spiked - the independent online phenomenon

vote for your favourite

anybody who's read Lee and Herring's The Ironic Review shd be familiar with this mind-blowing site btw.

I have a thing for irrationalism.

I can't remember the last time i saw a Brendan o'Neill piece that wasn't hysterical, trolling nonsense. Puts me off the whole venture.

Misanthropy vs irrationalism for me.

gotta vote for misanthropy tbh. not that i have disgust for the entire human race mind you, just for the people that write for spiked.

i'm a misanthropy fan it's true, but luddism has its attractions.

i love how "priggishness" is a transparent code-word for the so-called politically correct brigade.

am also down with illiberalism and controlled doses of prejudice.

The only good thing about the Spiked / LM / Institute of Ideas / RCP / Frank Furedi axis is their stuff about how people perceive risk. Apart from that they are all a bunch of Tory-Ayn Rand nutters using the language of the left to peddle reactionary opinions.

goddamit that's Ed Miliband's job

Misanthropy, easily. I have a soft spot for irrationalism but usually it just makes me frustrated and angry.

chose irrationalism, that'll show those damned rationalists.

Spiked… idk, I'm always surprised it's still going - still chugging along, still pretending to be quite serious, still publishing 3rd rate cultural crit + ooh-contrary LM challops by men in glasses; no-one ever notices, though, from what I can see - maybe I move in the wrong bit of the internet, but no-one seems to give 1 sol. shit about them. What an odd place.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

didn't we leave out "Corruption"? I mean, isn't there pro-smoking stuff largely related to the money they get from tobacco companies?

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

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search for anything uk politics related and something by that bawbag appears

hat tip to the telegraph seo crew

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KgdW57GrSc

http://i.imgur.com/W4eBQ.png

The secular beatification of Rachel Corrie sums up everything that is wrong with modern solidarity with Palestine

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Posh-bashing has replaced prole-bashing as the nastiest strain in British politics

won't somebody think of the poshes?

hang on in british politics i missed that bit. has Osborne been happy slapping hereditary lords again?

in moments of temperate weakness i downplay the importance of machine-gunning cunts like this

his shtick of sardonic panel show contributor mixed with guardian comment thread psycho is pretty singular u gotta admit

How about a riot against class determinism?

How about leeches inserted into your urethra?

Spiked is a whole website devoted to trolling and challops, it's also a classic case of former lefties being even more swivel-eyed than dyed-in-the-wool Tories.

that's called Paul Johnson Syndrome iirc but tbh i can't describe public school kids as "former lefties" with a straight face

saw a really awesome looking Paul Johnson history book in the charity shop last week but i've got his "History of England" and one book of delightfully savage mentalism is enough tbh

Isn't Frank Furedi the guiding light for these clowns? Formerly a Marxist sociologist. But yeah, point taken in general.

The fashionable idea that an individual’s class background determines his future and his fortunes is not nearly as radical as it seems.

politics is a parlour game to see who can reconfigure the same few century-old talking points to appear most 'radical', maybe by fusing a shockingly progressive attitude towards sunday opening hours to traditional values on land ownership in order to create a new radical feudalism

in a way this shit pre-dates American neo-cons, Johnson is atavistic here and nobody cd seriously say Julie Burchill was ever a leftist but the Mail in the 80s was full of ex-Trots bringing the monetarism iirc

the idea is to carry forward the sense of being 'radical' from their distant trot youth by employing a savagely debilitated idea of challops and trolling ie just random contrarianism and 'makes u think' crap in order to radically unseat both left and right! who are both wrong!

Frank Turnerism?

oh shit hush my mouth

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Turnerism-The-Un-Official-Religion-of-Frank-Turner/256766917681567

oh god he is probably a spiked fellow traveller

no question

I suspect Mumford & Sons are onboard too

radical new idea -- why should we be forced to pay for roads we don't use? all roads to be funded by holistic, radically nonpublic synergistic co-operatives, thereby profiting from charges paid by school buses, police cars and other government vehicles who want to use them

i saw Alexei Sayle do some actual funny shit about private road-building one time

alexei sayle being funny would be quite a radical development, even if his heart's in the right place

he used to do some legit funny shit i think but preaching to the choir is some soul-knackering boredom

mark thomas reprazent

Frank Turner – Love Ire & Song Lyrics

Well a teacher of mine once told me
That life was just a list of disappoints and defeats
And you could only do your best,
And I said "That's a fucking cop-out,
you're just washed up and your tired,
and when I get to your age I won't be such a coward"

.....

