Mastodawn

The wearisome "War on Easter Eggs Christian Values This Is A Christian Country And We've Been Eating Chocolate Eggs Since Saint Alban Was A Lad Yadda Yadda Yadda" outrage has started early this year and is at least as predictably wrong-headed and too stupid for words than it ever has been.

#CultureWars
#Easter
#ThickAsMince

https://www.thepoke.com/2026/03/23/member-of-chocolate-police-got-egg-on-his-face-complaining-that-cadburys-pack-doesnt-say-easter/

A member of the chocolate police ended up with egg on his face after complaining that Cadbury’s packaging doesn’t say ‘Easter’ – 27 sweet takedowns

We regret to inform you that it’s well and truly ‘these chocolate eggs don’t have Easter on the box and will therefore bring down society’ season. It’s not catchy, we’ll give you that, but it is both predictable and mildly entertaining. Contenders for Pointless Ranter of the Month include these nuggets. Any chance I can […]

The Poke

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William Lindsey

Mar 15

"The self-described patriots of today’s British right seem giddy at the prospect of outsourcing their political identity to a foreign power and welcome the relegation of British sovereignty to vassal status within Trump’s new world order – just as long as they can personally and financially benefit from being the new comprador class within their own country."

#UK #England #Britain #Trump #MAGA #Tories #Conservatives #CultureWars
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William Lindsey

Mar 15

"There are elements of this dynamic apparent elsewhere in the west, in Canada, Australia or Germany. But the extent to which British rightwing commentators have been willing to declare their love and loyalty to Trump’s America has been striking."

#UK #England #Britain #Trump #MAGA #Tories #Conservatives #CultureWars
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William Lindsey

Mar 15

Kojo Koram reports on how resistance to US consumerism and its vulgarities "has now almost entirely disappeared, especially within the British right, which, in the age of social media, has been only too happy to embrace the language, the tactics and the grievances of the US culture war."

#UK #England #Britain #Trump #MAGA #Tories #Conservatives #CultureWars
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/15/british-conservatives-american-right-maga-trump

British conservatives once looked down on the American right. Now they’re riding on Maga’s coat-tails

Self-described UK patriots have spotted an opportunity for advancement and enrichment. That’s why so many outsource their identity to Trump, says author and academic Kojo Koram

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Mike Townsend Mar 13

Reality bites; climate reality trumps culture wars, and money trumps ideology, every time. Time to find a way to make net-zero work commercially, as well as technically + sustainably. >> Andreas Rasche and I discuss how. #ClimateCrisis #CultureWars #NetZero #Innovation youtu.be/2G0ah2Lxpoc?...

Executive Morning Brief: Is it...

Executive Morning Brief: Is it time to rethink net-zero strategies?

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Jules she/her Mar 9

How a voluntary scheme designed to breed healthier dogs somehow became a story about banning your pets - and then a conspiracy about Muslims.

https://monkdebunks.substack.com/p/no-britain-isnt-banning-67-dog-breeds

#Islamophobia #Culturewars #Disinformation #AnimalWelfare

No, Britain Isn’t Banning 67 Dog Breeds

How a dog welfare proposal was turned into a Daily Mail panic and an online conspiracy about Muslims

Monk Debunks: Beyond the narrative

Roland Smith Mar 4

One can't help noticing that the 24-hour news channels and other news & alleged 'news' programmes are filled up with the Iran conflict, meaning they have much less bandwidth for stirring up sh!t on anything else. These outlets have far too many minutes to fill every day. #Culturewars

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