'The Lesser Feat' on YouTube. Warwick University film/media scholar & video essayist. Researching YouTube aesthetics, irony & intention. Unionize.
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This is the greatest video I’ve ever seen. No notes. The lifeless clanker carcass just laying there. No crowd reaction, anything. Just Billie Jean. Until its lifeless shell is shamefully dragged off. Purely amazing.
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A trailer for a 1.5 hour video essay I've worked on for 3+ years with James Zborowski, coming soon in InTransition. Making this video has been one of the most challenging & exciting things I’ve done in my career. It reflects on the challenges of doing videographic criticism.
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Really bugs me how I see people worried that being nice will compromise their judgment (no “sugarcoating”) but never worried that the pleasure of being brutal motivates or warps their judgment. I’m just supposed to assume it’s a disincentive to be mean when they seem to love it.
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As a parent what would you do if you couldn’t feed your children? Watching them starve, crying for food, as your own empty stomach gnaws at you. HELP: chuffed.org/project/113222-t….
Children in Gaza are still malnourished, still starving, a famine still underway. Aid trucks are still just trickling in, no where near as many as necessary to feed a besieged population. The Sameer Project team visited Preparatory School C in Deir al-Balah area to deliver meals to the entire school that was transformed into a family shelter.
We distributed 500 spiced rice meals with vegetables, each one costing a little less than $6. The entire sheltered distribution on September 21 cost $3,199.
Every donation, any amount, has an impact. For just $6 you can help a parent feed their children, fending off starvation for another day. Donate to the South Campaign to give food.
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It is good that these people lose their jobs. It is good that they are shamed and humiliated and must live with the repercussions for the rest of their lives. It is good if they wake up every day until they die wishing they hadn't said what they said. We cannot have a civilized and decent society unless there are severe social consequences for people who publicly express sentiments like these. These people are barbarians. Savages. And should be treated as such. "Free speech" does not mean that we should act with anything but revulsion and disgust to people who say revolting and disgusting things.
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I like how he says “Labour MPs put their careers on the line to stop (Old Jezza) becoming Prime Minister”, a thing that up until last year was an absolutely deranged conspiracy theory, but has somehow become an obvious fact, without anyone having been wrong about it at any point
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I am shocked - shocked! - to discover the entire “exodus” story was nothing more than lobbying on behalf of the mega-rich.
Wealth tax now!
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if you're a bookshop/university/festival/whatever & would like to invite me to speak/read/be on a panel about my book, please get in touch...
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leftwing populism is popular. neoliberal centrist dems can’t make a compelling message because they stand for nothing. not complicated.
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In 2021, Eric Adams was hailed as the “future of the Democratic Party” after it took 8 whole rounds for him to win by less than 1 point. What does that make Zohran Mamdani, if he won in 3 quick rounds by 12?
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I'm not entirely certain what the definitional boundaries of the "fan cam" are, but...
...did David Lammy just post a fan cam of himself?
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This line will be quoted ad nauseam for decades in history and politics books.
Agree with him or not (and correctly or not), it will be the go-to way of articulating Labour's return to aping the Tories.
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Jeremy Corbyn is again being smeared for being pro-Putin. The fact is that no politician has been more consistent or prescient about Putin. Corbyn warned against him when others didn’t. This article first published three years ago in Middle East Eye:
middleeasteye.net/opinion/ru…
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Genuinely asking here. Amongst all the talk of increasing defence spending and the austerity, cuts, 'belt-tightening' etc, has a single media pundit or politician suggested there should be tax rises on the rich to pay for it? Even as a question?
Because I haven't seen one.
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remember when liberals said Kamala Harris lost because Latinos are too macho to support women in politics
🇲🇽#Mexico, President Sheinbaum (Morena) approval rating poll:
⏫Approve: 85 % (+4)
⏸️Disapprove: 15 %
According to El Financiero, this is the highest approval for a President in Mexico in at least 30 years.
El Financiero, 24/02/25
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It is tempting to dismiss entirely the centrist bore who says the “far left” and “far right” are, in some fundamental sense, "the same." But we should resist the urge to deny all common ground.
Both left and right recognise—correctly—that the system is failing. What distinguishes them is not diagnosis but cure.
For the right, the crisis is caused by phantoms: migrants, refugees, “wokeness,” diversity initiatives, or whatever spectre they can easily conjure at any given time.
The left, by contrast, understands the material conditions that define our moment. A neoliberal order has hollowed out public services, eroded education, and siphoned wealth upwards, leaving our incomes so diminished that rent, utilities, and supermarket chains now swallow whatever remains. No growth. Just money funnelled to massive corporations.
That the right even acknowledges a problem is what makes it dangerous –– especially in a period of left retreat.
The alternative, after all, is liberalism—the insistence that things can only be as they are, that the system which created the crisis is also its solution.
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Good morning to this man, & this man only. #bbcqt