Matt Donoghue

Largely depressing reading. But the takeaway point is that something has to give at some point, some how.

Humanity is hurtling so quickly downhill. Lazy warmongering. I'm sure it helps that the targets had already been dehumanised.

I keep hearing the Green Party have been doing divisive and sectarian politics. Does anyone have any examples? Or is this Labour Party entitlement to a core vote they actively dislike?

The current argument of the British right is that Muslims turned out in "blocs" with "family voting" to cast their ballots for a party led by a gay Jewish man, and this shows that multiculturalism has failed, voting is "sectarian" and we are in a crisis.

Hmmmmmm.

What Goodwin's reaction shows is that reactionaries claim to talk for "the people" but truly hate the people and them having a say in how things should be run

It shouldn't surprise us that reactionaries are elitist and anti-democracy obviously and yet this has been obscured through skewed coverage

Take a bow

Imagine if Matt Goodwin's campaign strategy was to NOT tell people to vote Reform.

Absolute galaxy brained genius of the far right. A brain too big for academia etc etc

Delighted to see the news in Gorton and Denton this morning - on multiple fronts.

Today marks the 15,000th day this year it has rained in Ireland.

What's the point of anything anymore

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Don't worry - it's been raining in Wicklow so the reservoir the Dubs use to steal all our water will be nice and high 😉

It's a trick question. And an awful one at that.

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Birthday present to myself arrived today. Giddy with excitement and can't wait to have it framed and in my office! It is a 1960s 'genuine reproduction' (as it were) of a poster from the Mai '68 protests. Absolutely love it.

Had a spate of high quality new followers recently, despite not posting all that much. Hi everyone! My pinned post tells you a little about me, although it's a bit out of date now. I should probably update it soon...

Just finished one of my Work and the Welfare State lectures, and once again mentioned the Reserve Army of Labour - and then I see this post.

Feeling very "pessimism of the intellect", not very "optimism of the will", today.

I thought for a millisecond this was about grindcore the musical genre. Which is also, some might say, absolute insanity...

On question time someone would say 'oh that's an important point' and move on without questioning it. Or the person questioning it would just get shouted down as a radical lefty

That was a bad sentence...

*Goodwin was in quasi-respectable period.
*I hosted a workshop with support from said organisation.
*There was a lot about the org that felt like it benefitted from inequality.
*I won't name the org.
*I declined to offer advice; I asked why they wanted him in 1st place.

State of HATE 2025: The Opportunist Extremist: The Strange Radicalisation of Matthew Goodwin Once a respected academic studying the far right, Matthew Goodwin has become one of its most influential figures. Now a GB News pundit and Reform UK fanboy, he’s traded scholarship for reactionary gri...

I will always remember, during his quasi-respectable period, an organisation committed to addressing inequality (yes, it's true) asking me how they might be able to court Goodwin to come to one of their events, so they could have 'both sides'. I politely declined.

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I wonder if someone else might label him "failed academic" or "discredited academic turned right-wing commentator and agitator"?

Have adverts on journal websites always been a thing and I haven't noticed before, or is this a new level of hell we now get to enjoy?

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"I’m going to pause here just to review: an institution that purports to be a university has told a philosophy professor he is forbidden from teaching Plato."

surreal times

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I don’t know if Maduro is good or bad, not even if he’s a drug trafficker; in the files of the Colombian justice system, after half a century of dealing with the biggest cocaine mafias, the names of Nicolás Maduro or Cilia Flores don’t appear. Those who have come forward to denounce him are Venezuelan opposition generals, nothing more, seeking to topple the popular vote. The judicial power in Colombia doesn’t belong to me; it’s independent of me, and my opposition largely handles it. If one wants to know about the mafia and the business of cocaine commercialization, just look at Colombia’s judicial files.

That’s why I deeply reject Trump speaking without knowing; my name doesn’t appear in the judicial files on drug trafficking over 50 years, neither from before nor from the present. Stop slandering me, Mr. Trump. That’s not how you threaten a Latin American president who emerged from the armed struggle and then from the people of Colombia’s fight for Peace. I was part of the clandestine organization that fought for democracy in Colombia against the civil dictatorship of the "State of Emergency." The organization that in 1974, long before Chávez, carried out the operation to raise Bolívar’s sword once more, who said he would never sheathe it until injustice ended in Gran Colombia. I was with the M19 that made the first peace in contemporary Latin America. He doesn’t read Colombia’s history, and that’s why he fails when he criticizes us. He should only meet with his officers who are experts in drug investigations in Colombia, whom I’ve helped with my own investigations as a senator of the Republic from Colombia’s Left and its people,

who have suffered the narco genocide and its political allies, who are also allies of the American far right. Tens of thousands of our comrades from the armed and popular struggle for democracy were assassinated, and we didn’t go begging you for invasions; we endured and won through Peace. I’ve never burned a U.S. flag because I’ve read the history of the popular and workers’ struggles in the U.S. through Zinn’s books in Spanish. And that’s why I honor the American working people, the Black and Indigenous people, the young soldiers who, alongside the Soviets, defeated Hitler. And that’s why I dared to speak on a street in New York in front of the United Nations building and under U.S. law that protects the opinions of those attending the United Nations Assembly to speak freely. I spoke against the genocide in Gaza—how I would have loved to accompany you to make peace in Gaza! Where the Palestinians love me, and perhaps if instead of

going to capture a Latin American president with small controls on oil because you blocked the oil and condemned us to hunger and unleashed the exodus that reached your own country, I would have accompanied you to capture Netanyahu, the genocidaire. For what I said, you took the arrogance to punish my opinion, my words against the Palestinian genocide. Your punishment is to falsely accuse me of being a drug trafficker and having cocaine factories; I don’t have a car, nor estates abroad—my house I’m still paying off to the bank with my salary. It’s unjust, and I fight against injustices. I’m friends with a lot of people in the U.S. who stop me on the streets, surround me with their arms. That’s why I respect the history that began with Washington and Bolívar together; they gave each other things, they were liberators more than enslavers. I learned not to be a slave, and I reject your

Really, a remarkable statement from Colombia’s President.

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Noted!

OnlyJohns

Turns out a combination of not using That Other Site and the economic landscape at the moment in general does, in fact, makes fulfilling the whole "starving artist" stereotype a whole lot more achievable 😅