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There seems to be lots of threads about US right wing pundits but a cursory search, and searchs for "richard littlejohn" and "melanie phillips" don't bring up much of interest, so erm who are the big players? Littlejohn, Phillips, Simon Heffer? Why don't they have as big "voices" as their American counterparts? How do they differ? Do we haves over here a LIBERAL ELITE keeping them down?

erm search / destroy if you want...

― acrobat, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 12:48 (seventeen years ago) link

And then there's Peter Hitchens

― Tom D., Tuesday, 24 April 2007 12:52 (seventeen years ago) link

People forget Clarkson, the man is probably by a fair distance Britain's most "powerful" journalist (and he came up through journo college and the local newspapers like you're meant to as well).

― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 12:52 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm sure The Lex will be along to defend Phillips in a bit.

― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 12:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Why? Does she like Paris Hilton too?

― Tom D., Tuesday, 24 April 2007 12:53 (seventeen years ago) link

From a hack standpoint, watching Littlejohn try and alter his rhetoric since moving from The Sun to the Mail has been pretty fascinating. He doesn't fit in at the mail, it's like watching some scally squeezed into a Matalan suit for a court appearance. He does his best work as the White Van Man spokesperson, not for people who suffer heart attacks every time the house price market changes slightly. More builder's tea than Whittards.

― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 12:54 (seventeen years ago) link

what does Garry Bushell do now he's apparently no longer a TV critic?

Why don't they have as big "voices" as their American counterparts?

they literally have less reach? not as big a field to operate in? the media is 'bigger' in the US?

― blueski, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 12:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Simon Heffer is too much of a hilarious cartoon villain to be properly annoying

― Michael Philip Philip Philip philip Annoyman, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 12:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Anyway, could yr Bill O'Reillies or yr Anne Coulters drop gems like this?

Let's get the caveat out of the way from the off. The five women murdered in Ipswich were tragic, lost souls who met a grisly end. I sincerely hope whoever killed them is caught, charged and convicted.

No one with a shred of humanity would wish upon them their ghastly lives and horrible deaths. But Mother Teresa, they weren't.

And I know this might sound frightfully callous in the current hysterical, emotional climate, but we're not all guilty.

We do not share in the responsibility for either their grubby little existences or their murders. Society isn't to blame.

It might not be fashionable, or even acceptable in some quarters, to say so, but in their chosen field of "work'=", death by strangulation is an occupational hazard.

That doesn't make it justifiable homicide, but in the scheme of things the deaths of these five women is no great loss.

They weren't going to discover a cure for cancer or embark on missionary work in Darfur. The only kind of missionary position they undertook was in the back seat of a car.

Of course their friends and families are grieving. That's what friends and families do. But they should also be asking themselves if there was anything they could have done to prevent what happened.

If you discovered your daughter had gone on the game to feed her heroin habit, wouldn't you move heaven and earth to get her off it?

Frankly, I'm tired of the lame excuses about how they all fell victim to ruthless pimps who plied them with drugs. These women were on the streets because they wanted to be.

We are all capable of free will. At any time, one or all of them could have sought help from the police, or the church, or a charity, or a government agency specifically established to deal with heroin addicts. They chose not to.

The tortuous twistings of the sisterhood over the past week have been a joy to behold. The 30-yearold Spare Rib T-shirts have been brought out of mothballs and we've been treated to the All Men Are Bastards/Rapists/Murderers mantra from assorted Glendas who ought to be old enough to know better.

We've heard the well-rehearsed arguments for legalised and regulated prostitution, as if we were living under the Taliban. The fact is, we've already got de facto legal brothels on every High Street.

They're call saunas or massage parlours.

As I remarked when the Labour MP Joe Ashton was once caught in a Siamese "sauna" in Northampton, he must have been the only man in Britain ever to go to a massage parlour for a massage. It doesn't get much more glamorous than that.

These five women were on the streets because even the filthiest, most disreputable back-alley "sauna" above a kebab shop wouldn't give them house room.

The men who used them were either too mean to fork out whatever a massage parlour charges, or simply weren't fussy. Some men are actually turned on by disgusting, drug-addled street whores. Where there's demand, there'll always be supply.

