this is like the literal opposite of true. the most fruitful eras of the modern democratic party coincided with periods where the walls separating political radicals from the mainstream were way less solid

Imagine being such an openly corrupt leader of FIFA that you make Bladder seem like a pillar of integrity.

Don't cry for Greenspan, he's already destroyed your future.

Since apparently this isn't making it beyond UK news yet, Rockstar petitioned a British court to section an 18 year old autistic kid under the mental health act for hacking their server and leaking a short GTA 6 clip a couple of years ago. No trial, no term of sentence, just locked up in hospital.

Just got an email that Tidal is increasing their prices. Everybody is increasing their prices at the same fucking time and it's starting to feel like a conspiracy. Buy physical media, visit your local libraries, read more books.

This week's book review, The World Bank by Eric Toussaint, I discuss debt and question what the hell is economic development anyway? I also proverbially dance on Greenspan's grave.

The Economist is already criticising Burnham for not opening up new markets and he hasn't even started yet :(

Of the PM‘s replaced in the last decade, who honestly should have stay on longer? Cameron gutted the state. May was incapable of managing the Commons. Johnson was Johnson. Truss was Truss. Sunak was a cynical vandal. Starmer was hopelessly inept.

Today is not a good day to be working with large datasets.

I want to round up all the Labourites who told me that Starmer was a better leader and would handle the office better than Corbyn ever would today. Check in with them. See how that internal narrative is working out.

Went to the shops and saw a small child calling everyone 'chuds' and his mum and him singing the 'chud song'. I don't usually assume small children's behaviour is an indicator of wider societal decay, but my word I'm not optimistic.

Today I talked about how J.J. Abrams ruined both my favourite sci-fi franchises, and how that is a microcosm of the neo-liberal 'enshittification' of everything.

A book review in which I talk about Mary Mellor's Debt or Democracy:

This has been the common sense argument for nearly two years now. Elon Musk is a malevolent source of foreign interference in British democracy and his platform, X, actively promotes the spread of hate, extremism and CSAM.

To paraphrase Lucille Bluth, read this and see a Star War

Depressed. That's how to describe my mood.

Today I reviewed a book by Beverley Best about the way capital abstracts the value of labour to undermine workers. Good, light stuff.

Because I've been busy, I wrote a lighter entry in the ol' Blog this week. Namely, the first in a three-part series on why J.J. Abrams represents everything wrong with neo-liberalism, and how that led to him ruining Star Trek and Star Wars.

Time to talk about Socialism, cranky old British guy edition.

If you're at SOAS, University of London, please come to this workshop I'm hosting!

Wes Streeting wins the Tony Blair award for being entirely unaware how hated you are.

Today I talk about how Marxist economists use maths. Futurama references inbound.

In today's blog post, I make the leftist cause for cautious optimism.

Another entry into my blog! Read and share! This week I look at Oliver Bullough's Butler to the World cyberspace.online/tayroc/0Gr5z...

I have a blog here: cyberspace.online/tayroc/AnmWw... I'm writing about Marx as an introductory thing for people. Be cool if you went and read it.

Some people so eager to lick boot they don't even care what kind of boot or who is wearing it.

Another reminder that MBA programmes being extremely dumbed down degree mills so the universities can make a quick profit is part of what's destroying the economy.

Treatwell taking the 'capitalism is such a rubbish dumpster fire that obviously you're making foot f*tish content to make ends meet' line was not on my bingo card

Another week, another book review. This time, Money & Society, a Critical Companion.

Goes without saying, but we live in an age where the obvious needs stating

It's all still human labour and capital seeking to alienate labour from their surplus value.

I wrote a thing. It'd be cool if you read it and shared it.

Oh hey its that thing the left has been saying all along.

As a Linux and Star Trek nerd, I often find myself thinking about how remarkably beautiful and utilitarian the LCARS interface from TNG, DS9, and VOY is, how remarkable that an interface from an OS that never existed still lives in my head, and would love to see LCARS get more love in modern Trek.

I know people in my circles already know this, but it needs repeating...

First wave feminists continue to miss point.

'I'm pinching myself. It is February 2026, and I am writing for Tribune about Peter Mandelson. Moreover, it’s much the same as I was writing over thirty years ago for Tribune except that, on this occasion, [he] has finally managed to surpass even his own appalling record of venality and avarice'.

Left without comment.

Scotland, relatively expected voice of reason in the UK.

He said this to his staff through tears and over a pint of ice cream, whilst watching a marathon of Sorkin television, trying to cope with the fact that the man who taught him how to alienate the left was in league with a nonce.

As has oft been pointed out, colonial violence always comes home to roost.

I can't think of better combination of ideas to get me waxing for a lost future than 'Irish socialism'.

On Wikipedia's 25th anniversary, remember that everywhere in a battlefield for public opinion.

Coders of the world unite, we have nothing to lose but our Microslop, Apple, Google, and Amazon imposed chains.

No for real. Growing up all I was ever shown of Africa was its animals and starving children. Ishowspeed's Africa tour opened my eyes wide.

Someday corporations and technology companies will pretend they were always against this