tonybarrett
@tonybarrett.bsky.social
Ex-Bloomberg editor, Pontypridd Observer reporter and NCP carpark ramp sweeper.
New post: Fascism, Rivers of Blood, and today’s political and media elite
mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/08/fasc...
Spreading disinformation about minority groups is as old as civilisation itself. Once our political and media elite would call this out for what it was, but not any more.
mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/08/fasc...
Spreading disinformation about minority groups is as old as civilisation itself. Once our political and media elite would call this out for what it was, but not any more.
Fascism, Rivers of Blood, and today’s political and media elite
Whether we call the Trump regime fascist or not is in one sense just semantics. Trump clearly has similarities to the archetypical fascist ...
mainlymacro.blogspot.com
August 12, 2025 at 8:04 AM
July 21, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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Really good @londoncentric.media today that explains why London's major train stations are thronged by faux-charities:
Why can't anyone stop the fundraisers outside London stations?
Inside Success and WeRBlighty have broken the law with their fundraising activities. So why are they are allowed to continue operating outside the capital's busiest railway stations?
www.londoncentric.media
July 17, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Really good @londoncentric.media today that explains why London's major train stations are thronged by faux-charities:
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My beloved father in law Ranjith Chandrapala drove a bus that stopped at Ealing Hospital. He continued to do so throughout the pandemic’s first wave until he caught covid himself and died, in that very same hospital. Many very ordinary heroes risked their lives for things others took for granted.
July 13, 2025 at 8:55 AM
My beloved father in law Ranjith Chandrapala drove a bus that stopped at Ealing Hospital. He continued to do so throughout the pandemic’s first wave until he caught covid himself and died, in that very same hospital. Many very ordinary heroes risked their lives for things others took for granted.
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🎁 Gift Link: Trump Floats Possible Exceptions to 10% Baseline Tariff www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
🎁 Gift Link: Trump Floats Possible Exceptions to 10% Baseline Tariff www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
April 12, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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🎁 Gift Link: Trump Floats Possible Exceptions to 10% Baseline Tariff www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
🎁 Gift Link: Trump Floats Possible Exceptions to 10% Baseline Tariff www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Highlighting this thread from Marios (this particular skeet just happens to be one that stops the thread breaking) in case of interest for @polphilpod.bsky.social as I think it fits w/ stuff Toby says on US, here:
www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/mapping
www.liberalcurrents.com/author/toby/
www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/mapping
www.liberalcurrents.com/author/toby/
March 18, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Highlighting this thread from Marios (this particular skeet just happens to be one that stops the thread breaking) in case of interest for @polphilpod.bsky.social as I think it fits w/ stuff Toby says on US, here:
www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/mapping
www.liberalcurrents.com/author/toby/
www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/mapping
www.liberalcurrents.com/author/toby/
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For the Spring Holiday of 1985, during our year studying at the Beijing Language Institute (2nd year of SOAS Chinese degree course), my roommate (APB) and me decided to go on a big adventure overland from Chengdu to Lhasa 1/🧵
February 7, 2025 at 4:34 PM
For the Spring Holiday of 1985, during our year studying at the Beijing Language Institute (2nd year of SOAS Chinese degree course), my roommate (APB) and me decided to go on a big adventure overland from Chengdu to Lhasa 1/🧵
Another good discussion of the culture and politics of Chinese open source AI; Deepseek; geopolitics
link.chtbl.com/chinatalk
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link.chtbl.com/chinatalk
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GREAT EP: DeepSeek: What It Means and What Happens Next
Podcast Episode · ChinaTalk · 30/01/2025 · 1h 12m
podcasts.apple.com
January 31, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Another good discussion of the culture and politics of Chinese open source AI; Deepseek; geopolitics
link.chtbl.com/chinatalk
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/g...
link.chtbl.com/chinatalk
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/g...
www.chinatalk.media/p/deepseek-c...
“As a first step to understanding what’s in the water at Deepseek, we’ve translated a rare, in-depth interview with CEO Liang Wenfeng, originally published this past July on a 36Kr sub-brand.”
“As a first step to understanding what’s in the water at Deepseek, we’ve translated a rare, in-depth interview with CEO Liang Wenfeng, originally published this past July on a 36Kr sub-brand.”
Deepseek: The Quiet Giant Leading China’s AI Race
Annotated translation of its CEO's deepest interview
www.chinatalk.media
January 26, 2025 at 10:29 AM
www.chinatalk.media/p/deepseek-c...
“As a first step to understanding what’s in the water at Deepseek, we’ve translated a rare, in-depth interview with CEO Liang Wenfeng, originally published this past July on a 36Kr sub-brand.”
“As a first step to understanding what’s in the water at Deepseek, we’ve translated a rare, in-depth interview with CEO Liang Wenfeng, originally published this past July on a 36Kr sub-brand.”
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January 23, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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Loads more interviews, solo episodes, & commentary coming in the new year that I'm excited to share
If you enjoy my stuff, please consider supporting for any amount - I don't do any adds, so this lets me keep doing what I do:
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January 9, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Loads more interviews, solo episodes, & commentary coming in the new year that I'm excited to share
If you enjoy my stuff, please consider supporting for any amount - I don't do any adds, so this lets me keep doing what I do:
www.patreon.com/c/PoliticalP...
If you enjoy my stuff, please consider supporting for any amount - I don't do any adds, so this lets me keep doing what I do:
www.patreon.com/c/PoliticalP...