This wasn't a case of women going on the game to put bread on the table, or to look after their "babies". That's what the welfare state is for. They did it for drugs.

The gormless Guardianistas simply refuse to confront this blindingly obvious reality. They would rather deify celebrity druggies such as Kate Moss and Will Self than face the truth that hard drugs wreck lives.

What I find most objectionable about all this is the attempt to make us all feel responsible for the murders. There is a nasty whiff of Lady Di about the enforced mood of mourning, with even the Old Bill coming across like hand-wringing archbishops.

At Ipswich Town's home game on Saturday, there was a minute's silence. We were supposed to believe that this was a true reflection of the community's sympathy.

I don't buy it. Most people went along with it in the spirit of emotional correctness and through fear of getting their heads kicked in if they didn't.

There was only one thing missing, but don't bet against it.

When Blair gets back from saving the Middle East, don't be surprised if he turns up at the funeral of one of these unfortunate women to deliver a lip-trembling, tear-stained eulogy: "She was the People's Prostitute".

― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 12:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Maybe difference between US "what the government is doing is right but it is being hampered by imaginary lefty conspiracy" vs UK's more marginalised "everything everyone does is wrong and gives you cancer, whatever happened to the good old days wahhh"

― Michael Philip Philip Philip philip Annoyman, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 12:59 (seventeen years ago) link

old people: who did the mail / sun tilt against during the thatcher years? the oppositon?

― acrobat, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 13:01 (seventeen years ago) link

The unions

― Tom D., Tuesday, 24 April 2007 13:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Looney Left, Militant up in Liverpool, Red Ken down in London. "THEY'RE BANNING OUR KIDS FROM SINGING "BAA BAA BLACK SHEEP"" political correctness gone mad stuff.

― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 13:02 (seventeen years ago) link

And, yeah, Scargill obviously.

― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 13:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Ginger lefties

― onimo, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 13:03 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.soschildrensvillages.org.uk/imgs/content/mick-hucknall.jpg

― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 13:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Argies

― Tom D., Tuesday, 24 April 2007 13:04 (seventeen years ago) link

jon gaunt

― djmartian, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 13:07 (seventeen years ago) link

And blacks.

― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 13:08 (seventeen years ago) link

Rightwing pundits don't have quite the sway in the UK they have in the U.S. because the whole political compass is skewed a little more to the left in Britain. The UK doesn't have that gigantic Jesus-and-gun-loving constituency that exists in the U.S.

― underpants of the gods, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 13:09 (seventeen years ago) link

because the whole political compass is skewed a little more to the left in Britain

What?

― Tom D., Tuesday, 24 April 2007 13:12 (seventeen years ago) link

You heard me.

― underpants of the gods, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 13:13 (seventeen years ago) link

The whole political compass = right of centre main parties + "extremist crackpots"

― onimo, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 13:13 (seventeen years ago) link

"Little" being the operative word

― Tom D., Tuesday, 24 April 2007 13:14 (seventeen years ago) link

skewed towards the US left, i.e. the right by any 20th century standard.

― Ed, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 13:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Talking of crackpots, get a read of the Scottish Christian Party manifesto:

9. Prisons
The Scottish Christian Party believes that the much needed extra prison
capacity should be purchased from developing countries for the purpose
of catering for Scotland’s medium Security Prisons. This should take the
form of building state of the art prison facilities in developing countries
that wish to host Scottish Prisons.
Advantages would include:
1. Less overcrowded prisons, cheaper costs and greater efficiency
2. More resources at home to look after our worst offenders properly
3. More economic trade instead of aid handouts to developing
countries
4. Raising prison standards in developing countries by example and
the provision of expertise.

― onimo, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 13:17 (seventeen years ago) link

They say this is no different to setting up call centres abroad.

― onimo, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 13:17 (seventeen years ago) link

'by any 20th century standard'

what now?

― That one guy that quit, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 13:18 (seventeen years ago) link

do they have less sway cos the most emotive right / left battles have been "won"? ie the unions, the acceptability of prejudice? i think they are "learning" from the american's clarkson's whole schtick is provication isn't it, look how angry i can make these daft eco-nuts!

