soon after, he released an online video reporting on the status of his condition and stating that he had begun a regimen including monoclonal antibodies, prednisone, azithromycin, NAD drip, a vitamin drip, as well as ivermectin, an antiparasitic drug that medical experts say is not an effective treatment for viruses such as COVID-19. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Rogan
Rogan is incredibly clever and well informed. He’s the best paid and most listened podcaster in the world for a reason
Recall he sometimes does these 3 hour interviews several times a week, for months on end. Yet he makes them all appear effortless
The research behind the scenes must be intense and crazy
Is there a segment you would recommend as an example of a good interview?
God that’s difficult, there are so many
The ones with Musk are good - eg the famous one where Musk and Rogan got stoned
You got a sense of how remarkably smart Musk is, but also how tormented by his own Aspergery brain
One of my favourites is the one with anti woke comedian Andrew Doyle. That chemistry was excellent
They are by no means all good. Anything about wrestling or martial arts is deadly dull (for me). The vaccine shit is boring. Sometimes you sense Rogan really doesn’t care and it drags
But when he’s properly interested in a guest and the guest has a lot to say on a profound topic it’s peerless
The new Doctor Who is going to wind people up even more than the last one lol
Given its now on extended hiatus the rage will pass
Awaiting Disney to pay out before they set the budget. Doubt they will leave it off air for long.
They also flashed up 'introducing Billie Piper' but not 'as the doctor' so a little RTD fake out to annoy everyone He should have a full reset and have the interim Billie Piper demi doctor seek out Chris Eccleston
Some of the Big Finish audio drama's would have made very good 'timelines'. But sadly, we're left with people vaguely running about and some iffy SFX.
And I say this as someone who has watched The Web Planet more than once.
They manage to get 2 of the worst 3 doctors together on screen utterly pointlessly too. Cameo for the sake of it with zero plot requirement or effect
I gave up on New-Who early in the Matt Smith era. I tried a Peter Capaldi episode and the writing was so bad I had to turn it off.
The new Doctor Who is going to wind people up even more than the last one lol
Given its now on extended hiatus the rage will pass
Awaiting Disney to pay out before they set the budget. Doubt they will leave it off air for long.
They also flashed up 'introducing Billie Piper' but not 'as the doctor' so a little RTD fake out to annoy everyone He should have a full reset and have the interim Billie Piper demi doctor seek out Chris Eccleston
Some of the Big Finish audio drama's would have made very good 'timelines'. But sadly, we're left with people vaguely running about and some iffy SFX.
And I say this as someone who has watched The Web Planet more than once.
They manage to get 2 of the worst 3 doctors together on screen utterly pointlessly too. Cameo for the sake of it with zero plot requirement or effect
Modern Who doesn’t interest me much. Have only seen bits of Jodie and very little Ncuti. But I do like RTD. I think he is trying to create heat and light from the usual suspects so that he can blow them kisses
The new Doctor Who is going to wind people up even more than the last one lol
Given its now on extended hiatus the rage will pass
Awaiting Disney to pay out before they set the budget. Doubt they will leave it off air for long.
They also flashed up 'introducing Billie Piper' but not 'as the doctor' so a little RTD fake out to annoy everyone He should have a full reset and have the interim Billie Piper demi doctor seek out Chris Eccleston
Some of the Big Finish audio drama's would have made very good 'timelines'. But sadly, we're left with people vaguely running about and some iffy SFX.
And I say this as someone who has watched The Web Planet more than once.
They manage to get 2 of the worst 3 doctors together on screen utterly pointlessly too. Cameo for the sake of it with zero plot requirement or effect
Modern Who doesn’t interest me much. Have only seen bits of Jodie and very little Ncuti. But I do like RTD. I think he is trying to create heat and light from the usual suspects so that he can blow them kisses
He's better than Chibnall but then so would anyone be. He creates ridiculous deus ex machina solutions and then hits the big red magic reset button. It's so lazy.
The new Doctor Who is going to wind people up even more than the last one lol
Given its now on extended hiatus the rage will pass
Awaiting Disney to pay out before they set the budget. Doubt they will leave it off air for long.
They also flashed up 'introducing Billie Piper' but not 'as the doctor' so a little RTD fake out to annoy everyone He should have a full reset and have the interim Billie Piper demi doctor seek out Chris Eccleston
Some of the Big Finish audio drama's would have made very good 'timelines'. But sadly, we're left with people vaguely running about and some iffy SFX.
And I say this as someone who has watched The Web Planet more than once.
They manage to get 2 of the worst 3 doctors together on screen utterly pointlessly too. Cameo for the sake of it with zero plot requirement or effect
I gave up on New-Who early in the Matt Smith era. I tried a Peter Capaldi episode and the writing was so bad I had to turn it off.
Capaldi's acting made it bearable just about but I only really enjoyed Eccleston and Smith. RTD is STILL running with his Last Of the Time Lords (except all the ones that show up and Susan and etc) bollocks.
I’ve just noticed on my itinerary that on top of the exclusively 4 and 5 star hotels, with free lunches etc - I ALSO have a “daily allowance of €100 for food and alcohol”
That’s every day on top of everything else
That’s quite ridiculous. Enormous fun but insane
That’s what happens I suppose when you have a GDP per capita of $130,000 but hardly any flint knapping travel hacks come visiting. You have plenty of budget to spare
I've occasionally seen daily food/drink allowances in Conrad hotels, but I've no idea how really widespread they are these days.
The new Doctor Who is going to wind people up even more than the last one lol
Given its now on extended hiatus the rage will pass
Awaiting Disney to pay out before they set the budget. Doubt they will leave it off air for long.
