Fitzroy M
@fitzroysq.bsky.social
A mighty apparition, escaping from reality.
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Spot the missing word in all the Gaza disaster appeals I’m seeing on Instagram. Worded like it’s a natural disaster.
September 17, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Spot the missing word in all the Gaza disaster appeals I’m seeing on Instagram. Worded like it’s a natural disaster.
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After the revolution, comrades, James Butler will present 'In Our Time'. This will do for now
James discusses Starmer’s predicament on his new podcast ‘On Politics’, out now.
He’s joined by former Labour MP and minister Chris Mullin, 𝘎𝘶𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘪𝘢𝘯 columnist Andy Beckett and journalist Morgan Jones (@morganj0nes.bsky.social).
🎧 Listen on Apple Podcasts:
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/o...
He’s joined by former Labour MP and minister Chris Mullin, 𝘎𝘶𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘪𝘢𝘯 columnist Andy Beckett and journalist Morgan Jones (@morganj0nes.bsky.social).
🎧 Listen on Apple Podcasts:
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/o...
On Politics: Labour's Problems
Podcast Episode · The LRB Podcast · 17/09/2025 · 1h 7m
podcasts.apple.com
September 17, 2025 at 4:58 PM
After the revolution, comrades, James Butler will present 'In Our Time'. This will do for now
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mfer is literally named "rob tombs", did they summon the spirit of the british museum into an op ed writer
September 17, 2025 at 4:53 PM
mfer is literally named "rob tombs", did they summon the spirit of the british museum into an op ed writer
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The threat of far-right dictatorship hangs over the United States.
New post 👇
www.owenjones.news/p/trump-plot...
New post 👇
www.owenjones.news/p/trump-plot...
Trump plots far-right dictatorship
This is not a drill.
www.owenjones.news
September 17, 2025 at 4:25 PM
The threat of far-right dictatorship hangs over the United States.
New post 👇
www.owenjones.news/p/trump-plot...
New post 👇
www.owenjones.news/p/trump-plot...
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‘Keir Starmer is in trouble.’
New on the blog: James Butler (@piercepenniless.bsky.social) on Labour’s problems.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/se...
New on the blog: James Butler (@piercepenniless.bsky.social) on Labour’s problems.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/se...
September 17, 2025 at 4:42 PM
‘Keir Starmer is in trouble.’
New on the blog: James Butler (@piercepenniless.bsky.social) on Labour’s problems.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/se...
New on the blog: James Butler (@piercepenniless.bsky.social) on Labour’s problems.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/se...
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‘Once charged political words such as “Bennite” and “Wedgie” are likely to get a blank look from most people under the age of fifty. What exactly was his significance?’
Andy Beckett on Tony Benn:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Andy Beckett on Tony Benn:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Andy Beckett · Almost Alone: Tony Benn’s Beliefs
What exactly was Tony Benn’s significance? He was certainly an unusually clear analyst and critic of the distribution...
www.lrb.co.uk
September 17, 2025 at 4:18 PM
‘Once charged political words such as “Bennite” and “Wedgie” are likely to get a blank look from most people under the age of fifty. What exactly was his significance?’
Andy Beckett on Tony Benn:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Andy Beckett on Tony Benn:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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also the Venn diagram of people who claimed to oppose "Islamism" for the sake of queer people, and the people who then became at worst frothing transphobes and at best people eager to throw trans people to the wolves... is a circle
September 17, 2025 at 3:04 PM
also the Venn diagram of people who claimed to oppose "Islamism" for the sake of queer people, and the people who then became at worst frothing transphobes and at best people eager to throw trans people to the wolves... is a circle
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Thinking back to the old days when I’d have interminable dumb online squabbles with the pro-war left. I recall one of the lines that the head dickhead at Harry’s Place used to regularly deploy was the one below. And we’d point out that the domestic right looked rather more threatening on this score.
September 17, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Thinking back to the old days when I’d have interminable dumb online squabbles with the pro-war left. I recall one of the lines that the head dickhead at Harry’s Place used to regularly deploy was the one below. And we’d point out that the domestic right looked rather more threatening on this score.
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"A storied trove of documents, photos, and lab tools from the race to decipher DNA’s structure and function is finally being made public."
Among them, the original Photo 51, an x-ray diffraction image of DNA made in 1952 by Rosalind Franklin.
🧪 #Science #WomenInSTEM
www.science.org/content/arti...
Among them, the original Photo 51, an x-ray diffraction image of DNA made in 1952 by Rosalind Franklin.
🧪 #Science #WomenInSTEM
www.science.org/content/arti...
September 16, 2025 at 3:29 PM
"A storied trove of documents, photos, and lab tools from the race to decipher DNA’s structure and function is finally being made public."
