Ben Cobley
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Writer. New book 'The Progress Trap' (Polity) out now: https://t.co/O8msNTYAk9. Previous one: The Tribe (2018)
Joined February 2009
My book THE PROGRESS TRAP is officially published today. You can get 30% off by entering the promotional code TRAP3 prior to purchase via @politybooks' page: https://t.co/RqA7KCRttD A ๐งตon why you might want to do that ...
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For fear of becoming a bore, whatever the British state does costs taxpayers billions. It's just the way it works. We have become a deeply corrupt country - and it pains my soul.
Covid fraud and error cost taxpayers ยฃ10.9bn, report will say
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I've written a short piece (link to follow) about the progressive justification for censorship, covering up and cancellation - based around what the Soviet writer Maxim Gorky told his younger colleague Vasily Grossman.
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From another world: the Russian National Orchestra conducted by Vladimir Jurowski plays Vaughan Williams #6 in Moscow, 2012. https://t.co/gb5IBhhgdS via @YouTube
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What a sign of the failure of the Labour Party as an institution that it selects a leader, wins an election conclusively and within a couple of years in government feels the need to replace him. It's British institutions in general: they are failing. Leaders cannot achieve
Exclusive from @patrickkmaguire Labour Together, the influential think tank that ran Sir Keir Starmerโs leadership campaign is canvassing party members on candidates to replace him In the clearest sign yet that the Labour Party is preparing for a change of prime minister the
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The brass neck on this awful man.
Why this makes any difference is beyond me. The fact is intelligence from the Dutch police about the racist vile maccabi thugs that went on a Muslim Hunt the night before was the key factor leading to the ban! No reasonable fair minded person would object!
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โI began to resent my sanctuary [England] being pissed on by everyone I knewโ - Tom Stoppard on left-wing theatre in the 1970s.
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Thinking about the Fall of British rock music, obviously diversity has something to do with it - the animus against white males and a priority on diversification of music sources. However, I'm also thinking that whole British post-blues thing may have finally run out of road.
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Football journalists and commentators clearly have to tread very carefully around this one.
Mo Salah will never walk alone. Heโs too adored by Liverpool fans for what heโs achieved over nine years and 420 games, the 250 goals, 113 assists and the eight trophies, including two Premier Leagues and the Champions League. So many unforgettable memories, so many entries in
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I've written a short piece (link to follow) about the progressive justification for censorship, covering up and cancellation - based around what the Soviet writer Maxim Gorky told his younger colleague Vasily Grossman.
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The race card, played.
๐จ Mo Salah: โCan I give an example? Itโs silly but I am sorry. I remember a while go, Harry Kane was not scoring for ten gamesโ. โThe media were like: Oh, Harry will score for sure. When it comes to Mo, everyone is like: He needs to be on the bench. I am sorry Harry!โ.
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Another day in the Green and Pleasant Land.
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โI donโt care about your broken home, get me my phoneโ Articulating one of the main flaws in the modern British state; the conviction that it can solve problem human behaviour instead of just stopping it.
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Stabs and almost kills two random strangers, leaving them as broken men. Sentenced to just 11 years, so will be out in seven
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Nicholas Orlando Green laughed after he was arrested for the double stabbing at Kennington Tube station
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Labour is still very much in the game for much of that 49% when an election comes around. Don't presume that your own feelings represent those of the whole country, or 'the people'. For better or worse, they generally don't.
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But it could come back again. What I do with polls nowadays is look at Reform + the Tories versus all the other (to various degrees left-leaning or -adjacent) parties. From that poll it shows 51% versus 49%. And this figure is reasonably consistent.
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One of the recurring mistakes people who follow politics make is assuming that current trends are baked in, permanent - especially when they accord to their own views. Labour has gone from being unelectable to being elected with a big majority to being even more unelectable.
Labour are falling in the polls because they are no longer perceived as simply dishonest and incompetent, but downright evil. Everything theyโve done since lying their way into power has been to the detriment of our country and its people. We are governed by our enemies.
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And just found out that EIGHT third-placed teams go through to the next round. The whole thing is a charade, waste of time.
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