Steve Hanson
@stevehanson.bsky.social
Affiliate of the international avant-garde
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Apocalypso
Revisiting two MIT/Goldsmiths books for our time
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February 6, 2026 at 10:10 PM
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Peter gives up Labour Party membership as though the time is right, when there he was pissing against George Osborne's wall after a jolly at his house - and both on Deripaska's yacht in Corfu. Yet ordinary Labour members were suspended, blocked, punished by the Starmerism that hired Peter.
February 6, 2026 at 9:51 PM
Peter gives up Labour Party membership as though the time is right, when there he was pissing against George Osborne's wall after a jolly at his house - and both on Deripaska's yacht in Corfu. Yet ordinary Labour members were suspended, blocked, punished by the Starmerism that hired Peter.
The former prince was known as Randy Andy in the 80s. Spitting Image made a satire centrefold of him reclining with a string of sausages between his legs, and a single B-side called 'Just A Prince Who Can't Say No' (look up the lyrics). This was 1984.
February 6, 2026 at 8:33 PM
The former prince was known as Randy Andy in the 80s. Spitting Image made a satire centrefold of him reclining with a string of sausages between his legs, and a single B-side called 'Just A Prince Who Can't Say No' (look up the lyrics). This was 1984.
All these faux statements of shock. Most people I knew when working at MMU didn't like that Mandelson the snake was at the top. Everyone knew he was 'of the night.' Are you telling me management had no idea? Starmer saying 'ooh he lied I'm so shocked.' Nobody else is.
February 6, 2026 at 8:16 PM
All these faux statements of shock. Most people I knew when working at MMU didn't like that Mandelson the snake was at the top. Everyone knew he was 'of the night.' Are you telling me management had no idea? Starmer saying 'ooh he lied I'm so shocked.' Nobody else is.
Maybe even he should have bought a bungalow.
February 6, 2026 at 6:31 PM
Maybe even he should have bought a bungalow.
The times are bleak but the fall of Peter Mandelson is delicious. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Faisal Islam: Mandelson, Darling and the conversation I can't forget
The Epstein files appear to give extraordinary context to a call between the former chancellor and JP Morgan's boss.
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February 2, 2026 at 9:34 PM
The times are bleak but the fall of Peter Mandelson is delicious. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Digital Shit
Merdeing the Insta surface
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January 28, 2026 at 8:45 PM
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Farage the great pro-British interests patriot and anti-globalist anti-Davos stalwart goes to Davos to advise Iranian. I don't particularly care, but I assume the chest-beating reformist I'm not racist buts should. Or is he just an old fashioned hypocrite having them for useful idiots? Answer = yes.
January 23, 2026 at 8:25 PM
Farage the great pro-British interests patriot and anti-globalist anti-Davos stalwart goes to Davos to advise Iranian. I don't particularly care, but I assume the chest-beating reformist I'm not racist buts should. Or is he just an old fashioned hypocrite having them for useful idiots? Answer = yes.
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Clocking Off
Or how to become a real time bandit
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January 23, 2026 at 1:19 PM
My Substack is out, I'll be posting on Fridays and the odd thing in-between. Give me a follow if you're interested in what you read: substack.com/home/post/p-...
I feel the need to get some new boots in the cupboard, because the King of Denmark is about to bollock Trump and prices prices prices. Is it the 19th Century now? Or maybe the 18th? The 17th?
January 21, 2026 at 9:23 PM
I feel the need to get some new boots in the cupboard, because the King of Denmark is about to bollock Trump and prices prices prices. Is it the 19th Century now? Or maybe the 18th? The 17th?
I've been umming and arring about Substack. Finally done it, all follows welcome: bittertonic.substack.com/p/confuse-an...
Confuse and Destroy
The estate agents who took over planet earth
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January 20, 2026 at 8:50 PM
I've been umming and arring about Substack. Finally done it, all follows welcome: bittertonic.substack.com/p/confuse-an...
