Phil Harrison

What’s that you say? Liz has a new book out which even the Telegraph is saying is even more unhinged than the last one? Wonderful, I’ll post this then.

As in Hungary, the authoritarian regime in Serbia is being dismantled . “For years, we failed to fulfill our duty. We kept silent, turned a blind eye, reported events one-sidedly, and failed to ask the necessary questions. For that, we owe our viewers an apology,” news anchor Goran Eror said.

Yep

Because we spend so much time talking about what a cunt Donald Trump is, we probably don't spend enough time talking about how fucking thick he is.

Obviously this is outrageous in terms of partiality. But it's also yet another argument against rolling news. Rolling news has *so much* time to fill. Things like this must be a godsend for producers but it's really unhealthy for our discourse. If the BBC has to make cuts, it should bin News 24.

Fascinated by Restore's taste for hilariously shoddy AI. I love how this bloke's family - including his small children - have gathered in the doorway of their house to watch dad slaughter a possible intruder in cold blood. A delightful childhood memory in the making.

It's actually quite hard to get as few as 23 points in an FPL week. But somehow, I seem to have managed it...

He looks like a fading crime boss who gets murdered at the end of episode one of an underwhelming ITV Sunday night thriller.

This is great and overdue. Now what Oxford Street needs is fewer weird American candy and vape shops. This will make it nicer to visit - next step is actually giving people a reason to go there.

Bolsonaro has refused to concede defeat because of course he has. Always the same with these fashy dickheads. They accuse their opponents of cheating because their cheating didn't work this time. Every accusation is a confession. Always.

Lula: "We had to overcome foreign interference through digital platforms, which we will have to regulate. A crime in the digital world must be treated the same as a crime in the real world. We cannot have monstrous companies earning millions... not paying taxes... wanting to steer elections."

Dare we dream that right wing populism is dying? Probably not but it's a fucking good night.

Bravo Serbia!

We are watching a coup d’état attempt unfold in real time in Brazil. I’m consumed by desperation.

Give it to Thomas Frank. #mufc

A friend of mine is a fireman and I normally ask him if he's rescued any cats from trees lately. Last one was 6 months ago, they generally send the owner in to make tea then turn one of the smaller hoses on the cat until it climbs down. Cats don't actually get stuck in trees

Autechre were a remarkable amount of fun last night and well worth trekking across a windy, saturated London for. Much more banging than last time I saw them.

I'd take it though.

Going out this evening, to a venue on the other end of town which I'm not completely sure how to get to, and for fuck's sake, look at it out there. LOOK AT IT!!

Traditional moaning aside: LOADS OF THINGS. We're now less violent, less racist, less sexist and less homophobic. Plus, we smell better and we eat miles better food. We're in a blip now and who knows how long it will last? But I feel like underlying trends (over decades, not years) are leaning up.

Slightly banal observation: Leigh-Anne is really nice. She listens to people and tries to cheer them up. I hope she wins. #TheTraitors

The immigration doom loop, summed up here by @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This has the potential to be extremely funny.

If you're in Portsmouth, you know where to go.

Make racists scared again. www.theargus.co.uk/news/2665180...

We do not talk about this enough. A whole generation of people - who came of age in the 80s and early 90s - got a massive social and financial leg-up. And they responded to that by pulling up the drawbridge.

Ahead of quite a busy working-from-home week, I've woken up to find next door have got builders in. They're clattering around, shouting, banging stuff, listening to the radio... Good times.

This Reform Undercover thing is wild. Whether or not these recordings were obtained ethically, they're saying what they're saying. They are monstrous, racist, misogynistic, predatory cunts and we can't let them anywhere near power.

Tommy got gently, kindly, beautifully owned here.

I had a horrible feeling it would go like this. We've been a bit sloppy in possession but ManU are never going to roll over for #lufc.

Come on then Leeds!! Into these crisis club dickheads!!!

That is spot on. The other thing: art is trying to say 'no one has done this/said this in exactly the same way before' whereas AI is saying 'art is nothing more than the sum of all its previous component parts'. AI denies the empathy and originality of art.

Yeah man, last time I was in a situation like that, I wasn't driving a Roadster and I just plunged into the river. It was shit.

Watching Time on BBC. Fuck it's intense. Every episode is like an hour-long panic attack.

Drifting into the arena of needing to put the heating on...

I was talking to my dad about this weird, almost subliminal stolen valour. He's 87. He can *just about* remember VE Day.

As a symbol of our deeply stupid, deeply toxic era - in politics and in media - this works pretty well. Surely the people this is aimed at can see the contempt with which they are being treated?