I'm not angry, I'm just...weary. Ncuti's reign was far too short, nothing really made sense, and he was hyper all the time. The loose ends (Rogue? Susan?) were untidy, the supervillains were unnecessarily CGI, and the [redacted] is stunt casting. Grrr. Will rant further after you've all seen it.
(Plus the entire plot was leaked many weeks ago, so this was not a surprise)
(Plus he didn't do a swordfight once. NOT ONCE!)
(Plus it was nice to see Jodie again)
Ncuti probably the wrong choice for a long run - too much in demand.
He was cast in 2022. In the awld days he'd've had three years at 28 or 26 episodes a year. Now? 18 episodes in total. Even Christopher Eccleston had 13 and he was fired because of behind-the-scenes shenanigans. Now RTD is back and - yes - shenanigans again (Ruby was radically reduced due to workload and Belinda was inserted as a last-minute fill-in, which is why Belinda is so maternal to Poppy despite never having met her before). Oh, and stunt casting [redacted]. DAMN I AM ANNOYED.
There's dozens more paragraphs of tweet bilge if you can face it.
It's just so brainless and tacky now, our politics. I'm sick of it. Can't we go back to how it was? Like, tomorrow is Sunday. Everybody's free. So there ought to be a serious lengthy interview on tv of a leading politician. All this social media shit is no substitute for that. It looks like more democracy but it means less.
But these things do exist, you’re just too “Guardian and BBC for me!” To realise
It’s called the long form podcast
Three hours with Joe Rogan examines a politician much more intensely than any 40 minutes with Brian Walden in the 1970s
There is no hiding in 3 hours. Even if the questions are generally soft (and they are not always, with Rogan, he’s very good at sliding in some tricky stuff amid the banter) your persona is revealed
Trump did Rogan. Kamala Harris refused - and it’s one of the reasons she lost. She bottled it
The success of the long form podcast shows there is a real hunger for highly detailed and forensic politics (and detailed science, history, football, astrology, quantum sexodynamics, whatever). It’s one of the more encouraging signs of the times. People DO want seriousness
Liz Truss has correctly pointed out that this is a weakness in the UK media ecosystem. They have Joe Rogan and we have Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart.
"We need independent media. We need the Joe Rogans and Ben Shapiros of the UK."
Well, she's the closest thing we have to Rogan's random walk nuttiness, and the niche is wide open for whenever she wishes to have a go - if she thinks that there's an audience of millions in the UK who prefer fruit loops over fruit cocktails.
There's some appetite for it; Fortean Times still has a print circulation in 5 figures. She can put her studio in a blue pyramid.
Joe Rogan's habit is to do things anyway, whilst accepting that he has no knowledge whatsoever of the subject. An ideal partner for Truss:
While admitting that he has "zero understanding" of Canada's political system, Rogan opposed Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, calling him "a fucking dictator", and called Canada "communist" and "fucked". Rogan also said that he liked Trudeau prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. ... On September 1, 2021, Rogan tested positive for the (Covid) virus. Soon after, he released an online video reporting on the status of his condition and stating that he had begun a regimen including monoclonal antibodies, prednisone, azithromycin, NAD drip, a vitamin drip, as well as ivermectin, an antiparasitic drug that medical experts say is not an effective treatment for viruses such as COVID-19. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Rogan
I don't think I've had my photo today, so ... Joe Rogan:
Can’t let that pass - what are you implying about the readership of Fortean Times? I am a subscriber and a very sceptical one at that, but I have always been fascinated by the Fortean. I’m a child of the Haunted Generation and a childhood of mad government warnings, slightly weird/off TV shows etc and the more hopeful era before modern cameras everywhere (destroying my belief in the possibility of most Fortean things steadily). It’s certainly a magazine for cranks and weirdos.
I was recently-ish watching a 1972 documentary called 'Witches - New Fashion - Old Religion'. There are a lot of peculiar TV shows from the 70s. I remember quite a few 'Childrens' shows like Shadow of the Stone. The Owl Service, etc. Quite a few Dr.Who episodes of that era had a bit of a 'supernatural' plot going on too.
They are already housing and feeding me in fine style, I’ve got Moselle wine tastings and boutique chocolate experiences and all the rest - but chucking in an extra €100 a day for snacks and champagne simply as I wish, that’s right up there with Maldivian hospitality
We celebrate your good fortune.
Thanks. I like to imagine PB is with me in spirit as I crack open the Ruinart, so in a sense we all get to share
No faredodging in Luxembourg!! Jenrick should take note.
The new Doctor Who is going to wind people up even more than the last one lol
Given its now on extended hiatus the rage will pass
Awaiting Disney to pay out before they set the budget. Doubt they will leave it off air for long.
They also flashed up 'introducing Billie Piper' but not 'as the doctor' so a little RTD fake out to annoy everyone He should have a full reset and have the interim Billie Piper demi doctor seek out Chris Eccleston
Some of the Big Finish audio drama's would have made very good 'timelines'. But sadly, we're left with people vaguely running about and some iffy SFX.
And I say this as someone who has watched The Web Planet more than once.
They manage to get 2 of the worst 3 doctors together on screen utterly pointlessly too. Cameo for the sake of it with zero plot requirement or effect
I gave up on New-Who early in the Matt Smith era. I tried a Peter Capaldi episode and the writing was so bad I had to turn it off.
Capaldi's acting made it bearable just about but I only really enjoyed Eccleston and Smith. RTD is STILL running with his Last Of the Time Lords (except all the ones that show up and Susan and etc) bollocks.
