#  @simon__roberts Simon Roberts Simon Roberts posts on X about youtube, in the, country, london the most. They currently have [-----] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [-----] engagements in the last [--] hours. ### Engagements: [-----] [#](/creator/twitter::1268573159290212356/interactions)  - [--] Week [------] +184% - [--] Month [------] +220% - [--] Months [-------] +26% - [--] Year [-------] -33% ### Mentions: [--] [#](/creator/twitter::1268573159290212356/posts_active)  ### Followers: [-----] [#](/creator/twitter::1268573159290212356/followers)  - [--] Week [-----] +0.19% - [--] Month [-----] +1.40% - [--] Months [-----] +5.90% - [--] Year [-----] +24% ### CreatorRank: [---------] [#](/creator/twitter::1268573159290212356/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence **Social category influence** [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) [social networks](/list/social-networks) [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) [countries](/list/countries) [finance](/list/finance) [celebrities](/list/celebrities) [automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands) [musicians](/list/musicians) [stocks](/list/stocks) [luxury brands](/list/luxury-brands) **Social topic influence** [youtube](/topic/youtube), [in the](/topic/in-the), [country](/topic/country), [london](/topic/london), [to the](/topic/to-the), [britain](/topic/britain), [we are](/topic/we-are), [this is](/topic/this-is), [money](/topic/money), [police](/topic/police) **Top assets mentioned** [Civic (CVC)](/topic/civic) [Curtis (CURTIS)](/topic/curtis) ### Top Social Posts Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours "When commentators won't risk social capital and need to wriggle free of benign causal apologias like 'Hanlon's Razor' that aren't sufficient to explain larger manifest malign intent they propagate lesser transitional narratives to minimise evil to the parochial and subsidiary" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1478050418991280133) 2022-01-03T17:07Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Preview of the artists here Monday [--] July - Sunday [--] July London. Subscribe on website above for location details via email" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1674541274899128323) 2023-06-29T22:12Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@Warwicka He was very much in favour of lockdowns so he'd probably tell you off for having one and for not insisting guests have to eat the canaps while snorkelling through a swimming pool filled with Dettol" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1678731444686925826) 2023-07-11T11:42Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "We risk losing the point of why a nation has political parties" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1690690636729532416) 2023-08-13T11:43Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Unexpected hilarity in perusing this programme for a jamboree of Hampstead bien pensants next month. [---] a ticket. It's the scented candles 'n chinos meets decaffeinated communism vibe you'd expect. Alain de Botton dildo-making workshops and suchlike. https://howthelightgetsin.org/festivals/london/programme https://howthelightgetsin.org/festivals/london/programme" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1691398572921540608) 2023-08-15T10:36Z [----] followers, 34.9K engagements "@SamLowryEsq Ok but you're missing the AC Grayling burlesque 'taster' session" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1691402414761431041) 2023-08-15T10:52Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "NARRATOR: And as had so often happened throughout British history politicians protested that they had absolutely no intention to immiserate ordinary people and that the new law based largely in fiction would not in any way be used to erode freedom. But it was all a fantasy" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1700579106272755782) 2023-09-09T18:37Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "And what about *politicians* @cj_dinenage who break their position of trust as governing custodians of our ancient constitutional and legal customs and protections 'You have been sat too long here for any good you have been doing. Depart I say and let us have done with you'" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1704823737025970182) 2023-09-21T11:43Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "The point must stand that whatever the alleged actions of Mr Brand are the blas extra-judicial instincts of the managerial fox should be exposed. Dinenage's actions show the unstable unaccountable overreachings driven by emotionally-led governance" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1704830557127852497) 2023-09-21T12:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Lewis using sceptic quotemarks hints voluminous lawgasm of the Blair era is somehow not a factor in bureaucratic capture Interestingly "Goodall married Tone Langengen the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change's senior climate and energy policy advisor in August 2023" (wiki)" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1709242865245733014) 2023-10-03T16:23Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Whatever one's view of our war history having third-rate slobs use sacred monuments as a convenient kit dump perfectly captures the calibre of charmless bovine surliness that the Met specialises in when not being walking teasmades solicitously arse-kissing those who hate us. Constables of the @metpoliceuk think it's acceptable to put their riot helmets and shields on the Cenotaph 🤨 #MetropolitanPolice #CenotaphRespect #Controversy https://t.co/f99Hg7OTDv Constables of the @metpoliceuk think it's acceptable to put their riot helmets and shields on the Cenotaph 🤨 #MetropolitanPolice" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1713669262873649550) 2023-10-15T21:32Z [----] followers, 12.8K engagements "@AlexDeLarge_110 That might have just been the amount they spent on coke for the artist. It shows" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1721987426103554351) 2023-11-07T20:26Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@FinisOmnia @LadyOfShalott21 Lol. It's just an atypical fat retention that means he is condemned to be svelte. I can't pity him. And he's thoroughly annoying anyway" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1729875134062952873) 2023-11-29T14:49Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Even if you do find economic immolation and imminent enslavement by an all-powerful financial technostructure that erupts from the ashes like a horrifying phoenix a bit offputting my friend @TimPrice1969 explains it in such a nice calming voice that I am feeling better already" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1734892565659357468) 2023-12-13T11:06Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "@FinisOmnia Because I think to repurpose a quote from Burke ".the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1745048118360424564) 2024-01-10T11:41Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@Lavende95298651 Unfortunately it seems likelier that such people never flirted with 'the dignity of danger' I think that a structural flaw in our societies has harboured and nurtured this kind of spite for a long time elevating those artful in it to civic responsibility whilst we were blinded" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1745049709989830717) 2024-01-10T11:47Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@Lumawkin Pleased you enjoy them There are some more unlisted recordings from his archive out there on back episodes of William English's "Wavelength' radio show usually hosted on Resonance FM's Bandcamp pages I think. They can be found with a bit of googling" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1745868733623492617) 2024-01-12T18:01Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@FinisOmnia 'FRANKIE SAY WTF'" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1751188997542433081) 2024-01-27T10:22Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Retvrn to the History Play cycle whenever you can. Whether you want to learn about the circulation of elites or just hear the greatest State-ofThe-Nation verse dramas England ever produced. @simon__roberts You tempted me Simon. https://t.co/TFhfScpYqO @simon__roberts You tempted me Simon. https://t.co/TFhfScpYqO" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1752687527708823625) 2024-01-31T13:37Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@Surfer_Binary Hunt in the 'open undefended genital' position with the handshake you mean 'Here are my balls Larry come take them' sorta thing" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1752690146820956470) 2024-01-31T13:47Z [----] followers, [--] engagements ""Which is why my army chums and I have been spying on you for the past few years." 'If we move to the extreme right we will move ourselves out of British politics. This party will move into oblivion if we continue on this right wing approach.' Conservative Tobias Ellwood reacts to the launch of Liz Truss' PopCon group. https://t.co/2qSvCjE91v 'If we move to the extreme right we will move ourselves out of British politics. This party will move into oblivion if we continue on this right wing approach.' Conservative Tobias Ellwood reacts to the launch of Liz Truss' PopCon group." [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1754937162066231648) 2024-02-06T18:36Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@MarkHiggie1 @RogTallbloke @RobertJenrick Still fundamentally dishonest: "To reckon with the public will not only bring more people onside." This frames Net Zero as simply in need of cost reworking to negate a perception management issue for Power in its attempts to solve a 'problem' confected by Green pseudoscience" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1756300594053079480) 2024-02-10T12:54Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@FestMajor @MarkHiggie1 @RogTallbloke @RobertJenrick It goes back to the bogus corporate harmony psychology stuff taught in the 70s. Essentially when it comes to the 'problem' of railroading something through that others dislike you can feel free to do it so long as you a) pretend to listen to concerns and b) 'sell' your vision" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1756318858384642262) 2024-02-10T14:07Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "You want police to be treated in a way they might have been in an earlier age. But your own complicity with powerful subversion in destroying the social stability that fostered that cordiality now haunts you. You deserve only contempt for your many betrayals and weaknesses. A statement from Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley following the online response to the appointment of Commander Karen Findlay as the next Assistant Chief Constable of the British Transport Police. A statement from Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley following the online response to the appointment of Commander Karen Findlay as the" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1758992800266207535) 2024-02-17T23:12Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Not content with just running parliament by soft coercion Labour now moving into running other parties as well. NEW Labour Party write to PM and call for him to remove whip from former PM Liz Truss for spreading disinformation and conspiracy theories about a deep state that is to blame for the downfall of her premiership spreading such blatant conspiracy theories is incredibly NEW Labour Party write to PM and call for him to remove whip from former PM Liz Truss for spreading disinformation and conspiracy theories about a deep state that is to blame for the downfall of her premiership" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1761330313928593674) 2024-02-24T10:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "@OGRolandRat" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1763170879205212440) 2024-02-29T11:54Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "@FinisOmnia Yes that might just capture the level of seriousness to which he aspires. Maybe the one with the chickens trying to escape the prison camp. That would be appropriate" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1770849748368441365) 2024-03-21T16:27Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "When Labour come in and accelerate us towards their statist Pasolini torture-porn UK humiliation utopia would it be too much to ask for a new commentary class in places like the Telegraph that are a *bit* more ferocious and *quicker on the uptake* as to the direction of travel" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1773365487512047757) 2024-03-28T15:04Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "If like me you struggle to sit still and READ at length any more the Skeptical Waves channel provides audio versions of both the oldest and latest in thought-leading essays like the essential piece from NS Lyons 'The China Convergence' from last year. @simon__roberts @clim8resistance Thanks for the endorsement Simon https://youtu.be/IwvGlF9_fpwsi=HyI3W_dNx9ZXMnRl @simon__roberts @clim8resistance Thanks for the endorsement Simon https://youtu.be/IwvGlF9_fpwsi=HyI3W_dNx9ZXMnRl" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1778459760234270842) 2024-04-11T16:27Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "@OGRolandRat That film is almost the obverse of Antonioni's Blow-Up. London deglamoured" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1783858841181950257) 2024-04-26T14:01Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Getting fines every other journey to London now. Routes & access ways I know from [--] years riding around suddenly being signposted with motorcycles-verboten signs often difficult to catch when your eyes are busy avoiding potholes and staying alert in the fast-moving flow. Hate" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1784201480213332029) 2024-04-27T12:42Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "We're not going to podcast our way out of this one chaps" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1787141370521555306) 2024-05-05T15:24Z [----] followers, 53.7K engagements "@schembrox @HorhayGringo Hopefully only with the recoil of belt-fed M60s in each hand as he goes about some righteous business of organisational restructuring" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1787236648071135642) 2024-05-05T21:43Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@OGRolandRat Was meaning to draw your attention to this recent interview with him and one can also consider the ongoing question of Unherd's standpoint. It's not too long but an interesting bit occurs around [--] mins in. https://youtu.be/re0wP1bEBFUsi=caah0_ya0PMQMpTb https://youtu.be/re0wP1bEBFUsi=caah0_ya0PMQMpTb" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1791275593943630300) 2024-05-17T01:12Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@StealerTime HUMBLE SCHOLAR SAVED BY KREMLIN GOLD" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1793607274155708544) 2024-05-23T11:37Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "From the old Adam Curtis blog (not one of his own films but one he liked): The Hells Angels Take a Mini-Break Film here: https://youtu.be/ng8Ll7x08Vksi=qu_AnZFAqIxyvXKk @schembrox @OGRolandRat Ah the blog. Always seemed to be stopping for long periods before it finally went dead. But there was some great stuff on it particularly a film he found about the UK Hells Angels in the 70s https://t.co/GSvKczJlCs https://youtu.be/ng8Ll7x08Vksi=qu_AnZFAqIxyvXKk @schembrox @OGRolandRat Ah the blog. Always seemed to be stopping for long periods before it finally went dead. But there was some great stuff" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1793709444410613797) 2024-05-23T18:23Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@schembrox @OGRolandRat It's also interesting for the commentator's tone of doomy resignation bordering on mild sarcasm" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1793717825682756054) 2024-05-23T18:57Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@CreepyPuppetry @SamLowryEsq @Sargon_of_Akkad @lotuseaters_com @hector_drummond @EvaVlaar It's nice that they have the support of someone like yourself. I know how much you 'put in' when it comes to the desperate and easily exploited street-folk. Some find the 'fullness' of your giving too much. That's usually the reason for the screaming of course but hey" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1795568793684767003) 2024-05-28T21:32Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "The famous 'That's Life' clip from [----] with Prince the dog from Leeds who says 'sausages' which is where Curtis starts from in his liking for quirky verit even if it is a consciously manipulated verit. https://youtu.be/g5qLcjcJ3UQsi=9fYxLBJdQVSi6D-w For those interested in Adam Curtis' influences after today's Deepest Lore on The Mayfair Set this is a very good depth interview with him in two parts: https://t.co/v1WnliV0Sb https://t.co/iswlbnFykv Today's stream: https://t.co/lcxBOKwJbC https://youtu.be/g5qLcjcJ3UQsi=9fYxLBJdQVSi6D-w For those interested in Adam Curtis' influences after" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1795902502304412152) 2024-05-29T19:38Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@schembrox Curtis LOVES TikTok" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1795904102498496630) 2024-05-29T19:44Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@schembrox Who's the one on the right Must admit I have a lingering fondness for Pret sandwiches woman because she was so silkily effortlessly unaware of how out of touch she was. Kind of impressive. And that she looked like she had beamed in from [----] slightly too much eyeliner etc" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1796223453206323708) 2024-05-30T16:53Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@schembrox @void_void_viod There's a future in running expensive camps where we give them 70s childhoods for [--] weeks. Not joking" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1796233964094701599) 2024-05-30T17:35Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Let's just remind ourselves https://youtu.be/3UstNBrmJFcsi=nDPKQp0KP5lrz6YT @simon__roberts Just looked at the Guardian site it has gone full Oh Dearism over the results. https://youtu.be/3UstNBrmJFcsi=nDPKQp0KP5lrz6YT @simon__roberts Just looked at the Guardian site it has gone full Oh Dearism over the results" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1800145788837957778) 2024-06-10T12:39Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Why do they always have these meaty yet oleaginous physiognomies You may think these are amusing AI depictions of a typical thick Tory MP but they're real. He's Craig Williams the Conservative MP for Montgomeryshire currently under investigation for placing a bet on the date of the general election. https://t.co/ineey7JWj8 You may think these are amusing AI depictions of a typical thick Tory MP but they're real. He's Craig Williams the Conservative MP for Montgomeryshire currently under investigation for placing a bet on the date of the general election. https://t.co/ineey7JWj8" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1801286844258422905) 2024-06-13T16:13Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Labour using activists masked as charities for electoral gain Sounds like a public prosecution waiting to happen. Democracy is broken. Undercover audio recordings of Hope not Hate activists who've been campaigning against @georgegalloway in Rochdale have revealed incredibly close links to the Labour party with one activist saying "we want Labour to win by a big margin" @ThePublicaNow https://t.co/zWoeh7QDdC Undercover audio recordings of Hope not Hate activists who've been campaigning against @georgegalloway in Rochdale have revealed incredibly close links to the Labour party with one" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1802751360107946296) 2024-06-17T17:13Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "@buckoharam @hector_drummond Impossibly spacious for England. You must be a premier league footballer or NHS Diversity manager to earn that square footage" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1809155308570522027) 2024-07-05T09:20Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@EternalEnglish Starmer just now: "Rishi Sunak this country's first British Asian prime minister you must understand the extra effort that takes." Because hey poor boy from nowhere Goldman Sachs marries billionairess etc You just don't know hard some people have it" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1809193531719721469) 2024-07-05T11:52Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@schembrox @AdamsArtist @SelbyWhit @_robertpoll @lotuseaters_com Siberia lovely at this time of year comrade just saying" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1809204173520371936) 2024-07-05T12:34Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Chatting with @hector_drummond last night about cozy 80s formula films incl. Beverly Hills Cop (1984). There's an element (albeit slightly broken) of 'Return to Fresh Prince' cultural recursion to set the mood here for Gen Xers. 