In all seriousness, she is too right wing for the pre-Truss Tories

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Starmer didn't appoint Mandelson; Mandelson appointed Starmer

Post-show discussion: Anya Reiss on A Doll's House The playwright on swapping patriarchy for capitalism, doing research with finance bros, and ditching the famous door slam

Today in our latest post-show discussion, editor @hollywilliams.bsky.social talks to playwright Anya Reiss about her new version of A Doll’s House at the Almeida, dir. Joe Hill-Gibbins: mining finance bros for insights, writing for her friend Romola Garai, and her decisions to deviate...

Shabana Mahmood swears at ‘white liberal’ hecklers over Reform remarks Home secretary accuses protesters of trying to ‘delegitimise’ concerns people have over immigration

For the Labour government, if you're not an old white man convinced fascism is the only way forward, you are not part of "the people"

You are part of naive youth, the woke identity politics minorities, white liberals etc but you are not "the people" and it doesn't matter if you're the vast majority

Olly Robbins, Mandelson & Labour Together Olly Robbins, the senior civil servant, sacked by Starmer, has been giving evidence to a Commons Committee on the vetting of Peter Mandelson while he was being appointed US Ambassador at the back e…

Organisations of the Labour right have long existed- the Campaign for Democratic Socialism in the 1960s & after but Labour Together was different, not in its politics but in how it was run & funded. @johnmcdonnellmp.bsky.social rightly called for an investigation in the Commons
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It’s a nightmare on Downing Street: Starmer has no one left to blame for this Mandelson horror show | Marina Hyde Olly Robbins’s testimony will have been painful for the PM. The No 10 omnishambles was publicly laid bare – and Keir’s fresh out of scapegoats, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

Does Keir Starmer know why he is Prime Minister & what the point of a Starmer Premiership is? As Marina Hyde writes: "Cleaning up after himself has become a full-time job." Can't wait to have it all explained in the Tom Baldwin revised biography.
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‘Reefer Madness,’ the P.S.A. That Backfired Spectacularly The comically self-serious and outrageous 1936 morality tale, which warned the public about marijuana, became an unintentional parody and midnight-movie classic decades later.

“Reefer Madness,” the comically self-serious and outrageous 1936 morality tale, became an unintentional parody and midnight-movie classic decades later. Today, it also stands as a key artifact of a particular brand of moral panic of the 1930s. nyti.ms/4mDJMvj

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Book cover: The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War On Democracy by Gil Duran

Fascists hate to be called out as fascists. Too bad.

Coming soon:

The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War On Democracy.

Yes, they are fascists. Yes, they must be crushed.

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Lovely poster. "Health and social assistance". The old world of charity fading in the background.
By Valencian artist Vicente Ballester Marco for the CNT, 1937

We’re defending Western Civilization by kicking Plato and Shakespeare out of university classes.

Worth noting that while Keir Starmer is being very indignant over proper appointment procedures, he appointed the current cabinet secretary through an expedited process *in the middle of the Mandelson scandal*.

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It's just interesting how every time we hear a new tale of bumbling incompetence or blatant corruption which traces back to his hand and his desk, there suddenly appears a 3-layer firewall of aides who were concealing it all from him. It makes you wonder if the PM is in charge of anything at all.

Trying to protect Keir Starmer by constantly defectling blame to an ever-extending list of malicious/deceiving/incompetent actors only begs the question as to why he was repeatedly sold to the public as a master operator if he's apparently barely even competent enough to tie his own shoes.

This is Peter Thiel’s Palantir to whom the UK government is openly giving uncontested contracts.

Jeff and Susie Greene from 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' in a previous life.

"You've given me a 'poem' YOU wrote for MY birthday! What: they'd run out of flowers at the garage?"

can we just get to this century’s night of the long knives already, this is taking forever

Alex Karp is an embarrassment to humanity.

The Trump regime’s primary export is horseshit.

Luca Guadagnino Wants a Difficult Opera to Break Free of Polemics

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The true confessions of Will Self | The Observer Once a rock star novelist, years of ill health and a brutal divorce have left the author wrestling with morality and mortality

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‘After all the horrible things we’ve been through,’ he said to me, ‘if I die of cancer, it will make a bad story’: Siri Hustvedt on losing Paul Auster First there was the double tragedy that tore the family apart – then came a deadly diagnosis. The writer reflects on life after the death of her novelist husband

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Extremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement

The striking stained glass window in Belfast City Hall commemorating the International Brigades. 48 mainly working class men volunteered from the city.
Gandesa, Belchite, Madrid, Brunete, Teruel, Córdoba....
Thanks to Paul Mullen for this photo.

Sound up for the nightingales

I'm a broken record on this but the radicalisation and brain rot of Gen X/boomers is a massively under-appreciated problem

Lost Federico García Lorca verse discovered 93 years after it was written Eight-line poem found on the back of a manuscript sheds light on Spanish poet’s preoccupation with time

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An extract from IF WE TOLERATE THIS is today's Guardian Long Read.

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