Matthew Hancocks

No sudden rupture is now required for the far right to take power in this country. For what we're seeing is a steady normalisation of extremists by the Conservative and Labour Parties, BBC, Telegraph, Mail and others. A shift once considered unthinkable beings to look acceptable, even inevitable.🧵

George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social No sudden rupture is now required for the far right to take power in this country. For what we're seeing is a steady normalisation of extremists by the Conservative and Labour Parties, BBC, Telegraph, Mail and others. A shift once considered unthinkable beings to look acceptable, even inevitable. I October 7, 2025 at 8:43 AM • Everybody can reply 314 reposts 20 quotes 898 likes 12 saves • 34 . 334 0898 George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.b... • 3h We need constantly to remind ourselves that there's nothing normal or inevitable about it. It would be a catastrophe from which we would not recover for many years, in which terrible things are done, to minorities, to vulnerable people, to the rest of the living planet. We cannot let it happen.

Just so, and - having said for a decade that something much like this was coming, if we didn’t move decisively to avoid it - I cannot tell you how *incredibly * hostile more or less everyone who considers themselves Sensible and Moderate was, to being told this. And yet, here we now are.

What is a reactionary centrist, and does the UK have them? A term favoured by US progressives can help us understand Britain’s drift to the right

Buckle is just correct about reactionary centrists in the UK, they are a genuine threat to our democracy and will have us down the same path as the USA. Seeing how much of the authoritarian drive in the US has been due to elite acquiescence has shaken me.

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/709...

Spot in - this was the 90s I was watching

from cyberselfish by paulina borsook: It's an inability to reconcile the demands of being individual with the demands of participating in society, which coincides beautifully with a preference for, and glorification of, being the solo comman- der of one's computer in lieu of any other economically viable be- havior. Computers are so much more rule-based, controllable, fixable, and comprehensible than any human will ever be. As many political schools of thought do, these technolibertarians make a philosophy out of a personality defect.

2/ In 2001, Borsook said tech "libertarianism" reflected an adolescent mindset, with a craving for unchecked independence & resistance to constraint.

She warned that tech libertarians wanted an anti-human world that worked more like a computer. From "Cyberselfish," a book based on her 90s writing:

The censorship will continue until free speech improves

Funny you should say that… I start the preface by talking about Sch’s theory of laughter

Really looking forward to it and to reading the book.

6th December! Schopenhauer. Should be good for a laugh.

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Gosh, sorry! I once heard Žižek say something similar and thought “now I feel bad”.

Be that guy-narcissistic not to?

… and that car is always there…

Bandname GBNx-0

They’re the lost darkwave electronic post-punk band from the 1980s.

Good.

Hyperstition though right? 😬

I mean…

And demanding complicity with his project from those who stood by. Hard power and moral risk.

Interesting- is there more you can say?

258m lives saved?

CAPS.

It’s County Durham actually (fellow Midlander).

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Whisper it, Amazon!

Did I just pick up Keith Ansell Pearson’s own copy? As a fan of the second hand, I thought this would tickle you @davidbatherwoods.bsky.social

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Especially interesting in current times.

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