Think that’s it for my @newstatesman.com subscription. I don’t give a sh*t what Bannon was really up to. If you can’t draw a red line around literal Hitler salutes (which should not come with pathetic “scare quotes”) you are part of the problem
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Again one reason Musk & Bannon do nazi salutes in public is to see who is spineless enough to still make excuses for them. They may as well rebrand as Spiked by this point
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“It’s not a Nazi salute it is a stiff armed gesture of spontaneous enthusiasm” - New Statesman
I simply don't understand why someone would surrender their humanity by equivocating on something so utterly irredeemable.
Barnes , heywood, Hamble, dunno, cowley and many at this rag are badenoch / gove cheer leaders
Cowley has turned it into the spectator lite
If this is a progressive magazine then the Overton window has moved far the the then Maggie was a member of the NUM
You do sometimes wonder if many journos brains can reach back into history further than a single news cycle.
This was pure Riefenstahl.