Itโs remarkable how vocal these โgender-criticalโ academics are about being silenced by the institutions they work for. Itโs almost as if itโs completely untrueโฆ
Itโs remarkable how vocal these โgender-criticalโ academics are about being silenced by the institutions they work for. Itโs almost as if itโs completely untrueโฆ
Inspired, apparently, by the Tory governments attempt to transform the UK into a hostile environment for immigrants, extending the borderzones across the whole country, Starmerโs govt wants big tech companies to tell it how to turn the entire country into an open-plan prison.
Simply breathtaking that the Guardian can publish this article today, referring to the genocidal war on Gaza euphemistically as a โsecurity failureโ. Utterly I nexcusable.
There would have been a point where an atrocity like this provoked international outrage. By this point in the war on Gaza, itโs hard to keep up with the number of war crimes committed by Israel, a country that is relishing the licence itโs been given to commit crime after crime after crime.
Toxic masculinity.
Fascinating to see the war machine at work. Political journalists are playing a key role in treating the imperialist violence of Israel and the US as if itโs driven by a genuine concern for democracy.
The most immoral army in the world?
Genocide, it seems, is no reason not to continue business as usual for the UK govt. As for this headline, how about substituting โshameless hypocrisyโ for โgarbled messagingโ?
Pro-Gaza, anti-genocide graffiti at the Giro dโItalia today. Itโs particularly pointed since one of the owners of the Israeli team competing in the race has described the war on Gaza as a matter of โgood vs evil and civilisation against barbarismโ
It takes a special kind of insight - the superior analytical skills of a political journalist - to write an article at this point in the genocide that insists both sides are to blame.
Well, I suppose, as the individual most responsible for imposing the disaster of Brexit on the UK, heโs got some experience in this field.
I wonder when professional political commentators will announce that weโre allowed to call this fascism?
What?
Of course โcleanseโ is still a euphemism, but Israeli finance minister Smotrich is now open about Israelโs project in Gaza. โCleansingโ is a key term in the lexicon of genocide and fascism
So Israel came second in Eurovision? Whoโs have thought the overlap between fans of camp pop and genocide was so decisive?
I wrote this nearly 3 yrs ago & it's genuinely hard to believe that the "fascism debate" is still ongoing given all that has transpired since then. It's clearโboth tactically & ideologicallyโwhat is unfolding before us. Nothing to gain at this point by continuing to give the benefit of the doubt.
This article exemplifies a key problem in British politics, which is the total, shameful failure of political journalists to interrogate the role of news media in shaping debates. Instead it imagines politics as a direct, unmediated conversation between politicians and voters.
This man is a ghoul. First he wants to follow Putin and grab areas of Ukraine for the US, now he wants to do the same with Gaza, exploiting Israelโs genocidal war for his own advantage.
The problems in our society are not caused by migrants or refugees.
They are caused by an economic system rigged in favour of corporations and billionaires.
If the government wanted to improve peopleโs lives, it would tax the rich and build an economy that works for us all.
I'm so old, I remember when 'British jobs for British workers' was a National Front slogan
I wonder what the difference is between mimicry of far-right scaremongering, and the real thing. Different outfits? Smaller flags?
Yvette Cooper gives an exclusive interview to GB News about her immigration plans, during which the interviewer tells her that some of their viewers live near asylum seekers and their "children can't leave home".
No push back from the Home Secretary
Labour voters today...
โIncalculableโ is a carefully chosen weasel word, since all the global historical data indicates that immigration doesnโt damage economies or standards of living - and so the damage literally canโt be evidenced or calculated. But of course thatโs not what youโre meant to hear.
He will know there's no statistical data to support the idea that immigration is economically damaging, and he will also know that one of the most important jobs of a political leader is to attempt to shape public opinion, so what conclusion to draw other than that this his 'core values' are racist?
So โtaking back controlโ of our borders is now a โcore valueโ of the Labour Party, along with austerity economics, transphobia and support for genocide. This is unforgivable. Starmerโs key achievement so far is stamping on any signs of a more progressive, more compassionate politics.
One of the striking features of serious political journalism is its systematic, selective amnesia. Trumpโs position on the genocide in Gaza has been obscene, but itโs not radically different from that of politicians whoโve attacked any criticism of Israel, however measured, as antisemitic.