Gaily Bedight - Graphman apologist Profile picture
Part of the Twitterati you have heard so much about. Has Autism, will post.
Apr 24, 2021 16 tweets 3 min read
There was a lot of hidden psychological assumptions and contradictions embedded in New Left era discourse that still tend hang over the discourse, dragging it down by its frequent lack of acknowledgement. For a start there is the romantic - our individual capacities and gifts are being smothered by the needs of the social roles we play which are oppressive and unnatural, and without which we would presumably be psychologically healthier.
Apr 24, 2021 4 tweets 1 min read
ISAG once again promoting the idea that the current vaccines don't work against variants based on what? evidence The UK has a more open travel regime than we do and reopened a lot recently, but its case numbers have dropped like a stone. What could possibly be a reason for this?
Jan 6, 2018 10 tweets 2 min read
There's a clear social division in the elite between those whose capital is rooted in extracting resources and rents and those whose is rooted in white collar intellectual activity and innovation. The Financial Services Industry is where those two meet. But Trumpism and the dominance of the GOP in the American periphery is the triumph of a type of popular capitalism which holds local salvation is in the hands of big investors and indifferent towards any social or moral cost of attracting them.
Nov 1, 2017 27 tweets 4 min read
1. Recently there has been some discussion about the role of social class and Labour support in #GE2017. This chart below busts some myths 2. Chart measures each constituency in England by deprivation and divides them into deciles. Clear correlation: More deprived = More Labour