BalthazarBlaze
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If you don't learn from history, you're doomed to repeat it. That involves admitting you were wrong once in a while, and a little contrition. "challenging historical narratives and contemporary politics" or whatever tedious trite floats your whistle
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Don't kill the part of you that's cringe, kill the part of you that cringes
November 30, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Don't kill the part of you that's cringe, kill the part of you that cringes
Heh
"Somebody will surely stop this" says society based on sloughing off responsibility and accountability at any opportunity.
November 29, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Heh
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Huge respect to the papers for finding both an 88 year old worried about the tax bill on her 6 bedroom Kensington house and a 20 year old fretting about only being able to save £12k a year tax free.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.
November 29, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Huge respect to the papers for finding both an 88 year old worried about the tax bill on her 6 bedroom Kensington house and a 20 year old fretting about only being able to save £12k a year tax free.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.
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This is pretty much why they all hate the left, by the way: we don’t agree to pretend.
November 28, 2025 at 10:05 PM
This is pretty much why they all hate the left, by the way: we don’t agree to pretend.
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i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
November 28, 2025 at 3:28 AM
i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
I have never been able to source a reliable figure on Corbyn's famous expensive house. I believed it was valued at £800k following the sale of a neighbouring property for over a million, but that's the closest and I have to assume that was for the purposes of the many stories since it wasn't on sale
A while back I learned that Jeremy Corbyn and his wife live in a former council-owned maisonette, two bedrooms, in Islington—which he had to buy (because Thatcher) and is now worth over £2M. I am guessing that spare bedroom is his office.
£2M in London doesn't go very far ...
£2M in London doesn't go very far ...
November 27, 2025 at 4:56 PM
I have never been able to source a reliable figure on Corbyn's famous expensive house. I believed it was valued at £800k following the sale of a neighbouring property for over a million, but that's the closest and I have to assume that was for the purposes of the many stories since it wasn't on sale
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I wish it didn’t feel so unusual and inspiring to see a leader treating everyone like they matter and saying that we have a responsibility to help each other
Combatting poverty and hunger in this city will take every single one of us. Myself included.
November 27, 2025 at 3:19 PM
I wish it didn’t feel so unusual and inspiring to see a leader treating everyone like they matter and saying that we have a responsibility to help each other
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This house tax pretending is making me more insane than usual because as a renter I’ve had to move every 1-3 years just as standard because rents always rise. And no one cares. House owners get a tiny fraction of that precarity and suddenly it’s the worst thing that’s ever happened
November 27, 2025 at 1:09 PM
This house tax pretending is making me more insane than usual because as a renter I’ve had to move every 1-3 years just as standard because rents always rise. And no one cares. House owners get a tiny fraction of that precarity and suddenly it’s the worst thing that’s ever happened
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Look it’s never nice to find yourself in a position of having to move when you don’t want to but given that due to the volatility of the London housing market I have had to move FIVE TIMES since 2020 I’m struggling to feel very sympathetic towards people whose ’problem’ is a paid off 2mil property.
November 27, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Look it’s never nice to find yourself in a position of having to move when you don’t want to but given that due to the volatility of the London housing market I have had to move FIVE TIMES since 2020 I’m struggling to feel very sympathetic towards people whose ’problem’ is a paid off 2mil property.
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I think at this point if you're including Diane Abbott - a woman who has never held government office, has been a backbencher since 2020, and is scarcely a government ally - on your list of political wrongdoers, we all know exactly what your real concerns are
November 26, 2025 at 12:28 PM
I think at this point if you're including Diane Abbott - a woman who has never held government office, has been a backbencher since 2020, and is scarcely a government ally - on your list of political wrongdoers, we all know exactly what your real concerns are
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Timely reminder
Thinking of getting some Labour flyers printed up if anyone in Pontypridd is up for distributing them?
November 19, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Timely reminder
It amazes me how insulated our media class is.
Weird thing! You cant afford your rent but number has gone up. Why sad poor person who is viewed as scum by people like me?
I would bet £20 Alex went to oxbridge
Weird thing! You cant afford your rent but number has gone up. Why sad poor person who is viewed as scum by people like me?
I would bet £20 Alex went to oxbridge
Weird thing: the UK minimum wage has risen against inflation for years. It's now really high. Millions of people are earning more than they were as a direct result of this policy. And the impact on the vibes of the country is… entirely absent?
November 20, 2025 at 7:22 AM
It amazes me how insulated our media class is.
Weird thing! You cant afford your rent but number has gone up. Why sad poor person who is viewed as scum by people like me?
I would bet £20 Alex went to oxbridge
Weird thing! You cant afford your rent but number has gone up. Why sad poor person who is viewed as scum by people like me?
I would bet £20 Alex went to oxbridge
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I'm a socialist but I'm in a centre left liberal nationalist party that has won election after election while standing up for migrants. Everyone knows about Denmark but Scotland is little-studied or treated as some kind of curiosity.
It's really simple, people respect clarity, honesty, and strength
It's really simple, people respect clarity, honesty, and strength
November 18, 2025 at 4:42 PM
I'm a socialist but I'm in a centre left liberal nationalist party that has won election after election while standing up for migrants. Everyone knows about Denmark but Scotland is little-studied or treated as some kind of curiosity.
