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Another one of those pro Government YouGov polls showing how Labour are ruining this country

The only things I remember that were cheap was beer, coke, Ugi’s pizza and steak.

Great explainer on Four Tet’s royalties case
https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1539304447607812098?s=21&t=xBYyo6N34ixlR5HyfmDvSg

The only things I remember that were cheap was beer, coke, Ugi’s pizza and steak.

I stumbled across some receipts yesterday. Will DM you for the sake of memory lane.

interesting thanks

Please inject Mick Lynch telling Jonathan Gullis "this dispute won't be solved by a backbench MP reading lines off a script" directly into my veins

He is gloriously refeshing. It strikes me that what makes him so effective is that he knows his industry and he believes in his principles, so put him up against straw man tv interviewers and tories who'll say anything that keeps them in a job and he absolutely levels them cos once you push back with facts there's nothing behind any of them. It's great to watch.

Strange one that - I was working in music royalties 10 years ago & could have sworn this issue was dealt with back then, maybe it didn't filter through to the indies.

The amount of royalties shenanigans the labels used to get up to though, I've seen packaging & breakage deductions applied to downloads as well as record sales!

Also on newsnight telling some tory that he is a liar over and over again. Was good.

could have sworn this issue was dealt with back then

Eminem, 2009.

I think it's been dealt with as and when people complain. Don't think any of the majors have agreed to anything like 50% though.

He was great, he basically showed yesterday how rubbish our media is and that they melt in the face of someone who knows what they are talking about and has conviction

Kay Burley lost it completely this morning.

https://twitter.com/brokenbottleboy/status/1539162820956377088?t=ls3Mf62ksob8NgWKMHrVQA&s=19

Then she said on Twitter that he got flustered trying to answer her. Absolute fantasy land.

yikes that is a shit show

Then the RMT twitter account took a pop as well
https://twitter.com/RMTunion/status/1539288514147364864

Kay Burley blocked me on twitter for saying she was an awful journalist. I didn't even @ her.

Your reputation obviously precedes you...

So does hers, actually.

something something Madness in her eyes something.

Plus this! ✊

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Richard Madely going the full Partridge "Are you a Marxist?"

When you can be right on one issue and completely clueless on another

"Don't be Putin's friend - return to the talks today" re. strikes
https://twitter.com/KayBurley/status/1539522457236799493

Little dig at the miners as well. In the sea with her.

The RMT strike is interesting as an example of something 4 years ago would absolutely have brought massive disruption but now millions of people can just go "oh well, I'll work from home again".

I don't know whether demonstrating a strike can't cause disruption like it used to is good or bad for RMT. It's not annoying enough for public uproar for a settlement and the Tories+media chums trying to paint them as radicals is also failing. I think this will go to extra time and penalties.

On balance it is surely a good thing, as it is primarily hurting the operators rather than the public?