Kieran Hurley

the picture used in this article about the social ills of junk food advertising has made me want to buy and eat six (6) cheeseburgers

Local master spin doctor here

If you can manage a bit of retrospective football following, the brief dispute between him and then Celtic captain Scott Brown when he played for Rangers is worth a look for a cheering story of a silly dickhead having his arse handed to him

He is a thug and a walloper. Once upon a time there was a short-lived effort to position him as the thinking man's hard act because he liked The Smiths. Just a deeply embarrassing individual who would be hilarious if he wasn't actually dangerous

Sarah Sackman: "The British governments position is clear, we want to see a de-escalation of this conflict"

.. and that's why we're allowing the US to use British military bases to bomb Iran!

Sackman & the govt are treating us like fools.

Nice! Thanks!

Helpful insight, thank you

Generous of you. And yeah, this was the early days and it really felt like the "refusal to rule out" was only likely heading one way. But I jumped the gun a bit and happy to admit it!

You and me, we'd refuse to do this. We'd refuse to pretend it was unknown who hit the school, that it wasn't even suggested the yanks did it. We wouldn't struggle to answer the question of whether of not incinerating a school full of children was a war crime.

They do it, though.

Have to eat some shit on this one tbf don't I. Starmer's position is weak and complicit but it's evidently not this

Thinking about how a populist protest-song artist like Country Joe would, in today's irony-poisoned culture, likely be dismissed as cringe and corny, and concluding that the effects of postmodernism have been deeply reactionary

Two self-satisfieds. Fuck off. Didn't read back. Sickened and fuming and logging off

These people make me sick.

For years we have had the supposed virtues of "grown-up politics" shoved down our throats as a front for an empty managerial administration of unchallenged power. This is where it leads. Some self-satisified briefcase dickhead on TV self-satisfyingly rationalising the massacre of schoolgirls.

In no way should we even begin to accept the bombing of a school full of children as part of the inevitable "realities of war" and anyone engaged in trying to convince you otherwise is a proponent of a grave and catastrophic evil

Even more interesting!

Have looked up the opinions of Sopranos fans on the internet who assure me this was genius and who am I to argue

Very interesting, thank you so much for sharing and explaining!

What is the significance of the missing e? (I don't speak German)

Groundbreaking television

Not even like a montage or anything, just - look, here is Chrissy's baby being baptised, and here too then are the Mancunian spoken word stylings of the Bard of Salford, on the specific theme of the drudgery of working class life in 1980s Britain

Been watching the Sopranos and in season 6 there's a scene of a baptism that they've decided to soundtrack with 'Evidently Chickentown' by John Cooper Clarke for some reason

Never in doubt Caridad!

fuckin ay

87 people killed in that attack btw. Pretty sure we even attempted to rescue Nazi sailors when we sunk their u-boats like

Hahahaha

I was in it the night before it went down! It had a lovely sunken dance floor/balcony situation, but I also saw someone set their face on fire with a flaming sambuca shot, so you know, maybe we bring these tragedies upon ourselves.

Same building housed both establishments simultaneously I believe!

It certainly didn't have the reputation of a place I wanted to rush to

Haha same here and for the same reason! Though I really can't claim anything like a spotless record on this front in my first year of uni and had it not burned down...