Steven Baker is lining himself up for the inevitable as well.
He holds a lot of power in the party, on his say there will be enough letters sent to the 1922 committee.

Rigby has two sources, Peston has one (possibly the same) and there’s Cummings who has gone public (who may also be included in the above). So that’s anything between 2-4 people that are contradicting Johnson’s statement in Parliament. All gone public (of sorts) at the same time.

Anonymous sources plus Cummings aren’t going to cut it though. Needs this email to come out. Preferably after a few more lies about it from Johnson.

It’s well established now that he’s a liar. I doubt that more evidence or more instances of lying are going to make a blind bit of difference.

He has supporters left no matter what he does. The question is how many, and is it enough?

I got 1

n0face wrote:

I got 1

I got the first half of three but fuck it was a difficult round. I got two of the first and second round connections though. Love that show.

Newsnight right this moment


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LivDiv wrote:

When does his isolation end? He was out jogging this morning.

I saw that, and apparantly if you're negative on LFT's go fucking nuts, which doesn't seem like isolation at all.

LivDiv wrote:

poprock wrote:

The Beeb does a million things apart from just make TV shows. For one thing it provides routes into the creative industries for tens of thousands of people. Talk to anybody in the film, TV or radio industries in the UK and I’ll bet more than 90% got their start at the BBC.

Maybe radio. Doubt the other two.

When I saw them offering apprenticeships to disabled people a few years ago, the roles involved relocation to Birmingham or London IIRC.

They do have schemes, but you have to be young to be willing to go through the whole flatshare relocation thing. Asking disabled people to do that shows terrible understanding of many of their situs.

If you're good with a camera you can try getting into the NHU as a freelancer, but that's ultracompetitive.

Goldman started advertising their autistic employees about a dozen years back: https://www.goldmansachs.com/careers/blog/posts/dane-holmes-embracing-neurodiversity.html

If you've already the qualifications for an internship, I think it's open to debate how helpful they are. Would you have got a similar job elsewhere anyway... Not saying they're without merit, just wondering about the conversion ratio. Goldman's PR utilisation leaves a bad taste with me.

What you can say for the BBC is that they have tons of roles in lots of different areas. They are a strong employer. Actually applying for a job with them seems like a fine idea.

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Replying to Brooks and Gurt, I find online tutorials so much more useful than anything on TV. The Repair Shop's a great example of something that should be right up my street, but it's still rooted in the human-interest format of yore, with too little time given to the processes involved.

GurtTractor wrote:

I thinking in terms of what younger generations than most of us here are watching, I don't know the figures but I have a strong suspicion that most people under maybe 25 couldn't give less of a shit about ITV, or most of the other channels tbh. Youtube, Netflix, Twitch, and other streaming services are just too strong and offer exactly what they want.

About that Gummidge redux...

As a child of the '80s, me and my working-class mates grew up feeling unrepresented by child actors on TV. By our standards, they were always incredibly posh. So I can imagine how much worse that felt for kids of colour.

Had Gummidge cast white kids it would've been racist, and that sounds odd at first. Seems a very superficial thing. But in an otherwise all-white cast (not counting the scarecrows!), having white kids would've Blytoned the Timmy out of it.

(Gonna mention watching Blue Remembered Hills as a young 'un with my dad, and wondering why the characters were all mentally handicapped...)

Because it's such an idealised version of the countryside, there's no way to avoid appealing to racist viewers with white kids. If any talented ones auditioned, I hope they get other stuff instead. But I love seeing Susan and John running around our fields and lanes.

The Darling Buds of May's new Charlie's upset people, with the usual cries of tokenism, forgetting that Charlie was always an outsider, and both versions are perfectly in keeping with that.

It's back-to-front that these little progressive moves are happening in programmes mostly watched by older viewers, having lost so many younger ones through tardiness in delivering inclusion. I'd think it a shame if I felt the BBC deserved their patronage more often.

Pride and Pred could do one in '95, never mind Downton!

poprock wrote:

nick_md wrote:

It's true Only Connect Victoria Coren is loved the world over, I'm sure.

She's less offensive than her paedo brother.

davyK wrote:

Incidentally there are some superb YT history channels that I really enjoy. Some of those guys could be next gen of presenter if BBC went looking.

The trouble is that they get used to a freer platform, and it's not like there's no money in it any more. If I were doing summat on the tubes and had an offer from BBC/ITV, I'd ask how much control I'd have. Were they interested in my content, or just after my name.

There are lots of talented people online, though, you're right. Many of whom could do cool things with bigger budgets. But if the BBC were a gamedev, I feel it's Molyneux.

Yossarian wrote:

The government just had huge chunks of its anti-protest bill shot down by the Lords. Because they decided to add them to the bill after the parliamentary debate in order to try and avoid scrutiny, they may not be able to reintroduce them.

Win!

Yea I read that, brilliant news

To be fair to the Lords, they do often do the right thing.

There are parts of this that can’t be reintroduced due to how the government introduced them in the first place.

Yossarian wrote:

To be fair to the Lords, they do often do the right thing.

Who's who of shits, mind.

Cheers it’s still not clear tbh. From my reading of it, it’s anything that was snuck in at the 11th hour? He seems to imply the dodgy stop and search amendment and the noise amendments have been sunk.

Raab showing all of the intellect that he’s famous for by saying, on national TV, that having a beer in a work setting, the exact thing that the Tories have been claiming Starmer should apologise for, is not against the rules.

https://twitter.com/BestForBritain/status/1483382856143486980