Simian Justice
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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Through its knee-jerk attack on a prominent Black woman, I wonder whether the Mail has found a deeper truth.
How many, through reading the Mail, became so toxic their children and grandchildren no longer enjoy seeing them? How many readers are asking themselves 'will this be me?'
How many, through reading the Mail, became so toxic their children and grandchildren no longer enjoy seeing them? How many readers are asking themselves 'will this be me?'
December 7, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Through its knee-jerk attack on a prominent Black woman, I wonder whether the Mail has found a deeper truth.
How many, through reading the Mail, became so toxic their children and grandchildren no longer enjoy seeing them? How many readers are asking themselves 'will this be me?'
How many, through reading the Mail, became so toxic their children and grandchildren no longer enjoy seeing them? How many readers are asking themselves 'will this be me?'
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my great-grandparents arrived in the UK in the 1890s with nothing.
they sold pickles from the front room window, took in laundry, worked as tailors.
their children were nurses, teachers, salesmen.
their grandchildren were professors, designers, opticians, doctors, magistrates, entrepreneurs.
they sold pickles from the front room window, took in laundry, worked as tailors.
their children were nurses, teachers, salesmen.
their grandchildren were professors, designers, opticians, doctors, magistrates, entrepreneurs.
December 7, 2025 at 8:59 AM
my great-grandparents arrived in the UK in the 1890s with nothing.
they sold pickles from the front room window, took in laundry, worked as tailors.
their children were nurses, teachers, salesmen.
their grandchildren were professors, designers, opticians, doctors, magistrates, entrepreneurs.
they sold pickles from the front room window, took in laundry, worked as tailors.
their children were nurses, teachers, salesmen.
their grandchildren were professors, designers, opticians, doctors, magistrates, entrepreneurs.
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📻 Weekend listening 📻 Liz Pelly joins PTO to talk all things Spotify. We spoke about the self-serving myths Spotify's founders have peddled about the history of the company, how the platform impacts musicians, and its insidious consequences for music listening:
Spotify unwrapped w/ Liz Pelly
Podcast Episode · Politics Theory Other · 12/03/2025 · 1h 36m
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December 6, 2025 at 10:01 AM
📻 Weekend listening 📻 Liz Pelly joins PTO to talk all things Spotify. We spoke about the self-serving myths Spotify's founders have peddled about the history of the company, how the platform impacts musicians, and its insidious consequences for music listening:
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Everyone involved knows Mel is a virulently racist fascist lunatic with horrendous views on the use of massive, murderous violence against civilians. But there she still is on Sky News, because her crackpottery is well within acceptable opinion, for our political/media class.
December 7, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Everyone involved knows Mel is a virulently racist fascist lunatic with horrendous views on the use of massive, murderous violence against civilians. But there she still is on Sky News, because her crackpottery is well within acceptable opinion, for our political/media class.
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It is incredible to me how made up this issue is. No one gave a shit ten years ago. Sure there were your individual mad, ignorant bigots but *Theresa May* was pushing for self-ID because it was the last little bit of logistical sorting out of a settled question: we're ok with Trans people
December 6, 2025 at 1:33 PM
It is incredible to me how made up this issue is. No one gave a shit ten years ago. Sure there were your individual mad, ignorant bigots but *Theresa May* was pushing for self-ID because it was the last little bit of logistical sorting out of a settled question: we're ok with Trans people
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Good to see society can be reduced to people who either "give" or "take".
Is it healthy that the people who run government see the people they govern that way?
Is it healthy that the people who run government see the people they govern that way?
December 7, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Good to see society can be reduced to people who either "give" or "take".
Is it healthy that the people who run government see the people they govern that way?
Is it healthy that the people who run government see the people they govern that way?
Who has the hiring and firing power over the set-piece coach at Liverpool is an interesting question. I'm guessing from his comments it's not Arne Slot and he's rightfully a bit pissed off with how badly they are costing us this season.
December 7, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Who has the hiring and firing power over the set-piece coach at Liverpool is an interesting question. I'm guessing from his comments it's not Arne Slot and he's rightfully a bit pissed off with how badly they are costing us this season.
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I agree, but: if the main reason you are in power now is that the national press kicked seventeen shades of shit out of all your internal and external opponents and repeated every word of the drivel and horseshit you sent them as God’s honest truth, then this is just too bad.
December 1, 2025 at 11:31 AM
I agree, but: if the main reason you are in power now is that the national press kicked seventeen shades of shit out of all your internal and external opponents and repeated every word of the drivel and horseshit you sent them as God’s honest truth, then this is just too bad.
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What would happen if we ever had a government that was inclined to be at least somewhat transparent about what we did in the War On Terror, or what exactly was going on at RAF Akrotiri on Cyprus between 2023 and 2025? And you’ll see why it’s imperative that such a thing is never allowed to happen.
December 1, 2025 at 9:31 AM
What would happen if we ever had a government that was inclined to be at least somewhat transparent about what we did in the War On Terror, or what exactly was going on at RAF Akrotiri on Cyprus between 2023 and 2025? And you’ll see why it’s imperative that such a thing is never allowed to happen.
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When you see stuff like this, you should ask yourself: what would happen if a PM was ever elected who was not 100% reliably One Of The Lads, and he or she asked to see the Northern Ireland files from the 1970s? What then.
Special forces chief tried to cover up concerns about SAS conduct in Afghanistan, inquiry told
Whistleblower says chain of command failed to stop extrajudicial shootings, including of children, after alarm was raised
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:28 AM
When you see stuff like this, you should ask yourself: what would happen if a PM was ever elected who was not 100% reliably One Of The Lads, and he or she asked to see the Northern Ireland files from the 1970s? What then.
