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23 Nov, 6 tweets, 1 min read
There's something uniquely dispiriting about waiting on hold We've been drowned under it the last week - by ticket agents, banks, hospitals. Literally hours on end of it.
I swear it's getting worse every year, bastards eating up ever more valuable minutes of your life.
The dream version of me fucking lays into them when they answer. The real version of me realises they're some guy on shit pay, is perfectly polite, and then dies a little further inside.
If this recorded message tells me one more time how much they value my time though I won't be responsible for what happens.
Yeah, so that was good old British Airways, putting in a classic performance: using an 0844 number, keeping me on hold for an hour and ten minutes, and then disconnecting me.
I always thought it would be conservatives that finally made me go full Michael Douglas in Falling Down, but nope,, no it's BA.

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25 Nov
New: Priti Patel has added Lords amendments to the policing bill which effectively criminalise the act of protest inews.co.uk/opinion/priti-…
There's a lot of crap thrown around every day by this government, but it's worth paying particular attention to what is happening with this bill. There are provisions in it so extreme they constitute a fundamental attack on British freedom.
I describe most of them in the piece: Aggressive expansion of stop-and-search, brutal punishments for trivial protest behaviour, very broadly worded offences about "locking on". But the most egregious example is the Serious Disruption Prevention Order.
Read 9 tweets
24 Nov
Too much to ask, I suppose, that we might recognise the humanity and desperation of the people crossing the Channel. But if we're ever going to do it, it'll be tonight.
Our debate is stuck between treating them as a problem at best, and an invasion at worst. Farage and his ilk promote the second view. Mainstream news bulletins the first.
Longer current affairs programmes are usually quite good on this, but the bulletins are absolutely terrible. They largely accept the framing of the nativist right, if not the rhetoric. The issue is reduced to crossing are bad and they must stop.
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16 Nov
Jacob Rees-Mogg, looking rather chastened, is currently up in the Commons rescinding the motion he himself aggressively promoted a couple weeks ago parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/1b…
Extraordinary. Mogg: "The tragedy that afflicted Mr Paterson coloured and clouded our judgement - and my judgement- incorrectly. And it is as simple and as sad as that."
Nonsense of course, but telling just how desperately they are wheeling backwards under fire.
Read 49 tweets
16 Nov
I suspect this will be a minority opinion, given the woman next to us fell asleep and most people leaving the cinema seemed bored silly by it, but I absolutely loved Eternals.
I didn't admire it, or like the ambition or anything like that: I straight-up loved it. Really cared about the characters, was awed by the scale of it, found the ideas really interesting, and thought it had some of the best action scenes in a Marvel movie.
Also, if you're a DC fan who hates most of their movies, it's really easy to see the Justice League in it. Richard Madden is the best Superman for years, Lauren Ridloff the best Flash, and Angelina Jolie was made to play Wonder Woman.
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5 Nov
I mean, if this is true we're surely in game-changer territory. This is as big as the vaccine.
There is another story to be told about the pandemic, which is about the triumph of science and common endeavour. We should probably talk about it more, and perhaps we will when the immediate horror is further behind us.
I was listening to a podcast about the mRNA vaccine the other day and that shit is pure sci-fi. Extraordinary to live in a world where it exists.
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I wonder if this week has done anything to convince the doom-mongers on my side of things about how wrong and unhelpful it is to catastrophise everything.
I see countless tweets about how we never had a functioning standards system. But if that's true, why do you think the government is so intent on destroying it?
And what do you think it does to the people who diligently and independently work to maintain scrutiny and probity for people to act like they don't exist or don't matter?
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