@neilmcnair.bsky.social
Reposted
Some notable things in what's being called the "Trump peace plan" but which could not have been more clearly written in Moscow if it came with a 2 for 1 deal on tickets to the Bolshoi Ballet. 🧵
November 21, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Some notable things in what's being called the "Trump peace plan" but which could not have been more clearly written in Moscow if it came with a 2 for 1 deal on tickets to the Bolshoi Ballet. 🧵
Reposted
The first rule of Crossword Club: tank told it's messed up to keep mum about (4,4) Crossword Club.
November 13, 2025 at 8:20 AM
The first rule of Crossword Club: tank told it's messed up to keep mum about (4,4) Crossword Club.
Reposted
On a smaller point: do these people ever actually read Tolkien?
The whole point of the LoTR is that power corrupts; that no one can be trusted with the ring except the little people who want to destroy it; & that it's "the pity of Bilbo", not "the hard men of Gondor", that saves Middle Earth.
The whole point of the LoTR is that power corrupts; that no one can be trusted with the ring except the little people who want to destroy it; & that it's "the pity of Bilbo", not "the hard men of Gondor", that saves Middle Earth.
October 29, 2025 at 10:11 AM
On a smaller point: do these people ever actually read Tolkien?
The whole point of the LoTR is that power corrupts; that no one can be trusted with the ring except the little people who want to destroy it; & that it's "the pity of Bilbo", not "the hard men of Gondor", that saves Middle Earth.
The whole point of the LoTR is that power corrupts; that no one can be trusted with the ring except the little people who want to destroy it; & that it's "the pity of Bilbo", not "the hard men of Gondor", that saves Middle Earth.
Reposted
X is a cesspit led by an unhinged billionaire who is desperately trying to stir up civil war in Britain.
Nobody with any sense or decency should be there.
No organisations, government departments, or politicians should be there.
Everyone who is, is enabling this monster.
Nobody with any sense or decency should be there.
No organisations, government departments, or politicians should be there.
Everyone who is, is enabling this monster.
October 29, 2025 at 8:22 AM
X is a cesspit led by an unhinged billionaire who is desperately trying to stir up civil war in Britain.
Nobody with any sense or decency should be there.
No organisations, government departments, or politicians should be there.
Everyone who is, is enabling this monster.
Nobody with any sense or decency should be there.
No organisations, government departments, or politicians should be there.
Everyone who is, is enabling this monster.
Reposted
Trump wants to send Tony Blair to Gaza.
The only place Tony Blair should be is on trial in the Hague.
The only place Tony Blair should be is on trial in the Hague.
September 30, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Trump wants to send Tony Blair to Gaza.
The only place Tony Blair should be is on trial in the Hague.
The only place Tony Blair should be is on trial in the Hague.
Reposted
The cynical gesture of Keir Starmer recognising a Palestinian state.
The room applaud but when are we going to stop arming Israel who are murdering those same Palestinians?
The room applaud but when are we going to stop arming Israel who are murdering those same Palestinians?
September 30, 2025 at 1:28 PM
The cynical gesture of Keir Starmer recognising a Palestinian state.
The room applaud but when are we going to stop arming Israel who are murdering those same Palestinians?
The room applaud but when are we going to stop arming Israel who are murdering those same Palestinians?
Reposted
Starmer surrendered when he turned his back on disabled people that rely on the government for support.
He surrended when he cut aid for the disabled.
He surrendered the moment he called us an island of strangers.
Real patriotism requires us to care.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
He surrended when he cut aid for the disabled.
He surrendered the moment he called us an island of strangers.
Real patriotism requires us to care.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
We will never surrender our flag, Sir Keir Starmer says
The prime minister said the flag represents "our diverse country" and he will not allow people to feel intimidated.
www.bbc.com
September 14, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Starmer surrendered when he turned his back on disabled people that rely on the government for support.
He surrended when he cut aid for the disabled.
He surrendered the moment he called us an island of strangers.
Real patriotism requires us to care.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
He surrended when he cut aid for the disabled.