If you enjoy radio/audio drama's - some of the Big Finish productions are pretty good. I quite enjoyed some of their 'alternate timeline' stuff from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Who_Unbound . Some of the Timelord episodes with Romana (Lalla Ward era-Romana - :: swoon ::) where she becomes..... I'll leave the spoilers out.... ;-)
The new Doctor Who is going to wind people up even more than the last one lol
Given its now on extended hiatus the rage will pass
Awaiting Disney to pay out before they set the budget. Doubt they will leave it off air for long.
I'm not angry, I'm just...weary. Ncuti's reign was far too short, nothing really made sense, and he was hyper all the time. The loose ends (Rogue? Susan?) were untidy, the supervillains were unnecessarily CGI, and the [redacted] is stunt casting. Grrr. Will rant further after you've all seen it.
(Plus the entire plot was leaked many weeks ago, so this was not a surprise)
(Plus he didn't do a swordfight once. NOT ONCE!)
(Plus it was nice to see Jodie again)
Ncuti probably the wrong choice for a long run - too much in demand.
He was cast in 2002. In the awld days he'd've had three years at 28 or 26 episodes a year. Now? 18 episodes in total. Even Christopher Eccleston had 13 and he was fired because of behind-the-scenes shenanigans. Now RTD is back and - yes - shenanigans again (Ruby was radically reduced due to workload and Belinda was inserted as a last-minute fill-in, which is why Belinda is so maternal to Poppy despite never having met her before). Oh, and stunt casting [redacted]. DAMN I AM ANNOYED.
The new Doctor Who is going to wind people up even more than the last one lol
Given its now on extended hiatus the rage will pass
Awaiting Disney to pay out before they set the budget. Doubt they will leave it off air for long.
I'm not angry, I'm just...weary. Ncuti's reign was far too short, nothing really made sense, and he was hyper all the time. The loose ends (Rogue? Susan?) were untidy, the supervillains were unnecessarily CGI, and the [redacted] is stunt casting. Grrr. Will rant further after you've all seen it.
(Plus the entire plot was leaked many weeks ago, so this was not a surprise)
(Plus he didn't do a swordfight once. NOT ONCE!)
(Plus it was nice to see Jodie again)
Ncuti probably the wrong choice for a long run - too much in demand.
He was cast in 2022. In the awld days he'd've had three years at 28 or 26 episodes a year. Now? 18 episodes in total. Even Christopher Eccleston had 13 and he was fired because of behind-the-scenes shenanigans. Now RTD is back and - yes - shenanigans again (Ruby was radically reduced due to workload and Belinda was inserted as a last-minute fill-in, which is why Belinda is so maternal to Poppy despite never having met her before). Oh, and stunt casting [redacted]. DAMN I AM ANNOYED.
(stalks off in a huff)
(opens door)
PLUS THE REGENERATION WAS THE EMERGENCY RESHOOTS IN FEBRUARY WHEN IT BECAME OBVIOUS DISNEY WAS PAUSING THE MONEY AND FILMING WASN'T GOING TO HAPPEN IN 2025, FORCING NCUTI TO LEAVE!)
There's dozens more paragraphs of tweet bilge if you can face it.
It's just so brainless and tacky now, our politics. I'm sick of it. Can't we go back to how it was? Like, tomorrow is Sunday. Everybody's free. So there ought to be a serious lengthy interview on tv of a leading politician. All this social media shit is no substitute for that. It looks like more democracy but it means less.
We need Walden to interrogate Starmer on the source of his right-wing inclinations.
"Pwime Minister, it has been alleged that your Irish advisor Morgan McSweeney is whispering things in your ear..."
I'd pay to see it. SKS would be good, I think, going by his Desert Island Discs interview, but do we have a Walden? Surely we do. We're not that far gone.
That Desert Island Discs is your equivalent of HYUFD's "Boris wins back x-amount of voters according to that one poll"
Did you catch it? You should for balance. It's only fair. Eg I listened to all of Enoch's "rivers" speech the other day with my red wine and nuts before dinner.
Like Sir Keir and his Father working in a factory, my Dad listened to it, so I know what it's like
Ah so you haven't. I'll see if I can link it on some future thread one day.
All Desert Island Discs are on Spotify, so I have it at my fingertips should I ever feel like listening. I caught him on a podcast I really like called Football Cliches; guests have to name their obscure and quirky, leftfield likes and dislikes of football - Sir Keir's likes were "football, celebrations and goals"
As for Powell, like him or loathe him, every politico should watch his interview/war with David Frost, a veritable battle. It used to be on YouTube, alas no more. But I have the DVD... although no DVD player... I can't very well put it on for the boys in the car... young Enoch and Nigel are still at the Peppa Pig stage
Nothing worse than straining to be quirky. A lot of what gets described as authentic is actually shallow self-indulgence. Eg Boris, Galloway, Rees Mogg, all this sort of "ooo look at me being myself" sort of nonsense.
You are right there. But Sir Keir really missed the point of the show, and he was in very friendly company; they were willing him to be entertaining, alas he just couldn’t do it
The new Doctor Who is going to wind people up even more than the last one lol
Given its now on extended hiatus the rage will pass
Awaiting Disney to pay out before they set the budget. Doubt they will leave it off air for long.
They also flashed up 'introducing Billie Piper' but not 'as the doctor' so a little RTD fake out to annoy everyone He should have a full reset and have the interim Billie Piper demi doctor seek out Chris Eccleston
Some of the Big Finish audio drama's would have made very good 'timelines'. But sadly, we're left with people vaguely running about and some iffy SFX.
And I say this as someone who has watched The Web Planet more than once.
