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aziz gilani @TexasVC • 1d X When someone uses casual bigotry to bolster an argument it tells you a lot about the person and their argument. Noah Smith @Noahpini... 2d I am not happy about the growth of Islamoleftism in America. We're following the UK down this path and it's not good. x.com/DrewPavlou/sta... 24 せ1 • 233 贝 ① Noah Smith @Noahpinion•1d • ... It's not bigotry to be worried about this poisonous ideology. 22 {7 19 1.5K il 23K 冂 企 Rick von Hagn @r_vonhagn •10 You've polarized yourself into the logic of an antisemite; you just substituted 'judeo-bolshevism' for 'islamoleftism'. 4 • 273 ılı| 5.9K ... Noah Smith @Noahpinion•1d • .. That's not correct. "Judeo-bolshevism" was a theory that Jews secretly supported Bolshevism. Islamoleftism is merely the observation that some leftists openly want to promote and ally with Islamism.

Rick von Hagn @r_vonhagn •10 Sure Noah, nobody has ever accused communists of conspiring with Jews to undermine and overthrow Western society, totally different L74 630 ill 7.3K Noah Smith @Noahpinion X.com It is totally different. For one thing, most Muslims despise Islamism -- especially people from countries where they've seen it tried. In addition, I'm not alleging any conspiracy or secret machinations at all -- everything is plain and out in the open. 5:32 pm - 19/11/2025 • 7.2K Views • 5 {7 2 54 冂 2 企 Relevant y View quotes › Rick von Hagn @r_vonhagn • 10 X I suppose they're not the same. Its like the difference between saying 'Noah Smith keeps openly falling for reactionary propaganda' and 'Noah Smith secretly harbors sympathies with race science and doesn't want his DMs with certain HBM proponents leaked'. 2 {7 5 329 ill 2.8K 1 Noah Smith @Noahpinion.1d @ ... I'm not bothered by your stupid insults. The basic point here is that what you said earlier was dumb and wrong.

People remember who you are, Noah. This was from November 2025. He’s got a reputation

Jonathan Haidt and Rob Henderson I reckon

He was great before that though. Had shit nailed down . Such insight

I think I first noticed it with him a few years after that, when he started being friendly with Jordan "Cremieux" Lasker (amongst others). What said a lot though was the British Sensibles didn't start to turn on him until he came out with this

Hadn't heard of him, thank you (although weirdly I have heard of his PhD supervisor, Seymour Martin Lipset; bit of a political science OG)

Rethinking Labour's Past by Nathan Yeowell. Can't remember who wrote that specific chapter though sorry (just tried to find the book but no luck! It's hidden away somewhere)

So Starmers then Director of Comms, another Labour right figure & friend of Mandelsons, waved through Mandelsons appointment.

The same man KS later gave a peerage too, despite the fact he'd campaigned for someone who'd been charged with possessing indecent images of children

But but they're getting rid of hereditary peers...

Report on Mandelson mentioning “The Telegraph reported on these links extensively in January 2024”

It’s striking how the press pack hive mind instantly recalled a Polanski interview from 2013 as soon as it was relevant, and instantly forgot “extensive” 2024 Telegraph reporting on Mandelson’s friendship with a child sex trafficker when that became inconvenient.

Robert Peston @Peston • 28m X Attached is the Cabinet Office's summary of what was known of Mandelson's relationship with Epstein at the end of 2024. It is not at all clear why this wasn't sufficient for the PM to veto Mandelson's appointment as ambassador in Washington Relationship with Jeffrey Epstein • A 2019 report commissioned by JPMorgan found that Epstein appeared to "maintain a particularly close relationship with Prince Andrew the Duke of York and Lord Peter Mandelson, a senior member of the British government". The report cited Epstein's personal records which showed contact beginning in 2002 and continuing throughout the 2000s. • After Epstein was first convicted of procuring an underage girl in 2008, their relationship continued across 2009-2011, beginning when Lord Mandelson was Business Minister and continuing after the end of the Labour government. Mandelson reportedly stayed in Epstein's House while he was in jail in June 2009. • In 2014 Mandelson also agreed to be a "founding citizen" of an ocean conservation group founded by Ghislaine Maxwell, and funded by Epstein. • On reporting of the JP Morgan report, Lord Mandelson's spokesperson said "Lord Mandelson very much regrets ever having been introduced to Epstein. This connection has been a matter of public record for some time. He never had any kind of professional or business relationship with Epstein in any form." • The Telegraph reported on these links extensively in January 2024-https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/01/10/lord-mandelson-friendship-jeffr ey-epstein-keir-starmer/ A Labour Party spokesperson has previously commented saying "There are a whole range of people that Keir Starmer talks to. Obviously he talks to people who were part of the last Labour government, including Peter Mandelson." • The Cabinet Office holds official records that are likely to be released by the National Archives early next year, which relate to a Tony Blair meeting with Epstein that was facilitated by Mandelson…

