Dr Ian McCormick

Erstwhile Professor. M.A. (St Andrews) Ph.D. (Leeds).
Woke Shakespeare (editor). Epistolary Novel: Class and Cloister

[Dr Ian McCormick @PostFilm]

Shakespeare: New Voices, ed. Ian McCormick #drama #theatre #Shakespeare #performance #adaptation #appropriation #historicism #empire #culture #materialism #TeamEnglish #renaissance #bardolatry #postcolonial #woke #socialjustice #theory #queer

[Socialist Opera Singer @OperaSocialist]

If only someone in the media would expose Farage's incitement yesterday via performative utterance in the same way that Jonathan Miller humiliated Enoch Powell and his grubby little racism.

[Canary @TheCanaryUK]

'Zionism is terrorism'. @skwawkbox on tomorrow's Canary front page - available in newsagents across England and Wales #TomorrowsPapersToday

[DaVinci @BiancoDavinci]

A 2,000-year-old 'Beware of the Dog' sign located in front of the House of the Tragic Poet in Pompeii, Italy.

[Frank Place 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @BotFinderUK]

This British army veteran, who fought at Atbara, asked rioters in Southampton to stop jumping on his car.
They did this to him whilst roaring
'Hurrah for Farage'

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Sarah Everard was kidnapped, raped and murdered by a WHITE Police Officer.

Nigel Farage called for calm.

But when he can use racism he calls for Cold, Hard, Rage.

[Elle Lookbook @EvaLovesDesign]

A London classic

The Coach & Horses pub is such a cosy, historic gem.

Founded around 1744, it's the oldest surviving pub in Mayfair, serving Londoners for over 270 years.

[Richard Burgon MP @RichardBurgon]

Nigel Farage has missed 77 out of the last 77 votes in the House of Commons!

Bet he doesn't have the same problem turning up for one of his highly paid second jobs.

Or to meetings with wealthy donors when there's another big money "gift" on offer.

[Peter Stefanovic @PeterStefanovi2]

Nigel Farage registered ‘absent’ from the last 77 votes in Parliament

Official Parliamentary figures reveal that Reform leader Nigel Farage hasn't bothered to vote for anything in the last 11 weeks...

https://t.co/fsxzTKkL4Z

[Unite Against Fascism @uaf]

Fascist inspired riot now in Southampton.
Bricks & more thrown at police who've baton charged thugs.
Farage, 'Tommy Robinson' & others culpable.
Henry Nowak's name forgotten by these people.
Thanks to @dvgil

@Searchlight_mag

[Cherry @Cherryopenmind]

You are a bad man, Nigel.

You and your cheap populism are weaponising a horrific crime for self promotion, spreading nothing but hatred and division.

Even though Henry's father explicitly begged for his son's tragic death not to be used for political division, you go and do exactly that.

Deliberately.

But people are not stupid. This is not America, Nigel.

Here, people judge you by your actions. Here, people believe EVERY LIFE MATTERS.

Your actions are bad, malicious, entirely self serving, and done only for money.

You are a bad man, Nigel.
You are a man without morals.
You are a man without character.
You are a liar.
You are malicious.
You are simply corrupt to the core.
You are a bad man, Nigel.

[Stand Up To Racism @AntiRacismDay]

This is the level of violence in Southampton tonight, stirred up by the far right, from Tommy Robinson on the streets to Nigel Farage.

This isn’t about honouring the memory of Henry Nowak.

This is all about promoting their divisive agenda & splitting our communities.

[Socialist Opera Singer @OperaSocialist]

Farage should be arrested for incitement and also sent the bill for the clear up of the mess from these racist riots in Southampton.

#FarageRiots #Reform #TommyRobinson

[Zara Hussain @zarahussain999]

British patriots are rioting on the streets in Southampton. They are attacking the police.

There is silence and zero condemnation from Reform supporters, Restore Britain supporters, GB News, Nigel Farage, Rupert Lowe, Richard Tice, right wing media and other usual suspects.

This is disgusting and disrespectful to Henry Novak’s grieving family.

If they were brown and black people rioting, there would be national outrage.

Britain has fallen.

[Politics In The U.K. @politixintheuk]

Nazis at the head of ‘Farage riot’ in Southampton!
The streets of Southampton were convulsed by violent disorder yesterday evening as far-right activists, Tommy Robinson among them, exploited public anger over the police handling of the Henry Nowak murder case.
Rage was inflamed throughout the day by online posts from far-right figures.
Farage called on the public to react with “pure, cold rage”. Tommy Robinson and Danny Tommo also posted calls for people to turn out to show their anger. Their intentions were plain.
Source: Searchlight

[Dr Ian McCormick @PostFilm]

Farage's white supremacist race riots?
#FarageRiots

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

Let’s be crystal clear about it what is happening tonight in Southampton.

Far right thugs are doing Nazi salutes and throwing bricks at police.

It’s not a ‘revolution’ it’s criminality and thuggery.

[Dr Ian McCormick @PostFilm]

Check out Sadomasochism: Painful Perversion or Pleasurable Play? By Bill Thompson https://t.co/AlAP1gTQcS

[Dr Ian McCormick @PostFilm]

Check out Sadomasochism: Painful Perversion or Pleasurable Play? By Bill Thompson https://t.co/AlAP1gTQcS

[Trades Union Congress @The_TUC]

Reform-led Durham council cut off funding to the annual Pride celebrations.

So trade unions launched a fundraiser to save it, eventually raising more money than was cut.

Which means this year's Pride will be bigger than ever.

In the 1980s, the LGBT+ community raised thousands of pounds to help striking miners and their families.

When we stick up for each other, we can achieve anything.

[nazir afzal @nazirafzal]

One in five people arrested over 2024 riots have since been reported for domestic abuse https://t.co/oCOD9OW8pN

[Alex Prompter @alex_prompter]

Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.

Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.

Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."

Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."

Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.

They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.

One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."

Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.

That's the metered intelligence business model.

And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.