RCP/Spiked/IoI

[DaveCinzano]

what a wanker. How can you be an active lefty in the 80s and not be extremely wary of someone who is working for special branch? It was well known that they all over the miners strike and up to their necks in shitty dealings

I think this was around the time he was pretending to be HIV+ so as to elicit sympathy and kindness.

 

[8ball]

They're going after little old ladies now.

 

[Poi E]

Fucking morons. No, get rid of the monarchy you fawning fucks.

 

[William of Walworth]

BobFromBrockley: The RCP's long march from anti-imperialist outsiders to the doors of Downing Street

On Munira Mirza - new head of policy at Number 10.

Bob's certainly done plenty of research!!

Excellent article. I've always thought the whole LM/Spiked/"contrarian because utter twats" network were complete lying charlatans, but I've never seen that much evidence in one place

 

[imposs1904]

 

[rekil]

It takes about 10 tweets into that thread to get to people posting that wretched horseshoe theory pic.

This loonery was on the fullbrexit site. By Peter Ramsay and Christopher Bickerton. Spiked people?

Behind the intransigence of Michel Barnier and Leo Varadkar we find potential threats from diehard republican grouplets, effectively recruited as the armed wing of the European Union. In London, we find a British political class that has been willing to send its armies on bloody adventures in Iraq and Afghanistan, but is unwilling to face down even the slightest hint of violence closer to home to ensure that a democratic decision over the constitutional future of the UK can be implemented.

 

[killer b]

Chris Bickerton is a pro-brexit Cambridge academic - I don't think he's associated with spiked. Often has quite interesting things to say IME

 

[flypanam]

Chris Bickerton is a pro-brexit Cambridge academic - I don't think he's associated with spiked. Often has quite interesting things to say IME

He is. Chris Bickerton, Author at spiked

 

[killer b]

ah yes, it's pretty easy to check these things.

 

[butchersapron]

Ain't half a lot of academics involved ain't there. Guv. Nice to have someone sticking up fer us little folk i spose.

 

[flypanam]

ah yes, it's pretty easy to check these things.

Yes, but I do agree with you that he has some quite interestings to say, and he is usually not frothing like some of the other spiked lot.

 

[Idris2002]

I thought that read was interesting actually. I didn't know Furedi's childhood and earliest political engagement was Hungary. Also interested in the development of his libertarian politics. However, what the article doesn't explain is how those politics led him and his supporters into some extremely dark places post the RCP.

Just looked at that interview. I actually find it really implausible that someone from that background would become a Marxist of any stripe, Trot or otherwise. . . of course, he might have reasons for claiming to be a Marxist. . .

 

[Micky D]

B O Neill being a feckin eejit again

 

[Micky D]

Damn meant this quote

 

[Poi E]

Picture for the little bit ISIS thread

 

[Proper Tidy]

Find it proper depressing that brendan o'neill, bowtie prick who sounds like a public school boy eternally stuck in a helium balloon, somehow gets to market himself as a spirit guide for what ordinary people think

 

[butchersapron]

They are, in fact, a cheap talking point for BON, for Lammy they seemed to be a real material purpose for their actions when in govt.

We got what he wanted in the end.

 

[butchersapron]

Find it proper depressing that brendan o'neill, bowtie prick who sounds like a public school boy eternally stuck in a helium balloon, somehow gets to market himself as a spirit guide for what ordinary people think

He utilises the same networks that the BBC runs on. The problem isn't (wholly) that it's him that is on there, it's that it's that the BBC choose who we have on there to do that.

 

[Raheem]

I've often wondered what ordinary people must be thinking, so it's great to have someone who's able to go on telly and imagine it for me.

 

[treelover]

I wonder if DR Simon Wesseley of M.E denial infamy is linked, Spiked have captured a fair bit of M.E information control through the Science Media Centre, and Sense about Science, they have also created an M.E network, but can't remember its name.

 

[tim]

I wonder if DR Simon Wesseley of M.E denial infamy is linked, Spiked have captured a fair bit of M.E information control through the Science Media Centre, and Sense about Science, they have also created an M.E network, but can't remember its name.

A link for anyone like me until I Googled who doesn't know about M.E. denial

Truth denied: the "scandal of ME Denial" - Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland

 

[cantsin]

Find it proper depressing that brendan o'neill, bowtie prick who sounds like a public school boy eternally stuck in a helium balloon, somehow gets to market himself as a spirit guide for what ordinary people think

O Neil is ridiculous, obvs. but suspect he's closer to reflecting actual ' ordinary people' thinking here than he / Spiked etc usually are, and it's the reason Bozza / Cummings feel able to go so big / gung ho at the moment : seems like there is a pretty incendiary undercurrent out there now amongst some core Leavers / boredom and total frustration combined with growing feeling they're going to get f*cked over one way or another

 

[brogdale]

they're going to get f*cked over one way or another

The one certainty of Brexit

 

[FridgeMagnet]

 

[editor]

Plain embarrassing. What a cunt.

Jacob Rees-Mogg is right about Grenfell

 

[Louis MacNeice]

Plain embarrassing. What a cunt.

Jacob Rees-Mogg is right about Grenfell

There's a huge load more anti-social cuntitude in the comments.

Cheers - Louis MacNeice

 

[editor]

There's a huge load more anti-social cuntitude in the comments.

Cheers - Louis MacNeice

The site is a magnet for fuckwits. The good news is that barely anyone gives a fuck. This site gets shitloads more traffic.

 

[Poi E]

 

[8ball]

The site is a magnet for fuckwits. The good news is that barely anyone gives a fuck. This site gets shitloads more traffic.

Albeit less media attention. I think that's the right way round to have things.

 

[editor]

Albeit less media attention. I think that's the right way round to have things.

Empty vessels etc..