Bruce Bennett
@brucebennett.bsky.social
Prof in Film Studies, Lancaster University. Personal a/c.🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇵🇸
It’s remarkable how vocal these ‘gender-critical’ academics are about being silenced by the institutions they work for. It’s almost as if it’s completely untrue…
July 2, 2025 at 6:56 AM
It’s remarkable how vocal these ‘gender-critical’ academics are about being silenced by the institutions they work for. It’s almost as if it’s completely untrue…
Inspired, apparently, by the Tory governments attempt to transform the UK into a hostile environment for immigrants, extending the borderzones across the whole country, Starmer’s govt wants big tech companies to tell it how to turn the entire country into an open-plan prison.
July 1, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Inspired, apparently, by the Tory governments attempt to transform the UK into a hostile environment for immigrants, extending the borderzones across the whole country, Starmer’s govt wants big tech companies to tell it how to turn the entire country into an open-plan prison.
Simply breathtaking that the Guardian can publish this article today, referring to the genocidal war on Gaza euphemistically as a ‘security failure’. Utterly I nexcusable.
June 28, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Simply breathtaking that the Guardian can publish this article today, referring to the genocidal war on Gaza euphemistically as a ‘security failure’. Utterly I nexcusable.
There would have been a point where an atrocity like this provoked international outrage. By this point in the war on Gaza, it’s hard to keep up with the number of war crimes committed by Israel, a country that is relishing the licence it’s been given to commit crime after crime after crime.
June 27, 2025 at 11:18 AM
There would have been a point where an atrocity like this provoked international outrage. By this point in the war on Gaza, it’s hard to keep up with the number of war crimes committed by Israel, a country that is relishing the licence it’s been given to commit crime after crime after crime.
Toxic masculinity.
June 22, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Toxic masculinity.
Fascinating to see the war machine at work. Political journalists are playing a key role in treating the imperialist violence of Israel and the US as if it’s driven by a genuine concern for democracy.
June 19, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Fascinating to see the war machine at work. Political journalists are playing a key role in treating the imperialist violence of Israel and the US as if it’s driven by a genuine concern for democracy.
The most immoral army in the world?
June 18, 2025 at 5:04 PM
The most immoral army in the world?
Genocide, it seems, is no reason not to continue business as usual for the UK govt. As for this headline, how about substituting ‘shameless hypocrisy’ for ‘garbled messaging’?
May 28, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Genocide, it seems, is no reason not to continue business as usual for the UK govt. As for this headline, how about substituting ‘shameless hypocrisy’ for ‘garbled messaging’?
Pro-Gaza, anti-genocide graffiti at the Giro d’Italia today. It’s particularly pointed since one of the owners of the Israeli team competing in the race has described the war on Gaza as a matter of ‘good vs evil and civilisation against barbarism’
May 27, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Pro-Gaza, anti-genocide graffiti at the Giro d’Italia today. It’s particularly pointed since one of the owners of the Israeli team competing in the race has described the war on Gaza as a matter of ‘good vs evil and civilisation against barbarism’
It takes a special kind of insight - the superior analytical skills of a political journalist - to write an article at this point in the genocide that insists both sides are to blame.
May 23, 2025 at 7:22 PM
It takes a special kind of insight - the superior analytical skills of a political journalist - to write an article at this point in the genocide that insists both sides are to blame.
Well, I suppose, as the individual most responsible for imposing the disaster of Brexit on the UK, he’s got some experience in this field.
May 23, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Well, I suppose, as the individual most responsible for imposing the disaster of Brexit on the UK, he’s got some experience in this field.
I wonder when professional political commentators will announce that we’re allowed to call this fascism?
May 23, 2025 at 2:52 PM
I wonder when professional political commentators will announce that we’re allowed to call this fascism?
Of course ‘cleanse’ is still a euphemism, but Israeli finance minister Smotrich is now open about Israel’s project in Gaza. ‘Cleansing’ is a key term in the lexicon of genocide and fascism
May 20, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Of course ‘cleanse’ is still a euphemism, but Israeli finance minister Smotrich is now open about Israel’s project in Gaza. ‘Cleansing’ is a key term in the lexicon of genocide and fascism
This article exemplifies a key problem in British politics, which is the total, shameful failure of political journalists to interrogate the role of news media in shaping debates. Instead it imagines politics as a direct, unmediated conversation between politicians and voters.
