Mike Greenhalf

Some of the discontent comes from the middle feeling the income stagnation themselves (including that caused by housing costs) whilst feeling that the bottom quartile is ‘undeservedly’ catching up with them.

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
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They could, but they don’t have to, and they seem not to see the need. 2024 was the result of Tory collapse and the Tory/Reform split. Labour can’t rely on that again. Without a real change, they lose and so do we.

Same for North East Hants. Various boundary changes over time but each version was held continuously by Tories since the Whigs faded from history in 1823. Two continuous centuries ended in 2024 by LD’s taking the seat

This is both chilling and inevitable.

If this is real, and happening at the scale that the statement suggests, this could radically reshape the entire region, and create global ripples.

What happens when your cognition partner goes insane? Or starts spouting deeply biased or incorrect information, when they were where you had offloaded that particular cognitive function? How much of (gestures at the world) can be explained by Google being evil?

Sendero Luminoso is a guerilla military force funded through narcotics. One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedon fighter… I wouldn’t say there’s no such thing as a narco-terrorist, although Venezuela’s government is not that

I’d defend your principle, but I’m less convinced on the detail - particularly regulatory protection, which exists more on paper than in reality in some areas. And given that better regulation can give more affordable protection than public spending (eg rent control) - this matters.

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

The Pitchforks Are Coming… For Us Plutocrats A memo for my fellow filthy rich who live in our gated bubble worlds: Wake up, people. It won’t last.

From 11 years ago: www.politico.com/magazine/sto... and www.ted.com/talks/nick_h...

Buxton: Why one small town with very little immigration turned to Reform UK How national concerns affected a local election in the heart of the Peak District.

This is an interesting piece but I just read it going “the missing bit is the section on how the internet has fried everyone’s brains”.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

American in video saying 'The crime and immigration is out of control (in London), nobody feels safe.'

Genuine question: do they make themselves believe this stuff or do they say it simply for the clicks and attention or to further a political agenda? Anyway, to Americans and others, it's complete and utter bollocks.

I think technically you can still be apprehended by a church warden for causing a disturbance in a churchyard and an Ecc. Court can imprison you for up to two months. I’m sure they’d actually just call the police, but this is somewhat wider than a sharia court deciding wills and trade disputes.

How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.

I've been sitting with this piece of @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social for two days, reading it, re-reading it. You should too. #EzraKlein is the avatar of a new kind of liberal indulgence for the worst of the far-right, embracing bad-faith as a practice. www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

That’s both a superb photo, and a heroic image. We’ll still see be seeing that photo in a couple of generations time.

Its already endemic in the natural environment throughout the world.

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An analysis of modern-day white nationalism & Christian fascism in the US through the lens of Frank Zappa’s music during the 1980s.

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Telegraph screenshot: bbc pulls Thought fot the Day after guest brands Jenrick xenophobic.

It doesnt seem to be getting much coverage (I see only this one pay walled Telegraph article), but the BBC removed and censored today's Thought for the Day section after the speaker, a PHD theologican and refugee charity founder, correctly identified Robert Jenrick as xenophobic. Disgusting.

TMH (@thememoryhole) Frank Zappa on the Threat of Fascism in the United States (1986)

Strangely prescient point of view from the great Frank Zappa in 1986.

Four words: “Die Todesstrafe ist abgeschafft”. Five in English, but only four in German

Alt-Txt: Two people stand before multi-color strips of paper with text on them that stretch down an entire wall and onto the floor. The title of the installation "I Agree" appear in all caps on the wall, too.

Love this. In his “I Agree” installation Dima Yarovinsky-Yahel took the content from terms of service statements for companies like Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, Tinder and printed them out on A4 paper with a standard font size for legal contracts to demonstrate the length of these agreements.

This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?

Picture of a translucent hooded, caped, skeleton wrapped around an alarmed looking man seeming to move him involuntarily

When the IT guy takes over my computer remotely

today is international engagement bait day. please repost to raise awareness

It was all so predictable, and indeed predicted.

If Jesus had focused more on kitchen table issues and less on unpopular outcasts like lepers and prostitutes, he might have won more support from white working-class Judeans.

If we make it through this dark period with democracy intact, it may be because the administration's incompetence was greater than its depravity.

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