Robin Ince resigns from The Infinite Monkey Cage

and he’s a bit too controversial for current climates

He's not controversial at all. He's neck deep in the Omnicause. He's just not very funny.

I thought he’d already done that

Just reminding everyone that he's a brave and true little soldier for the cause. Lest we forget his sacrifice

He’s deactivated his Bluesky I think.

I was on there upset his tour sales were going v badly. I think there may be an element he resigned nearly a year ago with other things planned, including this tour, which hasn’t gone well. If he’s not going to get bbc work, and he’s a bit too controversial for current climates for other channels to pick him up, he’s going to struggle. Especially as he’s not built a big fan base. I do think he’s another man who needed a better manager /sensible advice, I bet if he realised he was throwing away his full career for this ideology he’s not even part of, he might have paused, but I bet he hadn’t realised the tide had turned and he was in practice throwing away everything for someone else’s fight.

Doesn't he identify as a poet?
He'll have more free time on his hands now, be afraid 😱

I saw him live promoting his book. He’s really weird. Self indulgent and self important

Quite. No one, surely, thinks of Robin Ince as an artist. Well, no one other than Robin Ince.

Yep. I would not be too keen to employ or collaborate with a freelancer who was being so openly hostile to Gia Milinovich and Brian Cox in a supposedly ‘impartial’ environment using license-fee money under a new broom Director General.

He hasn't spoken to Cox's wife Gia for years because he's too up his own fundament to associate with Terfs.

That must make for a prickly workplace.

No no, it's dangerous terfy hate speech. As is "biological" (they're biological too), and, increasingly, AFAB, at least when it's used to talk about women as a distinct group, for instance for a roommates wanted ad.

Sad times, eh?
I often think of Sinead when dealing with TRAs

Everyone can see
What's going on
They laugh 'cause they know they're untouchable
Not because what I said was wrong
....
Through their own words
They will be exposed
They've got a severe case of
The emperor's new clothes

I dunno. He seems quite far up his own sphincter. It could be quite a different smell.

"I never thought I would have to leave..."

Really mate? Like me, you're a contractor. None of us contractors expect to be secure beyond the end of the contract that's running at the time! Did you think you were special? [Don't answer that, I think we know what Robin believes about Robin]

And can you imagine wanting to hire anyone who bleats so sourly about a previous client? I would be fully put off. I hope his family is financially secure seeing as he's queered (ha!) his own pitch so self-indulgently.

Urgh can't stand this kind of pontificating drama llama shite. He should never have been on a science show at all if he has such a poor understanding of science as to think TWA actually W and if he wants to promulgate ant-science, sexist and homophobic genderist opinions. It's possible to support the reasonable and balanced rights of trans-identifying people within a framework that actually makes sense and involves reality.

The thing I never understood about TIMC is that Brian Cox is actually a scientifically minded person and also is actually funny. How could he stand working with Ince? And yes about the sexist boy's club vibe - this is the kind of show I should love on paper but although I have often listened to it or heard bits, the smugness has always annoyed me. When they do have female guests there's often a lot of giggly self-deprecation and it feels like that's what they look for.

Whereas The Life Scientific, presented by a man, treats women as equally interesting, varied, able to express themselves in their own ways, highlights the wide range of scientific careers of both sexes, never has that patrician/smug vibe. So it can be done.

What's that smell? Oh yep, burning martyr

I think of Sinead's words, "the job of an artist is to be themselves at any cost".

He sounds insufferable. I suspect sighs of relief from everyone who knows they won't have to work with him again.

Edited to add: Sinead could say this, as an artist.

Wow he likes the sound of his own voice doesn't he?

Who cares if he supports Trans people... it doesn't mean he also has to be misogynistic and medically unethical. Right?

I did not know that but it all seems like inevitable fallout and the perfect illustration of extremely online loopiness.

I’d never heard of him must admit but having googled him I get Billy Bragg vibes. He’s never grown out of his early 90s band T-shirt look.

The attitude suggests that that last batch of recordings might have been 'difficult'.

Will he ever stop blathering on about what a heartbroken martyr he is? He quit ten months ago.

Enough already. No one cares, Robin. You aren't that interesting.

I don't think he is particularly associated with the BBC. A lot of his recent work has been for ITV.

He has done a bit of presenting, but most of his work has been as an actor, and I don't think that carries the same responsibility of representing a broadcaster.

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I thought 'identifying as' was the thing to say too. When did that change? Not that I'm an expert on this deluded nonsense.

I hope Tennant has had the chat. He has a lot of mentally unstable followers who worship him. It's atrocious that he said he wished Kemi Badenoch didn't exist.