Among them, the original Photo 51, an x-ray diffraction image of DNA made in 1952 by Rosalind Franklin.
🧪 #Science #WomenInSTEM
www.science.org/content/arti...
Among them, the original Photo 51, an x-ray diffraction image of DNA made in 1952 by Rosalind Franklin.
🧪 #Science #WomenInSTEM
www.science.org/content/arti...
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#BlackWomenSTEM #BlackInSTEM #WomenInSTEM #STEMSky #RoboSky #MakerSky #CreatorSky #TeacherSky #AcademicSky #TeacherSky #EducatorSky #BlackAdemic @blackinrobotics.bsky.social #Robots
September 17, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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Wrote about the implosion of 'phase two' Starmer's government: the Mandelson affair (volume 3), the cratering numbers, the changing political system, the spectre of Farage and the resurgent right. @lrb.co.uk
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/se...
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/se...
September 17, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Wrote about the implosion of 'phase two' Starmer's government: the Mandelson affair (volume 3), the cratering numbers, the changing political system, the spectre of Farage and the resurgent right. @lrb.co.uk
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/se...
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/se...
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Launching today: James Butler’s (@piercepenniless.bsky.social) new podcast series ‘On Politics’ goes beyond the headlines and push notifications to get at the real forces transforming our politics here and abroad.
Listen and subscribe now.
Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/o...
Listen and subscribe now.
Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/o...
September 17, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Launching today: James Butler’s (@piercepenniless.bsky.social) new podcast series ‘On Politics’ goes beyond the headlines and push notifications to get at the real forces transforming our politics here and abroad.
Listen and subscribe now.
Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/o...
Listen and subscribe now.
Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/o...
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Starmer reaping the rewards of alienating anyone to the left of Enoch Powell.
Net favourability ratings for party leaders
Nigel Farage: -31
Jeremy Corbyn: -31
Ed Davey: -6
Keir Starmer: -50
Kemi Badenoch: -35
Zarah Sultana: -13*
Zack Polanski: -10*
*recognition rate lower than 50%
Further political figures available in article: yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
Nigel Farage: -31
Jeremy Corbyn: -31
Ed Davey: -6
Keir Starmer: -50
Kemi Badenoch: -35
Zarah Sultana: -13*
Zack Polanski: -10*
*recognition rate lower than 50%
Further political figures available in article: yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
September 17, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Starmer reaping the rewards of alienating anyone to the left of Enoch Powell.
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‘The positive view is that Eno took difficult avant-garde ideas and made them mainstream. The sceptic might say he took genuinely radical work and repurposed it as a balm, or maybe a spritz, for the capitalist culture industry.’
Ian Penman on becoming Brian Enosceptic:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Ian Penman on becoming Brian Enosceptic:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Ian Penman · Infinite Wibble: Brian v. Eno
At a time when most conversation about the arts remained stuck in an Oxbridge common room, Eno was a one-man laboratory...
www.lrb.co.uk
September 17, 2025 at 1:27 PM
‘The positive view is that Eno took difficult avant-garde ideas and made them mainstream. The sceptic might say he took genuinely radical work and repurposed it as a balm, or maybe a spritz, for the capitalist culture industry.’
Ian Penman on becoming Brian Enosceptic:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Ian Penman on becoming Brian Enosceptic:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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‘He made white British readers recognise Jamaican patois. Most readers need to articulate the poems in order to understand their meaning: glancing at the page isn’t enough.’
Mendez on Linton Kwesi Johnson: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Mendez on Linton Kwesi Johnson: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Mendez · Burning Age of Rage: On Linton Kwesi Johnson
Linton Kwesi Johnson has maintained that ‘writing poetry or making music ... is not a substitute for hardcore...
www.lrb.co.uk
September 15, 2025 at 3:15 PM
‘He made white British readers recognise Jamaican patois. Most readers need to articulate the poems in order to understand their meaning: glancing at the page isn’t enough.’
Mendez on Linton Kwesi Johnson: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Mendez on Linton Kwesi Johnson: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Important to remind ourselves of this as we hear and read words like "revelations" and "emerged" in respect of the Ovenden resignation. It has in fact been common knowledge for years that (a) this is the culture in that faction of the party, and (b) that Starmer is largely indifferent to it.
Last year @sangitamyska.bsky.social asked Martin Forde about the appalling comments made by very senior Lab party managers about Diane Abbott which he found were "expressions of visceral disgust drawing on racist tropes"
Forde noted Labour had never apologised to Diane for those messages
Forde noted Labour had never apologised to Diane for those messages
September 15, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Important to remind ourselves of this as we hear and read words like "revelations" and "emerged" in respect of the Ovenden resignation. It has in fact been common knowledge for years that (a) this is the culture in that faction of the party, and (b) that Starmer is largely indifferent to it.