'Everyone involved understood the assignment'" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1809539919607414811) 2024-07-06T10:48Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Something visually interesting about how Bukele is effectively messaging. He is showing with a God-eye view people operating in a nation at scale like a dynamic model diorama. It's a powerful way to illustrate outcomes via cooperation as we struggle with hyperindividualism. Thousands of non-dangerous prisoners including associates of gang members (though not gang members themselves) are being trained to help us rebuild our country. In this way they can repair part of the damage they have caused to society. https://t.co/eE3OQ8AG8S Thousands of non-dangerous prisoners including associates of" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1809549817359577364) 2024-07-06T11:27Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Here's a Peter Hitchens-style 'no one will listen to this' prediction that would help all: The quicker you stop tickling his balls with arguments or adoration the quicker we move to somewhere else that is a better place to operate from. He doesn't intend to help. "It's over"" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1809880003816853864) 2024-07-07T09:19Z [----] followers, 14.1K engagements "@DoolallyDiv He must live out his life in pleasantly upholstered boomer-prospering peace in the leafy shires he gets to enjoy But we can't seek his approval any longer" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1809917723859726355) 2024-07-07T11:49Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "The language of punishing your opposition begins. 'He's a threat to our national security and our economic prosperity - we're going to hold him to account.' Business Secretary @jreynoldsMP brands Nigel Farage a 'threat' telling @lewis_goodall that Labour will 'take on' the Reform UK leader. https://t.co/chQjxCyPG8 'He's a threat to our national security and our economic prosperity - we're going to hold him to account.' Business Secretary @jreynoldsMP brands Nigel Farage a 'threat' telling @lewis_goodall that Labour will 'take on' the Reform UK leader. https://t.co/chQjxCyPG8" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1809936274486124851) 2024-07-07T13:03Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Have a feeling that Monday's takes from certain commentators and their more simpering pundits will be 'violence always unacceptable blah blah' but they'll somehow also *still* find a way to distance themselves with comments about Trump's 'lying'/court case/'vulgarity'/Jan [--] etc" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1812322420889436533) 2024-07-14T03:05Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Oh dear. My underestimation knoweth no bounds. Who knew these people were so keen that they are literally tripping over each other to win Political Violence Revisionism Olympics [----] I was overoptimistic https://t.co/6o63GELoFV I was overoptimistic https://t.co/6o63GELoFV" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1812429513524920817) 2024-07-14T10:10Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "@iohndee He appeals to Machiavelli but omits "With *a few* exemplary executions The prince will be more merciful than those who through too much mercy allow disorders to arise" In a system of distributed feedback via social media the notion she has "no power" has to be reassessed" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1813468694703485117) 2024-07-17T07:00Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "I mean it might get *so* bad we're forced to use sarcasm on them. Doyle has no model of attaining the necessary Power needed to live out a lofty principle but merely ineffectual moralistic scolding. "The best response is criticism" So we're going to defeat the left's tactic of targeted social euthanasia by giving the enemy a good telling-off Doyle has no model of attaining the necessary Power needed to live out a lofty principle but merely ineffectual moralistic scolding. "The best response is criticism" So we're going to defeat the left's tactic of targeted social euthanasia by giving the" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1814664779388026994) 2024-07-20T14:12Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "The Manchester Airport arrest seems to have been utterly ballsed up Reinforces the point @OGRolandRat has made about the weakness of fox regimes in calibrating public discipline and using force 'comfortably' Having set a precedent of laxity they cannot now regain 'lion' mastery" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1816244482456572312) 2024-07-24T22:50Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@SteveCageauthor @OGRolandRat This is part of the same anarcho-tyranny problem of the client out-groups being protected dissident in-groups being punished. The solidity and confidence of the stern post-WWII ex-mil type policing wasn't transmitted to graduate-class lanyard types / overly tacticalised cops" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1816456899371421801) 2024-07-25T12:54Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Bear in mind too that the German police officer in Mannheim who was recently jumped from behind in a similar close-quarters fast moving attack is now dead after taking a knife in the neck. Assuming a suspect is always stunned from taser isn't something you leave to chance. The Manchester airport security footage contextualises the events. Suddenly the "victim" is shown to be the aggressor. https://t.co/WoRpwwQyhJ The Manchester airport security footage contextualises the events. Suddenly the "victim" is shown to be the aggressor. https://t.co/WoRpwwQyhJ" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1817454100088336626) 2024-07-28T06:56Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Southport algo: Politicians go and 'listen' to what people say. And then *do* nothing. Next they 'listen & reflect' what people say. And then do nothing. There is only performative response / sympathy The stage they never want to get to is the one where they make material changes" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1818997724814946574) 2024-08-01T13:10Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "@Art_Deano I think it was actually American money from MGM but Antonioni insisted on doing it in London. The story it is based on was originally set in Paris but Antonioni was fascinated with the way London had changed post-war" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1820422764408279512) 2024-08-05T11:33Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "I've seen the Future baby: It is Murder We need to cut their throats and get rid of them all A woman next to the man who shouts this to a crowd claps whilst wearing an amnesty international shirt. These are supposed to be the good guys the media tells us about. https://t.co/NksbgDXJRj We need to cut their throats and get rid of them all A woman next to the man who shouts this to a crowd claps whilst wearing an amnesty international shirt. These are supposed to be the good guys the media tells us about. https://t.co/NksbgDXJRj" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1821487885763133749) 2024-08-08T10:05Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "The Right in the UK is hobbled by a donor class whose hearts may well be stirred by the proverbial broad sunlit uplands but who ultimately think funding bright people to retake them from approaching ruin wouldn't be nearly a good enough ROI. The reason for infighting on the Right and why it can be hard to take seriously is the same. Left wing activists have a patronage network subsidized by taxpayers that covers everything from salaries to legal defense. The Right does not. That changes or this is all pointless. The reason for infighting on the Right and why it can be hard to take seriously" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1823860304083869764) 2024-08-14T23:12Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@gildednotsure @hector_drummond There is a mooted Python stream in future. I can certainly understand that a lot of it appears lukewarm now. It's tricky. When you're [--] in [----] a lot of it felt edgy and clever. Now it's more a fondness for some things which make me laugh for a vicious quality in some sketches" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1827334086802686458) 2024-08-24T13:16Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "I was in Bristol recently. Streets that in Notting Hill would be 3m townhouse enclaves look like the Bronx in [----]. What a fucking toilet. We came here from Brazil in the hope of making money but we make nothing. We are living in shantytowns the conditions are terrible. I wouldnt wish this on anyone Go back to Brazil then No https://t.co/2bNjshBEN9 We came here from Brazil in the hope of making money but we make nothing. We are living in shantytowns the conditions are terrible. I wouldnt wish this on anyone Go back to Brazil then No https://t.co/2bNjshBEN9" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1827466641895997589) 2024-08-24T22:02Z [----] followers, 19.3K engagements "This seems to have resonated somewhat and I'm interested in why as I was genuinely surprised at how bad it looked down there on the way in to Bristol. I knew it was a leftist city but didn't expect the derelicte. Interested to hear from people more familiar with the place now. I was in Bristol recently. Streets that in Notting Hill would be 3m townhouse enclaves look like the Bronx in [----]. What a fucking toilet. I was in Bristol recently. Streets that in Notting Hill would be 3m townhouse enclaves look like the Bronx in [----]. What a fucking toilet" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1827673118753562948) 2024-08-25T11:43Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "@Dr_Sacheverell Think you may be right they're certainly resisting civilised living. Looking around street view but it still looks far too nice even on there. Can't pin down the exact area but it looked blitzed. Reminded of the nice domestic architecture in Bristol however" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1827740628068761861) 2024-08-25T16:11Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Seminal book for actors / directors and a great production. We will be recording a podcast with Steven Berkoff at the end of this week. In preparation in honour of him and for fun we will be reading his plays East and West this week together on pubic streams. Do let us know if youd like to be involved. https://t.co/m7FZ6AzEC7 We will be recording a podcast with Steven Berkoff at the end of this week. In preparation in honour of him and for fun we will be reading his plays East and West this week together on pubic streams. Do let us know if youd like to be involved. https://t.co/m7FZ6AzEC7" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1828426808955469847) 2024-08-27T13:38Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@wizzydq1 @OGRolandRat "How did New Labour die"" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1829059389841350971) 2024-08-29T07:31Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@MikeDiplockre Love how he never ever breaks the brutality of character and the look is just 🤌" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1831062400663208196) 2024-09-03T20:11Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@Quinn25A @OGRolandRat I can almost hear him say it" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1833515978057257137) 2024-09-10T14:40Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@MrBenevolent @LadyOfShalott21 @MorgothsReview I did my [--] years. Perth was a bit nicer than Hartlepool but when I came back to England it had been devastated socially to an extent I couldn't go back. I always assumed when your name came up on UO you were an old style vicar in the shires" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1834165742511481022) 2024-09-12T09:42Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@buckoharam Trauma zone is astonishing but covering it would be challenging. Amazing images. The one of the KGB generals doing a TV phone-in is just fantastic. And the woman rolling out the revolting looking chocolate cake mixture" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1834168891968283091) 2024-09-12T09:55Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@MrBiswaz @OGRolandRat @AuronMacintyre @MrPrudentialist @giantgio Ah excuse me if I suggested I had done content on this - I meant I have looked into it personally for my own interest. My only outpost at present is here on Twitter. I am interested in those who can popularise it effectively however and bring it into our understanding" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1834201024472424785) 2024-09-12T12:02Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@RegggieCyde @void_void_viod Honda CBF. Just old. And I ride them to death" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1834232185122910500) 2024-09-12T14:06Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "It's not irregular migration any longer. The OBR figures have spoken. It is extractive migration. "I'm pleased that we're deepening our cooperation" Keir Starmer says after meeting with Italian PM Giorgia Meloni The prime minister also commends Italy's "remarkable progress" tackling irregular migration Follow live https://t.co/QFo7RxjBdk https://t.co/W1u4z8ed3a "I'm pleased that we're deepening our cooperation" Keir Starmer says after meeting with Italian PM Giorgia Meloni The prime minister also commends Italy's "remarkable progress" tackling irregular migration Follow live" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1836107840961843250) 2024-09-17T18:19Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@schembrox @OGRolandRat @moveincircles Desiring machines and machinic desire. It always struck me how the Sorayama and Giger books stood out when I saw them in the late 80s / early 90s because after the angular Blitz Kid fashion experiments of the early 80s models of desire now emphasised more the 'natural look'" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1836129190724174137) 2024-09-17T19:44Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@schembrox @OGRolandRat @moveincircles Yes just electro-cheesecake. I loosely recall when Rutger Hauer was interviewed about Blade Runner disparaging Harrison Ford's character as cool but then how the romantic end with replicant Rachel ruins his character arc as he then 'goes off and fucks a washing machine'" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1836135397379932271) 2024-09-17T20:09Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@schembrox @OGRolandRat @moveincircles" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1836136308403470773) 2024-09-17T20:13Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@WildBoarWisdom" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1836161415083614432) 2024-09-17T21:52Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@schembrox @HabitatRiko @OGRolandRat https://archive.is/BkiHV https://archive.is/BkiHV" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1836734081742066122) 2024-09-19T11:48Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "On Cluster Lifestyles as used by Dick Morris and Bill Clinton for mapping the desires of voters in the [----] US election which Clinton won. https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/first/w/weiss-world.htmlscp=5&sq=chicago%20zoning&st=cse Some bits and pieces to follow as we end the Deepest Lore review of 'The Century of the Self' (2002). On reinvention of the self: Bryan Ferry vs Bowie from "Peter York's Eighties" (BBC Books 1995) @OGRolandRat @iohndee @FerroEgo https://t.co/3cgsjj0nqW" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1836749941202370740) 2024-09-19T12:51Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@TampaxCrispin It's all relative. Certainly wiser than