But what does it mean? They obviously haven't read Habermas or Minnie the Minx.
OK. How do I remove Meta AI from WhatsApp? And anything else for that matter.
Is there anybody out there interested in mutual critique of work in progress? Regularly. Like once a fortnight or once a month. Or whenever. Quick but thoughtful turnaround. I’m thinking a thousand or two words a time.
Contact me and discuss.
On the 5th anniversary of Brexit, a throwback to David Frost in 2015,
"It is in the UK's national interest to stay part of the EU, we benefit economically from it very much"
"The EU Single Market adds uplift to GDP"
"To somebody on an average salary that's about £1,500 a year"
BREAKING: In a new executive order sent out by the White House, Donald Trump has revoked the federal contractor nondiscrimination executive order, EO 11246, that was signed by Lyndon Johnson in 1965 and has protected employees of businesses seeking federal contracts from discrimination ever since.
A whole bunch of self-serving gammon who don't believe in science. And at least one who is corrupt, who lies and cheats.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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This is a beauty. And "Cactus" is on the album. Amongst other great songs.
I remember that crispy noodle experience. Wonderful. And the Vesta curry led to my adventures in Indian food. You know, grinding spices, varying proportions of cumin or fenugreek seed, making paratha. We only had rice in puddings when I woralad at home in Bradford.
#Gaza: Since Oct 2023 we have only been able to evacuate 13 children from #Gaza to our hospital in #Jordan.
We call on the Israeli authorities to ensure medical evacuations for all Palestinians in need of care now including caregivers while guaranteeing their safe return.
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8. *I mean, FFS, what hope do we have if hardly anyone knows what capitalism is? I endlesly hear the bleat “it’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism”. God, I hate that self-exonerating mantra. Of course it bloody is, if you haven’t yet managed to imagine capitalism!
7. Resistance to capital and capitalism (which is a completely different thing from commerce, by the way, but perennially and deliberately confused with it*) is our only hope of escaping the dire, multiple predicaments we face. But where is it? Where is everyone?
6. Just about everyone else in public life is working, at some level, as a concierge for capital. Farage and Truss occupy the extreme and obvious end, but they’re on the same spectrum as, say, Wes Streeting and Samir Shah.
5. Those who dissent from the demands of capital have been almost entirely marginalised from politics, the media and public life. From the Labour Party to the BBC, we are treated almost as pariahs. Our crime is to seek to defend humanity and the living world from the greed of the few.
4. I don’t say that left and right have no meaning (generally, people who make this claim have recently moved to the far right). But the real political divide is between those who grovel to capital (a group extending all the way from Starmer to Farage) and those who seek to resist.
3. This is why the BBC has so assiduously promoted Farage, building him from the entirely marginal figure he was into a major political force, by giving him wall-to-wall access and coverage. Because it too, like almost all major institutions, bends like a reed to the demands of capital.
2. Everything they do supports such interests, which pay their bills and give them platforms. All the culture wars, the grandstanding, the rhetoric about immigrants are designed both to conceal their real agenda and to shift blame onto scapegoats.
1. This is what it’s really about. Farage, Truss and co have no convictions of their own. They are mere channels for the demands of capital. Here they are, supporting a climate science-denying lobby group funded by oil and oligarchs. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Is it just me or has the US voting population just elected the dimmest twat ever. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/12/u...
I'm reading "Case Histories" by Kate Atkinson. I've never managed to get on with Atkinson's novels but this one was mentioned in Sophie Smith's article "Sleeping Women" (LRB 26.12.24) Piqued my interest.
I wonder if any of my writer friends/followers would be interested in exchange beta reading. I'd quite like the idea of a, say, monthly exchange of work in progress. If you are interested, let me know.
Imo Musk is obviously trolling; but it’s worth mentioning that this is a very senior figure of an incoming US administration calling for regime change against an ally with a democratically elected government. Oh, and who has also reportedly been in close contact with Putin for several years.
I like a bit of irony.
Has Farage got something on BBC? Why is he (and the muskrat) no 1 item on R4 lunchtime news? When will they say they're both appalling scumbags?
Anyone still using this odious creature's platform please stop now - you are legitimising him.
Feels like 'dishonest reporting' is an understatement here. It's downright misreporting to be so declarative about a view held by less than one in three respondents, especially when - I presume - it's not even the plurality response.
Similarly poor for the BBC to then credulously repeat it.
Despite all of the challenges - legal and meteorological - we did it!
After 40 years of damaging deregulation, Greater Manchester has this morning successfully retaken control of the whole its bus network. 🙌🏻
This is extremely shoddy poll reporting.
