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immigration is a great thing, we need to say that - & take the fight to the nativists
my latest for @liberalcurrents.com
www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-g...
my latest for @liberalcurrents.com
www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-g...
We Need to Get Off The Defensive About Immigration
Free movement is a fantastic thing, and we should say it.
www.liberalcurrents.com
January 7, 2026 at 11:15 AM
immigration is a great thing, we need to say that - & take the fight to the nativists
my latest for @liberalcurrents.com
www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-g...
my latest for @liberalcurrents.com
www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-g...
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Probably the most important thing I wrote for them this year was my elaborate response to the godawful anti-trans UK Supreme Court ruling, where I took on the larger, poisonous enterprise of so-called "sex-based rights" the danger it poses to liberal democracy writ large:
The Potemkin Feminism of "Sex-Based Rights"
"Sex-based rights" are a Potemkin feminism that commit us to a theory of objective sex where there is something special about your very biology that entitles you to special treatment not deserved by o...
www.liberalcurrents.com
January 1, 2026 at 1:07 AM
Probably the most important thing I wrote for them this year was my elaborate response to the godawful anti-trans UK Supreme Court ruling, where I took on the larger, poisonous enterprise of so-called "sex-based rights" the danger it poses to liberal democracy writ large:
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Right, like I’m sure there’s theoretically a way this could happen where everyone’s done their Very Important Jobs to the best of their abilities in the circumstances… but I would like to see a longread with diagrams explaining how
December 18, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Right, like I’m sure there’s theoretically a way this could happen where everyone’s done their Very Important Jobs to the best of their abilities in the circumstances… but I would like to see a longread with diagrams explaining how
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> getting rid of jury trials [Labour]
> deporting anyone found guilty of a crime [Conservative]
> getting rid of ILR [Reform UK]
does uh. no one see the gestalt policy that is being formed here?
> deporting anyone found guilty of a crime [Conservative]
> getting rid of ILR [Reform UK]
does uh. no one see the gestalt policy that is being formed here?
The Conservative party’s policy also includes stripping people of their British citizenship when they are found guilty of a crime ⬇️
All criminals with dual nationality must be deported, say Tories
The Conservative party’s policy also includes stripping people of their British citizenship when they are found guilty of a crime
www.thetimes.com
December 9, 2025 at 2:29 PM
> getting rid of jury trials [Labour]
> deporting anyone found guilty of a crime [Conservative]
> getting rid of ILR [Reform UK]
does uh. no one see the gestalt policy that is being formed here?
> deporting anyone found guilty of a crime [Conservative]
> getting rid of ILR [Reform UK]
does uh. no one see the gestalt policy that is being formed here?
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There's a Crisis of Masculinity in this country and the only way to solve it is to let me act like a cross between a baby and a movie villain
February 15, 2025 at 8:25 PM
There's a Crisis of Masculinity in this country and the only way to solve it is to let me act like a cross between a baby and a movie villain
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Britain is the best country because nowhere else could a show exist with a presenter who had Jeff Epstein's best pal as his best man, a man who resigned over the BBC's Iraq War coverage, a genocide denier cited by a mass murderer, & the dad of a serving govt minister all yucking it up of a Sunday.
December 7, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Britain is the best country because nowhere else could a show exist with a presenter who had Jeff Epstein's best pal as his best man, a man who resigned over the BBC's Iraq War coverage, a genocide denier cited by a mass murderer, & the dad of a serving govt minister all yucking it up of a Sunday.
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Thinking a lot about this moment from literally the first chapter of "1984."
December 2, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Thinking a lot about this moment from literally the first chapter of "1984."
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endless hand-wringing on labour (potentially) breaking a manifesto pledge by raising taxes
but when they abandon a manifesto commitment on workers' rights, the same media *praises* them for it
but when they abandon a manifesto commitment on workers' rights, the same media *praises* them for it
Starmer’s employment rights U-turn is an improvement, but should have been done long ago: @the-independent.com Editorial www.independent.co.uk/voices/edito...
