Because they think getting in fights with the right is childish student politics. They said this like eight million times, do they need to get tattoos or something
November 24, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Because they think getting in fights with the right is childish student politics. They said this like eight million times, do they need to get tattoos or something
100% a creature of media, like Farage is. It should be very clear where blame lies for their abysmal careers and the damage they’ve done.
November 24, 2025 at 3:38 PM
100% a creature of media, like Farage is. It should be very clear where blame lies for their abysmal careers and the damage they’ve done.
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The problem Donald Trump has as pretender to the throne of America is that he leads a party full of scavengers who are all realizing it might be in their best interests not to pretend anymore.
War of the Brown Noses - Truthdig
The great Trumpworld crackup has only just begun.
www.truthdig.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:00 PM
The problem Donald Trump has as pretender to the throne of America is that he leads a party full of scavengers who are all realizing it might be in their best interests not to pretend anymore.
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I've said before that Britain is afflicted by a triple-humiliation: loss of aristocracy; empire; political/media credibility. Brexit was essentially the last gasp of the British ruling class yelling to the Commonwealth, "Come on chaps, we're leaving," then marching out into the blizzard alone—nude.
I liked when they explained to boris Johnson what brexit would mean and he said oh god that is horrible you must strike a deal. They had to explain that was the deal
November 24, 2025 at 12:34 PM
I've said before that Britain is afflicted by a triple-humiliation: loss of aristocracy; empire; political/media credibility. Brexit was essentially the last gasp of the British ruling class yelling to the Commonwealth, "Come on chaps, we're leaving," then marching out into the blizzard alone—nude.
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I must admit I have also been thinking sombre thoughts about Sarah Hurwitz, one of the great moral architects of the Obama administration that cemented the push of the world into permanent unaccountability for violence, saying that the liberals need to give up on education and impose ignorance.
I’m usually giving counsel of despair so let me offer a hopeful note now: all this is the desperate thrashing of a dying generation, horrified to see up close the consequences of raising their children to believe violence and racism are wrong, and that people should treat each other decently.
This one really is useful because you won’t see a more clear demonstration of one of the most damaging political phenomena of the era: the reactionary professional mind rejecting unacceptable reality, only able to process and comprehend it via something close to conspiracy theory.
November 24, 2025 at 12:10 PM
I must admit I have also been thinking sombre thoughts about Sarah Hurwitz, one of the great moral architects of the Obama administration that cemented the push of the world into permanent unaccountability for violence, saying that the liberals need to give up on education and impose ignorance.
It was crystal clear that Mel was an absolutely deranged fascist crackpot ten years ago, fifteen, and you’ll notice it has barely hindered her career, not even when the Oslo killer cited her in his crazy manifesto. Quite the opposite, if anything.
Remember when it was revealed that Israel's internal analysis concluded that the only way to reverse the disastrous plunge in Israel's standing was to fuel Islamophobia and portray Israel as the defender of the "West"?
Well, here you have it. Melanie Phillips' speech in NY.
Well, here you have it. Melanie Phillips' speech in NY.
November 24, 2025 at 12:00 PM
It was crystal clear that Mel was an absolutely deranged fascist crackpot ten years ago, fifteen, and you’ll notice it has barely hindered her career, not even when the Oslo killer cited her in his crazy manifesto. Quite the opposite, if anything.
Also, America doesn’t do slick regime change now, if it ever did. What it does is: it collapses the government then leaves the country to fall into violent anarchy, so that it’s ripe for domination by friendlier countries in the region. You can decide whether that’s by accident or design.
Cracks me up how you could just replace Venezuela and Venezuelans with Iraq and Iraqis and it’d be indistinguishable from something written in 2002
November 24, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Also, America doesn’t do slick regime change now, if it ever did. What it does is: it collapses the government then leaves the country to fall into violent anarchy, so that it’s ripe for domination by friendlier countries in the region. You can decide whether that’s by accident or design.
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noah smith used to regularly DM me about the fact that his silicon valley venture capitalist buddies were going off the right-wing deep end because they were afraid they would get MeTooed for the fact that promotions for young employees at the startups they were funding were gated by sex
he once DM’d me and a couple of other people to tell us that we were wrong for calling him dumb about lab leak conspiracies and that some people he knew were working on a story that would make it crystal clear and it that was getting ready to drop soon, this was like, 2021, maybe earlier
October 10, 2023 at 5:38 AM
noah smith used to regularly DM me about the fact that his silicon valley venture capitalist buddies were going off the right-wing deep end because they were afraid they would get MeTooed for the fact that promotions for young employees at the startups they were funding were gated by sex
If the lads are finally asked whether they’d rather put the boot into Farage or Polanski, I wouldn’t be confident that it’ll the former they’ll find truly unacceptable.