― acrobat, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 13:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Between 1980 and the present the whole political spectrum in the western world has been drifting rightwards back into liberalism (with certain conservative tendencies)

― Ed, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 13:20 (seventeen years ago) link

british journalism is more frivolous and clubbable than US journalism. all UK hacks know each other. this probably isn't so much the case in the states.

yes ed i know. but the idea that liberalism is the worst the 20th century right has to offer is batshit insane. as is the idea that welfare capitalism was some kind of 'left'. even without factoring in the fact that at the start of the century liberalism was kind of... left-wing.

― That one guy that quit, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 13:24 (seventeen years ago) link

outsourcing prisons to eastern european countries in the EC - who will be the first New Labour or Tories?

― djmartian, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 13:26 (seventeen years ago) link

Send 'em all to Botany Bay.

I think for historical reasons the U.S. has this strong libertarian streak (ie right to bear arms etc.) coupled with a strong religious/puritan streak. Put the two together and they coelesce into a very strong, very dynamic right-wing culture that simply doesn't exist in the UK. And that's why rightwing pundits don't have so much sway. I mean David Cameron would be quite a bit to the left of most Democrat candidates.

― underpants of the gods, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 13:27 (seventeen years ago) link

I mean David Cameron would be quite a bit to the left of most Democrat candidates.

Not where it matters he isn't

― Tom D., Tuesday, 24 April 2007 13:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Rightwing pundits have an absolute fuckload of sway, party politics is an irrelevence here. Ask White Van Man what he thinks about asylum seekers.

― Matt DC, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 13:29 (seventeen years ago) link

I would say that liberalism was progressive not left- wing per say. And whether or not you think 'welfare capitalism' is of the left or not, the centre is to the right of even that now.

― Ed, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 13:30 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost to Tom D.

Where it matters? Well for a start I'm guessing Cameron's not going to dismantle the NHS in any fundamental way. Can you imagine a serious Democrat candidate proposing universal, free-at-the-point-of-service healthcare?

― underpants of the gods, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 13:32 (seventeen years ago) link

british reactionary right is xenophobic and defensive rather than on constant attack like the americans?

― acrobat, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 13:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Where it matters? Well for a start I'm guessing Cameron's not going to dismantle the NHS in any fundamental way. Can you imagine a serious Democrat candidate proposing universal, free-at-the-point-of-service healthcare?

We'll see how good that guess is when he wins the next election. Cameron isn't proposing universal, free-at-the-point-of-service healthcare either, we've already got it. Cameron is only "radical" when it comes to wearing a wind turbine on your head or cycling backwards on a bicycle made entirely of radishes

― Tom D., Tuesday, 24 April 2007 13:35 (seventeen years ago) link

You sure you're not mixing up David Cameron with John Otway?

― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 13:38 (seventeen years ago) link

And Wild Willie Whitelaw?

― Tom D., Tuesday, 24 April 2007 13:38 (seventeen years ago) link

upthread are you dudes talking economic or social liberalism? or both?

― acrobat, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 13:41 (seventeen years ago) link

both

― Ed, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 13:42 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost

Sure, Cameron didn't come up with free healthcare! But the political climate is such that he'd have a hard time getting rid of it. Which underlines my point about the political background being skewed more leftwards in the UK, despite years of Thatcher/Blair.

― underpants of the gods, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 13:43 (seventeen years ago) link

"Cameron isn't proposing universal, free-at-the-point-of-service healthcare either, we've already got it."

well except for things involving teeth or eyes, ie the only two things i ever go in for...

― That one guy that quit, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 13:44 (seventeen years ago) link

just going to say

― Alan, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 13:45 (seventeen years ago) link

We'll see how hard a time he has getting rid of it, it'll be less hard than you think once he persuades the middle classes it's in their interest (xxpost)

― Tom D., Tuesday, 24 April 2007 13:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Well, I think if it were politically possible to get rid of the NHS, it would have already been done. Anyway, doesn't Cameron have a disabled kid or something. He probably uses the NHS more than the average Tory.

