I can't wait until we eventually get the Cummings and McSweeney podcast. When we'll finally get the inside track on their misunderstood genius.

*taps sign*

It's nice isn't it. The Quiet.

Public options for essentials, strategic price interventions, investment in housing and childcare — this is antifascist economics. It tackles the material conditions that make authoritarianism appealing. In making life livable, democracy defends itself.

Just since 2000: the Iraq War, the Great Financial Crisis, killing the poors with austerity, Lybia, nuking Corbyn in cahoots with the Labour right, monstering asylum seekers, mainstreaming Farage, stomping on trans people, running interference for a genocide, treating protesters as terrorists, etc

Dunno man, this sounds like a bunch of comfortables experiencing what it's like to be a pig person for the first time. Being on the left this has been my experience of the poltical media ecosystem my entire life. Centrists & libs have been hosing me in pure unrefined shit for as long as I can recall

Mandatory digital ID for all, but no phones for school kids. Also we’re making it so you can’t access the internet without giving all your information to the makers of Fortnite.

John Le Carre was right about the British establishment and how the alumni of the best schools will sell out their own country for status and money and in particular a desperate desire for American attention

We can’t afford to do what every other country did years ago for our railways, but people need to drive their kids to school in a tank

Weird who gets an apology and retraction for Panorama episodes and who doesn't, isn't it?

I recall around 1990 an elderly supply teacher explaining to my class what war is actually like, macho mythology aside. The sound bullets make. Men crying for their mummys as they die on the battlefield. It's haunted me ever since, and certainly played a role in politicising me.

This is what they’ll tell themselves alright, because it’ll be more convenient than admitting that they’ve fucked it by relentlessly attacking their own supporters until there’s nobody left who likes them or wants what they’re selling.

Me, last year, when my progressive friends told me they were voting Labour. #TheTraitors

"I'll tell you one thing, and I'm not ashamed to say it, my estimation of Nick Mohammed as a man just f*cking plummeted." #TheTraitors

Call them cunts and tell them they get nothing. Spit in their stupid faces. Put extra Asians in the Christmas adverts and explicitly say you're doing it to fuck them off. Tell them *no* for once Jesus actual Christ lads. Not "this is unworkable" or "this is expensive". Just no.

The worldview requires that there be external and internal enemies and soft traitors who must all be disciplined by hard men doing purifying violence. You cannot say "look we got rid of the enemies for you, are you happy now?" That fully, fundamentally misunderstands everything going on here.

As we have been saying: Keir Starmer could personally machine gun refugees in the channel and *it still wouldn't be enough* because the entire point of the fascist worldview is to rage against the external and internal enemies of the people and the soft traitors who enable them.

This is how you do wash trading. All these companies are investing in each other paying each other bits of the same trillion dollars in order to make it look like they’re so close to AGI so investors will keep giving them money to lose. This is also known as a Junkie’s promise.

On the question of why everyone hates the current PM, here: this feels exactly right to me. And straight up, I do not feel like any replacement leader who would be tolerated by the press could do better than this. Possibly worse, if anything.

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

Been out out this afternoon for a birthday shindig. Some excellent sushi, a decent katsu curry and about five pints. Gaffer threw up the bat-signal and I responded. The Reds could learn from this sort of application and flexibility. Enjoy.

Indeed. And more than that, it's a reaction to it. What rattled elite racists more than anything about BLM in 2020 was the extent to which it resonated with the general public. They saw a major leftward shift in hegemonic cultural values, and they've been desperately trying to reverse it ever since.

Another parable from George Osborne's Britain

BBC's editorial policy for stories of crimes committed by asylum seekers seems to be to boost them in the hope of achieving credibility with people who have already decided that the BBC is a pedophile protection racket

The consistent attempts to demonise, stigmatise and other the anti-genocide movement ("unBritish") is a form of political collusion with the genocide. It directly echoes and amplifies the propaganda of the state committing the genocide, and seeks to alleviate political pressure on its accomplices.

"That's the difference a Green councillor can make." Co-Deputy Leader @mothinali.bsky.social speaks to Aaron Bastani of Novara Media.

