Delighted to be taking over the reins of the Talk Media podcast for the next few weeks - stay tuned for an impending link of a brilliant conversation I had with the journalist Eve Livingston. Higho!
Paddy Duffy
@paddyduffy.bsky.social
That's showbiz, baby!TV producer, international trivia man, badass MC. Panellist on Radio 4's Round Britain Quiz.
A celebrity-driven "movement" whose activism hinges on legal intimidation can only go so far; it cannot do much with an actual grassroots community united by passion who - and this is the critical part - are used to not getting their way and adapting, waiting and trying again.
Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · 2w agoFéile met with the NI Women's Rights Network. Guess how it went? Withdrawal stands.
For what died the sons of Róisín? Was it for this?
RTÉ News@news.rte.ie · 2w agoGoogle has unveiled plans to open a new office building in Dublin's Docklands
"Joke's on you, Prime Minister, we didn't know how much our big plan would cost!" The UK Labour Party home to some of the biggest losers on the planet
English people when they meet an Irish at a casual dinner party and they have had 2.5 drinks
AJRed@ajred.bsky.social · 2w ago
This is indeed the Reithian ideal. I try to live up to it.
Edward@fornbirkibeinn.bsky.social · 2w agoIt needs a wider remit than that. "You may not be a nerd, but you should be and we're going to give you the tools to become one!"
Today on Radio 4, the latest ep of our show Around The World In 80 Ways goes live at 4.30pm! You can also catch ep 1 on BBC Sounds. Really hope people enjoy!
The creator of Roger Rabbit (who is 85 years old by the way) is a good sort Crossposted with @openvibe.social
In the realm of questions posed during Senate hearings, this one from Ossoff -- "Isn't it humiliating to be unable to answer this?" -- ranks right up there with "Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last?"
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w agoOSSOFF: Who won the 2020 election? CLAYTON: Uhm, you know, I'm not going to do this with you O: This is a job interview. You have an obligation to be honest with the committee. Who won the 2020 election? C: I'm not gonna get into that with you O: You're not being honest or forthright C: ...
I always get the weirdest vibe from Deputy Barry Heneghan when I hear him interviewed. Like if Jimmy Stewart listened to Joe Rogan.
RIP to Sam Neill, a brilliant actor who said what needed to be said about the excesses of Big Salted Caramel
Senator Lindsey Graham was an absolute business titan: the leveraged buyout of his soul was one of the biggest money deals ever structured.
These guys. Here's a guy from a long English tradition of engaging and eccentric nutters who isn't twee-washing and has a proper point to make, some people might even say, if that's your sort of thing, that he's a reason to be proud of Britain. So naturally, the big British patriots hate him.
Adam Bienkov@adambienkov.bsky.social · 4w agoI don't think I've ever seen a group of people take a joke quite as badly to heart as this lot have this week
Always makes me nervous when TV executives say things like this - it will almost certainly be unscrapped in three years time but repackaged as a visionary idea that could only come from today's searing genius in charge.
This is a really great piece. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...
Fintan O'Toole: The Irish-Mohawk chief at the centre of a great what-if in US history
William Johnson - aka Chief Warraghiyagey - saw himself as an Irish chieftain and was the only authorised mediator between the British empire and the Indian nations
irishtimes.com
And they say agitation from the left doesn't work. If you can move the needle on issues such that Rahm - Rahm! - would say this, then you're well and truly at the races.
Sorry but why are the BBC canvassing the opinion of Andrew fucking Neil
FFS. All that for *that*?! I hope someone Martin Bells the fucker
Paddy Duffy@paddyduffy.bsky.social · 4w agoThe gist of Farage's argument seems to be "People hate to see a griftboss winning"
The gist of Farage's argument seems to be "People hate to see a griftboss winning"
The kids at Lourdes Celtic where Pico played his junior football were interviewed on the news yesterday and they were so buzzin. One of their own went toe to toe with Messi tonight. Who knows what brilliant things that will set in motion for those kids. Best game ever.
"But he admitted Labour had not given enough thought to how the world had changed since the party last took power in the 1990s." That has been the big and constant criticism of their whole thing and they constantly waved it away as a left wing griping, with great hostility!
While I find the Today programme as pompous as it is useless, I do agree with the quote in the second para here referring to the edict in the first. Why would a company that rather famously has a lot of air to fill and channels to put it in want to focus on (bad) channels it doesn't own or control?
