Great to see Young Labour is now led by the daughter of an MP and the son of Labour's biggest multi-millionaire donor. Under the hard-left, we had a youth wing led by doctors and social care workers. Now it finally represents the world's most marginalised minority - nepo babies
JoJo Rabbit is not "pro-Hitler", it just displays absolutely zero understanding of Nazi antisemitism and asks the audience to sympathise with Nazi military officers
okay now i’m looking for a new therapist because this woman literally said her biggest therapeutic goal for me is to get me to take off my mask. she asked what that would take and i said it would take covid not being a risk anymore. i am barely surviving i cannot risk long covid!
"Hijacks" here means to win democratic internal elections in their own union. Tory journos and politicians find the very concept of workplace democracy extreme
This may surprise psychopathic columnists but when most people see a woman crying on TV describing experiences of bullying and humiliation, they feel sympathy with the woman, not their bullies
"Faiza Shaheen crying on Newsnight isn’t a story of hapless mismanagement derailing the Labour campaign. For certain cynical Starmer advisers keen to communicate a very specific point, she’s doing their job for them."
Circling back to this. There are always fake unfunny candidates who stand against Prime Ministers but it's astonishing that Andrew Feinstein got nearly 20% of the vote as an independent on a single-issue "fuck Keir Starmer" platform. I don't think that's ever happened before?
Tony Blair mocks the post-Brexit migration boom.
“We’ve swapped out single people coming from Europe … for families from Asia and Africa. How has this helped us?”
I've decided to become the Left's Andrew Tate/Jordan Peterson.
My first bit of advice is for young men to get a productive industrial job - which they can achieve by campaigning for full employment via a Keynesian economic strategy in the form of the Green New Deal
#AvatarTheWayOfWater
earned $24.4M on Friday (+26% from last Friday and just -53% its opening Friday) for a likely $67M weekend (+6% last weekend and almost tied with Avatar's $69M third wknd in 2010). By Monday, it may have $446M domestic and $1.45 billion worldwide.
#boxoffice
@ettingermentum
Left of Labour candidates definitely outperformed expectations but there was little constituency polling for you to say they outperformed "polling" in general
You can't complain about the British public not caring enough about the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict as a broadcaster, it is literally your job to inform the public about it! But instead you ignored it until you wanted to defend Israel's presence at a dumb song contest
Azerbaijan and Armenia are both accused of war crimes including, according to the UN General Secretary, “indiscriminate attacks on populated areas”. As far as I can see there have been absolutely no protests about them taking part in Eurovision.
There’s certainly a case for
@ettingermentum
He was constantly attacked from the right during the 2016 primary because of his heterodox takes that come from being a New York reactionary. In many ways Ted Cruz should be credited for his victory
@HeyThatsMyLeg
@GemOfAmara
It's not especially bad by the terrible standards of his filmography but he talks about it a lot because it's the most humiliating - a $200 million dollar blockbuster meant to be the new Iron Man and launch him into new heights, only to become an embarrassing financial flop
Very funny. If Keir Starmer is now the leader of a new "anti-racism" movement, it was made very clear from last month's election that most ethnic minorities aren't following it
Rachel Reeves is running to be the Chancellor of the Exchequer of the entire country. The idea you can't question her whilst she's campaigning unless you live in the very specific constituency she's canvassing in is just stupid
“Are you in my constituency [do you live in this constituency]”
Answer: No
The most important part of the exchange, a well organised day trip to disrupt a constituency campaign session, and not connected to the local community
The argument "if we were a republic, we'd have President Theresa May" trotted out by royalists is so stupid. Under a monarchy, we had Prime Minister Theresa May. How was that any better?
"A king is everybody's and nobody's which is the genius of a constitutional monarchy" - Stephen Fry speaking ahead of the Coronation service in London
TV presenters Ant and Dec, Dame Judi Dench and Dame Joanna Lumley are also in attendance
‘Was Enoch Powell right to warn about the dangers of mass migration?’
@StevenEdginton
asks
@Jacob_Rees_Mogg
about the Conservative MP’s controversial warnings over immigration.
The interview was filmed prior to recent events in Britain.
