I've always wondered about Vikki de Lambray.
04.03.2026 11:08
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I've always wondered about Vikki de Lambray.
He was asked about his relationship with J.Edgar Hoover and explained it's like owning a camel. 'Do you want him inside your tent pissing out or outside the tent pissing in?'
LBJ was a bad man who did some good things. He also said some great lines.
One really ought to keep track of the various sects within that division, just as one ought to have some idea of the various branches of Buddhism, Hinduism and Judaism. And indeed of Christianity.
All these things have real world consequences as well as being intellectually/nerdidhly fascinating.
I envy you reading this for the first time unspoiled...
I'm part of a generation of trans women for whom doing a certain amount of sex work was, or always might be, a regrettable necessity. Most of us managed to move on from it mostly undamaged.
Those feminists who believe that eliminating trans people is a desirable or possible goal need to accept that they are actually engaged -however inadvertently- in procuring vulnerable kids for the Predator Elite.
For Epstein and Bannon promoting transphobia was primarily about creating a parish group convenient for the scare tactics of Fascism. For some of their accomplices like Trivers it was about trans girls as fuel for their desires.
Given some of the stuff in the Epstein files, the bonus for the Predator Elite of making trans lives really difficult is that, while some trans kids will kill themselves, others will just accept sexual availability/ servitude as the price paid for being able to transition at all.
It's an extraordinary version and essay. Josie is very good on technique - her essay describes her process of solving technical problems - I came to many of the same solutions in my translation of the same poem but I did it intuitively. Josie's just smarter than me, I fear.
Was it a Lombroso thing? Certain sorts of ear lobe or their absence were supposed to indicate criminality or sexual depravity. It went on into the 1920s - in Hammett's The Dain Curse.
When I definitively transitioned in 79, I had enough backstory that I couldn't disappear unless I moved to another country. And I had tried that and it sucked.
I could not have had the moderately successful career I have had 'under the radar'.
I have a copy. I'm sure there are more of us on here.
There are a lot of women in the Silmarillion...
Of all the SF novels I read as a teenager, Spinrad's BUG JACK BARRON turns out to be the one that got the future right. With Pohl and Kornbluyh's GLADIATOR AT LAW and Brunner's three dystopias - JAGGED ORBIT, STAND ON ZANZIBAR and THE SHEEP LOOK UP -running it close.
When I write poetry, I'm a neoformalist neoclassicist. The RHAPSODY books are my love letter to pulp genres braided a meditation on power and restraint. TINY PIECES OF SKULL
was a mixture of memoir, noir and dark comedy. If there's ever a new book,heaven knows what it'll be like.
Starmer was Mandelson's creation to finish destroying Left Labour - even centre Left figures like Rayner. How can the puppet be left in place now the puppet master is finally gone?
Just a reminder that my In Conversation event at Peckham Library is tonight at 6.
Proof is needed in order to be able to scrap the deals.
We need access to Mandelson's financial affairs to check that eg Government contracts with Palantir were not entered into because he was paid to lobby for them.
Get Palantir out of the UK.
Protect our NHS.
Protect our country.
www.thenational.scot/news/2582860...
Luckily...
Lucy Powell is going to be a crucial influence and Phillipson and Reeves will be demoted because Rayner owes them nothing.
That's appalling - clearly an idiot.
Mandelson was known as the Prince of Darkness and Starmer believed he was telling the truth?
Atlee was hardly on the Left of the party in the 40s. He was the Centre holding the party together with Bevan and Crisps on the Left and Bevin and Gaitskell in the Right.
Someone needs to talk sense to the donors. Farage is 1 a traitor and 2 a buffoon. The donors will lose their shirts if Britain becomes Airstrip One or the 51st Oblast.
A Milliband and restoration? I suspect he'd rather play kingmaker, get Deputy leader on a Rayner ticket and be Chancellor or Foreign Secretary
They have no real policies except looking at what the Left would do and doing the opposite.
Labour Together must be removed altogether.
A new PM must sack the lot in Day One. Ideally Lammy should do it while caretaking having announced he won't stand himself.
