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this isn't to say nothing can be accomplished in parliament - there can be slight movement on one side or another, and Unexpected Events can short-circuit the normal nervous system of the place, but the idea that someone to the left of Ed Miliband in His Majesty's Government is a fantasy

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the parliamentary door to anything resembling leftist, internationalist, humanist mass-movement politics was pretty firmly closed. if your political analysis doesn't begin from that fact your conclusions cannot be anything other than misguided.

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we really have learned nothing since 2017 eh

looking out at a line of mounted riot cops ten deep and armed to the teeth: "if we shout slightly more polite slogans they won't charge us with horses - they might even let us ride them!"

horizontalist @horizontalist.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

isn't it acting as a sort of casus belli for a migration of British people to north germany and denmark, land of the angles and saxons

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horizontalist @horizontalist.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

letting William Gallas wear the number 10 shirt is still a bigger crime against football than any of city's financial chicanery

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horizontalist @horizontalist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

seen this graph a few times and am honestly confused by it. interested to see when the appendices come out how the panel have adjudicated that City's commercial revenue in 2017 could only plausibly have been that of a mid-table Championship side. Why bother with splitting the payments at all?

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horizontalist @horizontalist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Don’t often get to be unabashedly partisan but the idea that City are getting relegated to the national league for this and the Glazers are fit and proper owners is completely ludicrous

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horizontalist @horizontalist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

£900m of associated party transactions! That’s … 11 hotels!

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horizontalist @horizontalist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I think their logic is that the less the organs of US state power are looking at your little island the better

horizontalist @horizontalist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

why kerning matters, exhibit etc etc

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Always funny when ostensible liberals are like "You see, this postcolonial conflict is actually very nuanced and complex, because what makes it so very unique is that the majority ethnic group doesn't want to share power with the minority ethnic groups." Oh wow, I didn't know that, that's wild man.

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horizontalist @horizontalist.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

it's simultaneously gratifying to see this and galling to see that being "right" doesn't mean the likes of Starmer and a procession of foreign ministers aren't brought before the Hague on charges of facilitating a genocide. the price of being told "you nailed it" is total impunity.

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horizontalist @horizontalist.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

COPS: these are lethal, dangerous terrorists planning an immediate attack on a US base, whom we absolutely must release back into the community. no we don't think this raises any questions, no

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horizontalist @horizontalist.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Is this sponsored by FIFA97? I’ve not played an EA football game in a while but do they really still look this bad?!

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horizontalist @horizontalist.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Everyone’s all “be gay do crimes“ until you win a treble

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horizontalist @horizontalist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Whatever happens to the stats and the record books, the experience of watching City has been unforgettable. You can chip away the club name from the trophy but you can’t take away seeing David Silva play for my hometown club. Whatever, however, they were paid - it wasn’t half what they were worth.

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horizontalist @horizontalist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It doesn’t stop bad owners ripping off their clubs, as United fans know. It doesn’t stop bad owners making shit decisions, as Chelsea fans know. It doesn’t make the EFL get a more equal deal from the insane wealth of the prem.

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horizontalist @horizontalist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Football worldwide needs to be decommodified and made far more equal. If you want to pretend to yourself that this ruling gets us closer to that, you’re welcome to. It doesn’t stop nation-states owning clubs, as Newcastle know. It doesn’t stop outside money influencing the game.

horizontalist @horizontalist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The likes of Bournemouth, Brighton, Hull, even more storied clubs like Everton are simply In Their Place. The idea that a canny signing or a new tactical regime will result in anything other than a half-season of impact is finished.

horizontalist @horizontalist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Now we’re in a position where United and Spurs’ sporting performance basically has no bearing on their spending because they sell a lot of noodles sponsorships off the back of their big-spending domination of the league in the 90s/2000s and selling Beyonce tickets respectively

horizontalist @horizontalist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The rules are in place to prevent speculation breaking the existing order. That speculation can end horribly, with spiralling debts and winding-up orders (the original intention was to stop exactly this). They can end up like City, where the money is spent well and on the future.

horizontalist @horizontalist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Complex feelings about the City result. Obviously it‘s bad that they broke a lot of financial rules to win so much. We can look at the likes of Leicester for examples of what happens when you win and abide by them.