November 29, 2025 at 1:40 PM
endless hand-wringing on labour (potentially) breaking a manifesto pledge by raising taxes
but when they abandon a manifesto commitment on workers' rights, the same media *praises* them for it
but when they abandon a manifesto commitment on workers' rights, the same media *praises* them for it
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it didn't even really provide me with any new information but that one email between epstein and some other random rich elite saying "when will the madness end" about the metoo movement felt like a key unlocking my brain that will explain every unforced institutional capitulation we've seen
November 17, 2025 at 2:28 PM
it didn't even really provide me with any new information but that one email between epstein and some other random rich elite saying "when will the madness end" about the metoo movement felt like a key unlocking my brain that will explain every unforced institutional capitulation we've seen
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I’d underline: these are just members of the public blamelessly going about their working day. This could be you, if these horrible people decided to switch their focus to something else. This could be your wife, your brother, your daughter, if they decided it was in their interest to fuck with you.
Just a regular pipeline now of dubiously funded cranks targeting the NHS to enforce their horrific, hateful politics on the public, by seeking out, targeting and harassing the fuck out people who have quietly been going about their business for years without anyone bothering
Darlington trans medic used female changing room for years
Rose Henderson felt within her rights to use the Darlington hospital facility, a tribunal is told.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 10:51 PM
I’d underline: these are just members of the public blamelessly going about their working day. This could be you, if these horrible people decided to switch their focus to something else. This could be your wife, your brother, your daughter, if they decided it was in their interest to fuck with you.
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A Labour Councillor. Labour First. Luke Akehurst. All the hits.
November 4, 2025 at 12:16 AM
A Labour Councillor. Labour First. Luke Akehurst. All the hits.
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I'm becoming convinced that most emergent problems in the US and other wealthy democracies stem from extreme decadence in the face unlimited plenty and security.
The rich are bored, lawyers play word games all day, the average American has no idea how anything works. We're destroying ourselves.
The rich are bored, lawyers play word games all day, the average American has no idea how anything works. We're destroying ourselves.
October 30, 2025 at 10:49 PM
I'm becoming convinced that most emergent problems in the US and other wealthy democracies stem from extreme decadence in the face unlimited plenty and security.
The rich are bored, lawyers play word games all day, the average American has no idea how anything works. We're destroying ourselves.
The rich are bored, lawyers play word games all day, the average American has no idea how anything works. We're destroying ourselves.
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That the UK is facing some kind of foreign-imposed crisis is the simplest & least challenging way to account for the UK's decade & a half of economic woe. It has to stay nebulous & inarticulate because it has no basis in reality
I might be wishful-thinking right now, but I think it's basically a belief imbibed through cultural osmosis. I don't think I'm wishful-thinking, though, because here's the thing: I find that genuinely far more terrifying than the idea that some people are affirmatively massive racists.
October 30, 2025 at 6:18 PM
That the UK is facing some kind of foreign-imposed crisis is the simplest & least challenging way to account for the UK's decade & a half of economic woe. It has to stay nebulous & inarticulate because it has no basis in reality
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The "any other minority" game is rancid and not worth playing in most cases but I have to say that I would not fancy the job of explaining to a voter in Birmingham why the prime minister came out with a statement in five minutes for Israeli football hooligans but couldn't do the same for this
Worth saying that despite asking for more than 12 hours we’ve had nothing back from Labour on this
A Conservative MP tipped as a future party leader has been condemned for saying large numbers of legally settled families must be deported, in order to ensure the UK is mostly “culturally coherent”.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
October 20, 2025 at 10:01 PM
The "any other minority" game is rancid and not worth playing in most cases but I have to say that I would not fancy the job of explaining to a voter in Birmingham why the prime minister came out with a statement in five minutes for Israeli football hooligans but couldn't do the same for this
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went to check in on this freak out of curiosity and, far from being a random, she's followed by lots of MPs current and former, journalists, think tankers, etc - once again! I feel like I'm losing my entire mind!
The British Right are just in total freefall into savagery at this point
October 18, 2025 at 9:52 AM
went to check in on this freak out of curiosity and, far from being a random, she's followed by lots of MPs current and former, journalists, think tankers, etc - once again! I feel like I'm losing my entire mind!
