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... introducing ideas of universalism and equality (ie woke), making us "weak" and less "virile". It sang the praises of Mussolini, Hitler and Britain's homegrown fascists. What we are seeing is techn
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Rothermere seems to have been a similar character: a megalomaniac devoid of empathy, convinced of his own genius, taking credit for other people's work, jumping up and down with excitement when he tho
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It's not as if the Mail and other legacy media have disappeared. X, Meta, Substack etc - a new generation of bigoted billionaire channels - have not replaced the old but are laid on top of it. What we see is that with such tools in their hands, the oligarchs can fool most people, most of the time.
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Rothermere seems to have been a similar character: a megalomaniac devoid of empathy, convinced of his own genius, taking credit for other people's work, jumping up and down with excitement when he thought he had pulled something off. A classic case of Billionaire Brain.
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Brainwashing, 2026 edition. This paper shows how X's algorithmic feed shifts people's views rightwards. It's a sophisticated, highly effective form of reorientation. And it is utterly chilling. If you
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Oh, and I forgot to mention the conspiracy fictions, remarkably similar to some of those promoted by Musk: the Zinoviev letter it published (which it must have suspected was a forgery), the publicity it gave to the Protocols of the Elders of Zion (another forgery) and plenty of similar frothing.
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... introducing ideas of universalism and equality (ie woke), making us "weak" and less "virile". It sang the praises of Mussolini, Hitler and Britain's homegrown fascists. What we are seeing is technologically new but politically old. Potent new technologies used to project toxic old ideas.
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The role of Musk's X in the 2020s is remarkably similar to that of Rothermere's Daily Mail in the 1920s and 1930s. It pushed a narrative which claimed we were being "swamped" by "aliens" (mostly meaning Jews), undermining British interests and values, threatening "our" women and children ...
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Brainwashing, 2026 edition. This paper shows how X's algorithmic feed shifts people's views rightwards. It's a sophisticated, highly effective form of reorientation. And it is utterly chilling.
If you're still on that platform, unhook yourself now.
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A brilliant article that everyone commenting about Iran should read. The Iranian government is not your friend, and never will be, unless you happen to be a clerico-fascist enthusiast of mass torture and mass murder. But weirdly, many in the West who claim to be on the left seem to support it.
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Two things are simultaneously true:
1. The Iranian regime treats its people with extreme brutality and cruelty, and we should honour the citizens seeking to overthrow it.
2. A US attack on Iran would turn a crisis into a catastrophe.
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5. It's been the great weakness of parts of the left ever since the Holodomor. If you are not a universalist, if your humanitarianism applies to some but not to others, fine, walk your own path. But please stop wasting the time and energy of people with consistent principles.
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3. It shouldn't be a difficult concept to grasp, but the nastiest battles I've had are over this issue. Bitter contestations with Noam Chomsky, John Pilger and - much worse - the cult-like movements t
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4. The moment you criticise an enemy of the West, you become an enemy of some on the Western left. Oppose Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Assad's use of chemical weapons or Iran's murder of protesters and you become a "stooge", a "sellout", even a "warmongering imperialist"(!!) It drives me mad.
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3. It shouldn't be a difficult concept to grasp, but the nastiest battles I've had are over this issue. Bitter contestations with Noam Chomsky, John Pilger and - much worse - the cult-like movements they've attracted. Their enemy's enemy must be a friend, however gruesome they may be.
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1. Pointing out that the Iranian regime's actions are horrific does not in any way subtract from the horror of the Israeli government's genocide in Gaza, or from other atrocities. There are, unfortunately, plenty here who seem to believe we should be partisan in our denunciations. They are wrong. 🧵
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Utterly chilling insight into how Keir Starmer's team has been operating from the beginning. As others have been pointing out for years, the Labour Party and the country have been taken for a ride. There was a coup within the party, using a host of dirty tricks.
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I could add almost all the Covid profiteers; the estate owners granted legal immunity for the wildlife crimes their gamekeepers commit (by an estate owner!); the protesting farmers who can shut down t
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"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread."
