Ed George
@edgeorge.bsky.social
On s'engage, et puis on voit. Writing a novel. I'm here: http://edgeorgesotherblog.wordpress.com and here: http://readingmarx.wordpress.com
Joined: November 2024.
Twitter: https://x.com/edwardbgeorge
Joined: November 2024.
Twitter: https://x.com/edwardbgeorge
@tds153.bsky.social giving #LionelShriver and her barmy neofascist weltanschauung an incredibly easy ride on #StartTheWeek @BBCRadio4 this morning...
March 31, 2025 at 8:44 AM
@tds153.bsky.social giving #LionelShriver and her barmy neofascist weltanschauung an incredibly easy ride on #StartTheWeek @BBCRadio4 this morning...
this is a tremedous analysis
Exactly the point I made here mccaine.org/2023/02/21/l...
Notes & CommentariesLenin and the Ukrainian War – Notes & Commentaries
mccaine.org
February 16, 2025 at 7:06 PM
this is a tremedous analysis
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Emma Trimble, "1 in 12 people in London are illegal immigrants"
Professor Jonathan Portes, "Emma has taken that figure from a story in The Telegraph.. That story was a lie.. The Telegraph has corrected it, The Times has corrected it.. The Sun has corrected it.. And The Daily Mail has corrected it"
Professor Jonathan Portes, "Emma has taken that figure from a story in The Telegraph.. That story was a lie.. The Telegraph has corrected it, The Times has corrected it.. The Sun has corrected it.. And The Daily Mail has corrected it"
February 2, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Emma Trimble, "1 in 12 people in London are illegal immigrants"
Professor Jonathan Portes, "Emma has taken that figure from a story in The Telegraph.. That story was a lie.. The Telegraph has corrected it, The Times has corrected it.. The Sun has corrected it.. And The Daily Mail has corrected it"
Professor Jonathan Portes, "Emma has taken that figure from a story in The Telegraph.. That story was a lie.. The Telegraph has corrected it, The Times has corrected it.. The Sun has corrected it.. And The Daily Mail has corrected it"
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I find this especially fascinating because it’s the only time I think I’ve seen her discuss acting on an utterly practical level: like, what she does and why she does it. Well worth watching!
It’s Vanessa Redgrave’s birthday.
Here’s a lovely interview with her thoughts on acting and life from 1967.
youtu.be/2ze0OBspFWY?...
Here’s a lovely interview with her thoughts on acting and life from 1967.
youtu.be/2ze0OBspFWY?...
Young Vanessa Redgrave talks to Clive Goodwin - Acting in the Sixties (1967)
YouTube video by Liam
youtu.be
January 30, 2025 at 6:41 PM
I find this especially fascinating because it’s the only time I think I’ve seen her discuss acting on an utterly practical level: like, what she does and why she does it. Well worth watching!
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Sorry you can't afford to own a home, we had to beat China in the race to develop a better plagiarism app
January 28, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Sorry you can't afford to own a home, we had to beat China in the race to develop a better plagiarism app
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It was reported that some Jews in Ukraine fled after watching the film and thus were saved. Not my ancestors. They stayed as they believed that civilized people cannot do mass executions… We know they were wrong.
More about the film here en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profess...
More about the film here en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profess...
Professor Mamlock (1938 film) - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org
January 27, 2025 at 9:22 AM
It was reported that some Jews in Ukraine fled after watching the film and thus were saved. Not my ancestors. They stayed as they believed that civilized people cannot do mass executions… We know they were wrong.
More about the film here en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profess...
More about the film here en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profess...
Great article. Great people.
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...
Manic Street Preachers: ‘The band feels like something you can go into battle with against the world’
As they release their 15th album, the Manic Street Preachers are as fired up as ever. They talk about tech bros, stealing hotel shampoo and four decades of combining friendship with being in a band
www.theguardian.com
January 26, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Great article. Great people.
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...
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January 24, 2025 at 11:59 AM
the ignorance on display by #AnneWiddecombe here is astonishing; the restraint of the other contributors is to be admired.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Free Thinking - Common Sense - BBC Sounds
Ann Widdecombe, Rachel Wiseman, Sarah Jilani and Tiffany Watt Smith with Matthew Sweet.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 18, 2025 at 10:25 AM
the ignorance on display by #AnneWiddecombe here is astonishing; the restraint of the other contributors is to be admired.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Daniel Zamora, World Upside Down — Sidecar
On T. J. Clark’s Bruegel.
newleftreview.org
January 17, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Big @thedigradio.bsky.social ep: intro to Stuart Hall's Marxism w/out guarantees w/ Michael Denning. Marxism as method to analyze historically specific complex contradictory capitalist social formations and what it means for making working-class socialist politics www.thedigradio.com/podcast/stua...
Stuart Hall’s Marxism w/ Michael Denning
Featuring Michael Denning on Stuart Hall’s Marxism—a Marxism without guarantees. This is a comprehensive introduction to Marxism as a method to analyze historically specific, complex and contradictory...
www.thedigradio.com
January 11, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Big @thedigradio.bsky.social ep: intro to Stuart Hall's Marxism w/out guarantees w/ Michael Denning. Marxism as method to analyze historically specific complex contradictory capitalist social formations and what it means for making working-class socialist politics www.thedigradio.com/podcast/stua...
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With each disaster, it is important to say: This is happening because it makes some people rich, and those people are planning to escape on their own lifeboat without you.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/lifeboat-c...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/lifeboat-c...
Lifeboat Capitalism
Some burn, some drown, and some make money either way.
www.hamiltonnolan.com
January 8, 2025 at 4:33 PM
With each disaster, it is important to say: This is happening because it makes some people rich, and those people are planning to escape on their own lifeboat without you.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/lifeboat-c...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/lifeboat-c...
