Cattle and Cane by the Go Betweens is my album of 2025

Just beat my 3 year old nephew at Mario kart #progamer

you’re not the boss of me, running watch (drinks 10 beers)

Just letting everyone know that I’m not sending you a Christmas card this year but will instead be making a donation to the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change. Here’s to a better 2026! 🎄

My album of the year for 2025 is the bit where the drums come in towards the end of this song

Dead Man’s Shoes is a Christmas Movie

David Foster Wallace’s woke ‘Consider the Lobster’ agenda has gotten way out of hand. It’s good to see him finally being challenged after two long decades of silence

My album of the year for 2025 is the song Farewell Transmission by Songs: Ohia

Hahahahaha it’s so comical when people steal sandwiches around Christmas time let’s not think too much about why they’re doing it it’s probably because you can get loads of drugs in exchange for a chicken caesar wrap and not because 1 in 5 people live in poverty crylaugh emoji

Wish there were more films about wealthy American men going on a journey of self-discovery

Wonder if this extends to investigating the actions of ex-Facebook employee Nick Clegg

‘Don’t you worry Louie-dog! Once Streeting is PM you’ll be back on the ski slopes in no time!’ #fbpe 🇪🇺

This is *your fault* for not chanting growth loud enough 🫵

Show me how your 2025 went

My album of the year is this Wolf Parade song from 2005

Fun fact: when Michael Flatley drinks champagne he turns into Michael Bublé.

My album of the year is this Tubs song from 2 years ago youtu.be/9zh0P086hPU?...

He was the best beer-writer of his generation, you’re not going to change my mind on this

SO STATESMANLIKE!

I do not believe AI will liberate access to knowledge the way boosters proclaim it will because when an individual tried to liberate access to that knowledge, the keepers of that knowledge responded by driving him to suicide.

Just like when Christian Wakeford crossed the floor to join Labour, I think this is actually the sign of a really healthy democracy. So nice that all the parties can get along! It’s almost like there’s no real difference between any of them!

best to ever do it

If you take the bigotry and xenophobia of Blue Labour and the pure unadulterated meltability of the soft left and you mix them together, you end up with the bigotry and xenophobia of Blue Labour

I am Keir Starmer’s new social media comms guy and I am recommending that he gets into professional boxing 🫡

When I first ran past it this morning and only saw the name, I invented a whole story in my head about a legendary folkloric Devonian lobster who evaded capture for decades due to the abilities for which he was ultimately named by the local fishermen

Trying not to comment on the current discourse because I am already struggling today and it’ll only make me feel more down SO INSTEAD I will post this fun blue plaque from where I’m currently at in the South West, of this excellently named footballer

FML - increasing SEND provision is bad because we might have to accommodate more SEND children, but we’re v glad to have the Boston Dynamics robot-death-dog visit to promote the arms industry!

There are already 'magnet' settings: they're the ones like ours known to be inclusive. We need system level change to better meet needs. #SEND

This can only make sense in a system where schools are run via the logic of business instead of social use-value… They don’t want to open up a provision catered to SEND children because they’ll end up with more SEND children at their provision… #edusky

Since @gregk.co.uk started his new podcast, I’ve started to occasionally Google *random/funny/awful person* followed by the word *gun* to see what turns up…I’d totally forgotten about this one (listen to @bloodwork.show)

Going to keep banging on about this for a little while longer cus it all fits in nicely with the idea that leftist melancholia is fading, and we are actually in a time of *liberal melancholia*

Who is claiming life was a paradise until recently? The left are fed up of economic inequality rising for 40 years (amongst other things) and want more equality. It’s the inequality and individualism that liberalism creates which fosters support for Reform PS my full name is Basil Sean Octigan

Good example of why we should be wary of liberal identity politics. Revolutionary idpol keeps the movement pure by centralising the voice of those at structurally excluded intersections. Liberal idpol keeps capitalism afloat by incorporating the historically excluded into its social relations

It’s all starting to make sense now

Me enjoying the future

Come to this! One more speaker to be announced shortly!

Yes this is it. If the 90s/00s were a time of leftist melancholia, now seems to be a time of liberal melancholia and the LP appears to be a key mechanism in producing this affect. My naive hope remains that well meaning libs finally accept Labour’s demise and move left.

‘It’s nice isn’t it, the quiet’ (me enjoying the relative silence now that I am not surrounded by people excited by Labour’s return to power)

As others have mentioned, Burnham doesn’t rly have a road to power…my main worry is that, despite this, the vague hope of a Burnham led Labour Party will encourage well-meaning libs to ‘stay and fight’ instead of being radicalised left by the prospect of Starmerism-forever

Sean’s Classic Christmas cocktail recipe #3: THE HOT WHITE ANDY 50ml cheap gin 100ml warm milk 10-15 drops of Tabasco Serve in a dimpled pint mug Stir exactly 10 times counter clockwise with a bamboo stirring stick Season’s Greetings! 🎄 / 🎅 / 🔥

There has *never been a better time* to get behind Keir Starmer’s Labour Party! It’s time for change!

Maybe on an affective level it’s a case of ‘once bitten, twice shy’, but the odd thing about the *Your Party is the only true socialist party* argument is that those making will have been Labour Party members in 2017 - a far more right wing and rigid assemblage than the Greens.

Great article, and this point is so important. Educators are kept busy trying to prop up a broken system, which we become complicit in, and this leaves no time for us to develop bonds of solidarity and coalition building to fight for real systemic change #edusky

Looking forward to the near future and imagining a world where Keir Starmer is presenting MOTD and Wes Streeting is hosting In Our Time, cus no one else wants to be associated with the toxicity of the BBC

‘Defend the BBC’ libs that justify the abject nature of its news coverage because you love its cultural production…what now?

There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom

I will support the war effort by posting about how shit Labour are from my sofa (this will bring down Labour and usher in communism and world peace)

Know anyone who looks at events as if they emerge out of thin air and then thinks deeply about how they could have possibly happened?! Buy them a sub to the New Statesman this Christmas!