If you have not spent a great deal of time on the internet, you will probably know the British actress Jameela Jamil for her starring role in the popular comedy series The Good Place, or alternatively from her appearance in the Marvel miniseries She Hulk: Attorney at Law.
However, for the terminally online, Jamil is either a savior who is unafraid to say controversial things that her peers would shy away from, or someone whose batshit crazy utterances are given far too much attention given her modest celebrity status.
The latest of her pronouncements is on Brexit, ten years on, along with sundry instances of racism and horror in her home country. Jamil declared that “Britain is fucked. It doesn’t feel as though I’m going back to some haven. There’s literally a race war happening now.. Brexit paved the way for American chaos.”
For good measure, she also declared in the Yestergays podcast with Justin Sylvester,“I had to make [her Good Place] character Tahani more of a bitch. Americans think British people are so sweet, which is crazy because British people are truly the most evil people in history.”
Jamil went on to declare that Britain owed £43 trillion in reparations to India, as well as saying that “We colonized the world. Rich British people are not likable to anyone. They are horrible.”
Could be much worse through — back in 2005, Glenn quoted an Insta-reader who noted that “Harry Turtledove had an excellent short story, ‘The Last Article,’ about how Gandhi would have fared in a Nazi occupied India. It’s a short story. Both in context and content.” As Glenn replied, “Yes, I read that. Some of the Nazis feel slightly guilty about killing him and his followers.”
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez pushed back Wednesday on GOP accusations that her fellow democratic socialists will drive into Congress a communist agenda, saying Republicans “are seeking to usher in a new McCarthyism for this era.”
“Their only way in a time of deep unpopularity is to try to stoke fear and new conspiracies. And so they’re trying to inject conversations about communism to scare people,” Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, New York Democrat said, before ticking off DSA policies she supports, including Medicare for all, raising the minimum wage and stronger unions.
“If a Republican wants to call a stronger union ’communist,’ they’re more than welcome to do that. I’m not going to be deterred,” she said.
That’s what frightens the rest of us — we remember your “ban all the things” Green Nude Eel phase in 2019, and believe you still very much want to implement every bit of it.
Exit question:
The communist question for political office is brutally simple:
How can someone swear to support and defend the Constitution while openly seeking to destroy the constitutional order it created?
Believing vile things is protected. Advocating lawful constitutional change is… https://t.co/GWP4pdm8gH
Ed Morrissey adds, “The US Navy has done what it can to protect ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz, but the IRGC still has the capacity to attack commercial ships, and that is effectively closing the Strait despite Trump’s attempts to keep it open. If he can’t stop the attacks, oil will soar once again past the $100 mark, and this time global reserves won’t be able to buffer those effects. Bridge and Power Day may not be sufficient to end this quickly enough to prevent real economic damage. It might be time for Infrastructure Week instead.”
Before this year ends, Grok Imagine will make a full-length movie of The Odyssey that is historically accurate and true to the art of Homer https://t.co/bVHzUmY9WN
And I believe him. In fact, it’s something I’ve predicted would happen for some time. As I wrote back in February:
I would not be surprised — and I’d put my money on — hit movies and serials hitting platforms like YouTube that are completely AI-generated, and made by people like little Timmy, who put the film together between homework and dino nuggies. A housewife may create one of the greatest rom-coms ever after she puts her kids to bed for the night. A sitcom created by a blue-collar worker could spring up that takes the world by storm.
Hollywood will have nothing to do with it. It’ll be all regular people like you and me.
Hasan Piker, the leftist influencer, has millions of followers across Twitch, YouTube, and other platforms. And so it is not without interest that he has described Mao as “one of the great leaders of this world” and that, when challenged about this, he conceded that “there was a lot of f***ing excesses, let’s be real, but. . . .”
Ah yes, there is always a “but.”
The “but” in this case was that “the People’s Republic of China would not exist without Mao Zedong.”