when I dropped the motorbike on my leg last week after bending over to pick something up while sat on it. I literally screamed with the wisdom" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1836818869190606907) 2024-09-19T17:25Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@threaders_ My pleasure sir. Curtis isn't perfect for all people at all points of view on the compass but many things still make him interesting and this is far more important to my mind so we try to augment his stories with questions as well" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1838996313242837279) 2024-09-25T17:37Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@schembrox @OGRolandRat I stand corrected apparently it isn't up to ballistic missiles" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1841170001870402045) 2024-10-01T17:35Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@0xmaritime @schembrox @OGRolandRat You are most welcome sir. I aim to be less ill-informed there but it is always possible. Last week's episode contained a possible misidentification in a picture I described as Kissinger Zhou Enlai and a man who looked to me like President Gerald Ford but positive ID was tricky" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1841172794203087157) 2024-10-01T17:46Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@AuntyMatter @0xmaritime @schembrox @OGRolandRat Superb Yes the face didn't quite have Ford's piggy little eyes and the sideburns seemed too long for how he wore his. Many thanks for the correction" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1841184720333181272) 2024-10-01T18:33Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Correction to my comment in last week's Deepest Lore where I thought the chap behind Kissinger in the right hand photo might be Gerald Ford but was in fact William Pierce Rogers (1913-2001) Secretary of State under Nixon. Audience info always welcome. Thank you to @AuntyMatter. @simon__roberts @0xmaritime @schembrox @OGRolandRat Left to Right: William Rodgers US Secretary of State; Henry Kissinger US National security advisor; Zhou Enlai Chinese Prime Minister and Richard Nixon US President in talks while flying over China [----]. Also GF hairline further back. Helpful https://t.co/8V224dlgYP" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1841186090343899260) 2024-10-01T18:39Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "The One Where Everyone Takes Credit for Destroying the Soviet Union before discovering The Perfect Enemy And unlike overnight events in the middle east lots of people actually die while both sides manufacture themselves The Power of Nightmares Episode 2: The Phantom Victory It's time for ADAM CURTIS REVIEW once more. This week those ever-lovable Neocons teaming up with those ever-lovable Islamists to take on those ever-lovable Russians https://t.co/u3XbEiHX0g 11.15am It's time for ADAM CURTIS REVIEW once more. This week those ever-lovable Neocons teaming up with those ever-lovable Islamists" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1841414987413098567) 2024-10-02T09:48Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "@schembrox Mr Blair's djellabas by BRIONI" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1841523471223849333) 2024-10-02T16:59Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@schembrox @Quinn25A You're wearing one of these as you type that no" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1841532123968139453) 2024-10-02T17:34Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Al Qaeda 'making a comeback' in Afghanistan 'could well be planning a terror attack in the West.highly organised.might have their hands on some pretty scary kit." Alex Phillips Talk TV presenter earlier. Ep.3 of The Power of Nightmares this Wed. We ask was Curtis right" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1842931042451349742) 2024-10-06T14:12Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "The piece is 'Aua' by Stereo Total. https://youtu.be/HJxCGis-wSAsi=3wp8FmxCB6HadVu0 https://youtu.be/HJxCGis-wSAsi=3wp8FmxCB6HadVu0" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1844387527698075886) 2024-10-10T14:40Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "It's only brief but it's high-energy raucous driven and fun. It says something to me about a redirection of spirit that is needed in this moment. Curtis uses it in the closing credits and in the trailer in his signature mood-montage style here https://youtu.be/YgADKpMSttssi=pLBLD_3cgpkZ9FIs https://youtu.be/YgADKpMSttssi=pLBLD_3cgpkZ9FIs" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1844387530399268964) 2024-10-10T14:40Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@schembrox @20Thunderchunky @OGRolandRat https://youtu.be/0bYY8m1Lb2Isi=6aaWsB8bVYw-QxOW https://youtu.be/0bYY8m1Lb2Isi=6aaWsB8bVYw-QxOW" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1844450265103249876) 2024-10-10T18:49Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@Quinn25A @schembrox @20Thunderchunky @OGRolandRat The way he glances back at it" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1844704420505747627) 2024-10-11T11:39Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@Quinn25A @schembrox @20Thunderchunky @OGRolandRat Had to look this up as I did not know of it. From about 5:17 https://youtu.be/Pu-vD2lPri8si=hrJ8TxEJsNINxNN0 https://youtu.be/Pu-vD2lPri8si=hrJ8TxEJsNINxNN0" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1844708200660041972) 2024-10-11T11:54Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@ShireStrike @OGRolandRat Explicitly chasing 'centre-right' types only in their own words ergo stasis" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1844774328346230838) 2024-10-11T16:17Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@Quinn25A @schembrox "What actually happened was that the legislation had slipped down the back of a sofa after a party in Bill Clinton's old office in Arkansas and remained hidden for more than [--] years where it was eventually discovered by a cleaner." All while this plays https://youtu.be/oof_Nt5KnJMsi=-cn3B2EOFCFXMBZM https://youtu.be/oof_Nt5KnJMsi=-cn3B2EOFCFXMBZM" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1845081102731383021) 2024-10-12T12:36Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@void_void_viod He's mired in the typical academic discourses of the time but there is this struggle the left have with the past that masks a yearning for a type of reaction albeit of a form built by the post-war consensus and its cultural milieu. And yet those experiments can haunt us as well" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1845847056268558750) 2024-10-14T15:20Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Full cut of the Hayek interview with Bernard Levin from [----] as featured in this week's episode of 'The Trap'. https://youtu.be/dV7-2Aua4_4si=ea3zZc6e0-hRmKfP This week @MorgothsReview joins @simon__roberts and me as we start on another Adam Curtis classic The Trap https://t.co/Zvgft3ZoZs NOW https://youtu.be/dV7-2Aua4_4si=ea3zZc6e0-hRmKfP This week @MorgothsReview joins @simon__roberts and me as we start on another Adam Curtis classic The Trap https://t.co/Zvgft3ZoZs NOW" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1846546722706587835) 2024-10-16T13:40Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Quite a bitter little review of 'The Trap' (2007) from an LSE wonk employing exactly the kind of misrepresentation and smear he complains of in Curtis' work. https://archive.is/L4QLl This week @MorgothsReview joins @simon__roberts and me as we start on another Adam Curtis classic The Trap https://t.co/Zvgft3ZoZs NOW https://archive.is/L4QLl This week @MorgothsReview joins @simon__roberts and me as we start on another Adam Curtis classic The Trap https://t.co/Zvgft3ZoZs NOW" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1846548289551814717) 2024-10-16T13:46Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@ShireStrike Sensing that you may hate Thatcher. Just a guess" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1846552023241564223) 2024-10-16T14:01Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "It's the constant delocalisation of social interaction in every area of life No one in a given place takes actual initiative. No one in a given position is actually responsible. No one ever actually 'helps' 'Reflexive impotence' as vector of social madness intensifies Customer: Can I have the number for this store please Igor: No you must ring customer service. Customer: So can I have that number then Igor: Its on a leaflet. Id been waiting for him to print something out for [--] mins at this point he then ambled THE ENTIRE LENGTH of Customer: Can I have the number for this store please Igor:" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1846918776366768556) 2024-10-17T14:18Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "@RogerCook321425 @OGRolandRat There comes a time in every man's life when all one's cherished memories and hopes get burned to the ground by a bored teenager" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1847599905696555204) 2024-10-19T11:25Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Well-known film but nicely understated theme. Overlook the fact that Snake Plissken is using a telescopic sight on a suppressed Mac [--] which is ludicrous and just enjoy the music. https://youtu.be/zTxBc_-XxmIsi=mGFCUnvgIs8DyoFy Fuck it. It's just gone Official John Carpenter Theme Night. https://t.co/j888mcWxuT https://youtu.be/zTxBc_-XxmIsi=mGFCUnvgIs8DyoFy Fuck it. It's just gone Official John Carpenter Theme Night. https://t.co/j888mcWxuT" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1848456410335523071) 2024-10-21T20:08Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@threaders_ 🤮 'Film gucci' gun stylings" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1848459470579306986) 2024-10-21T20:20Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@AuntyMatter @void_void_viod I saw Punchdrunk years ago at BAC doing The Masque of the Red Death incredibly detailed eerie impressive sets and even before that a company called DreamThinkSpeak which did a version of Hamlet. I think it's a great enjoyable form and I like immersion but Curtis is right" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1849053158221234603) 2024-10-23T11:40Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@schembrox That's probably about right. The parameters of bearable Fry likely stretch to about that time" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1850935706509885745) 2024-10-28T16:20Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@stevieg4ever @OGRolandRat Tbf I only recall it from the Bill Hicks routine where he talks about Jay Leno shooting himself in the head for being a sellout and the blood splatter forming an NBC peacock pattern on the wall behind" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1851223180309934524) 2024-10-29T11:22Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@OGRolandRat There's no doubt a few weeks' back we were very much getting 'AQ is on the rise again' in the UK news cycle and for a few years that pump has been primed for a reboot. Curtis' thesis of their convenient utility to a floundering political class remains. https://www.aei.org/foreign-and-defense-policy/al-qaedas-return/ https://www.aei.org/foreign-and-defense-policy/al-qaedas-return/" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1851558533768094133) 2024-10-30T09:35Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@of_wonk @OGRolandRat Resigned and simultaneously prone to outbreaks of weeping hysterics from time to time. So no change there. Hector has offered to restart The Guff Stream for a small fee of 3m and a new co-host. Interested He accepts traveller's cheques and Diner's Club card" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1852420029632962850) 2024-11-01T18:38Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@OGRolandRat yay" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1852680939152818473) 2024-11-02T11:55Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "@SpasAutisticus @OGRolandRat I'm choosing to interpret this line as 'Conservative party burns we love to see it and then have a party where we all get pissed as we applaud the smouldering ashes'" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1852686287922143534) 2024-11-02T12:16Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Admittedly this is like the time I did a Pinter play and used a Black Star Liner track before going on to 'get into the zone'. 😂 https://youtu.be/ArOv19YC-cEsi=7g-kLclLaPhfDSkl "Simply the Best" and "Eye of the Tiger". Ridiculous. https://t.co/7J0p9p58eQ https://youtu.be/ArOv19YC-cEsi=7g-kLclLaPhfDSkl "Simply the Best" and "Eye of the Tiger". Ridiculous. https://t.co/7J0p9p58eQ" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1852712376111387036) 2024-11-02T14:00Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@buckoharam How is it possible they can concentrate for that long It's nearly five and a half hours long What dark magic is this Mind you I do like the sound of that. Investigating" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1853479297107026044) 2024-11-04T16:47Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Whether the U.S. swingometer sweeps away all dreams before it tonight or points to a bold new frontier remember those plucky pioneers of British neo-dadaist election graphics @Kingbingo_ & @a2_masters All night coverage of this most significant election with @lotuseaters_com Election night broadcasting enters a bold new era of unapologetic British excellence. @Kingbingo_ @a2_masters https://t.co/FXHA8reHzh Election night broadcasting enters a bold new era of unapologetic British excellence. @Kingbingo_ @a2_masters https://t.co/FXHA8reHzh" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1853928740440686865) 2024-11-05T22:33Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "The readiness is All. Fight. https://t.co/DicXCBHCSy Fight. https://t.co/DicXCBHCSy" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1853938801732722887) 2024-11-05T23:13Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "I know it sounds like an Alan Bennett line but I actually was. Was saying this to mother only just yesterday. Was saying this to mother only just yesterday" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1854509024277884954) 2024-11-07T12:59Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@Quinn25A @schembrox "I always remember 'em comin' dahn't road from pit completely white from 't spunk head ter foot scrapin it off in't tin bath by 't fire"" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1854942657534976325) 2024-11-08T17:42Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@void_void_viod @BanannaOscar @OGRolandRat "Mate mate mate."" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1855183544819056665) 2024-11-09T09:39Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "The purpose of a Peter Hitchens is what it does https://youtu.be/rh3ahgjzkYssi=4suX92Ls0NGeiUVp https://youtu.be/rh3ahgjzkYssi=4suX92Ls0NGeiUVp" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1855200351093129665) 2024-11-09T10:46Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "@NesoronNesooron @TheBlackHorse65 Me. He was my great-grandfather. All we have is the bronze plaque and a notification. I met my great-grandmother in the 1970s as a child. Astonishing really to think I spoke to someone in my family who was born in the nineteenth century" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1856016588794642435) 2024-11-11T16:50Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@KatKitten1 Freddie & co positively *want* to find some nascent authoritarian takeover of government so he and his crew can start to mutter darkly and sagely about a return to the authoritarianism of the 1930s etc because that's the only power analysis to which everything reduces for them" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1856635678131441679) 2024-11-13T09:50Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Intriguing stream on historical conjunctions in this current moment of Trump victory. Tune in and follow @MironchuckNOW My chat with @MironchuckNOW premieres on YT now and a version will upload to here after. Top [--] Hidden Power Players Behind Donald Trump's Rise to Power https://t.co/T9hG0wmXZs via @YouTube My chat with @MironchuckNOW premieres on YT now and a version will upload to here after. Top [--] Hidden Power Players Behind Donald Trump's Rise to Power https://t.co/T9hG0wmXZs via @YouTube" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1856716011879235971) 2024-11-13T15:09Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "New Labour realist understanding vs shitlib duh Mandy - prince of darkness maybe but not stupid - he knows calling Trump fascist is bollocks Lewis tries to egg Mandy into it Mandy steers carefully away not having it. I'm intensely relaxed about the left's failure to get it. "Calling Trump an authoritarian fascist is all hyperbole." Lord Peter Mandelson dismisses claims that Trump fuels 'fear and division' noting that most Americans care more about living costs. @lewis_goodall https://t.co/Y761gKUj1h "Calling Trump an authoritarian fascist is all hyperbole." Lord Peter Mandelson dismisses" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1857848748124287032) 2024-11-16T18:10Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "A teachable moment one hopes. The Conservative Party is a homosexual blackmail ring with a party attached. https://t.co/UPGDRUZgnH The Conservative Party is a homosexual blackmail ring with a party attached. https://t.co/UPGDRUZgnH" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1857890333738058187) 2024-11-16T20:55Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "I'm hearing 'surrender'" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1857948067703468355) 2024-11-17T00:45Z [----] followers, 303.7K engagements "@LukiesWorld Restraint sir restraint. I do not think we should wish for untimely gatherings-up under the eternal scythe but I fully understand the anger. It appears he does not" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1857956487324201250) 2024-11-17T01:18Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "@kopopoulous Yes I acknowledge this. I felt he smudged it a bit but as m'esteem'd oppo @hector_drummond has pointed out the Farage Window has is shifting somewhat which in a sense irrespective of what he does opens the discourse out for recalibration and pressure on politicians" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1858134741083443285) 2024-11-17T13:06Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "@SlimyFurtler @schembrox @OGRolandRat" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1858845142200787277) 2024-11-19T12:09Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Give me back the Berlin wall Give me Stalin and St. Paul I've seen the future brother It is murder We need to find every single shivering reservoir of this recurrent pestilential ugliness and stomp it into the oblivion that awaits it. We need to find every single shivering reservoir of this recurrent pestilential ugliness and stomp it into the oblivion that awaits it" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1858927813891416394) 2024-11-19T17:38Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@schembrox Brilliant piece and that one from that CD is a good strong rendition. It was very popular when it came out with the film much replayed" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1859989999435071837) 2024-11-22T15:59Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@OGRolandRat "Go watch Tim Pool."" