Mark Berry
@boulezian.bsky.social
Musicology and history (intellectual, political, etc.). Writing a book on the complete Mozart operas in eighteenth-century historical context. Views, for better or worse, my own. He/him/his https://boulezian.blogspot.com/
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Someone needs to do some archival research to figure out where the idea to solve the discursive problem of the housing market with immigration emerged. Was this idea concocted at Heritage? It is a particularly sloppy idea even for the right; unlike “welfare queens” it can’t subsume its detractions
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
November 13, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Someone needs to do some archival research to figure out where the idea to solve the discursive problem of the housing market with immigration emerged. Was this idea concocted at Heritage? It is a particularly sloppy idea even for the right; unlike “welfare queens” it can’t subsume its detractions
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White House says messages about Trump 'prove nothing'.
As the philosopher Quine argued you can make any belief consistent with any other belief as long as you make adjustments elsewhere, including to the laws of logic.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c2...
As the philosopher Quine argued you can make any belief consistent with any other belief as long as you make adjustments elsewhere, including to the laws of logic.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c2...
Live updates: Calls to release Epstein files grow as White House calls news emails hoax
Jeffrey Epstein said in 2018 he could
www.bbc.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 9:09 PM
White House says messages about Trump 'prove nothing'.
As the philosopher Quine argued you can make any belief consistent with any other belief as long as you make adjustments elsewhere, including to the laws of logic.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c2...
As the philosopher Quine argued you can make any belief consistent with any other belief as long as you make adjustments elsewhere, including to the laws of logic.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c2...
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"Only racists are allowed to be angry about paedophiles" is a surprisingly succinct summary of conservative politics
November 13, 2025 at 5:53 PM
"Only racists are allowed to be angry about paedophiles" is a surprisingly succinct summary of conservative politics
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"The BBC is like an ‘alcoholic’ that won’t admit its ‘chronic’ problem, Michael Gove tells JC event"
That's a bit rich, coming as it does from a notorious coke-head.
That's a bit rich, coming as it does from a notorious coke-head.
The BBC is like an ‘alcoholic’ that won’t admit its ‘chronic’ problem, Michael Gove tells JC event - The Jewish Chronicle
The former cabinet minister, now editor of the Spectator, discussed BBC bias and the rise in antisemitism with JC editor Daniel Schwammenthal
www.thejc.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:55 PM
"The BBC is like an ‘alcoholic’ that won’t admit its ‘chronic’ problem, Michael Gove tells JC event"
That's a bit rich, coming as it does from a notorious coke-head.
That's a bit rich, coming as it does from a notorious coke-head.
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Aaand here's how the Times covered Trump's Thanksgiving that year.
They're all complicit.
www.nytimes.com/2017/11/23/u...
They're all complicit.
www.nytimes.com/2017/11/23/u...
A Mar-a-Lago Thanksgiving: It’s All Gravy (Published 2017)
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Aaand here's how the Times covered Trump's Thanksgiving that year.
They're all complicit.
www.nytimes.com/2017/11/23/u...
They're all complicit.
www.nytimes.com/2017/11/23/u...
The sound of apologies from those who installed Starmer is deafening.
November 13, 2025 at 1:11 PM
The sound of apologies from those who installed Starmer is deafening.
Good
BREAKING Home Office is about to announce that police and crime commissioners are to be scrapped..
Established in 2012 by Theresa May, Labour has never been a fan of the PCC system…they’ll be replaced in 2028 by policing mayors & local policing boards ..
Established in 2012 by Theresa May, Labour has never been a fan of the PCC system…they’ll be replaced in 2028 by policing mayors & local policing boards ..
November 13, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Good
I cannot imagine anything easier than recognising Jeffrey Epstein was an evil person, to be avoided at all costs. Anyone who did not must have, at very best, the most appalling judgement, quite unfit for public life. Not difficult, not at all.
November 13, 2025 at 9:15 AM
I cannot imagine anything easier than recognising Jeffrey Epstein was an evil person, to be avoided at all costs. Anyone who did not must have, at very best, the most appalling judgement, quite unfit for public life. Not difficult, not at all.
Glasman, the ultimate 'racist, lunatic politician', presumably intended this as a compliment.
Victoria Derbyshire has apologised after she failed to challenge a Labour lord when he branded the party leadership under Jeremy Corbyn as 'racist, lunatic politicians'
Victoria Derbyshire 'sorry' as Labour lord makes 'shameful' Jeremy Corbyn jibe
www.thenational.scot
November 13, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Glasman, the ultimate 'racist, lunatic politician', presumably intended this as a compliment.
