Worth wondering how many different major British institutions have to be deeply malicious, for a story like this to appear.
Treasonous human rights laws mean special forces now can’t even murder scads of civilians in a series of bloodcurdling war crimes and lie about what they’ve done while the government covers it up, without facing a lot of impertinent questions
November 11, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Worth wondering how many different major British institutions have to be deeply malicious, for a story like this to appear.
Treasonous human rights laws mean special forces now can’t even murder scads of civilians in a series of bloodcurdling war crimes and lie about what they’ve done while the government covers it up, without facing a lot of impertinent questions
November 11, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Treasonous human rights laws mean special forces now can’t even murder scads of civilians in a series of bloodcurdling war crimes and lie about what they’ve done while the government covers it up, without facing a lot of impertinent questions
If old farts have gone mean as fuck and viciously reactionary with age, then it’s not clear to me that young people are to blame for this or that it’s obviously them who should shut the hell up.
November 10, 2025 at 11:17 PM
If old farts have gone mean as fuck and viciously reactionary with age, then it’s not clear to me that young people are to blame for this or that it’s obviously them who should shut the hell up.
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"... it's tumbleweed from the government, even though Musk's behaviour constitutes overt interference in British politics that is corrosive of Labour's position."
Why Won't Labour Take on Elon Musk?
On how many occasions has Elon Musk used Twitter to declare war on Keir Starmer's government? How often has he stoked racism, intervened in ...
averypublicsociologist.blogspot.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:39 PM
"... it's tumbleweed from the government, even though Musk's behaviour constitutes overt interference in British politics that is corrosive of Labour's position."
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one of the biggest contributors to Elon’s loser energy is that he desperately wants to be cool, but doesn’t understand that a big part of being cool is appearing unaffected. he’s one of the most affected men of all time.
Joyce Carol Oates owned Elon so hard he's spent the last day posting about movies he hasn't seen in 15 years
November 10, 2025 at 8:32 PM
one of the biggest contributors to Elon’s loser energy is that he desperately wants to be cool, but doesn’t understand that a big part of being cool is appearing unaffected. he’s one of the most affected men of all time.
Monkey Tennis
AI chatbots could help stop prisoner release errors, says justice minister
AI chatbots could help stop prisoner release errors, says justice minister
HMP Wandsworth gets ‘green light’ to use AI after team sent in to find ‘quick fixes’ after spate of mistakes
Artificial intelligence chatbots could be used to stop prisoners from being mistakenly released from jail, a justice minister told the House of Lords on Monday.
Lord Timpson said HMP Wandsworth had been given the “green light” to use artificial intelligence (AI) after a specialised team was sent in to find “some quick fixes”. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Monkey Tennis
If it was a war on terror, then it doesn’t really look like terror lost
If the War on Terror were Orwell's Animal Farm, today we come to the last page.
Al-Qaeda in Syria's Ex-Commander Enlists in The War on Terror
They always said al-Qaeda would one day make its way to the White House. Turns out it's not for a suicide bombing but a handshake
www.forever-wars.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:30 PM
If it was a war on terror, then it doesn’t really look like terror lost
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If the War on Terror were Orwell's Animal Farm, today we come to the last page.
Al-Qaeda in Syria's Ex-Commander Enlists in The War on Terror
They always said al-Qaeda would one day make its way to the White House. Turns out it's not for a suicide bombing but a handshake
www.forever-wars.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:36 PM
If the War on Terror were Orwell's Animal Farm, today we come to the last page.
This week, the lads aren’t saying that this is all vexatious Tory wreckers inside the BBC orchestrating an idiotic stitch-up with Britain’s horrific newspapers. That would be crazy, conspiracy stuff! But they are willing to note that unnamed others think this is what happened.
November 10, 2025 at 6:19 PM
This week, the lads aren’t saying that this is all vexatious Tory wreckers inside the BBC orchestrating an idiotic stitch-up with Britain’s horrific newspapers. That would be crazy, conspiracy stuff! But they are willing to note that unnamed others think this is what happened.
