Alex Callinicos/SWP vs Laurie Penny/New Statesman Facebook handbags

[cesare]

Gotta say I've seen freakier freak outs in my time.

It's a bore out, not a freak out.

 

[J Ed]

I just liked his comments about the Holy Internet

 

[cesare]

I just liked his comments about the Holy Internet

And there's a certain sang-froid to accepting blame then proceeding to explain why he wasn't to blame.

 

[DotCommunist]

Owen Jones is a force now, what like gravity or something

 

[imposs1904]

I just liked his comments about the Holy Internet

I think the Prof is basically of the view that the internet shouldn't be for oiks.

 

[Firky]

I miss LLetsa

I do too.

 

[the button]

Owen Jones is a force now, what like gravity or something

Chuffed.

 

[cesare]

Chuffed.

Unlike Freedom Bookshop, which is ...

 

[the button]

Gutted.

 

[butchersapron]

chaffed

 

[Firky]

Is that Freedrom Press? I just started a thread on that, moments ago. Fucking hell.

Lucky that didn't take into an inferno.

http://www.urban75.net/forums/threads/freedom-press-firebombed.305769/

 

[the button]

Is that Freedrom Press? I just started a thread on that, moments ago. Fucking hell.

Lucky that didn't take into an inferno.

It is indeed.

 

[cesare]

Gutted.

Yep.

 

[Idris2002]

Gotta say I've seen freakier freak outs in my time.

"Zappa fan thinks you just haven't heard the right album yet."

 

[Firky]

They (Freedom) are accepting donations as they had no insurance.

 

[the button]

Not even fire can destroy Martin's "Anarchist Quiz Book."

 

[weepiper]

Gutted.

 

[mrs quoad]

It's based on the assumption you should be rich enough not to need to lower yourself to working like a mere commoner if you want to go to Oxford. It's got nothing to do with "concentrating fully on your studies" it's just a way of keeping the poors out, as Damien Shannon has exposed. That's what that fool in the Coal not Dole outfit was defending earlier on, whether or not she knows it. And the irony is Damien Shannon is no lefty, but understands this, whereas that "Model/activist" Ella Raff in the smouldering "lets play dressing up as a dirty prole" outfit would appear to have some pretension of being a left-wing radical but defends the means by which colleges exclude on the basis of income.

May Ball tickets will go on sale at 22:00 on Sunday. Standard tickets are £120 and dining tickets are £160. Dining includes a Champagne reception with a four-course meal - book early to avoid disappointment, as these tickets will go extremely quickly!

(It doesn't mention anywhere in the email that it'll be black tie. No need to state the obvious!)

 

[Firky]

Need #FridayReads? Try Discordia by Penny & Crabapple, like Tornado-Chasers, running towards political chaos.

That is the last time I click on a trending hashtag.

(I don't molly mind Molly)

 

[barney_pig]

"This seems a little bit fiddly, I know, but there are good reasons why it’s set up like this for now. I was just down at the bookshop helping out and dropping off some supplies, and the damage to all those rare books is just horrible to see. "
Attagirl!

 

[equationgirl]

"This seems a little bit fiddly, I know, but there are good reasons why it’s set up like this for now. I was just down at the bookshop helping out and dropping off some supplies, and the damage to all those rare books is just horrible to see. "
Attagirl!

Damage to books is hard to see, to be fair.

 

[butchersapron]

Rare books though?

 

[equationgirl]

Rare books though?

'Rare' books, I think.

The newspaper archive is rare, given that it was one of the few intact sets still in existence, not sure about the rareness of the rest of the stock.

 

[barney_pig]

"This seems a little bit fiddly, I know, but there are good reasons why it’s set up like this for now. I was just down at the bookshop helping out and dropping off some supplies, and the damage to all those rare books is just horrible to see. "
Attagirl!

Reminiscent of her Herculean efforts to save the victims of the New York hurricane

 

[Bakunin]

"This seems a little bit fiddly, I know, but there are good reasons why it’s set up like this for now. I was just down at the bookshop helping out and dropping off some supplies, and the damage to all those rare books is just horrible to see. "

Cue an 'exclusive' in some lefty rag or other.

 

[frogwoman]

that is terrible, dont know if i can afford to get to London this week because i've had no work since last friday but will do my best to come down at some point.

 

[DaveCinzano]

I wonder he describes his 800 year old 30+ grand a year private school as "a minor independent school"?

Raise the red banner!

Our Old Abingdonian friend Menshevik Mitchell today sticks his righteous bayonet into private school teachers who are taking big money offers to leave the UK:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/feb/03/private-school-teachers-david-mitchell

 

[rekil]

Housing crisis again. I'm so bloody sick of this. I wish I could afford to live somewhere stable.

Pro-tips. Stop your bratty fucking moaning, look for a normal job, share a place with normals in a normals area, do your shit opinion mongering in your spare time.

 

[Firky]

ah fukc it.

 

[mk12]

Pro-tips. Stop your bratty fucking moaning, look for a normal job, share a place with normals in a normals area, do your shit opinion mongering in your spare time.

Is that Laurie Penny moaning?