Let's be 1905 but not 1917,
Let's be heroes, let's be martyrs, let's be radical thinkers
Who never have to test drive the least of their dreams
Let's divide up the world into the damned and safe
And then ride to the valleys like the old life brigade
And straighten our backs and we won't be afraid
And they'll celebrate our deaths with a national parade

surprised dudes at Eton were telling him that tbh

1905 was more radical than 1917, because it radically envisaged the idea of a constitutional monarchy, whereas executing the cunts and establishing the dictatorship of the proletariat was a lazy milquetoast cop-out

pretty sure Joe Stalin was into the dividing up the world into the damned and the safe thing

lol we had a history teacher at school who used to call him joe in a way that probably wasn't but definitely sounded affectionate

much as i love Robert Wyatt i'm always wary of the fact that he'd probly kick the shit out of me for eating pigs and not digging on crazy Joe

i mean kick the shit out of me with his chair obv

Is that actually real though or some fake Twitter shite?

Since when has Brendan O'Neill ever criticized Communists? That doesn't fit the Furedi narrative.

yeah probably fake, but he will write a dog-fighting piece at some point.

am all for Brendan getting naked in a barn and going toe to paw with a couple of half-starved Rotties

lmao he's wearing a fucking hat again pic.twitter.com/mvtftjKeJm

— P.G. Chodehouse (@mynnoj) June 17, 2020

well done to people for giving this snowflake a huuuge slaphead complex through their persistent meme-posting!

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EavBSjaXkAEsfEs?format=jpg&name=large

well done to people for giving this snowflake a huuuge slaphead complex through their persistent meme-posting!

Yes, a beautiful thing has happened.

Sorry, but it blatantly did NOT completely cross the line. pic.twitter.com/t6SUcFUZNY

— That Ed boy below has just repeated my joke (@TreborRhurbarb) June 17, 2020

Mild starvation is good for children says the hate filled far right loser Brendan O’Neill pic.twitter.com/IhLsvbcKVQ

— Simon Gosden. Esq. #fbpe 🕷🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴‍☠️🦠🦠 (@g_gosden) June 17, 2020

Brendan O'Neill is ridiculous enough as it is, so why so these unfunny Twitter cunts feel the need to make up stuff he didn't say?

Oh shit is that a fake?

Second one today.

apologies for sharing it.

I blame Twitter.

well the childish appearance shaming seems to be more effective than the attempts at satire atm! I'm not judging either though, but it's no doubt great that he has been pressured into wearing a hat at zoom chats.

If it is getting under the skin of his freakishly distended dome then it is good satire, who cares if it is childish?

I heartily approve of the giant forehead stuff, the other stuff is pointless and unfunny and it's perpetrators should be shot.

brendan o'neill pretending not to be on twitter - and not personally, obsessively trawling through each and every meme depicting his grotesquely oblong forehead himself - is very funny pic.twitter.com/BUVGuaubX8

— Stan The Golden Boy (@tristandross) June 18, 2020

"big Irish head"

might be better pretending he's from from Easter Island!

It's anti-Irish racism, you see, that's his only possible line of defence here - except that, through his slavish devotion to the teachings of Chairman Furedi, he's painted himself in a corner and there's really no way out for him. Sweet.

As soon as he, lol, pulls too hard on that thread marked identity politics, as a repressed North London posh 2nd gen Irish white man - big heads matter! Then as well as looking even more ridiculous, his whole world unravels and now it is he who has become the snowflake!

I mean yeah, very enjoyable fun and games, but I'm a little concerned this is coming across as bullying. Shouldn't we be fighting Brendan with facts? ie calling him a cunt?

