Simon Levy

Swims and makes art. Prose and the phenomenology of protest. Techno-feudalist. The perfect balance between Historical Materialism and Existential Fiction.

[Simon Levy @cyartes]

I think Kier Starmer could be justified in thinking that he had a particularly unpopular electorate to deal with, especially when seen internationally 😁

[Simon Levy @cyartes]

You can look at this criticism and say yes, yes, all true what a waste of and also you can look at it and say actually this sounds about exactly right where the UK electorate are. We are Kier. The question is do WE want to change?

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

Keir Starmer was not merely a disappointment. He is a mendacious figure of ethical decrepitude, a man who won the Labour Party leadership based on promises that he jettisoned five seconds after winning - a Labour leader who dared banish from the Labour Party not only his predecessor but also remarkable human beings like director Ken Loach - the gentleman who has taken the historic Labour Party and transformed it into a vessel for the very oligarchy it was elected to restrain.

Consider the litany of Starmer’s moral and logical failures. He promised a 'different Britain', yet his actions were a masterclass in Tory-lite politics—using the same maxed-out credit card analogies that once served the austerity brigades to justify his own failure of vision. He promised a human rights lawyer’s approach but he embraced a racist-lite version of Farage.

On Europe, Starmer promised Brexiteers that Brexit is Brexit yet stood before those who yearn to rejoin the European Union, winked at them to make them feel that Britain would gradually reconnect, even rejoin, with the EU while offering nothing of substance. This is not leadership; it is a fraud.

And then there's the manner in which Starmer and his government rushed to offer Israel unequivocal support in pursuing its genocide in Gaza, sacrificing precious political and civil liberties in the UK by imprisoning grandmothers, priests and peaceful activists who dared support Palestine Action, an organisation that Starmer and his minions proscribed as terrorists for practising the usual activist tactics of trespassing to spray paint military planes that had demonstrably aided in the genocide. To add insult to injury, Starmer performed the diplomatic pantomime of recognising a Palestinian state, in a manner that ensured it would never happen.

But above all else, this is a government that has learned nothing from the post-2008 era. Starmer and his Chancellor are playing the same tired austerity game while enabling and empowering the Finance Curse perpetrated by the City of London, throwing in forgood measure cuts in international aid to fund a military spending trickle under the guise of a "Strategic Defence Review" . It is the same old doctrine: austerity for the masses, socialism for the financiers and the arms dealers.

History will remember Mr Starmer as a man without conviction, a Prime Minister who offers not a shred of honesty, but merely the cruel illusion of change. He is ethically decrepit because he had chosen, consciously, to abandon principle for power. And for that, history will indict him. Good riddance, I say.

https://t.co/sGfebPkDXR

[Simon Levy @cyartes]

Am on a train to the Curonian Spit after a formidable few days in Vilnius and Kaunas. I might grow a beard under the right circumstances.

[Simon Levy @cyartes]

Love him. So cool.

[Simon Levy @cyartes]

“Delighted to hear this” in England translates as “now fuck off and leave me in peace”.

[Simon Levy @cyartes]

The more things change, the more things stay the same.

[Simon Levy @cyartes]

Every time I run into a podcast with Scaramucci it couldn't be clearer that he and Trump have a lot more in common than against except he is trying (too hard) to come across as nice.

[Simon Levy @cyartes]

Gooooooooooooool!
#Japan #worldVup

[Simon Levy @cyartes]

Embarrassing is an understatement. “Not everyone’s cup of tea” has to be the quintessential English passive aggressive “embarrassment” ever. Morgan’s heart felt diplomacy is nothing less than a barrel of shit.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Come on Piers, this is embarrassing. Two days running?

[Simon Levy @cyartes]

My tv doesn’t do well with garish orange. The Netherlands are a blur whist Japan are perfectly in focus.
My tv does not pamper to the whims of the global north.
Come on Japan!
Viva Japón!
#worldcup

[Channel 4 News @Channel4News]

"Very poor white people” are being convinced that “very poor, hard-working brown or Black people” are responsible for the “problems caused by billionaire white men”, Allison Morris, Crime Correspondent at the Belfast Telegraph, says in the wake of the riots that spread through the capital of Northern Ireland overnight.

[Simon Levy @cyartes]

Why don’t the Dumocrats call the president Dum-old Trump?
Do I have to think of everything?
#DumoldTrump

[Simon Levy @cyartes]

So my teams for the World Cup in order of preference are:
Bufana Bufana (South Africa)
Mexico
Brazil
Tuchel’s England
Iran
Senegal
#WorldCup

[Simon Levy @cyartes]

Pero espero que México gane sus otros partidos.

[Simon Levy @cyartes]

Viva Bufana Bufana! Vamos!
#MexVSouthAfrica

[Simon Levy @cyartes]

The UK’s no 1 racist bully, Farage is leading the call for “cold rage”. The hypocrisy says it all.

[Simon Levy @cyartes]

Also as much as I do not like to say it, they are a good team and do deserve to at least get to another CL final. Not a great team, but a very good team.

[Simon Levy @cyartes]

In a rare moment of innocent goodness I have to say that Arsenal fans are not an entirely bad lot.
Embarrassingly I pretended to be one in a pub jam packed with them for matters of personal safety, also I didn’t want to rub salt in the wound. I thought they were decent in defeat

[Simon Levy @cyartes]

Forgot to mention Arsenal were also hoping to emulate Chelsea’s victorious Champions League shootout against Bayern….

[Simon Levy @cyartes]

Arsenal did the best they could do especially with just 24% of possession.
They tried to emulate Chelsea ‘s win over Man City, hoping to emulate Chelsea’s win over PSG in the club World Cup but ended up emulating Chelsea’s loss to Man U on penalties….
#ChampionsLeagueFinal