On a terrible track
After this weekend's knife attacks on a train in Huntingdon, the media is filled with voices out to exploit the horror.
NEW | Keeping an eye on the usual suspectsโฆ
ON A TERRIBLE TRACK
After this weekend's knife attacks on a train in Huntingdon, the media is filled with voices out to exploit the horror.
brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/on-a-terri...
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What did Pasolini know? Fifty years after his brutal murder, the directorโs vision of fascism is more urgent than ever
With mystery still surrounding Pier Paolo Pasoliniโs death, the poet and film-makerโs warnings of corruption and rising totalitarianism offer a chilling message for our times
โHe saw that capitalism would corrode into fascism, or that fascism would infiltrate and take over capitalism, that what appeared benign and beneficial would corrupt and destroy old forms of life. [โฆ] He warned about the ecological costs of industrialisationโ
01.11.2025 13:21 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Javier Milei and the Long Shadow of the IMF
In Argentina, economic chaos and political upheaval expose how the IMFโs stabilizing promise has become a mechanism of managed decline.
"This is not stabilizationโit is the active production of instability that justifies permanent external control."
LOLA ALLEN on Javier Milei, the IMF and the contradictions of Argentina's extractive economy.
Read the full essay๐
30.10.2025 13:03 โ ๐ 11 ๐ 7 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 1
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The Fraud: A Review - Keir Starmer, Morgan McSweeney and the crisis of British democracy
Heather Mendick
The Fraud: A Review - Keir Starmer, Morgan McSweeney and the crisis of British democracy
m.youtube.com/watch?v=VcmB...
28.10.2025 19:57 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Thanatos and Civilization
01.11.2025 11:49 โ ๐ 10 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 1
The Future of Magazinesโฆ and the World
A conversation with the Thomas Meaney, the editor of Granta, about literature and the left.
My latest interview for The Nation is with Tom Meaney, editor of Granta: โI am a fortunate son of the American empire, born during Reaganโs Second Cold War in the garrison state of South Korea. The dictator Chun Doo-hwanโโour son of a bitchโโlived down the street.โ: www.thenation.com/article/cult...
27.10.2025 13:44 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
The crimewave sweeping Britain? Illegal houses in multiple occupation | Aditya Chakrabortty
With private-sector villainy and public-sector complicity, what makes this HMO scandal so characteristic of modern Britain is how far the guilt spreads
Fan of true crime? Then this column is for you....
24.10.2025 05:00 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
An excellent criticism of the sycophants of the monarchy in the UK press and I absolutely loved this phrase describing the current incarnation of 'the Telegraph, the British pressโs most unhinged fanzine dedicated to privilege and power.
22.10.2025 14:30 โ ๐ 10 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 0
EXPOSED: What REALLY Happened in Amsterdam
The Video The Media Doesnโt Want You To See
This is a classic case of how the media can distort reporting that becomes propaganda that has long term effects on political decisions as in the current case of national politicians denouncing the decision to ban Maccabi Tel Aviv fans www.doubledown.news/watch/2024/n...
17.10.2025 08:30 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
How the Capitalism of the 1980s Created Donald Trump's Theory of the State
The proliferation of privately held companies during the Reagan years laid the foundations for Trump's approach to government.
Trump is a product of the 1980s and the lasting changes in ownership structure that took place then and that still informs his theory of politics and the state today.
14.10.2025 17:09 โ ๐ 32 ๐ 13 ๐ฌ 9 ๐ 1
Investors are betting big bucks on the idea that AI will create an explosion of leisure time...e.g. it was a key part of the public rationale for the massive $55bn takeover of video games maker Electronic Arts. But are they right?? (short thread linked to my column today www.ft.com/content/4011...)
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COP must take environmental crime seriously
The costs of inaction are stark, but prevention is a bargain
The EUโs regulation on deforestation-free products obliges importers of beef, soy, timber, coffee, cocoa, palm oil & rubber to prove supply chains are clean. The law is due to apply from late 2025 though Brussels recently delayed enforcement
www.ft.com/content/f544...
16.10.2025 05:04 โ ๐ 7 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 2
As the media class now have such a large influence on the political class where they are not already interchangeable this is entirely imaginable.
16.10.2025 09:29 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
On the Labour Party's housing policy (lack of) under Steve Reed and Keir Starmer.
16.10.2025 09:16 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Why Tony Blair just canโt kick the habit of imperial interference in the Middle East | Oliver Eagleton
The Blair-Trump fantasy for postwar Gaza shows the former PM still thinks that free enterprise can solve all the worldโs ills, says associate editor at the New Left Review Oliver Eagleton
Why Tony Blair just canโt kick the habit of imperial interference in the Middle East | Oliver Eagleton
The Blair-Trump fantasy for postwar Gaza shows the former PM still thinks that free enterprise can solve all the worldโs illsโThere are two types of politician,โ Tony Blair observed in 2012....
08.10.2025 13:00 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
The kink in the Times' position on universities and free speech...
Why is a national newspaper obsessing about student societies and quoting extreme pressure groups? I think we all know the answer...
NEW | On the latest story about students (and sex):
THE KINK IN THE TIMESโ POSITION ON UNIVERSITIES AND FREE SPEECH
Why is a national newspaper obsessing about student societies and quoting extreme pressure groups? I think we all know the answer...
brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/the-kink-i...
08.10.2025 13:06 โ ๐ 16 ๐ 18 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 5
Stupidology | William Davies
The challenge posed by this political crisis is how to take the stupidity seriously without reducing it to a wholly mental or psychiatric, let alone genetic, phenomenon. Stupidity can be understood as...
โThe escalation from Trump One to Trump Two has seen irrationality spread from the deliberative public sphere to flood the veins of government.โ In our brand-new issue: an anatomy of stupidity by @will-davies.bsky.social.
www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/pol...
10.09.2025 20:23 โ ๐ 18 ๐ 10 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
EXPOSED: Starmer, Epstein, Mandelson & the REAL Prime Minister
You wonโt see this on the BBC
EXPOSED: Starmer, Epstein, Mandelson & the REAL Prime Minister
01.10.2025 08:16 โ ๐ 72 ๐ 61 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 9
Why Trumpโs Venezuela Attacks Matter So Much
They signal a US empire increasingly willing to dispense with even the perfunctory legal legitimation that past presidents leaned on.
The transition from the liberal international order created after 1945, that was violated de facto by the USA, to the contorted linguistic and legal justifications for violations from the Great War on Terror, to its abandonment by Trump.
www.thenation.com/article/worl...
03.10.2025 13:15 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
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