holly
@arnuba.bsky.social
socialist. glasgow. mainly interested in UK pol, 🇵🇸 & 🏳️⚧️
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Yeah look at the end of the day I just don't think the operation that cannot anticipate "this pedo could bring disgrace to our party" is suited to fight for literally the future of multicultural democracy in the UK lol
December 28, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Yeah look at the end of the day I just don't think the operation that cannot anticipate "this pedo could bring disgrace to our party" is suited to fight for literally the future of multicultural democracy in the UK lol
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Labour seem to have developed a strategy of getting ‘negged’ by Reform voters; shifting their policies in ever more socially conservative directions to attract such voters and somehow repelling them, and yet still, maybe, maybe this time will be the one. 6/n
September 30, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Labour seem to have developed a strategy of getting ‘negged’ by Reform voters; shifting their policies in ever more socially conservative directions to attract such voters and somehow repelling them, and yet still, maybe, maybe this time will be the one. 6/n
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I think all this shows you - now being proven every day - is that the liberalism is all a very thin veneer and that any bit of it can be revoked on a whim, the second it’s convenient to do so.
August 19, 2025 at 5:45 PM
I think all this shows you - now being proven every day - is that the liberalism is all a very thin veneer and that any bit of it can be revoked on a whim, the second it’s convenient to do so.
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I’d add: the *whole point* of McSweeney’s long project since its secret 2018 media launch was: it was smart and good to break the long left-liberal coalition, and instead build a crushing, dominant electoral bloc of the Labour right unifying liberals, Reasonable Tories and retired racist cranks.
The revenge of the left
A Corbyn-Sultana party, perhaps in alliance with the Greens, will shatter this government.
www.newstatesman.com
July 26, 2025 at 10:52 AM
I’d add: the *whole point* of McSweeney’s long project since its secret 2018 media launch was: it was smart and good to break the long left-liberal coalition, and instead build a crushing, dominant electoral bloc of the Labour right unifying liberals, Reasonable Tories and retired racist cranks.
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Stuck in a vortex of radicalisation as the UK increasingly charts towards a fascistic police state. If you're a British liberal looking anxiously across the water at Trump's US - please remember where you live as well and remember that Starmer is currently driving this far right radicalisation
This really is not getting the attention it should. The Tories' latest proposal is to exclude *any household that includes any foreign national from any benefit*.
And when asked about it, they keep citing small boat crossings - a minute fraction of migration - to justify it. ~AA
And when asked about it, they keep citing small boat crossings - a minute fraction of migration - to justify it. ~AA
July 7, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Stuck in a vortex of radicalisation as the UK increasingly charts towards a fascistic police state. If you're a British liberal looking anxiously across the water at Trump's US - please remember where you live as well and remember that Starmer is currently driving this far right radicalisation
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If this goes anything like their defining of anti-semitism it’s gonna be illegal to criticise Saudi Arabia but absolutely fine to be openly islamophobic
July 10, 2025 at 5:35 PM
If this goes anything like their defining of anti-semitism it’s gonna be illegal to criticise Saudi Arabia but absolutely fine to be openly islamophobic
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Does nobody have any self-respect, never mind basic decency, is the point that I am driving at here. Is there really nothing left except craven suckups?
July 9, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Does nobody have any self-respect, never mind basic decency, is the point that I am driving at here. Is there really nothing left except craven suckups?
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Capitalism really is the biggest load of old bollocks imaginable.
Thames Water paid out bonuses using £3bn emergency loan, documents reveal
Thames Water paid out bonuses using £3bn emergency loan, documents reveal
Debt-ridden company refuses to claw back nearly £2.5m paid just weeks before it paused retention payments plan
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Business live – latest updates
Thames Water paid nearly £2.5m to senior managers from an emergency loan that was meant to be used to keep the failing utilities company afloat – and has refused to claw back the payments, newly released documents reveal.
The struggling water supplier paid bonuses totalling £2.46m to 21 managers on 30 April. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
July 9, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Capitalism really is the biggest load of old bollocks imaginable.
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For my entire life I've been told that the state can't provide things; that the private sector does it better. And that whole time, public services have declined and the chasm between the ultra-rich and regular people has widened, and I've been told the only remedy is to cut deeper into the bone.