They manage to get 2 of the worst 3 doctors together on screen utterly pointlessly too. Cameo for the sake of it with zero plot requirement or effect
I gave up on New-Who early in the Matt Smith era. I tried a Peter Capaldi episode and the writing was so bad I had to turn it off.
Capaldi's acting made it bearable just about but I only really enjoyed Eccleston and Smith. RTD is STILL running with his Last Of the Time Lords (except all the ones that show up and Susan and etc) bollocks.
If you enjoy radio/audio drama's - some of the Big Finish productions are pretty good. I quite enjoyed some of their 'alternate timeline' stuff from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Who_Unbound . Some of the Timelord episodes with Romana (Lalla Ward era-Romana - :: swoon ::) where she becomes..... I'll leave the spoilers out.... ;-)
I can report that despite Sir Keir Traitor’s bleatings, e-gates have not been opened for Brits in the EU. He’s gonna have a lot of disappointed British voters fuming at him on holibobs this summer. What an idiot
I can however report that I am now in my…. HUNDREDTH COUNTRY. A lifetime goal achieved
100 countries!!
Yes ok it’s Luxembourg. So also possibly the most boring country on earth. But that’s kind of fitting
Go everywhere, young man!
But he said we were all excited by his prime negotiation win. This can't be right
It’s such desperately crap basic retail politics. If you can’t deliver, don’t promise. Instead he promised and he hasn’t delivered
He will hack off another million holidaying British voters this summer, for no reason at all other than that he is terrible at comms
The structure of the deal is a mistake.
Should have been
- 3 years fishing rights - If, after that, e gates are implemented for less than x% of journeys, or less than x billion in orders from common European defence fund, then no extension.
The Spectator is running a piece saying we might be excluded from the Defense Fund anyway, by the French
So what did Starmer actually get for giving away TWELVE YEARS of fishing rights (when the French were terrified we’d play hardball)? He got absolutely nothing. He got empty promises that mean absolutely nothing (as we now see). He’s a fucking shrieking poo-faced moron and dangerously incompetent. Everything he touches turns to dreck
I hate to break it to you but your hero Boris Johnson effectively negotiated a permanent fisheries agreement. While it could in principle lapse in 2026 so do other parts of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement, carefully chosen by the EU to be an unacceptably high cost for the UK, including energy trading.
Then why did the EU insist we agree to extend it by 12 years when 5 years until the next re-negotiation would have done fine?
We got no time limit on the agreement on food exports ,for one thing. There may be others:
According to EU sources, access to British fishing waters will be granted until the end of June 2038, an extension of 12 years. But in return, the agreement on easier checks for food, animal and other agricultural products, known as sanitary and phytosanitary goods (SPS), will be indefinite. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/may/19/uk-eu-brexit-reset-talks-starmer-summit
I know what we got - my point is, why did the EU want the twelve years, if what FF43 says above about things we want already being so strongly linked to fishing we would never quit.
The new Doctor Who is going to wind people up even more than the last one lol
Given its now on extended hiatus the rage will pass
Awaiting Disney to pay out before they set the budget. Doubt they will leave it off air for long.
I'm not angry, I'm just...weary. Ncuti's reign was far too short, nothing really made sense, and he was hyper all the time. The loose ends (Rogue? Susan?) were untidy, the supervillains were unnecessarily CGI, and the [redacted] is stunt casting. Grrr. Will rant further after you've all seen it.
(Plus the entire plot was leaked many weeks ago, so this was not a surprise)
(Plus he didn't do a swordfight once. NOT ONCE!)
(Plus it was nice to see Jodie again)
Ncuti probably the wrong choice for a long run - too much in demand.
He was cast in 2022. In the awld days he'd've had three years at 28 or 26 episodes a year. Now? 18 episodes in total. Even Christopher Eccleston had 13 and he was fired because of behind-the-scenes shenanigans. Now RTD is back and - yes - shenanigans again (Ruby was radically reduced due to workload and Belinda was inserted as a last-minute fill-in, which is why Belinda is so maternal to Poppy despite never having met her before). Oh, and stunt casting [redacted]. DAMN I AM ANNOYED.
(stalks off in a huff)
(opens door)
PLUS THE REGENERATION WAS THE EMERGENCY RESHOOTS IN FEBRUARY WHEN IT BECAME OBVIOUS DISNEY WAS PAUSING THE MONEY AND FILMING WASN'T GOING TO HAPPEN IN 2025, FORCING NCUTI TO LEAVE!)
(slams door!)
Lol! Next up RTD will be introducing Leftoso, the God of turning left at traffic lights. Another dangerous member of the pantheon of discord
There's dozens more paragraphs of tweet bilge if you can face it.
It's just so brainless and tacky now, our politics. I'm sick of it. Can't we go back to how it was? Like, tomorrow is Sunday. Everybody's free. So there ought to be a serious lengthy interview on tv of a leading politician. All this social media shit is no substitute for that. It looks like more democracy but it means less.
But these things do exist, you’re just too “Guardian and BBC for me!” To realise
It’s called the long form podcast
Three hours with Joe Rogan examines a politician much more intensely than any 40 minutes with Brian Walden in the 1970s
There is no hiding in 3 hours. Even if the questions are generally soft (and they are not always, with Rogan, he’s very good at sliding in some tricky stuff amid the banter) your persona is revealed
The success of the long form podcast shows there is a real hunger for highly detailed and forensic politics (and detailed science, history, football, astrology, quantum sexodynamics, whatever). It’s one of the more encouraging signs of the times. People DO want seriousness
Liz Truss has correctly pointed out that this is a weakness in the UK media ecosystem. They have Joe Rogan and we have Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart.
