“It’s all very well to scream at me that the medical establishment knows best”. Here’s someone characterising factual disagreement or mild criticism as “screaming”. I see this more and more, and it never convinces me to trust the author.
Yes that’s what I was trying to get at.
I think you’re right. I had most of these books (I’m amazed to see how many!) and they presented a view of the world that was prevalent in the 60s/70s. I don’t have that view now. Those books inspired a love of learning in me, and I’m grateful for them, even if I don’t subscribe to their politics.
It was torture wasn’t it
@annaturley.bsky.social Please, please learn what the word fulsome means. You just used it about eight times on the radio and I don’t think you know what it means.
1.4 billion??
No, he was taken along the first time and found it so incredible that he persuaded friends to join him for repeat visits.
A friend of mine saw this several times, and still talks, with a faraway look in his eyes, of “The Fields of Ambrosia where everyone knows ya.”
Probably a coincidence, but I’ve heard three right wingers on the Today Programme this week - Montgomerie, Shriver, Grothman - and they all sounded like they were on powerful tranquilisers. Slow, slurred speech. Vagueness. Anyone else noticed this?
That must be it
“The murky hands of globalist technocrats”. Apart from everything else, can one have murky hands?
Joy
Slightly off topic but are those ears real?
Thank you!
I’m in the UK but thanks, I’ll look into it.
Oh great! My 29 year old son is into left wing politics, the union movement, non-league football, grass roots cricket and veganism. That makes him sound like a pain in the arse but actually he’s great and funny. I’m just a bit stuck for a book this year. He also likes post punk music eg The Fall.
And I still can’t see one. But this is just awful. Wicked. I feel conned.
I think I held on for so long because there seemed to be no better engine to build a fairer society. I wasn’t very active. I occasionally leafleted, and went where I was sent on election day, even if I disagreed with the leadership of the time, because I couldn’t see a viable alternative. (cont)
I’ve just resigned from the Labour Party. I’ve been a member most of my adult life. I put up with all sorts: Chaos. Hopeless leadership. Maurice Glasman. But this despicable new immigration policy is the last straw. I feel no relief, just sadness.
I think a lot of us are. Maybe most of us.
I’m 59 years old and attended my first West Ham game in 1974. I think tonight’s game has finally broken me. Fuck off West Ham. You have no identity or ethos any more. You don’t even have a football ground. That porn baron and his associates have taken everything.
So stupid of Jenrick. Loads of people know about football, and care about the truth, and we know he’s lying. Who on earth does he think this bollocks appeals to?
I wish I could remember who it was
Someone funnier than me said on here, or maybe on the bad place, that Jean Paul Sartre could have seen Every Which Way But Loose.
actual good internet
How does this work if one is an old, technologically incompetent person from the UK?
I’m pretty sure this a publicity photo from Martin McDonagh’s Hangmen, which we were both in, in New York. Lovely man. Please remember me to him if you’re in touch.
Is the comma in the wrong place? I don’t think I’ve ever properly understood the rules about that sort of thing.
Well that was brilliant
My first time and I’m loving it!
