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The only character we need to see more of is Dexter Jexter

I thought The Man In The High Castle was a mid show with some proper great performances (the ones mentioned by the OP) and not bad world building on a loose concept. Lord of the Rings is a better movie than books thanks to Jackson trimming a lot of the fat and understanding what made the books good. Those movies ruined blockbusters for me though by showing 20 years on how lazily made most blockbusters are. The first four seasons of The Expanse is better than the books but I think that’s because the writers were still figuring out their writing chops. By book 5 I think the writers of the books started nailing it. American Psycho movie much better than the graffiti scribbler. I wouldn’t say it’s better but Annihilation is a good adaptation and a type I wish there was more of where the director takes their own direction instead of faithfully following the novel.

Actual Tories are welcome in the Labour Party but not Jeremy Corbyn or Ken Loach. Make sure you give your backing though and STFU.

That’s a fuckin wummin yur talkin about

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I think at the moment it's Cameron. Johnson edges it clearly on optics but the coalition wrecked untold levels of disaster on this country and it hasn't been fully reckoned with. Johnson has laid the groundwork for a lot of reckless and horrific policy to go through though. Every PM since Thatcher has been a disaster for this country, however.

I don't think it's a surprise that Russia continue to interfere in their neighbours given they were made all these assurances that NATO wouldn't expand east and it subsequently did. There's no reason for Russia to trust anything more than its own expansion.

Why are they trying to do that ?

A quick Google suggests they’ve paid more than the annual budget for Scotland

Momentum should be attacking the leadership for abandoning the pledges which got them elected especially when they’re popular and good policies and even more so when we’re years away from Labour’s poll lead actually meaning anything.

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Aye for me it’s a mix of living in a smaller space with too many distractions and also working with a lot of people my age that I enjoy seeing on a regular basis.

The new leadership couldn’t fight those cases because they spent years insisting the previous leader of their own party was an existential threat to Jewish people so they could fight factional battles. The idea that it was the fault of the left is quite funny. The new leadership made their own bed here in shedding the membership numbers, alienating the unions, and paying off everyone they could to avoid awkward questions about their previous conduct. Ofc the Detourneys of the world will say it’s by design to make the party more reliant on wealthy donors but I’m not convinced. I think they just want to be in control of the ashes much like Scottish Labour up here. Corbyn recovered well enough hence why they prevented a majority in 2017 and were clearly in the ascendancy for much of 2017-2018. There won’t be a leadership challenge anyway. Everyone who matters has what they want and the left are largely deid in Labour with no one to rally round. Momentum’s emails atm are desperate stuff.

The chase scene is so funny. I have no idea what the rationale for the lethargic pace was other than thinking boring nerds would moan about them being able to manoeuvre at high speed.

Changing the way Drummer ends up there by having Holden pull a Holden was great writing. Fair play to the writers. By and large that’s how you do an adaptation. Often faithful but being happy to make changes where required. A great series and I would be happy with it ending there unless it gets picked up by someone who does it justice.

they should do this here

The right think the BBC is biased because there's black people and gays on the TV. The left thinks it's biased because they keep appointing top Conservatives to senior positions and repeating Tory Party talking points verbatim. These have the same validity apparently. This is a very smart take.

Tbf to the current dweeb as well they aired a segment with Keir and “former Labour voters” where one of them literally admitted they couldn’t mind the last time, if ever, they had voted for Labour. You could spend all day pointing out the ways they’ve shown utter contempt for marginalised voices. A trans friend of mine shared some insane transphobia from the last 12 months that reads like the worst of the gay panic in the 80s. Anyway, it’s fine we have the smug brigade on to dig that grave even deeper.

It's about getting the right-wing press back onside.

The Beeb had two major tests of its impartiality in the Scottish Independence Referendum and Corbyn's tenure as leader of the Labour Party and it fucked the both of them. There's plenty of credible arguments to be made about the need for the BBC but the people who could've made those arguments from a position of power have been purposely shoved out of public life and the BBC played no small part in facilitating that. Labour's previous proposals to reform the press and the BBC itself would've benefitted the corporation but it chose to throw itself at the mercy of lunatics like Nadine Dorries so that's a shame for them. Can't say they weren't warned.

You literally asked him if he preferred the Labour government of the 70s

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Apparently they played Hulk Hogan's Real American after.

You and all the other libs can go and fight for it then.

Giggling to themselves about Labour setting about "nationalising sausages" well good luck to them maybe they can ask Nadine Dorries if she wants to denationalise the national broadcaster.