The BBC is the biggest prize in the information war – and the right may be about to destroy it
"Anyone on the left who prays for [the BBC's] downfall has a death wish."
https://www.thenerve.news/p/bbc-tim-davie-crisis-robbie-gibb-deborah-turness-panorama-trump
why are Britain’s elites more tolerant of overt racism in 2025 than they were in 1968?
https://linktr.ee/originstorypodcast
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https://www.podmasters.co.uk/origin-story
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#OriginStory
#RiversOfBlood #EnochPowell
#IanDunt #DorianLynskey
Really informative listen, painfully acute, and not at all dry:
#OriginStory
#RiversOfBlood – How #EnochPowell poisoned Britain
How did one speech poison British politics? What led Powell to deliver it? What can it teach us about the timeless tricks of anti-immigrant oratory? Did he merely activate the British public’s latent racism or actively feed it? What lessons have politicians failed to learn about how to deal with anti-immigrant sentiment? And
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"Verglichen mit einem #Atomkrieg, beraubt die #Klimakrise die Erzählenden ihres üblichen Werkzeugkastens." Selbst wenn das Schlimmste schließlich eintritt, reagieren die meisten von uns mit geistigen Verrenkungen … #DorianLynskey zitiert eine Figur in #MargaretAtwoods 'Das Jahr der Flut': "Niemand gab zu, es zu wissen. Wenn die Leute anfingen, darüber zu diskutieren, schaltete man sie aus, weil das, was sie sagten, sowohl so offensichtlich als auch so undenkbar war."
Transatlantic trolling: What is Europe's answer to Musk's attacks? • FRANCE 24 English (44min)
A well-informed and insightful panel discussion incl. #MarietjeSchaake and #DorianLynskey
Episode · Origin Story · Racist violence has inflamed several British cities this past week. Should we call the events protests, riots or pogroms? Are the participants actual fascists or ordinary citizens with “legitimate concerns”? And how did the fiction of “two-tier policing” go from extremists to broadcasters in a couple of days? Ian and Dorian analyse how the language of the far right and its mainstream enablers obscures what is really going on and ask if Britain’s worst street violence since 2011 will change anything. https://www.patreon.com/originstorypod Written and presented by Dorian Lynskey and Ian Dunt. Produced by Jade Bailey. Origin Story is a Podmasters production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
I preordered the audiobook edition of Everything Must Go. The Stories We Tell About the End of the World, by Dorian Lynskey. Read by the author.
Its published on Thursday in Hardback, eBook and Audiobook.
https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Everything-Must-Go-Audiobook/B0CN1ZXCPR
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Everything-Must-Go-Stories-About/dp/152909593X
Check out this great listen on Audible.com. Read by the author, Dorian Lysnkey. 'I was blown away by this book. The staggering range of references, the razor-sharp analysis, the wisdom, left me gasping out loud at times. Lynskey also somehow manages to make a book about the end of the world feel ...
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