November 24, 2025 at 11:44 AM
If the lads are finally asked whether they’d rather put the boot into Farage or Polanski, I wouldn’t be confident that it’ll the former they’ll find truly unacceptable.
This cavalcade of clowns got away with this bullshit for years only because their targets were anti-racists and the Labour left: people that politicians and commentators despise and will never protect or stick up for. I absolutely urge them to go hard as fuck at the police now.
November 24, 2025 at 10:34 AM
This cavalcade of clowns got away with this bullshit for years only because their targets were anti-racists and the Labour left: people that politicians and commentators despise and will never protect or stick up for. I absolutely urge them to go hard as fuck at the police now.
I’m usually giving counsel of despair so let me offer a hopeful note now: all this is the desperate thrashing of a dying generation, horrified to see up close the consequences of raising their children to believe violence and racism are wrong, and that people should treat each other decently.
This one really is useful because you won’t see a more clear demonstration of one of the most damaging political phenomena of the era: the reactionary professional mind rejecting unacceptable reality, only able to process and comprehend it via something close to conspiracy theory.
Former Obama speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz says Jewish students shouldn’t have smartphones until they finish high school — so they don’t see the “carnage” Israel and the U.S. have carried out in Gaza.
Video: Mel via X (@Villgecrazylady)
Video: Mel via X (@Villgecrazylady)
November 24, 2025 at 10:06 AM
I’m usually giving counsel of despair so let me offer a hopeful note now: all this is the desperate thrashing of a dying generation, horrified to see up close the consequences of raising their children to believe violence and racism are wrong, and that people should treat each other decently.
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Just a superb column from @nesrinemalik.bsky.social
Shabana Mahmood is an avatar of open Britain – that’s what makes her fable about immigration so seductive | Nesrine Malik
‘She is the daughter of immigrants,’ supporters of her cruel asylum policies say. ‘How can she be wrong?’ Let me put them straight, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Just a superb column from @nesrinemalik.bsky.social
This one really is useful because you won’t see a more clear demonstration of one of the most damaging political phenomena of the era: the reactionary professional mind rejecting unacceptable reality, only able to process and comprehend it via something close to conspiracy theory.
Former Obama speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz says Jewish students shouldn’t have smartphones until they finish high school — so they don’t see the “carnage” Israel and the U.S. have carried out in Gaza.
Video: Mel via X (@Villgecrazylady)
Video: Mel via X (@Villgecrazylady)
November 24, 2025 at 9:06 AM
This one really is useful because you won’t see a more clear demonstration of one of the most damaging political phenomena of the era: the reactionary professional mind rejecting unacceptable reality, only able to process and comprehend it via something close to conspiracy theory.
Well, what if that isn’t the type of shit that makes politicians and political commentators extremely angry, and all of them were instead far too busy puking blood with white hot fury because they were forced to listen to the opinions of blue haired students and anti-austerity campaigners.
November 24, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Well, what if that isn’t the type of shit that makes politicians and political commentators extremely angry, and all of them were instead far too busy puking blood with white hot fury because they were forced to listen to the opinions of blue haired students and anti-austerity campaigners.
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This is how the far right should be covered and analysed
Not focusing only on the words or actions of one man but by looking at wider societal trends, the role of the mainstream and of course accounting for power
This is not (just) opinion, it's necessary analysis
Not focusing only on the words or actions of one man but by looking at wider societal trends, the role of the mainstream and of course accounting for power
This is not (just) opinion, it's necessary analysis
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... - my new article, if of interest please share.
I endured an English public school. But that’s not the only reason I’m unsurprised about the Farage allegations |
Let’s put aside the schooldays accusations and look, instead, at the Reform leader’s path since then. I think a pretty clear picture of the man emerges, says author and podcaster Musa Okwonga
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:15 AM
This is how the far right should be covered and analysed
Not focusing only on the words or actions of one man but by looking at wider societal trends, the role of the mainstream and of course accounting for power
This is not (just) opinion, it's necessary analysis
Not focusing only on the words or actions of one man but by looking at wider societal trends, the role of the mainstream and of course accounting for power
This is not (just) opinion, it's necessary analysis
This gets to the core of it I think: insofar as social media radicalisation has been immensely damaging in politics, it’s not because it’s broken the minds of the average punter. It’s because it has deranged the brains of politicians and political commentators.