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I could add almost all the Covid profiteers; the estate owners granted legal immunity for the wildlife crimes their gamekeepers commit (by an estate owner!); the protesting farmers who can shut down the motorway network while green protesters are banged up for marching down the street ... etc etc
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I wish it were true that "no one is above the law". But while the City of London acts as laundromat for the world's dirty money, as almost all fraud and waste crime go unprosecuted, as no one has gone to jail for the financial crash or the poisoning of our rivers, this is manifestly untrue.
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The Iranian regime takes brutality to a whole new level. It will commit any atrocity to maintain its hold on power. The citizens confronting it are among the bravest in the world.
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Yet he has sailed through, untroubled by such exposures, always onto the next set of honours and acclaim. The media seems to have decided he's a genius, and nothing can shake that view.
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In writing this, I focused on a chapter of his that concerned something I knew a bit about. I was flabbergasted. I then discovered that other people had produced similar takedowns of chapters about their own specialisms. I came to the conclusion that he's a charlatan. www.monbiot.com/2018/03/09/c...
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Absolutely we should fear terrorism and seek to prevent it.
But we should also fear those who use either real terrorism or bogus claims about terrorism to boost their own powers, restrict our freedoms and corrode our democracy.
Both present major threats to public life.
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Labour front benchers scratch their heads and wonder why their base has collapsed, why so many people are disillusioned, frustrated, furious. I mean, what is it about pissing on every value and princi
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When you think of the time, effort and money they've wasted on this vicious folly, when we have so many pressing problems, it makes you want to weep with anger. And to see a Labour government bending
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I'm not a party person. I just want a fairer, kinder, greener world. I'm delighted to see how well the Greens are doing. But we also need a strong and sincere Labour Party, and it is an absolute tragedy to see how Keir Starmer and his moral bypass of a government have ruined it.
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When you think of the time, effort and money they've wasted on this vicious folly, when we have so many pressing problems, it makes you want to weep with anger. And to see a Labour government bending over backwards to facilitate genocide and lock up its critics is enough to make anyone despair.
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Labour front benchers scratch their heads and wonder why their base has collapsed, why so many people are disillusioned, frustrated, furious. I mean, what is it about pissing on every value and principle your party once upheld that alienates the electorate? Beats me. 🤔
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Thanks to extreme process-as-punishment measures, many people have suffered greatly for defying this ban, even if they have not been convicted, or will now have their convictions quashed.
It all points to a very grim conclusion: democracy in the UK is being stifled.
By a Labour government.
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The ban was justified by Yvette Cooper, who imposed it when she was Home Secretary, on the grounds that she knew some special secrets about PA the rest of us didn't: a shocking abuse of government privilege. She has never produced this "evidence", and we have reasons to believe it does not exist.
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Nearly 3,000 peaceful people have been arrested under this outrageous ban.
It was brought in after lobbying by arms companies and Netanyahu's government.
It has been condemned by UN rapporteurs and many other experts.
All the while, our government has been collaborating in real state terrorism.
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Palestine Action have WON their judicial review in the High Court!
A massive victory for free speech, freedom of association and the right to protest.
A massive defeat for the draconian attempts by Keir Starmer's government to curtail our fundamental rights.
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A great article by @jasonhickel.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy and @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy. But I do wish we could all stop using the wolf as a metaphor for the worst kinds of human behaviour. Wolves are wonderful creatures, endlessly maligned - and also victims of capitalism.
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This morning we will hear the result of the judicial review of the government's ban on Palestine Action, on the grounds that it's a "terrorist" organisation. An important moment, which could have a major influence on freedom of speech and association in this country.
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Afternoon: "Oh my God, how did that happen?"
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It's disturbing to see how Gordon Brown has whitewashed his reasons for reappointing Mandelson, and his own role in eroding democracy. Mandelson's official business was similar to his unauthorised scheming with Epstein. Don't let them rewrite history.