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Hi guys, I've decided as everyone else has to start a substack. Here's my first article, on how the Maccabi Tel Aviv fan furore lays bare the pretence at the heart of British politics. Feel free to subscribe, I'm going to try write at least 2 articles a month.
open.substack.com/pub/tomusher...
open.substack.com/pub/tomusher...
Fated to pretend
What the Maccabi Tel Aviv furore shows us all about pretending
open.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Hi guys, I've decided as everyone else has to start a substack. Here's my first article, on how the Maccabi Tel Aviv fan furore lays bare the pretence at the heart of British politics. Feel free to subscribe, I'm going to try write at least 2 articles a month.
open.substack.com/pub/tomusher...
open.substack.com/pub/tomusher...
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all my core arguments in one case:
1. the modern far right has international ambitions
2. concessions don't pacify the far right, they embolden it
3. you can't be neutral (as the bbc tried to be)
4. they attack where resistance is weakest
5. right now, that's the uk
1. the modern far right has international ambitions
2. concessions don't pacify the far right, they embolden it
3. you can't be neutral (as the bbc tried to be)
4. they attack where resistance is weakest
5. right now, that's the uk
I’ve written to Keir Starmer, Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage urging them to condemn Donald Trump’s attack on the BBC.
The BBC belongs to Britain, not Trump. We must defend it together.
The BBC belongs to Britain, not Trump. We must defend it together.
November 10, 2025 at 4:30 PM
all my core arguments in one case:
1. the modern far right has international ambitions
2. concessions don't pacify the far right, they embolden it
3. you can't be neutral (as the bbc tried to be)
4. they attack where resistance is weakest
5. right now, that's the uk
1. the modern far right has international ambitions
2. concessions don't pacify the far right, they embolden it
3. you can't be neutral (as the bbc tried to be)
4. they attack where resistance is weakest
5. right now, that's the uk
I’d say they decided this some time around 1997 at latest and everything since has been kicking the can down the road
Yes, this is correct. And the reason is because our capitalist classes have decided that it is not sufficiently profitable, so they're not going to do it.
We must understand this reality. Capital *cannot* be relied upon to address the climate crisis.
We must understand this reality. Capital *cannot* be relied upon to address the climate crisis.
November 10, 2025 at 4:23 PM
I’d say they decided this some time around 1997 at latest and everything since has been kicking the can down the road
Between Labour at the BBC, it’s not going very well at all for anyone who spent the last decade telling audiences that libs and the left are scum totalitarians who were shamefully bullying right wing crackpots. Put it this way: I’d be feeling a bit twitchy if I worked for the Guardian.
November 10, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Between Labour at the BBC, it’s not going very well at all for anyone who spent the last decade telling audiences that libs and the left are scum totalitarians who were shamefully bullying right wing crackpots. Put it this way: I’d be feeling a bit twitchy if I worked for the Guardian.
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It's true! They published it!
November 10, 2025 at 3:44 PM
It's true! They published it!
Perhaps this paper might like to ask itself who it is that has been telling the public for years that e.g. major institutions are shamefully biased by leftist groupthink, dominated by lib totalitarians; that gender war crackpots are noble warriors for truth and that Israel is horribly maligned.
November 10, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Perhaps this paper might like to ask itself who it is that has been telling the public for years that e.g. major institutions are shamefully biased by leftist groupthink, dominated by lib totalitarians; that gender war crackpots are noble warriors for truth and that Israel is horribly maligned.
Take a look round social media and you’ll see the Trump fans think it was about the Donald; the terves think it was about gender and Israel partisans think they’ve shattered Hamas. And they’re all correct in a way, because it’s another win for the global fascist movement that they’re all part of.
November 10, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Take a look round social media and you’ll see the Trump fans think it was about the Donald; the terves think it was about gender and Israel partisans think they’ve shattered Hamas. And they’re all correct in a way, because it’s another win for the global fascist movement that they’re all part of.
We might ask why, when it was very obvious a tiny clique of poisonous, truthless psychos had seized control via bullshit, shenanigans and stitch-ups, the entire British press spent five years loudly squealing that this was an insane conspiracy theory believed only by dangerously crazed people.