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1860111939835428942) 2024-11-23T00:03Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Assisted dying whether you want it or not" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1860689976461070652) 2024-11-24T14:20Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "@HMSScamander Still on Office [----] Photoshop [--] and I use Cool Edit [--] for audio fiddling. Recently reinstalled Windows Movie Maker and Easy Hi-Q recorder from [----]. Will resist until they send the Microsoft death squads" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1860724390884696415) 2024-11-24T16:37Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@OGRolandRat Sits with crossed legs on TV bad form. He either hasn't had advice or he hasn't listened to it" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1861064318520803644) 2024-11-25T15:08Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "In today's final part of 'The Trap' Isaiah Berlin JB Priestley & AJ Ayer feature in a clip from 'Conversations for Tomorrow' BBC (1964) discussing propaganda. it is in the countries where you dont think you are being conditioned that the conditioning is most successful."" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1861560663748817061) 2024-11-27T00:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Despite being in The Guardian this piece laments the passing of unashamedly elitist television. ".three middle-aged men talking round a table. It was old-fashioned even then: all port and cigars suits and plummy accents. And it was very excluding." https://www.theguardian.com/media/2003/nov/01/broadcasting.arts https://www.theguardian.com/media/2003/nov/01/broadcasting.arts" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1861560666542235854) 2024-11-27T00:00Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "The full transcript can be read here: https://isaiah-berlin.wolf.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2021-08/B.29%20-%20%27Conversations%20for%20Tomorrow%27%20%5B21-08-08%5D.pdf https://isaiah-berlin.wolf.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2021-08/B.29%20-%20%27Conversations%20for%20Tomorrow%27%20%5B21-08-08%5D.pdf" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1861560668626780313) 2024-11-27T00:00Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "And in today's Curtis music lore he uses this piece by Felix Slatkin 'Green Leaves of Summer' which captures that swishy late 50s America vibe he likes to put in for fun and to counterpoint the sinister thematic undertow of social /political engineering https://youtu.be/DbuKXgPvV2osi=exQL2D-au9u3AxUq https://youtu.be/DbuKXgPvV2osi=exQL2D-au9u3AxUq" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1861565930389561529) 2024-11-27T00:21Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "@Quinn25A Ah well-spotted - he loves his Bernard Herrmann. Pieces in the Curtis back catalogue from 'Vertigo' also" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1861694648302870621) 2024-11-27T08:52Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "The famous Ignatieff/Hobsbawm interview moment asking Hobsbawm about the vision of communism succeeding. Ignatieff: Had the radiant tomorrow actually been created the loss of [--] [--] million people might it have been justified Hobsbawm: Yes. https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxO5nXU41h6isKX7gxitNjwM9Vrqbli0yLsi=rebg429fACv5_V1s https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxO5nXU41h6isKX7gxitNjwM9Vrqbli0yLsi=rebg429fACv5_V1s" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1861758661606945232) 2024-11-27T13:07Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "@Retronus_ @OGRolandRat Yes I hadn't been east for some time and so don't know the vibe as well now in Sydney/Melbourne. Sydney always seemed to project aspirational / international city confidence but complacency. Perth friends who were liberal sank into it as your typical 'Anywhere' people would" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1862532618463408400) 2024-11-29T16:22Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@Wilkosaurus_ @SidneySyrup @OGRolandRat Sheesh. And Australian government has always seemed so sleazy phoney and fake. Zoomers of Oz unite" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1862642113617306095) 2024-11-29T23:37Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Harvey Dent vibes" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1862816685012476134) 2024-11-30T11:11Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@_TheLad_ @OGRolandRat One incident alluded to as 'touching'. They're pumping this stock" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1863571816414941507) 2024-12-02T13:11Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Just to remind interested readers of m'colleague @hector_drummond's two arguments for what to do with Auntie: The BBC Delenda est option vs radical surgery. https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/taking-an-axe-to-the-bbc-and-channel-4-part-2/ https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/why-id-bin-the-beeb/ Gregg Wallace should immediately leave the BBC and start his Masterchef equivalent of Grand Tour. BBC needs to be completely destroyed and turned into an archive trust agency exclusively controlled by @MorgothsReview . https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/taking-an-axe-to-the-bbc-and-channel-4-part-2/" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1863650028423622656) 2024-12-02T18:22Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "@void_void_viod @OGRolandRat It's such an odd looking location too. Deep suburbia of the Carry On or Python kind" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1864319198295388506) 2024-12-04T14:41Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@schembrox @void_void_viod ACKSHYUALLY ATV via ITV https://youtu.be/yQi80PvvJissi=odzxGo0lLCP2lRGo https://youtu.be/yQi80PvvJissi=odzxGo0lLCP2lRGo" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1864339783830360295) 2024-12-04T16:03Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@schembrox @void_void_viod" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1864342701900017801) 2024-12-04T16:15Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@schembrox Why can't you be more like these really in-touch people who are living with the *appalling* salary burden of being CEOs of luxury car firms like Aston Martin and Jaguar They are totally on the pulse of human nature and economic reality for people like you. YOU. FREAK" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1865073655983804563) 2024-12-06T16:39Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@TheBlackHorse65 @MTClassical @JimmyThomist @SkepticalWaves @a2_masters @JohannKurtz" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1865203806641766851) 2024-12-07T01:16Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@schembrox @hector_drummond Yes. Something like a bronze statue of a brave little girl averting her eyes while sticking a harpoon into what looks like the creature from Predator but with his face on it naked but for a penis-sock and a speech bubble coming from his mouth going 'yakyakyak uurrrgggh ow'" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1865395419049611477) 2024-12-07T13:58Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@schembrox @hector_drummond These all seem like fair refinements of the concept. We wouldn't want him seeming sympathetic and these are suitably damning aesthetic codes for his monumental civic disgrace" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1865452779507982578) 2024-12-07T17:46Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@schembrox Yes it's tempting to imagine that the money makes a sincere relationship harder to find but it seems one might just not be trying hard enough to sift the options if one is at that point" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1865578861074735111) 2024-12-08T02:07Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Evil forces are gathering in London's Dark Arts creative agencies But the wholesome warming fires of the Ferro annual Christmas ad stream need careful tending Drop suggestionsfor all of the most underhand faux sentimentality & festive social nudgings that you see out there🎄 I'm researching christmas ads for the stream. I need more scholar adjacent christmas ads please suggest. I'm researching christmas ads for the stream. I need more scholar adjacent christmas ads please suggest" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1866127708087836824) 2024-12-09T14:28Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "It's miserable out it's cold. Learn the cursed hidden meanings concealed like a tooth-breaking silver sixpence baked into the festive pudding in all the previous Christmas Ad streams listings follow The Deepest Lore #16: Christmas Ads [----] https://www.youtube.com/live/0-eC18h0sEYsi=BYvP1hCQU2hLpwvr I'm researching christmas ads for the stream. I need more scholar adjacent christmas ads please suggest. https://www.youtube.com/live/0-eC18h0sEYsi=BYvP1hCQU2hLpwvr I'm researching christmas ads for the stream. I need more scholar adjacent christmas ads please suggest" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1866173132203069631) 2024-12-09T17:28Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "@Quinn25A @OGRolandRat 'But Lee is too knowing the naysayers say 'Too artful too arch this style's had its day' But he still has real zingers Like the bit on rap singers So I suspect that he's not going away" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1867135770139714017) 2024-12-12T09:13Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@astor_charlie @RupertLowe10 Charlie genuine question - how did you come to be at the National Theatre (I notice your substack bio mentions it) - was this as an undergrad - and what was your sense of the potential career development it offered in your position" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1867760386235412669) 2024-12-14T02:35Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Considering diet options for [----] currently" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1868407062172258579) 2024-12-15T21:25Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "@OGRolandRat" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1870144868531507250) 2024-12-20T16:30Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "For anyone who is also a fan of Garth Marenghi here's his appearance on OST from [----]. (OST was a long-running soundtrack show favourite of mine). He stays fully in character throughout and adds his own comments on his fave balls-out action film music. https://ia801307.us.archive.org/21/items/OST20090418/OST20090418-marenghi.mp3 https://ia801307.us.archive.org/21/items/OST20090418/OST20090418-marenghi.mp3" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1870268645173023163) 2024-12-21T00:42Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "When are people going to wake up to Rory 'Kamala gonna win' Stewart's UNCANNY predictive powers This is the AFD - of which Elon Musk says only the AFD can save Germany 👇 When are people going to wake up to direction in which Musk is pushing things @RestIsPolitics This is the AFD - of which Elon Musk says only the AFD can save Germany 👇 When are people going to wake up to direction in which Musk is pushing things @RestIsPolitics" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1870396878904299549) 2024-12-21T09:12Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "@OGRolandRat When I did an analysis of their Manifesto for Germany a few years ago for a comparative exercise with UK RW parties these were the key takeaway points on immigration which I summarised" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1870840367731687668) 2024-12-22T14:34Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "By comparison this was what I derived from the Conservative Party manifesto of [----] the closest thing I had at the time. You can see the poverty of thinking immediately. @OGRolandRat When I did an analysis of their Manifesto for Germany a few years ago for a comparative exercise with UK RW parties these were the key takeaway points on immigration which I summarised. https://t.co/06VXjnlQjA @OGRolandRat When I did an analysis of their Manifesto for Germany a few years ago for a comparative exercise with UK RW parties these were the key takeaway points on immigration which I summarised." [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1870842725639356658) 2024-12-22T14:43Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@richardps6 @OGRolandRat No I combed through the English language version of the German manifesto. And yes I think they were far and away more developed in thinking. When you looked at our parties here it was well laughable the old shit that people are palmed off with as 'manifesto pledges'" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1870846218957721644) 2024-12-22T14:57Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@richardps6 @OGRolandRat Well it's so thin and ludicrous as well that I wouldn't be surprised. This was Tory social priorities for example. I mean FFS" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1870848204759339182) 2024-12-22T15:05Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@richardps6 @OGRolandRat 'Cat microchipping' 'Opportunity Areas' - meaningless shit. Windrush fairness marginalised faith communities etc - drivel. There wasn't even an effort put in to think about the people of this country and what they need" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1870850091323470283) 2024-12-22T15:13Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@richardps6 @OGRolandRat Given what governmental power represents and based on our memory of life before cat microchipping being tolerable it seems like a grossly irresponsible distraction with a country in so deep a mire as ours. Fiddling while Rome burns" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1870856974587630016) 2024-12-22T15:40Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Just sitting by a nice warm simulation waiting for @hector_drummond to join me for Slightly Irritable Middle Aged Men's Christmas. Merry Christmas friends" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1871864753926422697) 2024-12-25T10:25Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "@gildednotsure If you want to see another good Falstaff check out Barry Stanton playing him in Henry IV in the ESC cycle which I saw live in [----]. They got me into acting when I saw Michael Pennington as Richard II. Hooked. https://youtube.com/playlistlist=PL1ajIEjsTGMnRkRGufSdEaqmOTC0im590&si=MMstzTGHaezWAk34 https://youtube.com/playlistlist=PL1ajIEjsTGMnRkRGufSdEaqmOTC0im590&si=MMstzTGHaezWAk34" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1873478146122826104) 2024-12-29T21:16Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Reminder https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1857948067703468355 What a travesty https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1857948067703468355 What a travesty" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1874613179038527895) 2025-01-02T00:26Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "'Owning X doesnt give you license to poison the discourse of any country'. True. Only a lucrative massively-resourced and endlessly favoured publicly-funded career at the BBC before you coin it in at HBO gives you that. Jess Philips is a committed and caring minister and you sir are a toxic gonad. The UK is not your plaything wealth doesnt exempt you from international law and owning X doesnt give you license to poison the discourse of any country whose government you disagree with. Jess Philips is a committed and caring minister and you sir are a toxic gonad. The UK is not your plaything" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1875322203673391417) 2025-01-03T23:23Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Problem in Britain is we aren't allowed to have politicians with any balls. They're all fucking stiffs. It's a measure of how corrupted our system is that we have to outsource moral revulsion to the US who can just call it as it is when they see the horrors our containment breeds" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1875338901965172958) 2025-01-04T00:30Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "This is getting a bit like the episode of Fawlty Towers where the American tears into Basil shouting "Holy cow can't you see what a crummy dump this is" And we're so innured to shit that we're just astonished that anyone else outside has finally noticed. @jonatanpallesen The Guardian is a nest of pedophile apologists @jonatanpallesen The Guardian is a nest of pedophile apologists" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1875646700410544355) 2025-01-04T20:53Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Electability forever hostage to Middle England and its genteel snobberies Well this is a surprise Elon is a remarkable individual but on this I am afraid I disagree. My view remains that Tommy Robinson is not right for Reform and I never sell out my principles. Well this is a surprise Elon is a remarkable individual but on this I am afraid I disagree. My view remains that Tommy Robinson is not right for Reform and I never sell out my principles" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1875925789021274503) 2025-01-05T15:22Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "@AuntyMatter It's not even like many of us here *like* Tommy. But that's not the point. It's the locking out of rational concerns by appealing to an essentially cowardly and rather selfish pull-the-ladder-up demographic" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1875928783221567753) 2025-01-05T15:34Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@AuntyMatter @richardps6 They want us to be blinded by anger and not see them clinically as they are with all the low-down but admittedly effective manipulations that they ply. We must fail to be impressed by that while understanding their mendacious skills which yet are not without vulnerabilities" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1876038732207575115) 2025-01-05T22:51Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "I've told an arrant lie - we're going in strict chronology with a light diversion first to look at Curtis' short films after the Trap with his pieces for Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe. Remember one must proceed in a workmanlike fashion before enjoying THE DELIGHTS OF THE PLATE @buckoharam @OGRolandRat Wednesday - All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace (2011) @buckoharam @OGRolandRat Wednesday - All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace (2011)" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1876226163091308620) 2025-01-06T11:15Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "In one of his talks in [----] Curtis extolled the virtue of playing footage 'long' - raw clips from neglected BBC outstations which he had gathered up such as this one from the Moscow funeral of Kim Philby in [----] It captures an interesting odd reality. