ForenSix Opposition - Politics in the Soon To Be Former UK in Autumn 2020

Didn't know that about Williams - Martin Amis also wrote a non-fiction book called Koba the Dread, in 2002.

Yep Koba was another handle for the cuddly Georgian gnome

the bad perry was often featured at crafts magazine while i was there, i think as much as anything because
(a) yes he made pots but
(b) they somewhat overlapped with standard YBA/BritArt conceptual discourse (which while not uncommon at that time at the arty end of the applied arts was rarely done with such an easy-read DO-YOU-SEE affect, so lazy reviews had something to talk abt that wasn't very technical stuff abt slips and glaze and raku and such) and
(c) at the time (mid-00s) he had a mildly transgressive personal branding shtick in a somewhat staid sector

anyway the one positive thing i will say is that his work always looks worse in photos than IRL (it's extremely often the other way round with the applied arts: viz this metalwork looks amazing in the pictures and clunky on the vitrine)

Good [good / bad Perry] distinction.

Think Luke, Lee, Katy, Fred and the fella from Jane's Addiction need to be plotted on this spectrum.

The Ba[n]d Perry

(xp) Don't forget Anderson, the thinking ILXor's Gaz Coombes.

egregious mason shade

the thinking ilxor's etc was of course already plotted into the gradient, why wd i not be thinking of him (he's actually mentioned in the review i'm meant to writing right now lol)

aka the nuff sick essayist with LARGE words!

We are always thinking of him.

"An Amphibology of Perrys" (Sinker, 2020)

degringolade or gtfo

when life gives you degringos ect

I am pretty defeatist about it happening in the short term, in the longer term less so. There are plenty of signs of changing attitudes in wider society, particularly among younger people, that will be beneficial in the longer term.

I'm defeatist enough to think we already said that about the young people who are now the old people.

the ladder that once got ppl from precariously young to comfortably old is not only smashed and busted, but medium-term unrebuildable

i mean look on the bright side, there are only a couple of decades of livable planet left at best

seems bad

Our current estimate of the daily number of new infections occurring each day across England is 77,600 (53,400–113,000, 95% credible interval).
The daily number of new infections is particularly high in the Midlands, the North West and the North East and Yorkshire (20,400, 16,800 and 13,100 infections per day, respectively). Note that a substantial proportion of these daily infections will be asymptomatic.
We predict that the number of deaths each day is likely to be between 380 and 710 on the 14th of November.

as this tsunami of death starts taking a thousand a day I predict Hitch will still be dismissing it as a load of bollox in his patrician tone and telling us to get down to Pret and stop bloomin' wearing masks until we've studied the evidence ... here look at this graph from the Daily Mail!

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/nov/03/45m-deal-for-nhs-masks-collapses-amid-claims

Government hands over £45m to a company in Hertfordshire for 5m respirator masks, Hertfordshire company pays British Virgin Islands account £21m for said masks, BVI company allegedly pays company in S.Korea for the masks, S. Korea company and mask manufacturer says ‘nothing to do with me, guv’. Government has no masks.

This is business

time to send the gunships in!

presumably the government has an enforceable contract with this company??

omg did nobody check trustpilot reviews?

They had a firm handshake ffs procurement rules are red tape

yah good point

kieth will hire biden's campaign manager. bet it

My own analysis of Hillary's harrowing defeat has come to the following conclusions; Liberals are great and we should carry on as normal.

— Simon Hedges (@Orwell_Fan) November 9, 2016

this one never gets old

tbh, it looks like Biden followed the Johnson strategy of shutting yourself in a meat locker for the duration of the campaign and banking on winning by default. I still think he'll win but it should be a wake-up call to Starmer that you need to offer more than competence and you can't take your base for granted.

