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Often found Franceposting. Journalist covering politics, protest, work etc. Research for Project Brazen. Work in @guardian @novaramedia @RollingStoneUK etc.
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I wrote for the Guardian about how Macronism, a political project that served only the ultra rich and the professional class offers us a glimpse into Starmer's future if they continue to open the party to lobbying, consultants and big business.
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Mélenchon says a united left has once again saved the Republic.
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Mélenchon calls for the PM to go, he says the New Popular Front will implement, all, he repeats all of their program.
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Nowhere in this article is there any actual evidence about LFI's supposed antisemitism just references to "comments that many French jews and others have described as antisemitic". Nor is there any interview with the antizionist jews who support LFI.
Ahead of France’s elections, I spoke with over a dozen members of French Jewish communities.
Many say they’re grappling with tough choices & feel caught between extremes amid concern about rising antisemitism.
With
@BHL
@ArielWeilT
@aliceTIMSIT
& more
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Thatcher, who kept a copy of The Road to Serfdom in her handbag, was famously not an ideologue.
🗣️ "It is a good way to signal that you are a completely changed party. It shows a Labour party that is a lot more pragmatic than ideological".
👉
@SophieStowers
spoke with
@HutchisonPeter
about Margaret Thatcher's influence on Keir Starmer's Labour.
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Labour are polling so far ahead of the Tories that we should surely interepret their statements not as manoeuvres (which would be bad because politicians shouldn't lie) but as statements of intent. No ceasefire? Ok that's what you want. Praise Thatcher? That's what you believe.
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@JudithBernarADA
Bonjour Judith je suis journaliste Britannique interessé à couvrir la violence contre les manifestants.
Est-ce que vous pouvez m'envoyer un MP?
Cordialement,
Olly Haynes
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If the left of the left in Labour have any sense of their own political survival, this will be their Reims congress moment. They're outnumbered, with no room to maneouvre in the party, just like Mélenchon was...
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@SabriSun_Miller
@JustStop_Oil
No we're not, which is why you shouldn't write that it's them if you don't know.
No one owes you a comment, it's irritating I get it, but your mistake is yours not theirs.
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@g_shullenberger
Has any of your "thought" ever been about anything that wasn't posts on this website?
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What the green surge, independent victories, Corbyn re-elected, IDS keeping his seat and the majorities of some Lab MPs being reduced to a wafer, suggests to me is that if the left had got its act together and formed a party they might have a bigger toehold in Westminster rn.
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That the key actors in the scandal are the Sun, BBC, and the Met, highlights the void of trust in the British state/civil society. There are good reasons to distrust all these institutions. BBC and Met have appalling records WRT to taking sexual abuse seriously and the Sun 1/2
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How many outlets reported on Salman Abedie's involvement with the British security state prior to the Manchester bombing? We have the D Notice committee openly censoring natsec reporting - it's hardly a conspiracy theory to suggest that info is withheld on terror attacks.
This is horrifying. A third of the public, completely lost to reason, believing in plot-myths which have racism at their heart.
Barely more than a quarter understanding that these things are absolutely false.
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Yeah his gamble paid off such that he lost a bunch of seats and the parties to his left and right gained. Wtf is this analysis.
An absolutely huge shock - and delight for Macron. Who can argue his gamble paid off. Gabriel Attal most likely stays as PM
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I think a lot about something I heard
@Vinncent
say in an interview, which is that in 50 years, journalism may not exist, we could have corporate sponsored content, and state sponsored political narratives with little else in between.
it really does feel like journalism as a whole is disintegrating into freelance and part time opps + roles rather than contracted staff jobs, very sad
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My latest for
@novaramedia
On France's politics of drought.
As the drought intensifies, so will sabotage from activists and the reactive crackdowns from the state.
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My piece for
@NewLeftReview
's Sidecar on the internal struggles of the French left and how they are attempting to clear a path to power.
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The grim incuriosity of political hacks in the face of hundreds of holocaust scholars sounding the alarm about ongoing genocide, and the evidence of their eyes - a state liquidating a captive population - really is something to behold.
@AMoonShot1
@LonesomeJay
You need to recalibrate 'genocide'. Ridiculous usage in the historical context. That language helps resolve nothing
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I hate journalists whining about journalism publicly, but am increasingly becoming one so sorry for that
But quite a lot of people in commissioning positions are mourning Vice. "How will young people get into the industry now?!" I don't know perhaps *you* could commission them?