"We need independent media. We need the Joe Rogans and Ben Shapiros of the UK."
Well, she's the closest thing we have to Rogan's random walk nuttiness, and the niche is wide open for whenever she wishes to have a go - if she thinks that there's an audience of millions in the UK who prefer fruit loops over fruit cocktails.
There's some appetite for it, Fortean Times still has a print circulation in 5 figures. She can put her studio in a blue pyramid.
Joe Rogan's habit is to do things anyway, whilst accepting that he has no knowledge whatsoever of the subject. An ideal partner for Truss:
While admitting that he has "zero understanding" of Canada's political system, Rogan opposed Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, calling him "a fucking dictator", and called Canada "communist" and "fucked". Rogan also said that he liked Trudeau prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. ... On September 1, 2021, Rogan tested positive for the (Covid) virus. Soon after, he released an online video reporting on the status of his condition and stating that he had begun a regimen including monoclonal antibodies, prednisone, azithromycin, NAD drip, a vitamin drip, as well as ivermectin, an antiparasitic drug that medical experts say is not an effective treatment for viruses such as COVID-19. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Rogan
Rogan is incredibly clever and well informed. He’s the best paid and most listened podcaster in the world for a reason
Recall he sometimes does these 3 hour interviews several times a week, for months on end. Yet he makes them all appear effortless
The research behind the scenes must be intense and crazy
Is there a segment you would recommend as an example of a good interview?
God that’s difficult, there are so many
The ones with Musk are good - eg the famous one where Musk and Rogan got stoned
You got a sense of how remarkably smart Musk is, but also how tormented by his own Aspergery brain
One of my favourites is the one with anti woke comedian Andrew Doyle. That chemistry was excellent
They are by no means all good. Anything about wrestling or martial arts is deadly dull (for me). The vaccine shit is boring. Sometimes you sense Rogan really doesn’t care and it drags
But when he’s properly interested in a guest and the guest has a lot to say on a profound topic it’s peerless
The problem with Rogan is the same as with almost every interviewer in the modern era: that is, he's in the business of generating content that his listeners agree with.
And the Trump interview is a classic example of this. Trump says why he wants tariffs, and Rogan basically just accepts whatever Trump says as fact.
Now, I agree that we've gone all "gotcha" with interviews in the UK.
But there's at least one question that really should have been asked:
"President Trump, you say that your tariff policy can eliminate the trade deficit, end income tax and bring manufacturing back to the US. But aren't those goals somewhat contradictory?
To maximise revenues and replace income taxes would require the US to continue to import lots of things. While if we eliminate the trade deficit and bring manufacturing onshore, then how could we possibly raise enough money from tariffs to make a dent into the amount raised from income tax?"
There's dozens more paragraphs of tweet bilge if you can face it.
It's just so brainless and tacky now, our politics. I'm sick of it. Can't we go back to how it was? Like, tomorrow is Sunday. Everybody's free. So there ought to be a serious lengthy interview on tv of a leading politician. All this social media shit is no substitute for that. It looks like more democracy but it means less.
But these things do exist, you’re just too “Guardian and BBC for me!” To realise
It’s called the long form podcast
Three hours with Joe Rogan examines a politician much more intensely than any 40 minutes with Brian Walden in the 1970s
There is no hiding in 3 hours. Even if the questions are generally soft (and they are not always, with Rogan, he’s very good at sliding in some tricky stuff amid the banter) your persona is revealed
The success of the long form podcast shows there is a real hunger for highly detailed and forensic politics (and detailed science, history, football, astrology, quantum sexodynamics, whatever). It’s one of the more encouraging signs of the times. People DO want seriousness
Liz Truss has correctly pointed out that this is a weakness in the UK media ecosystem. They have Joe Rogan and we have Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart.
"We need independent media. We need the Joe Rogans and Ben Shapiros of the UK."
Well, she's the closest thing we have to Rogan's random walk nuttiness, and the niche is wide open for whenever she wishes to have a go - if she thinks that there's an audience of millions in the UK who prefer fruit loops over fruit cocktails.
There's some appetite for it, Fortean Times still has a print circulation in 5 figures. She can put her studio in a blue pyramid.
Joe Rogan's habit is to do things anyway, whilst accepting that he has no knowledge whatsoever of the subject. An ideal partner for Truss:
While admitting that he has "zero understanding" of Canada's political system, Rogan opposed Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, calling him "a fucking dictator", and called Canada "communist" and "fucked". Rogan also said that he liked Trudeau prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. ... On September 1, 2021, Rogan tested positive for the (Covid) virus. Soon after, he released an online video reporting on the status of his condition and stating that he had begun a regimen including monoclonal antibodies, prednisone, azithromycin, NAD drip, a vitamin drip, as well as ivermectin, an antiparasitic drug that medical experts say is not an effective treatment for viruses such as COVID-19. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Rogan
Rogan is incredibly clever and well informed. He’s the best paid and most listened podcaster in the world for a reason
Recall he sometimes does these 3 hour interviews several times a week, for months on end. Yet he makes them all appear effortless
The research behind the scenes must be intense and crazy
Is there a segment you would recommend as an example of a good interview?
God that’s difficult, there are so many
The ones with Musk are good - eg the famous one where Musk and Rogan got stoned
You got a sense of how remarkably smart Musk is, but also how tormented by his own Aspergery brain
One of my favourites is the one with anti woke comedian Andrew Doyle. That chemistry was excellent
They are by no means all good. Anything about wrestling or martial arts is deadly dull (for me). The vaccine shit is boring. Sometimes you sense Rogan really doesn’t care and it drags
But when he’s properly interested in a guest and the guest has a lot to say on a profound topic it’s peerless
The problem with Rogan is the same as with almost every interviewer in the modern era: that is, he's in the business of generating content that his listeners agree with.
