Emeritus Prof Christopher May

As the dust settles on the #coronation, @nesrinemalik sets out its role as a #potemkinvillage to hide the significant problems that the UK's ruling elite have no real interest in solving;

this was a classic weekend of the politics of distraction.

ooohhh look at these shiny things & forget your trip to the #foodbank tomorrow

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/08/coronation-desperate-nation-rotten-system

The coronation pulled a screen across a desperate, polarised nation – just as intended

Those who opposed it must be portrayed as radical – or the rotten system it represents might come crashing down, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

The Guardian
May 8, 2023 at 5:54amWeb
Show threadTheFatCyclistMay 8, 2023

@ChrisMayLA6 @nesrinemalik

When we are up to our neck in Tory alligators..they give us fluff in the hopes we can forget that our job is to drain the swamp

Show threadThe Doctor Is InMay 8, 2023
@ChrisMayLA6 @nesrinemalik
'We have the worst of both worlds: the royal family gives us nothing, and we in turn legitimise it, give it meaning and audience and pay, through subsidies and tax exemptions, for its ability to wow us.'
Show threadThe Doctor Is InMay 8, 2023
@ChrisMayLA6 @nesrinemalik
'The monarchy does provide a service, but not to us. It is to an entire system of political decline and economic inequality that cannot withstand closer scrutiny, and so it must be embellished and cloaked in ceremony.'
Show threadPeter Gray (per/per) 🚲🏞🎷🏠🌿May 8, 2023
@FamousTeacherGaz @ChrisMayLA6 @nesrinemalik this
Show threadThe Doctor Is InMay 8, 2023
@ChrisMayLA6 @nesrinemalik
'The Metropolitan police enacted draconian new public order laws and arrested protesters before they had raised a single placard. The home secretary, Suella Braverman, described those laws as targeting “those who seek to attack our ways of life”.'
Show threadThe Doctor Is InMay 8, 2023
@ChrisMayLA6 @nesrinemalik
'...the ceremony itself...depicts kings and queens as ordained by God and not the people, [and] the purpose of branding these political positions as “traditions” and “ways of life” is to stop us contemplating another way of life.'
Show threadThe Doctor Is InMay 8, 2023
@ChrisMayLA6 @nesrinemalik
'...increasingly, there is no sense of what the country is good at apart from this sort of invented ritual.'
Show threadThe Doctor Is InMay 8, 2023
@ChrisMayLA6 @nesrinemalik
'...there are virtually no causes for which we are so encouraged to queue and wait and march to support each other: for decent living standards and healthcare, or humane immigration and climate change policies. Patriotism is only allowed to flow upstream.'
Show threadThe Doctor Is InMay 8, 2023
@ChrisMayLA6 @nesrinemalik
'“Butler to the world” doesn’t have as much of a ring to it as “God save the King”.'
Show threadThe Doctor Is InMay 8, 2023
@ChrisMayLA6 @nesrinemalik
'And so we can only look up and fawn, or look down, and fear.'
Show threadindyradioMay 8, 2023
@ChrisMayLA6 Maybe the royals should volunteer to work at the food banks for awhile.