spiked - the independent online phenomenon

Not quite.

Damn I thought I had it

tbh she was thrown when the Sky presenter pointed out that not every woman in the world lives in Zone 1 (some live in Zone 4), paraphrasing somewhat there. Not very impressive all round.

These are all people making up in later life for all the fun they missed out on by not being Young Conservatives tbf

Another day, another 12 year old from Spiked arguing the toss on Sky News, this time about the statue of Cecil Rhodes that some students want removed from some Oxford college.

o man the so-called politically correct brigade are censoring our glorious history which shd totally be celebrated

waging a culture war of words against misanthropy, priggishness, prejudice, luddism, illiberalism and irrationalism

k I reckon supporting Cecil scores as misanthropy, prejudice, Luddism and illiberalism at least

Seems like programme makers have discovered Spiked, so expecting more appearances from these twats.

when oh when will old white imperialists be given the respect they deserve?

found an old Graun piece by intellectual heavyweight Will Hutton of a similar stripe to the Spikeistas equating "not having monuments celebrating dead imperialists" with "re-writing history" which seems a bit of a stretch tbh

"remember when they pulled down that statue of Lenin and then everybody forgot what happened in Russia in 1917?"

maybe there's something to be said for leaving shameful effigies in place as a reminder of the more hateful episodes of our history?

oh wait we still have david cameron so i guess that covers all those bases [/trenchant social commentary]

O'Neill. Daniels. Two men.

man this site has really gone hard on the rape denialism in the past few weeks.

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powerful

Claire Fox, talking about people on the left posts overreacting to Trump's tweets, "... and I'm from the Left". Hard to follow that one.

Seems like programme makers have discovered Spiked, so expecting more appearances from these twats.

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Three in the last 24 hours: Big Bren himself, throwing his support behind the Boris/Gove/JRM coup; specky freedom of speech at all costs 12-year old; "the biggest problem women have today are these middle class feminists" middle class woman.

exterminate the brutes is probably in order at this point

Brendan O'Really? putting on a fine save-a-Trump performance right now, what with the campaign against the President by the liberal mainstream media and Hilary not exactly being squeaky clean either, dontchaknow. Time to forget Hillsborough too btw.

I'd love to see Brendan getting beaten to death by a gang of Scouse football hooligans! But let's not forget he is friendly with some 90's ILM indie counterculture heroes, who are apparently beyond criticism.

Oh who?

The Stereolab connexion.

Need a bit more than that? Brendan's buddies w/ Laetitia?

I doubt it. But they all drink from the same cup. The Furedi Cup.

lol! here we go again!

band with lifelong association with right-wing posh arseholes are completely blameless... again!

if you like their music it doesn't really matter, but apparently taking the piss out of them on message boards is out of control wokeness!

you're not really responding to anyone itt rn

well I am and cross referencing another thread, tbf.

james

no one posting on this thread since the revive said anything in defense of sadier on that other thread

I was responding to LBI's post.

I might have misinterpreted it, but that was what I was responding to.

Lol @ 'Furedi cup'

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-49435041

fuck the bbc and their need for "balance" which means we have to read the opinion of a spiked online/policy exchange moron in this piece

Surprised to see she isn’t one of the many pricks from there appearing on a select committee this year.

Dark laugh at her byline on this piece of shit paired with the box that covers the top half of the page.
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/decolonise-curriculum-movement-re-racialises-knowledge/

[to the tune of Transformers]

Nazis in disguise

These popped up again on the main thread but I'll ask here instead of derailing.

I still don't really understand where these are coming from. I could understand if they were Strasserite/Nationalist but they just seem to occupy the same space as the Spectator. I guess they're sort of a UK equivalent of Rave Dubin / Pim Tool but they aren't organic in any way, and Spiked seems like it kind of is and has a real audience? Identity politics for people who hate identity politics? (but thats kind of centrists, though I guess thats for people who are blind to the fact they have an identity)

Is Nagle one of them yet?

some good background on the Right Wing Pundits thread.

better link.

It makes sense to think of them primarily as an astroturfing exercise / extension of a libertarian think tank, rather than a media outlet with a significant popular following.

I had thoughts last night that I'm too tired to go deep into right now but in brief:

I wonder if the best way to look at them is thru the insane fissiparity of left politics throughout its UK history, where being correct and maintaining the true faith is infinitely more important than building an actual collective force capable of political action. And where that purity seems to mean attacking any thought that deviates from your own.

Plus obviously they're financially supported by libertarian capital and they're all really cosplaying middle class tools, which shouldn't be overlooked.

It makes sense to think of them primarily as an astroturfing exercise / extension of a libertarian think tank, rather than a media outlet with a significant popular following.

Plus obviously they're financially supported by libertarian capital and they're all really cosplaying middle class tools, which shouldn't be overlooked.

which makes them Rave Dubin and Pim Tool but for a UK audience....but they were 'real' at some point, and have something of a 'real' audience, but maybe just a small percentage

I guess actually this makes them sort of a RB Leipzig or Salford City?

some good background on the Right Wing Pundits thread.

― Fizzles,

Oh yeah, I thought I had seen a better link than this one. Its strange that this sphere has such a long history in the UK - which is what makes me think its "real" or at least partially real, and not just think thank funded stuff.

as i say, that's where the micro-factions of UK communism come in