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Maybe use this as the model:



The chimp has a bigger, thicker book.

Ronnie gave an OK performance in Bedtime for Bonzo and wasn't a bad movie actor. Not a particularly good one, either. A reliable hack when your third choice turned down a role.

Bones McCoy wrote: ↑Mon Oct 20, 2025 4:52 pm Maybe use this as the model:



The chimp has a bigger, thicker book.

Anyone else remember Bonzo Goes To Bitburg?

His reputation as an actor was that he turned up on time, knew his lines, and didn’t raise any eyebrows in his private life.

He became head of the Screen Actors Guild, and shopped a lot of people to HUAC. Quite a cunt, really.

One of his best performances is in a British movie with Richard Todd called the Hasty Heart. He was walloped with a large tax bill for his fee by the Atlee government which Reagen cited as a reason for becoming a Republican to fight socialism. Makes you proud to be British.

Boiler wrote: ↑Mon Oct 20, 2025 8:31 pm
Anyone else remember Bonzo Goes To Bitburg?

The Ramones, I believe.

Kemi seems like she's living down to expectations. These four survivors aren't a group of people who've had terrible experiences and are distrustful of authority for understandable reasons, but a political opening.

One of Kemi's zingers when Starmer pointed out that Jess Phillips had more experience in this area than other politicians was that "she doesn't have more experienced than survivors". Absolutely dreadful stuff, and laughable logic beside anything else.

Problem also with that argument is like I have reflected on here elsewhere, she doesn't know that.

2% in Caerphilly.

She'd be entitled to say that Labour had done worse in Chesham and Amersham, but by then there was an unspoken "you lot can have this one" relationship between Labour and the Lib Dems. Is this where Kemi is with Reform, except the junior partner?

Entirely focussed on short term political advantage, not very bright, and convinced she's always right.

Hey, but she was a Straight A Student!

Apart from where she was a BBD student, but that was the fault of John Major's lefty education system.

Apparently they are ploughing on as if nothing's happened with this China lark.

I noticed Newsagents coming in for some flak on BlueSky.

Someone suggested they just go with the flow on every issue. I don't listen to political podcasts, so I don't know.

Nor do I - are they subject to regulation?

Of course they are, as part of the Global/LBC output.

Sopel can skirt rather pro-Israel, Goodall is one of the best and most fleet-footed journalists on the current scribescape. As for the utterly divine Maitlis, "...Till the neighbours call the cops..."

kreuzberger wrote: ↑Fri Oct 24, 2025 9:38 pm Of course they are, as part of the Global/LBC output.

Not entirely it would seem, according to Maitlis anyway - from https://politicalpodcastawards.co.uk/wh ... ws-agents/

Even though we aren’t live, aren’t covered by Ofcom, or subject to press regulation as such, a shout-out to Lucy, our brilliant Global lawyer, who often sits across a whole record to tell us if we’ve gone too far, or if, (crucially) on a news scoop, we could get sued.

From what I can gather, the only online content covered by Ofcom is that of the BBC.

Political podcast usually have a political slant but the best ones still have a healthy relationship with fact checking and journalistic rigour. Gavin Esler and Steve Richards for eg are engaging busy podcasters who bring decades of experience with them.
I'd like to listen to more right leaning current affairs but they're mainly bloody awful apart from Times Radio people and Iain Dale.

These days I seem to be so "time poor" I just couldn't find the time to listen, same as for watching TV: and given my blood pressure is under scrutiny (again) perhaps that's a good thing.