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From a Left-Wing agitator with a book to flog

This edition is a bit meta. Consider it a sequel to yesterday's Rod Liddle obituary.

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@gralefrit.bsky.social big row brewing over next month's posthumous Fall release. It's claimed that no AI was used but the tell-tale signs will be if the vocals are suspiciously coherent with lyrics that make some prima facie sense.

This is Reform's criticism of providing free travel for 11 to 16 year olds in GM. These people only know the politics of division and grievance.

Ridiculous. How are they going to get another American Pope.

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2d ago

President Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v

It's nice to see P&P promoting my article as we approach the anniversary of the 1976 IMF Crisis, when unilateral protectionism was furiously debated within the bowels of the British state. It's open access and free to read via the link below.

Past and Present@pastpresentsoc.bsky.social · yesterday

On advance access "The Political Crisis of British Keynesianism, 1973–1983" by @colmpm.bsky.social (‪@qmpoliticsir.bsky.social‬) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...

London loves, won’t you join us please to discuss this extraordinary book, finally being republished to the admiration it so richly deserves

Martin Koerner@koernputer.bsky.social · last wk.

This book is absolutely miraculous. Delighted to say we have an event at Foyles on the 13th August with @amykey.bsky.social @regretteruane.bsky.social Alice Vincent and Megan Hunter- also 🤞🏼, we shall be recieving a phone call from Joan Barfoot during the event! www.foyles.co.uk/events/unear...

Real literary success isn't mega sales or critical acclaim. It's being a thoroughly objectionable opinion-haver adored and eulogised by your peers. That's the Nobel Prize for pricks.

Just over a month until my third novel TIME BEING is published on 7th September by @saltpublishing.com! Do please pre-order from either Waterstones, Amazon or direct from Salt Books here: www.saltpublishing.com/products/tim...

Time Being, Jude Cook

When Laura Cameron, a Philosophy professor at a London university, is found dead in a bizarre echo of the Reeva Steenkamp case, the questions are myriad. Her fr

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There is no-one on this good earth more vacuous and less worthy of engaged comment than a declared 'provocateur'. A cultural housefly.

Liddle had a weird conspiracy theory about black lives matter antiracism protests: they were so repellently unpopulat there was a pollster conspiracy not to poll on them! Sunday Times agreed to correct & say there were numerous polls. Had to involve Ipso for them to hint that poll results were pro

I see it's one of those days when a professional commentator grapples with questions in ethics and epistemology they've never thought about before, but are confident they will nail them in their first essay.

Surely I'm not the only person to think Sam Altman looks like the company guy in Alien3.

Just another day in the death of rhe Tory party

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2d ago

Former neo-Nazi activist selected as Tory candidate for Somerset council election

A lot of people today talking about an awful person who died but i want to make everyone aware of a good person who died: Northern Irish comedian Jimmy Cricket, who you should all look up if you don’t know. 10/10 all around wife guy, dad, granddad, and just a generally solid person

I know I'm a broken record on this, but Frank Johnson was the last right-wing journalist of any talent or insight, and the last of the working class autodidacts in serious culture. Daubney, Littlejohn and Liddle weren't fit to shine his boots, and probably no bloody good at it anyway.

Seeing both Jonathan Ross and Jeremy Clarkson, catastrophically irrelevant in 2026 and still trying to be 'edgy', and you want them to be fired out of cannons, really.

That's why they should do a podcast

Kyle David Rudy@kyru.net · 3d ago

No real person actually gives a shit about James Carville or Hasan Piker.

Well, this was an absolute pleasure to read. Ruby Tandoh writing about the golden age of British Ice Cream, from Cornettos to Magnums. Well worth checking out. www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/the-golden...

The Golden Age of British Ice Cream

Cornetto to Magnum: How fifteen influential years changed British culture. Words by Ruby Tandoh. Illustration by Sing Yun Lee.

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No matter what educational route they took, everyone should have the chance of a meaningless unfulfilling career.

Dinefwr Castle - Britain's longest public sector project. Work started in the 13th century, completion now expected 2035.

I am seeing more and more posts in places like Reddit from British people wanting to move to Poland and struggling to get a job. Oh, how the tables have turned. But I didn't want to talk about it but about why I don't predict many of them to be too succesfull. Why? Here is a thread for you:

Burnham handing Farage a lifeline by bringing the discourse back to small boats is just pathetic really at this point.

Look can we just hurry up with the bit when Nigel fucks off and Jenrick becomes Reform leader. This is getting tedious. And we've all got bets to place about how badly they'll do in the GE.

If you hate the liberal intelligentsia so much name your top 3 most detested LRB podcasters. Otherwise: you're just a poser who thought it was cool.

The reason the new Odyssey film features a Viking longboat is because it was funded by the Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund. If you want to know where all this Norse propaganda is coming from, follow the money. It'll lead you back to a fjord.

The fact remains: the 2024 manifesto said nothing about closing Jodrell Bank. Burnham needs to secure a mandate in what will soon be called "the Big Dish Election".

Did not have this on my Far-right bingo card this morning. So he wants to let bygones be bygones. Hold hands around the dumpster fire around a hotel housing migrants. And "unite the right". Nah mate you know Nigel is cooked and you want to run the party!🤪

Median UK voter in 2026, as predicted by Hugh Laurie some decades ago:

The relevant historical comparison for school closures in 2020 would be evacuees in 1940.

Don’t read this list of all the candidates in the Clacton by-election and definitely don’t visit their websites, that’s my advice, I am now mildly traumatised and in some cases concerned for their mental health (I’m not talking about Farage) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The candidates standing in the Clacton by-election

The full list of candidates who have declared they intend to fight the Clacton by-election.

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