I’m an anthropologist, sometimes I occupy things & such.

I see anarchism as something you do not an identity...

...so don’t call me the anarchist anthropologist

Twitter was David’s public platform and tools for practicing a new language – clear and understandable for everyone, it was a space where he made friends and enemies.

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Thu 26 Dec 2019 22:15

this is the “cred” they built up by publishing people like me, .@OwenJones84, .@GeorgeMonbiot, .@chakrabortty – all of whom I very much respect. They used us so no one would believe they would simply lie to destroy any chance of a left gov’t. But that’s exactly what they did.

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Thu 26 Dec 2019 22:12

as for the Guardian, we will never forget that during the “Labour #antisemitism controversy”, they beat even the Daily Mail to include the largest percentage of false statements, pretty much every one, mysteriously, an accidental error to Labour’s disadvantage https://t.co/XiwYsVMOiZ

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Thu 26 Dec 2019 21:26

the BBC is not a public broadcaster, it’s a state broadcaster. One thing I’ve come to learn about the UK is that the Tories ARE the State. Labour is occasionally tolerated as long as it is basically pursuing a Tory agenda. #boycottbbc https://t.co/C1crfgMJP5

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Thu 26 Dec 2019 12:14

It’s going to be interesting, when my next book comes out, to explain to my publicist why I will have nothing to do with either BBC or The Guardian

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Tue 24 Dec 2019 12:04

what did I tell you? The Guardian exists to ensure the left never has any chance of taking power in the UK. That is its self-appointed function. I really do wish people who do not share that aim would not validate its claim to be actually *be* the very thing it exists to destroy https://t.co/zBVRCuO9n1

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Mon 23 Dec 2019 19:08

just checking – am I right that John Major was campaigning, during the election, for those Tory Remainers who were purged by BJ and running as independents, no? More importantly: I assume none actually retains their seats. Is that correct?

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Fri 20 Dec 2019 17:22

for a week or two I actually started watching #BBCNews while on the elliptical machine at the gym (only place I really have access to TV). Those were days of hope. Now I’m back to the Horror Channel.

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Fri 20 Dec 2019 11:02

I got off my lazy ass and just started googling. Here is what I was looking for https://t.co/YBL6ZnSlqS https://t.co/GwlO34QJmk

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Fri 20 Dec 2019 10:38

so I’m going to be a REALLY lazy researcher today. Sorry. Does anyone have a ref to that breakdown map of UK voting by age? Is there one that does the same with the latest election results (if only people under 25 voted…)

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Thu 19 Dec 2019 16:44

really don’t want to get an intern in trouble at Investor’s Chronicle but, no, actually, that’s not what “LSE” stands for in my job title. https://t.co/n1lkg1d45v https://t.co/uJIClTaI5f

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Wed 18 Dec 2019 13:36

Orban was being censured specifically for #antisemitism & the Tories told their MEPs to vote against the censure; it would have been difficult at that point to make a point about Labour being “institutionally” AS when the Tory leadership had made such an official decision 5/

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Wed 18 Dec 2019 13:34

another interesting feature is the sudden muting of the AS issue in 2017, just to jump back again when an election seemed immanent. Why? My interpretation at the time had to do with the Tories instructing their MEPs to vote against censoring Orban in European Parliament 4/

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Wed 18 Dec 2019 13:31

bear in mind these results come despite the fact early polls showed Tory voters were more likely to agree with #antisemitic statements & one prominent Tory minister, now PM, personally wrote an antisemitic book 3/

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Wed 18 Dec 2019 13:29

2017 Labour Anti-Semitism 93 results Conservative Anti-Semitism 0 results 2018 Labour Anti-Semitism 6.79k results Conservative Anti-Semitism 0 results 2019 Labour Anti-Semitism 3.82k results Conservative Anti-Semitism 0 results Tory Anti-Semitism 1 result 2/

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Wed 18 Dec 2019 13:28

leaked from Meltwater (corporate media monitoring tool). Mentions of phrases in press: 2015 Labour Anti-Semitism 1 result Conservative Anti-Semitism 0 results Tory Anti-Semitism 0 results: 2016 Labour Anti-Semitism 2.52k results Conservative Anti-Semitism 0 results 1/

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Wed 18 Dec 2019 07:39

I don’t get it – air pollution is way up & making us sick. But there’s no fog. The one upside of all the industrial air pollution of ages past was the lovely London fog (which was actually smog). If we’re all going to get sick we at least have fog again? https://t.co/5cKi1mOj3i

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Wed 18 Dec 2019 00:18

while the UN has demanded the German government set matters right, the gov’t has not budged. The German public seems largely indifferent or unaware. This is why .@nikadubrovsky formed the Yes Women group 4/

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Wed 18 Dec 2019 00:14

after reunification, that ended, but unlike divorced women in the West, those in the East could not claim a portion of their husbands’ pension either. Many live in extreme poverty. They have been organising to demand justice ever since 3/

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Wed 18 Dec 2019 00:12

at reunification, there were nearly a million. In the West, laws were extremely patriarchal (i.e., til 1977 married women needed their husband’s written permission to get a job.) In the East, almost all women were employed, & care work was also calculated into their pensions 2/

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Wed 18 Dec 2019 00:09

there are still 300,000 women from the former East Germany who were, effectively, robbed of their pensions, many living in dire poverty, because they were divorced. For 30 years they’ve been organising & demanding justice https://t.co/MoNZjeA1Q7

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Tue 17 Dec 2019 13:18

has anyone actually got the numbers, say about BBC or Guardian – how many stories about Corbyn & antisemitism during the campaign, vs how many about BJ’s antisemitic book, Tory Islamophobia, BJ’s bigoted comments about single mothers & the working class…?

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Tue 17 Dec 2019 12:34

the thing is that as an author, yes, you CAN cash in on popular books, especially about money, but only by giving the same lecture over & over again to very rich people. I just can’t bring myself to do this. This seemed a reasonable alternative.

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Tue 17 Dec 2019 12:29

should Nika and I create a patreon page? It wouldn’t sell anything but provide free content. It would be awfully helpful to have a place large enough to put my books (mostly now in storage) & for Nika to have a studio where she can put her archives. It does effect our work

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Tue 17 Dec 2019 12:11

what are the core class constituents of each party in terms of the fundamental class opposition emerging in the care-giving economy & what class segments are up for grabs? I’m not a sociologist. I don’t have the data. 8/

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Tue 17 Dec 2019 12:10

what I’m interested in is the class basis. Obv nurses, teachers, the front-line workers in the new care economy, didn’t vote for BJ but remain LP. What about school or hospital administrators? The higher ups no doubt Tory but the mid-range ones who actually drive you crazy? 7/

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Tue 17 Dec 2019 12:08

this is why Trump, BJ with his phoney chaotic persona, have popular appeal: they’re the exact opposite of the legalistic rule bound administrator upstairs who drives you crazy at your job,& they managed to manoeuvre Corbyn into seeming like he could be that guy 6/

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Tue 17 Dec 2019 12:05

when I wrote this, I got a private message from a higher-up in the Corbyn camp saying “yes this is exactly what they are trying to do to us. Identify us with the legalistic establishment so they’ll seem the popular insurgents. Please write about this.” But no media’d touch it 5/

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