normans are just yr standard invaders that end up sitting atop society earning resentment, eternal mb but not particularly english
― The Cognitive Peasant (ogmor), Tuesday, 9 June 2020 11:29 (three years ago) link
the constitutional reforms of the 1830s-40s plus the institutional of empire in its post-mutiny form took much of the sting out of "norman yoke" rhetoric as a rough guide to the shape of injustice as felt at the time, and it generally fell out of use except among crackpots (me)
― mark s, Tuesday, 9 June 2020 11:29 (three years ago) link
oh lol can somebody trawl back thru the thread and see who had money on DomCum to be gone by now
― rolling keyring (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 9 June 2020 11:29 (three years ago) link
Normans anglicized themselves eventually altho important not to lose sight of the fact that aristocrats are always transnational because not actually human
― rolling keyring (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 9 June 2020 11:30 (three years ago) link
I'm puzzled why Moran posted that. Now unavailable?
― the pinefox, Tuesday, 9 June 2020 11:33 (three years ago) link
Arguably the events of the past week are profoundly useful to the government - coronavirus is not the top story for the first time in months, any upcoming spike can be blamed on protests alone and not government policy, and it's fuel for the next stage of culture war on terms they are comfortable with.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 9 June 2020 11:34 (three years ago) link
the industrial revolution, massive migration and land reform and abolition of tangible ties to the feudal era in general obv make the norman yoke seem a less relevant concern as so many ppl's sense of identity changed, but ofc power tends to look after itself p well and despite a degree of social mobility strangely lots of those v old families that cummings' father in law gets misty eyed thinking about in his crypt seem to have made it through. i've made all the points about land ownership, life expectancy & norman surnames before, you all know the drill
― The Cognitive Peasant (ogmor), Tuesday, 9 June 2020 11:39 (three years ago) link
There was a news report about the actor who played Jar Jar Binks saying he'd be available to come back if wanted and Tim Farron, in his ongoing attempt to ensure that he's remembered as a self-aware tragic loser, rather than just a tragic loser quote-tweeted it with something like 'it's like me saying i'll come back to lead the Lib Dems', but in the broader sense, yes, we are all puzzled by Moran posted that.
― ShariVari, Tuesday, 9 June 2020 11:57 (three years ago) link
Moran and Tim please join Labour we need more like you to provide forensics.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 9 June 2020 12:00 (three years ago) link
the norman yoke often pops up on the dark heart of middle england consumer program You and Yours where callers who thought they wholly owned their house have been diddled by some subtle form of leasehold feudalism.
― calzino, Tuesday, 9 June 2020 12:13 (three years ago) link
channel islands = still full feudalism aiui
― rolling keyring (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 9 June 2020 12:18 (three years ago) link
not that the channel islands belong to the uk anyway
― rolling keyring (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 9 June 2020 12:19 (three years ago) link
isle of man too ofc, the most fucked up place in the world
― The Cognitive Peasant (ogmor), Tuesday, 9 June 2020 12:21 (three years ago) link
I mean, leaseholding in its most annoying sense (where you can't force a fair payment to buy it out) is I think an entirely English phenomenon?
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 9 June 2020 12:24 (three years ago) link
Public flogging is still legal on the Isle of Man, I believe.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 9 June 2020 12:28 (three years ago) link
only if you ask really nicely
― rolling keyring (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 9 June 2020 12:32 (three years ago) link
LADS
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 9 June 2020 12:38 (three years ago) link
a cousin of mine from Dublin who is a bit of headcase once told me he to do a runner from one of the channel islands, i can't remember if it was Guernsey or Jersey. He was working in a butchers and during a bit of friendly horseplay with a co-worker he accidentally cut his face with a cleaver! This co-worker was from some top family on the island and he said he had to run for his life, or they literally would have buried him alive or something!
