Barry Langford
@barrylangford1999
Professor of Film Studies at Royal Holloway, sometime screenwriter. Many opinions, largely uninformed, all my own. End the genocide in Palestine 🇵🇸 Abolish ICE. Expropriate Big Tech and criminalise AI 🤖
The police investigation must leave no stone unturned and we expect the ringleaders to be arrested and face the serious charge of Conspiring to Embarrass.
This put me in mind of Neal Ascherson’s amazing 2002 LRB review of Deutscher’s Trotsky (the finest review I’ve ever read), on similar lines:
The tiniest of teeny-tiny violins. Vayos con Dios muchacho and count your billions.
“He surprised many planning and architecture experts…” 🙄 Jfc @nytimes.com - when do you give up the faux-naïf “objective” reporting on Shitler’s scams, lies, corruption and false dealing? It makes you look very very stupid.
Wild slanderous lies and utter ignorance from Shitler’s poodle - are we remotely surprised?
I don’t care for Novak Djokovic much, but I like his ethno-nationalist kebab-shop-owner cheering section even less.
I wonder what could possibly be motivating these particular ministers 🤣
This. @barneyronay.bsky.social on the depletion of our (sporting, and otherwise) lives by oceans of slop, to no-one’s benefit or pleasure bar the oligarchs and their parasites.
Tremendous new production of Mother Courage at @shakespearesglobe.bsky.social! Visceral, unflinching and all too relevant
Undoubtedly the most rigorous exploration of this important ontological question.