i feel by (potentially) 2026 midterms and (definitely) 2028, the global anglosphere right will genuinely be so fucking odd
Certainly the past couple of years have made me think of Putin vs Khodorkovsky in a different light.
So so so vapid, a distinguished successor to blue passports and proper London buses
Pèlerinage chez/hommage à Jeanne
Ok this is a bit more succinct
bsky.app/profile/adam...
Talk about making the subtext text: a decade of popunativists saying no it’s not immigration it’s culture and a decade of politicians cringing in the face of demands to end the future comes down to this binary do you want a future Y/N
I wish we had numbers on how many actual people are on there anymore. Dying for that leak. It is practically nobody.
OTOH talk of a youth social media ban, while not subtle, is encouraging as evidence that government is finally engaging with the problem of social media. OTOH the fact that they're posting about it ON TWITTER as if it was just a platform makes me doubt how on top of the issues they are
Sharon
Exactly 10 years ago today, Labour MP Jo Cox was murdered by a far-right man. She was just 41 years old. One of many victims of far-right terrorism. R.I.P. 💔
I think about this poem by Ian Duhig — about Jo Cox, the Labour MP assassinated by a man shouting ‘Britain first’ — every day at the moment. No other contemporary poet has looked so clearly at the political reality of the far right as a minority who must always be appeased
