The Web of Evil

my great-grandparents arrived in the UK in the 1890s with nothing.
they sold pickles from the front room window, took in laundry, worked as tailors.
their children were nurses, teachers, salesmen.
their grandchildren were professors, designers, opticians, doctors, magistrates, entrepreneurs.

Kishwer Falkner, the former EHRC chair, is on Sky saying the Labour government is anti-women, citing not just trans issues but also grooming gangs and what she calls pandering to Islam and racial sensitivities. She's not exactly dispelling the idea she was a political actor when she led the EHRC.

Public bodies are crammed with cranks and wingnuts because politics is rammed with cranks and wingnuts, and this isn’t seen as remarkable and disgraceful because sadly the press is also full to bursting with cranks and wingnuts.

Wasn't that long ago that the very people the Home Office is demonising were working through a pandemic keeping the country running, whilst government ministers were having parties and making mugs out of everyone.

The "fast-tracking" thing is a total lie, too.

They're leaving those "desirables" on the same pathway to ILR as before, and then once they get ILR, they will both ensure they can't access the same rights as before, and make it harder for them to get citizenship. All in the consultation doc.

Good to know that as an architect with a masters degree working in a practice that specialises social housing I’m considered a ‘taker’ because I don’t earn above £50k… but It’s ok, we don’t have a housing crisis or anything. Why do I bother paying so much £££ in visa fees to be treated like this.

By the way everyone, what right-wing politicians say about immigrants is literally also what they believe about you.

You having an ordinary job is a kind of favour your generous employer and the nation has done you, allowing you to reproduce your existence despite not being AN ENTREPRENEUR

You might think that the "Labour" Party would consider labour itself to be a contribution to society, alas no, only "having lots of money" is a real contribution.

Perhaps they need to change their name to the Capital Party?

Apart from anything else, this really embodies the Playmobil approach to workforces that politicians often fall into — it’s all very well and good to laud “frontline” NHS workers but without backroom staff the entire service would actually collapse.

The venn diagram of transphobia and other bigotries remains a circle.

The UK will no longer be a place that offers safety and shelter to those in need, just like in the 1930s.

#fascistUK

PSA…

Marjorie Taylor Greene compared MAGA dead-enders to battered wives

I wrote about how House Republican women are dangerously close to figuring out that MAGA exists to control them.

From the @wsj.com chief foreign correspondent

A festive depiction of the Addams Family house at night, with snow on the ground and a chill in the air. A group of 5 carol singers are standing outside the front door, bathed in the circle of light created by their lantern and singing their little hearts out. 4 storeys above them, and leaning out through the open arched window that leads to a balcony, are Gomez, Morticia and Lurch. Lurch is in the process of tipping a cauldron of boiling oil on the unsuspecting revellers below. Charles Addams really didn't have to go this hard on light and shade, but did it anyway. Beautiful.

Someone I used to work with, who I immediately regretted accepting as a friend on Facebook, gave me the perfect opportunity to unfollow them, on this day in 2015, after I posted this & they told me it was "horrible", "not very Christmas-y" & that I didn't care how other people might feel about it.

This is horrific and exactly what those of us in Black studies, gender studies, women’s studies have been warning our colleagues in the sciences about. Their seeming neutrality will not save them.

One of my big concerns is that these guys will convince the US/Israel to let them experiment with the “blank slate” [how they’ll frame it] of Gaza. Read versions of the Riviera plan & you’ll see shared themes of technofascism, “buying people out of land,” & anti-democratic, feudal governing systems.

Ok this is funny but I would like to see the same degree of casual ridicule directed at Farage and Badenoch for their equally stupid nonsense

It says a lot that This lady was cited in the manifesto of Anders Breivik and she is still invited to be on TV over 15 years later

Starmer's Labour is worse than the Tories because there isn't a Labour party waiting in the wings, unless we see some astonishing magic from the Greens. People rejected the Tories and Labour came in to tell them, no, that's not allowed, this is the only policy there is. Fuck you.

🧵 Thread: “Language Contamination Is Real: Why Good European Mottos Need Careful Vetting”

Symbols and mottos carry more weight than we often assume.

www.verfassungsschut...

All of this is fascism. And not early stage either. This is the embedding of the Right Wing Daily Mail press consensus as the absolutely unshakable common sense of the UK state. Made possible because the "left wing" party has abdicated any kind of moral position on it.

As Mr Flying Rodent points out, we are not "on the road to becoming like Trump's America." We are in many ways much further down that road than they are, because our media and political class are significantly worse shitheads.

In fairness to Farage, Starmer holds this exact belief too:
www.middleeasteye.net/news/starmer...

I cannot enforce enough that the immigration system in britain says that working class people do not have the same rights to love and family as the wealthy

PolitlcsUK Twitter account has c 400k followers. Labour ministers often give exclusive interviews

But it's part-owned by an ex-Tory MP turned lobbyist - who bought it for £100

Ben Howlett:'I'm like that Nigerian guy on the internet, always working out who the stupid person is, except for politics'

Forget strangling baby Hitler when I get a Time Machine I’m drone striking an early PayPal board meeting

Getting a bit bored of people banging on about "Herculean tasks". He only had twelve jobs. Twelve. My mate Dave has had twice as many in the last 20 years, and has only been fired 17 times and investigated by the police twice.

Top US official says EU regulation ‘undermines’ NATO ties U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau said Europe’s policy agenda was hurting its credibility in Washington.

1/US stepping up attacks on the EU. This has left many in Europe scratching their heads but it is part of the neo-royalist agenda. The EU stands for the rules based order and stands in the way of a new order based not on rules but clique interests.
www.politico.eu/article/top-...

Interesting what Crick notes.

Farage like Mogg and Johnson are really just grown up versions of their teenage selves. Lots of public school boys leave fully formed - and armed with an entitlement and a sense of empowerment that takes them through the rest of their lives.

wokeness will come back in a way no one is ready for. they got one year of anti-woke culture and they’re seeing it’s cancerous