This is some activism. Impressive
https://nitter.net/williamlegate/status/1354166397874671616#m
"The Telegraph looks like a newspaper and is treated like a newspaper ... but it isn’t a newspaper — it’s the periodical wing of the Tory Party ... Once you understand that The Telegraph’s aim is not to inform but to agitate and anger its shrinking but increasingly extreme readership it all makes sense.
Any journalism that The Telegraph publishes ... is a distraction from its central mission of ‘pwning the libs’ and sustaining the Tories."
https://brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/abandon-all-christopher-hope-why
Of course, the government is cutting Media Studies funding — it doesn't want you to know how the 'magic' tricks are done
“The media and its owners — a very small group of very rich people — have to argue against Media Studies because if it were popular far more people would be asking a lot more questions about how stories are framed, sold, and consumed.”
https://brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/of-course-the-government-is-cutting
UK politics, Labour
A Note on Ruthlessness
http://averypublicsociologist.blogspot.com/2021/01/a-note-on-ruthlessness.html
UK politics, Labour
A Party for Management Consultants
http://averypublicsociologist.blogspot.com/2021/01/a-party-for-management-consultants.html
UK government minister today: "We cannot - and should not - try to edit or censor our past. At the heart of liberal democracies is a belief that history should be studied, not censored." NB: UK government censored 6,656 files in the national archives
UK COVID strategy leans towards immunising the over 70s then letting the virus spread unchecked through the younger population.
Love having the stupidest people alive in charge of public health.
Bye-bye, Barclay: Sir David Barclay is dead but the zombie Telegraph shambles on...
Good summary of this total shit and his total shit of a twin brother
https://brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/bye-bye-barclay-sir-david-barclay
These people thought Google was just letting CP and hardcore gore float to the top of search results.
US Politics
Why I Am Resigning After Stabbing 97 People for Donald Trump
https://theintercept.com/2021/01/07/trump-administration-resignations/
Tories being bought by US warmongers
Obviously Boris is going to get binned later this year to take the fall for catastrophic covid + brexit handling, but Gove is going to be his replacement and he is on this list too.
Tories being bought by US warmongers
REVEALED: How Boris Johnson and three of his ministers are being courted by a US institute pushing for war with Iran
No, the United States is Not the Home of Democracy
https://novaramedia.com/2021/01/12/no-the-united-states-is-not-the-home-of-democracy/
Web Dev, General Annoyance