John C
@badsocialism.bsky.social
PGR at QMUL 2025-29 researching Political Identity,Decolonisation, "Caribbean-ness" and the World Crisis 1935-1960
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John C
@badsocialism.bsky.social
· Oct 7
Wow what you mean my book about internationalism and pro-democracy agitation in the 1940s has a prescient final point about our times, who could have predicted this
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Ok so, the stink of Will Lewis is all over this. It’s pure British tabloid opinion garbage. Utter tripe
At this point, the Washpost edit page is just trolling its readers.
This is today's actual house editorial.
This is today's actual house editorial.
November 25, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Ok so, the stink of Will Lewis is all over this. It’s pure British tabloid opinion garbage. Utter tripe
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I think it's also the near universal social media phenomenon of starting to think of some groups as "those fucking guys". It's an act of constant will to remind yourself that they're human beings with whom you disagree on some stuff, not some enemy tribe.
November 25, 2025 at 2:18 PM
I think it's also the near universal social media phenomenon of starting to think of some groups as "those fucking guys". It's an act of constant will to remind yourself that they're human beings with whom you disagree on some stuff, not some enemy tribe.
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Forseeing a time when the judiciary is infested by the same "Rishi Sunak isn't even English" radicalisation that's taken the right, and some people are blindsided because they thought "this trans girl said she was alarmed and distressed, but I don't believe her" was impartial application of the law
To tie back to my comparison to other online radicalisation, even if you don't give a shit about trans people, the judiciary becoming increasingly partial on a specific issue should be seen as the canary in the coal mine giving the current direction of travel in this country
Like it was obvious when the Supreme Court randomly decided to rewrite the Equality Act, but I think there's a large amount if journalistic negligence that no one really treats judges as anything other than neutral conduits through which the word of law moves
November 25, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Forseeing a time when the judiciary is infested by the same "Rishi Sunak isn't even English" radicalisation that's taken the right, and some people are blindsided because they thought "this trans girl said she was alarmed and distressed, but I don't believe her" was impartial application of the law
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A piece that adds to @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com’s thing about feeling like you’re insane the whole time. What planet are we now on?
Trevor Philips in the Times, calling for a Trump/Miller-style of random deportations based on skin colour.
archive.ph/RlXPj
archive.ph/RlXPj
November 24, 2025 at 11:33 PM
A piece that adds to @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com’s thing about feeling like you’re insane the whole time. What planet are we now on?
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This is, I regret to say, one of the only ways to get Lithuania to do it.
I'm taking this headline literally and assuming that all EU states must recognise gay marriage in an explicitly Poland-rebuking way.
"By the power vested in me to piss off those damn Poles, I now pronounce you wife and wife."
"By the power vested in me to piss off those damn Poles, I now pronounce you wife and wife."
November 25, 2025 at 2:10 PM
This is, I regret to say, one of the only ways to get Lithuania to do it.
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It's extremely telling that none of these pieces quote Linehan's actual tweets. It sounds from the dates that this was steady harassment for more than two weeks.
November 25, 2025 at 1:47 PM
It's extremely telling that none of these pieces quote Linehan's actual tweets. It sounds from the dates that this was steady harassment for more than two weeks.
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Yeah, exactly this. It's really notable how it's acted like a virus. Formally pretty progressive people suddenly Very Concerned about asylum
November 25, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Yeah, exactly this. It's really notable how it's acted like a virus. Formally pretty progressive people suddenly Very Concerned about asylum
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I don’t like subtweeting people I consider online friends, but there is a subset of people who are very worried about the ongoing radicalisation of our political elite but won’t ever acknowledge the echoes with the radicalisation of their colleagues on trans rights
And few who are sympathetic to us, some who are friendly with me on here, will ever stick their head above the parapet
November 25, 2025 at 12:37 PM
I don’t like subtweeting people I consider online friends, but there is a subset of people who are very worried about the ongoing radicalisation of our political elite but won’t ever acknowledge the echoes with the radicalisation of their colleagues on trans rights
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I don’t know enough about the situation with Lineham to opine on whether the judgement is valid or not, but everything about this paragraph in the BBC article makes me despair at how many institutions have been captured by the GC movement
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
November 25, 2025 at 12:29 PM
I don’t know enough about the situation with Lineham to opine on whether the judgement is valid or not, but everything about this paragraph in the BBC article makes me despair at how many institutions have been captured by the GC movement
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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yes I don't really see how you can go "oh yikes these people have changed their political views incredibly quickly, mostly because of what Very Online people talk about on social media" and also think that people who went from never talking about gender to calling trans women predators are....normal
I don’t like subtweeting people I consider online friends, but there is a subset of people who are very worried about the ongoing radicalisation of our political elite but won’t ever acknowledge the echoes with the radicalisation of their colleagues on trans rights
And few who are sympathetic to us, some who are friendly with me on here, will ever stick their head above the parapet
November 25, 2025 at 12:55 PM
yes I don't really see how you can go "oh yikes these people have changed their political views incredibly quickly, mostly because of what Very Online people talk about on social media" and also think that people who went from never talking about gender to calling trans women predators are....normal
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"A system built on specialisation, efficiency", that right there is the death knell for the current university system in the UK, if (big if) government pushes it through. They actively don't want HE to grow, they will intervene, apparently, to help it shrink.
per this morning's education committee.
per this morning's education committee.
