Excellent piece by @danhancox.bsky.social on how Kanye West, openly racist,sexist, anti-semitic,homophobic for years & making money off his hate, should NOT be playing prestige gigs in London or anywhere—but the greed of promoters like Live Nation made this happen
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Pedro Sánchez’s lone stance against Trump may look risky but the truth is he is a sound strategist at home and abroad. Few other centre-left leaders have shown his instinct for seizing political moments in recent decades.
My opinion piece in The Guardian today:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Væry excited tø reåd this!
Agreed - so is Apple, and Google. You can get the pod from any platform you like tho
Hahaha 👏
"Davos hand warmer" sounds like a Private Eye euphemism for a bribe but no a real thing
Turns out Davos is the centre not just of elite level capitalist power but also elite level cursed objects open.spotify.com/episode/2zNN...
Another new @cursedobjectsuk.bsky.social episode, with a very special guest on a very timely subject: Davos, its weird global elites and weirder freebies cursedobjects.podbean.com/e/davos-hand...
This was my first week of it, for obvious reasons, and it was grimly revealing - the first one AC just scoffs in disbelief a lot. The second and third he is angrier about being 'betrayed'
Omg so well put
And fascinating to hear so many pundits express their shock and awe that neoliberal capitalism and a healthy democracy might (gasp) be working in opposition to one another... and then making soft sops to the idea of limiting the influence of big money on politics - which they will forget in a week
It has been extraordinary listening to The Rest is Politics this week, listening to Campbell trying (and often struggling) in real time to formulate the best response to the implication of the entire New Labour project in this
And to come at it from a "wider culture" angle, to supplement the (terrible) data, as @jonathanliew.bsky.social has covered, "Keir Starmer is a wanker" was effectively a national meme before the Epstein files were released! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Mixing my platforms but the point stands
Story quickly becomes a lot less weird if you are even vaguely aware of Labour Together
phew yes stay alto! hope it passes asap and without incident.(hope this isn't rubbing it in but i'm going to sta cruz de tenerife, woo - just going to keep going south till i find some sun lol)
Thought I'd finally read Doppelganger by Naomi Klein and, well, quite
Morning, crossing fingers for you! Heavy rain up here in Sevilla too (supposed to be flying out this afternoon)
As a season ticket holder for a League 1 football club who will likely be back in League 2 next season, this comparison struck a particularly acute note, lol
It is a constant source of derangement to me that I spent my entire 20s lamenting New Labour's reactionary degradation of Labour history, only to realise now how much more progressive they were than Starmer's administration. A brilliant piece by Alan here
This mendacious drivel should be a resigning issue, for both the author and anyone who thought it was right to publish it
Yesterday I happened to be listening to Tony Benn's diaries from the 2000s, when his son Hilary became an MP. Seeing his name on this proud Labour announcement... ugh
Sincere thanks Phlegm! If that is even your real name
Loool ffs and thank you - a typo i am apparently so uniquely blind to that i missed it in both the substack i proofread 20 times, and your reply here 🤦 thanks for persevering in the face of my idiot brain, will correct that now!
Thanks so much! I mean yeah technically it's monochrome I guess? Rather than entirely black. That is what he wore tho 🤷
New Substack from me - on "the battle for the soul of this country", fascism and UK rap's Flag Play danhancox.substack.com/p/i-think-i-...
New Substack from me - on "the battle for the soul of this country", fascism and UK rap's Flag Play danhancox.substack.com/p/i-think-i-...
hahaha - yes i am always saying this ;)
Lol amazing thank you