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The New European has to be the worst British current affairs magazine? I don't think I've ever read anything of value in there.
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French media approaching Simon Heffer levels of hysteria and stoking fear among an ethnic minority. For him it was "Corbyn wants to reopen Auschwitz" for BFM it's "Mélenchon in power: the end for jews?"
Existe-t-il un moyen de faire cesser ce niveau d'ignominie ? Reste-t-il un seul journaliste digne de la charte de Munich à BFM pour s'opposer à cette forme de diffamation ?
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It was fun having
@CassCendre
on the show! It's a good one to listen to if you're interested in some of the pre-history of La France Insoumise, how they developed into this movement, the struggles of the fractious 🇫🇷 left, and what JLM is like as a person
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My latest for
@novaramedia
on the 'Robin Hood' tactics used by France's energy workers.
Merci à
@VictorCachard
pour l'interview and thanks to
@simonchilds13
for the edits :)
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My piece on Houellebecq is out now - it's a look at how he ended up starring in a porn film, and the strange world of the Dutch art group KIRAC.
A Dutch art collective has a tape of France's most controversial author having sex with one of its artists – and he wants it back.
Olly Haynes (
@reality_manager
) speaks to the artist on tape with Houellebecq, Jini van Rooijen.
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I'm in the Guardian today, writing about the 5th anniversary of the
#GiletsJaunes
movement, and the need for politicians to learn that the (vital) climate transition cannot be imposed through regressive taxes that lack consent.
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Le Figaro picks the far right over the New Popular Front. Unsurprising, this has been a long time in the making and further evidence of the crumbling of the Republican Front.
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@MarlonEttinger
and spoke to the 🇫🇷 politics 🐐
@bruno_amable
Would highly recommend this episode, Bruno's work is extremely helpful for understanding the structural dynamics of French politics and how the moving parts fit together!
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My analysis for Novara cautioning against overoptimism following the election.
Even in defeat, the French far right is in it's strongest position yet, writes
@reality_manager
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Comme l'a dit un jour Robert Paxton dans l'Anatomie du Fascisme: "le fascisme c'est quand on est méchant avec François Hollande".
Comparer ses adversaires politiques à des insectes nuisibles qu’il faudrait éliminer, c’est employer la langue du fascisme. Indigne et inadmissible venant d’une dirigeante d’une force politique de gauche qui se revendique de l’humanisme. La catastrophe commence par des mots.
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There is nothing wrong with talking about the demonstrably real Israel lobby and yet she continues with this special pleading! Just tell the truth!
“I don’t remember liking this Tweet”
Victoria Derbyshire asks Faiza Shaheen, who has had her Labour candidacy pulled, about liking a Tweet which referred to the “Israel lobby”
#Newsnight
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Soft left journo promising to Decorbynise the French left after a smear campaign against La France Insoumise not dissimilar to the one run against Corbyn.
The second left, are attempting, aggressively, to wrestle leadership of the left back from Jean Luc Mélenchon.
La gauche devrait être portée au pouvoir par un enthousiasme dopé par l’hostilité à l’extrême-droite. Mais l’extrémisme de LFI, son intolérance, ses purges, son antisémitisme font obstacle. Le Labour Party s’est débarrassé de tout cela et il va gagner. Décorbynisons la gauche !
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New episode of the French Elections Podcast 2024 from me and
@MarlonEttinger
We go over the insane developments of the week in some detail. It's a good one to start with if you haven't been listening so far.
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My interview with
@KekeRachel
In
@novaramedia
is out! We spoke about pension reform, the nahel riots, and going from leading a strike of hotel cleaners to being an MP.
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Raphael Arnault, leader of the Jeune Gardes an antifa movement has been elected in Avignon over the RN candidate.
Les amis…
On l’a fait.
On a dégagé la député sortante du RN. On lui a mis 55% - 45%
L’antifascisme à l’Assemblée ↙️↙️↙️
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My interview with Assa Traoré of
@laveritepradama
in
@novaramedia
On the revolts after the killing of Nahel M., the possibility of alliances between different groups affected by the violence of the French police and her position in French politics.
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I wrote for Unherd, about how the French right doesn't have a monopoly on farming, and how contrary to an idea of farmers as engaging in a blanket rejection of environmentalism, ecology is the site of conflict between big agribusiness and small farming.
