Thanks man, will give this a listen

It’s so childish and unserious.

If the film was just what it was I’d be fine with it. It’s the insistence that the film is a masterpiece that I cannot stand.

This discussion with Coates actually mirrors the discussion Coates had with Ash Sarkar. The elephant in the room is that mainstream politics is not the space for actual radical politics and the central line has moved so far to the right that winning means placating racists.

I actually don’t think there’s a coalition to be had. The “Your Party” is a non starter and leftist individuals in Labour are still committed to hanging on to the party. What really needs to happen is for the people who want a left vote to seriously mobilise behind the Greens.

Absolutely. It’s an easy vote for me. I’m not familiar with the leftist movements in the rest of Europe but he reminds me of what Mamdani is doing in New York.

In fact I would go as far as to say the hyperbolic reception to the film is a clear cultural indicator of just how cooked we all actually are.

Like even if you’re not Black and so aren’t bothered much by the hyper sexualisation of Black women and blunt impact of flat racist caricatures, I don’t understand how you can watch that film and think it speaks in anyway profoundly to the current moment we are in.