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Yesterday, the largest far-right protest in UK history marched through London, led by racist Tommy Robinson.
Today, we say: They don’t speak for us — and they won’t have the last word.
This Wednesday we come together against Trump and for a better future. Do everything to be there.
Today, we say: They don’t speak for us — and they won’t have the last word.
This Wednesday we come together against Trump and for a better future. Do everything to be there.
September 14, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Yesterday, the largest far-right protest in UK history marched through London, led by racist Tommy Robinson.
Today, we say: They don’t speak for us — and they won’t have the last word.
This Wednesday we come together against Trump and for a better future. Do everything to be there.
Today, we say: They don’t speak for us — and they won’t have the last word.
This Wednesday we come together against Trump and for a better future. Do everything to be there.
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When we remember we beat fascism before, we must also remember that we kinda let fascism happen before we actually beat it. I'm not a historian but I think that the one lesson of history might be not to have to beat it in the first place.
September 15, 2025 at 12:35 PM
When we remember we beat fascism before, we must also remember that we kinda let fascism happen before we actually beat it. I'm not a historian but I think that the one lesson of history might be not to have to beat it in the first place.
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“Until we confront the climate emergency and the corporate capture of our food system, inflation will remain a permanent feature of daily life.“
Read my latest on the structural causes of food price inflation
open.substack.com/pub/gracebla...
Read my latest on the structural causes of food price inflation
open.substack.com/pub/gracebla...
What's Driving Food Price Inflation?
Tariffs, climate breakdown, and the corporate capture of global agriculture.
open.substack.com
September 15, 2025 at 1:09 PM
“Until we confront the climate emergency and the corporate capture of our food system, inflation will remain a permanent feature of daily life.“
Read my latest on the structural causes of food price inflation
open.substack.com/pub/gracebla...
Read my latest on the structural causes of food price inflation
open.substack.com/pub/gracebla...
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Every single person on Twitter knew, but not the man with an entire intelligence agency at his disposal.
I would never have appointed Mandelson had I known full Epstein links - PM
I would never have appointed Mandelson had I known full Epstein links - PM
The PM says a due diligence process was gone through before Lord Mandelson was appointed US ambassador.
www.bbc.com
September 15, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Every single person on Twitter knew, but not the man with an entire intelligence agency at his disposal.
An absolute disgrace.
There are some brilliant people working in politics who actually care about improving the country and helping the people in it. Then there are these people www.itv.com/news/2025-09...
www.itv.com
September 15, 2025 at 4:04 PM
An absolute disgrace.
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Months of waiting but my review copy of The War on Science has arrived.
I read Krauss’ introduction. What the fuck happened to this man? He comes off as incapable of basic research, argument, basic scholarship.
He sounds stupid.
I look into strange claims he makes and they’re demonstrably false
I read Krauss’ introduction. What the fuck happened to this man? He comes off as incapable of basic research, argument, basic scholarship.
He sounds stupid.
I look into strange claims he makes and they’re demonstrably false
September 15, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Months of waiting but my review copy of The War on Science has arrived.
I read Krauss’ introduction. What the fuck happened to this man? He comes off as incapable of basic research, argument, basic scholarship.
He sounds stupid.
I look into strange claims he makes and they’re demonstrably false
I read Krauss’ introduction. What the fuck happened to this man? He comes off as incapable of basic research, argument, basic scholarship.
He sounds stupid.
I look into strange claims he makes and they’re demonstrably false
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i have said this before but when “getting rid of race in admissions” for the administration means “you can’t even try to reach out to underrepresented communities and encourage them to apply and if you do it is illegal discrimination against white people” then the actual goal here is segregation
Harvard Ends Undergraduate Minority Recruitment Program as Trump Targets Race in Admissions | News | The Harvard Crimson
By ending the minority recruitment program in May, Harvard shuttered a more than 50-year-old initiative to encourage minority high school students to apply.
www.thecrimson.com
September 15, 2025 at 12:16 PM
i have said this before but when “getting rid of race in admissions” for the administration means “you can’t even try to reach out to underrepresented communities and encourage them to apply and if you do it is illegal discrimination against white people” then the actual goal here is segregation
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McDonald's CEO says people who don't try the new Big Mac will be at a "significant nutritional disadvantage"
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has told analysts that people without smart glasses may one day be at a "significant cognitive disadvantage" compared to those who do use the tech: https://cnn.it/47L2Y5a
September 15, 2025 at 1:56 PM
McDonald's CEO says people who don't try the new Big Mac will be at a "significant nutritional disadvantage"