Incredibly dangerous for a senior politician to suggest that there's some zero-sum game to be played between mourning the losses of Oct7 and protesting an ongoing genocide. And incredibly cynical given that the protests are directed at his own complicity www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

When I - a smart lobby journo - was invited to a secret briefing by Labour’s millionaire donations officer who had access to a huge slush fund, to hear about a terrifying scandal that was entirely based upon Facebook posts by random members of the public, I was impressed by how legit it was.

Any journalists who feel like investigating Morgan McSweeny's money might also want to ask if Anna Turley and Phil Wilson were completely above board in the North. You know, just to check and confirm that they were the legit rules following good party members they said they were.

The most successful novelist of her generation can't actually enter this country to accept an award for fear of arrest, someone tell the BBC

Do we think the lads in this photo - now babbling live on the radio about the government’s poor judgement - much appreciate being stuck right in the frame alongside Mandelson as clueless assclowns, at very best? Will this colour their perceptions in future.

Given neither Starmer nor his team appear to have got worse in power - they were every bit as vacuous, cringe, try-hard and catastrophically shit as this when they were in opposition - then I conclude that the main difference now is: they are thoroughly embarrassing their one-time cheerleaders.

Pod from today with me, Chris and Jules. theliverpoolway.podbean.com/e/reds-lose-...

LFC’s best players for non-penalty goals and assists per ninety since the start of the Klopp era (minimum 7k minutes): Salah .86 Jota .76 Nunez .74 Firmino and Mané .65 If your flops do this, you’re doing alright.

Can't fault the clarity of Labour's message on protest. There are BAD protesters who must be punished (Irish musicians, anti-genocide vicars) and there are GOOD protesters whose views deserve respect (masked thugs with petrol bombs trying to start a pogrom)

I strongly believe that as academics and commentators our role here is not simply to offer detached, dispassionate analysis. We have a civic, human responsibility to speak out at a moral level. Human beings have a moral language for a reason, and we should use it to name evil when we see it.

You will not see a more tangible encapsulation of the genocide. A war of utter annihilation waged as a joint enterprise between the Israeli state on the ground and its allies in consistent support. The debt of reparations that the West owes to the Palestinian people at this point is incalculable.

She's been a regular on the BBC's "Moral Maze" for decades, even after her words were quoted in the manifesto of a mass murdering racist. We should not be surprised by this. Instead we should ask, what job is she being asked to do, and handsomely rewarded for, by these editors?

Alastair Campbell on the Rest is Politics here, describing a “really difficult row” with his own son which is only difficult because apparently until now he’s refused to accept an objective fact.

the only thing these guys care about is the preservation of their little fiefdoms and if that happens to be under fascism, so be it

Fascinating survey data on the missing Biden voters by Lake Research. The voters who sat out in '24 weren't looking for a centrist or turned off by trans rights. They want a genuine economic populist agenda: take on corporate greed, lower costs, and make the wealthy pay their fair share.

Among yesterday's arrestees is Deborah Hinton, an 81-year old retired magistrate with an OBE. That's Yvette Cooper's idea of a terrorist. Language has been turned on its head. The law has been turned on its head. Murdering children is righteous. Trying to stop it is terrorism.

They always meant *their freedom*, not yours. And to a large extent their freedom to do exactly what they want unimpeded by public disapproval has always been dependent on sending the cops to batter and/or remove people who tell the public what they are doing. And this isn’t contradictory at all.

Some of the most prolific liars in the history of British democracy are definitely going to sort trust in politics. Honest. Genuinely fucking pathetic. Our political media is irredeemable. It needs a flamethrower taking to it and just start again.

This was so obviously where it was heading. Insane to give weirdos that want to be deputised as bathroom police the power to say who does and doesn't conform to their personal norm of femininity.

Martin Forde concluded Labour operates a hierarchy of racism, where anti-Black racism & Islamophobia are brushed aside. Now we have a Prime Minister who mimicked Enoch Powell with “island of strangers” & suspended the UK’s first Black woman MP twice. It’s institutional racism.

Not enough police for crime, extra police for protests.

LOL this version of Labour could not possibly exist if you removed the bullying, shitehousing, lying, backstabbing, falling over and pretending to be injured, cheating, stitchups, conspiring with horrible newspapers, accusations of invented offences, bung-acceptance and bullshit.

i think the big middle event between george floyd protests and covid that accelerated this hard right turn in elite circles was tech employees using slack to stage walk-outs and force concessions from management. tech bosses got a first whiff of organized labor's power and started reading mein kampf