True enough. Then again there were tens of millions of Chinese who would have existed for quite a bit longer were it not for Mao or his republic. And many of those did not meet their deaths because of yet another catastrophic communist “reform,” but because they were, in one way or another, murdered.
The easy response to Piker’s comments is to write him off as a provocateur or a nut. But the wiser course is to take him seriously, to believe that he either believes what he says or, at least, that he wants his followers to believe what he says. If that’s so, he will want them to agree with his comment about the greatness of Mao, and to join with him in dismissing those millions of dead as “excesses,” a blot on a glorious record. It’s an old argument. To borrow from a notorious phrase, those millions were the eggs broken to make an omelet.
In addition to the fine art of omelet making, Piker also enjoys celebrating urban renewal:
Okay. I can accept this. If “The Nazi propaganda starts when people say Mao is worse than Hitler” as you say, then it’s not propagandistic to say that Mao was merely almost as bad as Hitler.
Now, I think the “which genocidal murderer was the worst” game can get pretty stupid,… https://t.co/zptsycLLlM
Tweet continues, “Now, I think the ‘which genocidal murderer was the worst’ game can get pretty stupid, because people often seem to think that coming in second or third to Hitler absolves mass murderers of any condemnation. I think you can come up way short of Hitler and still deserve to be remembered as a monster who deserves to burn in Hell. Let’s say of the 40 million people you concede Mao killed — just not on purpose (lol)— he only killed 1 percent deliberately. That’s really generous. It also means he deliberately murdered 400,000 people. Doesn’t that count as disqualifying for our esteem and admiration? Or are you one of those guys that thinks liquidating a few kulaks is the price you have to pay for power?”
THE CORBYNIZATION OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY CONTINUES APACE:
Mark Ruffalo says he’s done talking to Jewish actors.
Hey Mark, if that’s really how you feel, maybe you should stop playing the Hulk too. After all, the character was created by two Jewish legends, Stan Lee and Jack Kirby.
Hasan Piker, like Zohran Mamdani, like all of the Manson family girlies who fawn all over them, were raised in American schools amid Critical Race and Gender Theory, the so-called “real history” they indoctrinated our kids with. Now we are seeing the fruits of their labor.
It’s Joseph McCarthy’s ultimate nightmare finally realized. Maybe it wasn’t true that the military was infested with Commies, but if it came back to today, he’d see evidence of infiltration everywhere, from culture to academia to politics.
No, I don’t want to censor Hasan Piker, but sometimes you have to wonder, once again, where all of this is going and what, if anything, we can do about it without violating the Constitution. Now, the Communist hunters like Richard Nixon aren’t looking so wrong.
I barely learned about the dangers of Stalin when I grew up on the Left. We romanticized Communism and ignored the horrors of mass murder, gulags, and oppression of free speech. Even now, the Left sees 1984 as Donald Trump’s America, not theirs.
With heart and soul, Cronkite went to work on the documentary “1984 Revisited” (a CBS Reports special that aired in prime time on June 7, 1983). Reading George Orwell’s classic novel 1984, published in 1949, had been a revelation for Cronkite. He was stunned by Orwell’s raw insights into both Hitler’s Germany and Stalin’s Russia. To Cronkite, the dystopian 1984 was prescient in showing that America’s civil liberties were being gutted by a right-wing agenda.
Concurrently, plenty of lefties convinced themselves that the film adaptation of George Orwell’s 1984 that starred John Hurt and Richard Burton was a searing indictment of Margaret Thatcher’s Tories, despite the fictitious totalitarian regime’s ideological portmanteau, Ingsoc, serving as an abbreviation of the words “English Socialism,” as a way to project Stalinism, circa 1948, further into the post-WWII future, and into Orwell’s beloved England.