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I guest hosted today's Macrodose on the fallout of the French elections. Give it a listen!
THIS WEEK: Vive la révolution?? 🗳️🇫🇷
@reality_manager
unpacks how the French left snatched a tentative victory from the jaws of defeat, potential outcomes of the gridlock, and a mixture of hope and warning signs for the future of France.
LISTEN NOW 👇
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Macron apparently called Netanyahu and demanded an immediate ceasefire and an end to the military operations because of the "intolerable" death toll.
🔴 DIRECT. Guerre à Gaza : Emmanuel Macron demande à Benyamin Nétanyahou la fin des opérations israéliennes et qualifie le bilan d'"intolérable"
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People have been paying to do this in Ukraine is well - the mediating of Twitter beef, or even genuine political disagreement, through messages on lethal rockets is deeply sick.
I was sent this image by a member of my family in Israel. He was delighted that an IDF soldier has written my name on a missile to be dropped on people in Gaza - all because I am a Jew who wants every human being to be free from the river to the sea.
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"While life on the inside of the bourgeois bloc might be pleasant enough to consider two more years’ work to be no big deal, the outlook for others is not so rosy."
I wrote for the Guardian about the consequences of Macron's pension reform.
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It was great having
@broderly
on the show to talk about the internal politics of France's left and right as well as the sociology of the RN vote.
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My latest for Novara, looking back over Bernard Arnault's history and the methods he used to become one of the world's richest men.
Spies, surveillance and a ‘state within the state’: how France’s richest man built his luxury empire.
Bernard Arnault, France’s wealthiest tycoon, has a history of scandal and direct access to Macron’s neoliberal elite.
@reality_manager
writes 👇
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I wonder if Macron's contempt for democracy and the French constitution will factor into any English language coverage that still insists he is some kind of moderate.
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Bizarre moment in which Sandrine Rousseau is begged by a journalist to break with LFI and has to explain to her seemingly baffled interlocuter that lying in politics is bad and that if the left got into bed with the Macronists it would mean liquidation.
🔴Blocage LFI ➡️ "Il y a un prisme qui ne consiste qu’à voir l’opposition à Jean-Luc Mélenchon alors qu’il y a aussi un soutien véritable à la France insoumise", affirme Sandrine Rousseau.
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My piece on the struggle of New Caledonians for decolonisation.
7 people were killed in recent weeks, 4 Kanaks, 3 cops (1 in friendly fire). The Kanaks were executed by settler militias.
Movements for Kanak independence are divided on strategy but united in rage at France.
‘We need to internationalize our struggle to the maximum possible degree to have a shot at our sovereignty.’
After two weeks of deadly protests in
#NewCaledonia
, Olly Haynes (
@reality_manager
) finds divisions in the island's independence movement.
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BHL, cited recently in the Guardian as a source on antisemitism, calling for the demonisation of France's leading antifascist politician.
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I might have misunderstood, but aren't the gender criticals undermining their own arguments about what a woman is in insisting that Imane Khelif isn't one?
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🧵 on highlights of the program of the New Popular Front (Edwy Plenel shared the doc and journos are running stories on it, but I don't think it's online yet).
It's split into 3 sections:
15 days of "rupture"
The summer of "bifurcations"
Several months of "transformations"
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I want PR because they we can have a diverse array of political freaks rather than boring lanyard perverts. Animalist parties, pirate parties, Cirencester Roman ethnonationalist party, the Pimlico Plumbers Party, single issue roids on the NHS party. It'd be great.
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Chants of On a gagné (we have won) from the headquarters of the New Popular Front in London.
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There is a non zero chance that a far right channel will get taken off the public network in France and a channel made up of a coalition of small, left wing, green and independent media will take its place.
Si nous obtenons une fréquence
#TNT
, nous respecterons notre convention puisque chez nous pas de
#Bollore
pour payer 7,5 millions d’euros d’amendes et continuer à s’affranchir des règles
#AuditionsTNT
Avec le feu vert de l’
#Arcom
, nous pouvons émettre dès mars 2025.
👉
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Really exciting initiative in France in which independent media outlets are collaborating to try and win a channel on public owned tv in an attempt to fight back against far right news channel Cnews.