November 24, 2025 at 7:55 AM
This gets to the core of it I think: insofar as social media radicalisation has been immensely damaging in politics, it’s not because it’s broken the minds of the average punter. It’s because it has deranged the brains of politicians and political commentators.
You felt like you were crazy in the 2000s having to explain that these people had already racked up a long list of horrendous war crimes and were very obviously choking to do more and worse, and yet here we still are.
November 24, 2025 at 7:50 AM
You felt like you were crazy in the 2000s having to explain that these people had already racked up a long list of horrendous war crimes and were very obviously choking to do more and worse, and yet here we still are.
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We've had 24 hour news for nearly 40 years now, and during that time news stories do stick around if the press keep banging on about them. Things that don't stick tend to be stuff where right wing politicians/the wealthy are on the hook.
It’s a sign of how insane the news cycle is these days that this historic failure of government policy got just one day of news coverage this week.
Not saying that’s right or wrong, but it’s astonishing how quickly the agenda moves on these days.
Not saying that’s right or wrong, but it’s astonishing how quickly the agenda moves on these days.
BREAKING: UK’s response to Covid was “too little too late”. Acting faster could have saved 23,000 lives in England according to the public inquiry.
Boris Johnson presided over a “toxic, sexist, chaotic culture” in No10, where rule-breaking seriously undermined public confidence.
Boris Johnson presided over a “toxic, sexist, chaotic culture” in No10, where rule-breaking seriously undermined public confidence.
November 23, 2025 at 3:59 PM
We've had 24 hour news for nearly 40 years now, and during that time news stories do stick around if the press keep banging on about them. Things that don't stick tend to be stuff where right wing politicians/the wealthy are on the hook.
The Times was like this in Trump’s first term also, hectoring people by shouting about how saying the Donald was a catastrophically bent and dangerous idiot was disrespecting the working man. They went quiet on it after the Nazi rally and after that, it was mostly resentful embarrassment.
November 23, 2025 at 10:15 PM
The Times was like this in Trump’s first term also, hectoring people by shouting about how saying the Donald was a catastrophically bent and dangerous idiot was disrespecting the working man. They went quiet on it after the Nazi rally and after that, it was mostly resentful embarrassment.
I wish this was true but the brutal reality is that we can’t even prevent Tony Blair hurling himself into new, more horrific crimes against humanity, never mind convict him of the previous ones.
November 23, 2025 at 10:04 PM
I wish this was true but the brutal reality is that we can’t even prevent Tony Blair hurling himself into new, more horrific crimes against humanity, never mind convict him of the previous ones.
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I do think it's worth addressing that the intellectual lodestar of this government is a gibbering idiot.
There are some truly unhinged bits in the piece about Glasman, as to be expected when dealing with Glasman, but seriously what the actual? That's...one hell of a conflation of terminology.
November 23, 2025 at 4:30 PM
I do think it's worth addressing that the intellectual lodestar of this government is a gibbering idiot.
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Literally the reason Twitter sucks now is all these foreigners logged on willing to do racism for pennies on the dollar and undercut our home-grown American racists. We need to erect serious trade barriers to protect the integrity of our domestic racism industry and preserve racist jobs.
November 23, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Literally the reason Twitter sucks now is all these foreigners logged on willing to do racism for pennies on the dollar and undercut our home-grown American racists. We need to erect serious trade barriers to protect the integrity of our domestic racism industry and preserve racist jobs.
I agree, and in particular I would look at things like: It could not possibly have been more obvious that Johnson’s “levelling up” plan was back-of-a-fag-packet bullshit and an insult to the public, the second it was announced. Was it received and explained as a pitch black fraud and an affront?
November 23, 2025 at 1:44 PM
I agree, and in particular I would look at things like: It could not possibly have been more obvious that Johnson’s “levelling up” plan was back-of-a-fag-packet bullshit and an insult to the public, the second it was announced. Was it received and explained as a pitch black fraud and an affront?
Exactly the same as the Iraq Inquiry though: straight in the bin and never spoken of again, not least because none of it would’ve happened this way without the close, hand-in-glove cooperation of the British press. Don’t want to look to hard at that stuff.
November 23, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Exactly the same as the Iraq Inquiry though: straight in the bin and never spoken of again, not least because none of it would’ve happened this way without the close, hand-in-glove cooperation of the British press. Don’t want to look to hard at that stuff.
Delighted to hear new Ajax chat @trufflehog.bsky.social Like slipping into a comfy pair of slippers
November 23, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Delighted to hear new Ajax chat @trufflehog.bsky.social Like slipping into a comfy pair of slippers