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it has this PKD/David Cronenberg feel to it, the combination of the surreal and the utterly gross
October 5, 2025 at 7:55 PM
it has this PKD/David Cronenberg feel to it, the combination of the surreal and the utterly gross
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tbt the time a drunk was trying to insult one of the bouncers on the high street and got the devastating response "oh look, someone who doesn't matter has said something that isn't true". I often think about this when not replying to tweets
October 2, 2025 at 12:20 AM
tbt the time a drunk was trying to insult one of the bouncers on the high street and got the devastating response "oh look, someone who doesn't matter has said something that isn't true". I often think about this when not replying to tweets
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Sack him. I'm sure he's a nice bloke but he could be a nice bloke as an audit manager at NatWest and do the politics as a hobby. The senior political correspondent of the national broadcaster ought to be doing a better job than this
September 7, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Sack him. I'm sure he's a nice bloke but he could be a nice bloke as an audit manager at NatWest and do the politics as a hobby. The senior political correspondent of the national broadcaster ought to be doing a better job than this
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Labour, Tories and Reform are talking about trying to shrink the UK’s working age population by curtailing immigration. Here’s an excellent summary of why this approach is catastrophic even solely on economic grounds. www.bearlypolitics.co.uk/p/nans-not-b...
Nan’s Not Bankrupting Britain (But Politicians Might Be)
Pensions, productivity, and the myth of the migrant “drain.”
www.bearlypolitics.co.uk
September 7, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Labour, Tories and Reform are talking about trying to shrink the UK’s working age population by curtailing immigration. Here’s an excellent summary of why this approach is catastrophic even solely on economic grounds. www.bearlypolitics.co.uk/p/nans-not-b...
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the entire UK media, with a couple of exceptions, seems to have decided that the people *literally calling for refugees to be burnt out* are the good guys. it is shockingly evil.
what the fuck is this headline from the BBC, I feel like I'm losing my mind www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Lucy Connolly says she was political prisoner over Southport post
She gives her first newspaper interview after being released from prison.
www.bbc.co.uk
August 23, 2025 at 2:26 PM
the entire UK media, with a couple of exceptions, seems to have decided that the people *literally calling for refugees to be burnt out* are the good guys. it is shockingly evil.
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A key feature of the Brit TERF Movement is the belief in the coming of "The Day of Apologies" where everyone reveals they were just pretending to support trans people & all those who ostracised them admit they were right all along, & when confronted with the fact that day is not coming, they break.
Graham Linehan blames JK Rowling for his toxic reputation.
August 15, 2025 at 2:39 PM
A key feature of the Brit TERF Movement is the belief in the coming of "The Day of Apologies" where everyone reveals they were just pretending to support trans people & all those who ostracised them admit they were right all along, & when confronted with the fact that day is not coming, they break.
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Ai Weiwei was invited to contribute short reflections on “What I would have liked to know about Germany earlier" for an upcoming issue of Zeit Magazin. His submission was first shortened and edited, then immediately cancelled after a review by the Executive Editor. Ai shared his reflections anyway:
August 2, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Ai Weiwei was invited to contribute short reflections on “What I would have liked to know about Germany earlier" for an upcoming issue of Zeit Magazin. His submission was first shortened and edited, then immediately cancelled after a review by the Executive Editor. Ai shared his reflections anyway:
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Any time I seem to get people’s attentions I am going to hammer the point home: the people in charge are both ideologically captured and exhausted, they agree with the fascists in practical terms, but they want someone with a nasty face to pull the lever to salvage their consciences.
March 19, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Any time I seem to get people’s attentions I am going to hammer the point home: the people in charge are both ideologically captured and exhausted, they agree with the fascists in practical terms, but they want someone with a nasty face to pull the lever to salvage their consciences.
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In this new article, I compare the Battle for Mosul and the Genocide of Gaza, and conclude that ultimately the conditions for military victory do not exist for Israel as their actions create permanent resistance.
In short - Iraq is a legitimate state. Yasser Abu Shabab is not.
In short - Iraq is a legitimate state. Yasser Abu Shabab is not.
The Battle for Mosul and the Genocide of Gaza: A Comparison
One is war, one is genocide
open.substack.com
July 23, 2025 at 7:24 PM
In this new article, I compare the Battle for Mosul and the Genocide of Gaza, and conclude that ultimately the conditions for military victory do not exist for Israel as their actions create permanent resistance.
In short - Iraq is a legitimate state. Yasser Abu Shabab is not.
In short - Iraq is a legitimate state. Yasser Abu Shabab is not.