November 25, 2025 at 10:06 AM
"A system built on specialisation, efficiency", that right there is the death knell for the current university system in the UK, if (big if) government pushes it through. They actively don't want HE to grow, they will intervene, apparently, to help it shrink.
per this morning's education committee.
per this morning's education committee.
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almost everything they describe by these words (free tuition, cycle to work, what have you), is not actually /exclusively/ beneficial to the middle class at all, they just hide behind the fact that they can benefit /both/ middle class and working class people as an excuse to defund them.
November 25, 2025 at 12:25 PM
almost everything they describe by these words (free tuition, cycle to work, what have you), is not actually /exclusively/ beneficial to the middle class at all, they just hide behind the fact that they can benefit /both/ middle class and working class people as an excuse to defund them.
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The phrase "middle class handout" is just a Labour way to say "benefit scroungers" send tweet
November 25, 2025 at 12:15 PM
The phrase "middle class handout" is just a Labour way to say "benefit scroungers" send tweet
They're calling him "El Elledge" now
November 25, 2025 at 11:16 AM
They're calling him "El Elledge" now
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I love this element because it a) makes Vader's murderous rage make even more sense and b) it's very funny
the end of Rogue One means that at the start of Star Wars, Leia's going "oh wow can't believe you're raiding my innocent ship" to a guy who saw & she knows saw her fly away from the battle, like she's trying to lie so blatantly he'll question himself because SURELY nobody would
November 25, 2025 at 11:14 AM
I love this element because it a) makes Vader's murderous rage make even more sense and b) it's very funny
In many senses we also support *you* having sex with Lord Glasman's wife.
November 25, 2025 at 11:04 AM
In many senses we also support *you* having sex with Lord Glasman's wife.
I'd like at this time to congratulate whichever PR firm and lawyers Dulwich College is currently employing for skillfully avoiding questions at this time about whether the school is still, ahem, like that
November 25, 2025 at 10:37 AM
I'd like at this time to congratulate whichever PR firm and lawyers Dulwich College is currently employing for skillfully avoiding questions at this time about whether the school is still, ahem, like that
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This is exactly what the recent Trump-BBC 'scandal' was designed to achieve. The BBC is now self-censoring criticisms of Trump in the name of "impartiality"
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 10:26 AM
This is exactly what the recent Trump-BBC 'scandal' was designed to achieve. The BBC is now self-censoring criticisms of Trump in the name of "impartiality"
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When almost half of over 150 institutions across an entire economic sector cannot balance their books, it really isn't their individual fault...
here's your headline:
They (OfS) still expect 45% of ALL universities to report a deficit this academic year. They are not accounting for "significant variation" across the system (i.e. different types and sizes of institution).
They (OfS) still expect 45% of ALL universities to report a deficit this academic year. They are not accounting for "significant variation" across the system (i.e. different types and sizes of institution).
November 25, 2025 at 10:24 AM
When almost half of over 150 institutions across an entire economic sector cannot balance their books, it really isn't their individual fault...
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At some point today's psycho-Tories will negatively polarise themselves into literal Stalinism, because "socialism in one country" is an accurate description of what would be required for this to be possible
November 25, 2025 at 10:27 AM
At some point today's psycho-Tories will negatively polarise themselves into literal Stalinism, because "socialism in one country" is an accurate description of what would be required for this to be possible
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Inform, explain and entertain.
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Inform, explain and entertain.
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Still can't quite believe that "I only said 'gas the Jews' in a non-hurtful way" was the strategy Nigel Farage opted to go for
November 24, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Still can't quite believe that "I only said 'gas the Jews' in a non-hurtful way" was the strategy Nigel Farage opted to go for
"Blackpool Stands in the way of the Revolution" etc etc
November 25, 2025 at 10:20 AM
"Blackpool Stands in the way of the Revolution" etc etc
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Holidays to Spain in particular ended up being a particular bugbear for a lot of Labour people later - initially because they started taking off whilst Francoism was still in control, but saying he wasn't against them was controversial internally for Neil Kinnock when PSOE had been in for a while
November 25, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Holidays to Spain in particular ended up being a particular bugbear for a lot of Labour people later - initially because they started taking off whilst Francoism was still in control, but saying he wasn't against them was controversial internally for Neil Kinnock when PSOE had been in for a while
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Someone really needs to explain the Striesand Effect to the BBC. And also tell them to stop being so pathetic.
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Someone really needs to explain the Striesand Effect to the BBC. And also tell them to stop being so pathetic.