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It’s not much more complex than: Labour, Tories and Reform all regard Thatcherism, crackdowns and migrant terror as non-negotiable Grown Up politics, and everything to the left of that as idiotic, foofy, probably treasonous lunacy that has to be crushed utterly. The press agrees, and enforces this.
Labour, a supply side explanation for the rise of populism, and the growing acceptability of xenophobic discourse in the UK
I never cease to be amazed at how bad Labour politicians are at politics. It may seem arrogant for an economist to say that, but it’s not ...
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December 9, 2025 at 10:30 AM
It’s not much more complex than: Labour, Tories and Reform all regard Thatcherism, crackdowns and migrant terror as non-negotiable Grown Up politics, and everything to the left of that as idiotic, foofy, probably treasonous lunacy that has to be crushed utterly. The press agrees, and enforces this.
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You will be visited by three spirits
December 9, 2025 at 10:43 AM
You will be visited by three spirits
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The fundamental question on the EU-UK reset👇 is do we want to live within European norms or continue to fantasize we are a swash-buckling empire building nation of rabid capitalists with a side hussle as an American AI data centre & aircraft carrier. Tough call.
Whether by accident or design, the EU is making Britain decide whether it is truly, deeply, viscerally an 'all-in' European state, and not some half-arsed "let's-try-and-get-what-we-can-out-of-it" state.
It's going to be a long old road.
It's going to be a long old road.
You know what? I really don't think it is. Great domestic political posturing, but Labour have no plans to go beyond the 'reset' agenda, certainly none the EU are likely to accept. This will be talk to little if any action.
December 6, 2025 at 9:02 AM
The fundamental question on the EU-UK reset👇 is do we want to live within European norms or continue to fantasize we are a swash-buckling empire building nation of rabid capitalists with a side hussle as an American AI data centre & aircraft carrier. Tough call.
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Public bodies are crammed with cranks and wingnuts because politics is rammed with cranks and wingnuts, and this isn’t seen as remarkable and disgraceful because sadly the press is also full to bursting with cranks and wingnuts.
December 7, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Public bodies are crammed with cranks and wingnuts because politics is rammed with cranks and wingnuts, and this isn’t seen as remarkable and disgraceful because sadly the press is also full to bursting with cranks and wingnuts.
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Now imagine Stephen Pollard and the Jewish Chronicle's reaction if the revelations about historic antisemitism had concerned Jeremy Corbyn or Keir Starmer or indeed anyone on the centre/left.
It's a level of grotesque, cynical hypocrisy that I genuinely find quite hard to process.
It's a level of grotesque, cynical hypocrisy that I genuinely find quite hard to process.
December 1, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Now imagine Stephen Pollard and the Jewish Chronicle's reaction if the revelations about historic antisemitism had concerned Jeremy Corbyn or Keir Starmer or indeed anyone on the centre/left.
It's a level of grotesque, cynical hypocrisy that I genuinely find quite hard to process.
It's a level of grotesque, cynical hypocrisy that I genuinely find quite hard to process.
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original Channel 4 report of Farage's bigoted school days was over 12 years ago (Sept 2013). didn't land at all because the wider press didn't engage with it for even a day. British journalists submitted Jeremy Corbyn to an order of magnitude more scrutiny for saying he loved James Joyce's Ulysses
December 5, 2025 at 8:29 AM
original Channel 4 report of Farage's bigoted school days was over 12 years ago (Sept 2013). didn't land at all because the wider press didn't engage with it for even a day. British journalists submitted Jeremy Corbyn to an order of magnitude more scrutiny for saying he loved James Joyce's Ulysses
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It’s great that every “review” by this government is led by compliant shitheads so they can deliver the bigotry or cuts they want
A reminder that Wes Streeting and the Labour government have deliberately chosen two of the worst possible experts to lead the review into overdiagnosis by the way. People already entrenched in that belief who will absolutely manipulate findings to suit their ideological crusade.
