Urban v's the Commentariat

[chilango]

No-one will come out of it looking good.

 

[emanymton]

she is right though, most working class people wouldn't put Palestine in their top 5 of daily problems, though there are plenty who do care about it, anyway she has suspended her twitter account, another voice silenced.

actually reading her twitter page, she seems to have declared war on the London liberal left

In my experience most working class people don't like the idea of military snipers shooting kids.

 

[treelover]

of course not, but it is not a priority for most.

 

[chilango]

Either way, losing your shit on twitter about it is not the way forward.

 

[killer b]

of course not, but it is not a priority for most.

Nor is it to the Goldsmiths occupation tbf - the Palestine stuff is fairly low down on a list of demands which include better workers rights for cleaners and security, opening the building they're occupying for local community use, and a load of anti-racism stuff. It looks to me like an admirable campaign that's managing to walk and chew gum, and attacking it is just bizarre.

 

[Fozzie Bear]

It also smacks of whataboutery.

 

[sihhi]

Caroline Criado-Perez on why we should be celebrating the election results. It's in the big issue - so all those newly homeless women turfed out their home's by the benefit cap can celebrate this great step forward.

Similar dynamic in this article by Timothy Garton Ash:

you can show how these liberal values speak to the new challenges of our time, such as climate change, gender equality (on which Swinson wrote a book), education and preserving the European Union as the world’s pioneering example of liberal international order.

They now have Chuka Umunna, perhaps the most talented politician to leave Labour via the Change UK party, and should soon be joined by at least one of the three charismatic, pro-remain female MPs who left the Conservatives for Change UK.

 

[Orang Utan]

Just in case anyone needs reminding of Rod Liddle's proclivities:

 

[rekil]

Forward to full space communism. One lobby pass at a time.

 

[killer b]

He's right about Butler tbf, he's by some distance the best writer they have on Novara

 

[LDC]

Words fail me.

 

[chilango]

I was at the in-laws the other day and they were watching Pointless.

I wasn't really paying attention but it slowly dawned on me that Owen Jones was a celebrity contestant.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Words fail me.

W. T. A. F?

 

[chilango]

W. T. A. F?

This isn't some drunken spur of the moment carried away lark either.

They've been planning and promoting it for weeks.

 

[danny la rouge]

Just in case anyone needs reminding of Rod Liddle's proclivities:

I had to Google “year 10”, because we have a different system here, but that’s apparently 14-year-olds. “I don’t think I’d have dabbled much below year ten” he says. I don’t think I’d have tried to shag children younger than 14 much.

Well, there’s that.

 

[danny la rouge]

Words fail me.

What is it?

 

[chilango]

What is it?

A variety show of Novara Media and Labour types at the Labour conference.

I refuse to know the details.

 

[redsquirrel]

I can't say I watched the whole 2 hrs 17 minutes so there may be something I'm missing. But TBH I don't have a particular problem with relaxed/light-hearted/chilldown session, after all AWT is in some sense a counterpoint to main conference. Not sure why you would want to record and upload it though.

 

[Proper Tidy]

Jesus christ. One step removed from a space communist glee club

 

[Rivendelboy]

A variety show of Novara Media and Labour types at the Labour conference.

I refuse to know the details.

Ed Miliband was comperring, from what I could see. So radical.

 

[rekil]

The Blind Date bit at 30ish mins. Chilling.

 

[HoratioCuthbert]

I think I’ve warmed to Green New Deal man though. He did well to dilute the creepiness.

 

[rekil]

I think I’ve warmed to Green New Deal man though. He did well to dilute the creepiness.

Bolsheviks are red
Mensheviks are white
I'm in the vanguard
And I'm a bit of alright.

It's all suspiciously similar to PD's valentines day poetry.

 

[cantsin]

This isn't some drunken spur of the moment carried away lark either.

They've been planning and promoting it for weeks.

could live w/0 Miliband doing Ed Balls jokes, but lefty alt media outfit does pre planned lefty alt media lolz show @ TWT - not sure where the " WTAF / wORdz FaIL Me " etc stuff comes from ?

 

[LDC]

lefty alt media outfit does pre planned lefty alt media lolz show @ TWT - not sure where the " WTAF / wORdz FaIL Me " etc stuff comes from ?

Novara are happily trying to position themselves as a leading voice of the radical left.

Then Ed Miliband? For a start.

 

[cantsin]

Novara are happily trying to position themselves as a leading voice of the radical left.

Then Ed Miliband? For a start.

litch just edited in that caveat /. accept that

 

[chilango]

could live w/0 Miliband doing Ed Balls jokes, but lefty alt media outfit does pre planned lefty alt media lolz show @ TWT - not sure where the " WTAF / wORdz FaIL Me " etc stuff comes from ?

Have you watched it?

 

[cantsin]

Have you watched it?

scrolled a bit hoping to find pissed OJ bit, but not feeling strong / time rich enough to do much more than that tbh

 

[chilango]

scrolled a bit hoping to find pissed OJ bit, but not feeling strong / time rich enough to do much more than that tbh

I watched the first couple of minutes, but couldn't take any more.

I'm watching an old Tysky Sour instead and it's ok.

 

[Proper Tidy]

The Blind Date bit at 30ish mins. Chilling.

You watched that far?