Michael Sweeney

Ageing like a fine wine that has been left uncorked

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

It is so wild that the Yookay government is simultaneously trying to lower the voting age to 16, and ban the Internet until age 16.

[Michael Sweeney @SweeneysTweets]

@Danjsalt Replenishing the Earth by James Belich

[Michael Sweeney @SweeneysTweets]

@typofoto His performance in Present Laughter was chef’s 😘

[Michael Sweeney @SweeneysTweets]

Loose Ends on @BBCRadio4 this evening with Nish Kumar. A talent roster becoming of Cable TV

[Dan Neidle @DanNeidle]

Higher taxes that most people will pay? Or spending cuts that most people will feel?

That's it. Pick one.

If your answer is "government waste" or "tax the rich", then you're part of the problem.
The strategy of taxing "other people" has run out of road.

[Gareth Roberts @OldRoberts953]

The hypocrisy of Starmer is gob smacking.

[Graham Linehan @Glinner]

The quiet seething sound is from journalists who can no longer shape the narrative according to their preferences.

[Michael Sweeney @SweeneysTweets]

No wonder we have a country where fewer & fewer things seem to work

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 WATCH: An audience member tells Reform candidate Rob Kenyon that she'd "rather have a career politician than a plumber who's a sexist"

"I won't accept that label... I was brought up by women. I have nothing but respect for women"

#BBCQT

[Michael Sweeney @SweeneysTweets]

Nothing to see here, obvs

[Full Fact @FullFact]

.@Katie_Lam_MP said on BBC Radio 4 that welfare payments now exceed income tax receipts for the “first time ever”.

That’s not true. Welfare has been higher than income tax for more than a decade.
https://t.co/dBqK87Krrc

[NPRG @CptHastings1916]

I personally have all the normal bourgeois objections to smashing car windows & pushing burning bins at the fedz but it is funny to see the Britain's Radical History Enjoyers suddenly deciding that fighting the police is bad.

[Michael Sweeney @SweeneysTweets]

King Midas in Reverse

[Daily Mail @DailyMail]

Teacher numbers plummet despite Labour's 'vindictive' private school tax to pay for more https://t.co/JStODEkNr6

[Dr Helen Fry | WWII Historian @DrHelenFry]

Alex Kershaw’s D-Day coverage has begun.

Every year it is utterly exceptional.

Do ‘Follow’ him and keep up-to-date with his posts:

[Michael Sweeney @SweeneysTweets]

Rightly ignited fury?

[Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @MayorofLondon]

The death of George Floyd has rightly ignited fury and anguish not just in the USA but around the world. No country, city, police force or institution can be complacent about racism and the impact this has.

[The Critic @TheCriticMag]

“For all the gleaming towers, half of Greater Manchester's ten boroughs rank among the thirty most deprived places in England ...”

Burnham's Manchester is not all it's made out to be, writes Byron Evans
https://t.co/1NUmAdQCGo

[Mark Littlewood @MarkJLittlewood]

She complained she inherited a £22bn hole from the Conservatives. She has managed to dig her own hole three times that size in just two short years. Policy appears to be “when you’re in a hole, keep digging”. 👇

[Michael Sweeney @SweeneysTweets]

‘It is Starmer and his ilk who are abusing the family's grief, which is obviously profound and a matter only for them, in attempting to weaponise it against calls for urgent reform’

[TheSimonEvansX @TheSimonEvansX]

Something has dawned on me gradually I think wrt the “wishes of the parents” thing.

Obvs many suspect it’s a psy-op. Astro turfed, quietly briefed, this is what we find is best to say, minimise distress in the days and weeks ahead. Goebbels/Lipman/Chomsky tier, if so, manufacturing consent to the next crime. Maybe, but I can't prove that, so... maybe.

But also, as a protocol, it’s plainly medieval. It’s purporting to be progressive but it’s a huge backward step. It’s imported either from our distant past (at least pre Magna Carta and I’d say, pre-jury system, Henry II)... or from some of the least evolved polities in the world.

It’s the politics of feudalism, as seen in backwards Islamic tribal societies like NW Pakistan and the Horn of Africa, though certainly not in modern ones like Saudi or the Emirates; and also in subterranean informal criminal justice systems such as the Mafia, or South American drug cartels and crime syndicates or even the Krays vs the Richardsons.

It’s the mentality that says, if Ronnie says he got was coming to him and there is to be no retribution, there is to be no retribution. End of.

Never mind that a hundred people saw a man stabbed in broad daylight outside the Boozer. No need to get the State involved. It’s family, and it’s done.

This is precisely the purpose of a fully evolved criminal justice system. To take the burden off the victim and their family, and place it on the state.

It is Starmer and his ilk who are abusing the family's grief, which is obviously profound and a matter only for them, in attempting to weaponise it against calls for urgent reform.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

People don't grasp the sheer speed and scale of Europe's decline.

This 👇 is an extraordinary number shared by Luis Vassy, director of Sciences Po (one of France's most famous schools) in this article: https://t.co/BQbkXb2kPl

He calculated that the EU is declining 3 times faster than the Qing dynasty at the height of China's century of humiliation.

Back then, it took China 50 years to drop from 30% of world GDP to 17%, whereas it took the EU just 17 years (from 2008 to 2025).

Insane 😢 And, sadly, given the current direction and the EU's systematically suicidal policy choices (latest example: https://t.co/6EYJgdXVVo), it's just the beginning...

[Michael Sweeney @SweeneysTweets]

Quite a contrast

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 WATCH: Keir Starmer condemns Nigel Farage for "whipping up" division against the wishes of Henry Nowak's family

[Paul Embery @PaulEmbery]

Was it wrong to “politicise” the Stephen Lawrence murder? Or that of George Floyd? What does the word “politicise” even mean in that context? Don’t tell me that it is right to “rage against the machine” when state authorities fail black murder victims for reasons connected with race, but that we are obliged not to “stir up tensions” when the victim happens to be white. It is this two-tier approach that is fuelling tensions and division. Can the establishment not see it?

[James Woudhuysen @jameswoudhuysen]

That's right, Julia. It's US who "started a culture war", right