Thom Beckett

a weird set of people who only exist online are people who celebrate the defeat of global fascism in every other country and are then horrified and appalled at the idea that they should also be expected to vote for their domestic opponent of global fascism if some of their stances are Problematic

Norway should use this for a “visit Norway” ad.

A newspaper promising the first images of pedestrianised Oxford Street used a single screenshot from a traffic camera. Now, why didn't I think of that when I spent two cold hours on Oxford Street last night? www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/las...

Great film. Amazing performance. It’s worth watching, and it’s free!

Whatever happens in Brazil, I don’t understand why people will support politicians who didn’t respect the result of the last election (or in this case, his son). You wouldn’t have thought that “attempted coups should be disqualifying” would be controversial but here we are.

This graph shows the efficacy of austerity too. The poorest in society went through all that, our state is falling apart and it didn’t even achieve anything of what the stated intent was.

Big fan of the bright pink Pakistan kit for today’s ODI. Works well with their green.

I’m beginning to wonder if this baby even knows the clocks have changed.

if you ever happen to see someone post a joke you don't understand or discuss a subject you aren't familiar with, you are well within your right to complain, and perhaps even scold them if necessary. you are their customer and you have rights

Yes, why do people choose to stay in countries that are (broadly) well run, look after their citizens, and where there aren’t any wars? It’s a mystery for the ages.

“He’s got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened up a Cheesecake Factory” — Obama

“How much time do you think this defense secretary spends looking in the mirror in the morning? These are not serious people” — Obama’s audience in Ohio is hanging on every word as he skewers Trump and Hegseth

There’s lots wrong with the film Troy. More than I could fit in to a tweet, but central to it is how utterly abysmal Brad Pitt’s acting is.

I guess we’re going to have to say goodbye to this era of governments chosen by highly educated women. Examples are everywhere, I’m sure, but none immediately leap to mind.

If he’d been asked which of these animals is a giraffe, he’d have been fine.

Who will rid HR of those meddlesome priests?

holy shit this is actually brilliant

There is something deeply wrong with allowing a sociopath from South Africa to kill thousands of kids in Africa and Ukraine just because he has a lot of money.

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Kind of shows he could have pushed back for the last two as well though, no?

A Daft Punk / Lego collaboration? Yes please. www.lego.com/en-gb/catego...

University of Nottingham, right now, is cutting 560 jobs. Do we need to rebrand universities as very large, very clean, land-based oil rigs to get government support?

* "New America”

is Britain full or not, i can never remember

I guess previous presidents spent a lot more time doing the bits of the job the public don’t see. Because besides everything else awful about him this is an absurd way for a president to spend his extremely scarce time.

Angine de Poitrine. Absolutely rocked it.

Loving these Angine de Poitrine pumpkins (from Reddit: www.reddit.com/r/AngineDePo...)

This is disgusting. But even though this is presumably what Trump wanted to happen, seems inevitable (and indeed desirable) that control over where Starlink operates will be taken over by the US government. Absolutely insane that Musk could make this decision privately.

For money stolen by crooked politicians, even with him bringing up the average, trillions is ridiculously high. You might get to a few trillion by including basically all government fraud for decades but just crooked politicians, absolutely not.

What does Kemi Badenoch think the level of immigration should be? Is everybody in the media & politics going to act surprised when the year to June 2026 statistic (on Nov 26th) falls below net 100k for first time this century Best estimate of net migration *now* (4th Q 2026) is zero, or negative

When you’ve done something so stupid that even Don Jr has noticed, you’ve really fucked up.

Why do bad things happen to… people?

Could Hannah Fry's plan to unmask Traitors using data have worked?

Watching Children of Men with my tiny human snoozing on me is an experience.

I dunno. I feel pretty sure they wouldn’t.

No-one’s asking white people if they’ll disavow the Jedward brothers and I think that’s very telling.

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A thing that might be a lifesaver more often would be “doors you can open easily in an emergency”. In this situation I’d be inclined to use the brakes.

Joe Hart casually dropping the word “aggressivity” on Match of the Day.

Another triumph for Starmer. I think firing Robbins without cause was the moment Whitehall completely lost faith in him.