Julian Self

A believer in feminism, fairness and equality. Hair, teeth and opinions are my own.

[Julian Self @Fles__]

Accumulation of wealth by a minority drives global inequality: The Final Discrimination - superb, short, free e-book https://t.co/TiR8ws4mtM

[🇬🇧King 🇬🇧 @King0243_PJC]

If you’re just waking up and haven’t caught the news yet…

Reform UK lost two council by-elections to Labour last night in Thurrock.

I know Zia Yusuf and Nigel Farage won’t be tweeting about this one, so just making sure you’re all aware 😂😂😂

[Julian Self @Fles__]

The Independent no longer has a Letters page, but they do have an agony aunt, so I wrote to her in a thinly-veiled reference to #NigelFarage. They seem to have identified it as targeting #ElonMusk, which I suppose may also work. https://t.co/AAry5vGdHt

[Senior Lieutenant Zandi Sussex @ZandiSussex]

Saw this brilliant post on LinkedIn and thought it was worth sharing here. 🤔

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

Andrew Tate is facing 42 charges, 19 of which are related to child pornography.

Just remember all the podcasters who promoted this pedophile.

[MP Arizona☀️🏳️‍🌈💙🌵🐕🐕‍🦺🫂💦🏜🐟🌴🎙🌎🌻♍️🌊 @AzPetrich]

DONALD TRUMP WIRED MONEY TO JEFFREY EPSTEIN 4,700 TIMES.

4,700 TIMES.

DON'T. STOP. TALKING. ABOUT. EPSTEIN.

[Andrew—#IAmTheResistance @AmoneyResists]

Books

[Zoe Gardner @ZoeJardiniere]

Nigel Farage:
Andrew Tate is an "important voice" for young men - 2024

[Dominic Yeatman @DominicYeatman]

He’s still got it..

[Jonathan Pie @JonathanPieNews]

Because this is an ongoing murder investigation.

[ALASTAIR CAMPBELL @campbellclaret]

Could I recommend you use some of the recent donations to take a short case on the law, with particular reference to contempt and the risks that can be posed to trial and conviction by media and political commentary? Or are you just a bit thick?

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

@Nigel_Farage When will you be making a statement on the £5 million you were "gifted"?

[Julian Self @Fles__]

@Nigel_Farage You pompous windbag, you've never made an important announcement in your life.

[Бианка @BiankaB12]

One of my longest-standing arguments is that we are not living in Orwell’s 1984, where truth is centrally suppressed and censored by force (that’s former communist societies, modern-day China, Russia, North Korea).

We are living in something much closer to Huxley’s Brave New World.

The truth is not hidden - it is almost always readily available. But it is buried beneath an industrial quantity of noise: propaganda, outrage, half-truths, conspiracy theories, influencer theatre, algorithmic rage bait and an endless stream of content designed not to inform us, but to keep us emotionally stimulated.

The modern information system does not need to censor the truth when it can simply drown it in noise.

A fact no longer has to be disproven - it only has to be surrounded by a hundred competing claims, stripped of context and nuance, turned into partisan ammunition and pushed into the same feed as celebrity gossip, memes and 15 second videos engineered to deliver the fastest possible dopamine hit. By the time the truth reaches us, it appears as just another piece of content competing for our attention.

That is the more sophisticated form of control: not preventing people from knowing, but exhausting their capacity to care.

Orwell feared a world in which people would be deprived of information. Huxley feared a world in which they would be given so much distraction, stimulation and triviality that they would lose the desire to seek it.

The defining struggle of our age is therefore not simply between truth and censorship, but between truth and indifference.

[Zoe Gardner @ZoeJardiniere]

@DerekFacey If I lost my job and required benefits, or went on maternity allowance, or became disabled and required PIP, or whatever, the fact that I have paid tax during my working life does not change the fact that I would be in receipt of benefits. Same goes fro your pension. Get over it.

[ALASTAIR CAMPBELL @campbellclaret]

Truly honoured and humbled to be attacked by @trussliz at her 🇬🇧 MAGA conference. Spreading the news here because there weren’t that many people there in the room at the time apparently

[Uksimes @Uksimes2]

@SimonHarrisMBD

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

Welcome to the most important job you'll ever have @andyburnham
Cartoon brilliance by @BJennings90 for @guardian

[Zoe Gardner @ZoeJardiniere]

@RobertJenrick You have experience helping SOME people avoid tax, at least I guess.

[BBC News (UK) @BBCNews]

Tommy Robinson says he 'got it wrong' over man he falsely accused of filming children https://t.co/lUpQnC9N9i

[Gadget @Gadget440]

🚨 "Journalist" Tommy Robinson nails it again:

"Invaders catching and killing gulls in broad daylight. Get these backwards people out!"

It has been confirmed with video evidence that the woman was rescuing a baby seagull that had fallen from a roof. Then a man nearby assisted her in returning it to its mother.

What a moron.