"a country whose leadership is not bothered with the people who live there" You mean the US, right? #r4today

"Ended up partnered together" !! You reeled him in because you have a daddy complex. #TheArchers

Oh this is going to go well, being friendly to Lilly just before finding out she's got her hooks in Carpet. #TheArchers

A policy that completely fails the Turing test.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 3d ago

Chemical suppression: why the UK is exploring libido control drugs to treat sex offenders

Tedious tawdry speculation about Harry and Meghan is beneath you #r4today

Oh dear. Shagging on the doorstep of Fallon's new job. Things aren't going to stay amicable for long, are they? #TheArchers

I think we should have Diane and Linda fighting in a pond, Dynasty style #TheArchers

Maybe this ghastly person is a no win no fee lawyer. #TheArchers

This guest is an absolutely awful human being. Robert should dismember her. #TheArchers

This is just disgusting racism from #r4today. How squalid

Oh for god's sake; this shouldn't even be a news item, #r4today, let alone something with all these pompous bloviating wankers pretending insight into a dysfunctional family

I can't imagine what "questions" of any relevance are raised by two rich people moving to the UK. Just let people live their lives, and abolish the useless "Royal correspondent" role #radio4

God; Charles Moore is a prick, isn't he? #radio4

One might ask how the hell an economist as consistently wrong as Patrick Minford is still there, for example.

Stephen Bush@stephenkb.bsky.social · 6d ago

But there are 11,000 to 12,000 cases of fraud every day in the United Kingdom alone, there are loads of fabulist memoirs and there are a decent amount of professors whose own output is hard to reconcile with their position. In an equal society, some frauds are black!

There seems to be a lot of concern about "influencers" filming themselves with sharks. When did we stop believing in Darwinism? #radio4

Yes, #radio4, of course that's right. Blame trans people for increasing homphobia. You evil, irresponsible cunts.

Ah, #radio4, another programme trying to smash the LGBT community apart. Reporting a minority view as if every gay people hates the TQ part. You ghastly homophobic fuckers.

There's a segment about Tupac on #radio4 right now, talking about the trial of his alleged killer. I did a double take; Kiki Dee murdered someone?!

Forcing people to work in libraries and community centres? Aside from the repugnance of forced labour, I'd quite like to deal with knowledgeable librarians, or people who have empathy and aren't just there because they're forced to be.

Before you cheer in Reform deciding that some people don't deserve to get benefits, even if they have paid tax and NI, remember that once you have built a system to exclude some taxpayers, it can be extended to others.

The destruction of empathy in the public sphere has been a project of decades, from Reagan's welfare queens and Thatchers scroungers onwards. Now, though, they're not even trying to hide it with a mask of fiscal prudence.

James Austin@jamesdaustin.bsky.social · last wk.

'The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism'. It really amazes me how Arendt and Sartre so accurately discribed what we're now seeing on the right - it really is the same impulses repeated and the same tactics.

Astonishing isn't it? So many papers find themselves unable to simply say "Trump lied," when there are so many clear examples. And yet, even those far, far away from Cambridge, managed to find plenty of space to join the hounding of a black academic.

I shudder to think what the ghouls of the UK press are going to say now. It certainly won't be anything remotely approaching a mea culpa.

You cannot hope to bribe or twist, thank god, the British journalist. But seeing what the man will do unbribed, there's no occasion to. Honestly, the UK media has been shameless, as ever. This is the sort of behaviour that always made me say I was "a writer for magazines" rather than a journalist

Mic Wright@brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 2w ago

Jason Arday being found dead is a horrendous way for the story to end. Elements of the press and wider media are who were relentless in their pursuit won’t stop for a moment to consider how brutal that attention was.

Next up, piss off all the gays with a nationwide alert during Eurovision reminding people they can't vote for the UK but may still be charged.

If you look at it through a colander, it won't hurt your eyes as much.

Pop Crave@popcrave.com · 2w ago

Instagram unveils a new wordmark logo.

May they all malfunction when they take a toilet break

@justtim99.bsky.social · 2w ago

Perhaps if the head of the Met was more honest about the problems they need to fix instead of whining about how officers aren't supported, people might have more trust. He just sounds self interested. #r4today

I can't help thinking that, regardless of the details of any specific case, a justice system where release dates are subject to the whims of public pressure and petitions is going to end up in a complete mess. Or perhaps, even more of a mess than at present.

Will David demand the right to execute Monty with a bolt gun on the village green, pour encourager les autres? #TheArchers