― underpants of the gods, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 13:49 (seventeen years ago) link

They are getting rid of it already, piece by piece

― Tom D., Tuesday, 24 April 2007 13:49 (seventeen years ago) link

um guys the nhs is already on the way out...

xpost!

― That one guy that quit, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 13:50 (seventeen years ago) link

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I moved here in 2009 and the number of visibly homeless people has skyrocketed since 2010.

― Roman Anthony gets on his horse (gyac), Tuesday, 11 June 2024 10:41 (eight months ago) link

There are usually at least five and sometimes more than 10 homeless people on my walk from my front door to, say, Holborn tube.

― guillotine vogue (suzy), Tuesday, 11 June 2024 11:43 (eight months ago) link

it was bad in the mid 90's when I lived in Woolwich. I always characterised it as a London thing, like you'd never see the same level of homelessness in Manchester or Leeds back then. Now everywhere is like London. It's so easy to become homeless these days and it's not really a complex issue: Universal Credit is a benefits system that was conceived of and designed by evil cunts.

― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Tuesday, 11 June 2024 11:46 (eight months ago) link

London has been a dump for years, in fact for the entire time I've lived here, but the levels of homelessness has gone through the roof. However, it's exactly the same in Glasgow which has probably never looked worse and more rundown.

― Poets Win Prizes (Tom D.), Tuesday, 11 June 2024 11:52 (eight months ago) link

Lots of rough sleeping in central London in the 80s, 90s - remembering travelling to and from the suburbs into Charing Cross and seeing lots of rough sleepers under the station arches, long since cleaned up and cleared out.

― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 11 June 2024 11:57 (eight months ago) link

Yeah my timelines are shot but I'm sure went way down in the noughties and then shot up again sometime after 2010 - really noticeable by 2015 at the latest.

― woof, Tuesday, 11 June 2024 12:08 (eight months ago) link

Strangely occurring in tandem with Tory administrations then

― prog's nearly man (Matt #2), Tuesday, 11 June 2024 12:10 (eight months ago) link

Who'd have thought it?

― Poets Win Prizes (Tom D.), Tuesday, 11 June 2024 12:20 (eight months ago) link

"We tried absolutely nothing to beat fascism. Lets elect them, then they will only beat themselves."

The last best hope against populism is to expose it to government https://t.co/DylV2rLRhV
— Financial Times (@FT) June 11, 2024

― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 11 June 2024 13:40 (eight months ago) link

Genius.

― ILX: a violent left-wing mob who hate our country (Tom D.), Tuesday, 11 June 2024 13:49 (eight months ago) link

still calling fascism "populism" so they can continue with their horseshoe bollocks, fuck the lot of them.

― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 11 June 2024 13:50 (eight months ago) link

I frequently Deliveroo diet cokes and mini magnums to my home when the Tesco is a 30 second walk away https://t.co/OHvYBIIH9y
— Noa Hoffman (@hoffman_noa) June 12, 2024

― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 12 June 2024 15:11 (eight months ago) link

Um I think he's talking to *wealth creators*

― nashwan, Wednesday, 12 June 2024 15:39 (eight months ago) link

one month passes...

BBC presenter calls on Biden to have Trump ‘murdered’ https://t.co/Kq4VfQoWxC pic.twitter.com/PzMdNNTdq2
— New York Post (@nypost) July 2, 2024

― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 14 July 2024 08:07 (seven months ago) link

this has been great, his timeline this morning is all MAGA chuds calling for the destruction of the BBC

― you'll find this funny, children (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 14 July 2024 08:16 (seven months ago) link

Would be such a terrible shame if the BBC had to fire him. Maybe Matthew Parris too, just to be on the safe side?

― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 14 July 2024 08:46 (seven months ago) link

funny that it's a murdoch drive-by, there's just no gratitude

― mark s, Sunday, 14 July 2024 08:49 (seven months ago) link

Cry more.