I repeat. Under no circumstances. Not a penny. No exceptions. We must be crystal clear about this.
Any ‘settlement’, however derisory, the BBC might offer Trump should meet with a total boycott: no licence fee, no viewing, no listening, no support. ¡No pasarán!
November 13, 2025 at 8:28 AM
I repeat. Under no circumstances. Not a penny. No exceptions. We must be crystal clear about this.
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"These emails are cherry-picked."
"Ok, but you get that it's a problem that your tree has ANY cherries that are emails conspiring with a paedophilic sex trafficker?"
"Ok, but you get that it's a problem that your tree has ANY cherries that are emails conspiring with a paedophilic sex trafficker?"
November 13, 2025 at 7:16 AM
"These emails are cherry-picked."
"Ok, but you get that it's a problem that your tree has ANY cherries that are emails conspiring with a paedophilic sex trafficker?"
"Ok, but you get that it's a problem that your tree has ANY cherries that are emails conspiring with a paedophilic sex trafficker?"
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Ghislaine Maxwell lied about Trump never going to Epstein's house (directly contradicted by her email correspondence with Epstein), and she was rewarded for that lie with a transfer to a cushier prison. The coverup is happening in plain sight.
November 12, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Ghislaine Maxwell lied about Trump never going to Epstein's house (directly contradicted by her email correspondence with Epstein), and she was rewarded for that lie with a transfer to a cushier prison. The coverup is happening in plain sight.
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Oops you did a racist “crackdown” in your list of “good things” it’s like breathing for labour these days just comes automatically!
✋🏾 Five good things you may have missed that the Labour government delivered last week… 🌹
November 12, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Oops you did a racist “crackdown” in your list of “good things” it’s like breathing for labour these days just comes automatically!
Starmer’s creator
Peter Mandelson was in contact with Epstein till at least 2016, new emails reveal
UK ambassador was sacked in September after other tranche of emails showed he told disgraced financier to ‘fight for early release’
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Starmer’s creator
The Line of Beauty
November 12, 2025 at 7:19 PM
The Line of Beauty
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From Patrick Maguire's sub stack. Says an awful lot, and none of it good.
November 12, 2025 at 4:39 PM
From Patrick Maguire's sub stack. Says an awful lot, and none of it good.
Any ‘settlement’, however derisory, the BBC might offer Trump should meet with a total boycott: no licence fee, no viewing, no listening, no support. ¡No pasarán!
November 12, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Any ‘settlement’, however derisory, the BBC might offer Trump should meet with a total boycott: no licence fee, no viewing, no listening, no support. ¡No pasarán!
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Wait didn’t Keir Starmer just talk about the insidious rise of racist rhetoric in politics?
Labour reinstating a racist councillor in East Bristol because the Greens are one short of an outright majority and would absolutely smash them in in a by-election.
Bristol Labour councillor re-instated after racist comment
Fabian Breckels was suspended in October over a comment he wrote on Facebook.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Wait didn’t Keir Starmer just talk about the insidious rise of racist rhetoric in politics?
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Yet another of the horrors of the age is watching the UK political class catapult us out of actual formal union with all our closest neighbours, with the blithe self-assurance of an absolute monarch, and then declare, when it comes to fiscal policy, there's *absolutely nothing useful they can do*.
November 12, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Yet another of the horrors of the age is watching the UK political class catapult us out of actual formal union with all our closest neighbours, with the blithe self-assurance of an absolute monarch, and then declare, when it comes to fiscal policy, there's *absolutely nothing useful they can do*.
This opens: 'Yes, it really is only 496 days since Sir Keir Starmer won a colossal general election landslide.' No, the far-Right Starmer project had a reluctant 33.7% of the vote on the second lowest turnout, 59.9%, since universal suffrage in 1928. That is not a 'landslide', let alone 'colossal'.
Efforts to shore up Starmer's leadership may have backfired
Briefings aimed at seeing off leadership plots may have left the PM more vulnerable, some in Labour fear.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 11:27 AM
This opens: 'Yes, it really is only 496 days since Sir Keir Starmer won a colossal general election landslide.' No, the far-Right Starmer project had a reluctant 33.7% of the vote on the second lowest turnout, 59.9%, since universal suffrage in 1928. That is not a 'landslide', let alone 'colossal'.
Starmer v Streeting: the very definition of a battle in which one wills both sides to lose. Like Fayed v The Hamiltons, only with increased fascism and corruption, and still more repellent 'personalities'.
November 12, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Starmer v Streeting: the very definition of a battle in which one wills both sides to lose. Like Fayed v The Hamiltons, only with increased fascism and corruption, and still more repellent 'personalities'.