In 2012, Behar still wouldn’t shut up about the 2000 election even though it was fully legitimate. In an interview with disgraced former New York Governor and prostitute aficionado Eliot Spitzer (D), she griped: “I’m still ticked off about the 2000 election.” Adding, “I’m still ticked off about the 2000 election.”
It was rich for Hostin to open her mouth about it too because she spent years insisting that Trump’s victory in 2016 was illegitimate, only to change her mind six years later when her friend Karine Jean-Pierre was getting flack for spewing the same non-sense.
Just last month, Hostin argued that it was understandable for people to be suspicious of the results of the 2024 presidential election.
Additionally, throughout 2025, The View repeatedly suggested Trump stole the 2024 presidential election, without evidence and without even a theory about how it could have been done.
Over the years, Behar has repeatedly and erroneously casted doubt on every Republican electoral victory. In 2023, she asserted that the only why Republicans win elections was by “cheating.”
The auteur behind “The Odyssey” leaned on feminist author Emily Wilson’s translation of Homer’s epic poem to shape his film. That’s the honor of a lifetime, full stop. And, apparently, Nolan’s stamp of approval led to her book climbing the charts anew.
She called some of the film’s messaging “incoherent,” questioned the absence of Zeus and Poseidon and attacked Penelope, a key character played by Anne Hathaway.
Wilson even found the dog portrayed in the film as pandering of the highest order.
Best of all? She gave the film’s marketing team the worst quote possible to use on the movie poster moving forward.
I didn’t feel it was pulling teeth to engage with it.
A simple “thank you” note would have sufficed. Instead, she found the nearest rhetorical dagger and plunged it into Nolan’s back.
Emily Wilson is palpably disappointed that the Odyssey wasn't a masculine blood orgy she could spend the next 10 years criticizing. https://t.co/lnS2YhQabN
“The film presents an Odysseus who feels very bad about things that he’s done in war, and is struggling to process them in a very modern, psychiatrised way – and needs drugs to do so! He seems to feel bad about being a warrior, and we never actually see him get to do much warrioring … Nolan makes the protagonist a likeable, all-American hero; Homer’s Odysseus wants glory, and he wants to get spoils from the sack of a city! I kept looking in vain for a sense that this was a film about glory. This is a film that has an interest in shame, but I don’t think it has any interest in glory.”
The Delta House would like a word here:
While the Critical Drinker loves to riff on Hollywood screenwriters arbitrarily going woke to appease mythical “modern audiences,” a literal interpretation of The Odyssey might not have made for an enjoyable night at the movies:
Was [Nolan] really supposed to show, among other things, the mythical Greek hero slaughtering unarmed suitors, ordering the execution of the household maids (after forcing them to clean up the gore from the massacre of suitors), sleeping around with nymphs, and abducting women from Cicones?
And we are supposed to believe that these gaps are offenses *against Western civilization*? That stringing up enslaved women by a ship’s cable or physical intimacy with a witch are what made the West great, such that it speaks to Nolan’s hostility to our own culture that he left them out? Please.
Now, the director does significantly soften Odysseus in ways that I think go too far, but, as has been widely noted, Nolan changes him in a generally in Christian direction, which isn’t anti-Western, either.
Citizen Vigilante star Armie Hammer is out spreading the word in Woke Hollywood that he considers his own movie to be “hateful” and “disgusting.”
“The first time he saw it, he was in tears,” someone described as a “source in Hammer’s camp” told the far-left Puck. “He called me and said, ‘Fuck. This is hateful, disgusting.’”
“I think he knew it certainly leaned toward the right, but Uwe works in a very frantic way,” the source added. “It’s not like he sent him a hundred-page script. When he saw the final product, he was, ‘That was not the movie I thought we made,’ and he freaked the fuck out.”
So this is the thanks Citizen Vigilante director Uwe Boll gets after he lifted a broke and broken Armie Hammer up out of the #MeToo Gulag and paid him $250,000 when, as Hammer himself pointed out, he was in such dire straits, “I would have done a fucking cat food commercial.”