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01dvly6 Coming soon https://t.co/Hf2iwkGPFa https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01dvly6 Coming soon https://t.co/Hf2iwkGPFa" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1877016118155440186) 2025-01-08T15:34Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@flash_fart @hector_drummond Just remove the word 'not' and you can find it immediately relevant as well so it's sorta universal" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1879602151753990280) 2025-01-15T18:50Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "It isn't yours to give. Nor should it ever be ever ever again you absolute fucking traitors. Thanks to @KemiBadenoch the Conservative Party is changing. We are going to give you your country back. https://t.co/XF36krjEK2 Thanks to @KemiBadenoch the Conservative Party is changing. We are going to give you your country back. https://t.co/XF36krjEK2" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1882137932171289007) 2025-01-22T18:47Z [----] followers, 12.3K engagements "@infinitehorus @AcceptableToad @OGRolandRat Yes. I disapprove though. I like parody when people get elements really spot on right and he didn't. Music was off tiresome snipes about coherence etc. This one was better. Watch to the end. https://youtu.be/TciRex4-fsssi=27DDVA59TeWrixMi https://youtu.be/TciRex4-fsssi=27DDVA59TeWrixMi" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1882170533992931758) 2025-01-22T20:56Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@_TheLad_ @infinitehorus @AcceptableToad @OGRolandRat He could just say 'I don't like it' but a certain kind of critic has to bomb you with how clever and arch they are being" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1882172976717783268) 2025-01-22T21:06Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Authority asking for voluntary secrecy has always been a key tool of managerial control whether in the workplace or the state It is what delivered decades of suppression of and collusion with the rape gang phenomenon between police local authorities and central government We are aware of social media posts online detailing the injuries sustained by the girls who died and those injured in the attack in Southport on [--] July [----]. The families of the little girls specifically asked that those details not be reported. The families of Bebe Alice and https://t.co/KlP3Lu2oyW We are aware of social" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1882497994215535063) 2025-01-23T18:37Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "@schembrox @void_void_viod I accidentally hit that AI button thing and this came up about you. We are all editorialised now" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1882821596840386749) 2025-01-24T16:03Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@void_void_viod @UnderSneege I think they both were suspicious of nostalgia as a 'conservative' form but equally mourned for a depth it manifested in culture. Their sense of the vital came in new urban musics like jungle which energised collective euphoria / action but which was absorbed as popular forms are" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1886396543869022576) 2025-02-03T12:49Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@buckoharam @Paul_Heron_ Ok yes I can see something now - he's doing a similar thing to The Caretaker with woozy reverberative displacement of the original songs and taking you into a sandbox of memory games along the lines of that project which used old dance music instead https://youtu.be/-PjtIcLqpNUsi=afV72Xb61gTKo2VT https://youtu.be/-PjtIcLqpNUsi=afV72Xb61gTKo2VT" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1887489547275039162) 2025-02-06T13:12Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Massive cope from the prosecco-right" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1895649813796106722) 2025-03-01T01:38Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "@ReformIdentity To be assumed alas with this lot. Tucked away in the Cotswolds one breathes a very different air" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1900257861101375566) 2025-03-13T18:49Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@AcademicAgent_X War being decided in advance. It happened before. AA is simply reading the runes as he has explained previously. No predictions needed" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1901215735436771534) 2025-03-16T10:15Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "@AcademicAgent_X I must apologise for absentmindedly saying that Midge Ure was connected to Simple Minds during the stream. It won't happen again" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1902372817435271236) 2025-03-19T14:53Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "@alexcoghlan23 @YouTube" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1902429967096385578) 2025-03-19T18:40Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Apparently it's the rest of us that need to change according to the insightless Crouch End hipster witch in a 1.9m house still wearing Dr Martens in her late forties. Go on see if you can spot the possible reason why she might not get it quite as well as she thinks she does. Toxic masculinity is joyless and depressing: Caitlin Moran https://t.co/Z7jSB3Yvt6 Toxic masculinity is joyless and depressing: Caitlin Moran https://t.co/Z7jSB3Yvt6" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1902693770509918651) 2025-03-20T12:08Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "@MetaBritain Oh yeah it was incredible. Tell me O World how one scores all this at the age of [--] in [----] when the article below was written. https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/interview-atrocious-mess-precocious-mind-meet-caitlin-moran-newspaper-columnist-television-presenter-novelist-screenwriter-pop-music-pundit-and-typical-teenage-slob-1436595.html https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/interview-atrocious-mess-precocious-mind-meet-caitlin-moran-newspaper-columnist-television-presenter-novelist-screenwriter-pop-music-pundit-and-typical-teenage-slob-1436595.html" [X Link](https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1902699111972798750) 2025-03-20T12:29Z [----] followers, [---] engagements Limited data mode. Full metrics available with subscription: lunarcrush.com/pricing
@simon__roberts Simon Roberts
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Social category influence technology brands social networks travel destinations countries finance celebrities automotive brands musicians stocks luxury brands
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Top assets mentioned Civic (CVC) Curtis (CURTIS)
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Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours
"When commentators won't risk social capital and need to wriggle free of benign causal apologias like 'Hanlon's Razor' that aren't sufficient to explain larger manifest malign intent they propagate lesser transitional narratives to minimise evil to the parochial and subsidiary"
X Link 2022-01-03T17:07Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Preview of the artists here Monday [--] July - Sunday [--] July London. Subscribe on website above for location details via email"
X Link 2023-06-29T22:12Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@Warwicka He was very much in favour of lockdowns so he'd probably tell you off for having one and for not insisting guests have to eat the canaps while snorkelling through a swimming pool filled with Dettol"
X Link 2023-07-11T11:42Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"We risk losing the point of why a nation has political parties"
X Link 2023-08-13T11:43Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Unexpected hilarity in perusing this programme for a jamboree of Hampstead bien pensants next month. [---] a ticket. It's the scented candles 'n chinos meets decaffeinated communism vibe you'd expect. Alain de Botton dildo-making workshops and suchlike. https://howthelightgetsin.org/festivals/london/programme https://howthelightgetsin.org/festivals/london/programme"
X Link 2023-08-15T10:36Z [----] followers, 34.9K engagements
"@SamLowryEsq Ok but you're missing the AC Grayling burlesque 'taster' session"
X Link 2023-08-15T10:52Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"NARRATOR: And as had so often happened throughout British history politicians protested that they had absolutely no intention to immiserate ordinary people and that the new law based largely in fiction would not in any way be used to erode freedom. But it was all a fantasy"
X Link 2023-09-09T18:37Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"And what about politicians @cj_dinenage who break their position of trust as governing custodians of our ancient constitutional and legal customs and protections 'You have been sat too long here for any good you have been doing. Depart I say and let us have done with you'"
X Link 2023-09-21T11:43Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"The point must stand that whatever the alleged actions of Mr Brand are the blas extra-judicial instincts of the managerial fox should be exposed. Dinenage's actions show the unstable unaccountable overreachings driven by emotionally-led governance"
X Link 2023-09-21T12:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Lewis using sceptic quotemarks hints voluminous lawgasm of the Blair era is somehow not a factor in bureaucratic capture Interestingly "Goodall married Tone Langengen the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change's senior climate and energy policy advisor in August 2023" (wiki)"
X Link 2023-10-03T16:23Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Whatever one's view of our war history having third-rate slobs use sacred monuments as a convenient kit dump perfectly captures the calibre of charmless bovine surliness that the Met specialises in when not being walking teasmades solicitously arse-kissing those who hate us. Constables of the @metpoliceuk think it's acceptable to put their riot helmets and shields on the Cenotaph 🤨 #MetropolitanPolice #CenotaphRespect #Controversy https://t.co/f99Hg7OTDv Constables of the @metpoliceuk think it's acceptable to put their riot helmets and shields on the Cenotaph 🤨 #MetropolitanPolice"
X Link 2023-10-15T21:32Z [----] followers, 12.8K engagements
"@AlexDeLarge_110 That might have just been the amount they spent on coke for the artist. It shows"
X Link 2023-11-07T20:26Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@FinisOmnia @LadyOfShalott21 Lol. It's just an atypical fat retention that means he is condemned to be svelte. I can't pity him. And he's thoroughly annoying anyway"
X Link 2023-11-29T14:49Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Even if you do find economic immolation and imminent enslavement by an all-powerful financial technostructure that erupts from the ashes like a horrifying phoenix a bit offputting my friend @TimPrice1969 explains it in such a nice calming voice that I am feeling better already"
X Link 2023-12-13T11:06Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@FinisOmnia Because I think to repurpose a quote from Burke ".the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever"
X Link 2024-01-10T11:41Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@Lavende95298651 Unfortunately it seems likelier that such people never flirted with 'the dignity of danger' I think that a structural flaw in our societies has harboured and nurtured this kind of spite for a long time elevating those artful in it to civic responsibility whilst we were blinded"
X Link 2024-01-10T11:47Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@Lumawkin Pleased you enjoy them There are some more unlisted recordings from his archive out there on back episodes of William English's "Wavelength' radio show usually hosted on Resonance FM's Bandcamp pages I think. They can be found with a bit of googling"
X Link 2024-01-12T18:01Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@FinisOmnia 'FRANKIE SAY WTF'"
X Link 2024-01-27T10:22Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Retvrn to the History Play cycle whenever you can. Whether you want to learn about the circulation of elites or just hear the greatest State-ofThe-Nation verse dramas England ever produced. @simon__roberts You tempted me Simon. https://t.co/TFhfScpYqO @simon__roberts You tempted me Simon. https://t.co/TFhfScpYqO"
X Link 2024-01-31T13:37Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@Surfer_Binary Hunt in the 'open undefended genital' position with the handshake you mean 'Here are my balls Larry come take them' sorta thing"
X Link 2024-01-31T13:47Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
""Which is why my army chums and I have been spying on you for the past few years." 'If we move to the extreme right we will move ourselves out of British politics. This party will move into oblivion if we continue on this right wing approach.' Conservative Tobias Ellwood reacts to the launch of Liz Truss' PopCon group. https://t.co/2qSvCjE91v 'If we move to the extreme right we will move ourselves out of British politics. This party will move into oblivion if we continue on this right wing approach.' Conservative Tobias Ellwood reacts to the launch of Liz Truss' PopCon group."
X Link 2024-02-06T18:36Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@MarkHiggie1 @RogTallbloke @RobertJenrick Still fundamentally dishonest: "To reckon with the public will not only bring more people onside." This frames Net Zero as simply in need of cost reworking to negate a perception management issue for Power in its attempts to solve a 'problem' confected by Green pseudoscience"
X Link 2024-02-10T12:54Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@FestMajor @MarkHiggie1 @RogTallbloke @RobertJenrick It goes back to the bogus corporate harmony psychology stuff taught in the 70s. Essentially when it comes to the 'problem' of railroading something through that others dislike you can feel free to do it so long as you a) pretend to listen to concerns and b) 'sell' your vision"
X Link 2024-02-10T14:07Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"You want police to be treated in a way they might have been in an earlier age. But your own complicity with powerful subversion in destroying the social stability that fostered that cordiality now haunts you. You deserve only contempt for your many betrayals and weaknesses. A statement from Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley following the online response to the appointment of Commander Karen Findlay as the next Assistant Chief Constable of the British Transport Police. A statement from Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley following the online response to the appointment of Commander Karen Findlay as the"
X Link 2024-02-17T23:12Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Not content with just running parliament by soft coercion Labour now moving into running other parties as well. NEW Labour Party write to PM and call for him to remove whip from former PM Liz Truss for spreading disinformation and conspiracy theories about a deep state that is to blame for the downfall of her premiership spreading such blatant conspiracy theories is incredibly NEW Labour Party write to PM and call for him to remove whip from former PM Liz Truss for spreading disinformation and conspiracy theories about a deep state that is to blame for the downfall of her premiership"
X Link 2024-02-24T10:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@OGRolandRat"
X Link 2024-02-29T11:54Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@FinisOmnia Yes that might just capture the level of seriousness to which he aspires. Maybe the one with the chickens trying to escape the prison camp. That would be appropriate"
X Link 2024-03-21T16:27Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"When Labour come in and accelerate us towards their statist Pasolini torture-porn UK humiliation utopia would it be too much to ask for a new commentary class in places like the Telegraph that are a bit more ferocious and quicker on the uptake as to the direction of travel"
X Link 2024-03-28T15:04Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"If like me you struggle to sit still and READ at length any more the Skeptical Waves channel provides audio versions of both the oldest and latest in thought-leading essays like the essential piece from NS Lyons 'The China Convergence' from last year. @simon__roberts @clim8resistance Thanks for the endorsement Simon https://youtu.be/IwvGlF9_fpwsi=HyI3W_dNx9ZXMnRl @simon__roberts @clim8resistance Thanks for the endorsement Simon https://youtu.be/IwvGlF9_fpwsi=HyI3W_dNx9ZXMnRl"
X Link 2024-04-11T16:27Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@OGRolandRat That film is almost the obverse of Antonioni's Blow-Up. London deglamoured"
X Link 2024-04-26T14:01Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Getting fines every other journey to London now. Routes & access ways I know from [--] years riding around suddenly being signposted with motorcycles-verboten signs often difficult to catch when your eyes are busy avoiding potholes and staying alert in the fast-moving flow. Hate"
