DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
Did you ever send him his PD mug?
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Did you ever send him his PD mug?
rekil
to menny cranks
We were waiting for an appropriate stamp. Not one of the ones we demanded in the campaign against the post office but it'll do.
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J Ed
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This is what they actually think... voters as school children.
My School Had A Referendum On Getting Rid Of Homework, And It Didn't Quite Go To Plan | HuffPost UK
Homework of course, being that thing that is totally uncontested as being academically useful. The author of this article, who had to use teaching as an analogy because they are so clueless about everything else, does not appear to know that much about their own area of professional expertise.
...he's done a TED talk though.
My School Had A Referendum On Getting Rid Of Homework, And It Didn't Quite Go To Plan | HuffPost UK
Homework of course, being that thing that is totally uncontested as being academically useful. The author of this article, who had to use teaching as an analogy because they are so clueless about everything else, does not appear to know that much about their own area of professional expertise.
...he's done a TED talk though.
co-op
But....but cLoWnFiSh....
Not only has this idiot redefined being patronising, his analogy is shit anyway since there is an extremely lively and interesting debate about whether or not homework is any good at improving education. Many homework advocates are just emptily 'supporting' a policy which is based on no evidence, a historical hangover which gives right-wing know-nothings a hard-on because it feels all old-fashioned.
Finland - which kicks the UK's arse on education standards - got rid of homework years ago.
chilango
Hypothetical Wanker
That’s cringeworthy
HoratioCuthbert
Deep seated inconsequence
The amount of homework my 5 year old gets home is nuts, as he's already knackered (tearful tantrum style tired) by 4pm- there's something in there for every day of the week. We often just miss bits. I'll carry on doing that until social services gets involved. 
This news strengthens my Brexit stance.
This news strengthens my Brexit stance.
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
And fuck work-work too
I'm not sure where else to put this, but I guess this article about the repeated attempt to launch centrist parties via twitter is best here - latest by Economist writer Jeremy Cliffe (he's already bowed out)
People Keep Trying To Start Pro-EU British Centrist Movements On Twitter
People Keep Trying To Start Pro-EU British Centrist Movements On Twitter
HoratioCuthbert
Deep seated inconsequence
On top of everything else, they can also be criticised for not even wanting their EU centrist movements hard enough. They are even shit at being shit!
Brainaddict
slight system overdrive
Anyone been following the Sam Kriss implosion? A woman accused him on facebook of sexual harassment/assault while on a date, as part of the #metoo campaign. He has issued a quite shit semi-apology. There are rumours that Vice will no longer be commissioning him, though I haven't seen that confirmed.
Brainaddict
slight system overdrive
Ah, cheers. I've enjoyed reading him but nobody is totally necessary and it's good to see this stuff highlighted on the left. I'm glad he's having to answer for his actions.
Suspect his career will recover one way or another, but we'll see.
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
HoratioCuthbert
Deep seated inconsequence
Full on sexual assault is what i read. 
HoratioCuthbert
Deep seated inconsequence
The tweets on there actually defending his attempt to "provide context" or "explain the misunderstanding" fuck sake.
Brainaddict
slight system overdrive
Yeah, there's a world of difference between a mistaken drunken attempt to kiss someone and the kind of domineering persistence and physical assault described. To be fair I felt most people in the comments recognise what a shit 'apology' it is. It's always so telling when someone can't even apologise properly - just confirms they really didn't get what they did wrong.
TheHoodedClaw
acknowledging ur soup leg
He was very vocally supportive on twitter of the women speaking out about Weinstein and others, and someone called him out for his hypocrisy (Marie Le Conte, I think)
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
HoratioCuthbert
Deep seated inconsequence
LDC
On est tous des pangolins
Plan C seem to jumped fully onto the Corbyn/Mason/Novara train...
Corbynism from (the Great) Below | We are Plan C
Dreams, Memes, Labour and Us | We are Plan C
Corbynism from (the Great) Below | We are Plan C
Dreams, Memes, Labour and Us | We are Plan C
crossthebreeze
Well-Known Member
I'll read those later, but it all sounds very depressing
LDC
On est tous des pangolins
Plan C are very good at faux intellectualising themselves into any position they want. I think there's totally a London-centric back slapping circle of people that are getting very excited at being personally very close to the Corbyn/Mason thing - Novara seem to have lost all perspective and critical abilities.
Brainaddict
slight system overdrive
As those articles try to make clear, Plan C itself has no official position with regard to Labour or Corbyn afaik. So I'm not sure Plan C has got itself into any position. I heard the other day someone telling me in full confidence that Plan C had affiliated to the Labour Party. Which just shows people are very quick to leap to uncharitable interpretations of people having debates, which it seems to me is what those articles are doing. In fact both articles express a lot of reservations about committing to Labour per se.
LDC
On est tous des pangolins
You're right, Plan C doesn't have any official position on the Labour Party and Corbyn. It has though, got itself into a position of being very supportive and excited about both, and by extension parliamentary politics, with not much criticism coming from anyone else in the organisation, so it's easy to see why it might be seen as an official position by some. It's not all of Plan C for sure, but those that are tend to be the loudest members that get heard the most at the moment.
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Fozzie Bear
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Commentariat Patreon breakdown.
Name / followers / cash per month / notes
Stavvers /42 / not stated / is doing that writing a novel in November thing. Also apparently posts up her income monthly.
Laurie Penny / 605 / $4,333 / is also writing fiction. For $10 a month you would have been given the opportunity to choose what she reviews
Richard Seymour / 228 / not stated / a daily diary and other bits including his thoughts on the anarchist bookfair debacle
Sam Ambreen / 1/ $2 / just a couple of links to her blog thus far. (possibly defunct idk)
Working Class History (I think a subset of Libcom?) / 34 / $184 / drumming up cash for a podcast and oral history project.
Sam Kriss / 21 / $129 / you can marry this dude for $1 million. Probably best avoided though, eh?
Also try hards like this with no followers: Matt Turner is creating incisive, eye-opening political commentary and analysis. | Patreon
Not on there as far as I can see:
Paul Mason
Owen Jones
Jack Monroe
Presumably because they have relatively stable income from other sources.
Also the Novara lot, who do their own fundraising as an org.
Who have I missed?
Name / followers / cash per month / notes
Stavvers /42 / not stated / is doing that writing a novel in November thing. Also apparently posts up her income monthly.
Laurie Penny / 605 / $4,333 / is also writing fiction. For $10 a month you would have been given the opportunity to choose what she reviews
Richard Seymour / 228 / not stated / a daily diary and other bits including his thoughts on the anarchist bookfair debacle
Sam Ambreen / 1/ $2 / just a couple of links to her blog thus far. (possibly defunct idk)
Working Class History (I think a subset of Libcom?) / 34 / $184 / drumming up cash for a podcast and oral history project.
Sam Kriss / 21 / $129 / you can marry this dude for $1 million. Probably best avoided though, eh?
Also try hards like this with no followers: Matt Turner is creating incisive, eye-opening political commentary and analysis. | Patreon
Not on there as far as I can see:
Paul Mason
Owen Jones
Jack Monroe
Presumably because they have relatively stable income from other sources.
Also the Novara lot, who do their own fundraising as an org.
Who have I missed?
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