Such a great piece on the McSweeney project by
@TomMcTague
- esp on the rejection of idea that Labour should simply give up on the pro Brexit working class voters and chase middle class graduates (which has been key to why this worked and Change UK didn’t)
Barbie's politics are fairly meaningless but this critique is much worse. Why doesn't the Barbie movie talk about immigration enforcement and the conditions female workers face in the Global South? Because it's a two hour comedy and that's not relevant to the narrative
@LazlosGhost
Late Tim Burton has to be the only famous auteur without shooters for his late style. We all saw his Charlie & the Chocolate Factory and Alice in Wonderland, but they're truly irredeemable slop
Feinstein has loathed Starmer since he was elected in 2015 and apparently wouldn't shut up about it to his friends in the CLP. Genuinely Britain's number one hater
I am SICK of this man being indulged by journalists. Keir Starmer demoted him TWICE. His last brief was "Shadow Paymaster General". He lost an extremely safe seat through sheer incompetence. The whole world has had enough of him yet the media won't let us live our lives in peace
A meeting like no other! 👑
Former Labour MP
@JonAshworth
tells
@BethRigby
and
@RuthDavidsonPC
about when he met the late Queen Elizabeth...over Zoom... 💻
Listen on the Electoral Dysfunction podcast 👇
You've curated a series of Aaron Bastani screenshots over the course of this year, I don't think you're in a position to attack anyone for being "terminally online"
I think it's strange that all the Islamists running the country are also indoctrinating our kids with the LGBTQ agenda. But I guess ISIS have triangulated on divisive social issues
Conservative MP Lee Anderson tells GB News that he thinks Sadiq Khan has "given our capital city away" to Islamists, who are "his mates".
"Islamists have got control of Khan and they’ve got control of London," he says.
Many of the ratings and reviews found on Zarah Sultana's letterboxd are deeply questionable but for the sake of left unity I will remain silent on this issue
We need to put our foot down somewhere. A candidate for Secretary of State should not personally be using Twitter this much. Get your staffers to post party propaganda here and log off
@bindelj
From memory (16 years on, so correct me if I’m wrong!) I replied to confirm that you weren’t on NUS’ no platform policy and as this was in relation to a motion passed by the autonomous women’s campaign I was not empowered to overturn it (not least as a male president!).
🚨 NEW: Keir Starmer says October's budget will be "painful", adding: "We have no other choice".
Starmer says the public will have to endure "short term pain" for what he called "long term good".
If nothing else, I'm genuinely surprised that Graham Jones went on enough BAE-sponsored trips to Riyadh that he developed sincerely-held Arabist beliefs about Israel
Geroge Galloway is not your friend.
Received wisdom has him down as a fringe left figure whose moment in the sun will pass. The opposite is the case: Galloway is no longer bound by the left, and freed from it he is dangerous.
Lots of bad things going on in the world. Would like to cheer everyone up by informing you all that life is going great for me personally. If ever you feel down in the coming days, know that I am likely feeling better
It's weird that Ed Balls is now a long-standing TV presenter given he is famously uncharismatic and unlikable. Listening to him talk feels like someone stapling your own flesh together
Pedro Sanchez revived his party through building a broad coalition with the left and rebuilding class power in the workplace. Keir Starmer pursued a sectarian Blairite agenda to the service of the neoliberal establishment. No surprise which brand of social democracy won tonight
It's amazing how taboo it was in British polite society to oppose a state which can't do anything to stop it's soldiers raping hostages without an insurrection in defence of the rapists, supported by several members of the cabinet
Insane Report:
The IDF is withdrawing multiple battalions from the Gaza Strip and sending them to defend the Beit Lid base which is under siege by fascist militias.
This is actually good news.
If
@jessphillips
claimed a Palestinian doctor gave her preferential treatment because she voted for a ceasefire, that was unbelievably irresponsible.
It's clearly untrue, for the reasons cited.
But she's now potentially got a British-Palestinian doctor in trouble. Well done!
One good thing about Keir Mather is that his election has allowed many on left twitter to finally open up and talk about how they went to Oxford, a previously undiscussed subject
I've been told that EyupLovely is dead. The police have informed me after he called me his "best and only friend" in his will. I never cared for him personally but thought you guys should know
My second bit of advice is to make lots of friends - the best way to achieve this is sectarianism.
Join one left group (a campaigning org, a union faction, etc) hang out with the members, & be dismissive of all those outside of it. That shows loyalty & loyalty creates friendship
@tom_usher_
@seanbeegee
The struggle to find a bar open after 1am in London truly speak to the absolute death of nightlife here. A cultural catastrophe
@jamesdgreig
After the Rachel Riley/Laura Murray case it's clear if you're rich enough you can successfully sue anyone for libel. Rowling's already forced people to apologise for literally quoting her tweets
Labour has won a mediocre share of the vote, just above 2005 and below 2017, on a platform of increasing spending by 0.2% of GDP after the Tory Party has totally collapsed. This says absolutely nothing about social democracy because it wasn't up for election
The "allegations" against UNRWA have been categorically debunked by independent investigations. Rosenberg is asking the British government to ignore the evidence and just take Israel's word on everything. Completely laughable
“Labour worked hard for Jewish support. It should not take it for granted. The new government’s foreign policy stance towards Israel is raising grave concerns among the community in Britain.” –
@PhilR_R
writing in
@thetimes
.