What’s happening here is not rocket science…
Not at all. As John Nolte writes, the actor, who supported Biden-Harris in 2020, “is having these comments leaked to a left-wing publication like Puck because that’s how desperate he is to appease the very same people who blacklisted him over nothing more than five years ago.”
Last night, in a short video statement, Mamdani acknowledged that he has no authority, and never had any authority, to carry out his campaign promise.
“My administration has reviewed every avenue available under applicable law to determine whether New York City could execute the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant if Benjamin Netanyahu came here,” Mamdani said. “It is clear that we do not have the independent legal authority to enforce this warrant.”
No Shinola, Sherlock.
Nothing changed between last fall and now; the only difference is that the U.N. General Assembly is in two months, and Netanyahu intends to be there. (The Israeli leader may feel that he must attend the UNGA this year, to prove the point that no one has the authority to arrest him on U.S. soil.)
In the end, Mamdani is like the kid who runs for middle-school student council promising to replace the school lunches with McDonalds and Chick-fil-A and ban homework. He either didn’t know, or more likely, didn’t care that he didn’t have the authority to keep this promise; he just wanted the applause and to look like a tough guy.
Mamdani added, “The federal government, however, does [have the authority] — and I call on them to join the ICC and execute this warrant.”
No, the U.S. government does not have the authority to execute that warrant, at least not without repealing the American Servicemembers’ Protection Act and recognizing the authority of the ICC, which would give the ICC the authority to indict and arrest U.S. government officials and members of the military.
Roger Simon adds: International Criminal Court: Bad from the Start. “Israeli journalist Amit Segal and others have noted, Mamdani’s overstated attacks only serve to improve Netanyahu’s reelection chances.”
TRADING PLACES:
Karl Marx & Frederick Douglass were both born in 1818. Marx grew up in comfort, Douglass in chains. Marx thought the world owed him more comfort; Douglass only demanded liberty, & he'd do the rest. https://t.co/jRy659r5mT
Given that Nicaragua's dictator just announced no more elections, maybe it wasn't such a good idea for you to elect him to the U.N. committee overseeing human rights NGOs. https://t.co/1DZYCAD3K1
Related: “The quote you are thinking of is: ‘democracy is like a streetcar; you ride it until you reach your destination, then you get off.'”
“There will never be elections here again,” Mr. Ortega, 80, said at a government rally marking the 47th anniversary of his leftist movement’s revolution.”
My opinion: The quote you are thinking of is: "democracy is like a streetcar; you ride it until you reach your destination,…
Undoubtedly, the IRGC wants to find an untouchable facility for their (not so) secret work on nuclear weapons. However, if they waited until after Operation Midnight Hammer to move centrifuges and critical tasks, they may be prepping Pickaxe more as a place from which to start from square one. The Iranians did not get the chance to move material from Isfahan and Natanz before they provoked the Israelis into the Twelve Day War, and they wouldn’t have moved anything out of Fordow at all. The Iranian regime fully believed Fordow to be as impregnable as Pickaxe seems to be now, right up until Trump ordered a series of bunker-buster bombs dropped into its vents and demolished operations there. Afterward, the US has kept a very close eye on activity at all three sites, and Trump has himself shared the operating analysis that the Midnight Hammer bombing runs buried all of the material at those sites, including Iran’s highly enriched uranium.
The timeline suggests that the IRGC decided to create a second Fordow, as it were, rather than a replacement for it. That’s worrisome in itself, but they have had only six years to move what remained from the damaged centrifuges in the 2020 incident while operating their main development sites in parallel. The rapid increase in activity during the Twelve Day War and after Operation Midnight Hammer would likely be a reaction to losing the advanced operations entirely at the other locations, and an attempt to set up a new site where those could be rebuilt rather than just a relocation of those activities with full capacity. That’s still a bad development, although hardly unexpected from this regime.
