George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 05/07/20254. It's the clowning that kills us. It opens the door to the unacceptable, allowing it to spread into public life. Then suddenly you find it's real and it's serious. People like Rod Liddle perform an essential role in Establishment power. They are not an anomaly but an embodiment. 1867492
George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/07/2025The thread on one page: skywriter.blue/pages/did:pl...skywriter.bluePage by George Monbiot | @georgemonbiot.bsky.social1. One thing you need to realise about the British Establishment is that it uses clowns to express its deepest desires. People like Rod Liddle offer a kind of deniability - 35713
Matt Edwards @butt-fest.bsky.social · 07/07/2025Such articles always moves the topic into one of "freedom of speech", something the western commentariat would love to discuss rather than the real issue behind the statement. 010
timminsj.bsky.social @timminsj.bsky.social · 07/07/2025I've long had a theory that political comedy (back then beginning with people like Ben Elton - who sometimes I found funny, found some of all of it funny) has resulted in the "they're all as bad as each other" syndrome and consequently reduced public engagement. All benefiting the establishment. 110
Alastair Somerville @acuity.design · 07/07/2025Conservatives take serious things as jokes and jokes as serious things (not sure who first said that first) 0143