Oh yes. The ship of Theseus bit in Wandavision was terribly beautiful. It did a right little number on me.
Also: I got Scarlet Witch in costume. Incredibly pleased with this. Everyone should always wear their costumes, they're design classics. It irritates me when they don't.
I do however feel a little let down by the Pietro stuff.
It's funny. The whole series is a bit of a need/want thing. The last episode gave be what I want - my fun times superhero shenanigans. But the earlier episodes, the sit com ones, they gave be what I needed and didn't know I needed.
Going in, I expected and wanted a bunch of that last episode. But this series gave me so much more than that. So much in fact, that when it eventually gave me what I wanted, it felt kin of a let down.
That's not to give it shit. It was frankly incredibly. So much better than I expected. Miles better than it had any right to be. Buy I guess when we do reset to standard superhero stuff towards the end it can't help but feel slightly anticlimactic.
Still, as I've said before: if only that was the worst thing you could say about most TV series.
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Oh, I see now. What a poor sweet naive child I was . I thought the Meghan Harry thing might eventually end. But it won't, will it. It's going to be wrapped up and bundled into the culture war.
It's made for it really. Young metropolitan international couple vs traditional national establishment, turbocharged by celebrity.
Fuck my fucking life mate. This will be so tedious.
Thank heavens Labour U-turned on this. Now in the right place, despite the unseemly wobble. mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…
I'm baffled by why it happened though. The party has built a clear position on austerity measures, so why did it falter? Points to a troubling lack of confidence.
Laughably naive I know, but the pro-Corbyn lot might also like to have a little chat with themselves about why they spent the last two weeks demanding the leadership support a Tory austerity narrative.
Sunday Telegraph here, loyally transcribing the latest Downing Street-approved lies from a half brain-dead David Frost. I hope its journos get a government pension.
The government chose the arrangements whose effects we are currently seeing. It is the precise consequences of the actions it has taken, of which it was repeatedly warned. Whining about his own deal make him looks deranged and inadequate.
There is so Brexit connection to the vaccine. We authorised *while in transition*, when EU law still applied. And EU law allowed us to act before EMA authorisation.
Brutal batch of front pages for No.10 this morning. Fucking up right across the spectrum of news.
A lot of the responses to this are 'but the polls'. The polls do not exist irrespective of events. When the govt was catastrophically fucking up the pandemic response, they were very tight. When they delivered the vaccine effectively, they were not.
They change with events, which is why events and the coverage of them matters.
Harriet Taylor was the mother of liberalism. She has been vilified, slandered, erased and forgotten. Tonight we tell her story eventbrite.co.uk/e/harriet-and-…
Still time to sign up for the event. Too late, unfortunately, to get the wine to go with it - but if you've a bottle stashed away, break it open.
Wine and I had rather a disagreement yesterday, following an overly enthusiastic embrace on Tuesday night. But we have now mended the relationship and will be eagerly engaging with each other this evening.
I am very hungover on Budget Day. Please take this warning from me of my mistakes: Never, ever be very hungover on Budget day.
If I survive the next few hours, I'm doing an event at the Leeds Literary Festival tonight at 7pm, where my withered alcohol encrusted corpse will be answering questions about liberalism and nationalism. Free to join. leedslitfest.co.uk/whats-on/all-s…