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this is very good, and includes @lewisgoodall.com arguing that the current rot set in when Davie arrived in 2020 and installed a definition of 'impartiality' that is wholly perspectival, i.e. measured in levels and distribution of outrage www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...
Podcast: Lewis Goodall, Dan Hind and James Butler · On Politics: The Bust-up at the BBC
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December 1, 2025 at 8:41 AM
this is very good, and includes @lewisgoodall.com arguing that the current rot set in when Davie arrived in 2020 and installed a definition of 'impartiality' that is wholly perspectival, i.e. measured in levels and distribution of outrage www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...
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I think they probably knew they were setting fire to her chances, so I assume something else has been going on here.
November 22, 2025 at 11:02 PM
I think they probably knew they were setting fire to her chances, so I assume something else has been going on here.
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This will de facto break down along racialised lines as much as class lines. And let's not pretend that isn't largely the point, whatever ministers tell the country, and indeed themselves.
Shabana Mahmood's Indefinite Leave To Remain Culture War
3 years - if you're earning £125k+
15 years - if you're e.g. a nurse, or a teacher
Labour's two tier system which rewards high earners and insults those who work just as hard but don't earn as much - really sad to see Labour fall
3 years - if you're earning £125k+
15 years - if you're e.g. a nurse, or a teacher
Labour's two tier system which rewards high earners and insults those who work just as hard but don't earn as much - really sad to see Labour fall
November 21, 2025 at 7:16 AM
This will de facto break down along racialised lines as much as class lines. And let's not pretend that isn't largely the point, whatever ministers tell the country, and indeed themselves.
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You're not asking trans people. You're asking all people. This affects us all. Anyone could be barred from services based on appearance. Since, surprisingly we all have a fecking appearance
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Trans people could be barred from services based on appearance
The new code of practice on access to single-sex services cannot gain legal force until it gets sign-off from ministers.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 1:15 AM
You're not asking trans people. You're asking all people. This affects us all. Anyone could be barred from services based on appearance. Since, surprisingly we all have a fecking appearance
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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New on Always Liverpool | Andy Robertson's moment, both beautiful and devastating, told us everything about how Liverpool's players are still coping with the loss of their dear Diogo. We haven't afforded them enough grace.
Ah, Robbo ❤️
A moment both beautiful and devastating told us everything about how Liverpool's players are still coping with the loss of their dear Diogo. We haven't afforded them enough grace.
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November 19, 2025 at 1:18 PM
New on Always Liverpool | Andy Robertson's moment, both beautiful and devastating, told us everything about how Liverpool's players are still coping with the loss of their dear Diogo. We haven't afforded them enough grace.
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"If it sounds like it's Nazi shit, it's supposed to. The bourgeois state and its political servants have for some time now been trying to get a bit of the glamour of fascism." [email protected] on Labour's asylum policy announcement:
November 17, 2025 at 10:10 PM
"If it sounds like it's Nazi shit, it's supposed to. The bourgeois state and its political servants have for some time now been trying to get a bit of the glamour of fascism." [email protected] on Labour's asylum policy announcement:
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I can't wait until we eventually get the Cummings and McSweeney podcast. When we'll finally get the inside track on their misunderstood genius.
November 12, 2025 at 11:57 AM
I can't wait until we eventually get the Cummings and McSweeney podcast. When we'll finally get the inside track on their misunderstood genius.
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It's nice isn't it. The Quiet.
This is even funnier than it just being Streeting on manoeuvres.
November 11, 2025 at 11:11 PM
It's nice isn't it. The Quiet.
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Public options for essentials, strategic price interventions, investment in housing and childcare — this is antifascist economics. It tackles the material conditions that make authoritarianism appealing.
In making life livable, democracy defends itself.
In making life livable, democracy defends itself.
November 8, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Public options for essentials, strategic price interventions, investment in housing and childcare — this is antifascist economics. It tackles the material conditions that make authoritarianism appealing.
In making life livable, democracy defends itself.
In making life livable, democracy defends itself.
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Just since 2000: the Iraq War, the Great Financial Crisis, killing the poors with austerity, Lybia, nuking Corbyn in cahoots with the Labour right, monstering asylum seekers, mainstreaming Farage, stomping on trans people, running interference for a genocide, treating protesters as terrorists, etc
November 11, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Just since 2000: the Iraq War, the Great Financial Crisis, killing the poors with austerity, Lybia, nuking Corbyn in cahoots with the Labour right, monstering asylum seekers, mainstreaming Farage, stomping on trans people, running interference for a genocide, treating protesters as terrorists, etc
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Dunno man, this sounds like a bunch of comfortables experiencing what it's like to be a pig person for the first time. Being on the left this has been my experience of the poltical media ecosystem my entire life. Centrists & libs have been hosing me in pure unrefined shit for as long as I can recall
November 11, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Dunno man, this sounds like a bunch of comfortables experiencing what it's like to be a pig person for the first time. Being on the left this has been my experience of the poltical media ecosystem my entire life. Centrists & libs have been hosing me in pure unrefined shit for as long as I can recall
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Mandatory digital ID for all, but no phones for school kids. Also we’re making it so you can’t access the internet without giving all your information to the makers of Fortnite.
November 11, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Mandatory digital ID for all, but no phones for school kids. Also we’re making it so you can’t access the internet without giving all your information to the makers of Fortnite.