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Recently had a co-authored chapter entitled ‘Mark E Smith - Guru of Post-Punk’ published in this book: Still haven’t got around to reading the other contributions and it’s a bit pricey (£16.24 is the cheapest I’ve seen it advertised for online). Also, it’s not possible to read the first few...

First official reunion photo.

Dark Matter (the 2024 series on FX not the earlier one). Might appeal to fans of Philip K. Dick and the obscure but quite highly rated philosopher David Lewis, who controversially argued for the existence of parallel worlds that are as real as our own. Although the last episode wasn’t quite as...

What a fucking twat he is.

Have been putting the **** right on one or two things recently. The estate was Sholver in Oldham, by the way.

Spotted on the BBC website: ‘You could tell Chelsea were really missing Disasi, Sterling, Chalobah, Chukwuemeka, Chilwell, Gallagher, James, Petrović, Casadei, George, Acheampong, Washington, Kellyman, Ângelo, Bettinelli, Bergström, Kepa, Humphreys, Anjorin, Broja, Fofana & Lukaku there.’

That’s what I thought. As far as I know, he practises meditation but have only reached that conclusion by Googling ‘Haaland’ and ‘Buddhism’, having previously noted that he sometimes celebrates goals by assuming a seated Buddha posture. If it is Zen that he goes in for, he may be having a crack...

Yes. He should leave any criticism of Musk to Viz Comic's estimable cartoonist Davey Jones.

Julia Ebner (an academic who infiltrates far-right and Islamist groups) wrote about this a few years ago in her book The Rage: The Vicious Circle of Islamist and Far-Right Extremism. Here's an extract from it. I've recently been using it to reply to far-right twats on X, suggesting that they...

Goodwin was bigging up Orban's Hungary on X/Twitter the other day. It was one of his more transparently proto-fascist tweets. I replied to him with quotations from two reputable sources (the authors are far less mediocre academics): 'With his [Orban's] recent move to create a parallel...

This one about Farage is good too (I already posted it in the Reform thread):

Viz Comic's estimable cartoonist Davey Jones on Space Karen:

There is certainly a problem with Islamism (as represented by, for example, Hizb ut-Tahrir), and Salafi-Jihadism (promoted by the likes of Anjem Choudary). The reason we know this is because liberal British Muslims, like Ed Husain, Sara Khan, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, and Ziauddin Sardar, have all...

Only checked back a few pages so apologies if someone has already posted this:

This is something that I found on Facebook. Usually, when I post on here, the content is based on reputable journalism or academic writing. But it seems authentic to me. Apologies if someone has already posted it. As an aside, the far-right on X have been claiming that the EDL have...

They won't. Conspiracy theorists are not typically open to accepting disconfirming factual information. Their beliefs are effectively unfalsifiable. So there's that with him and his followers. Then there's the manner in which some people (who in the past would have been acolytes of gurus...

Arabic speaking Christians and Jews (like the venerable Iraqi born historian Avi Shlaim) might also actually use the word 'Allah' to refer to God. Of course, you can't expect such a motley gathering of the scrofulous to know things like that.