Mahmood's Guardian piece is pretty devoid of content or ideas but the key pitch really is that making things visibly harder for asylum seekers is the only way to secure social peace.
November 17, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Mahmood's Guardian piece is pretty devoid of content or ideas but the key pitch really is that making things visibly harder for asylum seekers is the only way to secure social peace.
Are you going to make a meaningful dent in costs of billions of pounds per year by seizing the odd e-bike and, what, selling them second hand?
November 17, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Are you going to make a meaningful dent in costs of billions of pounds per year by seizing the odd e-bike and, what, selling them second hand?
I'm sorry but any report that uncritically says assets would be seized "to pay for" costs is just parroting government propaganda. Confiscations are dreamed up as a punitive deterrent, not a sincere attempt at a funding mechanism.
November 17, 2025 at 8:57 AM
I'm sorry but any report that uncritically says assets would be seized "to pay for" costs is just parroting government propaganda. Confiscations are dreamed up as a punitive deterrent, not a sincere attempt at a funding mechanism.
November 16, 2025 at 12:30 PM
From Agamben's essay "Beyond Human Rights".
tl;dr Human rights are spoken about as being a part of human identity that cannot be stripped away like other rights and are therefore a protection against state prosecution. And yet, they only exist in practice when a state chooses to uphold them.
tl;dr Human rights are spoken about as being a part of human identity that cannot be stripped away like other rights and are therefore a protection against state prosecution. And yet, they only exist in practice when a state chooses to uphold them.
November 16, 2025 at 11:44 AM
From Agamben's essay "Beyond Human Rights".
tl;dr Human rights are spoken about as being a part of human identity that cannot be stripped away like other rights and are therefore a protection against state prosecution. And yet, they only exist in practice when a state chooses to uphold them.
tl;dr Human rights are spoken about as being a part of human identity that cannot be stripped away like other rights and are therefore a protection against state prosecution. And yet, they only exist in practice when a state chooses to uphold them.
Learn it and learn it well.
October 8, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Learn it and learn it well.
When EA hits upon a way of increasing productivity do they get their workers to make the same amount of game in less time or to make more game in the same amount of time? And, is there some reason they expect their customers' bosses to make a different calculation?
October 8, 2025 at 9:11 PM
When EA hits upon a way of increasing productivity do they get their workers to make the same amount of game in less time or to make more game in the same amount of time? And, is there some reason they expect their customers' bosses to make a different calculation?
This man is betting three billion dollars on the idea that businesses will say "well it's Wednesday afternoon and we've met our quota for the week, send everyone home with full pay and we'll start again on Monday"
October 8, 2025 at 8:59 PM
This man is betting three billion dollars on the idea that businesses will say "well it's Wednesday afternoon and we've met our quota for the week, send everyone home with full pay and we'll start again on Monday"
October 5, 2025 at 7:00 PM
I accept that this is a technically correct use of the word "forensic" but the idea that it took them a full day of meticulous investigation for police to discover that they were the only ones who turned up with guns is just insulting.
October 3, 2025 at 8:52 PM
I accept that this is a technically correct use of the word "forensic" but the idea that it took them a full day of meticulous investigation for police to discover that they were the only ones who turned up with guns is just insulting.
Eventually, after the initial shock of the incident has abated, conclusions have been drawn and attention has moved on, full details will trickle out about how the police opened fire into the synagogue.
October 3, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Eventually, after the initial shock of the incident has abated, conclusions have been drawn and attention has moved on, full details will trickle out about how the police opened fire into the synagogue.
Oh, it "would appear" so, yeah?
Either it took the pigs a full day to realise they'd shot two people or they deliberately withheld this information from the public so they could manage the media fallout. You can decide which of those makes them look worse.
Either it took the pigs a full day to realise they'd shot two people or they deliberately withheld this information from the public so they could manage the media fallout. You can decide which of those makes them look worse.
October 3, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Oh, it "would appear" so, yeah?