May 16, 2025 at 11:40 AM
This article exemplifies a key problem in British politics, which is the total, shameful failure of political journalists to interrogate the role of news media in shaping debates. Instead it imagines politics as a direct, unmediated conversation between politicians and voters.
This man is a ghoul. First he wants to follow Putin and grab areas of Ukraine for the US, now he wants to do the same with Gaza, exploiting Israel’s genocidal war for his own advantage.
May 15, 2025 at 12:39 PM
This man is a ghoul. First he wants to follow Putin and grab areas of Ukraine for the US, now he wants to do the same with Gaza, exploiting Israel’s genocidal war for his own advantage.
I wonder what the difference is between mimicry of far-right scaremongering, and the real thing. Different outfits? Smaller flags?
May 12, 2025 at 1:23 PM
I wonder what the difference is between mimicry of far-right scaremongering, and the real thing. Different outfits? Smaller flags?
‘Incalculable’ is a carefully chosen weasel word, since all the global historical data indicates that immigration doesn’t damage economies or standards of living - and so the damage literally can’t be evidenced or calculated. But of course that’s not what you’re meant to hear.
May 12, 2025 at 12:14 PM
‘Incalculable’ is a carefully chosen weasel word, since all the global historical data indicates that immigration doesn’t damage economies or standards of living - and so the damage literally can’t be evidenced or calculated. But of course that’s not what you’re meant to hear.
So ‘taking back control’ of our borders is now a ‘core value’ of the Labour Party, along with austerity economics, transphobia and support for genocide. This is unforgivable. Starmer’s key achievement so far is stamping on any signs of a more progressive, more compassionate politics.
May 12, 2025 at 12:00 PM
So ‘taking back control’ of our borders is now a ‘core value’ of the Labour Party, along with austerity economics, transphobia and support for genocide. This is unforgivable. Starmer’s key achievement so far is stamping on any signs of a more progressive, more compassionate politics.
One of the striking features of serious political journalism is its systematic, selective amnesia. Trump’s position on the genocide in Gaza has been obscene, but it’s not radically different from that of politicians who’ve attacked any criticism of Israel, however measured, as antisemitic.
May 7, 2025 at 10:09 AM
One of the striking features of serious political journalism is its systematic, selective amnesia. Trump’s position on the genocide in Gaza has been obscene, but it’s not radically different from that of politicians who’ve attacked any criticism of Israel, however measured, as antisemitic.
It’s been clear all along that Starmer’s Labour party will do absolutely anything to distance itself from progressive left politics, but it’s still astonishing that they think that trying to out-racist Farage is a winning strategy.
May 3, 2025 at 11:05 PM
It’s been clear all along that Starmer’s Labour party will do absolutely anything to distance itself from progressive left politics, but it’s still astonishing that they think that trying to out-racist Farage is a winning strategy.
‘Operational misunderstanding’ - the utter obscenity of the bureaucratic language used by the IDF to dismiss multiple murders of civilians by its troops.
April 20, 2025 at 4:36 PM
‘Operational misunderstanding’ - the utter obscenity of the bureaucratic language used by the IDF to dismiss multiple murders of civilians by its troops.
Another nasty anti-trans column in The Observer today, celebrating the victory of common sense while running through a familiar series of conservative fantasies about cancel culture and the threat posed by trans women to other women. This is very much the editorial line of this newspaper.
April 20, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Another nasty anti-trans column in The Observer today, celebrating the victory of common sense while running through a familiar series of conservative fantasies about cancel culture and the threat posed by trans women to other women. This is very much the editorial line of this newspaper.
A new colour? I think they’ll find Negativland beat them to it years ago when they discovered the previously unknown fourth primary colour, Squant: nideffer.net/proj/shift-c...
April 19, 2025 at 6:28 PM
A new colour? I think they’ll find Negativland beat them to it years ago when they discovered the previously unknown fourth primary colour, Squant: nideffer.net/proj/shift-c...
Well, at least there’s an up-side.
April 5, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Well, at least there’s an up-side.