Now please spend your long-cherished monthly credit on me gradually fucking my voice into oblivion reading out a 400 page book.
And also being stopped by the producer to rerecord every five minutes or so because I do not know how to pronounce basic words.
Including, for some reason, the word 'theatre'. I just cannot do it, my mouth doesn't work on it. That was a fun ten minutes with a guy behind a screen saying: 'And now say it properly' and me being fundamentally unable to.
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Next few months are going to be a fascinating exhibit in the Brexit mindset.
Tory Leavers know Biden disapproves of their little project. At some point, probably soon, probably over Ireland, he's going to snub them. He'll say something about Brexit, or the FTA, or he'll visit Brussels before London. And then they're going to lose their shit.
And that's going to be an interesting moment. Britain will have gone from being a bridge between Europe and the US to adopting a distant, acrimonious relationship with both of them.
As one of the other voices in the game, let me go on record to say that I'm incensed by this. Whether you agree with Helen's views on trans issues or not, they are legitimate debate and she is entitled to hold and express them. kotaku.com/ubisoft-to-rem…
She wasn't even discussing any of those issues here. A little Twitter mob got excited and now she is simply cancelled.
What utter cowardice. The silencing of someone on all issues, even analysis of a fictional political universe, because people disagreed with what they said on another issue.
Next few hours there'll be lots of sage old commentators on here telling you not to get too excited, lots of trouble ahead, problems Trump fed off won't go away, Democrats don't control Senate. And it's all true. But you know what? We all deserve to sit & be happy for a bit.
Fuck all the caveats and future problems. Savour this feeling. People constantly on the backfoot against pernicious political forces deserve to celebrate them being defeated.
There'll be time later for thoughts about how to proceed, and especially what liberals can do in office to prevent nationalism rising up again. But for now, just enjoy the victory. Have a drink for fuck sake.
I don't watch much American news - basically just 48-hours straight every four years. But CNN have played a blinder here.
Very little faff, or tedious talking heads delivering spin. Just data. An extremely aggressive and remorseless form of data.
But most importantly, they did a democratic service - always making it clear, every moment, that the electoral system was sound, Trump's attempt to overturn the election was illegitimate, and how the arrangements worked.