Again, cannot be stressed enough, mere months into Starmer’s premiership, hundreds of radicalised right-wingers attempted open pogroms, attacking places of worship and hotels housing people coded as brown and Muslim, and our he has shown zero interest in interrogating what catalysed those actions.

The message should be that people who were potential labour voters like a lot of labour policy, but hate having their core moral values of inclusiveness and tolerance attacked in an effort to win over people who labour were never going to win over

"Sandher has been organising private seminars called “Labour Thinks” on issues such as relations with the EU, defence, energy security and the cost of living crisis" Once again, something that might have been smart to do before July 2024 www.ft.com/content/ba19...

Some good snooker, this. Regularly beating my best ever break of *checks notes* 26

A Star Wars take I have is that the Knights of the Old Republic games are as foundational to my enjoyment of the franchise as some of the movies and it really should be seen as an iconic work in the franchise the same way the Timothy Zahn books are

I see we’re at the “Mr Farage your mass deportation strategy could be so much more politically efficient” stage of moderate scrutiny

"Why don't you just grass? I understand people"

Also this is a prime example of this era of Fascism as Trolling. Doing horrible terrifying real world horrors for the most inane petty reasons. Destroying lives and freedoms for the sake of a post to trigger the left that emasculated you

I wonder what those "the UK does not have a large far right party unlike other European countries" or "it's unhelpful to call Reform far right" people — who wrote this stuff as recently as a couple of years ago — are thinking now. Farage has always been far right, for anyone not willingly blind.

SHAFT

I am extremely curious to see whether we'll have an urgent press conference from our useless ham Prime Minister where he wangs on about how there's an urgent need to tackle anti-immigrant sentiment and the far-right.

Slightly diminish a book For Whom the Bell Rings

This feels very pretending not to understand, and I'm not inclined to give Curtis the benefit of the doubt given how close he is to certain think-tanks

This is true but it’s not helpful unless there’s a shared understanding of where the lines are. Nonpartisan journalists have a duty to step up here

Every splashy New York Times profile of a right wing influencer.

Shabana Mahmood’s special advisor threatened us with an injunction and two different lawsuits last night in an attempt to block this story linking her to a notorious vote rigging case. I think it’s strongly in the public interest. So here it is. www.birminghamdispatch.co.uk/exclusive-sh...

🔴 A flagship British research agency has given £50m+ of UK taxpayer cash to US tech firms Beneficiaries include firms bankrolled by Sam Altman and Eric Schmidt Some firms were incorporated in U.K. just a day before being given millions Scoop on D4S democracyforsale.substack.com/p/dominic-cu...

Dark Arts, October 2024

chat is this good?

Huh. Wonder why we haven't been hearing about these two people arrested for antisemitism towards Polanski until he mentions it

I reckon you could objectively prove that the 2000s were a cultural nadir

It's not that Farage's many instances of corruption are ignored by the media - rather they're passed over. The BBC usually reports on one of his scandals but quickly moves on along with the rest of the press pack. Compare this with how they fixate on the real and imagined mistakes of left wingers.

Name me a game that's aged better than Metal Gear Solid 2

Stated vs revealed preferences needs to be applied more to politics. Just as conservatives drop the cricket-and-beer friendliness when they deem there to be too many ethnic minorities, so centrists drop their commitment to democracy when the left crosses a certain popularity threshold

Important to remember: "maybe MPs shouldn't be so drunk at work they stink of booze all day" and "maybe the met shouldn't literally kick people repeatedly on the head while they're on the ground" getting the full bore outrage cannons isn't about the specifics, it's about the left being illegitimate.

Note here how even the crushed, mutilated remnant of the Labour Party’s membership *still* have to be shitehoused and harassed, because they cannot be trusted to vote for Streeting or Mahmood. Real believers in organic democracy, these lads.

*Taps the sign*

More evidence of how fucking chock-full of eugenics silicon valley iss, has been, and will continue to be if steps aren't taken to name, acknowledge, and dismantle those connections. '“All my fundees have blue eyes.” [Jeffrey] Epstein and the tech world’s dark ideology'

Just watched this old vid with Mhairi Black and a small baby Owen Jones. She lays out the exact stuff Hannah Spencer is talking about now, ten years later, and it’s actually worse now.

I wrote for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social about Kathryn Paige Harden's new book, an attempt to popularize the eugenics of criminality. I read it as a gambit to build liberal support for the project animating far right politics today, inspired by Replacement theory.

i had a captive audience in @adriandaub.bsky.social and @trentrichardnelson.bsky.social so of course i forced them to sit through a good old fashioned screed for this episode of @halftheanswer.bsky.social www.liberalcurrents.com/the-cancel-c...

"What has Hannah Spencer achieved in Parliament compared to us?!" ask long-serving MPs of the governing party of someone from a party of five MPs who has been an MP for two months

I remember everyone on the pub pool team I played for many years ago debating whether the ideal number of pints to have before a game was five, six, seven etc. It was of course nonsense, and just a bunch of pissheads kidding themselves Ditto these MPs

Chris Rufo - another one with the usual fans: bsky.app/profile/magi... bsky.app/profile/magi... bsky.app/profile/magi...

This is the broadsheet newspaper columnist equivalent of one of those "What the London Marathon taught me about B2B sales" style LinkedIn posts

I can't believe friend of the far-right Kathleen Stock is lacking in moral fibre. Fml

Sorry, you're telling me that Kathleen Stock LIED to the Office for Students?!? And the OFS based their decision to fine the University of Sussex half a million pounds in part on that lie!? I am shocked! Shocked I tell you! I never could have predicted such a thing might come to pass!

You're telling me Arif Ahmed, connected to Peter Thiel, the eugenicist and reactionary magazine Quillette, and Jordan B Peterson, with a questionable MBE (for 'education'!) and somehow appointed by Badenoch to the EHRC Board (left after six months for the OfS) might be bad for the OfS?

Me: "Go on, I'll read a Conservative Home article this morning" Conservative Home:

With alt text. Utterly unsurprising that the BBC would twist its story this way to serve a far right agenda

This PSG vs Bayern game feels a lot like a Pro Evo 2008 one

I wonder if anyone to the right of Polanski will get dug into like this? I can guarantee some very interesting (i.e. racist) findings if you dig into say the Blue Labour lot, e.g. bsky.app/profile/magi...

Happy birthday, Dad. Wish you were here. You’d know what to do. Or at least you’d know what to write. ❤️

"Green swans", now there's a clever term www.finance-watch.org/blog/mislead...

Fuck you. We will have our pints prised from our dead tobacco stained fingers before you stop us crawling through the lobby steaming to vote to make disabled people poorer & arms manufacturers richer

the people are out of touch once again

I'd say only the first question here measures being "socially disconnected". The other three could easily be put down to being a bit of a nasty prick

One-third of the British population being racist tracks. Funny how questions like this weren't asked by PolProfs in the past

I can't believe a company like NatWest would backtrack on lending restrictions to the oil & gas sector www.theguardian.com/business/202...