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

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

https://i.imgur.com/0oIrj7d.png

some classic low-budg podcast illustration work right there

zap! pow! politics aren't just for balds anymore!

someone better at the internet than me can make the sausage_flies_into_picture.gif

shave vs keep short; two approaches to baldness. they should get a third guy with a combover for balance.

https://www.artalistic.com/en/media/blog/images/Roy_Lichtenstein_1.jpg

"I lived a few weeks ..before I realised what a tragically bald melt you are"

kickstarter to add the flying sausage to *every* image with giant ben day dots

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0bpyszs

We're actually doing the fucking research. We've been working on this thing for a year. Each episode has had weeks of work poured into it.

the cleverest balds in the room have done their fucking research this time, that is very impressive.

this time, no doubt fans of Remainiacs and Oh God, What Next? will notice a discernible improvement now they are the only podcasters in town that do the fucking research.

DL's superhero name cld be The Spectator

Balder The Brave(s)

the word "city" has become practically meaningless now that Doncaster is one.

And Reading continues not to be one, sob sob apparently.

I'm afraid all the billions of dollars of FDI will be all be flooding into Doncaster and Bangor now, better luck next time.

Colchester also!

"England's oldest recorded town" is no longer a town.

(I seem to remember poster Imago and me discussing the place.)

and Milton Keynes, one of the newer made-up towns with a made-up football club. If it looks and feels like a Town, has a sub 250k population, then it is actually is a Town imo.

all towns are made up when u think abt it

Goole is a long-running practical joke, true

oh I know all Towns are made up, but a newish post-war overspill one like MK is trying to run before it can walk, if there was no history of dark satanic mills and Luddite activity then it isn't a proper town. I'm making the rules here!

Lol Goole actually bid for city status

Local councils and their attendant hangers-on are the worstest

Seriously just make everywhere a city who cares?

Come to think of it, destroy the UK and turn it into 200-odd city states just for fun

A town has been "left behind to decay" after missing out on city status for a second time, a business owner has said...

lol, what a bunch of Gooles

I know this one, a city is when a representative gets murdered

The EU Cities fund is gone now, and the only recent extra government investment was that one-off bribe Towns Fund. Where I live got some, but I haven't seen any evidence of infrastructure or aesthetic improvement. Maybe if they keep voting Tory....