"we'll change the things that need changing and that's all we'll change": the paSUKification of post-brexit politics 2021

Mystery man throws first eggs at the new Thatcher statue unveiled today in Grantham pic.twitter.com/js2cwaidw5

— Dee Barnes Designs (@DesignsBarnes) May 15, 2022

Give it some fucking welly, bloke couldn't hit a dead cow with a throw like that

what you really need is a water balloon full of tomato puree and salt - the acid in the tomato puree to break down the outer layer, the salt to start the copper alloy rotting from within.

didn't the last one get decapitated?

perhaps all small deindustrialised shithole towns should have Thatcher statues to vandalise

I heard boos for Prince William yesterday, wasn't sure I was really hearing it.

Then it seemed to continue through the National Anthem.

Then today it's the first 3pp of the Mail on Sunday, with a special explainer on how scousers are Irish and into Militant. Genuinely.

I don't, at this point, have especially strong feelings about the monarchy, but I'm impressed at the thought that many 1000s of Liverpool fans can act so concertedly in this defiant anti-establishment way (if it's all true and not mainly a media fiction).

I didn't notice the booing because it was on the living room tv with the sound turned down and was mainly out in the garden. But was angrily thinking about what a fucking shite tory-fest football is when I saw Prince William. So a very good response by the Liverpool fans. I used to sit down looking as nonchalant as possible whilst Alex made loud stimming noises during the minute's silence for Armistice. Just feeding off the tutting and hatred from the solemn looking gammon crews who wanted to beat me death or exchanging approving glances from other refuseniks was much more fun than watching the game.

Objectively very funny pic.twitter.com/0KGxJvSKbT

— touched by the hand of tonty sopranty (@alexeptable) May 15, 2022

The weekend after the Queen Mother died I was at an Ipswich game when Liverpool were the away team, at the start of the minute’s silence there was a very loud, “viva la revolution” shouted from the away end.

him opening Parliament the other day, droning contemptuously while looking like a guy in Homebase dressed up as Michael Jackson circa HIStory was fucking incredible. I think Elizabeth II might be made eternal monarch, Kim Il Sung style

— Owen Hatherley (@owenhatherley) May 15, 2022

I think Charles's contempt for the public is key to understanding him and also very understandable - how anyone with human feelings be heir to the throne and not have contempt for their future subjects? You can't respect people who bow in scrape in front of you unless you're unusually self-assured, and of course you resent the people who openly resent you. I think his love of Spike Milligan is rooted in this, that it's the misanthropy in Milligan that appeals to him.

an absolute classic tweet by Hatherley. I think Milligan referred to him as bastard once, but purely in the spirit of royal brownnosing and trying to humanise the despicable freak.

https://i.imgur.com/E2HNRG1.jpg

Xpost yes, and Charles, by all accounts, hated it (and him)

I really don't know about that, it was an awards ceremony where Prince Charles said a lot of nice things about Milligan (who I've always heard he was a big fan of) and Milligan called him a "little grovelling bastard"

Reflecting upon his intemperate comment afterwards, Milligan faxed Charles: ‘I suppose a knighthood is out of the question now?’

But he underestimated the Happy Prince, who duly arranged for the Irish citizen (Milligan refused to swear the oath of allegiance necessary to obtain a British passport) to receive a foreigners’ Honorary Knighthood at the age of 82.

Midway through the ceremony Milligan suddenly asked: ‘Do you know there are no dry cleaners in Peru? I thought the statistic would interest you.’

And the Prince chuckled happily.

https://flashbak.com/the-story-of-prince-charles-comedy-from-the-goons-to-nowhere-15455/

just tapping that flickering neon sign that reads ALL COMEDIANS ARE BAD

pic.twitter.com/khGs3DCSJO

— Neville Southall MBE (@NevilleSouthall) May 15, 2022

The Grim Reaper unmasked.

(unhooded)

‘Of course I have thoughts [on the booing], but I think always in this sort of situation it is best to ask the question “Why did it happen”‘, Klopp explained.

a reasonable answer, and the question he speaks of is not one the PM and the pathetic weeping slaphead who presented the cup to Liverpool on Saturday are remotely interested in thinking about.

A cop in every household etc.

Fuck off. https://t.co/hIskxGEcWO

— anti-national (@MediocreDave) May 16, 2022

It's only Tuesday.

In one particularly provocative recommendation, seen by the Guardian, the review claims individuals have been targeted for expressing mainstream rightwing views because the definition of neo-nazism has expanded too widely, while the focus on Islamism has been too narrow.

— Jessica Elgot (@jessicaelgot) May 16, 2022

I know I know but I really loved how in Corbyn's time there was a good, clear, consistent line on things like this. Otherwise Labour scared and tied in knots is the norm.

