Ben Sixsmith
@BDSixsmith
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Anglo writer in Poland. Online Editor and podcast critic for @TheCriticMag. Subscribe to THE ZONE.
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Joined October 2014
Excited to be at the Battle of Ideas Festival this weekend, debating "Should We Exterminate the Human Race" with AC Grayling, Greta Thunberg, Varg Blood-Drainer from the Planet Thaarl and Brendan O'Neill.
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I wrote about JA Baker's "The Peregrine" and mused on nature and misanthropy https://t.co/fbzwIr9PWQ
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It is odd that JA Baker’s book The Peregrine is among the best-known books about birdwatching, because by all accounts Baker was no expert on peregrines, never mind other birds.
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Prices are higher, people drink less and dance music is less fashionable. If you think "yep, it's the Indians" you need to go outside. Your brain, ironically, is colonised by foreign people. https://t.co/uP1n02FjdI
This is because "nightclubs" are full of predatory foreigners, namely Indian men
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Explaining to the judge that my intricate conspiracy to engineer a coup in an unstable African statelet was just the sort of light-hearted banter you would find in any men's locker room.
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I don't mind them playing Xbox as long as they are kept in prison. Violent people should be locked up to segregate them from society, but once they are there, I'm sure it's better for them to be entertained than to be bored.
Murderers shouldn’t be sat in prison playing Xbox. Officers shouldn’t have to be bringing the Southport murderer Haribo. David Lammy must change these cushy and ridiculous rules today.
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An interesting and sobering piece on the increasingly ubiquitous harms of ritual slaughter https://t.co/alBlwWFot8
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In 2024, approximately 220 million animals were ritually slaughtered in England and Wales. Of these, roughly 30 million had their throats slit whilst fully conscious, and 190 million were stunned…
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A thoughtful piece on the senescence of the centrist from @lucaajw
https://t.co/CA8yppcIsY
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Parsing through Britain’s headlines in the past few weeks, it felt like the country’s script had been taken over by some cruel comedian intent on rubbing in Britain’s decline. Too lazy to come up...
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Growth is being suffocated by the egalitarian neuroses of the likes of the Resolution Foundation, argues @tomhfh
https://t.co/rfp4kNEZOF
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“Happy Birthday to me, we’re all the poorer since my founding.” An unusual way for an incredibly influential organisation to celebrate its 20th anniversary. But the Resolution Foundation is no usual…
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Hitler saved Germany? God, imagine what Germany would have looked like in 1945 if he HADN'T saved it.
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“When I was a kid, I couldn’t follow rules. I had no idea what people wanted me to do, and I was constantly in trouble” -- @nathancofnas
https://t.co/TgWYjzITXa
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Academic freedom is most vital when contested work is controversial or liable to cause offence.
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I think my dog is you. He leaves foul stuff in public places. https://t.co/xgTMnSQvA7
I think my dog is Palestinian I overfeed him but he tries to convince everyone around him he has no food
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Try to teach a child ambition, and what do you get? https://t.co/YiR0xiEgse
Brain surgeon is arrested after 'allowing her 12-year-old daughter to drill a hole in a patient's skull'
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There are three kinds of article on the BBC website: "Massacre in the Congo kills 500", "Muslim climbers fear discrimination in Glencoe" and "YouTubers Brian and Tim announce break-up". https://t.co/IVpHhoG6r9
YouTubers Dan and Phil confirm relationship after 16 years
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Great to have Douglas Hedley responding to Mary Beard on whether academic standards at Cambridge have improved or declined (I wouldn't have got in then or now but still...) https://t.co/C4keA4ZjX2
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Mary Beard recently welcomed the disappearance of “Thick, White” rugby players and linked this to a general amelioration of intellectual standards she had witnessed during her distinguished career.
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It was an ISIS-affiliated terror attack, not just "political violence" https://t.co/brzaCEIrLO
Four years on from the murder of Sir David Amess, we remember a kind man who dedicated his life to serving others. Our thoughts are with his family, friends and all who had the privilege to know him. Political violence has no place in our society.
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Who could doubt the KGB?
🚨Update: The Soviet KGB determined in a secret report for Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev that a conspiracy lead by Vice President LBJ executed the JFK assassination in 1963. The FBI Director and CIA was also involved!
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This is happening with submissions multiple times a week. It's lazy, it poisons the well for harder workers, and if I'm confident that someone is doing it, they are going to be blacklisted. https://t.co/wnD6DhnVg3
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We know we’re setting ourselves up for a fall when, on an off-day, we will unwittingly publish 3000 dry words written by ChatGPT on Nepal’s growing naval blockade. But most of the time we can tell…
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A lot of people want to work in entertainment but we have to appreciate that it takes a very rare creative genius to remake a beloved classic for no better reason than to have a somewhat more ahistorical cast. https://t.co/futvDfMyuw
The teaser trailer for ‘AMADEUS’ starring Will Sharpe and Paul Bettany has been released. Premieres in December on Sky.
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Finally, at long last — after centuries of technological development — people will be able to whack off online. https://t.co/61DNsqeZUS
We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right. Now that we have
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