Christopher Warren

UK and US came to the mess from historically very different traditions (tl;dr BBC: through Reith, impartial; NYT etc: through Lippman, objectivity). Trouble is the "both sides" practice proved a too-easy way for both to operationalise what are tricky concepts at scale.

12.11.2025 11:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Polling data from Harris & Associates 1966. Q: Do you approve of what Freedom Riders are Doing? 22% approve 61%disapprove18%no opinion.

I just like to post these data from time to time to puncture the mythological aura of mid 20th c protests. They were less popular than pretty much any 21st c mass action & people criticizing them used the same lines. Protest is about people coming together, shaping narratives, & building power.

14.06.2025 19:02 — 👍 4862    🔁 1794    💬 53    📌 72

When the game is about glory but the business model is "best of the rest" #COYS

06.06.2025 23:32 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Two dead, 559 arrested in France clashes after PSG Champions League win Some 491 were arrested in Paris during post-match celebrations after PSG’s Champions League victory.

True...unless it's in Paris, of course www.aljazeera.com/sports/2025/...

04.06.2025 10:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Maybe...although think sportswashers prefer a more passive celebration of wins they can claim credit for grifting rather than the uncontrollable emotional outpuring that would be Ange Season Three. For them, 200K people on the street would usually be a reason to call out the army.

04.06.2025 09:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Or trying to take the club back into his hands. Ange inspires a deeply engaged type of fandom - a "get on the bus for the hero's journey", a project that brought 200-odd thousand out on the streets. Sportswashing Inc looks and thinks: Can't be having that! #coys

04.06.2025 04:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Dutton’s One Nation preference swap a new low aided by a feckless media The decision — like the 'concerns' over Welcomes to Country — tells us less about the presumed change in One Nation and more about the Dutton-era change in the Coalition.

Maybe uncalculable, but not unknown - Europe shows when the traditional centre-right brings the far right in from the cold, the far right vote goes up (at the cost of the trad right). Wrote about it here before the vote www.crikey.com.au/2025/04/28/p...

30.05.2025 07:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This is high art

06.04.2025 21:37 — 👍 26508    🔁 7605    💬 534    📌 1017

Labor has been vindicated on its spending. Will the Reserve Bank finally do its job and cut rates? Labor's spending has generated plenty of criticism — but it's now the only thing standing between us and a recession engineered by the RBA.

Labor's decision to take the budget into deficit has been entirely vindicated -- the government is the only thing standing between us and an RBA-induced recession

www.crikey.com.au/2024/12/05/l...

06.12.2024 02:34 — 👍 148    🔁 57    💬 9    📌 1