Why is the Labour leadership acting as if it's scared of its own shadow on this issue? https://t.co/thS0W3HyAH

— James B (@piercepenniless) May 17, 2022

Ashworth was on Andrew Neill’s show and was tying himself in knots trying to disassociate himself from Corbyn, they’re such a mess because of the whip suspension. It doesn’t make them look tough, it’s a huge target on them.

ugh! I saw a bit of that Ashworth clip, the slippery Tory piece of shit couldn't even read a bedtime story to his kid without sounding like a dodgy prevaricating cunt.

"Goldilocks, and the three well they might have been Bears I couldn't be sure exactly..."

Unemployment is low and wages are stagnant. Which can mean ppl working more jobs for less.

BREAKING: Inflation hits 9%.

Prices are rising at their fastest rate in 40 years. The cost of living crisis bites even more deeply.

— Paul Brand (@PaulBrandITV) May 18, 2022

Lol at Truss pretending not to know the identity of the latest Tory MP to be arrested for sexual assault

Your classic industrial relations theory has this going one of two ways:

(a) Sudden, chaotic industrial conflict, driven by non-union sectors and with little union bureaucracy control

(b) General immiseration as real wages nose dive https://t.co/ThTkGg6ttP

— Jack Saundrs ❤🖤 (@jack_saundrs) May 18, 2022

BBC already offering plenty of platforms for economists to suggest the only cure for inflation is for workers to suck it up

Labour Party with its fingers in its ears repeating the Windfall Tax mantra because it can't look beyond Liberal economic theory

meanwhile millions starving or going without fuel, meanwhile new UN report lays out how fucked the global climate is

Get The Tories Out tho, that'll fix it

liz truss answered a question on the today programme this morning about what can be done to help people with their fuel bills by saying the government believed the best way to fight inflation is to have a strong economy with good incentives for small businesses. zero pushback

it was enough to make me miss john humphrys for a second.

they're all morons who understand just enough to enrich themselves and their friends and that's it

Yeah, she was on Good Morning Britain basically saying that the fuel companies with surplus profits should invest *Even More* in power infrastructures.

like, before they get windfall taxed...

Strike action announced for Platinum Jubilee weekend as staff walk out of two key tube stations https://t.co/yFNlXxgJBA

— Sky News (@SkyNews) May 18, 2022

Yes...ha ha ha...Yes!

Really awful.

So here's the news: Uni of Roehampton is planning to make almost half of its academics redundant (226!), then ask them to compete in reapplying for their job (fewer jobs, and at what conditions?). They are closing Anthropology, Philosophy, Classics, Creating Writing, and...1/2

— Lia Betti (@LiaBetti) May 18, 2022

this lot must absolutely piss themselves laughing behind closed doors. They must be in a state of constant amazement about what they get away with https://t.co/SXZQYxVJ6o

— Tom Blackburn (@malaiseforever) May 20, 2022

His review of the Eagleton was really good and detailed though I'm not sure it added anything that new.

Just the thing to cheer me up

.@Dorianlynskey and I are launching a new podcast. It's called Origin Story. And it will tell you everything you need to know about the ideas in modern politics.

— Ian Dunt (@IanDunt) May 20, 2022

have you seen the pissy Tweets also circulating i assume about this?

apparently two of the internet's thinnest skinned melts have approached this shit "with an independent mind", i assume he's referring to the fucking newspaper

looking forward to two white Britdudes explaining the history and meaning of "woke" tho

hopefully they'll do an episode about the political connotations of "bald"

I have seen one person mocking it so posted it here. Just made a cup of tea, now to enjoy the next 100 tweets mocking this.

my (possibly unpopular) line on DL is that his high concepts are often good (the protest songs book, the interpretations-of-1984 book, this*) -- but that he is then categorically the worst person to then tackle them (except for big dunty lol)

*i mean it's a reworking of raymond williams's keywords and more annoyingly still it's an idea i've had knocking around my own head for years (but of course it never left my head because a. i am shit at pitching and b. ppl say no not yes to my good ideas so i never get round to doing anything with them)

then then

a reworking of RW's Keywords:

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/keywords-for-today-9780190636579?cc=gb&lang=en&

https://www.keywords.pitt.edu/about-book.html

also:

https://academic.oup.com/fs/article-abstract/68/2/241/607810

it's a good idea if someone good does it!

feel like i was dimly aware of the mccabe book tho as a non-admirer of his godard book i am not convinced he *is* "someone good" (the couple of times i met when he headed the bfi he was very affable)

I can see how his involvement with that project could raise doubts, but equally relevant to say that it's a group effort with lots of people involved - not sure how much text CMac actually contributed.

https://i.imgur.com/2WeanRI.png