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The Greens are not the party of the working class they are the party of the student activist, the bourgeois left & the Pro Palestine fever. There is nothing working class about the Greens.

A REMINDER For anyone aged 18-30 Living Freedom Summer School is back - as featured here by free speech heroes @spikedonline Brilliant speakers explore the big issues of our times If YOU have a passion for ideas and a thirst for debate, APPLY NOW! spiked-online.com/2026/05/15/liv…

Great talk by Björn Schmelzer of Graindelavoix on artistic anachronism in early music. youtu.be/MyE5HxFTgVI?si…

@peteray21 Unburdened by what has been.

That Labour is finding it so hard to get rid of this laughable individual is the UK’s version of the Democrats’ problem with sleepy Joe Biden. The replacement when they eventually get there will no doubt have all the political depth of Kamala Harris.

@MaximumCities A strategy so good, they must have learnt it from their friends in the EU

Early marker for how SNP will try to deal with rise of Reform- lock in ALL elite parties (includes Greens btw) and firewall populists as outside limits of acceptable politics. But being on outside gives clarity. Building a new politics requires crushing progressive establishment

@JamesHeartfield Or as if they secretly know that their project has nothing to do with the working class.

It’s surprising that the left are much more excited about the little victories they won in the internecine war between Labour and the Greens, than they are by the struggle with Reform. It’s almost as if they never did believe all that guff about Reform being the Nazis.

@Nina_Power_ Is she part of the Invisible Committee?

Is she the "Lucy Carrington" who is training to be a solicitor? The one who has 33 followers on X with a dog in a party hat photo? I NEED TO KNOW! WHO IS LUCY CARRINGTON AND WHY IS SHE ALWAYS RUNNING AND COMING LAST IN LOCAL ELECTIONS!

Always intrigued by the Independent local election candidates who have absolutely no information out there about who they are or what they stand for. What mysterious force compels them to file nomination paperwork, collect whichever signatures they need, and so on?

@verdur_in @Nina_Power_ Let me know if FKA Twigs is a worthy heir of the Catholic musical tradition or if we should rather stick to DJ Priest Padre Guilherme.

@Nina_Power_ If I miss my flight tomorrow, it’ll be intentionally.

This year's Venice Biennale is beginning to look like a Pride parade: an artist wants to exclude American hate, the Golden Lion committee blocked artists from countries with bad politics (then they resigned), there were petitions against Russia and Israel, and cancellations in South Africa and Australia.. theguardian.com/artanddesign/2…

Despite the idiotic conspiracy theories about the Frankfurt School peddled by right-wing cranks (like Gabriel Rockhill), "cultural Marxism" is a real phenomenon. "Cultural Marxists" are like "cultural Jews" or "cultural Catholics": they don't believe any of the important stuff, but merely cling to some "cultural signifiers" to maintain a vague sense of group identity. Even those signifiers are no more than distorted counterfeits of the old ways, tainted by the eclecticism with which contemporary sensibilities disguise their vacuity. But of course, even the most unreconstructed traditionalists can only pretend to maintain fidelity to what has been irreparably lost. The Catholic Church could only counter the Reformation with its own internal reformation, and hence, modernization and secularization. Likewise, the Judaism of the rabbis is only an observance of what has long since ceased to be: the true religion that ended when the Second Temple was destroyed, and the chosen people scattered to the winds.

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People who think the that the pope's statements have anything to do with Baudrillard also believe that Baudrillard wrote the script for The Matrix.

Hamed Aden @hamedaden16 is standing as the SDP candidate for Chorlton Park (Manchester Council) Vote SDP on 7th May 🗳️ Join us: sdp.org.uk

@RosieKayK2CO @SeeRedWoman1 @ImagineBelfast Ever since the Gaza war artists have become outspoken against censorship when some institutions canceled engagements of 'pro-palestine' artists. This piece shows well the opportunistic nature of this mainstream stance and why there hasn't been a sea change for artistic freedom.

New Substack! Who’s Afraid of Free Expression in the Arts? I went to a panel on censorship in Belfast and watched it turn into a demonstration of the problem it claimed to address. @SeeRedWoman1 @ImagineBelfast

@redrumlisa "Council housing waiting lists - DOWN!"

In a few days Ashfield & Mansfield Councils remove 4k people from the Council House Waiting List & close the list to everyone who is working full time even on minimum wage. Council Housing will be paid for almost exclusively with housing benefit & those who work will be thrown into the hopeless private rental market which will hold them in poverty nottinghampost.com/news/local-new…

@jjcharlesworth_ @verdur_in Music's revelatory power at its best.

@verdur_in Fuuuuuuuuuuucking heeeeeelll.

Ogi ogi ogi. New national anthem just dropped.

New music out today! For 'JOMO' (Joy of Missing Out) by Marco Simioni I have remixed his piece in a properly ascetic manner, taking only a 10 second sample that is barely audible in the original and making it unfold like a distant wonder. on.soundcloud.com/PsYRCSsiTcdz7P…

@verdur_in No speech not free speech

Is there a way to evolve humanity out of language? Watched the Goodwin Twelves "debate" and I think no one should ever be allowed to speak again.

@buffsoldier_96 @sadarlo1 Paraphrasing Adorno, pop is unable to speak at all. Lyrics are irrelevant, we all know the clichés and slogans. Trap lingo is a prime example: meaningless emotive sounds, an infantilised dadaistic sound poetry. Other languages merely add to that repertoire of fetishised sounds.

Pop music's bias towards English is fading, says Spotify bbc.co.uk/news/articles/… cc: @sadarlo1

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