‘The Fourth Wall’ (Collage 11/25, Doug Campbell)

Part of Priest's defence is that they couldn't afford a round of fish and chips when they made the record, and if it had occurred to them to brainwash their audience, the message would have been "Look guys, buy a record. PLEASE!." Clearly, these are not concerns for the AI industry.

This should have been an instructive moment in people’s understanding of just how much people are willing to pay economically for racism and xenophobia.

Just to echo Rodent, UK politics makes much more sense if you understand it as Thatcherism collapsing in 2008 but persisting as gospel among the elites, who then spent the next two decades setting up various scapegoats to slaughter and then go, "Whoops. Turns out the blood is in another neck!"

’Bold Cosmonaut of the Vibrational Planes’ (Collage 11/25, Doug Campbell)

'Song of the Demogorgon' - an old collage I made way back in 2017. AKA 'Jane Russell, as Beautiful as Tigers Fighting'

It's so interesting that in the name of practicality we are urged to avoid any practical action; in the name of redemption we are urged to exonerate people who have shown no interest in redemption; in the name of civility we are urged to overlook the cruelty of those who scorn all civility

‘The Silent Era’ (Collage 11/25, Doug Campbell)

Yes, there's been a lot of talk about "Lest we forget" recently. We definitely don't want to be forgetting any of this.

I suspect I've got a few decades on the OP, but no arguments about his conclusions.

Old school situationist feel about this, and of course it's bang on.

'To Charm a Salamander' (Collage 11/25, Doug Campbell)

Excellent investigative work from The Mill.

Crash Bandicoot could do Kier Starmers job, but Kier Starmer couldn’t do Crash Bandicoot’s job

‘An Adventuress of the Great Indoors’ (Collage 10/25, Doug Campbell)

A characteristically astute insight from Mr. Guy. I think we can expect the structure to remain in place for the foreseeable future.

‘The Fiery Angel’ (Collage 10/25, Doug Campbell)

If the study reflects wider behaviour, this would explain a lot about current 'discourse'. Also jibes with Sartre's comments on the contempt for the truth he found in the arguments of anti-Semites.

My only comment on the "Nazi tattoo" discourse is that displaying Nazi insignia in any way, shape, or form should automatically disqualify you from holding public office anywhere whatsoever. As should expressing sympathy, support, or "being open" to ideas espoused by Nazis.

Very pleased to have work in the new issue of this fine publication. Get your copy or view a free pdf at the link in comments below.

Seems to me that "a wave of air attacks" means there is no ceasefire. As if there was any doubt.

I think this is very much the case in UK media and the big political parties.

Spot on

‘A Moment of Unbearable Longing’ (Collage 10/25, Doug Campbell)

Labour policy statement in full!

Recent reading: fascinating book about an amazing photographer, writer and fearless antifascist activist. In-depth and lavishly illustrated.

"You can't defeat bad ideas by adopting them. You can't grow a coalition by selling out its members." Another useful piece from friend Moxon.

Truth!

Literally everyone I know with indefinite leave to remain is either in the NHS or education - so I’m not sure how they can prove they’ve contributed more to society than they’ve always done. They’ve certainly done more than any no mark Labour politician whose sat on their lazy arse their entire life

The linked document is apparently being circulated in the UK Labour party ahead of their annual conference. It would be pathetic if it wasn't so horrifying.

Society is not a savings account. This isn't how anything works, it isn't how anything can work. It's a meaningless bunch of guff designed to appeal to a certain resentful old demographic of racist pensioners.

One thing I've learned from the Internet is that a lie needs 0% proof to be believed, but the truth requires thousands of pages of proof and still won't be believed.

This seems quite a crucial insight in understanding politics as it is currently practiced: the belief that "real politics would eventually happen elsewhere."

Of course, there’s a grander geopolitical strategy at play wrt the West’s support for Israel (see Merz’s recent remarks about Israel doing ‘the dirty work’ for all of them), but on individual levels, these people are just repeating an incantation that’s been hammered into them as the price of entry.

‘At the Appointed Hour’ (Collage 9/25, Doug Campbell)

The Number 6 One Stop Shop is an vital service for people with autism in Edinburgh. Please sign and share the petition to keep it open. chng.it/L8d6zFyBqH

‘Gardens of Lichen and Verdigris’ (Collage 9/25, Doug Campbell)

Well now, this is interesting. Could it be that it was the golf course and not the aeroplanes?

Bit late in sharing this, but I really think it's a fine piece of writing, the best I've seen on the subject.

‘Season of the Wild Hunt’ (Collage 9/25, Doug Campbell)

In Edinburgh this afternoon: Protest against the genocide in Palestine. For friends outside the UK, the words the protestors are writing on their signs make them subject to arrest and potential prison sentences. There's a useful article in the comments below.

’Our Lady of Trilobites’ (Collage 9/25, Doug Campbell)

'MOMENT' (Wilfried Satty, 1969, original poster by Celestial Arts of San Francisco) Wasn't until this was fully unrolled for framing that I realised that the tower is the Wallace Monument. This dominates the skyline of Stirling University, where I spent a few years of my youth.

I don’t think there’s a more glaring demonstration than the Gaza Strip genocide that centrist politicians are in the game to get the things *they want*; that they will gladly smash the bus into oncoming traffic rather than not get it, and they will kill you if you try to take their status and clout.

The load-bearing myth at the heart of UK politics is that the politicians and media are tolerant and decent and working people are knuckle-dragging bigots, but it's actually completely the other way around.

I’m sorry, there isn’t enough bread left over for you, once the super-wealthy have taken their share. Can we interest you in these extremely nasty circuses

The amazing thing about every Labour frontbencher isn't just that they're unspeakably evil and a threat to a decent society, but that they all carry themselves like D-tier villains from TV shows and video games.

‘A Fortress on the Night Side of Your Mind’ (Collage 8/25, Doug Campbell)

Recently added the first collage book by Wilfried Satty(1939 -1982) 'The Cosmic Bicycle' to my collection. Satty was a genius, gone too soon, and deserves to be better remembered.

I like the way friend Moxon puts together - or tears apart - an argument, and I think this has applications outside the US context.