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Takeaway from crazy news day: need to relearn lessons of Trump 2016
Ignore vast swathes of what passes for ‘news’
Trump wanging on about Greenland and Panama is noise. Ditto Musk’s latest disorientation post on X.
Zuckerberg gutting content moderation and kissing the ring is signal though.
Ignore vast swathes of what passes for ‘news’
Trump wanging on about Greenland and Panama is noise. Ditto Musk’s latest disorientation post on X.
Zuckerberg gutting content moderation and kissing the ring is signal though.
January 7, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Takeaway from crazy news day: need to relearn lessons of Trump 2016
Ignore vast swathes of what passes for ‘news’
Trump wanging on about Greenland and Panama is noise. Ditto Musk’s latest disorientation post on X.
Zuckerberg gutting content moderation and kissing the ring is signal though.
Ignore vast swathes of what passes for ‘news’
Trump wanging on about Greenland and Panama is noise. Ditto Musk’s latest disorientation post on X.
Zuckerberg gutting content moderation and kissing the ring is signal though.
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It's mostly this ^ .
Trump himself - and now Musk - get endless amusement by watching 'the left' and most media get worked up into a tizzy about something they just pull out of their ass and post.
Stop taking it literally. Stop fretting about inconsequential nonsense. >
Trump himself - and now Musk - get endless amusement by watching 'the left' and most media get worked up into a tizzy about something they just pull out of their ass and post.
Stop taking it literally. Stop fretting about inconsequential nonsense. >
January 7, 2025 at 7:32 PM
It's mostly this ^ .
Trump himself - and now Musk - get endless amusement by watching 'the left' and most media get worked up into a tizzy about something they just pull out of their ass and post.
Stop taking it literally. Stop fretting about inconsequential nonsense. >
Trump himself - and now Musk - get endless amusement by watching 'the left' and most media get worked up into a tizzy about something they just pull out of their ass and post.
Stop taking it literally. Stop fretting about inconsequential nonsense. >
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It’s three months since I launched London Centric, so here’s what’s happened and a little bit on what’s next. open.substack.com/pub/londonce...
The best of London Centric, so far
The investigations, exclusives, and intrigue you might have missed.
open.substack.com
January 2, 2025 at 7:15 AM
It’s three months since I launched London Centric, so here’s what’s happened and a little bit on what’s next. open.substack.com/pub/londonce...
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Some new Patreon supporters, thank you so much! - your support lets me do the show without any commercial ads
If you like the show, consider chipping in for any amount:
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November 26, 2024 at 12:48 PM
Some new Patreon supporters, thank you so much! - your support lets me do the show without any commercial ads
If you like the show, consider chipping in for any amount:
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Matt @mattpolprof.bsky.social was recently on the podcast discussing liberal socialism
This is a good quick primer on the main figures in that tradition:
This is a good quick primer on the main figures in that tradition:
“This article will just briefly introduce readers to some of the major liberal socialist author and their respective position.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-liberal-...
The Liberal Socialist Canon
A liberal vision with a long tradition.
www.liberalcurrents.com
November 22, 2024 at 11:46 AM
Matt @mattpolprof.bsky.social was recently on the podcast discussing liberal socialism
This is a good quick primer on the main figures in that tradition:
This is a good quick primer on the main figures in that tradition:
Another America m.youtube.com/shorts/bzRU-...
Winter Tour 2025 on sale now! We’re coming home to California (mostly)
YouTube video by AJ Lee & Blue Summit
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November 15, 2024 at 12:13 AM
Another America m.youtube.com/shorts/bzRU-...
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There is an issue that a desire to Be Empathetic/See Both Sides often collides with human laziness to turn into "I will Do Empathy To You by choosing to imagine you in terms I find easy to empathise with - probably you're poor, that's why you did it! - not miserable confusing research".
November 9, 2024 at 6:41 PM
There is an issue that a desire to Be Empathetic/See Both Sides often collides with human laziness to turn into "I will Do Empathy To You by choosing to imagine you in terms I find easy to empathise with - probably you're poor, that's why you did it! - not miserable confusing research".
From viewers to voters: Tracing Fox News’ impact on American democracy www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
"FNC has shifted the ideology and partisan identity of Americans rightward. This shift has helped Republican candidates in elections across levels of U.S. government over the past decade."
"FNC has shifted the ideology and partisan identity of Americans rightward. This shift has helped Republican candidates in elections across levels of U.S. government over the past decade."
From viewers to voters: Tracing Fox News’ impact on American democracy
This paper provides a comprehensive assessment of the effect of Fox News Channel (FNC) on the mass public’s political preferences and voting behavior …
www.sciencedirect.com
November 9, 2024 at 5:18 PM
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Just after the 2016 election, Jon Lovett made the point that Democrats needed to distinguish between what *offends* people and what *affects* them
November 8, 2024 at 12:09 AM
Just after the 2016 election, Jon Lovett made the point that Democrats needed to distinguish between what *offends* people and what *affects* them
When the Guardian makes a cut and paste error in the sentence about a cut and paste error…
“after a member of their team had team cut and paste the notice for the event last year”
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...
“after a member of their team had team cut and paste the notice for the event last year”
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...
Pakistani firm apologises for directing Dubliners to nonexistent Halloween event
Thousands lined streets of Irish capital waiting for wrongly advertised parade after website’s ‘human error’
www.theguardian.com
November 2, 2024 at 2:48 PM
When the Guardian makes a cut and paste error in the sentence about a cut and paste error…
“after a member of their team had team cut and paste the notice for the event last year”
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...
“after a member of their team had team cut and paste the notice for the event last year”
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...