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We'll see, the RN war of position is still well underway, the left, capacious as it is, and a far right that now also contains Les Republicains both took chunks out of Macronism. The struggle for hegemony isn't over and Le Pen can still point to score increases and more MPs.
this could really fuck Le Pen, there will be backlash from the fascist hardcore of the FN that have had to eat shit over the past few years in a quest for electoral respectability. and for what. to let the reds in.
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The New Popular Front has settled on Lucie Castets as candidate for PM. Castets is an economists who advocates for public services, works to combat tax evasion and is an opponent of raising the pension and retirement age.
🔴 URGENT - Communiqué de presse du Nouveau Front populaire.
Le Nouveau Front Populaire présente au président de la République la proposition de nommer Première ministre Madame Lucie Castets.
Retrouvez notre communiqué commun.
#NouveauFrontPopulaire
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Yard Act's new album drops tomorrow - absolutely cannot wait for more postpunk about the cost of living thank you very much.
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It would be good if someone could ask Goodhart what he, James Orr, and others discussed with Zemmour when they met him last month. On the same trip in which he met Goodhart Zemmour made a series of racist propaganda videos about the 'Great Replacement'.
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Exit poll has the New Popular Front as the largest Party with the RN in third!!
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Huh, another one.
Note: this article gives no evidence of the antisemitism of the hard left
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I have been saying this. It would get a left populist formation into a much stronger place, however, you eventually run out of road and run into contradictions as I examine here.
the more i think about it the more i like the "copy la france insoumise" strategy
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I went on Macrodose to talk about the madness of French politics in recent weeks!
New
@macrodosepod
Election Special! With first round of voting on Sunday, I spoke to
@reality_manager
of the excellent
@flep24pod
about French elections, political turmoil & the real possibility of a far right govt.
Here, or wherever you get your pods:
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People seem very upset that their reservation at Dorsia is no longer commanding the respect of Paul Allen.
I wrote about London’s restaurants, and the bourgeois nightmare of the much-beloved Vittles
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The Swifties have joined the New Popular Front.
Parce que l’heure est grave et il ne reste que 19 jours pour être du bon côté de l’histoire.
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@AyoCaesar
Must simply be a mistake, after all, why would someone put into the HoL by the Labour Party host a programme without including anyone likely to be critical of the party line ? 😱
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Remake of the A24 film men, but the monstrous man that appears everywhere is just Ashworth complaining in a slightly different voice about losing his seat.
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This is the kind of mistake I was pointing to here, and which I hope I was able to avoid by the inclusion of comments from the excellent
@AnnieKNK
- The problem with Reform UK is not that in their rhetoric they get angry at energy companies profiteering!
This is the core populist radical right world view - "the pure people vs the corrupt elites" in
@CasMudde
's classic formulation, plus opposition to immigration (grounded in ethnic nationalism).
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Definitive results have the NFP at 182 seats, Ensemble etc. at 163, and the RN alliance at 143 seats.
Takeaways: Of the 3 blocs fighting for hegemony, the left is currently winning, however this is incredibly precarious.
The centrist coalition outperformed expectations 1/2
182 députés du Nouveau Front populaire, 163 du camp présidentiel, 143 pour le Rassemblement national et ses alliés
➡ Les résultats définitifs des élections législatives
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La gauche molle qui veut "Decorbyniser" la gauche française prenez note. Ce n'est que grâce à le système electoral brittanique que Starmer a gagné par un tel chiffre. Il avait le même taille des votes que Corbyn.
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Breaking: 100s of trade unionists have blocked the entrances to Eaton Mission Systems in Bournemouth which produces parts for F-35 combat jets.
The action takes place alongside similar protests in Brighton and the North of England as well as France, the Netherlands and Denmark
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Should point out that I'm in France covering the election should any editors wish to comission reporting or analysis. 🇫🇷
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You'd think the last few weeks would give the lie to the idea that there is any consistent morality in geopolitics.
Ignoring the ethnic cleansing in Kharabakh while funding Ukraine, outrage over Hamas while Palestinian civilian casualties over the last years have been downplayd
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My report for the i on police violence against French trade unionists, reporters and protesters.
Below is a short thread of photos and videos I was sent by victims.
CW: Some of them are quite graphic.
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Environmental activists arrested in France were asked if they liked Andreas Malm as part of their questioning according to Reporterre.