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"Yes, Gordon Brown had and retains some great qualities, and did much good. But he is also a remarkable escapologist. Almost everyone appears to have forgotten how his PFI programme planted a timebomb in public services. Almost everyone appears to have forgotten his crucial role in the Iraq war."
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"Yes, when Mandelson was a minister in Brown’s government, he betrayed the national interest. But this is what, by other means, he was appointed to do. His treachery, while it went way beyond his official mandate, was not a bug, but a feature. The corrosion of democratic values was institutional."
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"We urgently need to see this for what it is. Mandelson’s grovelling to the sinister rich is disgraceful, disgusting, deceitful, a crushing of women’s rights and of democracy. But it is not a deviation from the system. It is a manifestation of it."
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Ah yes, that age-old justification for crimes against humanity. My bingo card is filling up already.
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8. Perhaps above all, it’s the way policy is decided. There seem to be two main determinants. A. Will this stick it to the Labour left? The whole country must suffer for Starmer’s factional war. Good,
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10. There’s much more, but I’ll leave it there, in the hope that maybe you can begin to understand that Starmer’s detractors aren’t just the bitter, never-satisfied cynics and saboteurs of your imagination, but might actually have a point. Thank you.
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9. B. Does it give business lobbyists what they want? To just as great an extent as the Tories, this government has allowed corporate lobbyists to shape its agenda and shut down competing options. When you see the whole picture, it’s breath-taking. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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8. Perhaps above all, it’s the way policy is decided. There seem to be two main determinants.
A. Will this stick it to the Labour left? The whole country must suffer for Starmer’s factional war. Good, progressive policies are blocked or delayed because they would look like a concession.
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4. Its repeated assaults on benefits - first resisting, beyond all reason, its backbenchers’ demands to end the Tories' vicious two-child benefit cap, before finally relenting, then seeking to throw p
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6. Its misallocation of resources on climate has also been deeply shocking. It is sluicing public money into Carbon Capture and Storage not because it works (it doesn’t) but because it’s a finacial li
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7. The failure to change our disastrous electoral system, which might gift the UK to Reform on a small share of the vote, can, I feel, be understood as a matter of putting party over country and faction over party.
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3. Then there’s the government’s parroting of Reform UK lines on immigration and small boats, despite all the evidence showing that when centrists ape the extreme right they simply empower it. It even
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6. Its misallocation of resources on climate has also been deeply shocking. It is sluicing public money into Carbon Capture and Storage not because it works (it doesn’t) but because it’s a finacial lifeline for the fossil fuel industry.
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2. Linked to its alignment with the Netanyahu government is the Labour government’s assaults on the right to protest at home. Assaults that would have stopped the Labour movement in its tracks: www.th
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5. For me, a massive frustration has been the government’s war on nature: falsely pitching wildlife against human welfare, tearing down essential protections for the tiny scraps of ecosystem that remain here.
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1. Many here seem bemused by the anger and disappointment this government attracts. Please bear with me while I try to explain it. Let’s begin with Gaza. Starmer’s complicity is one of the major reaso
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4. Its repeated assaults on benefits - first resisting, beyond all reason, its backbenchers’ demands to end the Tories' vicious two-child benefit cap, before finally relenting, then seeking to throw people with disabilities into the ditch - has been grim beyond belief.
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3. Then there’s the government’s parroting of Reform UK lines on immigration and small boats, despite all the evidence showing that when centrists ape the extreme right they simply empower it. It even went so far as to mimic Reform’s branding: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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2. Linked to its alignment with the Netanyahu government is the Labour government’s assaults on the right to protest at home. Assaults that would have stopped the Labour movement in its tracks:
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1. Many here seem bemused by the anger and disappointment this government attracts. Please bear with me while I try to explain it.
Let’s begin with Gaza. Starmer’s complicity is one of the major reasons so many people are disillusioned.
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First stage of denial: shoot the messenger.
There's a firing squad on Bluesky, aiming at anyone stating the blinking obvious: that Starmer needs to go ASAP if Labour is to have any chance of recovery before 2029.
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