So can we take Pickaxe off the board too? Last week, Trump told Hugh Hewitt that it’s already made the target list[.]
‘King of the North’ Andy Burnham to become 7th UK prime minister in a decade.
The 7th in ten years, dating back to David Cameron in 2016. By my count, only Burnham’s immediate predecessor, Keir Starmer, took office immediately following a general election.
Rep. Gill confronted the Director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History after we uncovered an exhibit that called Mickey racist for allegedly symbolizing blackface.
Flashback to 2020’s Summer of Love: And the Answer is None. None More Woke: The Smithsonian’s Anti-White Propaganda. “Did David Duke write this stuff? It’s crazy! If a white man said that black people are lazy, can’t keep to a schedule, have no respect for authority, can’t think straight, are rude, etc. — he would be rightly criticized as racist. But there it is, at the taxpayer-funded National Museum of African American History and Culture. Why? Why do we pay for this racist propaganda? The museum itself looks fantastic, but this is disgusting.”
The horse! That great military ruse, that glorious deception, that immaculate trick that continues to inspire us even today was, to its originator, nothing but original sin. In a rueful third-act speech, Odysseus laments that the cleverness of his tactics destroyed the natural bonds between people. The people of Troy were trusting and grateful for the gift, and he repaid their civility with death and destruction: He has become death, the destroyer of worlds.
If the sentiment—heck, even some of the exact words—sound familiar, it’s because Nolan has pondered them once before, in Oppenheimer, another film about another clever chap grappling with the aftermath of his destructive ingenuity.
All of this makes for great, modern drama. It also turns Odysseus into a great modern hero, a universal figure whose journey can be adapted and understood by anyone, anywhere, because it is, after all, a sojourn to understand those common creeds that make us all human. But Homer’s Odysseus, hallelujah, was never anything of the sort. He was a very specifically Greek hero, who lived by and fought for highly specific Greek virtues like kleos, or “glory,” and timē, or “honor,” virtues that, for centuries, guided and inspired the rest of Western civilization as well.
But to believe in such virtues, and to sacrifice so much to protect them, we must also believe that they are uniquely ours and that other cultures espouse other values that are sometimes incompatible with our own. We must believe, in short, that at any moment we may be overtaken by invaders who come from afar, from outside our borders, from outside our culture, who desire nothing but our subjugation and destruction, and that resisting them is key to our survival. Nolan’s Greeks spend much time fretting about such invaders—“the people from the sea”—only for his Odysseus to deliver the perfectly postmodern observation that the only real ruinous invader was he himself. If you’re wondering how this noble-sounding insight holds up to reality, pick up any book of ancient Greek history.
Nolan, sadly, picked up a very different book, Emily Wilson’s recent translation of The Odyssey, a project dedicated entirely to making Homer’s heroes come across as a gang of preening, pathetic poseurs afflicted with terminal toxic masculinity and in dire need of a smart woman to save them all from their superabundance of penis. That’s why the movie speaks in godawful modernese: In Wilson’s translation, for example, a timeless line like “Sing to me of the man, muse, the man of twists and turns” was flattened into “Tell me about a complicated man,” as if one was pleading not to the gods, but to one’s therapist; similarly, in Nolan’s film, Telemachus calls his father “dad.”
It’s a sin worthy of the gods’ ire, if the gods, that is, were anywhere to be found. Nolan banished them all off-screen. Sure, Zendaya has a few charming moments as Athena, but the world unfurling on-screen isn’t Homer’s world, with its pantheon of rageful, resentful, and magnificent deities moving the plot along. It is ours, a disenchanted world, a world in which some bearded zealots may offer a few prayers to some unseen eminence in the sky but that nonetheless rolls along of its own accord, with men, not gods, at the very center of things.
Read the whole thing.
Related: Talk about a Trojan Horse!