Had my leaving drinks at Hackney Council. A cllr was talking to me about how five former Hackney cllrs are now MPs. He listed them all off, ending with "and then, don't know if you know him, there's this guy who was councillor here between 2002-2014, he's called Luke Akehurst"
"The fighting needs to stop!" they declare, dramatically. Are you perhaps saying the fighting should cease? Should we maybe push for a "cease" "fire" of some sort then?
I think you using multiple allegations of rape and sexual assault to pick on the long dead Mark Fisher neatly illustrates how the main argument behind Vampire Castle still holds up
Nice opportunity to remind everyone that the Mark Fisher "vampire castle" essay was all about telling people to stop being mean to Russell Brand, a true spokesman for the working class
@LazlosGhost
Depends on whether James Mangold personally considers stuff like Ford v. Ferrari and the Bob Dylan biopic as "one for me". It's possible I guess
If Labour believes candidates supporting Palestinians is an electoral liability, then why are they constantly shifting their position to make it seem like they do too? (i.e. saying they want a ceasefire and to recognise Palestine)
These two couldn't be more different.
Taylor Swift: boring, repetitive, racist, destroying the planet, possibly pro-Israel(?)
Tom Cruise: exciting, versatile, talented, morally upstanding citizen, committed anti-Zionist activist
Is it just me who thinks it’s a bit weird to be referring to a 61 year old man as Mama?
Starting to feel like Tom Cruise stans are kind of the film equivalent of Taylor Swift stans: annoying and super proud of themselves for liking something immensely popular
Good to point out that despite the hysteria about Sharia Law, most Muslims in Britain have supported unambiguously pro-LGBTQ parties like the Greens and Corbyn's Labour
Has anyone else from "Our Future Our Choice" ever acknowledged this. Do none of them feel betrayed by Mr Will Dry working for the Brexit Government. Or are they all content with sabotaging Corbyn's Labour and getting a career boost out of it
(1) Will Dry co-led anti-Brexit group "OFOC", then he became a Sunak adviser, now he's helping an anti-Sunak revolt - from the right ! He's not alone. How did this happen ? Cos OFOC was never a grassroots group, it was always an artificial, lobbyist created place for careerists
The occupation isn't going to be ended by the "Israeli left", just like apartheid in South Africa wasn't ended by a sudden revival of its white Labour Party. It'll be ended by pro-occupation figures fearing state collapse and seeking a deal to stave off total breakdown
The stronger the anti-occupation Israeli left & Palestinian anti-Hamas left, the greater the likelihood of the just peace emerging that the Western left wants to see.
Every time a western Hamasnik pops up, they instead strengthen the enemies of this heroic, brave I/P left.
Every time I see Jackson Hinkle go viral or get major media coverage, I get a little sad because I know Josh Jackson could have lived that life perfectly
The Labour left threw away their NEC majority to give Navendu Mishra a safe seat and the right to munch taxpayer-subsidised biscuits for life, only for him to renounce the left just four years later. Deeply humiliating spectacle
NEW: Mandelson once said aim during Blair era was to put the left in “sealed tomb”
One Labour left MP says of Starmer leadership: “Now they’re not just sealing the tomb but incinerating it as well”
My big read on the Labour left's future 👇
Going to defend cringe Instagram posts by saying it is an unambiguous good for the Palestinian cause to be seen as trendy & virtuous. People used to, and in some cases still, get censored and blacklisted for supporting Palestine & posts like this are a sign of growing solidarity
We also shouldn't forget Neil Coyle verbally abused a surprisingly down to earth and very funny Parliamentary staffer. Got two days pay deducted for that man's selfless sacrifice
After Labour MP Neil Coyle racially abused a journalist and had a sexual harassment case upheld against him, he was allowed to stand again.
He's a white man who backs Keir Starmer.
Compare and contrast to Diane Abbott.
A clearly racist political party.
Labour could easily win back these voters in government by implementing an arms embargo on Israel and recognising the state of Palestine. They won't do this because they prioritise following Washington's lead above all else, but let's not pretend it's unachievable