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The tone is set from the top. Keir Starmer and his team can ask why this guy has not been expelled from the conservative party, or they can not do that. The BBC can lead its broadcasts with half a dozen talking heads explaining how disgusted they are, or they can not do that.

This is it, literally every single piece of health outcomes research that’s reported in media that cites *one* thing as causal does this, just fully ignores socioeconomic factors. Every single one.

And the original research papers *generally* do explore it in the discussion - the media ignore that

As good an explanation as any for the rise in far-right politics in the UK over the last 20 years, and PolProfs take note that the "cause" isn't immigration, it's underlying racist beliefs that go back centuries

A photograph of Suleiman al-Obeid, former captain of the Pakestinian national football team, killed by the IDF as he was queuing for food.

I admire Mo Salah's restraint.

"Farewell". Really?

Suleiman al-Obeid was killed by the IDF as he was queuing for food in Gaza. Say it, you cowards.

Andrew Sullivan reminder

Read this at first as "co-op" and thought I had a new favourite animal

Gove's publishing of the likes of Nina Power is why the Sensibles' digging into the far-right's racist networks and agenda is - as with MeToo - only going to go so far. I mean, we've already had Sam Freedman try to makes excuses for people appearing on Aporia's podcast

And Gove's carrying on the tradition

'People are angry': Behind the wave of asylum hotel protests The BBC visits sites of protests to hear the voices of those opposed to the hotels and others in support of asylum seekers.

That there has been a deliberate campaign, not just by far-right extremist organizations, but by "mainstream" journalists and papers (then echoed by broadcasters), to foment hatred and violence against asylum-seekers (but also against Muslims), seems not to occur to the author of this BBC piece.

One from the archive that always felt hypocritical to me (the British Election Study is one the PolProfs use a lot)

This is genuinely western liberalism summed up in a 30 second video. Incredible. Put it in an art gallery.

Not ascribing agency to the belligerents, a fatalist acceptance of developments, blaming the left for provoking them - this could just as easily be a PolProf talking about far-right voters

And Ed West's mate Ben Sixsmith gave her a plug a few months ago too

She's still doing events for UnHerd

Member when we tried to warn people about Singal? How “just asking questions” about trans people always spirals into full on fascist blackpill territory? But they don’t care when it’s just transphobia somehow that part’s still socially acceptable

Maybe one day the UK media will enquire into why Baroness Claire Fox vocally supported Nina Power on the day it was publicly revealed she said ‘I’m definitely a Nazi now lol’

I still find it mad that a load of people wanted to understand politics and decided that regression analysis of questionnaires was the best way to do that

“Epstein being a stud”

George Osborne at the despatch box talking about "a lack of effective opposition" on the back of the Labour right pushing that line a few weeks was certainly a bit of a "Politics is WWE" moment for me

Same vibe

Just did a pub quiz, and it was weirdly tough. I blame quiz masters using ChatGPT

“… and is married to a senior local Republican official.”

🙃

Lord Dannatt urged ministers to crack down on Palestine Action at request of US firm Police officer was concerned ex-army chief, a Teledyne adviser, sought to have ‘input’ into factory attack investigation

The campaign against Palestine Action seems to have involved a good deal of lobbying

There’s some footage in there of a cancer hospital being demolished by the IDF using remotely detonated explosives. You first saw that footage probably a year and a half ago. Thanks to the unique powers of journalism, we have now ascertained that that was a war crime under international law.

It's interesting. Of all the centrists who have suddenly decided genocide is bad. Not one of them has said 'oh god, I've spent years endorsing this.'

They're just pretending this was always their opinion.

Iona Italia saying Cooper's more intellectually serious than David Irving when the Mother Jones article shows how much he's referenced Irving is just *chef's kiss*, and Wesley Yang (often mixed up in stuff like this) is of course good mates with JK Rowling, as is Jesse Singal

Yet another person obviously of the far-right with the usual fans and sympathisers

There was a moral panic about TV in general in the 1990s. "We don't have a TV in our house" was a huge middle class flex

the idea that there are certain people (usually white boys) who are special geniuses who need everyone to bend over backward and permit them to be self-centered, antisocial assholes, because they’re destined to do something amazing, is part of a very annoying political project

Case in point