IMHO, a lot of conservatives are missing the Biblical forest for the woke trees in Nolan's Odyssey. Yes, the casting of Elliot Page is silly and egregious. But here's the thing: Nolan's "The Odyssey" is an apologia for Christian morality poured into a Greek vase.
Scarborough, 63, said the party was at risk of alienating voters if the support continues into the next Democratic presidential race.
‘I mean, there have been some extraordinarily loony ideas coming from some of these people that have actually won races and are going to be seated in Congress, most likely,’ the former Florida Republican said.
‘Like, you know, getting rid of prisons, getting rid of cops.’
Scarborough said such policies ‘didn’t work well for Democrats before’ and ‘didn’t work well for American cities, either.’
He warned that years of success seen since were at risk of becoming undone.
‘America is getting safer again, in good part because both parties have come to the conclusion that police officers are a good thing,’ the host proclaimed.
‘Police officers make communities safer, make our children safer, make our schools safer.’
Scarborough admitted that the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) organization was just ‘one extreme’ of a political spectrum that’s widened on both ends.
‘I guess my question is why the Democratic Party is so ill equipped to deal with those extremes, brush them off, and instead focus on candidates that are mainstream who are going to end up winning most of these primaries.’
Matthews came on after Democratic strategist James Carville went on a diatribe against Sanders, and as the MSNBC host made reference to that, he invoked the historical episode when the Germans overran the Maginot Line and forced France to surrender in the middle of World War II.
“It looks like Bernie Sanders is hard to beat right now,” Matthews said. “I’m with Carville all the way in terms of the dangers of what lies ahead in November. They’re sitting on so much oppo research on Bernie.”
A week later, Matthews was caught in a putsch, err, pushed out of MSNBC near the end of #MeToo’s reign of terror, but as Glenn wrote at the time, “In 2020, He’s Not Crazy Enough for Them…It’s really because he dissed Bernie. The rest is just window dressing.”
And speaking of crazy!
Fun facts about Mao's Little Red Book.
Ok, so first of all, it's not even a book in the sense of making an argument or whatever. It's not even a piece of propaganda. It's a collection of quotations allegedly from Mao Zedong. It's basically Brainy Quotes Mao Edition.
— James Lindsay, anti-Communist (@ConceptualJames) July 20, 2026
Exit question: Obama, Where Art Thou? “The day will come when Mr. Obama will have to speak for himself. He’ll have to take up the question posed in the famous labor union anthem, ‘Which Side Are You On?’ I think we know the answer, but it will be instructive to hear it from him.”
UPDATE:
In which Democrats voice concern that dropping all pretenses might not be viable election strategy https://t.co/27IdTKjr4Q
Controversial influencer Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan have been arrested in the US after British authorities issued 38 new charges against the pair.
The UK’s Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said Andrew was being charged with seven further counts of rape, as well as charges relating to sex trafficking and indecent images of a child.
Tristan’s charges include two counts of rape and three counts of arranging or facilitating trafficking for sexual exploitation.
The total number of charges against the brothers is now 59, police said.
Kamala Harris is running for president. She claims she “should have won” in 2024:
“She walks in as the front-runner. It is fairly obvious she is followed wherever she goes,” said one former aide. “And I don’t want to upset any narratives that any of the other candidates are pushing, but she comes in with 99 percent name ID and everyone else is going to have to raise money and buy it.”
It remains an article of faith among Harris’s tight-knit group of advisers that the 2024 race wasn’t winnable. Her polling lead was a mirage and did not square with what the campaign’s internal polls were showing. The compressed timeline after Biden dropped out of the race left her without enough time to appear as her own person, a particularly big problem when much of the public had tired of the president. And multiple former campaign staffers brought up the two assassination attempts against Trump as evidence that Harris’s loss was all but preordained.
…
“She is looking for where the wave is going and is determined to ride it,” said one supporter who had recently spoken with her and came away convinced that Harris is running in 2028. “Her mindset is that I should have won, and I am going to do it my way because my way would have won, and it was all these consultants that were telling me to take this position or that position, and it was their fault.”