When I read stuff like this I often think "How much do I pay in taxes, and how much do I pay in housings costs bills etc" it's private sector rent seekers who need to trim the fat here.
July 9, 2025 at 9:04 AM
For my entire life I've been told that the state can't provide things; that the private sector does it better. And that whole time, public services have declined and the chasm between the ultra-rich and regular people has widened, and I've been told the only remedy is to cut deeper into the bone.
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“Any political system that prioritizes punishing those who protest genocide rather than stopping the killing has clearly exhausted itself.”
Important summation of the unraveled state of both global and domestic “liberal” orders, by Moustafa Bayoumi
Important summation of the unraveled state of both global and domestic “liberal” orders, by Moustafa Bayoumi
The destruction of Palestine is breaking the world | Moustafa Bayoumi
The rules of the institutions that define our lives bend like reeds when it comes to Israel – so much that the whole global order is on the verge of collapse
www.theguardian.com
July 6, 2025 at 3:12 PM
“Any political system that prioritizes punishing those who protest genocide rather than stopping the killing has clearly exhausted itself.”
Important summation of the unraveled state of both global and domestic “liberal” orders, by Moustafa Bayoumi
Important summation of the unraveled state of both global and domestic “liberal” orders, by Moustafa Bayoumi
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Ahead of the expected proscription of Palestine Action - the first time a protest group has been legally redefined as terrorist - I went through the Hansard of the 2000 Act they're being banned under. Turns out MPs were assured the law wouldn't be applied this way. Thread 🧵🔽
July 5, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Ahead of the expected proscription of Palestine Action - the first time a protest group has been legally redefined as terrorist - I went through the Hansard of the 2000 Act they're being banned under. Turns out MPs were assured the law wouldn't be applied this way. Thread 🧵🔽
Will the state distinguish between the "armed" and political wings of Palestine Action like they used to with Hezbollah?
It’s now illegal to express support for Palestine Action. Is it illegal to express support for those who wish to express their support for Palestine Action?
July 5, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Will the state distinguish between the "armed" and political wings of Palestine Action like they used to with Hezbollah?
The struggle for liberation is global and interconnected. No one is free until everyone is free.
July 5, 2025 at 3:43 PM
The struggle for liberation is global and interconnected. No one is free until everyone is free.
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This piece from May provides essential context for the big bill the GOP just passed. To some extent, the bill is just the latest example of bad GOP policy making. It is that, but it's also part of a broader ideological project to dismantle the New Deal state.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
The Visionary of Trump 2.0
Russell Vought is advancing a radical ideological project decades in the making.
www.theatlantic.com
July 4, 2025 at 3:04 PM
This piece from May provides essential context for the big bill the GOP just passed. To some extent, the bill is just the latest example of bad GOP policy making. It is that, but it's also part of a broader ideological project to dismantle the New Deal state.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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The Prime Minister is at the garden party of a fascist magazine.
July 3, 2025 at 10:10 PM
The Prime Minister is at the garden party of a fascist magazine.
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Labour poses a material threat to our human rights.
July 2, 2025 at 4:46 PM
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Labour poses a material threat to our human rights.
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Non-Violent Direct Action (NVDA) is not terrorism.
The only protests elites will permit are A-B marches which the media ignore.
The use of military language by Jarvis - 'degrade' - shows how we are living in a militarised society where the government constructs its own people as the enemy.
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The only protests elites will permit are A-B marches which the media ignore.
The use of military language by Jarvis - 'degrade' - shows how we are living in a militarised society where the government constructs its own people as the enemy.
/1
July 2, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Non-Violent Direct Action (NVDA) is not terrorism.
The only protests elites will permit are A-B marches which the media ignore.
The use of military language by Jarvis - 'degrade' - shows how we are living in a militarised society where the government constructs its own people as the enemy.
/1
The only protests elites will permit are A-B marches which the media ignore.
The use of military language by Jarvis - 'degrade' - shows how we are living in a militarised society where the government constructs its own people as the enemy.
/1
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[In the imperial core as violence is visited upon the periphery] haha fuck yeah!! yes!!