And the Trump interview is a classic example of this. Trump says why he wants tariffs, and Rogan basically just accepts whatever Trump says as fact.
Now, I agree that we've gone all "gotcha" with interviews in the UK.
But there's at least one question that really should have been asked:
"President Trump, you say that your tariff policy can eliminate the trade deficit, end income tax and bring manufacturing back to the US. But aren't those goals somewhat contradictory?
To maximise revenues and replace income taxes would require the US to continue to import lots of things. While if we eliminate the trade deficit and bring manufacturing onshore, then how could we possibly raise enough money from tariffs to make a dent into the amount raised from income tax?"
"President Trump, you say the direction the country is going in is unsustainable, but if we go in the opposite direction, won't it also become unsustainable eventually?"
Maybe yes, but that doesn't mean that it's wrong to change direction.
Steaming along the coast of Islay just now. Low sun picking out the whitewashed distilleries strung out along the coast. Just gone past Caol Ila. The 40 yr old CalMac ferry chugging along just fine.
The MV Isle of Arran. The auld trooper! They should have thrown away the drawings for newer ships and just built more Isle of Arrans.
Off the coast of Islay beats inside a bar in Luxembourg, even on expenses.
There's dozens more paragraphs of tweet bilge if you can face it.
It's just so brainless and tacky now, our politics. I'm sick of it. Can't we go back to how it was? Like, tomorrow is Sunday. Everybody's free. So there ought to be a serious lengthy interview on tv of a leading politician. All this social media shit is no substitute for that. It looks like more democracy but it means less.
But these things do exist, you’re just too “Guardian and BBC for me!” To realise
It’s called the long form podcast
Three hours with Joe Rogan examines a politician much more intensely than any 40 minutes with Brian Walden in the 1970s
There is no hiding in 3 hours. Even if the questions are generally soft (and they are not always, with Rogan, he’s very good at sliding in some tricky stuff amid the banter) your persona is revealed
The success of the long form podcast shows there is a real hunger for highly detailed and forensic politics (and detailed science, history, football, astrology, quantum sexodynamics, whatever). It’s one of the more encouraging signs of the times. People DO want seriousness
Liz Truss has correctly pointed out that this is a weakness in the UK media ecosystem. They have Joe Rogan and we have Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart.
"We need independent media. We need the Joe Rogans and Ben Shapiros of the UK."
Well, she's the closest thing we have to Rogan's random walk nuttiness, and the niche is wide open for whenever she wishes to have a go - if she thinks that there's an audience of millions in the UK who prefer fruit loops over fruit cocktails.
There's some appetite for it, Fortean Times still has a print circulation in 5 figures. She can put her studio in a blue pyramid.
Joe Rogan's habit is to do things anyway, whilst accepting that he has no knowledge whatsoever of the subject. An ideal partner for Truss:
While admitting that he has "zero understanding" of Canada's political system, Rogan opposed Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, calling him "a fucking dictator", and called Canada "communist" and "fucked". Rogan also said that he liked Trudeau prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. ... On September 1, 2021, Rogan tested positive for the (Covid) virus. Soon after, he released an online video reporting on the status of his condition and stating that he had begun a regimen including monoclonal antibodies, prednisone, azithromycin, NAD drip, a vitamin drip, as well as ivermectin, an antiparasitic drug that medical experts say is not an effective treatment for viruses such as COVID-19. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Rogan
Rogan is incredibly clever and well informed. He’s the best paid and most listened podcaster in the world for a reason
Recall he sometimes does these 3 hour interviews several times a week, for months on end. Yet he makes them all appear effortless
The research behind the scenes must be intense and crazy
Is there a segment you would recommend as an example of a good interview?
God that’s difficult, there are so many
The ones with Musk are good - eg the famous one where Musk and Rogan got stoned
You got a sense of how remarkably smart Musk is, but also how tormented by his own Aspergery brain
One of my favourites is the one with anti woke comedian Andrew Doyle. That chemistry was excellent
They are by no means all good. Anything about wrestling or martial arts is deadly dull (for me). The vaccine shit is boring. Sometimes you sense Rogan really doesn’t care and it drags
But when he’s properly interested in a guest and the guest has a lot to say on a profound topic it’s peerless
The problem with Rogan is the same as with almost every interviewer in the modern era: that is, he's in the business of generating content that his listeners agree with.
And the Trump interview is a classic example of this. Trump says why he wants tariffs, and Rogan basically just accepts whatever Trump says as fact.
Now, I agree that we've gone all "gotcha" with interviews in the UK.
But there's at least one question that really should have been asked:
"President Trump, you say that your tariff policy can eliminate the trade deficit, end income tax and bring manufacturing back to the US. But aren't those goals somewhat contradictory?
To maximise revenues and replace income taxes would require the US to continue to import lots of things. While if we eliminate the trade deficit and bring manufacturing onshore, then how could we possibly raise enough money from tariffs to make a dent into the amount raised from income tax?"
"Mr Trump, you say the direction the country is going in is unsustainable, but if we go in the opposite direction, won't it also become unsustainable eventually?"
Maybe yes, but that doesn't mean that it's wrong to change direction.
I don't understand how that relates to my comment.
The new Doctor Who is going to wind people up even more than the last one lol
Given its now on extended hiatus the rage will pass
Awaiting Disney to pay out before they set the budget. Doubt they will leave it off air for long.