This is a lie. And you are endangering me by repeating it
— David Aaronovitch (@DAaronovitch) July 14, 2024

― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 14 July 2024 11:57 (seven months ago) link

heartbreaking to see somebody brought low by hubris, locked in regret and reflection of the ways his own actions could have led to this point, bitterly lamenting his own past transgressions but determined to move forward as a new man

― you'll find this funny, children (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 14 July 2024 12:05 (seven months ago) link

Murdoch must condemn

― glumdalclitch, Sunday, 14 July 2024 14:03 (seven months ago) link

"This is a lie, I should know because I said it!"

― Mark G, Sunday, 14 July 2024 15:42 (seven months ago) link

Peter Mandelson was right when he warned the Greens about embracing the Corbynite stop the war fanatics who Starmer’s Labour has kicked out https://t.co/s1kYc8H0yg
— Tim Shipman (@ShippersUnbound) July 22, 2024

Oh do grow up. The Israeli response was exactly what Hamas wanted. Kids have died in every war there has ever been. It’s just that some people apparently need TikTok before they can imagine the horrors of war
— Tim Shipman (@ShippersUnbound) July 22, 2024

I don’t wish on them any of it. But as a matter of policy we need to support a democratic state defending itself against lunatics. You side with the suicide bombers, rapists and butcherers of Oct 7 if you prefer
— Tim Shipman (@ShippersUnbound) July 22, 2024

I find these kinds of sensibly-couched, extremist-centrist statements, knowing they are shared by the vast majority in the political and media classes, more chilling that the cartoonish equivalents by Farage, Trump et al. And this guy is considered a "moderate", and his book read by many.
These povs are absolutely the media mainstream, and even questioning the premise is beyond the pale. When we had a huge political movement that just a few years ago supported Palestinian statehood on day 1 of a new administration, I'm not sure how this has happened, except with massive injections of denial, la-la-la i'm not listening fingers in ears type rejection.

― glumdalclitch, Monday, 22 July 2024 14:53 (six months ago) link

one month passes...

honestly i'm impressed how Dunt constantly finds ways to take it to another level

I know you all know this, but this guy really is a simpleton. pic.twitter.com/SvufmUmqtt
— Elvis Buñuelo (@Mr_Considerate) September 5, 2024

― Yuwen Hu's army (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 5 September 2024 16:57 (five months ago) link

fucking moron

people like him were calling it a coup when the tories prorogued parliament. Is defying an election result good for democracy? Don't ask a liberal.

― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Thursday, 5 September 2024 18:26 (five months ago) link

Seeing that this guy preferred a Ken Clarke-led "unity government" over a Corbyn-led Labour government I can't say that this is anything other than fully in character. Not that he isn't a simpleton, but I think his recent born-yesterday astonished reactions to Labour authoritarianism over smoking and to a lesser extent Reeves' austerity measures demonstrate this more fully. This is just reflexive worship of a Brexit hero from Mr Oh Brexit! What Now??

― glumdalclitch, Thursday, 5 September 2024 19:09 (five months ago) link

And yet I still see display stands full of his books at Waterstones

― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 5 September 2024 19:28 (five months ago) link

oh he's got a constituency. that's the problem.

― Yuwen Hu's army (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 5 September 2024 19:47 (five months ago) link

Top calibre voter against legalizing homosexuality.

― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 5 September 2024 20:05 (five months ago) link

Didn't know anything about Barnier tbh I certainly didn't know he was an old school Gaullist arsehole.

― Defund Phil Collins (Tom D.), Thursday, 5 September 2024 20:17 (five months ago) link

What a guy to cheer on.

Macron has made a deal with the devil. pic.twitter.com/W3ToAQqv4i
— David Adler (@davidrkadler) September 6, 2024

― xyzzzz__, Friday, 6 September 2024 10:35 (five months ago) link

Not even a hint of self-awareness. No trace of intellectual introspection. Nothing.
— Ian Dunt (@IanDunt) September 6, 2024

― glumdalclitch, Friday, 6 September 2024 15:26 (five months ago) link

https://i.ibb.co/Jz2VPWS/images-2.jpg

― glumdalclitch, Friday, 6 September 2024 15:30 (five months ago) link

Big Dunty writing his own obituary

― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Friday, 6 September 2024 15:43 (five months ago) link

I have to say, I never thought I'd see the day Russell Brand closed out an event hosted by Tucker Carlson, praying to Jesus Christ on his knees.