November 10, 2025 at 2:35 PM
We might ask why, when it was very obvious a tiny clique of poisonous, truthless psychos had seized control via bullshit, shenanigans and stitch-ups, the entire British press spent five years loudly squealing that this was an insane conspiracy theory believed only by dangerously crazed people.
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Robbie Gibb criticising the BBC for journalistic standards is a glass house so big you could hold the Great Exhibition of 1851 in it and still have room for an excellent tomato crop
Should Gibb be sacked? yes, obviously. He's an abomination of basic journalistic standards. His GB News channel spreads conspiracy theory & disinformation. His Jewish Chronicle newspaper spreads invented stories. He is plainly trying to undermine the BBC so it's as bad as everything else he touches.
November 10, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Robbie Gibb criticising the BBC for journalistic standards is a glass house so big you could hold the Great Exhibition of 1851 in it and still have room for an excellent tomato crop
This is it: there’s no point coming here where these people decide that they’ve won and just stop. They’ll always have more and wackier demands, just as hysterical as all the ones we already conceded to.
this stuff matters in itself, of course, but also the TERF-Industrial complex won't ever stop. Each "win" is just the new base camp for the next battle.
Olympics organisers moving towards blanket ban on transgender women from women's sport
November 10, 2025 at 2:01 PM
This is it: there’s no point coming here where these people decide that they’ve won and just stop. They’ll always have more and wackier demands, just as hysterical as all the ones we already conceded to.
You’re going to have to start calling them fascists lads, it’s what they are and they aren’t even embarrassed about it.
November 10, 2025 at 1:56 PM
You’re going to have to start calling them fascists lads, it’s what they are and they aren’t even embarrassed about it.
A beautiful test case here for “will these people even defend *themselves* against the right, and even against the new fascist right*. I’d guess “absolutely not” but wouldn’t it be nice to be proven wrong.
November 10, 2025 at 1:52 PM
A beautiful test case here for “will these people even defend *themselves* against the right, and even against the new fascist right*. I’d guess “absolutely not” but wouldn’t it be nice to be proven wrong.
If the lads had been upfront all along and just said that the likes of Sonia are vicious whackjobs and crackpots - and they absolutely are - then we might not be in this mess now.
November 10, 2025 at 1:14 PM
If the lads had been upfront all along and just said that the likes of Sonia are vicious whackjobs and crackpots - and they absolutely are - then we might not be in this mess now.
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There's an irony in the fact that as the Tory party has fallen apart so its grip on the BBC has tightened. Farage & co have always been happy with the Corporation: the disproportionate coverage, the lack of real scrutiny etc. It's the Tories who remain its implacable foe.
November 10, 2025 at 11:41 AM
There's an irony in the fact that as the Tory party has fallen apart so its grip on the BBC has tightened. Farage & co have always been happy with the Corporation: the disproportionate coverage, the lack of real scrutiny etc. It's the Tories who remain its implacable foe.
Worth reading as a brief summary but it’s also impossible to see how such a thing could ever happen unless all the refs are bent, and more or everyone paid to explain politics to the public was actively and deliberately lying about what was going on www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...
The Starmer-McSweeney tendency is sinking Labour
Their tiny faction is dragging social democracy into an abyss
www.newstatesman.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Worth reading as a brief summary but it’s also impossible to see how such a thing could ever happen unless all the refs are bent, and more or everyone paid to explain politics to the public was actively and deliberately lying about what was going on www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...
Look like somebody was pissed out of their heads on impunity again
Reach has apologised and will pay "substantial damages" to Bob Vylan frontman Pascal Robinson after the Manchester Evening News wrongly reported he had "performed Nazi salutes on stage" pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/new...
Manchester Evening News pays 'substantial damages' to Bob Vylan frontman
Reach to pay "substantial damages" to Bob Vylan frontman after Manchester Evening News wrongly reported he had "performed Nazi salutes on stage".
pressgazette.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Look like somebody was pissed out of their heads on impunity again