I'm not angry, I'm just...weary. Ncuti's reign was far too short, nothing really made sense, and he was hyper all the time. The loose ends (Rogue? Susan?) were untidy, the supervillains were unnecessarily CGI, and the [redacted] is stunt casting. Grrr. Will rant further after you've all seen it.
(Plus the entire plot was leaked many weeks ago, so this was not a surprise)
(Plus he didn't do a swordfight once. NOT ONCE!)
(Plus it was nice to see Jodie again)
Ncuti probably the wrong choice for a long run - too much in demand.
He was cast in 2022. In the awld days he'd've had three years at 28 or 26 episodes a year. Now? 18 episodes in total. Even Christopher Eccleston had 13 and he was fired because of behind-the-scenes shenanigans. Now RTD is back and - yes - shenanigans again (Ruby was radically reduced due to workload and Belinda was inserted as a last-minute fill-in, which is why Belinda is so maternal to Poppy despite never having met her before). Oh, and stunt casting [redacted]. DAMN I AM ANNOYED.
(stalks off in a huff)
(opens door)
PLUS THE REGENERATION WAS THE EMERGENCY RESHOOTS IN FEBRUARY WHEN IT BECAME OBVIOUS DISNEY WAS PAUSING THE MONEY AND FILMING WASN'T GOING TO HAPPEN IN 2025, FORCING NCUTI TO LEAVE!)
(slams door!)
You probably didn’t like the weeping angels either
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It’s called the long form podcast
Three hours with Joe Rogan examines a politician much more intensely than any 40 minutes with Brian Walden in the 1970s
There is no hiding in 3 hours. Even if the questions are generally soft (and they are not always, with Rogan, he’s very good at sliding in some tricky stuff amid the banter) your persona is revealed
Trump did Rogan. Kamala Harris refused - and it’s one of the reasons she lost. She bottled it
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/03/19/tim-walz-kamala-harris-joe-rogan-podcast/82550633007/
The success of the long form podcast shows there is a real hunger for highly detailed and forensic politics (and detailed science, history, football, astrology, quantum sexodynamics, whatever). It’s one of the more encouraging signs of the times. People DO want seriousness
I care about policy, and being pinned on pie in the sky funding of said policy.
Rogan, fascinating though the Trump podcast was, is a very poor substitute for a weighty political interview.
Captured and held in Dresden during the firestorm bombing.
Hence Slaughterhouse Five.
Starmer has a real problem here and Farage will make full use of it
Starmer gave them twelve fucking years and got fuck all. Let’s face it, he’s a truly terrible prime minister, the verdict is in, he’s so bad he’s potentially treasonous - and I mean that word precisely, following the Chagos Surrender (which is so weirdly bad for Britain even his aides cannot explain it)
https://x.com/dsanderson_85/status/1928863079200088442?s=61&t=LYVEHh2mqFy1oUJAdCfe-Q
Perhaps most interestingly
https://x.com/dsanderson_85/status/1928863084577251381?s=61&t=LYVEHh2mqFy1oUJAdCfe-Q
https://x.com/trussliz/status/1928760108290298214
"We need independent media. We need the Joe Rogans and Ben Shapiros of the UK."
If it’s such a poor substitute why did the Harris campaign do their very best to avoid it while pretending not to, to the extent some say it cost her the election?
Fact is, if you want big detailed interviews then, these days, podcasts like Rogan’s are IT. Tho I agree with @williamglenn that the UK sadly lacks an equivalent, to date. But Rogan shows it can work. The success of podcasts like TRIHistory likewise shows a hunger for real clever welll-informed detail, not pap
I’ve just noticed on my itinerary that on top of the exclusively 4 and 5 star hotels, with free lunches etc - I ALSO have a “daily allowance of €100 for food and alcohol”
That’s every day on top of everything else
That’s quite ridiculous. Enormous fun but insane
That’s what happens I suppose when you have a GDP per capita of $130,000 but hardly any flint knapping travel hacks come visiting. You have plenty of budget to spare
The reason Harris didn't do Rogan, imo, is that many voters want the shallow personality politics that you are celebrating Rogan offering, and she is something of a personality vacuum, especially when compared to Trump.
If politics is entertainment, as it is for many, Rogan is perfect. I didn't say that Rogan isn't important in politics, just that if we want politicians who actually make things happen, subjecting them to Rogan is a poor substitute to subjecting them to e.g Andrew Neil.
According to EU sources, access to British fishing waters will be granted until the end of June 2038, an extension of 12 years. But in return, the agreement on easier checks for food, animal and other agricultural products, known as sanitary and phytosanitary goods (SPS), will be indefinite.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/may/19/uk-eu-brexit-reset-talks-starmer-summit
Ref 31 (+2)
Lab 25 (=)
Con 17 (-1)
LD 11 (-2)
Green 10 (=)
SNP 2 (=)
28 to 30 May changes from 14 to 16 May
In line with all polling atm
Kamala Harris refused to do it because they were rightly scared she’d be revealed as shallow, boring, clueless and dumb. That’s what Rogan can do with his deceptive charm and 180 minutes to work with
OTOH I agree entirely with the Andrew Neil idea. He’s getting on a bit but he’s still got vim. A 90 minute interview on the “Andrew Neil Podcast” should be compulsory for all British politicians at least once a year
No, when I lament the lack of lengthy serious interviews of politicians (since I agree your point about the tedious sterile gotcha approach we seem to always get) I am not thinking of the likes of Joe Rogan.