X Link 2024-04-27T12:42Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"We're not going to podcast our way out of this one chaps"
X Link 2024-05-05T15:24Z [----] followers, 53.7K engagements
"@schembrox @HorhayGringo Hopefully only with the recoil of belt-fed M60s in each hand as he goes about some righteous business of organisational restructuring"
X Link 2024-05-05T21:43Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@OGRolandRat Was meaning to draw your attention to this recent interview with him and one can also consider the ongoing question of Unherd's standpoint. It's not too long but an interesting bit occurs around [--] mins in. https://youtu.be/re0wP1bEBFUsi=caah0_ya0PMQMpTb https://youtu.be/re0wP1bEBFUsi=caah0_ya0PMQMpTb"
X Link 2024-05-17T01:12Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@StealerTime HUMBLE SCHOLAR SAVED BY KREMLIN GOLD"
X Link 2024-05-23T11:37Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"From the old Adam Curtis blog (not one of his own films but one he liked): The Hells Angels Take a Mini-Break Film here: https://youtu.be/ng8Ll7x08Vksi=qu_AnZFAqIxyvXKk @schembrox @OGRolandRat Ah the blog. Always seemed to be stopping for long periods before it finally went dead. But there was some great stuff on it particularly a film he found about the UK Hells Angels in the 70s https://t.co/GSvKczJlCs https://youtu.be/ng8Ll7x08Vksi=qu_AnZFAqIxyvXKk @schembrox @OGRolandRat Ah the blog. Always seemed to be stopping for long periods before it finally went dead. But there was some great stuff"
X Link 2024-05-23T18:23Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@schembrox @OGRolandRat It's also interesting for the commentator's tone of doomy resignation bordering on mild sarcasm"
X Link 2024-05-23T18:57Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@CreepyPuppetry @SamLowryEsq @Sargon_of_Akkad @lotuseaters_com @hector_drummond @EvaVlaar It's nice that they have the support of someone like yourself. I know how much you 'put in' when it comes to the desperate and easily exploited street-folk. Some find the 'fullness' of your giving too much. That's usually the reason for the screaming of course but hey"
X Link 2024-05-28T21:32Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"The famous 'That's Life' clip from [----] with Prince the dog from Leeds who says 'sausages' which is where Curtis starts from in his liking for quirky verit even if it is a consciously manipulated verit. https://youtu.be/g5qLcjcJ3UQsi=9fYxLBJdQVSi6D-w For those interested in Adam Curtis' influences after today's Deepest Lore on The Mayfair Set this is a very good depth interview with him in two parts: https://t.co/v1WnliV0Sb https://t.co/iswlbnFykv Today's stream: https://t.co/lcxBOKwJbC https://youtu.be/g5qLcjcJ3UQsi=9fYxLBJdQVSi6D-w For those interested in Adam Curtis' influences after"
X Link 2024-05-29T19:38Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@schembrox Curtis LOVES TikTok"
X Link 2024-05-29T19:44Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@schembrox Who's the one on the right Must admit I have a lingering fondness for Pret sandwiches woman because she was so silkily effortlessly unaware of how out of touch she was. Kind of impressive. And that she looked like she had beamed in from [----] slightly too much eyeliner etc"
X Link 2024-05-30T16:53Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@schembrox @void_void_viod There's a future in running expensive camps where we give them 70s childhoods for [--] weeks. Not joking"
X Link 2024-05-30T17:35Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Let's just remind ourselves https://youtu.be/3UstNBrmJFcsi=nDPKQp0KP5lrz6YT @simon__roberts Just looked at the Guardian site it has gone full Oh Dearism over the results. https://youtu.be/3UstNBrmJFcsi=nDPKQp0KP5lrz6YT @simon__roberts Just looked at the Guardian site it has gone full Oh Dearism over the results"
X Link 2024-06-10T12:39Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Why do they always have these meaty yet oleaginous physiognomies You may think these are amusing AI depictions of a typical thick Tory MP but they're real. He's Craig Williams the Conservative MP for Montgomeryshire currently under investigation for placing a bet on the date of the general election. https://t.co/ineey7JWj8 You may think these are amusing AI depictions of a typical thick Tory MP but they're real. He's Craig Williams the Conservative MP for Montgomeryshire currently under investigation for placing a bet on the date of the general election. https://t.co/ineey7JWj8"
X Link 2024-06-13T16:13Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Labour using activists masked as charities for electoral gain Sounds like a public prosecution waiting to happen. Democracy is broken. Undercover audio recordings of Hope not Hate activists who've been campaigning against @georgegalloway in Rochdale have revealed incredibly close links to the Labour party with one activist saying "we want Labour to win by a big margin" @ThePublicaNow https://t.co/zWoeh7QDdC Undercover audio recordings of Hope not Hate activists who've been campaigning against @georgegalloway in Rochdale have revealed incredibly close links to the Labour party with one"
X Link 2024-06-17T17:13Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@buckoharam @hector_drummond Impossibly spacious for England. You must be a premier league footballer or NHS Diversity manager to earn that square footage"
X Link 2024-07-05T09:20Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@EternalEnglish Starmer just now: "Rishi Sunak this country's first British Asian prime minister you must understand the extra effort that takes." Because hey poor boy from nowhere Goldman Sachs marries billionairess etc You just don't know hard some people have it"
X Link 2024-07-05T11:52Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@schembrox @AdamsArtist @SelbyWhit @_robertpoll @lotuseaters_com Siberia lovely at this time of year comrade just saying"
X Link 2024-07-05T12:34Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Chatting with @hector_drummond last night about cozy 80s formula films incl. Beverly Hills Cop (1984). There's an element (albeit slightly broken) of 'Return to Fresh Prince' cultural recursion to set the mood here for Gen Xers. 'Everyone involved understood the assignment'"
X Link 2024-07-06T10:48Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Something visually interesting about how Bukele is effectively messaging. He is showing with a God-eye view people operating in a nation at scale like a dynamic model diorama. It's a powerful way to illustrate outcomes via cooperation as we struggle with hyperindividualism. Thousands of non-dangerous prisoners including associates of gang members (though not gang members themselves) are being trained to help us rebuild our country. In this way they can repair part of the damage they have caused to society. https://t.co/eE3OQ8AG8S Thousands of non-dangerous prisoners including associates of"
X Link 2024-07-06T11:27Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Here's a Peter Hitchens-style 'no one will listen to this' prediction that would help all: The quicker you stop tickling his balls with arguments or adoration the quicker we move to somewhere else that is a better place to operate from. He doesn't intend to help. "It's over""
X Link 2024-07-07T09:19Z [----] followers, 14.1K engagements
"@DoolallyDiv He must live out his life in pleasantly upholstered boomer-prospering peace in the leafy shires he gets to enjoy But we can't seek his approval any longer"
X Link 2024-07-07T11:49Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"The language of punishing your opposition begins. 'He's a threat to our national security and our economic prosperity - we're going to hold him to account.' Business Secretary @jreynoldsMP brands Nigel Farage a 'threat' telling @lewis_goodall that Labour will 'take on' the Reform UK leader. https://t.co/chQjxCyPG8 'He's a threat to our national security and our economic prosperity - we're going to hold him to account.' Business Secretary @jreynoldsMP brands Nigel Farage a 'threat' telling @lewis_goodall that Labour will 'take on' the Reform UK leader. https://t.co/chQjxCyPG8"
X Link 2024-07-07T13:03Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Have a feeling that Monday's takes from certain commentators and their more simpering pundits will be 'violence always unacceptable blah blah' but they'll somehow also still find a way to distance themselves with comments about Trump's 'lying'/court case/'vulgarity'/Jan [--] etc"
X Link 2024-07-14T03:05Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Oh dear. My underestimation knoweth no bounds. Who knew these people were so keen that they are literally tripping over each other to win Political Violence Revisionism Olympics [----] I was overoptimistic https://t.co/6o63GELoFV I was overoptimistic https://t.co/6o63GELoFV"
X Link 2024-07-14T10:10Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@iohndee He appeals to Machiavelli but omits "With a few exemplary executions The prince will be more merciful than those who through too much mercy allow disorders to arise" In a system of distributed feedback via social media the notion she has "no power" has to be reassessed"
X Link 2024-07-17T07:00Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"I mean it might get so bad we're forced to use sarcasm on them. Doyle has no model of attaining the necessary Power needed to live out a lofty principle but merely ineffectual moralistic scolding. "The best response is criticism" So we're going to defeat the left's tactic of targeted social euthanasia by giving the enemy a good telling-off Doyle has no model of attaining the necessary Power needed to live out a lofty principle but merely ineffectual moralistic scolding. "The best response is criticism" So we're going to defeat the left's tactic of targeted social euthanasia by giving the"
X Link 2024-07-20T14:12Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"The Manchester Airport arrest seems to have been utterly ballsed up Reinforces the point @OGRolandRat has made about the weakness of fox regimes in calibrating public discipline and using force 'comfortably' Having set a precedent of laxity they cannot now regain 'lion' mastery"
X Link 2024-07-24T22:50Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@SteveCageauthor @OGRolandRat This is part of the same anarcho-tyranny problem of the client out-groups being protected dissident in-groups being punished. The solidity and confidence of the stern post-WWII ex-mil type policing wasn't transmitted to graduate-class lanyard types / overly tacticalised cops"
X Link 2024-07-25T12:54Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Bear in mind too that the German police officer in Mannheim who was recently jumped from behind in a similar close-quarters fast moving attack is now dead after taking a knife in the neck. Assuming a suspect is always stunned from taser isn't something you leave to chance. The Manchester airport security footage contextualises the events. Suddenly the "victim" is shown to be the aggressor. https://t.co/WoRpwwQyhJ The Manchester airport security footage contextualises the events. Suddenly the "victim" is shown to be the aggressor. https://t.co/WoRpwwQyhJ"
X Link 2024-07-28T06:56Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Southport algo: Politicians go and 'listen' to what people say. And then do nothing. Next they 'listen & reflect' what people say. And then do nothing. There is only performative response / sympathy The stage they never want to get to is the one where they make material changes"
X Link 2024-08-01T13:10Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@Art_Deano I think it was actually American money from MGM but Antonioni insisted on doing it in London. The story it is based on was originally set in Paris but Antonioni was fascinated with the way London had changed post-war"
X Link 2024-08-05T11:33Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"I've seen the Future baby: It is Murder We need to cut their throats and get rid of them all A woman next to the man who shouts this to a crowd claps whilst wearing an amnesty international shirt. These are supposed to be the good guys the media tells us about. https://t.co/NksbgDXJRj We need to cut their throats and get rid of them all A woman next to the man who shouts this to a crowd claps whilst wearing an amnesty international shirt. These are supposed to be the good guys the media tells us about. https://t.co/NksbgDXJRj"
X Link 2024-08-08T10:05Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"The Right in the UK is hobbled by a donor class whose hearts may well be stirred by the proverbial broad sunlit uplands but who ultimately think funding bright people to retake them from approaching ruin wouldn't be nearly a good enough ROI. The reason for infighting on the Right and why it can be hard to take seriously is the same. Left wing activists have a patronage network subsidized by taxpayers that covers everything from salaries to legal defense. The Right does not. That changes or this is all pointless. The reason for infighting on the Right and why it can be hard to take seriously"
X Link 2024-08-14T23:12Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@gildednotsure @hector_drummond There is a mooted Python stream in future. I can certainly understand that a lot of it appears lukewarm now. It's tricky. When you're [--] in [----] a lot of it felt edgy and clever. Now it's more a fondness for some things which make me laugh for a vicious quality in some sketches"
X Link 2024-08-24T13:16Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"I was in Bristol recently. Streets that in Notting Hill would be 3m townhouse enclaves look like the Bronx in [----]. What a fucking toilet. We came here from Brazil in the hope of making money but we make nothing. We are living in shantytowns the conditions are terrible. I wouldnt wish this on anyone Go back to Brazil then No https://t.co/2bNjshBEN9 We came here from Brazil in the hope of making money but we make nothing. We are living in shantytowns the conditions are terrible. I wouldnt wish this on anyone Go back to Brazil then No https://t.co/2bNjshBEN9"
X Link 2024-08-24T22:02Z [----] followers, 19.3K engagements
"This seems to have resonated somewhat and I'm interested in why as I was genuinely surprised at how bad it looked down there on the way in to Bristol. I knew it was a leftist city but didn't expect the derelicte. Interested to hear from people more familiar with the place now. I was in Bristol recently. Streets that in Notting Hill would be 3m townhouse enclaves look like the Bronx in [----]. What a fucking toilet. I was in Bristol recently. Streets that in Notting Hill would be 3m townhouse enclaves look like the Bronx in [----]. What a fucking toilet"
X Link 2024-08-25T11:43Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@Dr_Sacheverell Think you may be right they're certainly resisting civilised living. Looking around street view but it still looks far too nice even on there. Can't pin down the exact area but it looked blitzed. Reminded of the nice domestic architecture in Bristol however"
X Link 2024-08-25T16:11Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Seminal book for actors / directors and a great production. We will be recording a podcast with Steven Berkoff at the end of this week. In preparation in honour of him and for fun we will be reading his plays East and West this week together on pubic streams. Do let us know if youd like to be involved. https://t.co/m7FZ6AzEC7 We will be recording a podcast with Steven Berkoff at the end of this week. In preparation in honour of him and for fun we will be reading his plays East and West this week together on pubic streams. Do let us know if youd like to be involved. https://t.co/m7FZ6AzEC7"
X Link 2024-08-27T13:38Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@wizzydq1 @OGRolandRat "How did New Labour die""
X Link 2024-08-29T07:31Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@MikeDiplockre Love how he never ever breaks the brutality of character and the look is just 🤌"
X Link 2024-09-03T20:11Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@Quinn25A @OGRolandRat I can almost hear him say it"
X Link 2024-09-10T14:40Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@MrBenevolent @LadyOfShalott21 @MorgothsReview I did my [--] years. Perth was a bit nicer than Hartlepool but when I came back to England it had been devastated socially to an extent I couldn't go back. I always assumed when your name came up on UO you were an old style vicar in the shires"
X Link 2024-09-12T09:42Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@buckoharam Trauma zone is astonishing but covering it would be challenging. Amazing images. The one of the KGB generals doing a TV phone-in is just fantastic. And the woman rolling out the revolting looking chocolate cake mixture"
X Link 2024-09-12T09:55Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@MrBiswaz @OGRolandRat @AuronMacintyre @MrPrudentialist @giantgio Ah excuse me if I suggested I had done content on this - I meant I have looked into it personally for my own interest. My only outpost at present is here on Twitter. I am interested in those who can popularise it effectively however and bring it into our understanding"
X Link 2024-09-12T12:02Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@RegggieCyde @void_void_viod Honda CBF. Just old. And I ride them to death"
X Link 2024-09-12T14:06Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"It's not irregular migration any longer. The OBR figures have spoken. It is extractive migration. "I'm pleased that we're deepening our cooperation" Keir Starmer says after meeting with Italian PM Giorgia Meloni The prime minister also commends Italy's "remarkable progress" tackling irregular migration Follow live https://t.co/QFo7RxjBdk https://t.co/W1u4z8ed3a "I'm pleased that we're deepening our cooperation" Keir Starmer says after meeting with Italian PM Giorgia Meloni The prime minister also commends Italy's "remarkable progress" tackling irregular migration Follow live"
X Link 2024-09-17T18:19Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@schembrox @OGRolandRat @moveincircles Desiring machines and machinic desire. It always struck me how the Sorayama and Giger books stood out when I saw them in the late 80s / early 90s because after the angular Blitz Kid fashion experiments of the early 80s models of desire now emphasised more the 'natural look'"
