welshbairn Posted May 28, 2019 Share Posted May 28, 2019 (edited) Think that Jess Phillips has a book out that is said to be funny might have more to do with it. Beginning to think it's a parody account. https://twitter.com/AaronBastani/status/1133377087673438208 Edited May 28, 2019 by welshbairn 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SandyCromarty Posted May 28, 2019 Share Posted May 28, 2019 Alistair Campbell now a labour non person. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotThePars Posted May 28, 2019 Share Posted May 28, 2019 Oooft that's brutal. How this twat got a PhD I don't know.To paraphrase Margaret from The Apprentice: “obviously a doctorate isn’t what it used to be” 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renton Posted May 28, 2019 Share Posted May 28, 2019 7 minutes ago, NotThePars said: To paraphrase Margaret from The Apprentice: “obviously a doctorate isn’t what it used to be” PhDs have always been more an exercise in persistence rather than inspiration. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miguel Sanchez Posted May 28, 2019 Share Posted May 28, 2019 2 hours ago, welshbairn said: I liked this one. I wrote my master's dissertation in a day and a half and I would have been ashamed for something like this to be included in it 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted May 28, 2019 Share Posted May 28, 2019 Just now, Miguel Sanchez said: I wrote my master's dissertation in a day and a half and I would have been ashamed for something like this to be included in it An awful lot of his tweets seem to be about how working class people, although salt of the earth and charming, are really thick, so you have to give them a clear simple message. Then he comes out with shite like that. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vikingTON Posted May 28, 2019 Share Posted May 28, 2019 Oh dear: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-48433964 Private Eye reported that this was on the cards in its most recent issue and by their account there's going to be Chrenobyl-levels of fallout for the Mumbleclown and his inner circle from this. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doulikefish Posted May 29, 2019 Share Posted May 29, 2019 So campbell was part of the team that "sexed" up a dossier to take us into the Iraq war and got chucked out of the Labour party for voting for the Lib dems [emoji23] 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detournement Posted May 29, 2019 Share Posted May 29, 2019 On 5/28/2019 at 15:09, welshbairn said: I liked this one. Capitalist Realism is a concept from social theorist Mark Fisher. It makes a lot of sense when you read about it. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Capitalist-Realism-There-Alternative-Books/dp/1846943175 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotThePars Posted May 29, 2019 Share Posted May 29, 2019 I think the issue is less capitalist realism (which is a really good concept and I'd recommend the book to anyone (RIP Mark Fisher)) and more that Bastani seems to be suggesting people are thick and need concepts explained to them. Which again, I'm not claiming to be a genius either and usually need concepts dumbed down a bit and think that's a problem with the left in general... But Bastani saying that like he's a brain genius who gets it all? Cool. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detournement Posted May 29, 2019 Share Posted May 29, 2019 (edited) It just seems like he's saying an societal wide change has to take place from the bottom up and that any vanguard efforts have to be accessible to people who's main reading material is Instagram or the Sun. The vast majority of people are not serious readers. This bit of Society of the Spectacle has always stuck with me. Quote Proletarian revolution depends entirely on the condition that, for the first time, theory as intelligence of human practice be recognized and lived by the masses. It requires workers to become dialecticians and to inscribe their thought into practice. Bastani seems to be suggesting the same thing for dumbed down 2019. Edited May 29, 2019 by Detournement 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Londonwell Posted May 29, 2019 Share Posted May 29, 2019 H_Bastani 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D Angelo Barksdale Posted May 29, 2019 Share Posted May 29, 2019 Paul Mason going all in for the #FBPE Those northern lads are a bit racist 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jedi Posted May 29, 2019 Share Posted May 29, 2019 Whats Jim Murphy up to these days? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tutankhamen Posted May 29, 2019 Share Posted May 29, 2019 1 hour ago, Jedi said: Whats Jim Murphy up to these days? Seen him about 6 times out jogging in Pollok Park since he lost his seat in 2015. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotThePars Posted May 30, 2019 Share Posted May 30, 2019 14 hours ago, MixuFixit said: Mogg has sold 734 copies of his book. Can Bastani do better?https://www.theguardian.com/politics/shortcuts/2019/may/29/jacob-rees-mogg-victorians-has-sold-734-copies-will-publishers-take-note Verso do a 90% sale on all its ebooks every summer so I imagine it'll clean up then. I'm buying it to liberally quote from to annoy a friend of mine who's met him a few times. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BawWatchin Posted May 30, 2019 Share Posted May 30, 2019 (edited) Can somebody upload this to pirate bay or something? I choke at the idea of giving away any of my hard earned pound to this tadger. Edited May 30, 2019 by BawWatchin 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted May 30, 2019 Share Posted May 30, 2019 13 hours ago, Jedi said: Whats Jim Murphy up to these days? Quote More recently he has served as the Senior Adviser to the Tony Blair Institute. Additionally, he is a Trustee of the Foundation for Jewish Heritage, an Ambassador for the Internet Watch Foundation and a member of the Advisory Board of the Community Security Trust https://www.ardenstrategies.com/new-page 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J_Stewart Posted May 30, 2019 Share Posted May 30, 2019 Would I be surprised if someone told me the Bastani and Rees-Mogg's book sales combined were less than that of Business Secrets of the Pharaohs? No 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
betting competition Posted May 30, 2019 Share Posted May 30, 2019 (edited) 15 hours ago, Jedi said: Whats Jim Murphy up to these days? https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/16395305.former-mp-jim-murphy-earns-150k-as-political-consultant/ Edited May 30, 2019 by betting competition 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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