Tommaso Sabbatini
@tommsabb.bsky.social
Writer, music historian, volunteer lock-keeper. Pour le pain, la paix, la liberté.
Book: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.3828/9780197267738; https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/98059
Book: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.3828/9780197267738; https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/98059
Oh, no, I've chosen the alternative to socialism and turns out it's barbarism? Who could have predicted that?
November 17, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Oh, no, I've chosen the alternative to socialism and turns out it's barbarism? Who could have predicted that?
Be a chad like Fridtjof Nansen, protect refugees!
November 15, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Be a chad like Fridtjof Nansen, protect refugees!
November 15, 2025 at 11:43 AM
I'm sure our Better Things Aren't Possible government is the envy of pundits worldwide. Curiously it polls very poorly, no one is sure why.
November 9, 2025 at 4:06 PM
I'm sure our Better Things Aren't Possible government is the envy of pundits worldwide. Curiously it polls very poorly, no one is sure why.
Nope, no lessons to be learned, according to the Guardian's analysis.
October 24, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Nope, no lessons to be learned, according to the Guardian's analysis.
La Sainte-Chapelle, joyau de l'art gothique!
October 23, 2025 at 2:32 PM
La Sainte-Chapelle, joyau de l'art gothique!
Nothing to see here, just a liberal paper repeating as fact the rightwing idea that immigration is to blame for the strain on public services, without contemplating for a second that perhaps austerity might have something to do with it.
October 9, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Nothing to see here, just a liberal paper repeating as fact the rightwing idea that immigration is to blame for the strain on public services, without contemplating for a second that perhaps austerity might have something to do with it.
These sad ghouls can't even come up with reactionary ideas of their own: they just keep recycling old rightwing dross and slapping a red rosette on it.
October 2, 2025 at 8:08 AM
These sad ghouls can't even come up with reactionary ideas of their own: they just keep recycling old rightwing dross and slapping a red rosette on it.
Queen Victoria trusts Cecil Rhodes, others don't — could he govern Zambesia? 🧐🎩
October 1, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Queen Victoria trusts Cecil Rhodes, others don't — could he govern Zambesia? 🧐🎩
Centrists: Why do some racialised people become fascists? What dark mystery of the human soul is at work here?
Leftists: It's because they're petty bourgeois.
Centrists: No, no, that's too vulgar an explanation.
Shabana Mahmood: I'm so right-wing because I'm petty bourgeois.
Leftists: It's because they're petty bourgeois.
Centrists: No, no, that's too vulgar an explanation.
Shabana Mahmood: I'm so right-wing because I'm petty bourgeois.
September 29, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Centrists: Why do some racialised people become fascists? What dark mystery of the human soul is at work here?
Leftists: It's because they're petty bourgeois.
Centrists: No, no, that's too vulgar an explanation.
Shabana Mahmood: I'm so right-wing because I'm petty bourgeois.
Leftists: It's because they're petty bourgeois.
Centrists: No, no, that's too vulgar an explanation.
Shabana Mahmood: I'm so right-wing because I'm petty bourgeois.
Starmer's opinion piece in the Telegraph is printed next to a defence of Sarkozy, freshly convicted of criminal conspiracy, and an ad for a pamphlet against colonial ‘guilt’. That's the audience that Changed Labour thinks wise to cultivate.
September 26, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Starmer's opinion piece in the Telegraph is printed next to a defence of Sarkozy, freshly convicted of criminal conspiracy, and an ad for a pamphlet against colonial ‘guilt’. That's the audience that Changed Labour thinks wise to cultivate.
Predictably, comment from ‘a Labour source’ is: Farage can't do xenophobia properly.
September 22, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Predictably, comment from ‘a Labour source’ is: Farage can't do xenophobia properly.
Guess it's a tie between palets bretons and Genoese lagaccio, both dunked in milk. (Shortbread and sweet rusk respectively, for those who are not familiar.)
