Coincidentally?!?!?!?!

The issue is not whether 'Britain is far right' but why far-right politics have become so normalised Rather than accepting this is a bottom-up, people-driven push, I argue that we must look at those who have the power to shape the agenda and public discourse www.bigissue.com/news/politic...

Lads, I've decided to migrate from the other place, and lads, here is a good example of why.

Willy Wonka when the children are on their way to the chocolate factory

The Oxford Union president story has all the ingredients you need to do mad numbers among the UK commentariat, by which I mean it lets them defend a far-right grifter and, crucially, is happening in Oxbridge.

Think it's really nice how ikea include differently shaped screws to make it more fun :)

Seeing commentators claiming not everyone on the Tommy Robinson march was racist. I'm not even convinced of that, but let's allow it - they are *all* choosing to value their idea of what the UK should be over the safety/wellbeing of the racialised people Robinson targets.

Various flight delays making me increasingly furious as the day goes on. Feel like it's probably visible from my facial expression but also must be impossible to take seriously when for some reason I chose to travel in my 'i eat cement' t-shirt

🚨🚨🚨 NEW IDEA OF WATER JUST DROPPED 🚨🚨🚨

Adjusting to a new reality in which Doncaster is a place I need to think about sometimes

Once again a barista gets my name wrong!

Haven't made any effort at all to follow the Angela Rayner story, but still some really nice schadenfreude when you see someone who sold out any principles they may once have had to cozy up to people who were always going to hate them regardless get ratfucked.

I'd been wondering which of the UK commentariat would be first to go down the ecofascist route. Should, of course, have realised it'd be Goodwin.

It remains to be seen how or if this will be implemented in any meaningful way or if it'll just be a symbolic gesture, but still amazing to see this 💙

Reading up on Rupert the Bear and I will say: the vibes aren't great.

Not a bad setting for the 2025 ASMCF annual conference! Great to catch up with friends and colleagues old and new, to hear about their amazing research, and to share some of my work on cultural representations of French jihadi women.

Not going to post a creepshot, but there's a guy at the table next to me in this coffee shop watching something on his laptop and studiously taking notes. What he's watching is Family Guy

Canterbury? But I barely know her bury! Sometimes a post should stay in the drafts

A train journey in England is a magical experience in which almost anything can happen except for the journey unfolding as advertised

Spot the difference (the extract is from Mein Kampf FWIW)

I respect and admire the persistence of Edinburgh University library, who continue to send me a weekly reminder about my unpaid fines even though I stopped working there two years ago.

What's going on here then

New academic year, new office, new institution, same goal (become so strong I can fight the moon and win).

Now I've moved out, I can finally share what I discovered was one of the first Google results after learning, several months after moving in, that the flat I lived in in Bristol used to be a pub 🫠

OH MY GOD HAHAHAHAHA

If I were a cynical man, I'd suspect the Spectator may have some kind of an agenda

I am politely asking you to strap me to a rocket and fire me directly into the fucking sun

Me moving out of Bristol today

The complicity of the Labour right in general and Keir Starmer in particular in the ongoing far-right resurgence really can't be overstated. The enemy is the far right, but it's also those who enable them.

Wasted a morning there, time to mute some threads (including this one, immediatelty) ✌️

Libs telling everyone to consistently vote for creeping fascism seem very sure of themselves until it's POST NOT FOUND / THIS ACCOUNT NO LONGER EXISTS

I see some of you follow this person. Great call, he seems lovely!

A little introspection from Otto English regarding how the government he acted as a noisy cheerleader for has contributed to normalising and legitimating this would be welcome. Instead, later in the thread, he starts dribbling about 'the far left' doing the same...

MISHIKAWA. RENO. YORK. DUNFERMLINE.

An underrated chaotic feature of the internet is Linkedin telling you who viewed your profile. I always immediately look back to assert dominance, which I see as the online equivalent of staring someone out.

Pls point me to research supporting that there is no genocide happening (in Palestine). I can, on the contrary, cite several works incl the ICJ decision in favour of the term ‘genocide’ being appropriate in this case. Rima Hassan, French MP, at her best, despite pressure from corrupt media outlets.

find the idea of panna cotta offensive on a visceral level

thinking back to the naive, youthful version of me that bought a hard copy of this book as a first-year UG in 2009, never dreaming that it'd somehow still be a part of my life 16 years later

Within about the next 5 hours a certain someone is going to tinker with the code and suddenly every reply will reference race replacement

Bristol airport vs Edinburgh airport. Looking forward to remaining in England, where I will continue to have fun with my good friends the English

They're doing their best and I appreciate that

a career tracked in ms teams logins

and it hasn't been updated since

A micro-niche complaint I have is that there's a publisher in Paris called Éditions Amsterdam, and writing 'Paris: Amsterdam' in a bibliography is just confusing for all concerned.

SYMBOLISM

hmmm, tell me more

Doing the online fire safety training

The big day is here! I believe there's now a vacancy at Bristol as clown prince of French/CLC 🫡

out of office ON (permanently) ✌️

'More like *fool* English' I chuckle to myself as I open up the 'The Left' groupchat and let several million people know that we're cancelling my 75-year-old neighbour for being a Grafter who likes pints