horizontalist @horizontalist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

this was happening at the exact same time as the antisemitism crisis in the UK by the way

One of Theresa May’s “Go Home” vans, driven around migrant areas to threaten migrants with deportation

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horizontalist @horizontalist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

these people care about antisemitism and jewish experience because it is a cudgel that can be used against people threatening their position. the second they believe the electoral winds have shifted they would happily advocate for pogroms and expulsions, as they do for other marginalised groups now

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horizontalist @horizontalist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

to be browbeaten and scolded about this statistical inevitability, and particularly by people who are more than happy to throw migrants and refugees into internment camps, to allow them to drown in the med and the channel, who want to separate Them from Us so cleanly, is stupid and dangerous

horizontalist @horizontalist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

There is no doubt that some fraction of leftists are antisemites, as some fraction of people of all ideologies and belief structures are. It’s a pernicious, long-lived and totalising theory that provides a convenient scapegoat.

horizontalist @horizontalist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

For an example of what happens when leftbashing smears of antisemitism are taken seriously we can look at the UK, a country that now has determined that support for Palestine is tantamount to a terrorist office but that slashing at migrant boats with knives is legitimate political activity

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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Can we call it apartheid now

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horizontalist @horizontalist.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I'm not even sure this is true anymore, there's plenty of commentary out there from scientists and commentators who I'd assign equal trust to (all things being equal) who are both less vociferous in their critique than her AND less willing to sign their names to the Cofnas letter

horizontalist @horizontalist.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

They should have done it all in the Francis Bourgeois facecam. Penny Mordaunt‘s smug grin when she was right about Landceptor being unable to defeat a drone swarm in this angle would be great TV

A screenshot from a Francis Bourgeois train video, in the bizarre GoPro angle where it’s on his forehead we’re looking down his distorted face while he’s screaming like a howler monkey because a machine honked at him.

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horizontalist @horizontalist.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

No need to respect Sabine at all, she’s a pretty deranged figure with a penchant for race science

horizontalist @horizontalist.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Britain is a great and terrible experiment in raising an entire society of people who know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

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horizontalist @horizontalist.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If you have these desires and are accepting that they should be met regardless of one’s birthplace or parentage you’re a naif with no place in political society. If you have them and also hate brown people and throw bricks at lifeboats then you’re a target audience and a Hero Voter.

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horizontalist @horizontalist.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

the desires of ordinary people for stable incomes, stable housing, something like a future for their children and the knowledge that they won’t have to work until they’re dead are only ever presented as valid so long as they also hate migrants and outsiders

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horizontalist @horizontalist.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

What is the positive case anywhere in electoral history of anti-migrant policies and a focus on making it more difficult to migrate and resettle resulted in less salience in racism, xenophobia, etc., and less electoral success for right parties?

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horizontalist @horizontalist.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This has been the case in every election since I’ve been alive. At some point ‘centrists’ have to stop pretending they‘re doing it out of a sense of representative justice and admit their actual beliefs, that authoritarian xenophobic fascism and camps are better than mild redistribution of wealth.

Nils Gilman @nilsgilman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

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Watching a cartel form right out in the open is really something.

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horizontalist @horizontalist.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

“Pacing the frontier” is such a workshopped CEO phrase, you have to be truly credulous not to see collusion here

horizontalist @horizontalist.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

liking this new-look arsenal (the new look is 'bad')

Blair Fix @blairfix.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

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What if 'business' and 'industry aren’t synonyms? This essay introduces the business-to-industry index (the ratio of income share to energy-use share) to map the financial core of global capitalism, and to trace the rise and fall of capitalist empire. economicsfromthetopdown.com/2026/09/19/t...

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The Business-to-Industry Index and the Geography of Global Capitalism – Economics from the Top Down

I use the business-to-industry index to chart the rise and fall of capitalist hegemony, and to map the uneven structure of global capitalism.

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horizontalist @horizontalist.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

maybe they should just give the tottenham hotspur stadium away because it's clearly not working

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horizontalist @horizontalist.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I'm rewatching The Fugitive because I saw that milhouse clip and it ends with two surgeons having a fistfight. Now I've known a few surgeons and I can assure you it wouldn't be even 1/100th as dignified as this films makes it look.