September 17, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Guess it's a tie between palets bretons and Genoese lagaccio, both dunked in milk. (Shortbread and sweet rusk respectively, for those who are not familiar.)
To paraphrase a recently disgraced Labour grandee: this government are intensely relaxed about fascists terrorising migrants and minorities, as long as they don't attack the police.
September 14, 2025 at 10:23 AM
To paraphrase a recently disgraced Labour grandee: this government are intensely relaxed about fascists terrorising migrants and minorities, as long as they don't attack the police.
L'organe officiel de la bourgeoisie française vient d'embrasser explicitement la ligne «plutôt le fascisme que le Front Populaire».
September 11, 2025 at 12:16 PM
L'organe officiel de la bourgeoisie française vient d'embrasser explicitement la ligne «plutôt le fascisme que le Front Populaire».
Don't get me started on the Guardian's French coverage: it's white progressive middle-class self-righteousness at its most chemically pure. They ran a pro-Glucksmann, anti-Mélenchon *editorial* last year.
September 9, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Don't get me started on the Guardian's French coverage: it's white progressive middle-class self-righteousness at its most chemically pure. They ran a pro-Glucksmann, anti-Mélenchon *editorial* last year.
Yeah, surely this is the kind of politician that a Labour government needs and who will deliver for ordinary people. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
![From Wikipedia:
Between losing her seat in 2019 and returning to Parliament in 2024, [Emma] Reynolds worked as a lobbyist for TheCityUK, an advocacy group representing the interests of the financial sector. She also set up her own lobbying business before becoming an MP.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:v6szvfw7ofwqkkymz54voapa/bafkreiefporzy4dl3otyia2wzn2ydcwdo7rqimeq73ljfvcglje2vyu6wq@jpeg)
September 5, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Yeah, surely this is the kind of politician that a Labour government needs and who will deliver for ordinary people. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Tra essenzialismo (‘la cura è femminile’) e Luciano Violante, direi che siamo a cavallo! 👍🏻
August 29, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Tra essenzialismo (‘la cura è femminile’) e Luciano Violante, direi che siamo a cavallo! 👍🏻
-56 net popularity is Macron territory but of course the man to beat is François Hollande (-66).
August 19, 2025 at 5:06 PM
-56 net popularity is Macron territory but of course the man to beat is François Hollande (-66).
-56 net popularity is Macron territory but of course the man to beat is François Hollande (-66).
August 19, 2025 at 5:06 PM
-56 net popularity is Macron territory but of course the man to beat is François Hollande (-66).
This guy proved my point! Thanks, @thelouvreof.bsky.social!
August 8, 2025 at 7:44 PM
This guy proved my point! Thanks, @thelouvreof.bsky.social!
So on Gaza Trump, famously high on his own supply and surrounded by sycophants, is more tethered to reality than radicalised boomers on here (and in opinion pages in legacy journalism).
August 8, 2025 at 10:12 AM
So on Gaza Trump, famously high on his own supply and surrounded by sycophants, is more tethered to reality than radicalised boomers on here (and in opinion pages in legacy journalism).
Sounds like a satire of neoliberal academia. CDL stands for ‘Creative Destruction Lab’. Then there's the partnership with the ‘leading mining and materials company’ and the ‘DeepTech Entrepreneurship’! 🫠
August 6, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Sounds like a satire of neoliberal academia. CDL stands for ‘Creative Destruction Lab’. Then there's the partnership with the ‘leading mining and materials company’ and the ‘DeepTech Entrepreneurship’! 🫠
Israel has razed an urban area the size of Montreal. Let that sink in. The obvious European comparisons one would reach for (Coventry, Dresden, Le Havre, even Warsaw) don't fully capture the scale of destruction.
August 5, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Israel has razed an urban area the size of Montreal. Let that sink in. The obvious European comparisons one would reach for (Coventry, Dresden, Le Havre, even Warsaw) don't fully capture the scale of destruction.