I know she's incapable of ever admitting she's wrong about anything, but even I'm surprised that Kemi Badenoch has chosen this particular hill to die on
Mic Wright
@brokenbottleboy.bsky.social
I write and report things, and I have a newsletter that some people like. “Do you know what the sad part is…? I’m a very good tailor.” brokenbottleboy.substack.com
Can confirm that @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social ’s Left Wing agitations followed me home, knocked on my door, woke the kids and forced me to buy his (excellent) book.
Mic Wright@brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 2h agoNEW | Since the Telegraph decided to use my name in vain… FROM A LEFT-WING AGITATOR WITH A BOOK TO FLOG brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/from-a-lef...
NEW | Since the Telegraph decided to use my name in vain… FROM A LEFT-WING AGITATOR WITH A BOOK TO FLOG brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/from-a-lef...
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.
brokenbottleboy.substack.com
To put this in terms the Telegraph normally feels more at home with: Workshy scrounger invites WHOLE FAMILY to my dinner party, expecting ME to pay for his failures in providing for his own family.
Mic Wright@brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 8h agoI was wondering why I’d got 19 clickthroughs from The Daily Telegraph…
Guys, The Telegraph are at home crying into their gilets that you pointed out correctly their dead friend Rod Liddle was a wife beating racist self confessed paedophile, I hope you're proud of yourselves
Mic Wright@brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 8h agoI was wondering why I’d got 19 clickthroughs from The Daily Telegraph…
Congrats to everyone who got a shoutout in the Telegraph today, although I don't know where they got the idea that Bluesky is a place where people are kind to each other. This is site is not kind. This is a PvP server where you get randomly matched with an American who has misunderstood your joke.
Mic Wright@brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 8h agoI was wondering why I’d got 19 clickthroughs from The Daily Telegraph…
NEW | A corrective to the gushing tributes… LIDDLE TO BE CELEBRATED An honest obituary for Rod Liddle, dead at 66, dead inside for many years before that. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/liddle-to-...
Liddle to be celebrated
An honest obituary for Rod Liddle, dead at 66, dead inside for many years before that.
brokenbottleboy.substack.com
@paulduane.bsky.social's Barbaric Genius, a film about John Healy - the vagrant turned memoirist turned international chess whizz - is one of my favourite documentaries of all time. It's having a rare full screening at the IFI in Dublin on Monday 17th August. You should go!! ifi.ie/film/from-th...
FROM THE VAULTS: BARBARIC GENIUS + Q&A - Irish Film Institute
SCREENING MONDAY 17th AUGUST Paul Duane’s intimate portrait charts the unpredictable life of John Healy – award-winning author, internationally distinguished chess player and erstwhile alcoholic vagra...
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“All they know about Rod is what they’ve read about him. Which is a series of despicable beliefs and actions he proudly reported voluntarily.”
It's always been this. The pig people are talking back! That's 100% of it, and the change is really that they're just not lying about it any more.
Mic Wright@brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 8h agoWhat’s amazing about the Telegraph crew is how thin their pretence of believing in ‘free speech’ really is.
It’s sometimes hard to follow the complex web of leftist networks, so I’ll try to keep it simple when I say that the ‘Be Kind Mob’ is a breakaway tendency that formed in 2024 when the Real Anti-Bedtime Left had a falling out with Hoonists4Peace over the design of their mascot
Mic Wright@brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 8h agoI was wondering why I’d got 19 clickthroughs from The Daily Telegraph…
Brb, just making you a "left-wing agitator with a book to flog" t-shirt to match my "fairly outspoken left-wing academic" one.
"Liddle's work"? As if he'd written 'A la recherche du temps perdu' rather than a selection of bigoted middle aged rants.
And how unequivocally willing they are to declare someone whose whole schtick was almost literally doing the "Price is Right racism dial" meme to be an insightful genius.
Mic Wright@brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 8h agoWhat’s amazing about the Telegraph crew is how thin their pretence of believing in ‘free speech’ really is.
I was wondering why I’d got 19 clickthroughs from The Daily Telegraph…
A great obituary, the eulogies for him from the media class condemn themselves.
Mic Wright@brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · yesterdayNEW | A corrective to the gushing tributes… LIDDLE TO BE CELEBRATED An honest obituary for Rod Liddle, dead at 66, dead inside for many years before that. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/liddle-to-...
I saw someone walking a strange dog in the distance. It took me longer than it should to realise they were wheeling a grey Henry the Hoover.
“He was willing to say exactly the sort of thing that the powerful and privileged enjoy hearing. He maintained columns in The Sun, The Spectator, and The Sunday Times precisely because he was a voice for the party line - the party of Murdoch that never needs to seek re-election.”
Mic Wright@brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · yesterdayNEW | A corrective to the gushing tributes… LIDDLE TO BE CELEBRATED An honest obituary for Rod Liddle, dead at 66, dead inside for many years before that. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/liddle-to-...
The Laffer Trilogy was fun until the last one broke canon and just made up loads of shit about dwarf taxes.
Anyone who thinks that things can only be profound if they're incredibly boring to read/ hear is a sad, sad individual. You can learn more about what class and poverty actually means from listening to "Common People" than from any newspaper long read I've ever come across.
I may be being controversial but most economic theories are random ideas tossed out by fantasy writers...
Boots theory is an elegant metaphor by a brilliant writer. It’s not an economics paper, but — within the imagined world of Ankh Morpork — it evokes a truth: being forced to buy cheap goods is more expensive in the long run. Hooting that it doesn’t apply to *boots* in our reality is crushingly dim.
Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · yesterdayYeah, for days people have been citing “boots theory” at me and I want to shout DO YOU REALIZE THIS IS A RANDOM IDEA TOSSED OUT BY A FANTASY WRITER AND MAY NOT ACCURATELY DESCRIBE REALITY
Well worth a read before we try to forget about him.
Mic Wright@brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · yesterdayNEW | A corrective to the gushing tributes… LIDDLE TO BE CELEBRATED An honest obituary for Rod Liddle, dead at 66, dead inside for many years before that. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/liddle-to-...
A forensic dismantling of Rod Liddle's bigotry, and the right wing media that sheltered behind it. "He says what we're all thinking" No. He says what you're thinking, but know better than to say out loud. That's not courage. That's a licence. And this piece revokes it. bsky.app/profile/brok...
Mic Wright@brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · yesterdayNEW | A corrective to the gushing tributes… LIDDLE TO BE CELEBRATED An honest obituary for Rod Liddle, dead at 66, dead inside for many years before that. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/liddle-to-...
Bede's World! Bede's World! Party time! Venerable!