― calzino, Tuesday, 9 June 2020 12:48 (three years ago) link
burned alive in a wicker horse iirc
― rolling keyring (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 9 June 2020 12:51 (three years ago) link
ofc henry cavill, one of the most uncanny stepford/lynchian humans in existence is a channel islander
― rumpy riser (ogmor), Tuesday, 9 June 2020 13:14 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naa0znjb7nQ
― rumpy riser (ogmor), Tuesday, 9 June 2020 13:16 (three years ago) link
Barclay Brothers the poster boys for evil residents here
― stet, Tuesday, 9 June 2020 13:23 (three years ago) link
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/staggers/2020/06/keir-starmer-colston-bristol-slave-statue-protestors-labour-response
"The unfortunate reality for these people is that Starmer has very little incentive to keep them happy on every issue: even if he isn’t as strong on certain issues as they would like, they have nowhere to go."
I love the worrying about the black vote that followed just as Starmer triangulated on the slave trader statue
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 9 June 2020 13:29 (three years ago) link
love that it's Keir disappointing "the Left" and not "black people and anybody else who doesn't enjoy white supremacy"
― rolling keyring (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 9 June 2020 13:33 (three years ago) link
"they have nowhere else to go" is not exactly a strategy with an impressive recent history
― mark s, Tuesday, 9 June 2020 13:35 (three years ago) link
They have nowhere else to go - that old mandellson chestnut! In a first past the post system taking bame votes for granted is a dodgy game, because they might just reply fuck you then!
― calzino, Tuesday, 9 June 2020 13:39 (three years ago) link
Especially as direct action can get results, why beg Sir Haircut for crumbs?
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 9 June 2020 13:40 (three years ago) link
I have a feeling that how they respond to anti-black racism within the party is going to be more of an issue than a fence-sitting response to the statue being pulled down.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 9 June 2020 13:49 (three years ago) link
This is fucking outrageous. The British government co-opted the image of Angela Davis for propaganda targeted at black and Muslim women, reveals investigative reporter @IanCobain.https://t.co/yhBJkfKkML— Damien Gayle (@damiengayle) June 9, 2020
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 9 June 2020 13:51 (three years ago) link
Periodical question of whether Tribune is worth reading - the issues have been piling up, have they sorted out the layout yet?
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 9 June 2020 13:54 (three years ago) link
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 9 June 2020 bookmarkflaglink
It's more about law & order and migration type policies and if they are always going to go on about more cops, etc. a lot of BAME voters may not bother. The statue throwers aren't going to be fence-sitting.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 9 June 2020 14:04 (three years ago) link
can't believe parents don't have more faith in the exemplary leadership of our great nation
Only one in four children returned to schools in England last week, wrecking Boris Johnson’s ambitions for a phased reopening of schools to allow parents back to work to boost the economy.According to official statistics published by the government, just over half of primary schools in England reopened to more pupils last week.Only a quarter of pupils who were eligible to return from 1 June, the first week that schools in England began admitting more children in reception, year 1 and year 6, actually turned up.Figures published by the Department for Education show that just 52% of schools opened to these three year groups, reflecting continuing safety concerns among headteachers, parents and local authorities.Ministers say numbers have gone up this week, but the government has been forced as a result to back down on its ambition to get all primary school children back in class for a month before the summer holidays.
According to official statistics published by the government, just over half of primary schools in England reopened to more pupils last week.
Only a quarter of pupils who were eligible to return from 1 June, the first week that schools in England began admitting more children in reception, year 1 and year 6, actually turned up.
Figures published by the Department for Education show that just 52% of schools opened to these three year groups, reflecting continuing safety concerns among headteachers, parents and local authorities.
Ministers say numbers have gone up this week, but the government has been forced as a result to back down on its ambition to get all primary school children back in class for a month before the summer holidays.
― Prosecutor Bradley Tankerton (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 9 June 2020 14:08 (three years ago) link
xps, as ever, the only two news outlets particularly interested in the machinations of the British security services are Middle East Eye and South Africa's Daily Maverick.
There's been a lot of discussion about how the police and intelligence agencies have infiltrated / astroturfed protest groups in the US. It seems unimaginable they're not still doing it here too.
― ShariVari, Tuesday, 9 June 2020 14:19 (three years ago) link
Re: Tribune - they have belatedly sorted out the more blatantly annoying layout issues, but 80-90% of the content is so determinedly earnest and stodgy, presumably requested by union funders, that I cannot in all honesty say it is worth reading :( Think they would have been better off just doing a UK focused version of Jacobin.
