scymraeg.net

'cynical and lazy'. like music. free palestine. they/them. kill the robots and love each other. lorraine bowen stan account. scrabble aficionado.

[scymraeg.net @miceemoon]

https://t.co/AKTKLTM6J9

[scymraeg.net @miceemoon]

christgau is such an asshole (complimentary)

[nick catucci @catucci]

The best music critics, according to 22 music critics

[Maddie @maddiewhittle]

Taylor Swift is the antithesis of camp in every respect

[Archie Woodrow @SamuraiApology]

actually that's not quite right - they do *mention* civil liberties, but only briefly & in passing, and they don't actually propose or demand that anything should be done about it

[Archie Woodrow @SamuraiApology]

typical of Labour left economism, there's no mention of civil liberties or democratic reform - crazy when we're rapidly becoming a police state and a Reform government looks to be just round the corner

[Georgina Hollifield 💚 @sp4rkl3jumpr0p3]

Ha ha very funny

Anyway, if you become PM will you stop the UK selling arms to Israel?

[onion person @CantEverDie]

i love olivia reingold so much. she's a top contender for dumbest "journalist" in the entirety of human history

[Tom Hatfield @WordMercenary]

Literally it *is* the fact that he wasn't an MP. Everyone involved in the disaster that was Project Starmer is tainted by association. He remained untainted. That's basically it.

[Smiling Apple.jpg @ellaguro]

always find it funny how the pop star ecosystem creates this infinitely complex, ten layers deep, fifth dimensional chess discourse where there's all this bizarre lore around the artist's life to be keyed in on while the actual music is like... fine. almost incidental.

[scymraeg.net @miceemoon]

I find the alt-hist interesting to be clear. Just always found the "he gave Europe a 7/10!" argument about his commitment kind of disingenuous, contextually. Tho I do not buy Burnham does better - he wasn't remotely the pseudo-rockstar he is perceived to be back then.

[scymraeg.net @miceemoon]

myth around corb being lukewarm or low-effort during 2016 is one largely borne out of mandy + smith setting up motive for the murder beyond their faction having lost control of the leadership. i remember a load of interventions linking newlab good stuff to EU membership.

[Dylan 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇸🇺🇦 @Crimb1eCrumb1e]

What if Burnham won the 2015 Labour Leadership Contest?

David Cameron still moves to hold a referendum on EU membership, however, Burnham campaigns more enthusiastically for Remain than Corbyn and the UK votes to remain by a margin of 53-47 (1)

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

"If he’s not willing to nationalise the water companies, then that’s already giving us an indication that Andy Burnham and the Labour Government will be siding with profit rather than people.”

https://t.co/3B3CYKy13F

[Tom Gann @Tom_Gann]

Genuinely an astonishing person… The being blown with the wind, the columnistic need for any quick, superficial take on the marketplace of ideas accentuated by social media, the hard-headed pose, very funny consequences.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

The possibility that Josh Simons could be close to Andy Burnham's government raises some very serious questions.

Should a man who waged factional warfare, spied on journalists and then resigned in disgrace really be at the centre of Government?

Feels very Starmer 2.0

[lola 🫧 @nogloryjustguts]

can swifties please decide if taylor is an amazing mastermind who is the music industry or a victim who got taken advantage of by a highschool student because the narratives are exhausting to follow

[Tom Gann @Tom_Gann]

Another interesting unity of the soft left, Blue Labour & the modernising Labour right is realised in Andy Burnham with any left elements of the first two given up without a fight.

[Joshi Herrmann @joshi]

If like me you’re a bit sceptical about Burnham’s heart being in his new “ending 40 years of neoliberalism” thing, appointing a big Blairite as CoS is another clue.

Burnham wants to bring utilities under “public control”. Purnell advises water/energy firms on “regulatory risk”.

[lumberjack 🇳🇿 @idmpredator]

Poptimism went in less than a decade from "Wow! The Neptunes are really good!" to "If you criticise the daughter of this hedgefund managers music you are a bad person."

[J. "Lesley" Sakroc @lesthecroc]

Who remembers when Andy Burnham gave a load of money to Renaker to build skyscrapers with "affordable housing" and then after being built the affordable housing turned out to be luxury flats, because I sure do

[ganesha redgrave @discostuart_]

It's funny how Burnham's loudest parliamentary supporters seem to be non-factors in his recent decisions. Flashback to Simon Fletcher and Laura Parker working on Starmers leadership campaign

[scymraeg.net @miceemoon]

@theyshootactors have greil marcus, lester bangs, and robert christgau been comparably relevant or impactful this last decade re; music crit/discourse?