He surrendered the moment he called us an island of strangers.
Real patriotism requires us to care.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Reposted
We have struggled to explain the Starmer government. But I think the explanation comes down to two simple forces:
1. A visceral, obsessive hatred of the Labour left. Any progressive policy, however necessary and popular, looks to the inner circle like a dangerous concession to the left.
🧵1/2
1. A visceral, obsessive hatred of the Labour left. Any progressive policy, however necessary and popular, looks to the inner circle like a dangerous concession to the left.
🧵1/2
September 11, 2025 at 8:34 AM
We have struggled to explain the Starmer government. But I think the explanation comes down to two simple forces:
1. A visceral, obsessive hatred of the Labour left. Any progressive policy, however necessary and popular, looks to the inner circle like a dangerous concession to the left.
🧵1/2
1. A visceral, obsessive hatred of the Labour left. Any progressive policy, however necessary and popular, looks to the inner circle like a dangerous concession to the left.
🧵1/2
Reposted
Reposted
Arrest him.
Stop the genocide.
Stop the genocide.
'Brutal insult': Green leader Zack Polanski demands Israeli president's arrest on UK visit - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/exclusive-green-leader-zack-polanski-demands-israeli-presidents-arrest-uk-visit
'Brutal insult': Green leader Zack Polanski demands Israeli president's arrest on UK visit
Polanski tells MEE Isaac Herzog's visit is a 'brutal insult' to those mourning innocent people killed in Gaza
www.middleeasteye.net
September 9, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Arrest him.
Stop the genocide.
Stop the genocide.
Reposted
Does...does fucking anyone quotimg Leonidas know how that battle ended or what happened to Sparta after that war
Harmeet Dhillon at NatCon: "When the next group of elites comes to demand we stop protecting fairness in hiring, confidence in our elections, safety in girls sports, we're going to answer them the same way that Leonidas answered on the eve of the Battle of Thermopylae: Molon Labe. Come and take it."
September 3, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Does...does fucking anyone quotimg Leonidas know how that battle ended or what happened to Sparta after that war
Reposted
Something we need to grasp is that Establishment power meant imperialism. Imperialism is a system of thought that sees upper class white men as the pinnacle of humanity, with a sacred duty to control the lives of others. What we now call the far right is an extension and revival of imperialism.
Why, you might ask, do the BBC and Sky News, casting their editorial guidelines to the wind, keep giving massive airtime to the far right, while shutting out leftwing voices? Don't their bosses understand the likely consequences?
Only one explanation now remains.
They do.
And it is what they want.
Only one explanation now remains.
They do.
And it is what they want.
August 28, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Something we need to grasp is that Establishment power meant imperialism. Imperialism is a system of thought that sees upper class white men as the pinnacle of humanity, with a sacred duty to control the lives of others. What we now call the far right is an extension and revival of imperialism.
Reposted
It's simple, if you throw paint on a plane then you get proscribed and any 80 year olds defending you get arrested.
If you ask people to burn down hotels, and they try, you get an interview in the Telegraph and positive coverage in the BBC.
That's sensible, proportionate policing.
If you ask people to burn down hotels, and they try, you get an interview in the Telegraph and positive coverage in the BBC.
That's sensible, proportionate policing.
August 23, 2025 at 10:23 AM
It's simple, if you throw paint on a plane then you get proscribed and any 80 year olds defending you get arrested.
If you ask people to burn down hotels, and they try, you get an interview in the Telegraph and positive coverage in the BBC.
That's sensible, proportionate policing.
If you ask people to burn down hotels, and they try, you get an interview in the Telegraph and positive coverage in the BBC.
That's sensible, proportionate policing.
Reposted
An abomination. An affront to free speech and an acute threat to the consensus on terrorism
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Police arrest 474 people at protest over Palestine Action ban in London
Number of arrests was highest recorded in relation to single operation in at least past decade, according to Met police
www.theguardian.com
August 10, 2025 at 10:01 AM
An abomination. An affront to free speech and an acute threat to the consensus on terrorism
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Reposted
What an utter absurdity our Home Secretary has created -
Destroying British free speech, right to protest and with it undermining democracy.