[As the violence visited upon the periphery returns to the imperial core] well this fucking sucks. what the fuck.
[As the violence visited upon the periphery returns to the imperial core] well this fucking sucks. what the fuck.
July 2, 2025 at 12:54 PM
[In the imperial core as violence is visited upon the periphery] haha fuck yeah!! yes!!
[As the violence visited upon the periphery returns to the imperial core] well this fucking sucks. what the fuck.
[As the violence visited upon the periphery returns to the imperial core] well this fucking sucks. what the fuck.
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"In this sense, mapping Huntington’s civilizational categories or quibbling about their incoherence misses the point. From a civilizational perspective, where you draw the lines is less important than the very act of drawing them. The chauvinism is the point."
foreignpolicy.com/2025/06/27/s...
foreignpolicy.com/2025/06/27/s...
How to Sell a Clash of Civilizations
The incoherence of Samuel Huntington’s famous thesis is also its power.
foreignpolicy.com
July 2, 2025 at 12:50 PM
"In this sense, mapping Huntington’s civilizational categories or quibbling about their incoherence misses the point. From a civilizational perspective, where you draw the lines is less important than the very act of drawing them. The chauvinism is the point."
foreignpolicy.com/2025/06/27/s...
foreignpolicy.com/2025/06/27/s...
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The utter capture of the episteme by reactionaries and zealots who wish to deny all the harm being done to the marginalized while justifying a crusade against them should be commented on more.
UK universities have failed to protect gender-critical academics, report finds
UK universities have failed to protect gender-critical academics, report finds
Report’s author raises ‘stark concerns about barriers to academic freedom’
UK universities have failed to protect gender-critical academics from bullying and career-threatening restrictions on their research, according to a report.
The report, by Prof Alice Sullivan of University College London, recommends that students and staff “taking part in freedom-restricting harassment should face consequences commensurate with the seriousness of the offence”. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
July 2, 2025 at 12:19 PM
The utter capture of the episteme by reactionaries and zealots who wish to deny all the harm being done to the marginalized while justifying a crusade against them should be commented on more.
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How is it possible that you are still more scared of socialism than fascism, at this point?
June 30, 2025 at 6:37 PM
How is it possible that you are still more scared of socialism than fascism, at this point?
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The EHRC is meant to protect everyone’s rights. But internal documents reveal a different story: repeated meetings with anti-trans lobbyists, legal bias, and secret coordination. We filed the FOI. Here’s what we found.
tacc.org.uk/2025/07/01/f...
tacc.org.uk/2025/07/01/f...
FOI Exposes EHRC Bias: Private Meetings, Legal Echoes, and Policy Capture - Trans Advocacy and Complaints Collective
Let’s be honest. The Equality and Human Rights Commission is not acting like a neutral regulator. It is not standing above the fray.
tacc.org.uk
July 1, 2025 at 6:26 PM
The EHRC is meant to protect everyone’s rights. But internal documents reveal a different story: repeated meetings with anti-trans lobbyists, legal bias, and secret coordination. We filed the FOI. Here’s what we found.
tacc.org.uk/2025/07/01/f...
tacc.org.uk/2025/07/01/f...
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Aside from any other consideration (like basic competence), one of the depressing things about Dr Stephenson's performance in front of @commonswec.parliament.uk this afternoon was that she appeared uninformed about and largely disinterested in the post-SC ruling clusterfuck.
HOW?
HOW?
July 1, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Aside from any other consideration (like basic competence), one of the depressing things about Dr Stephenson's performance in front of @commonswec.parliament.uk this afternoon was that she appeared uninformed about and largely disinterested in the post-SC ruling clusterfuck.
HOW?
HOW?
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1979 & Thatcher's victory was prefigured by Callaghan's embrace of monetarism & abandonment of the post-war consensus in 1976. More recently the 2008 banking crash showed the bankruptcy of the Thatcher-Blair economic model which our political classes still cling to. 2/2
June 30, 2025 at 8:05 PM
1979 & Thatcher's victory was prefigured by Callaghan's embrace of monetarism & abandonment of the post-war consensus in 1976. More recently the 2008 banking crash showed the bankruptcy of the Thatcher-Blair economic model which our political classes still cling to. 2/2