Tim Burrows
@timburrows
Writer, Guardian and others. The Invention of Essex is published by Profile Books: Guardian profile: Linktree: Agent: ZRoss@unitedagents.co.uk
This looks like a sixth form drama production of a political satire called 'The Coalition', penned by the drama teacher who is also playing Nick Clegg (right), and starring the school's least popular prefect as David Cameron
I was on BBC just after Farage's speech. He lied about the police and referred to himself in the third person. I called it the most arrogant political speech I'd ever seen, and then they brought in John Curtice and we discussed. It isn't on iPlayer so all I have is this grab of me looking knackered
Entirely in keeping with the Murdoch dynasty. I remember reading when visiting Australia a decade ago about Rupert's dad, Keith Murdoch, who made up a hoax about Germans turning enemy soldiers into margarine in order to force Australia into the first world war www.independent.co.uk/news/media/k...
Kinell, it feels like Igor Tudor's team selection vs Atletico Madrid away will be the subject of the next Moral Maze at this rate
Proof the presence of George Osborne can ruin anything, even the Bayeux fucking Tapestry
Doubt you are a fan but regardless - this compilation is the best Jam album
Sometimes I wake up in a cold sweat in the middle of the night and have to check whether David Cameron really did launch the Tory austerity programme in 2010 – where the poorest 10th of the population saw a 38% decrease in net income over 5 years – with the slogan 'We're all in this together'.
Least surprising defection so far: MP for Romford who wanted to make his constituency great again by holding a referendum to take it out of Greater London to become part of Essex again for the first time since 1965 despite no one particularly calling for it.
"All violence is an attempt to replace shame with self-esteem." That Jon Ronson line on Katie Hopkins is now United States national security strategy
One of the striking outcomes of post-2016 politics is how it has turned politicians into content makers who believe that the minutiae of their lives are somehow of interest to the public - whereas really it should be the other way around
In which we segue from an aside on the 'beauty' of living through the holocaust to comparing her work to the Queen lying in state because they both encourage long queues. I like to think the piece was filed in fragments, with Michael Gove piecing it together as Max Brod did with Kafka's The Trial
We need a long read on the post-punk archeology of Starmerism, how its detachment lay not in any deep lying discomfort with a role he felt he was born to have, but just his love of groups like Josef K
My latest working theory about the fact Starmer *simply can never look directly at the camera* is it is a hangover from his much-reported obsessive infatuation with 1980s post-punk bands such as Orange Juice
Excited to announce the first London screening of We Are Making a Film About Mark Fisher, a film I have been helping with this past year. I'm in conversation with Andy Beckett (who features in the fim) afterwards. 30 October, Good Shepherd Studios, Leytonstone: www.tickettailor.com/events/weflo...
I heard you fight fascism by simply saying: 'Sir! Your deportation numbers! They simply do not stack up!'
Of all the former Tory ministers I'd have had down as a Weimar fantasist, it would have been Gove tbf
Absolutely love these @thequietus.com Baker's Dozen selections from Jack Barnett of These New Puritans, including this on the Columbo soundtrack. thequietus.com/interviews/b...
Torode's agent furiously sending voice notes to the producer as Nick Knowles is unveiled. 'John *IS* Malbec in this country, and you fucking know that, Iain.'
Another inauspicious omen for Labour courtesy of my transcripton software