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So, Kid Rock is essentially the U.S. President’s entrance music. The symbolism of attending an MMA fight at the same time your negotiating team is trying and failing to ‘wrestle’ out any sort of deal. A spectacle of strength overlaying a base of material failure. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

More villages in South Lebanon being detonated by Israel. Israel is the one sharing these videos. They are proud of their war crimes.

QMUL is advertising an exciting opportunity: a fully funded PhD studentship, working on European politics, ideology, and political 'myths' with @karlpike.bsky.social and @timbale.bsky.social. Details below. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRB421/p...

In 2025, Keir Starmer allowed B61 nuclear bombs to be delivered to a US air force squadron at RAF Lakenheath, the first US nuclear deployment in the UK since 2008. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Brody King made the Drudge Report

Voters in Wales failed by inaccurate UK media reports on devolved issues, study finds

AEW Dynamite was in Winnipeg last night, and the Canadian crowd broke into a "Fuck the tariffs!" chant 😆

Fans boo Trump’s tariffs in pro wrestling's latest anti-MAGA turn www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

Content warning for article: hard to imagine another U.S. Education Secretary’s husband (separated) facing the allegations here - alongside ‘ring boys’ ones - and it not being a national scandal. Instead WWE lent into the McMahon name & referenced VKM on RAW. www.cagesideseats.com/wwe/430346/j...

“Fuck ICE” chants, speaking up against the genocide in Gaza, a deathmatch with glass, barbed wire, and an exploding table. Welcome to the AEW. The full story: lataco.com/all-elite-wr... By @afroxander.bsky.social

Delighted, as Head of Division for Politics & IR, that our department is recruiting a Lecturer in Environmental Politics on an open-ended teaching & research contract. If anybody wants to chat informally about the position, I’ll be @ PSA Annual Conference next week. www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy...

Delighted, as Head of Division for Politics & IR, that our department is recruiting a Lecturer in Environmental Politics on an open-ended teaching & research contract. If anybody wants to chat informally about the position, I’ll be @ PSA Annual Conference next week. www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy...

Jesse Ventura claims Trump faked his assassination attempt with “a blade job” - the act in pro-wrestling where one uses a hidden blade to open a cut and get blood flowing. I wrote about the ‘Trump bladed’ conspiracy theory back in January 2025 (link below) (1/2) www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/wwe/ar...

Here's something for the Irish Times in which I try to explain what's about to happen in Welsh politics. Hope it's of interest. www.irishtimes.com/world/uk/202...

Luckily if we wait until after the next election, we’ll have some books by Lobby journalists which giving the insider scoops, and may out exactly what happened - to much wry comment and general moving on.

An old favourite from 2001: Peter Mandelson’s “strange stare” at the Bilderberg conference. From Jon Ronson’s ‘Them: Adventures with Extremism’. This was back when Bilderberg was secretive even denied, rather than discussed as normal on the Ten O’Clock News, with photographs of people going in.

My son is so based

I missed this on the other app: the US Health Secretary posting a video of “MAHAmania” where he wrestles a man dressed as a Twinkie. When Kennedy was running as an independent, Jesse Ventura stumped for him. Now RFK is MAGA, has anyone checked in if Jesse is still onboard? x.com/SecKennedy/s...

Mark Robinson - the “Black NAZI” porn-comment guy - will always have a strange place in my heart as someone who explicitly claimed pro-wrestling inspired his political style and would quote Ric Flair promos from memory as proof. His autobiography is … something. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Naturally Pankhurst would be named for Emmeline - who became a devoted Imperialist and Tory candidate - and not Sylvia, the anti-imperialist, left-communist.

foley is god youtu.be/7ssDFzesdn4

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“Revelations from a book” is so funny. Lads it’s your book. This information comes from you. Your job at the newspaper is to provide information in real-time. And yet

UK media figures reacting with shock to “revelations” that Starmer, Mandelson, Labour Together, etc. are exactly as their critics on the left have been vocally asserting for years

“What do you think Trump learned from WWE?” O’Sullivan asked Foley. “I think he learned the importance of repeating a single thought until it becomes accepted fact,” The Hardcore Legend responded. www.cagesideseats.com/wwe/424872/m...

Materializing nude from a bolt of lightning in 2005 to show my younger self this image

The TKO-White House nexus continues.

labour market flexibility for thee, generous employment rights and severance packages for me

Labour tribalism is a strong glue. Many members feel a deep connection to the history, myths and heroes of the Labour Movement. This has/will keep many from jumping to the Greens. An influx of Labour MPs, symbolically mixing some of that heritage into the Green mix, could smooth yet more jumping IMO

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Classic stuff

“Mandelson, who is fascinated by the secret world” was the ISC’s strongest critic, worrying it could cover up things embarrassing to the Prime Minister👌 * Hollingsworth & Fielding (2000: 253-4)!

This is so telling about Labour factionalism and the mindset of (some of) the ‘serious’ people in and around the party establishment

BLOOD WORK has the best social media going, so it feels weak to simply sing its praises - but this episode is another masterpiece of information selection, delivery, pacing… God damn.

In the grand list of things that are not going to happen any time soon, WWE removing Donald Trump from its Hall of Fame must rank pretty high. It’s notably, however, that they never mentioned his membership - the McMahon-Levesques have kept their work w. Trump off-screen. www.si.com/fannation/wr...

July 2024 vs February 2026

I was discussing just today how the perspective outlined in Carl Oglsby’s “In Defense of Paranoia” (1965) - itself a response to Watergate + subsequent revelations - was one UK politics would do well to revisit viz. structural unaccountability & elite power 💯 morningstaronline.co.uk/article/labo...

Writing to the NSC to tell them what MI5 might think about somebody’s partner’s dad, and then asking to speak to the manager when they’re not interested… LOL, LMAO

My view would be that there’s been enough publicly available evidence for an investigation into misconduct in public office to occur since at least the court documents released in 2023 in the US Virgin Islands case against JP Morgan. The decision to make Andrew Trade Ambassador was always appalling.

Spontaneous ‘FUCK ICE’ chants have propelled Brody King from cult favourite to anti-ICE icon — and rattled wrestling’s corporate partners.

It's incredible watching widely reported facts become Urgent Public Business as soon as a handful of media outlets decide to start noticing them. Meanwhile Paul Holden has set out in detail how Labour Together went to war on the left, in a campaign that the media are still keeping quiet about.

Any time Priti Patel expresses *any* opinion about Palestine or Israel it should come with a reminder she was forced to resign in disgrace for holding 14 secret meetings w. Israeli ministers, businesspeople and a senior lobbyist while a member of the UK government www.theguardian.com/politics/201...

Beginning to think the people in charge don’t understand how wrestling fans work