X Link 2024-09-17T19:44Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@schembrox @OGRolandRat @moveincircles Yes just electro-cheesecake. I loosely recall when Rutger Hauer was interviewed about Blade Runner disparaging Harrison Ford's character as cool but then how the romantic end with replicant Rachel ruins his character arc as he then 'goes off and fucks a washing machine'"
X Link 2024-09-17T20:09Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@schembrox @OGRolandRat @moveincircles"
X Link 2024-09-17T20:13Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@WildBoarWisdom"
X Link 2024-09-17T21:52Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@schembrox @HabitatRiko @OGRolandRat https://archive.is/BkiHV https://archive.is/BkiHV"
X Link 2024-09-19T11:48Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"On Cluster Lifestyles as used by Dick Morris and Bill Clinton for mapping the desires of voters in the [----] US election which Clinton won. https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/first/w/weiss-world.htmlscp=5&sq=chicago%20zoning&st=cse Some bits and pieces to follow as we end the Deepest Lore review of 'The Century of the Self' (2002). On reinvention of the self: Bryan Ferry vs Bowie from "Peter York's Eighties" (BBC Books 1995) @OGRolandRat @iohndee @FerroEgo https://t.co/3cgsjj0nqW"
X Link 2024-09-19T12:51Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@TampaxCrispin It's all relative. Certainly wiser than when I dropped the motorbike on my leg last week after bending over to pick something up while sat on it. I literally screamed with the wisdom"
X Link 2024-09-19T17:25Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@threaders_ My pleasure sir. Curtis isn't perfect for all people at all points of view on the compass but many things still make him interesting and this is far more important to my mind so we try to augment his stories with questions as well"
X Link 2024-09-25T17:37Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@schembrox @OGRolandRat I stand corrected apparently it isn't up to ballistic missiles"
X Link 2024-10-01T17:35Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@0xmaritime @schembrox @OGRolandRat You are most welcome sir. I aim to be less ill-informed there but it is always possible. Last week's episode contained a possible misidentification in a picture I described as Kissinger Zhou Enlai and a man who looked to me like President Gerald Ford but positive ID was tricky"
X Link 2024-10-01T17:46Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@AuntyMatter @0xmaritime @schembrox @OGRolandRat Superb Yes the face didn't quite have Ford's piggy little eyes and the sideburns seemed too long for how he wore his. Many thanks for the correction"
X Link 2024-10-01T18:33Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Correction to my comment in last week's Deepest Lore where I thought the chap behind Kissinger in the right hand photo might be Gerald Ford but was in fact William Pierce Rogers (1913-2001) Secretary of State under Nixon. Audience info always welcome. Thank you to @AuntyMatter. @simon__roberts @0xmaritime @schembrox @OGRolandRat Left to Right: William Rodgers US Secretary of State; Henry Kissinger US National security advisor; Zhou Enlai Chinese Prime Minister and Richard Nixon US President in talks while flying over China [----]. Also GF hairline further back. Helpful https://t.co/8V224dlgYP"
X Link 2024-10-01T18:39Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"The One Where Everyone Takes Credit for Destroying the Soviet Union before discovering The Perfect Enemy And unlike overnight events in the middle east lots of people actually die while both sides manufacture themselves The Power of Nightmares Episode 2: The Phantom Victory It's time for ADAM CURTIS REVIEW once more. This week those ever-lovable Neocons teaming up with those ever-lovable Islamists to take on those ever-lovable Russians https://t.co/u3XbEiHX0g 11.15am It's time for ADAM CURTIS REVIEW once more. This week those ever-lovable Neocons teaming up with those ever-lovable Islamists"
X Link 2024-10-02T09:48Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@schembrox Mr Blair's djellabas by BRIONI"
X Link 2024-10-02T16:59Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@schembrox @Quinn25A You're wearing one of these as you type that no"
X Link 2024-10-02T17:34Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Al Qaeda 'making a comeback' in Afghanistan 'could well be planning a terror attack in the West.highly organised.might have their hands on some pretty scary kit." Alex Phillips Talk TV presenter earlier. Ep.3 of The Power of Nightmares this Wed. We ask was Curtis right"
X Link 2024-10-06T14:12Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"The piece is 'Aua' by Stereo Total. https://youtu.be/HJxCGis-wSAsi=3wp8FmxCB6HadVu0 https://youtu.be/HJxCGis-wSAsi=3wp8FmxCB6HadVu0"
X Link 2024-10-10T14:40Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"It's only brief but it's high-energy raucous driven and fun. It says something to me about a redirection of spirit that is needed in this moment. Curtis uses it in the closing credits and in the trailer in his signature mood-montage style here https://youtu.be/YgADKpMSttssi=pLBLD_3cgpkZ9FIs https://youtu.be/YgADKpMSttssi=pLBLD_3cgpkZ9FIs"
X Link 2024-10-10T14:40Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@schembrox @20Thunderchunky @OGRolandRat https://youtu.be/0bYY8m1Lb2Isi=6aaWsB8bVYw-QxOW https://youtu.be/0bYY8m1Lb2Isi=6aaWsB8bVYw-QxOW"
X Link 2024-10-10T18:49Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@Quinn25A @schembrox @20Thunderchunky @OGRolandRat The way he glances back at it"
X Link 2024-10-11T11:39Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@Quinn25A @schembrox @20Thunderchunky @OGRolandRat Had to look this up as I did not know of it. From about 5:17 https://youtu.be/Pu-vD2lPri8si=hrJ8TxEJsNINxNN0 https://youtu.be/Pu-vD2lPri8si=hrJ8TxEJsNINxNN0"
X Link 2024-10-11T11:54Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@ShireStrike @OGRolandRat Explicitly chasing 'centre-right' types only in their own words ergo stasis"
X Link 2024-10-11T16:17Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@Quinn25A @schembrox "What actually happened was that the legislation had slipped down the back of a sofa after a party in Bill Clinton's old office in Arkansas and remained hidden for more than [--] years where it was eventually discovered by a cleaner." All while this plays https://youtu.be/oof_Nt5KnJMsi=-cn3B2EOFCFXMBZM https://youtu.be/oof_Nt5KnJMsi=-cn3B2EOFCFXMBZM"
X Link 2024-10-12T12:36Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@void_void_viod He's mired in the typical academic discourses of the time but there is this struggle the left have with the past that masks a yearning for a type of reaction albeit of a form built by the post-war consensus and its cultural milieu. And yet those experiments can haunt us as well"
X Link 2024-10-14T15:20Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Full cut of the Hayek interview with Bernard Levin from [----] as featured in this week's episode of 'The Trap'. https://youtu.be/dV7-2Aua4_4si=ea3zZc6e0-hRmKfP This week @MorgothsReview joins @simon__roberts and me as we start on another Adam Curtis classic The Trap https://t.co/Zvgft3ZoZs NOW https://youtu.be/dV7-2Aua4_4si=ea3zZc6e0-hRmKfP This week @MorgothsReview joins @simon__roberts and me as we start on another Adam Curtis classic The Trap https://t.co/Zvgft3ZoZs NOW"
X Link 2024-10-16T13:40Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Quite a bitter little review of 'The Trap' (2007) from an LSE wonk employing exactly the kind of misrepresentation and smear he complains of in Curtis' work. https://archive.is/L4QLl This week @MorgothsReview joins @simon__roberts and me as we start on another Adam Curtis classic The Trap https://t.co/Zvgft3ZoZs NOW https://archive.is/L4QLl This week @MorgothsReview joins @simon__roberts and me as we start on another Adam Curtis classic The Trap https://t.co/Zvgft3ZoZs NOW"
X Link 2024-10-16T13:46Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@ShireStrike Sensing that you may hate Thatcher. Just a guess"
X Link 2024-10-16T14:01Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"It's the constant delocalisation of social interaction in every area of life No one in a given place takes actual initiative. No one in a given position is actually responsible. No one ever actually 'helps' 'Reflexive impotence' as vector of social madness intensifies Customer: Can I have the number for this store please Igor: No you must ring customer service. Customer: So can I have that number then Igor: Its on a leaflet. Id been waiting for him to print something out for [--] mins at this point he then ambled THE ENTIRE LENGTH of Customer: Can I have the number for this store please Igor:"
X Link 2024-10-17T14:18Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@RogerCook321425 @OGRolandRat There comes a time in every man's life when all one's cherished memories and hopes get burned to the ground by a bored teenager"
X Link 2024-10-19T11:25Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Well-known film but nicely understated theme. Overlook the fact that Snake Plissken is using a telescopic sight on a suppressed Mac [--] which is ludicrous and just enjoy the music. https://youtu.be/zTxBc_-XxmIsi=mGFCUnvgIs8DyoFy Fuck it. It's just gone Official John Carpenter Theme Night. https://t.co/j888mcWxuT https://youtu.be/zTxBc_-XxmIsi=mGFCUnvgIs8DyoFy Fuck it. It's just gone Official John Carpenter Theme Night. https://t.co/j888mcWxuT"
X Link 2024-10-21T20:08Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@threaders_ 🤮 'Film gucci' gun stylings"
X Link 2024-10-21T20:20Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@AuntyMatter @void_void_viod I saw Punchdrunk years ago at BAC doing The Masque of the Red Death incredibly detailed eerie impressive sets and even before that a company called DreamThinkSpeak which did a version of Hamlet. I think it's a great enjoyable form and I like immersion but Curtis is right"
X Link 2024-10-23T11:40Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@schembrox That's probably about right. The parameters of bearable Fry likely stretch to about that time"
X Link 2024-10-28T16:20Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@stevieg4ever @OGRolandRat Tbf I only recall it from the Bill Hicks routine where he talks about Jay Leno shooting himself in the head for being a sellout and the blood splatter forming an NBC peacock pattern on the wall behind"
X Link 2024-10-29T11:22Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@OGRolandRat There's no doubt a few weeks' back we were very much getting 'AQ is on the rise again' in the UK news cycle and for a few years that pump has been primed for a reboot. Curtis' thesis of their convenient utility to a floundering political class remains. https://www.aei.org/foreign-and-defense-policy/al-qaedas-return/ https://www.aei.org/foreign-and-defense-policy/al-qaedas-return/"
X Link 2024-10-30T09:35Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@of_wonk @OGRolandRat Resigned and simultaneously prone to outbreaks of weeping hysterics from time to time. So no change there. Hector has offered to restart The Guff Stream for a small fee of 3m and a new co-host. Interested He accepts traveller's cheques and Diner's Club card"
X Link 2024-11-01T18:38Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@OGRolandRat yay"
X Link 2024-11-02T11:55Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@SpasAutisticus @OGRolandRat I'm choosing to interpret this line as 'Conservative party burns we love to see it and then have a party where we all get pissed as we applaud the smouldering ashes'"
X Link 2024-11-02T12:16Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Admittedly this is like the time I did a Pinter play and used a Black Star Liner track before going on to 'get into the zone'. 😂 https://youtu.be/ArOv19YC-cEsi=7g-kLclLaPhfDSkl "Simply the Best" and "Eye of the Tiger". Ridiculous. https://t.co/7J0p9p58eQ https://youtu.be/ArOv19YC-cEsi=7g-kLclLaPhfDSkl "Simply the Best" and "Eye of the Tiger". Ridiculous. https://t.co/7J0p9p58eQ"
X Link 2024-11-02T14:00Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@buckoharam How is it possible they can concentrate for that long It's nearly five and a half hours long What dark magic is this Mind you I do like the sound of that. Investigating"
X Link 2024-11-04T16:47Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Whether the U.S. swingometer sweeps away all dreams before it tonight or points to a bold new frontier remember those plucky pioneers of British neo-dadaist election graphics @Kingbingo_ & @a2_masters All night coverage of this most significant election with @lotuseaters_com Election night broadcasting enters a bold new era of unapologetic British excellence. @Kingbingo_ @a2_masters https://t.co/FXHA8reHzh Election night broadcasting enters a bold new era of unapologetic British excellence. @Kingbingo_ @a2_masters https://t.co/FXHA8reHzh"
X Link 2024-11-05T22:33Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"The readiness is All. Fight. https://t.co/DicXCBHCSy Fight. https://t.co/DicXCBHCSy"
X Link 2024-11-05T23:13Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"I know it sounds like an Alan Bennett line but I actually was. Was saying this to mother only just yesterday. Was saying this to mother only just yesterday"
X Link 2024-11-07T12:59Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@Quinn25A @schembrox "I always remember 'em comin' dahn't road from pit completely white from 't spunk head ter foot scrapin it off in't tin bath by 't fire""
X Link 2024-11-08T17:42Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@void_void_viod @BanannaOscar @OGRolandRat "Mate mate mate.""
X Link 2024-11-09T09:39Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"The purpose of a Peter Hitchens is what it does https://youtu.be/rh3ahgjzkYssi=4suX92Ls0NGeiUVp https://youtu.be/rh3ahgjzkYssi=4suX92Ls0NGeiUVp"
X Link 2024-11-09T10:46Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@NesoronNesooron @TheBlackHorse65 Me. He was my great-grandfather. All we have is the bronze plaque and a notification. I met my great-grandmother in the 1970s as a child. Astonishing really to think I spoke to someone in my family who was born in the nineteenth century"
X Link 2024-11-11T16:50Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@KatKitten1 Freddie & co positively want to find some nascent authoritarian takeover of government so he and his crew can start to mutter darkly and sagely about a return to the authoritarianism of the 1930s etc because that's the only power analysis to which everything reduces for them"
X Link 2024-11-13T09:50Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Intriguing stream on historical conjunctions in this current moment of Trump victory. Tune in and follow @MironchuckNOW My chat with @MironchuckNOW premieres on YT now and a version will upload to here after. Top [--] Hidden Power Players Behind Donald Trump's Rise to Power https://t.co/T9hG0wmXZs via @YouTube My chat with @MironchuckNOW premieres on YT now and a version will upload to here after. Top [--] Hidden Power Players Behind Donald Trump's Rise to Power https://t.co/T9hG0wmXZs via @YouTube"
X Link 2024-11-13T15:09Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"New Labour realist understanding vs shitlib duh Mandy - prince of darkness maybe but not stupid - he knows calling Trump fascist is bollocks Lewis tries to egg Mandy into it Mandy steers carefully away not having it. I'm intensely relaxed about the left's failure to get it. "Calling Trump an authoritarian fascist is all hyperbole." Lord Peter Mandelson dismisses claims that Trump fuels 'fear and division' noting that most Americans care more about living costs. @lewis_goodall https://t.co/Y761gKUj1h "Calling Trump an authoritarian fascist is all hyperbole." Lord Peter Mandelson dismisses"
X Link 2024-11-16T18:10Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"A teachable moment one hopes. The Conservative Party is a homosexual blackmail ring with a party attached. https://t.co/UPGDRUZgnH The Conservative Party is a homosexual blackmail ring with a party attached. https://t.co/UPGDRUZgnH"
X Link 2024-11-16T20:55Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"I'm hearing 'surrender'"
X Link 2024-11-17T00:45Z [----] followers, 303.7K engagements
"@LukiesWorld Restraint sir restraint. I do not think we should wish for untimely gatherings-up under the eternal scythe but I fully understand the anger. It appears he does not"
X Link 2024-11-17T01:18Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@kopopoulous Yes I acknowledge this. I felt he smudged it a bit but as m'esteem'd oppo @hector_drummond has pointed out the Farage Window has is shifting somewhat which in a sense irrespective of what he does opens the discourse out for recalibration and pressure on politicians"
X Link 2024-11-17T13:06Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@SlimyFurtler @schembrox @OGRolandRat"
X Link 2024-11-19T12:09Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Give me back the Berlin wall Give me Stalin and St. Paul I've seen the future brother It is murder We need to find every single shivering reservoir of this recurrent pestilential ugliness and stomp it into the oblivion that awaits it. We need to find every single shivering reservoir of this recurrent pestilential ugliness and stomp it into the oblivion that awaits it"
X Link 2024-11-19T17:38Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@schembrox Brilliant piece and that one from that CD is a good strong rendition. It was very popular when it came out with the film much replayed"
X Link 2024-11-22T15:59Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@OGRolandRat "Go watch Tim Pool.""
X Link 2024-11-23T00:03Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Assisted dying whether you want it or not"
X Link 2024-11-24T14:20Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@HMSScamander Still on Office [----] Photoshop [--] and I use Cool Edit [--] for audio fiddling. Recently reinstalled Windows Movie Maker and Easy Hi-Q recorder from [----]. Will resist until they send the Microsoft death squads"
X Link 2024-11-24T16:37Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@OGRolandRat Sits with crossed legs on TV bad form. He either hasn't had advice or he hasn't listened to it"
X Link 2024-11-25T15:08Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"In today's final part of 'The Trap' Isaiah Berlin JB Priestley & AJ Ayer feature in a clip from 'Conversations for Tomorrow' BBC (1964) discussing propaganda. it is in the countries where you dont think you are being conditioned that the conditioning is most successful.""
