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Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.
harpers.org/archive/1941...
harpers.org/archive/1941...
Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson
harpers.org
October 1, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.
harpers.org/archive/1941...
harpers.org/archive/1941...
Political discourse is very sneery nowadays
November 28, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Political discourse is very sneery nowadays
Neither Vance nor Trump should ever consider setting foot in the UK again. Treachery of this kind is not forgivable.
November 21, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Neither Vance nor Trump should ever consider setting foot in the UK again. Treachery of this kind is not forgivable.
@tds153.bsky.social Most enjoyable Start the Week this morning.
November 3, 2025 at 10:10 AM
@tds153.bsky.social Most enjoyable Start the Week this morning.
Hysteria rules
October 24, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Hysteria rules
@BBCRadio4 BH a festival of lobbying by farming and gambling this morning.
October 19, 2025 at 8:26 AM
@BBCRadio4 BH a festival of lobbying by farming and gambling this morning.
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Yes, yes I know I keep banging on about my fucking book! However, if you want one repost this and I’ll do a random winner pick thing by the end of the week because I’m great like that. ♥️📚
#amindofmyown
#amindofmyown
October 7, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Yes, yes I know I keep banging on about my fucking book! However, if you want one repost this and I’ll do a random winner pick thing by the end of the week because I’m great like that. ♥️📚
#amindofmyown
#amindofmyown
Populism is for show offs
October 3, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Populism is for show offs
Sarah Montague - queen of the leading question. Not good journalism, merely point scoring.
October 2, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Sarah Montague - queen of the leading question. Not good journalism, merely point scoring.
@ifagiolini.bsky.social Top Monteverdi Vespers last night at St Martin in the Fields. Am a hoary and cynical concert goer but that was entrancing!
September 27, 2025 at 11:11 AM
@ifagiolini.bsky.social Top Monteverdi Vespers last night at St Martin in the Fields. Am a hoary and cynical concert goer but that was entrancing!
The People vs McDonald's has been a fine radio series courtesy. Thank you Mark Steele.
September 17, 2025 at 9:00 AM
The People vs McDonald's has been a fine radio series courtesy. Thank you Mark Steele.
Dear BBC - please report rather than make the news.
September 15, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Dear BBC - please report rather than make the news.
Political journalism in the BBC is dead.
September 12, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Political journalism in the BBC is dead.
I wish Chris Mason and BBC news editors would just shut ip for a bit. Too much noise.
September 11, 2025 at 12:13 PM
I wish Chris Mason and BBC news editors would just shut ip for a bit. Too much noise.
Chris Mason would be more at home on a Murdoch channel or paper.
September 10, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Chris Mason would be more at home on a Murdoch channel or paper.
BBCRadio4 Today competing hard to be the news programme leading the charge of destruction of trust in the political system. It's an odd sport for supposed journalists.
September 6, 2025 at 7:23 AM
BBCRadio4 Today competing hard to be the news programme leading the charge of destruction of trust in the political system. It's an odd sport for supposed journalists.
Gawd - BBC sanctimonious grandstanding on Angela Rayner is uncomfortably sneering.
September 4, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Gawd - BBC sanctimonious grandstanding on Angela Rayner is uncomfortably sneering.
Is attention seeking the best quality a politician should have?
September 3, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Is attention seeking the best quality a politician should have?
Radio4PM - excellent entertaining primer on run up to King Athelstan suggest The Last Kingdom on Netflix
September 2, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Radio4PM - excellent entertaining primer on run up to King Athelstan suggest The Last Kingdom on Netflix
@theguardian.com just tried using your secure messaging system and have come here instead. When do News Editors query whether continual amplification of Reform agendas actually feed the hysteria. Or is the attention economy more important than accuracy?
August 31, 2025 at 2:42 PM
@theguardian.com just tried using your secure messaging system and have come here instead. When do News Editors query whether continual amplification of Reform agendas actually feed the hysteria. Or is the attention economy more important than accuracy?
BBC Today Programme are just not serious any more. Political MOTD. Journalists touting their showing off skills. This id not serious journalism.
August 27, 2025 at 7:26 AM
BBC Today Programme are just not serious any more. Political MOTD. Journalists touting their showing off skills. This id not serious journalism.
BBC World at one wielding petrol on Reform fire-starting
August 26, 2025 at 12:26 PM
BBC World at one wielding petrol on Reform fire-starting
BBCRadio4 - brilliant broadcast of Brian Friel's The Faith Healer just now.
August 23, 2025 at 4:16 PM
BBCRadio4 - brilliant broadcast of Brian Friel's The Faith Healer just now.
Is today's politics just a competition for show offs? All mouth, no trousers.
August 23, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Is today's politics just a competition for show offs? All mouth, no trousers.
@jamestortoise.bsky.social hell's teeth guys. I'm a bit fed up if all mouth snd no trousers pontificating. We are dominated by know alls.
August 21, 2025 at 7:48 AM
@jamestortoise.bsky.social hell's teeth guys. I'm a bit fed up if all mouth snd no trousers pontificating. We are dominated by know alls.