That old "they've got nowhere else to go" arrogance will not cut it here either, but nethertheless Keith plows on with it.

don't bet on starmer getting the kind of media support here that biden got (outside of the usual echo chambers)

pic.twitter.com/XmopUYERPs

— daytime snaps (@daytimesnaps) November 4, 2020

looks like Biden followed the Johnson strategy of shutting yourself in a meat locker for the duration of the campaign and banking on winning by default. I still think he'll win but it should be a wake-up call to Starmer that you need to offer more than competence and you can't take your base for granted.

tbf to Biden he didn't actually bother to offer competence

The Election Understanders have logged on:

<talking through a mouthful of eggs benedict, yolk and coffee spraying across the brunch table> of course the reason Biden didn't win convincingly was that he was too left-wing, he needs to move to the centre pic.twitter.com/tgdYisRxbq

— Jack Seale (@jackseale) November 4, 2020

I’m seeing ‘Biden did less well because the left may have stayed home.’

Bernie would be 20 points ahead

Can't believe the fash cunt Nick Timothy is concern trolling

just dipped into my twitter TL for the first time in 11 months. everyone's still having the same fights I see

50 covid deaths in Scotland today. That's the highest figure since 20th May and that's with a change to the calculation which pushes the total down.

The seven day rolling average has risen from 3 to 25 in a month.

The investigation into stuff like this will go on for years:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/04/tory-linked-firm-involved-in-testing-failure-awarded-new-347m-covid-contract

No-bid contract worth £347m with a company that had to recall 750k testing kits from a previous £133m deal because they were not sterile. Tory MP who works for the company ‘party to the call’ between the vendor and the Minister in charge of procurement.

492 deaths reported today.

remember the halcyon days of yore when that would be headline news? ahh, memories

Saving it for when we smash 1000 next week.

I get it. even I'm getting sick of wallowing in the misery and outrage and I love being miserable and outraged. lots of people just want to get on with things I hear

Rory Stewart on Johnson. Doesn't think much of him. https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/boris-johnson-tom-bower-book-review-rory-stewart/

492 deaths reported today.

― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Wednesday, 4 November 2020

mentioned this today while on my daily call to my 74 yr old mum in defence of why we have to just kickback for a few weeks and enjoy TV/jigsaws etc.
she totally went into full on denial mode.
this was a new thing for us.
i usually avoid all things political as normally i just cant deal with her old person racism/right wing crap.
but to actually deny the official figures is into a new level of denial, even for her.
in order to justify my numerical quote, i had to use, and yes this is the level i had to go to, piers f&cking morgan as he had tweeted the figure.
she quickly moved onto a very different topic after that.

despite the fact that me and mk2 may get out of the annual pre-xmas family gathering that we hate (i may end up loving the "rule of 6" if it happens), i am totally fed up with all this shit.

My mum was parroting right-wing "no worse than flu" talking points back in March, but she's got a completely different attitude now. She survived breast cancer 6 years ago, buried a brother at the start of the year and now her twin sister has inoperable cancer and she's not in any hurry to die herself now and wears masks and avoids crowds and respects the rules etc and it's quite good that her attitude has radically changed because I was worrying earlier this year.

Anyone following the Corbyn suspension broigus, this is superb: https://tribunemag.co.uk/2020/11/why-i-oppose-jeremy-corbyns-suspension-as-a-jewish-labour-member?fbclid=IwAR0ar1Yse07sXHq_JH0aNz4pUB5t7WZGggyM1oEbNKv8bGKxMs-4FZGAgLE

When sharing a Maxine Peake interview get's a left-wing cab minister (who was being a thoughtful and a+ shadow education minister, that put her at odds with Starmer's pathetic everyone back at school - no ifs no buts stance) unceremoniously ejected out of the Shadow cab in minutes and when the ghoulish Reeves expresses approval of a statue of a pro-Hitler piece of shit that was even an unmanageably embarrassing anti-Semite for the 40's model of the Tory party. Then fuck this party and Starmer and his superficial, factional AS stance.

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Front page of the times includes a claim that the “radical left” are in “control of much of the cultural, media and corporate landscape” 🤨

The plucky Murdoch media organisation standing proud against an onslaught of woke