X Link 2024-11-27T00:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Despite being in The Guardian this piece laments the passing of unashamedly elitist television. ".three middle-aged men talking round a table. It was old-fashioned even then: all port and cigars suits and plummy accents. And it was very excluding." https://www.theguardian.com/media/2003/nov/01/broadcasting.arts https://www.theguardian.com/media/2003/nov/01/broadcasting.arts"
X Link 2024-11-27T00:00Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"The full transcript can be read here: https://isaiah-berlin.wolf.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2021-08/B.29%20-%20%27Conversations%20for%20Tomorrow%27%20%5B21-08-08%5D.pdf https://isaiah-berlin.wolf.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2021-08/B.29%20-%20%27Conversations%20for%20Tomorrow%27%20%5B21-08-08%5D.pdf"
X Link 2024-11-27T00:00Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"And in today's Curtis music lore he uses this piece by Felix Slatkin 'Green Leaves of Summer' which captures that swishy late 50s America vibe he likes to put in for fun and to counterpoint the sinister thematic undertow of social /political engineering https://youtu.be/DbuKXgPvV2osi=exQL2D-au9u3AxUq https://youtu.be/DbuKXgPvV2osi=exQL2D-au9u3AxUq"
X Link 2024-11-27T00:21Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@Quinn25A Ah well-spotted - he loves his Bernard Herrmann. Pieces in the Curtis back catalogue from 'Vertigo' also"
X Link 2024-11-27T08:52Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"The famous Ignatieff/Hobsbawm interview moment asking Hobsbawm about the vision of communism succeeding. Ignatieff: Had the radiant tomorrow actually been created the loss of [--] [--] million people might it have been justified Hobsbawm: Yes. https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxO5nXU41h6isKX7gxitNjwM9Vrqbli0yLsi=rebg429fACv5_V1s https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxO5nXU41h6isKX7gxitNjwM9Vrqbli0yLsi=rebg429fACv5_V1s"
X Link 2024-11-27T13:07Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@Retronus_ @OGRolandRat Yes I hadn't been east for some time and so don't know the vibe as well now in Sydney/Melbourne. Sydney always seemed to project aspirational / international city confidence but complacency. Perth friends who were liberal sank into it as your typical 'Anywhere' people would"
X Link 2024-11-29T16:22Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@Wilkosaurus_ @SidneySyrup @OGRolandRat Sheesh. And Australian government has always seemed so sleazy phoney and fake. Zoomers of Oz unite"
X Link 2024-11-29T23:37Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Harvey Dent vibes"
X Link 2024-11-30T11:11Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@TheLad @OGRolandRat One incident alluded to as 'touching'. They're pumping this stock"
X Link 2024-12-02T13:11Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Just to remind interested readers of m'colleague @hector_drummond's two arguments for what to do with Auntie: The BBC Delenda est option vs radical surgery. https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/taking-an-axe-to-the-bbc-and-channel-4-part-2/ https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/why-id-bin-the-beeb/ Gregg Wallace should immediately leave the BBC and start his Masterchef equivalent of Grand Tour. BBC needs to be completely destroyed and turned into an archive trust agency exclusively controlled by @MorgothsReview . https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/taking-an-axe-to-the-bbc-and-channel-4-part-2/"
X Link 2024-12-02T18:22Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@void_void_viod @OGRolandRat It's such an odd looking location too. Deep suburbia of the Carry On or Python kind"
X Link 2024-12-04T14:41Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@schembrox @void_void_viod ACKSHYUALLY ATV via ITV https://youtu.be/yQi80PvvJissi=odzxGo0lLCP2lRGo https://youtu.be/yQi80PvvJissi=odzxGo0lLCP2lRGo"
X Link 2024-12-04T16:03Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@schembrox @void_void_viod"
X Link 2024-12-04T16:15Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@schembrox Why can't you be more like these really in-touch people who are living with the appalling salary burden of being CEOs of luxury car firms like Aston Martin and Jaguar They are totally on the pulse of human nature and economic reality for people like you. YOU. FREAK"
X Link 2024-12-06T16:39Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@TheBlackHorse65 @MTClassical @JimmyThomist @SkepticalWaves @a2_masters @JohannKurtz"
X Link 2024-12-07T01:16Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@schembrox @hector_drummond Yes. Something like a bronze statue of a brave little girl averting her eyes while sticking a harpoon into what looks like the creature from Predator but with his face on it naked but for a penis-sock and a speech bubble coming from his mouth going 'yakyakyak uurrrgggh ow'"
X Link 2024-12-07T13:58Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@schembrox @hector_drummond These all seem like fair refinements of the concept. We wouldn't want him seeming sympathetic and these are suitably damning aesthetic codes for his monumental civic disgrace"
X Link 2024-12-07T17:46Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@schembrox Yes it's tempting to imagine that the money makes a sincere relationship harder to find but it seems one might just not be trying hard enough to sift the options if one is at that point"
X Link 2024-12-08T02:07Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Evil forces are gathering in London's Dark Arts creative agencies But the wholesome warming fires of the Ferro annual Christmas ad stream need careful tending Drop suggestionsfor all of the most underhand faux sentimentality & festive social nudgings that you see out there🎄 I'm researching christmas ads for the stream. I need more scholar adjacent christmas ads please suggest. I'm researching christmas ads for the stream. I need more scholar adjacent christmas ads please suggest"
X Link 2024-12-09T14:28Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"It's miserable out it's cold. Learn the cursed hidden meanings concealed like a tooth-breaking silver sixpence baked into the festive pudding in all the previous Christmas Ad streams listings follow The Deepest Lore #16: Christmas Ads [----] https://www.youtube.com/live/0-eC18h0sEYsi=BYvP1hCQU2hLpwvr I'm researching christmas ads for the stream. I need more scholar adjacent christmas ads please suggest. https://www.youtube.com/live/0-eC18h0sEYsi=BYvP1hCQU2hLpwvr I'm researching christmas ads for the stream. I need more scholar adjacent christmas ads please suggest"
X Link 2024-12-09T17:28Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@Quinn25A @OGRolandRat 'But Lee is too knowing the naysayers say 'Too artful too arch this style's had its day' But he still has real zingers Like the bit on rap singers So I suspect that he's not going away"
X Link 2024-12-12T09:13Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@astor_charlie @RupertLowe10 Charlie genuine question - how did you come to be at the National Theatre (I notice your substack bio mentions it) - was this as an undergrad - and what was your sense of the potential career development it offered in your position"
X Link 2024-12-14T02:35Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Considering diet options for [----] currently"
X Link 2024-12-15T21:25Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@OGRolandRat"
X Link 2024-12-20T16:30Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"For anyone who is also a fan of Garth Marenghi here's his appearance on OST from [----]. (OST was a long-running soundtrack show favourite of mine). He stays fully in character throughout and adds his own comments on his fave balls-out action film music. https://ia801307.us.archive.org/21/items/OST20090418/OST20090418-marenghi.mp3 https://ia801307.us.archive.org/21/items/OST20090418/OST20090418-marenghi.mp3"
X Link 2024-12-21T00:42Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"When are people going to wake up to Rory 'Kamala gonna win' Stewart's UNCANNY predictive powers This is the AFD - of which Elon Musk says only the AFD can save Germany 👇 When are people going to wake up to direction in which Musk is pushing things @RestIsPolitics This is the AFD - of which Elon Musk says only the AFD can save Germany 👇 When are people going to wake up to direction in which Musk is pushing things @RestIsPolitics"
X Link 2024-12-21T09:12Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@OGRolandRat When I did an analysis of their Manifesto for Germany a few years ago for a comparative exercise with UK RW parties these were the key takeaway points on immigration which I summarised"
X Link 2024-12-22T14:34Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"By comparison this was what I derived from the Conservative Party manifesto of [----] the closest thing I had at the time. You can see the poverty of thinking immediately. @OGRolandRat When I did an analysis of their Manifesto for Germany a few years ago for a comparative exercise with UK RW parties these were the key takeaway points on immigration which I summarised. https://t.co/06VXjnlQjA @OGRolandRat When I did an analysis of their Manifesto for Germany a few years ago for a comparative exercise with UK RW parties these were the key takeaway points on immigration which I summarised."
X Link 2024-12-22T14:43Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@richardps6 @OGRolandRat No I combed through the English language version of the German manifesto. And yes I think they were far and away more developed in thinking. When you looked at our parties here it was well laughable the old shit that people are palmed off with as 'manifesto pledges'"
X Link 2024-12-22T14:57Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@richardps6 @OGRolandRat Well it's so thin and ludicrous as well that I wouldn't be surprised. This was Tory social priorities for example. I mean FFS"
X Link 2024-12-22T15:05Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@richardps6 @OGRolandRat 'Cat microchipping' 'Opportunity Areas' - meaningless shit. Windrush fairness marginalised faith communities etc - drivel. There wasn't even an effort put in to think about the people of this country and what they need"
X Link 2024-12-22T15:13Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@richardps6 @OGRolandRat Given what governmental power represents and based on our memory of life before cat microchipping being tolerable it seems like a grossly irresponsible distraction with a country in so deep a mire as ours. Fiddling while Rome burns"
X Link 2024-12-22T15:40Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Just sitting by a nice warm simulation waiting for @hector_drummond to join me for Slightly Irritable Middle Aged Men's Christmas. Merry Christmas friends"
X Link 2024-12-25T10:25Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@gildednotsure If you want to see another good Falstaff check out Barry Stanton playing him in Henry IV in the ESC cycle which I saw live in [----]. They got me into acting when I saw Michael Pennington as Richard II. Hooked. https://youtube.com/playlistlist=PL1ajIEjsTGMnRkRGufSdEaqmOTC0im590&si=MMstzTGHaezWAk34 https://youtube.com/playlistlist=PL1ajIEjsTGMnRkRGufSdEaqmOTC0im590&si=MMstzTGHaezWAk34"
X Link 2024-12-29T21:16Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Reminder https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1857948067703468355 What a travesty https://x.com/simon__roberts/status/1857948067703468355 What a travesty"
X Link 2025-01-02T00:26Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"'Owning X doesnt give you license to poison the discourse of any country'. True. Only a lucrative massively-resourced and endlessly favoured publicly-funded career at the BBC before you coin it in at HBO gives you that. Jess Philips is a committed and caring minister and you sir are a toxic gonad. The UK is not your plaything wealth doesnt exempt you from international law and owning X doesnt give you license to poison the discourse of any country whose government you disagree with. Jess Philips is a committed and caring minister and you sir are a toxic gonad. The UK is not your plaything"
X Link 2025-01-03T23:23Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Problem in Britain is we aren't allowed to have politicians with any balls. They're all fucking stiffs. It's a measure of how corrupted our system is that we have to outsource moral revulsion to the US who can just call it as it is when they see the horrors our containment breeds"
X Link 2025-01-04T00:30Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"This is getting a bit like the episode of Fawlty Towers where the American tears into Basil shouting "Holy cow can't you see what a crummy dump this is" And we're so innured to shit that we're just astonished that anyone else outside has finally noticed. @jonatanpallesen The Guardian is a nest of pedophile apologists @jonatanpallesen The Guardian is a nest of pedophile apologists"
X Link 2025-01-04T20:53Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Electability forever hostage to Middle England and its genteel snobberies Well this is a surprise Elon is a remarkable individual but on this I am afraid I disagree. My view remains that Tommy Robinson is not right for Reform and I never sell out my principles. Well this is a surprise Elon is a remarkable individual but on this I am afraid I disagree. My view remains that Tommy Robinson is not right for Reform and I never sell out my principles"
X Link 2025-01-05T15:22Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@AuntyMatter It's not even like many of us here like Tommy. But that's not the point. It's the locking out of rational concerns by appealing to an essentially cowardly and rather selfish pull-the-ladder-up demographic"
X Link 2025-01-05T15:34Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@AuntyMatter @richardps6 They want us to be blinded by anger and not see them clinically as they are with all the low-down but admittedly effective manipulations that they ply. We must fail to be impressed by that while understanding their mendacious skills which yet are not without vulnerabilities"
X Link 2025-01-05T22:51Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"I've told an arrant lie - we're going in strict chronology with a light diversion first to look at Curtis' short films after the Trap with his pieces for Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe. Remember one must proceed in a workmanlike fashion before enjoying THE DELIGHTS OF THE PLATE @buckoharam @OGRolandRat Wednesday - All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace (2011) @buckoharam @OGRolandRat Wednesday - All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace (2011)"
X Link 2025-01-06T11:15Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"In one of his talks in [----] Curtis extolled the virtue of playing footage 'long' - raw clips from neglected BBC outstations which he had gathered up such as this one from the Moscow funeral of Kim Philby in [----] It captures an interesting odd reality. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01dvly6 Coming soon https://t.co/Hf2iwkGPFa https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01dvly6 Coming soon https://t.co/Hf2iwkGPFa"
X Link 2025-01-08T15:34Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@flash_fart @hector_drummond Just remove the word 'not' and you can find it immediately relevant as well so it's sorta universal"
X Link 2025-01-15T18:50Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"It isn't yours to give. Nor should it ever be ever ever again you absolute fucking traitors. Thanks to @KemiBadenoch the Conservative Party is changing. We are going to give you your country back. https://t.co/XF36krjEK2 Thanks to @KemiBadenoch the Conservative Party is changing. We are going to give you your country back. https://t.co/XF36krjEK2"
X Link 2025-01-22T18:47Z [----] followers, 12.3K engagements
"@infinitehorus @AcceptableToad @OGRolandRat Yes. I disapprove though. I like parody when people get elements really spot on right and he didn't. Music was off tiresome snipes about coherence etc. This one was better. Watch to the end. https://youtu.be/TciRex4-fsssi=27DDVA59TeWrixMi https://youtu.be/TciRex4-fsssi=27DDVA59TeWrixMi"
X Link 2025-01-22T20:56Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@TheLad @infinitehorus @AcceptableToad @OGRolandRat He could just say 'I don't like it' but a certain kind of critic has to bomb you with how clever and arch they are being"
X Link 2025-01-22T21:06Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Authority asking for voluntary secrecy has always been a key tool of managerial control whether in the workplace or the state It is what delivered decades of suppression of and collusion with the rape gang phenomenon between police local authorities and central government We are aware of social media posts online detailing the injuries sustained by the girls who died and those injured in the attack in Southport on [--] July [----]. The families of the little girls specifically asked that those details not be reported. The families of Bebe Alice and https://t.co/KlP3Lu2oyW We are aware of social"
X Link 2025-01-23T18:37Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@schembrox @void_void_viod I accidentally hit that AI button thing and this came up about you. We are all editorialised now"
X Link 2025-01-24T16:03Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@void_void_viod @UnderSneege I think they both were suspicious of nostalgia as a 'conservative' form but equally mourned for a depth it manifested in culture. Their sense of the vital came in new urban musics like jungle which energised collective euphoria / action but which was absorbed as popular forms are"
X Link 2025-02-03T12:49Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@buckoharam @Paul_Heron_ Ok yes I can see something now - he's doing a similar thing to The Caretaker with woozy reverberative displacement of the original songs and taking you into a sandbox of memory games along the lines of that project which used old dance music instead https://youtu.be/-PjtIcLqpNUsi=afV72Xb61gTKo2VT https://youtu.be/-PjtIcLqpNUsi=afV72Xb61gTKo2VT"
X Link 2025-02-06T13:12Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Massive cope from the prosecco-right"
X Link 2025-03-01T01:38Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@ReformIdentity To be assumed alas with this lot. Tucked away in the Cotswolds one breathes a very different air"
X Link 2025-03-13T18:49Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@AcademicAgent_X War being decided in advance. It happened before. AA is simply reading the runes as he has explained previously. No predictions needed"
X Link 2025-03-16T10:15Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@AcademicAgent_X I must apologise for absentmindedly saying that Midge Ure was connected to Simple Minds during the stream. It won't happen again"
X Link 2025-03-19T14:53Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@alexcoghlan23 @YouTube"
X Link 2025-03-19T18:40Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Apparently it's the rest of us that need to change according to the insightless Crouch End hipster witch in a 1.9m house still wearing Dr Martens in her late forties. Go on see if you can spot the possible reason why she might not get it quite as well as she thinks she does. Toxic masculinity is joyless and depressing: Caitlin Moran https://t.co/Z7jSB3Yvt6 Toxic masculinity is joyless and depressing: Caitlin Moran https://t.co/Z7jSB3Yvt6"
X Link 2025-03-20T12:08Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@MetaBritain Oh yeah it was incredible. Tell me O World how one scores all this at the age of [--] in [----] when the article below was written. https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/interview-atrocious-mess-precocious-mind-meet-caitlin-moran-newspaper-columnist-television-presenter-novelist-screenwriter-pop-music-pundit-and-typical-teenage-slob-1436595.html https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/interview-atrocious-mess-precocious-mind-meet-caitlin-moran-newspaper-columnist-television-presenter-novelist-screenwriter-pop-music-pundit-and-typical-teenage-slob-1436595.html"
X Link 2025-03-20T12:29Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
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