But anyway the main reason to listen to this episode is to hear Dorian's mystic impression, which is *uncanny*.

The story of the Warrens - who the Conjuring films are based on - is particularly egregious. They exploit kids who are clearly having a mental breakdown. They insist murderers are not responsible for their crime because 'the devil made them do it'. And then Hollywood treats them as heroes.

New Origin Story: On the mad history of paranormal investigators. As with nearly every episode, we start with some faintly respectable Victorian types and end with a bunch of cynical charlatan American entrepreneurs, exploiting the stupid and the unwell for money.

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I'd say the chances are about 22%.

I've managed to sneak the gold standard into a column. Now to see if it survives contact with an editor.

The treatment of this woman is absolutely outrageous and one of the most egregious corporate violations of free speech I've seen. I have just bought the book as a fuck you to Facebook. It's available here uk.bookshop.org/p/books/care...

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Very good.

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It's either a sign of the times or a symptom of my middle aged sentimentality, but I'm always moved by the 'loved and wanted ' line. I love seeing it all over the city.

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The problem with Today is not the race of the presenters. It's that they are chronically under-briefed. The advantage of having Mishal Husain was not that she was brown. It was that she was well-briefed.

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Also: the unspeakable hypocrisy of these people saying refugees should 'pay their way'. We have spent years, decades actually, begging the Home Office to let asylum seekers work so their could have some meaning and material advantage in their life, to no avail.

It's cynical, but a Burnham administration could bank what's been done already, use it to show it's tough on immigration, but not taint itself with further action of this sort. If it decides to press ahead, it'll make precisely the same mistake Starmer did with similar effect.

I understand why Burnham will probably not want to undo all Mahmood's actions at the Home Office. But leaving her in place puts his whole project in jeopardy. She will keep on pumping out this filth, alienating progressive voters, undermining support for the government.

A travesty. What in God's name is the matter with her.

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Thorough and forensic legal assessment of the EHRC guidance by Melanie Field, former EHRC chief strategy and policy officer. A really vital article www.linkedin.com/pulse/has-eq...

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The instinctive reaction right now is lazy, sleep-walking cynicism, or sullen don't-give-me-hope despair. But the truth is: someone with very good communication skills, the right diagnosis and a reforming zeal is about to become prime minister. That seems pretty fucking encouraging to me.

Very encouraging to hear Burnham rail against the whipping system, the pathologically adversarial culture of Westminster, the departmental silos, the suffocating centralisation of the British state. He gets it.