Dr Joseph Dunne-Howrie

Truly appalling albeit unsurprising coming for a government which always consciously chooses to mainstream far-right politics

Racist violence has been fuelled by top-down discourses which have normalised and legitimised far-right moral panics for years. It is not predominantly a bottom-up issue

It's so good. The podcast in general is a fun way of exposing the hollowness of what counts for intellectual debate today.

There has now been 9 episodes of #BBCQT since it returned from its summer break

A Reform representative/mouthpiece has appeared on 5 of them:

Kruger - Nov 13
Goodwin - Oct 30
Dorries - Oct 23
Yusuf - Oct 9
Tice - Sept 25

But please tell me more about the BBC’s left wing bias

Which is itself a problem whose solution cannot be read less if students are to grapple with complex subjects

BBC Bosses Draw Up Plans to Win Over Reform Voters by Changing News and Drama Output The Director General Tim Davie and other executives discussed altering BBC “story selection” in order to secure the "trust" of supporters of Nigel Farage’s party

Let's not forget that Tim Davie drew up a plan to change the BBC's output to specifically target and appease nativist sentiment. And the BBC is the single biggest contributor to the creation of Farage as a media personality.

bylinetimes.com/2025/06/09/b...

Staying above the culture wars was a striking & surprising feature of 2014, 2016 and 2018 given the coincidence of the key centenary moments with the Scottish and EU referendums, and the 2016-19 stalemate

We must note that all the condemnation of Tucker Carlson platforming Nick Fuentes has been about anti-Semitism and there has been an alarming and revealing silence around his anti-Black racism and white supremacy. When the head of the Heritage Foundation apologized, he only cited anti-Semitism.

THIS IS SO GOOD

Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.

news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

The far-right and its centrist enablers are grossly overestimating the resistance to a Mamdani-type candidate in the 2026 Midterms. Their Trump Stockholm Syndrome prevents them from seeing how unpopular he is. Most people will accept almost any alternative to the current GOP!

There were 115 prisoners mistakenly released in the final year of the last Conservative Government alone.

Interesting that it only becomes a major national scandal the second these releases can be blamed on a Labour government

It's obviously a bad thing if any prisoner is released by mistake, but why is it worse if it's an asylum-seeker?

It seems just to be taken for granted now that someone is more dangerous because they're an asylum-seeker than because they're a criminal.

Something very dangerous is building here.

The City We Became 'A glorious fantasy, set in that most imaginary of cities, New York' Neil Gaiman on THE CITY WE BECAME 'The most celebrated science fiction and fantasy wr...

Today‘s a good day to pick up NK Jemisin’s The City We Became, a wonderful urban fantasy novel about the living avatars of New York.

FAO Matt Goodwin and all the other racist filth who tried to exploit this incident

Matthew Goodwin, who is still welcomed by the BBC and other mainstream media outlets, now explicitly promotes a white supremacism identical to Enoch Powell's ("the West Indian or Indian does not, by being born in England, become an Englishman ... in fact he is a West Indian or an Asian still")

The driver "managed to contact the control centre at Network Rail and get the train diverted onto the slow line", Calder says. "That was absolutely crucial because this train was scheduled to be travelling through Huntingdon station on the tracks with no platform at 125mph." "It didn't stop in the middle of nowhere, which would have been very difficult." Calder thinks this was handled in the "safest possible way" thanks to the "incredible professionalism from the driver and the police". Train drivers are trained on how to take appropriate action, he adds,

Next time someone tells you that train drivers "just push buttons" show them this from the BBC

Extracts from TOO LATE TO AWAKEN: WHAT LIES AHEAD WHEN THERE IS NO FUTURE? by Slavok Žižek (2023) Some of the noblest parts of our emancipatory tradition (anti-Fascist and anti-racist struggle, rejection of our commercialized and hedonistic way of life, the fight against financial elites exploiting ordinary people, the efforts to abolish leftovers of colonization . . .) are being gulped down by political leaders around the world. Their neo-Fascist or neoliberal digestive enzymes are removing the radical acidity of the ideas they've swallowed, and turning them into pieces of shit that smoothly fit the existing global capitalist system, although they present themselves as its destruction.

This is how ideology functions today: ideology tells the truth but creates conditions which guarantee that the truth itself will be perceived as a lie.
▫️Slavoj Žižek, 2023

Jeremy Vine, "Andrew Windsor has been buried alive.. They want him humiliated"

No he hasn't. He was accused of raping a child three times and for that:

➡️ Victim received £12 million
➡️ Andrew is moving from one big house to another
➡️ Andrew getting 6 figure £ from the King

Just took a deep breath & went to look at X. It's an absolute cesspit of hatred & glee: one huge account after another blaming the Huntingdon attacks on immigration, with total disregard for information, evidence or the safety of those at whom they're pointing. The yearning for violence is palpable.

Anyone who will lie unapologetically about mass violent attacks to push their own profile and political cause is beneath contempt.

There’s no need to book such people, to platform them, or to listen to them. That’s not because of their politics, or their views: it’s because of their dishonesty.

The buses bill also became law this week, allowing councils in England to finally take control of local services used by millions of people.

Almost nothing from No 10 or Govt Comms as a whole. It's beyond woeful.

Meanwhile Reform are holding multiple press conferences a week.

Well now, this is extraordinary.

This is really poor by BBC researchers and producers. Goodwin hasn't been an active academic for a number of years, yet is described as one (thus legitimating his relentless Reform activism and constant bad faith misrepresentation of evidence). 1/?

Sultana’s been hanging out with tankies again

Five days ago, Politics Live had on Ella Whelan from Spiked.

Today we have Tom Slater from... Spiked.

I mean, what the Hell?

Other anonymously-funded, climate change misinformation outlets are available.

#politicslive
www.desmog.com/spiked/

🚨 BREAKING | Greens surge to **17%**

➡️ REF – 28% (+1)
🔴 LAB – 18% (-4)
🔵 CON – 18% (-1)
🟢 GRN – 17% (+4)
🟠 LD – 11% (+1)

Via @LordAPolls, 16-20 Oct (+/- vs 11-15 Sep)

"Let's not forget, when we remember the service and the sacrifice with this poppy, that the people who bled and died for our democracy and our freedom, weren't just my grandfather who looked like me & worshipped the same God, but people across Empire & Commonwealth, who were Muslim, Sikh & Hindu'

Striking to hear a senior Government minister in Wes Streeting clearly condemning Sarah Pochin's racism and the wider spread of racism across the UK, while defending the contribution of migrants to our country. Feels like a long time since we've heard a government minister speak like that

Off the top of my head, there have been four egregious examples of weapons grade public racism in the last couple of weeks - Jenrick; the Express hack; Captain Concrete & the Reform woman. The way they are treated by employers, punters & wider media, will directly influence how much more we see.