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coming soon: 'Starmerism without Starmer'

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

some of the details in this BBC investigation of Reeves at HBOS are jaw dropping. this is a regulated retail finance company. every employee has to take a compliance test once a year that covers exactly why this sort of behaviour is a big fat nope. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

quick thread on how Trump's manner is gonna intensify the crises within the US's Western allies. all imho and who the f am I ofc.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

went to see The Man Who Fell To Earth on the big screen last night and while the shots of New Mexico are amazing and Bowie is a treat, I'd kinda forgotten that pretty much nothing happens in the final third of the film.

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

the 1976 bbc horror series BEASTS: specifically this episode (= "Baby") (@bat020.bsky.social posted this image on twitter last year and the hairs on my arms stood up in shock-memory)

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

thumbs up for Nosferatu, an atmospheric and original take on classic material. tips over into the hammy at times but hey it is a vampire movie. ending worked well I thought.

submitted 46 days ago • 5 comments

seeing as the body of an enemy is floating by – here's a snap of the Anti Nazi League website in April 2003, hand coded by me in HTML using Windows Notepad. wayback machine link: web.archive.org/web/20030601...

submitted 51 days ago • 2 comments

PSA: commutative diagrams in category theory are MUCH easier to read when drawn from right to left.

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

if you want something GOOD and FREE to do in London for an hour or so do check out the Peter Kennard exhibition Archive of Dissent which is on at the Whitechapel Gallery until 19 Jan.

submitted 67 days ago • 2 comments

TIL >> Quine's "From A Logical Point Of View" was named after a Harry Belafonte calypso track he heard in Greenwich Village on a nite out

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

These are hard times for lots of people - sometimes too hard. Just heard my mum’s oldest friend has lost her son to suicide. I remember him from when we were kids. It feels so wrong that I’m here but he is not. Please, if you’re feeling very down, ring Samaritans first: 116 123 www.samaritans.org

submitted 79 days ago • 1 comment

Excellent interview with Syrian-Swiss writer/activist Joseph Daher. Detail of events on the ground - for example regarding the rebellion and the politics of HTS - with sharp analysis about international politics and how the British and American left should respond. tempestmag.org/2024/12/unde...

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

v detailed account of what has happened in Syria in the last few days drawn from multiple sources. theirantiimperialismandours.com/2024/12/07/t...

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submitted 82 days ago • 1 comment

archive of today's Bloomberg article on Labour shitting it at Starmer's political incompetence. it's a hoot. one thing to note: everyone quoted burbles on about "messaging", "boldness", "imagination": questions of political ~direction~ are still off limits. archive.is/80bIO

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

absolutely glorious reading all these news reports about how the motive is Unknown and everyone is Baffled by how it could have happened, do keep it up chaps.

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

Agence France-Press, the French news agency, reports that Assad's troops have left Homs. The Syrian Human Rights Observatory confirms it. I think that's it. If true, and I think it's true, it's all over for Assad

submitted 83 days ago • 1 comment

late nite spitballing here: senior cadre of today's British r/c were university students in the late 80s/90s (my generation), ie *after* the critical class battles of the period had been fought and won by the ascendent neoliberal order. >>

submitted 84 days ago • 1 comment

must-read piece on Syria from David Hearst here: detailed, well informed and clear eyed. www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/how-...

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

Found a translation of Le Petit Prince into Piemontese dialect, assumed that with a mix of French and Italian I'd be able to make most of it, proved to be badly wrong

submitted 88 days ago • 10 comments

sorry to be a cynic but circa 80% of the Oxford students voting to condemn Israel tonight will ditch and bury their "principles" within five years, ie the moment it becomes inconvenient to their precious careers.,

submitted 90 days ago • 2 comments

revsoc21.uk/2024/11/29/l...

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