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A couple of the young rightist commentators I follow with bylines in the Critic and the Telegraph, and wackier places like Eurocon are in favour of the rioters - even while the older hacks try to put the toothpaste back in the tube, Idk if the young guard even want to do that.
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Ernest Moret, a French left-wing publisher has been arrested in the UK under terrorism laws, on his way to the London bookfair.
His lawyer told Novara that they suspect collusion between the French and British police in detaining him in this manner.
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I wrote for the Guardian about the radicalisation of European conservatism. Events overnight have somewhat overtaken the Spanish section of the piece, however the trend described remains accurate and I think the attempt to install Feeijo may fail.
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@Vinncent
I was talking about your book with one of the members of the encampment at Sciences Po yesterday after they put forward a near identical analysis to you - they said they'd read it :)
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I think it would be helpful if journalists tried not to frame these questions in terms of moral argument and simply pointed out where the interests and alliances lie.
Readers can make their own moral conclusions, and it would make the journalistic class look less schizophrenic.
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There's a couple of hundred more if we count podbean! V grateful to everyone who listened during the course of the election I hope it was informative - there's still a lot of politics to come as we enter coalition deals (me and Marlon scheming) I'm sure there'll be more FLEP too
People listened to
@flep24pod
, the French Legislative Elections Podcast for 2024, over 5000 times this election cycle.
Thanks to all the listeners (about a thousand unique ones)! We may have more if we can figure out how to make it work sustainably going forward.
We'll have a
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Lol Phil knows on which side his bread is buttered
In all the finger-pointing over the lawsuit
@Nina_Compact
has recently lost, the Very Online British Left have once again revealed themselves as cops. Makes me think that the people who say they want to abolish the police in fact really want nothing more than to replace them -
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A factionally divided room cheering Mélenchon's every word as he delivers a speech about the people's will.
Chants of On a gagné (we have won) from the headquarters of the New Popular Front in London.
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In a rare journalism W, I'm now being sent free books sometimes!
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🤡
For those who mocked me when I dared to use the term "Islamo-gauchisme"...
Self-loathing antimodernism as revolutionary programme. Cool cool cool
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In an election in which the party founded by SS officers has had 41 candidates who have recently made racist statements including antisemitic remarks +proposes banning binationals from certain positions + potentially (they are furtive) kosher meat, 🇫🇷 media are attacking the left
French media approaching Simon Heffer levels of hysteria and stoking fear among an ethnic minority. For him it was "Corbyn wants to reopen Auschwitz" for BFM it's "Mélenchon in power: the end for jews?"
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@StefPalomba
and
@cedric_durand
have written an argument for adapting and expanding La France Insoumise in response to the crisis of the bourgeois bloc and the rising RN
Listen to our episode with Stefano's co-author
@bruno_amable
from last week below!
@MarlonEttinger
and spoke to the 🇫🇷 politics 🐐
@bruno_amable
Would highly recommend this episode, Bruno's work is extremely helpful for understanding the structural dynamics of French politics and how the moving parts fit together!
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I don't suppose anyone wants to commission me for a couple of hundred quid to go to Paris for the election ? 👀 I've covered France for the Guardian, the i, the New Statesman and others and have contacts in several political parties.I covered the 1st round extensively from Reims.
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@dai_alectic
Every time I speak to people in La France Insoumise, they ask me why Corbyn didn't break and form a new party, and I have to explain that the leadership of the British left either doesn't really exist or doesn't actually want to lead.
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@SohrabAhmari
Lol I'm writing about this at the moment, I think it's a stretch to say he was tricked, he got cold feet is more accurate.
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Here's a piece I just did on the increasing role of the Israel lobby in France!
Mearsheimer wrote a whole book on it in the US!
In Britain it is also well documented, going back to the creation of the state of Israel!
There is nothing wrong with talking about the demonstrably real Israel lobby and yet she continues with this special pleading! Just tell the truth!
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@flying_rodent
Well for a start the whole book is basically premised on the idea that some people are, in some essential way, better than others which carries easily into Yarvin's race science etc.
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Among many other things, it's very funny to be accused of defeatism by a man who is best known for an organisation that prides itself on obviating politics.
More liberal Left defeatism
@guardian
. The reason the Left fails is because it's run by people like Oliver Haynes
@guardianopinion
who find it inconceivable that there is an alternative to the neo-liberal establishment & fascism. He couldn't be more wrong.
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