It is not for the government to terrorise the public for political opinions they don’t want to hear.
Destroying British free speech, right to protest and with it undermining democracy.
It is not for the government to terrorise the public for political opinions they don’t want to hear.
August 10, 2025 at 6:24 AM
What an utter absurdity our Home Secretary has created -
Destroying British free speech, right to protest and with it undermining democracy.
It is not for the government to terrorise the public for political opinions they don’t want to hear.
Destroying British free speech, right to protest and with it undermining democracy.
It is not for the government to terrorise the public for political opinions they don’t want to hear.
Reposted
this really does feel like an existential problem for democracies across the world actually - how do you tell people "no actually you do just have to trust us on basically most things, please stop googling stuff and thinking you know better than us, you dingbats" and get them to actually listen?
July 28, 2025 at 8:23 AM
this really does feel like an existential problem for democracies across the world actually - how do you tell people "no actually you do just have to trust us on basically most things, please stop googling stuff and thinking you know better than us, you dingbats" and get them to actually listen?
Reposted
All famines are man-made, all famines are political. Historians of empire and humanitarianism have known this forever. Gaza is not starving, Gaza is being starved, by Israel, and this starvation is enabled by our government and by every other government that does not step in to force food and aid.
July 24, 2025 at 1:48 PM
All famines are man-made, all famines are political. Historians of empire and humanitarianism have known this forever. Gaza is not starving, Gaza is being starved, by Israel, and this starvation is enabled by our government and by every other government that does not step in to force food and aid.
Reposted
Netanyahu has spent the better part of two decades trying to strong arm the United States into an unprovoked war against Iran and finally found a president stupid enough to do it for him. Unbelievable.
June 22, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Netanyahu has spent the better part of two decades trying to strong arm the United States into an unprovoked war against Iran and finally found a president stupid enough to do it for him. Unbelievable.
Reposted
There is no justification whatsoever for the US or UK to provide any support, material or diplomatic, for Israel's attack on Iran. It is a war of aggression, clearly contrary to international law.
June 20, 2025 at 5:17 AM
There is no justification whatsoever for the US or UK to provide any support, material or diplomatic, for Israel's attack on Iran. It is a war of aggression, clearly contrary to international law.
Reposted
As the US edges closer to bombing Iran, Israel killed over 51 starving Palestinians at a so-called aid site today.
And the UK government says nothing. Still arming Israel. Still enabling genocide.
End all arms sales. Sanction Israeli war criminals. Stop being America’s poodle.
And the UK government says nothing. Still arming Israel. Still enabling genocide.
End all arms sales. Sanction Israeli war criminals. Stop being America’s poodle.
June 17, 2025 at 9:46 PM
As the US edges closer to bombing Iran, Israel killed over 51 starving Palestinians at a so-called aid site today.
And the UK government says nothing. Still arming Israel. Still enabling genocide.
End all arms sales. Sanction Israeli war criminals. Stop being America’s poodle.
And the UK government says nothing. Still arming Israel. Still enabling genocide.
End all arms sales. Sanction Israeli war criminals. Stop being America’s poodle.
Reposted
There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
May 31, 2025 at 4:43 AM
There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
Reposted
After due consideration, having weighed up the relevant evidence, assessed the balance of arguments and gamed the likely implications, I have reached the conclusion that Keir Starmer can fuck off from a great height.
May 12, 2025 at 4:39 PM
After due consideration, having weighed up the relevant evidence, assessed the balance of arguments and gamed the likely implications, I have reached the conclusion that Keir Starmer can fuck off from a great height.
Reposted
you can't spell "tariffs" without "FFS"
April 8, 2025 at 8:57 PM
you can't spell "tariffs" without "FFS"
Reposted
every college, corporate, and nonprofit president right now
March 22, 2025 at 2:27 PM
every college, corporate, and nonprofit president right now