― Piedie Gimbel, Tuesday, 9 June 2020 14:20 (three years ago) link
important counterpoint: they ran a very nice piece on my book
― mark s, Tuesday, 9 June 2020 14:24 (three years ago) link
I haven't yet seen a hard copy of Tribune, but my impression of Tribune from their online presence has been good.
― the pinefox, Tuesday, 9 June 2020 14:31 (three years ago) link
Yeah Esther Leslie on Poly Styrene is just the stodgy content I pay my union subs for.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 9 June 2020 14:35 (three years ago) link
if you're not Black, just try to imagine for one second what it must be like to be Black and live in a place like this. https://t.co/DxwPsTVEi3— michael (@Sisyphusa) June 9, 2020
https://youtu.be/I3s13jbmrn0
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 9 June 2020 14:46 (three years ago) link
Surely they're just anti-racism critics.
PG and Yorkshire Tea tell anti-racism critics 'don't buy our tea'https://t.co/hlf6NbOnp9— BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) June 9, 2020
― ShariVari, Tuesday, 9 June 2020 14:47 (three years ago) link
Although the tea brands built and maintained on indentured labour and sub-povery wages can also do one if they think tweeting 'um, actually Sandra, slavery is bad' in any way absolves them of their ongoing crimes.
― ShariVari, Tuesday, 9 June 2020 14:48 (three years ago) link
It's a fucking WW1/WW2 memorial, do these people think the no doubt gigantic BLM protests of Hoddesdon are just indiscriminately targeting monuments or something?
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 9 June 2020 14:57 (three years ago) link
(I'm aware that protecting the monument isn't really the point here)
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 9 June 2020 14:58 (three years ago) link
can confirm that the football-adjacent racist gammon faction thought that war memorials were being targeted over the weekend
― rolling keyring (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 9 June 2020 15:04 (three years ago) link
They'll be pissing on the bleedin Dambusters next if we don't stop 'em
― stet, Tuesday, 9 June 2020 15:10 (three years ago) link
Some fine zingers in that tweet's replies at least.
BREAKING: Statue of slave trader Robert Milligan in east London will be torn down 'as soon as possible' https://t.co/3RNpBXnkkN— Nadine White (@Nadine_Writes) June 9, 2020
― nashwan, Tuesday, 9 June 2020 15:11 (three years ago) link
Ok so for those who say racism doesn’t exist... this was at a recent BLM protest in Hoddesdon,a town in the Broxbourne borough of the English county of Hertfordshire, watch the thread pic.twitter.com/a4shMfiQ7i— Medina (@Miss_Meddy143) June 8, 2020
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 9 June 2020 15:14 (three years ago) link
thankful tbh that the pubs are closed and i don't have to listen to the 'experts' at the bar.
― Ste, Tuesday, 9 June 2020 15:23 (three years ago) link
antichrist advocates for widespread adoption of the mark of the beast
When Tony Blair was prime minister his government legislated to introduce an identity card scheme. The plan was hugely controversial, by the time the law got introduced it was to a large extent voluntary, and it was enthusiastically repealed by the coalition. But Blair has not lost interest in the concept and, at an event today, he said that coronavirus made the case for digital ID more compelling than ever.As PA Media reports, Blair said that only if people can show easily whether they are clear of coronavirus will industries like international travel be able to restart. Speaking at the virtual CogX technology conference, Blair said that such a system would operate alongside track and trace programmes as the economy reopens.
As PA Media reports, Blair said that only if people can show easily whether they are clear of coronavirus will industries like international travel be able to restart. Speaking at the virtual CogX technology conference, Blair said that such a system would operate alongside track and trace programmes as the economy reopens.
― Prosecutor Bradley Tankerton (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 9 June 2020 15:32 (three years ago) link
I quite like Esther Leslie, and I wouldn't mind hearing her more on music, but ... I don't think I'll pay £7.50 for that article.
― the pinefox, Tuesday, 9 June 2020 15:35 (three years ago) link
Fair play, it's free.https://tribunemag.co.uk/2020/05/lets-submerge
― the pinefox, Tuesday, 9 June 2020 15:45 (three years ago) link