As I said four months ago, total waste of time.
All that effort, expense and rictus grinning. A week later and he'll be slapping the back of some other dodgy geezer and Putin'll be his mate again. They swap something that might have at least looked like principled governance for this?
January 20, 2026 at 7:07 PM
As I said four months ago, total waste of time.
Neoreactionary architecture.
January 17, 2026 at 8:08 PM
Neoreactionary architecture.
Farage will sell your grandmother for £100. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Nigel Farage tricked into paying tribute to Lostprophets singer Ian Watkins
Reform leader calls the child sexual abuse offender ‘a good man, a really good guy’ in 27-second Cameo video clip
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January 16, 2026 at 12:43 PM
Farage will sell your grandmother for £100. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
JD Vance, I've decided that Pennsylvania is essential to my interests. I'm sure you'll enjoy telling Governor Shapiro and entourage to fuck off for me before I move my tatty old stuff in then declare it Hannsylvania. What do you mean no? I thought you would admire my world spirit on horseback style.
January 15, 2026 at 9:47 PM
JD Vance, I've decided that Pennsylvania is essential to my interests. I'm sure you'll enjoy telling Governor Shapiro and entourage to fuck off for me before I move my tatty old stuff in then declare it Hannsylvania. What do you mean no? I thought you would admire my world spirit on horseback style.
Apparently Peter Thiel recently described Greta Thunberg and tech/AI critics generally as 'legionnaires of the Antichrist' and Trump as an 'imperfect instrument' of God's will. A single lifetime on from WW2 and suddenly it's Louis XIV meets Bladerunner. There's no progress, gradual or otherwise.
January 15, 2026 at 8:50 PM
Apparently Peter Thiel recently described Greta Thunberg and tech/AI critics generally as 'legionnaires of the Antichrist' and Trump as an 'imperfect instrument' of God's will. A single lifetime on from WW2 and suddenly it's Louis XIV meets Bladerunner. There's no progress, gradual or otherwise.
If I no longer own a mobile phone I won't be able to lose it in the house again.
January 14, 2026 at 8:13 PM
If I no longer own a mobile phone I won't be able to lose it in the house again.
'As useful to society as fleas to a dead dog.'
January 12, 2026 at 7:00 PM
'As useful to society as fleas to a dead dog.'
'A generation of the unteachable is hanging upon us like a necklace of corpses.'
January 12, 2026 at 6:34 PM
'A generation of the unteachable is hanging upon us like a necklace of corpses.'
Orwell: 'Nothing was more desolating [...] than the way in which the whole of the older generation conspired to pretend that it was the war of 1914-18 over again. All the old duds were back on the job, twenty years older, with the skull plainer in their faces,' it 'was like a tea-party of ghosts.'
January 12, 2026 at 5:35 PM
Orwell: 'Nothing was more desolating [...] than the way in which the whole of the older generation conspired to pretend that it was the war of 1914-18 over again. All the old duds were back on the job, twenty years older, with the skull plainer in their faces,' it 'was like a tea-party of ghosts.'
We will administer the new nappy poo scraper until a reasonable handover to the catering company can be facilitated. If negotiations fail - due to the catering company's refusal to end their scotch egg supply - the scraper will remain in the toddler arsenal and poo scraping will continue.
January 9, 2026 at 3:46 PM
We will administer the new nappy poo scraper until a reasonable handover to the catering company can be facilitated. If negotiations fail - due to the catering company's refusal to end their scotch egg supply - the scraper will remain in the toddler arsenal and poo scraping will continue.
The funeral buffet provided an opportunity to acquire a new nappy poo scraper. The item was trousered at 14.10 and in place just after 16.45.
January 8, 2026 at 9:46 PM
The funeral buffet provided an opportunity to acquire a new nappy poo scraper. The item was trousered at 14.10 and in place just after 16.45.
SPOILER ALERT: China wins in the end.
January 7, 2026 at 6:11 PM
SPOILER ALERT: China wins in the end.