McSweeney: (angrily pacing the carpet in Sir Keir’s office) So alright, he might have been friends with a sex trafficker, but this is *Peter Mandelson*

Sir Keir: Please calm down, Morgan

McSweeney: Peter *fucking* Mandelson

Just thought I'd put this one out there again for no reason whatsoever

Stick or twist? Why the UK's net-zero strategy is faltering and may need to change

A good rejoinder to the "But line been going down" decoupling believers: pureportal.strath.ac.uk/en/publicati...

UK junk food ad ban so diluted it may be largely ineffective, experts say Exclusive: Report suggests only 1% of annual spend on food and drink adverts will be affected after industry lobbying

A metaphor for everything that's wrong with Labour. In thrall to their corporate sponsors, happy to outsource policy-making to industry lobbyists, in denial about the major impact this will have on people's health long-term and the resultant pressures on the NHS.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

It's no longer OK for you to sit in the house of Lords because your dad did.
But if your mate put you there?
That's fine.
Neither of these really feel like democracy to me.

There’s going to be endless bullshit from the government about why this isn’t doable though

The real black pill is that the guy convicted of the My Lai massacre was pretty popular.

Speaking of misogyny, it's like climate people are the woman who just need to be more beautiful, sexy, charming, irresistible, flawless, understanding so the man will behave himself. No pressure on the man to stop the bad behavior.

Exactly. The House of Lords should be reserved for people with incredibly worrying views about freedom of speech and due process

Peter Mandelson, the Russian superyacht and the scandal we completely misread When Britain's most powerful political fixer was caught on an oligarch's boat in Corfu, we called it Yachtgate and moved on. The Epstein files now reveal the full picture: a web of Russian money, paed...

We are just begin to get an inkling of how deeply embedded Peter Mandelson and Tony Blair were/are with the sinister rich. Every time you think you've seen the worst of it, something else emerges.
www.thenerve.news/p/peter-mand...

My least favourite (I say least favourite, I mean sworn enemies) are the ones who think every problem can be solved with some sort of gamified app

I don't want to do a whole long rant on this, so I'll just say: the reason fossil fuels & other aligned incumbents don't want to transition to clean energy is that it will *damage their material interests*. And folks, they understand their own material interests. Really well!

It's quite tragic really that someone with influence in the Labour Party sees NIMBYism as some sort of Econ 101 incentives clash that can't be solved with better leadership and engagement. There's so much stuff out there on how to do it better, some of which fits within James' Sensible proclivities

He wrote for Harry's Place?! Well there we go, another example of the Euston Manifesto -> Far-Right pipeline theory

Yeah, not sure their trying to frame left-wing ideas as mid-tier A-level politics is going to work a second time round

'Labour’s quiet quest for democratic renewal' - LabourList A Labour government bold enough to communities lead could make huge strides towards restoring trust in our democracy and redistributing power.

I think they know exactly what he's referring to, because people in Labour have made the argument themselves , e.g. labourlist.org/2026/02/labo...

Again, something that hasn't helped is people like Ed West being praised by some of our most influential pundits (bsky.app/profile/magi...), being mates with some of our most popular accounts (bsky.app/profile/magi...), and being promoted by some of our leading researchers (bsky.app/profile/magi...)

How have we got to GB News platforming openly fascist people and viewpoints?

*Taps one of many signs*

I'd say the likes of The Spectator, The Critic, UnHerd, and Quillette have been leading up to this moment for longer than then really

Plus others in the likes of The Critic, Quillette, UnHerd etc etc