The. Greatest. Awakening. Of All Time.#WWG1WGA pic.twitter.com/MJYOJpT1rp
— SGAnon (@TheQNewsPatriot) September 6, 2024

― groovypanda, Saturday, 7 September 2024 15:32 (five months ago) link

This is awesome. Andrew Neil crying about capitalism.

My Farewell to The Spectator
1/2

It is with great sadness that I write to tell you I am resigning as Chairman of The Spectator, with immediate effect. I made it clear many months ago that I would step down when a new owner took over. That time has now come.

It has been my…
— Andrew Neil (@afneil) September 10, 2024

― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 10 September 2024 11:25 (five months ago) link

mumford and dads

― mark s, Tuesday, 10 September 2024 13:13 (five months ago) link

two weeks pass...

Gove announced as Spectator ed.

― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 25 September 2024 15:36 (four months ago) link

Giles Coren on why he set up a sock puppet antisemitic polish plumber twitter account

Because I was getting a barrage of antisemitic abuse and was fed up with it, so I set it up and did it to get a list of the people who liked it, to block and save myself the grimness of looking at their abuse.
— Giles Coren (@gilescoren) September 25, 2024

― John Backflip (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 27 September 2024 20:26 (four months ago) link

genius strategy, mass blocking posters who are the mostly unlikely ones to bother reading anything you post!

― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Friday, 27 September 2024 21:04 (four months ago) link

three months pass...

Paul Mason is now an Associate Fellow at the Council on Geostrategy, a “think-tank” funded by UK Ministry of Defence, Royal Navy, Modi’s India + pretty much every major arms dealer in West: BAE, Raytheon, Leonardo, Northrup Grumman, Lockheed Martin et al.

Perfect rest home. pic.twitter.com/unMhn4MuY7
— Matt Kennard (@kennardmatt) January 6, 2025

― xyzzzz__, Friday, 10 January 2025 11:03 (one month ago) link

Such a shame he never got to run against Corbyn, what a night that would have been!

― Please play Lou Reed's irritating guitar sounds (Tom D.), Friday, 10 January 2025 11:12 (one month ago) link

Mason is now like Jonathan Pryce at the end of Brazil, the outside world cannot reach his happy bubble

― Zurich is Starmed (Noodle Vague), Friday, 10 January 2025 12:50 (one month ago) link

"stena come to the council on geostrategy — the revolution is happening"

― mark s, Friday, 10 January 2025 12:55 (one month ago) link

every time a military drone melts someone's head off by dropping a load of molten thermite on them, their head possibly isn't understanding this from a Marxian viewpoint.

― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Friday, 10 January 2025 14:29 (one month ago) link

one month passes...

Not really a surprise but Danny Rampling hanging out with some very dubious company these days…
https://ra.co/news/82164

― Clock DVLA (NickB), Wednesday, 19 February 2025 17:41 (two days ago) link

not shocked by that but did not realise that Matthew Glamorre was involved in this, that's really disappointing.

― Inside The Wasp Factory with Gregg Wallace (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 19 February 2025 18:04 (two days ago) link

MG is a Vichy gay now.

― guillotine vogue (suzy), Wednesday, 19 February 2025 22:33 (two days ago) link

I had no idea, never met him irl but Smashing and Minty were both a big deal for me.

― Inside The Wasp Factory with Gregg Wallace (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 19 February 2025 23:07 (two days ago) link

Put it this way: he outed himself as a friend of Bannon and was the officiant at C Yarvin’s wedding. Before the election I had 77 mutuals w:him on FB and people are slowly unfriending him. It’s 62 mutuals now. 🙃

― guillotine vogue (suzy), Wednesday, 19 February 2025 23:26 (two days ago) link

Yeah, Rampling's socials have just been wall to wall conspiracy theories for a number of years now xps

― groovypanda, Friday, 21 February 2025 11:38 (six hours ago) link

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