Matthew Whitfield

dismantling the neo-liberal public realm feels good. Next we need to do bins and signage poles, things that weren’t ever privatised but have still become shit

Under the tories at least the highest levels of government happily called them ‘hate marches’

Also the western civilisation bit is straight from far right Israeli political language, right?

Article reads: Woman named as Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first The 63-year-old archbishop-designate is married to Eamonn Mullally, with whom she has two children. Originally from Woking in Surrey, she was the UK's chief nursing officer from 1999 to 2004.

This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.

Since my decision to stop posting to X/Twitter, and restarting here, the project has lost 2k+ followers.

It’s disheartening, but the project is 10yrs old this year, and I hope it’ll be around for 10 more.

To those who have stuck with us, and to those new to the project, thank you.

We can rebuild.

quite!

I really admire that you can edit on WhatsApp but it’s time limited. So, typos: yes. Changing what you said so it’s no longer offensive/libellous/will make you win a petty argument: no.

yes, klaxon is being sounded. It’s like they have new quotas for overruling listings that they’re not sharing

concerning that this government are increasingly going rogue on heritage rulings, presumably in service of their alleged growth agenda. Evidence-based policy used to be a New Labour canard but everything is disposable for economic expediency

time for all the economists who say rent control is a great evil to head to Scotland and narrate the housing apocalypse in real time, I guess

too bloody much

slightly higher hanging fruit but still, a total loss of nerve

just by charging 20+ year old vehicles to drive around the city. How much more low hanging fruit is being ignored because of a fear of public pushback (actually just fossil fuel lobbyists flooding the internet with bullshit lies)?

more grist to the argument that’s so clearly shaping up to be: a dumbly pro-AI position is anti-human

Re-announcements and rebrandings are neo-lib government’s stock in trade

As best I can tell she has lived in a psychic padded cell of her own making for a long time

Expert Taskforce recommends locations for new towns The New Towns Taskforce has recommended locations for the next generation of new towns.

very few of these 12 schemes are meaningfully New Towns. No bad thing, and densifying places like central Leeds and Manchester is welcome. But the terminology is odd, at best. Do they think it helps bypass NIMBY opposition? www.gov.uk/government/n...

I’ve seen despair at the Labour conference, but Starmer’s battle for Britain’s soul is one he can still win | Polly Toynbee The government’s fall in popularity has affected party morale, but there are signs that taking the fight to Farage can provide a much-needed spark, asks Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

this quacking, waddling duck might just be a swan with an advanced diploma in doing an impression of a duck. The duck shit smeared all over me does not disprove my belief. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Green Party should make full Lords abolition a non-negotiable for a coalition deal, thus rinsing Thangam all over again

love that they all come to conference for a bit of cognitive dissonance, as a treat

Jim Callaghan’s llama pasture

there’ll be a Newsagents special in 5 years when it’ll be revealed (by a journo who’s known for 4.5 years and said nothing) that Thiel has everyone’s genome. It will be described as ‘extraordinary’

it's balls to the wall time, they don't quite know when the Labour right will have power again so they have to do the one thing they're passionate about so that at least someobody, some place, will (presumably) get a huge payday

If this intends to make it legally compulsory for every adult in Derry to carry something called a "Brit Card", then I'm willing to offer some high-paid consultancy on why this plan might be flawed.

National Record of Achievement, a burgundy leatherette folder

with collective effort we can make the Britcard into the National Record of Achievement of the 2020s

tell me again that the FT is one of the few reliable news sources when it can write up a Starmer press release and ring around some undead economists at the drop of a hat, preemptively circling the wagons

they are very much in the game in a type of constituency that would never vote Reform, so this is playing on easy mode for both LDs and Guardian

rapture happened if you can read this you are gay

idk seems like a plurality of the electorate have to be repulsed by fascism for this kind of action to emerge. One of those actions that incorporates a culture beyond those participating (an already high number)

what’s the deal with Italy having elected the fash, but nobody particularly perceives the country as fash, and indeed most people there are demonstrably not?