Alarm over government’s choices to lead ‘over-diagnosis’ review that could help ministers cut benefits
The government’s decision to commission a review of alleged “over-diagnosis” of mental health conditions and neurodivergence has caused alarm among many disabled people, with fears that it will all…
www.disabilitynewsservice.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:36 PM
It’s great that every “review” by this government is led by compliant shitheads so they can deliver the bigotry or cuts they want
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So tell me again how Nigel Farage, who just took the largest ever political donation, from a Tory mega-donor, and another donation from the Viscountess wife of the non-dom owner of the Daily Mail, is planning to "take on the establishment"
December 4, 2025 at 1:00 PM
So tell me again how Nigel Farage, who just took the largest ever political donation, from a Tory mega-donor, and another donation from the Viscountess wife of the non-dom owner of the Daily Mail, is planning to "take on the establishment"
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Free speechwriting tip for the PM: www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
December 4, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Free speechwriting tip for the PM: www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
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December 1, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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“Did Nathan Gill ever say anything you disagree with in return for his bribes from a Kremlin stooge?”
“Did you, in your roles as his boss, friend, mentor & party leader, ever question his full-throated support for an enemy of the UK and if not, why not?”
You can have those for nothing, lads.
“Did you, in your roles as his boss, friend, mentor & party leader, ever question his full-throated support for an enemy of the UK and if not, why not?”
You can have those for nothing, lads.
November 22, 2025 at 11:23 AM
“Did Nathan Gill ever say anything you disagree with in return for his bribes from a Kremlin stooge?”
“Did you, in your roles as his boss, friend, mentor & party leader, ever question his full-throated support for an enemy of the UK and if not, why not?”
You can have those for nothing, lads.
“Did you, in your roles as his boss, friend, mentor & party leader, ever question his full-throated support for an enemy of the UK and if not, why not?”
You can have those for nothing, lads.
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I again point out: the big sales pitch to National Front voters is one of the central planks of the government’s policy platform, and e.g. the mural stuff was a Facebook comment that had to be hacked out of the arse end of digital history by dedicated wingnut cranks, and this distinction matters.
November 22, 2025 at 11:58 AM
I again point out: the big sales pitch to National Front voters is one of the central planks of the government’s policy platform, and e.g. the mural stuff was a Facebook comment that had to be hacked out of the arse end of digital history by dedicated wingnut cranks, and this distinction matters.
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Judith Butler in 2021
November 21, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Judith Butler in 2021
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As I’ll never tire of pointing out: the average punter picking up a paper in 2021 or so would firmly believe the country’s most reckless bigots were Stonewall, its most dangerous racists were the Labour left and the worst threat to the nation was treasonous, totalitarian academics.
November 21, 2025 at 12:48 PM
As I’ll never tire of pointing out: the average punter picking up a paper in 2021 or so would firmly believe the country’s most reckless bigots were Stonewall, its most dangerous racists were the Labour left and the worst threat to the nation was treasonous, totalitarian academics.
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This is a clown-car government elected on a seriousness ticket iandunt.substack.com/p/a-clown-go...
November 21, 2025 at 12:08 PM
This is a clown-car government elected on a seriousness ticket iandunt.substack.com/p/a-clown-go...
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The Covid enquiry has concluded that the reality we all witnessed *was* the actual reality, and the version which Johnson, Cummings et al insisted was happening was a total fabrication.
It’s incredible that we have to have lengthy enquiries after the event to establish consensus reality now.
It’s incredible that we have to have lengthy enquiries after the event to establish consensus reality now.
November 21, 2025 at 8:31 AM
The Covid enquiry has concluded that the reality we all witnessed *was* the actual reality, and the version which Johnson, Cummings et al insisted was happening was a total fabrication.
It’s incredible that we have to have lengthy enquiries after the event to establish consensus reality now.
It’s incredible that we have to have lengthy enquiries after the event to establish consensus reality now.
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I know I have maybe 15 points which I recycle over and over. But if you’re my age, your experience of politics as an adult is Blairism, migrant terror, disastrous war, financial calamity, destructive vandalism of the public realm, Covid disaster and finally Sir Keir, genocide and imminent fascism.
