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What's next? John McDonnell doing a pally interview with Alastair Campbell? Jess Phillips hanging out with Jacob Rees-Mogg?

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/jun/29/were-frenemies-george-osborne-and-ed-balls-to-launch-economics-podcast

When Wagner took Rostov all the Grayzone lads went conspicuously quiet for about 12-18 hours. Now all they can do is complain about (bad) pundits using the same term for the mutiny as... Putin.

Noted demented regime fanatic Vladimir Putin.

Max Blumenthal Jun 25: A bunch of geriatric Oathkeepers got closer to the center of power on January 6 than the Wagner group did to Moscow but these demented regime change fanatics couldn't help declaring "civil war" and the imminent defeat of Russia's army in Ukraine

Max Seddon: Puting says Russia's armed forces "essentially stopped a civil war" and did such a good job that Russia didn't have to remove any units from the war zone in Ukraine. He holds a minute of silence for the pilots killed in clashes with Wagner.

Shot, chaser.

Rainer Shea: Excerpted from my latest essay...

What the imperialist media calls the “Wagner group” is neither fascist, nor does it even exist. The “Wagner fascists” who liberals refer to are fictional characters, written to play villains in U.S. imperialism’s narrative on the conflict.

Lenin: Turn Imperialist war into civil war!

Tankies:

Rainer Shea

This betrayal by a rogue Russian capitalist element makes Russia’s victory no less inevitable. There’s a reason why Ukrainian victory was made mathematically impossible long ago: the Russian people are overall behind the idea of crushing fascism, and are determined to do so.

I don’t think many in the west realize how strong this mass social base behind Operation Z is. It’s so powerful that it pressured Putin into taking action. If he and his bourgeois government falter in their assignment of winning the war, they’ll be replaced by better leaders.

This great, implied threat of an effort from the masses to hold the government to account should it lose the war is why the government is decisive about continuing the war amid this obstacle. The leaders know that if they give in to the anti-Z forces, they’ll face consequences.

The support for the anti-fascist cause runs so strong among Russians because they lost 27 million of their people due to fascism’s crimes against them. They will not tolerate their bourgeois government’s insipid infighting jeopardizing the new Great Patriotic War.

Rishi Sunak: "I can't spend money on anything I want, I have to prioritise, like you with your household budgets (I don't have one of those of course)."

The priorities:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/raf-titan-rishi-sunak-scotland-royal-navy-b2362494.html

John Harris: conspiracy theories are festering in Britain - and our politicians are making it worse

If Facebook or Google create their own currency, they can control our lives - John Harris

Donald Trump supporters are not the bigots the left likes to demonise - John Harris

Owen Jones rightly points out that the BBC's misinformation focus overlooks elephants like The Spectator. But has he seen what the Guardian prints?

Extreme websites peddle conspiracies, but what about the mainstream outlets that do it too? Owen Jones

This disappearing ink phenomenon in relation to immigration law - what immigration law? - helps to explain why the US will soon have no choice but to issue an amnesty, de facto or otherwise, to its 12 million gatecrashers, and to the millions more who follow. Britainwill have to do likewise, even with its comparatively negligible half million visitors-for-life. Sending them all back home became a logistical impossibility long ago. When you let a law slide, it evaporates. You can't shove the undocumented genie back into the bottle

Ngl if Omid Djalili goes the same way as G Linesman that might just be the end of 2023 for me

POV you're watching Supertanskiii's "alliances and organising" with "a very important legend" in action

Given that, from about week 3 of Liz Truss' six-week reign, everyone could see that this was the end for this Tory government, I'm not sure that the 'alliances" Supertanskiii is forming with a "very important legend" are going to be what seals the deal here

What if you took this book banning stuff to its logical conclusions, reductio ad absurdum if you like, and then the school districts were just like 'oh if course this makes complete sense we're banning the Bible and the Book of Mormon'.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jun/03/utah-school-district-book-of-morman-ban

Can't help thinking of 17 year-old Zyed Benna and 15 year-old Bouna Traore who ran into an electricity substation and died while being chased by police in France 2006. Lots of parallels with Ely in Cardiff. https://libcom.org/article/france-200-riot-police-invade-paris-estate

Police lying about the Cardiff riots and media reprinting their claims verbatim.

Guardian: South Wales PCC says false report police pursuit Les to road crash that killed two teenages fuelled 'large-scale disorder'

Guardian: South Wales police van was pursuing teenages in Cardiff, force admits

Conservative anti-Semitism. The strange case of Boris Johnson, Richard Spencer, and Gavin McInnes.

https://libcom.org/article/conservative-anti-semitism-strange-case-boris-johnson-richard-spencer-and-gavin-mcinnes

Guardian putting this in the first paragraph and failing to point out it's an antisemetic dogswhistle.

Who are ‘national conservatives’ and what do they want?

Populist-right movement gathering for first UK ‘NatCon’ conference seeks to revive spirit of Brexit poll triumphs

Aletha Adu and Peter Walker

Sun 14 May 2023 21.00 BST

In the words of rising Conservative star Miriam Cates, “national conservatism” was born out of the 2016 Brexit referendum and Tory 2019 election victory. Those moments were an “instruction from the public that they expect us to govern with their interests, their values in mind. Not the values of the intelligentsia – the globalised elite whose loyalties are to everyone and no one.”

Sorry that was unfair to three year olds who have better attention spans than columnists and political editors.

Some people who can vote in the next general election would have been... about three years old when Cleggmania happened? Coincidentally similar to the attention span of a newspaper columnist.

Lib Dems literally put the Tories into power and propped them up for five years. And by doing so also wiped themselves out as a tactical anti-Tory vote for the next five after that.

It's interesting to see the memory-holing of 2010, even as Davey makes an oblique reference to it.

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