spiked - the independent online phenomenon

How about leeches inserted into your urethra?

Spiked is a whole website devoted to trolling and challops, it's also a classic case of former lefties being even more swivel-eyed than dyed-in-the-wool Tories.

that's called Paul Johnson Syndrome iirc but tbh i can't describe public school kids as "former lefties" with a straight face

saw a really awesome looking Paul Johnson history book in the charity shop last week but i've got his "History of England" and one book of delightfully savage mentalism is enough tbh

Isn't Frank Furedi the guiding light for these clowns? Formerly a Marxist sociologist. But yeah, point taken in general.

The fashionable idea that an individual’s class background determines his future and his fortunes is not nearly as radical as it seems.

politics is a parlour game to see who can reconfigure the same few century-old talking points to appear most 'radical', maybe by fusing a shockingly progressive attitude towards sunday opening hours to traditional values on land ownership in order to create a new radical feudalism

in a way this shit pre-dates American neo-cons, Johnson is atavistic here and nobody cd seriously say Julie Burchill was ever a leftist but the Mail in the 80s was full of ex-Trots bringing the monetarism iirc

the idea is to carry forward the sense of being 'radical' from their distant trot youth by employing a savagely debilitated idea of challops and trolling ie just random contrarianism and 'makes u think' crap in order to radically unseat both left and right! who are both wrong!

Frank Turnerism?

oh shit hush my mouth

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Turnerism-The-Un-Official-Religion-of-Frank-Turner/256766917681567

oh god he is probably a spiked fellow traveller

no question

I suspect Mumford & Sons are onboard too

radical new idea -- why should we be forced to pay for roads we don't use? all roads to be funded by holistic, radically nonpublic synergistic co-operatives, thereby profiting from charges paid by school buses, police cars and other government vehicles who want to use them

i saw Alexei Sayle do some actual funny shit about private road-building one time

alexei sayle being funny would be quite a radical development, even if his heart's in the right place

he used to do some legit funny shit i think but preaching to the choir is some soul-knackering boredom

mark thomas reprazent

Frank Turner – Love Ire & Song Lyrics

Well a teacher of mine once told me
That life was just a list of disappoints and defeats
And you could only do your best,
And I said "That's a fucking cop-out,
you're just washed up and your tired,
and when I get to your age I won't be such a coward"

.....

Let's be 1905 but not 1917,
Let's be heroes, let's be martyrs, let's be radical thinkers
Who never have to test drive the least of their dreams
Let's divide up the world into the damned and safe
And then ride to the valleys like the old life brigade
And straighten our backs and we won't be afraid
And they'll celebrate our deaths with a national parade

surprised dudes at Eton were telling him that tbh

1905 was more radical than 1917, because it radically envisaged the idea of a constitutional monarchy, whereas executing the cunts and establishing the dictatorship of the proletariat was a lazy milquetoast cop-out

pretty sure Joe Stalin was into the dividing up the world into the damned and the safe thing

lol we had a history teacher at school who used to call him joe in a way that probably wasn't but definitely sounded affectionate

much as i love Robert Wyatt i'm always wary of the fact that he'd probly kick the shit out of me for eating pigs and not digging on crazy Joe

i mean kick the shit out of me with his chair obv

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start "Things Brendan O'Neill Doesn't Do" poll y/n?

ehh it's 2pm on friday might as well

yeah but i think i'm finishing in the next 15 mins or so i cd go home and play Oblivion instead or something

don't feel whimsical enough right now

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http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/mobileweb/brendan-oneill/angela-jolie-mastectomy_b_3273003.html

From Jade Goody having her cancer diagnosed on Indian TV to Kerry Katona doing interviews about her bipolar disorder to Stephen Fry writing about his depression... in both the tabloid and high-brow sections of the celebrity world, talking about being sick is not only increasingly acceptable - it's expected.

obviously been pished off his tits for the last 5 years

glad to see he's setting a personal example of how to lead a brave, rebellious life by writing contrarian bullshit on the internet

Just went on Spiked for the first time in many years. It's almost sweet the way the layout has made no concession to the last 5-10 years of progress in web design. It rigidly and steadfastly takes up the left-hand 45% of my modest monitor. Is it symbolically clinging to the left? who knows!