It's really simple, people respect clarity, honesty, and strength
It's really simple, people respect clarity, honesty, and strength
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This is precisely what "there's no economic crisis" dickheads like that cunt stencil and his neoliberal cohorts try to gloss over. "Look how nice a TV you can get for the apartment you can't afford".
Pretty much all affordability discourse could benefit from just posting this chart.
If you're in the better off America, all the luxury goods you want in excess are for the most part much cheaper. If you're in the poorer America, most of the shit you need to live/grow is more expensive.
If you're in the better off America, all the luxury goods you want in excess are for the most part much cheaper. If you're in the poorer America, most of the shit you need to live/grow is more expensive.
November 18, 2025 at 7:30 AM
This is precisely what "there's no economic crisis" dickheads like that cunt stencil and his neoliberal cohorts try to gloss over. "Look how nice a TV you can get for the apartment you can't afford".
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I find it interesting that a woman in Britain is doing the same experiment for asking for a can of baby formula from religious institutions. All the churches have said no. Every mosque has said yes. It was a mosque who offered baby formula to the American experiment and also three black churches.
November 18, 2025 at 4:05 AM
I find it interesting that a woman in Britain is doing the same experiment for asking for a can of baby formula from religious institutions. All the churches have said no. Every mosque has said yes. It was a mosque who offered baby formula to the American experiment and also three black churches.
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A party that couldn't endorse Mamdani. . . has room for Marjorie Taylor Greene
The party can burn in hell
The party can burn in hell
Raskin: We are a big tent. We must be a huge, vast tent. I say this is a party that’s got room for Marjorie Taylor Greene if she wants to come over.
November 17, 2025 at 1:37 PM
A party that couldn't endorse Mamdani. . . has room for Marjorie Taylor Greene
The party can burn in hell
The party can burn in hell
I dont want to keep banging on at Jonn Elledge but once more it seems so much easier to think criticism is some childish conspiracy theory than to even consider the existence of a political class with a common culture if varying levels of access, privilege and participation.
Ok but, I am trying to be generous to them here. Are you saying you think the senior political editors of the major news outlets didn't know who Luke Akehurst was or what his deal is? Mandelson? Glasman and Progress? The TBI? I knew, and I'm just some asshole.
November 17, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I dont want to keep banging on at Jonn Elledge but once more it seems so much easier to think criticism is some childish conspiracy theory than to even consider the existence of a political class with a common culture if varying levels of access, privilege and participation.
Every liberal commentator has the same rhetorical strategy; pretend they are hearing a more convenient argument, and that they have a special privilege to nuance for themselves and sweeping generalisations for you.
November 17, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Every liberal commentator has the same rhetorical strategy; pretend they are hearing a more convenient argument, and that they have a special privilege to nuance for themselves and sweeping generalisations for you.
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Remembering when Osborne was hired as Standard editor with zero experience in journalism and an obvious partisan agenda, and the hacks were correctly outraged for 5 minutes before realising a word out of place might affect their careers. How times change.
Ok the FT politics podcast, George Parker explains that the next director general of the BBC should be George Osborne, on account of he “took editing the [now basically defunct] Evening Standard quite seriously” and “would be harder for the Tory right to criticise”. Unbelievable scenes really
November 14, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Remembering when Osborne was hired as Standard editor with zero experience in journalism and an obvious partisan agenda, and the hacks were correctly outraged for 5 minutes before realising a word out of place might affect their careers. How times change.
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"one day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this"
‘We Should’ve Done More’: Kamala Harris Slams Biden Admin Over Netanyahu Support and Praises Pro-Palestine Protesters
‘We Should’ve Done More’: Kamala Harris Slams Biden Admin Over Netanyahu Support and Praises Pro-Palestine Protesters
Kamala Harris criticized Joe Biden's Administration, saying they should have been more willing to publicly criticize Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu over Gaza
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dlvr.it
November 14, 2025 at 6:23 PM
"one day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this"
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Stories on BBC News - a street brawl which helpfully tells us those involved were “of Turkish origin” and another about a sex offender “Sudanese” but an extremely prolific sex offender responsible for 343 offences is not described as “white British” why is that
November 12, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Stories on BBC News - a street brawl which helpfully tells us those involved were “of Turkish origin” and another about a sex offender “Sudanese” but an extremely prolific sex offender responsible for 343 offences is not described as “white British” why is that
Its an excellent real-time test of who has disappeared up their own pontificating posterior. To wit
The Nuzzi piece is an excellent realtime test of whether Bluesky can recognise an ironic writing style.
November 14, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Its an excellent real-time test of who has disappeared up their own pontificating posterior. To wit
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This sentence requires a whole book to unpack: "as our global order decays, jettisoning its professed universal values for something more nakedly violent, nationalist and anti-democratic, the BBC has the unenviable task of narrating the collapse, while also being subject to it."
November 14, 2025 at 3:10 PM
This sentence requires a whole book to unpack: "as our global order decays, jettisoning its professed universal values for something more nakedly violent, nationalist and anti-democratic, the BBC has the unenviable task of narrating the collapse, while also being subject to it."
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If you need me, tap me on the shoulder. I’ll be happily working all day listening to this on a loop.
November 13, 2025 at 1:49 PM
If you need me, tap me on the shoulder. I’ll be happily working all day listening to this on a loop.
Got to love how much distance they try to put between themselves and the ship they helped build
November 14, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Got to love how much distance they try to put between themselves and the ship they helped build