Brighton-based anti-authoritarian writer and historian from Lebanon.
I write about bad stuff and I’m still full of hope.
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It can't be overstated how he really doesn't know how anything works but was mythologized as a supergenius engineer by a shitty press
My favourite World Cup story was several years ago, I think the 2010 one.
Some guy in Lebanon was flying the Nazi flag. I was shocked. I go to him expecting a serious argument.
Turns out he genuinely didn’t know that Germany had a different flag.
Yeah. I think this is true.
The good thing is the actual sway of public opinion in the UK is massively, *massively and overwhelmingly*, against the racist hooligans. They're a small minority here. The bad news is that various facts about our political system and media ecosystem may mean that fact doesn't matter.
If you go on X, you’d think that the fascists outnumbered us. They didn’t. We outnumbered them in Brighton, Glasgow, Sheffield and Belfast.
A reminder that the UK government continues to use X for core comms even as X is being used to spread White nationalism.
Always read @ayoub.bsky.social.
The cover of Scotland's national newspaper.
Read this! A short analysis of the media's role in mainstreaming racist far-right discourse, stoking racist violence, that's applicable far beyond the UK.
We're hearing reports that the Neo-Nazi rally may still be happening tomorrow, June 14. It was officially cancelled because a counter was planned but there seems to be some activity attempting to bring people out. It's planned for McGill Parkette at 2 pm., across from 419 Yonge. We may need counter