The fact is he has a grotesquely distorted head.

facts don't care about Brendan's feelings

i have a beautifully shaped head btw

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1c/Sch%C3%A4del_der_Chongos.jpg

thought the one on the right said "Fenian Chungus" for a minute

LOL Brendan's new nickname.

it's Gaelic for mini-Brendan!

"you know waht they call Brendan O'Neill in Paris?" "Le Massive Main"

📢📢 WORLD CUP OF BRENDANS, ROUND TWO 📢📢 pic.twitter.com/h5Lq1xrGAC

— 🎶 you would cry too if it happened to you 🎶 (@RavenholmCLP) June 19, 2020

You know, I have to say I think it* has really gone too far now.


*the featureless fleshy gap between his hairline and his eyebrows

clearing out ancient document boxes of misc tat i unearthed a promotional card for EASYNET, which was the service provider associated with CYBERIA, which was the pioneering internet cafe associated with LIVING MARXISM and the RCP in the mid-90s lol

i never entered cyberia, nor did i sign up for easynet, but i did know a few members of the RCP in those years -- digital capability and the freedom to offend were their open sesames, as i think i've mentioned elsewhere. they weren't the worst ppl i worked with -- they were often actually p good at IT stuff -- but even then they were kind of exhausting. i may even have a copy of the issue of LM they got sued for, which shd have bankrupted them and stopped them but somehow didn't. there was a LOT of vc capital washing around them at that time (tho not for their "provocative" opinions on the war in yugoslavia)

You knew it was coming, but nevertheless here it is. pic.twitter.com/XES0buaywe

— Elvis Buñuelo (@Mr_Considerate) December 6, 2020

Of course, the anti-working-class left and the NuFootball commentariat (who love the beautiful game but loathe its ugly fans) instantly found the Millwall fans guilty of racism.

Schrödinger's culturally working-class football fans that are middle class enough to be able to afford the season tickets and still working class enough to be legit nazis for the sake of Brendan's arguments.

just shooting bald fish with horribly distended bald heads in a barrel here

Brendan not able to get it into his grotesquely distended head that it's only Millwall fans who have booed taking the knee - though I supposer Brendan might argue they're the only working class football fans left in the UK, if not in the world.

Oops two distendeds there.

booing at West Ham and Colchester as well apparently, although not on the same scale

West Ham. Well there you go.

anyway always fun when bastions of liberality side with an act of political symbolism that's unmistakably far-right

the scare quotes around liberality should be implicit obv

Enjoying the idea that Joe Biden, who is a 100 year old liberal, is "obsessed with genderfluidity" pic.twitter.com/D9rG2OsdY8

— Rob Palk (@robpalkwriter) January 21, 2021

listen here, jack. we're gonna abolish gender. you're a gender critical feminist? come on, man!

Brendan's Irish peasant sensibilities have been shaken by the auld yin.

heaven forbid that there should be divisiveness in US politics

Amusing(?) myself at lunchtime by leafing through today's Daily Mail, thinking, "Jesus Christ, can you believe there are cunts who get handsomely paid for writing this shite?" when I come across a full page opinion piece by former editor of the Revolutionary Communist Party's official newspaper, Mick Hume. The bold Mick, who is holding forth on Partygate, starts his piece by saying, "I'm not concerned with defending Mr. Johnson" and, I think you can guess what's coming, proceeds to spend the entire article defending Mr. Johnson. Not quite the entire article because a lot of it is spent lambasting the BBC for criticizing Mr. Johnson as part of their policy of promoting the "woke agenda of Left-liberal urban elites". The main target of his ire being, wait for it, well known Left-liberal wokester, Nick Robinson. As I said, this cunt is getting paid for this shite.

This is really the best version of the mohicaned cunt who shouted at you about SWSS at uni turning up as your bank manager 20 years later

absolutely, though I struggle to see how these kinds of shenanigans are helping to advance the Leninist vanguard

he's advancing the class struggle, but doing it t'other way round against the proletariat. sort of like the Kriss Kross of the revolutionary vanguard. You aren't understanding this correctly from a Living Marxism viewpoint!

that's the worry that keeps me up at night: am I correctly grasping Frank Furedi and friends' Hegelian dialiectics?