November 21, 2025 at 10:53 AM
I know I have maybe 15 points which I recycle over and over. But if you’re my age, your experience of politics as an adult is Blairism, migrant terror, disastrous war, financial calamity, destructive vandalism of the public realm, Covid disaster and finally Sir Keir, genocide and imminent fascism.
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the gulf between the swift brutality with which places like harvard treated students protesting genocide and the endless, endless latitude those same institutions have given people like larry summers tells you everything you need to know
November 20, 2025 at 1:36 AM
the gulf between the swift brutality with which places like harvard treated students protesting genocide and the endless, endless latitude those same institutions have given people like larry summers tells you everything you need to know
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How come the people who were splashed all over the papers for a decade screaming terrifying abuse at the anti-racist movement are now roaring approval in unison for the government stripping jewellery off migrants? It’s almost like we should put two and two together about what these people have done.
November 19, 2025 at 10:23 AM
How come the people who were splashed all over the papers for a decade screaming terrifying abuse at the anti-racist movement are now roaring approval in unison for the government stripping jewellery off migrants? It’s almost like we should put two and two together about what these people have done.
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If you have to admit that Farage is a racist then you have to admit that a bunch of other people who shove his opinions onto the front pages every day are racist. And then you have to ask: "why did we let these people screech about the Hitlerian menace of the anti-racist left for 5 years?"
On Nigel Farage's racism, of course it is possible that someone can believe one thing when they're a teenager and something completely different when they're an adult.
But where is the evidence that has happened in this case?
Instead all of the evidence points in the complete opposite direction
But where is the evidence that has happened in this case?
Instead all of the evidence points in the complete opposite direction
Nigel Farage Is a Racist
The media is refusing to state the most bleedingly obvious facts about a man whose entire career has been devoted to pursuing a racist political agenda
www.adambienkov.co.uk
November 19, 2025 at 9:53 AM
If you have to admit that Farage is a racist then you have to admit that a bunch of other people who shove his opinions onto the front pages every day are racist. And then you have to ask: "why did we let these people screech about the Hitlerian menace of the anti-racist left for 5 years?"
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I think the Labour Party has definitively answered the question of whether or not it's possible to build a successful political project out of a coalition of overlapping Israel, private water and healthcare, anti trans, gambling and big tech lobbies alone without any positive vision for the country.
November 12, 2025 at 10:28 AM
I think the Labour Party has definitively answered the question of whether or not it's possible to build a successful political project out of a coalition of overlapping Israel, private water and healthcare, anti trans, gambling and big tech lobbies alone without any positive vision for the country.
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spending the first year in power appeasing the racists in an attempt to win over reform voters who will never vote for him then going "somehow, racism has returned" the second he finally sees people are abandoning him for the greens
Racism returning to UK politics – and people are very scared, says Starmer
Racism returning to UK politics – and people are very scared, says Starmer
PM attacks ‘toxic division of Reform’ and gives strongest signal yet that two-child benefit cap will be lifted
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Decades-old racism is returning to British politics, and “it makes people feel very scared” Keir Starmer has said, warning that divisive hard-right politics was “tearing our country apart”.
Speaking to GP and TV personality Amir Khan, the prime minister accused Nigel Farage’s Reform UK of overseeing a return of the racist and divisive politics “that frankly I thought we had dealt with decades ago”. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:36 PM
spending the first year in power appeasing the racists in an attempt to win over reform voters who will never vote for him then going "somehow, racism has returned" the second he finally sees people are abandoning him for the greens
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I’d chip in: what happens when you launch a years-long media campaign to convince the public that the anti-austerity/anti-racist movement is dangerously hateful and unacceptable, hand in hand with extremely right wing crackpots, actual fascists and genocide enthusiasts? Does society get less racist.
Racism returning to UK politics – and people are very scared, says Starmer
PM attacks ‘toxic division of Reform’ and gives strongest signal yet that two-child benefit cap will be lifted
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:48 PM
I’d chip in: what happens when you launch a years-long media campaign to convince the public that the anti-austerity/anti-racist movement is dangerously hateful and unacceptable, hand in hand with extremely right wing crackpots, actual fascists and genocide enthusiasts? Does society get less racist.