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Clive Summerfield

@uktoday.bsky.social

Grey-bearded data wrangler, book devourer and recent convert to cat adoration. Unpleasant habits include a fondness for Prog Rock, possibly the result of a chaotic meeting of noodly tunes and Cthulhu's noodly appendages.

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Clive Summerfield@uktoday.bsky.social · 8mo ago

This is the best thing I've heard today, and possibly this week. Seems appropriate that the Great Old One should be mentioned on a Friday the 13th. Cthulhu ftagn! Iä! Iä!

James Alistair Henry@jamesbluecat.bsky.social · 8mo ago

What happened is I mentioned this absurd idea to a BBC producer and now I am writing an afternoon play for Radio 4 called THE CALL OF CTHUDO, to be recorded sometime in June with (ideally) various Green Wing alumni doing their best 1930's detective voices.

Clive Summerfield@uktoday.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Historically Labour hasn't done too bad with Home Secs; Jenkins, Straw and Blunkett were all solid, reasonably progressive occupants of that office. Mahmood by comparison seems determined to plumb previously unseen depths of regressive policies, as @danielsohege.bsky.social so clearly highlights.

Dan Sohege@danielsohege.bsky.social · 8mo ago

This is a hot mess of outright lies and misinformation from the Home Secretary, designed to try and persuade people that a government which is implementing some of the most hostile anti-immigration/asylum policies, in practice, for decades is progressive. 1/ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Opinion Restoring order at the border speaks to Labour values. Without that, we won't be able to do anything else at all Shabana Mahmood Our approach, unlike that of the Greens and Reform, is in step with the British people. They don't want extremes - they want a system that is managed and fair Shabana Mahmood is the UK home secretary
Clive Summerfield@uktoday.bsky.social · 2y ago

Curzio Malaparte's "Coup d'État: The Technique of Revolution" was written in 1931, and is his reflections on modern coups. As Ken has noted, it is very prescient regarding events in America right now.

Ken MacLeod@amendlocke.bsky.social · 2y ago

'the key to the State lay, not in its political and secretarial organizations nor yet in the Tauride, Maria or Winter Palaces, but in its technical services, such as the electric stations, the telephone and telegraph offices, the port, gasworks and water mains.' delong.typepad.com/malaparte-co...