A master class in a certain mode of politically supine middlebrow commentary that mistakes tortured ambivalence for moral rigor, and juridical hairsplitting for profundity.

'Eurovision is meant to be an apolitical contest, but that's a fantasy' – okay so you're *are* making a political statement by choosing to participate, and it's that your career is more important than genocide twitter.com/i/status/17870…

Despite what liberal intellectuals will have you believe, it is not boorish or anti-nuance to have strong moral convictions and identify right from wrong

Zadie Smith is the product of multicultural Britain and Cambridge uni. She became a star of the publishing industry and then a uni professor in her twenties. Her confidence in the establishment makes sense: it’s what made her and gave her the opportunities she’s had

A good rule of thumb: the more 'unbelievably labyrinthine' someone insists 'Israel/Palestine' is, the more they want you to sympathise with Israel

Israel banning Al Jazeera is the state openly admitting that it assassinated Shireen Abu Akleh.

52/86 local government pension schemes invest over £1bn in arms companies that supply Israel opendemocracy.net/en/palestine-s…

The joy of anonymous quotes: plausible deniability

*taps earpiece* am hearing that a number of people who had hoped to vote for Richard Parker are being held in a Hamas tunnel underneath Solihull Greggs

This is really going to be the year of 'Labour lost here because of KHAMAS' isn't it. There will be zero introspection, zero accountability, just straight-up Islamophobia 👌🏻

From the people who brought you 'shaking off the fleas'

Updates, negative first:

- Police violently dispersed the protest at around 4pm yday.

- 44 ARRESTS (a huge number!)

- Charges include obstructing the highway, obstructing & assaulting police.

- Some may also have been collectively charged with criminal damage for coach tyres

This Guardian article on UK Students anti Gaza war camps refers twice to 'violent scenes' at US universities- but never says this was US police (or Frat Boys & thugs) violently attacking peaceful protesters. The supposed who/what/why of journalism junked theguardian.com/education/arti…

We are moments away from UK police brutalising students – a disproportionate number of them Jewish – much like their US counterparts have done, and Union of Jewish Students is already lining up to cheer them on. Sickening.

‘The more they keep coming back, the bigger the resistance seems to be getting.’

I spoke to some of the dozens of protesters who successfully blocked a coach from taking asylum seekers to the Bibby Stockholm today.
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