This is great. Here's @owenjones.bsky.social basically doing the WKUK bit on TV, but about how in the UK you can't legally say you support the group Palestine Action.
Pivot from Mandelson:
A consultant from Peter Mandelson’s lobbying firm Global Counsel said Business Secretary Peter Kyle was acting too like Peter Mandelson and should “pivot” away from being so Mandelson-y, in conversations with one of Kyle’s officials. morningstaronline.co.uk/article/oppo...
This rather speaks to this analysis of the value of political paranoia. Sometimes they are out to get you! Sometimes world affairs are run by a small group of people!
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Part of the genesis was the notable difference in reaction of mainstream political commentators vs. dismissed left voices - ‘shitposters’, ‘dirtbags’, etc. - who had been shouting into the void for years.
Also the fact the UK gov. almost toppled & political studies seemed totally unprepared (2/2)
I have a provocatively titled piece in the latest issue of @renewaljournal.bsky.social, in which I propose that among the lessons of the “Epstein files” revelations is the value of a properly directly, healthy paranoia suited to an age of opaque networks, dark money, and unaccountable elites. (1/2)
I have a provocatively titled piece in the latest issue of @renewaljournal.bsky.social, in which I propose that among the lessons of the “Epstein files” revelations is the value of a properly directly, healthy paranoia suited to an age of opaque networks, dark money, and unaccountable elites. (1/2)
The UFC is doing a very clever thing: they have given each fighter an honor guard that includes a medal of honor recipient, which means every service member must salute as the fighter walks past
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Pivot from Mandelson: the advice from Global CounselA TOP consultant from Peter Mandelson’s lobbying firm Global Counsel suggested Business Secretary Peter Kyle was acting too like Peter Mandelson and...
I have a provocatively titled piece in the latest issue of @renewaljournal.bsky.social, in which I propose that among the lessons of the “Epstein files” revelations is the value of a properly directly, healthy paranoia suited to an age of opaque networks, dark money, and unaccountable elites. (1/2)
Subscribe to read: @daimoon.bsky.social on how the Epstein Files show the need for "political paranoia", and why social democrats should pay attention to "parapolitics"
renewal.org.uk/articles/in-...
Subscribe to read: @daimoon.bsky.social on how the Epstein Files show the need for "political paranoia", and why social democrats should pay attention to "parapolitics"
renewal.org.uk/articles/in-...
The Texas GOP just brought an elephant into the convention hall and it apparently pissed all over the place