Either it took the pigs a full day to realise they'd shot two people or they deliberately withheld this information from the public so they could manage the media fallout. You can decide which of those makes them look worse.
Either it took the pigs a full day to realise they'd shot two people or they deliberately withheld this information from the public so they could manage the media fallout. You can decide which of those makes them look worse.
Note that while the right have traditionally demonised impoverished migrants who seek asylum, claim benefits, or compete for the worst paid jobs, Labour are actively widening the hateful scope to treat even those who earn a salary and are economically self-sufficient as a social problem.
September 28, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Note that while the right have traditionally demonised impoverished migrants who seek asylum, claim benefits, or compete for the worst paid jobs, Labour are actively widening the hateful scope to treat even those who earn a salary and are economically self-sufficient as a social problem.
Can you even remotely imagine a future historian looking back on this as the beginning of the end for the mid-2020s reactionary nationalist movement?
September 26, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Can you even remotely imagine a future historian looking back on this as the beginning of the end for the mid-2020s reactionary nationalist movement?
Starmer in the telegraph today promising an economy that still relies on exploitation but is now also more exclusionary of foreigners.
September 26, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Starmer in the telegraph today promising an economy that still relies on exploitation but is now also more exclusionary of foreigners.
Fully speaking out of both sides of his mouth.
September 21, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Fully speaking out of both sides of his mouth.
Also shameful and disgusting that Streeting is trying to burnish his progressive credentials by reimagining his grotesque attacks on trans healthcare as some kind of inclusive step forward.
September 16, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Also shameful and disgusting that Streeting is trying to burnish his progressive credentials by reimagining his grotesque attacks on trans healthcare as some kind of inclusive step forward.
Reading the intro to Mute Compulsion and this quote really bangs.
September 8, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Reading the intro to Mute Compulsion and this quote really bangs.
I feel bad for the person who has to reformat this chat next year.
September 7, 2025 at 12:55 PM
I feel bad for the person who has to reformat this chat next year.
DID YOU KNOW that one of the 'Peelian Principles' that modern British policing is based on is that police will enforce law "without regard to the justice or injustice of the substance of individual laws".
No one, especially not the state, gives a shit what cops think about the law.
No one, especially not the state, gives a shit what cops think about the law.
September 5, 2025 at 8:11 AM
DID YOU KNOW that one of the 'Peelian Principles' that modern British policing is based on is that police will enforce law "without regard to the justice or injustice of the substance of individual laws".
No one, especially not the state, gives a shit what cops think about the law.
No one, especially not the state, gives a shit what cops think about the law.
Also the letter to Minnesota has for some reason included a definition of settler colonialism in what is ostensibly a review of "medical accuracy". 🧐
August 29, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Also the letter to Minnesota has for some reason included a definition of settler colonialism in what is ostensibly a review of "medical accuracy". 🧐
Farage tries to sound Prime Ministerial by promising to round up and deport hundreds of thousands of people... Labour responds by offering to scrap some human rights.
![Ahead of Farage’s speech, housing minister Matthew Pennycook called Reform’s proposals “a series of gimmicks that are unworkable [and] unfeasible”, adding that the ECHR underpinned “a series of incredibly important agreements, including the [Northern Ireland] Good Friday Agreement”.
But he stressed the government was exploring how to reform the ECHR “fundamentally”, as well as reviewing Article 8, which has been used to block deportations on grounds of a right to family life.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xysznscoqlkwlgi26heehlhn/bafkreiejc6fgf7gi7p72syuyp3fxh2mikr3pagjdfeljgh4qxubdhexoi4@jpeg)
August 26, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Farage tries to sound Prime Ministerial by promising to round up and deport hundreds of thousands of people... Labour responds by offering to scrap some human rights.
In practice, "British jobs for British workers" just means "abolish retirement".
August 23, 2025 at 11:32 PM
In practice, "British jobs for British workers" just means "abolish retirement".