The time —last week; the place — MTV. The interviewer asks: “Well, we know that you were into rock ’n’ roll when you were in high school, and we know that you play the guitar now. Are there any trends out there in music, or even in popular culture in general, that have piqued your interest?”
“Oh sure. I follow and I’m interested,” says John Kerry. “I’m fascinated by rap and by hip-hop. I think there’s a lot of poetry in it. There’s a lot of anger, a lot of social energy in it. And I think you’d better listen to it pretty carefully, ’cause it’s important. … I’m still listening because I know that it’s a reflection of the street and it’s a reflection of life.”
Really? You’re “fascinated” by rap and “listening” to hip-hop? You’re America’s first flip-flopper hip-hopper?
To pander to the Democrats’ base, Kamala is about to put Kerry’s flip-flops to shame over the next couple of years:
It's going to be something watching her take extreme positions in 2020 that made her unelectable, only to walk them all back in 2024, only to re-embrace them again in 2028 because her electorate has slid even further into crazy town. https://t.co/OFECD701I5
At a time when the internet-model was already cutting deeply into news media profits, [Nikki] Finke’s strategy [at Deadline.com] was something of a revelation. It’s easy to imagine that the legacy trades, Variety and THR, must’ve looked at what Finke was doing and thought, “we need to be doing that too.” Subscriptions fees were down and Trade ads were fading away. The obvious strategic pivot was to follow Finke’s lead and begin to tailor some coverage for a broader non-Hollywood audience which loved behind-the-scenes Hollywood stories combined with social media snark.
Into this volatile economic mix came deep-pocketed Media Mogul Jay Penske and his Penske Media Corporation who, over the course of about a decade, bought or otherwise assumed control of all three of the most well-known trade papers beginning with Nikki Finke’s Deadline site in 2009, three years after Twitter’s launch and one year before the debut of Instagram.
And with corporate ownership came corporate expectations.
FADE OUT:
SMASH CUT TO: 2026
Today the Hollywood Trade papers are not the same publications they were thirty years ago. To scan the digital home pages of the Trades now is to recall the heady days of clickbait driven sites and their “X destroys Y with this one simple comment” and “You won’t believe what just happened…” story formulations. The modern Trades often lean into stories designed not only to drive clicks, but to go viral on social media, and much of the original purpose of the Trade papers has been subverted.
QED:
Journey keyboardist Jonathan Cain blasts Bruce Springsteen as an “annoying, bitter old man” who should "shut up" when it comes to politics.
“I’m a diehard conservative… And guys like Bruce Springsteen should shut up. You know, really, honestly, shut up, Bruce, you know? Him… pic.twitter.com/3LLbyErl6N
I’m old enough to remember when Variety handled the film and TV industry, and Billboard covered the music industry (my dad bought both trade publications every week in the 1970s and ‘80s). This tweet is purely Variety trying to drum up clicks through wading into the culture wars, something it rarely if ever did during the Before Times.
Mr. Burnham’s new politics are the old politics that broke Britain in the 1970s, the lost decade of tax hikes, strikes, social decay, political extremism and a brain drain of talent. How will Mr. Burnham create his class-war time machine? By subsidizing reopened coal mines and shipyards under government management? Nationalizing British Airways (owned by an Anglo-Spanish conglomerate whose largest shareholder is state-owned Qatar Airways)? Seizing Heathrow airport from its French, Qatari, Saudi, Singaporean, Australian and Chinese proprietors?
What could possibly go wrong?
Bill Maher tells British comedian Jack Whitehall that England now spends more on welfare than it collects in income tax.
£333,000,000,000 out. £331,000,000,000 in.
MAHER: "England just got way too woke on a bunch of crazy shit… They passed a milestone where the amount of… pic.twitter.com/qc4VY9H0kR
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