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🔴Labour 18% (+1)
🔵Reform 16% (+3)
🔵Conservative 15% (NC)
🟠Lib Dem 10% (-1)
🟢Green 9% (-1)
⚫️Other 5% (-1)
Giving a possible Holyrood of
🟡SNP 54 seats
🔴Labour 20
🔵Reform 18
🔵Conservative 17
🟠Lib Dem 11
🟢Green 9
As for Powell, like him or loathe him, every politico should watch his interview/war with David Frost, a veritable battle. It used to be on YouTube, alas no more. But I have the DVD... although no DVD player... I can't very well put it on for the boys in the car... young Enoch and Nigel are still at the Peppa Pig stage
When using SPS checks as a means of hindering imports is a breach of WTO rules, and any Government worth shit would be complaining about it to the WTO, not giving concessions to ask them to kindly desist. Of course that definition excludes the Governments of Starmer and Sunak, who had both staked their reputations on a 'grown up' deal with the EU, a fact that ensured the EU has continued to rip the piss.
Even very pro-EU commentators are saying Sir Suez has been done up like a kipper, so there is very little point in coming here trying to polish a turd.
They are already housing and feeding me in fine style, I’ve got Moselle wine tastings and boutique chocolate experiences and all the rest - but chucking in an extra €100 a day for snacks and champagne simply as I wish, that’s right up there with Maldivian hospitality
What the existence of a free press and free media cannot predict is outcomes. You might get Bernard Levin, Brian Walden, Andrew Neil, Jeffrey Goldberg, Ezra Klein and Joe Rogan; or you might not. A free press and media is, axiomatically, not planned.
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As I said I’d basically make this a legal requirement. 90 minutes with Andrew Neil (or his equally flinty successor)
I actually agree with @kinabalu on this even if we disagree on the details. We need much more in depth adult interviews in British politics, and at a proper length. An hour at least not some random 20 minutes on Newsnight. For me Rogan shows the way, and shows that people will literally watch/listen for 3 hours
He should have a full reset and have the interim Billie Piper demi doctor seek out Chris Eccleston
There's some appetite for it; Fortean Times still has a print circulation in 5 figures. She can put her studio in a blue pyramid.
Joe Rogan's habit is to do things anyway, whilst accepting that he has no knowledge whatsoever of the subject. An ideal partner for Truss:
While admitting that he has "zero understanding" of Canada's political system, Rogan opposed Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, calling him "a fucking dictator", and called Canada "communist" and "fucked". Rogan also said that he liked Trudeau prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.
...
On September 1, 2021, Rogan tested positive for the (Covid) virus. Soon after, he released an online video reporting on the status of his condition and stating that he had begun a regimen including monoclonal antibodies, prednisone, azithromycin, NAD drip, a vitamin drip, as well as ivermectin, an antiparasitic drug that medical experts say is not an effective treatment for viruses such as COVID-19.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Rogan
I don't think I've had my photo today, so ... Joe Rogan:
(Plus the entire plot was leaked many weeks ago, so this was not a surprise)
(Plus he didn't do a swordfight once. NOT ONCE!)
(Plus it was nice to see Jodie again)
Recall he sometimes does these 3 hour interviews several times a week, for months on end. Yet he makes them all appear effortless
The research behind the scenes must be intense and crazy
And I say this as someone who has watched The Web Planet more than once.
I think his many published faux-pas, and his bizarre behaviour, are a bigly serious problem for him, and anyone who needs 3 hours to do an interview has a problem - but I'll give him a try.
BTW I place no weight whatsoever on the circulation numbers.
The 40 yr old CalMac ferry chugging along just fine.
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/jan/25/joe-rogan-popularity-australian-men-podcasts
The ones with Musk are good - eg the famous one where Musk and Rogan got stoned
You got a sense of how remarkably smart Musk is, but also how tormented by his own Aspergery brain
One of my favourites is the one with anti woke comedian Andrew Doyle. That chemistry was excellent
They are by no means all good. Anything about wrestling or martial arts is deadly dull (for me). The vaccine shit is boring. Sometimes you sense Rogan really doesn’t care and it drags
But when he’s properly interested in a guest and the guest has a lot to say on a profound topic it’s peerless
He creates ridiculous deus ex machina solutions and then hits the big red magic reset button. It's so lazy.
RTD is STILL running with his Last Of the Time Lords (except all the ones that show up and Susan and etc) bollocks.
(stalks off in a huff)
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PLUS THE REGENERATION WAS THE EMERGENCY RESHOOTS IN FEBRUARY WHEN IT BECAME OBVIOUS DISNEY WAS PAUSING THE MONEY AND FILMING WASN'T GOING TO HAPPEN IN 2025, FORCING NCUTI TO LEAVE!)
(slams door!)
Next up RTD will be introducing Leftoso, the God of turning left at traffic lights. Another dangerous member of the pantheon of discord
And the Trump interview is a classic example of this. Trump says why he wants tariffs, and Rogan basically just accepts whatever Trump says as fact.
Now, I agree that we've gone all "gotcha" with interviews in the UK.
But there's at least one question that really should have been asked:
"President Trump, you say that your tariff policy can eliminate the trade deficit, end income tax and bring manufacturing back to the US. But aren't those goals somewhat contradictory?
To maximise revenues and replace income taxes would require the US to continue to import lots of things. While if we eliminate the trade deficit and bring manufacturing onshore, then how could we possibly raise enough money from tariffs to make a dent into the amount raised from income tax?"
https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/snp-policy-kills-11m-naval-welding-project-on-the-clyde/
Maybe yes, but that doesn't mean that it's wrong to change direction.
Which must mean they think it's time for a renegotiation again - cha-ching.
Off the coast of Islay beats inside a bar in Luxembourg, even on expenses.