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why do cunts end up like this

been on the pedro ximenez and want answers

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hi sir

is it that they're taught conflicting disciplines of empathy to all and crude managementkult self-actualisation in their formative years and can only find resolution through picking fights with strawman nannystaters against whom they seem (to themselves) bastions of free thought and levity

because that, as they say, is having your cake and fucking it too

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it's worth rehosting just for that implacable sardonic glowering into the abyss

resembles a cross between matt dc and a (very pleasant) schoolmate of mine

actually it's almost exactly how I pictured the protagonist of Remainder

this week i was mindful of reposting just that byline photo itt but then i forgot but then i saw he had been ragging on jolie the pretentious, cancerous hypocritical enemy of reason so he got his revive

christ the clamour to fill hitchens' void is nauseating

Hitchens had more principle than any of these fuckers will have in their entire lives

well obviously. they're taking the bits that suit them

That 'decriminalise rape now imo' barrister woman is on of this lot.

who is that?

thought the one on the right said "Fenian Chungus" for a minute

LOL Brendan's new nickname.

it's Gaelic for mini-Brendan!

"you know waht they call Brendan O'Neill in Paris?" "Le Massive Main"

📢📢 WORLD CUP OF BRENDANS, ROUND TWO 📢📢 pic.twitter.com/h5Lq1xrGAC

— 🎶 you would cry too if it happened to you 🎶 (@RavenholmCLP) June 19, 2020

You know, I have to say I think it* has really gone too far now.


*the featureless fleshy gap between his hairline and his eyebrows

clearing out ancient document boxes of misc tat i unearthed a promotional card for EASYNET, which was the service provider associated with CYBERIA, which was the pioneering internet cafe associated with LIVING MARXISM and the RCP in the mid-90s lol

i never entered cyberia, nor did i sign up for easynet, but i did know a few members of the RCP in those years -- digital capability and the freedom to offend were their open sesames, as i think i've mentioned elsewhere. they weren't the worst ppl i worked with -- they were often actually p good at IT stuff -- but even then they were kind of exhausting. i may even have a copy of the issue of LM they got sued for, which shd have bankrupted them and stopped them but somehow didn't. there was a LOT of vc capital washing around them at that time (tho not for their "provocative" opinions on the war in yugoslavia)

You knew it was coming, but nevertheless here it is. pic.twitter.com/XES0buaywe

— Elvis Buñuelo (@Mr_Considerate) December 6, 2020

Of course, the anti-working-class left and the NuFootball commentariat (who love the beautiful game but loathe its ugly fans) instantly found the Millwall fans guilty of racism.

Schrödinger's culturally working-class football fans that are middle class enough to be able to afford the season tickets and still working class enough to be legit nazis for the sake of Brendan's arguments.

just shooting bald fish with horribly distended bald heads in a barrel here

Brendan not able to get it into his grotesquely distended head that it's only Millwall fans who have booed taking the knee - though I supposer Brendan might argue they're the only working class football fans left in the UK, if not in the world.

Oops two distendeds there.

booing at West Ham and Colchester as well apparently, although not on the same scale

West Ham. Well there you go.

anyway always fun when bastions of liberality side with an act of political symbolism that's unmistakably far-right

the scare quotes around liberality should be implicit obv

Enjoying the idea that Joe Biden, who is a 100 year old liberal, is "obsessed with genderfluidity" pic.twitter.com/D9rG2OsdY8

— Rob Palk (@robpalkwriter) January 21, 2021

listen here, jack. we're gonna abolish gender. you're a gender critical feminist? come on, man!

Brendan's Irish peasant sensibilities have been shaken by the auld yin.

heaven forbid that there should be divisiveness in US politics

Amusing(?) myself at lunchtime by leafing through today's Daily Mail, thinking, "Jesus Christ, can you believe there are cunts who get handsomely paid for writing this shite?" when I come across a full page opinion piece by former editor of the Revolutionary Communist Party's official newspaper, Mick Hume. The bold Mick, who is holding forth on Partygate, starts his piece by saying, "I'm not concerned with defending Mr. Johnson" and, I think you can guess what's coming, proceeds to spend the entire article defending Mr. Johnson. Not quite the entire article because a lot of it is spent lambasting the BBC for criticizing Mr. Johnson as part of their policy of promoting the "woke agenda of Left-liberal urban elites". The main target of his ire being, wait for it, well known Left-liberal wokester, Nick Robinson. As I said, this cunt is getting paid for this shite.

This is really the best version of the mohicaned cunt who shouted at you about SWSS at uni turning up as your bank manager 20 years later

absolutely, though I struggle to see how these kinds of shenanigans are helping to advance the Leninist vanguard

he's advancing the class struggle, but doing it t'other way round against the proletariat. sort of like the Kriss Kross of the revolutionary vanguard. You aren't understanding this correctly from a Living Marxism viewpoint!

that's the worry that keeps me up at night: am I correctly grasping Frank Furedi and friends' Hegelian dialiectics?