Quiet Riot

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“Kemi Badenoch just told the most self-serving group of politicians in the entire country, that if ideology matters to them they should stick with her, but if they want to get elected they should go to Reform. How is she so bad at this?”

Also, you will NOT want to miss Naomi's summary of Jurassic World Rebirth on 4DX. Nor the bottom jokes.

🐾Sunday School: A very clever cat🐈 Our end-of-week review including HOT behind-the-scenes Macron gossip by @omorel88 and the current glut of far right movements, popping up like death cap mushrooms. @pimlicat @sturdyalex 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/2v1FcB… 🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/qui…

Aesop -> Frasier -> Il Trovatore -> Trump -> Slavery -> Dialects -> Golden Girls -> Forrest Gump -> Velazquez -> Zulu -> Sheherazade -> Populism -> Individualism -> New Testament -> Agatha Christie -> Egalitarianism -> Mirroring -> Collective Consciousness -> Memento -> Japan...

🆕@AlexPodyssey AESOP II: A dolphin and a seagull were hurling insults at each other🐬 Is truth a set of facts? Might something fake be authentic? Can you contruct a truth from lies? Why are unreliable narrators so compelling? 🎧open.spotify.com/episode/4hZ8tV… 🍏podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/ale…

“We are basically serfs. Doffing our cap in such a grotesque way that people can’t even see through this bullshit-peddler, private schoolboy banker, who now tells them that immigrants are the problem and not the entrenched privilege from which he and his ilk have benefited.”

“The [Johnson] gov't added to the mistrust, by cynically taking in record numbers of migrants to counterbalance a disastrous Brexit. He knew the economy was going to suffer significantly and the easiest way of that not happening was to shove an extra million people onto the GDP.”

NEW: How do you solve a problem like Migration? A special episode. 😍 @minnierahman returns to the gang 🌍 a truly meaningful conversation on migration 🦍 why doing the school run dressed as a gorilla is a problem 🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/qui…

“The [Johnson] gov't added to the mistrust, by cynically taking in record numbers of migrants to counterbalance a disastrous Brexit. He knew the economy was going to suffer significantly and the easiest way of that not happening was to shove an extra million people onto the GDP.”

No, Mr Hannan. BREXIT is what is punishing Britain for Brexit. An elected Labour gov't can - indeed, must - implement its clear manifesto pledge of a closer relationship with the EU. Neither the last Tory gov't nor your fantasy far-right future one have some eternal mandate. ~AA

Sunday School: Smells like teen spirit ✖️ Game on for 16-year-old voters 📺 Game over for Stephen Colbert @pimlicat and @MrKennyCampbell wrestle with heavy democratic questions and light entertainment. Bet you can't weight... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sme…

“Since 2003 the percentage of people living under autocratic regimes has gone from 50% to 72%. Democracy is losing and I don’t think people realise it. So when we see the world’s most famous liberal democracy becoming authoritarian, we have to sound the alarm,” says @chrischirp.

NEW 🏰 Palaces or Parliaments? 🗳️ with @chrischirp Afghan data leak and superinjunction ⚖️ An index of the USA's slide to autocracy 🍊 @pimlicat's Grin And Share It 💉 @sturdyalex's Wokey-Dokey 🦖 🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/qui… 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/135KqZ…

JOIN ME on Thursday evening for a political talk with an @AlexPodyssey twist at the monthly online @Radix_UK event: radixbigtent.org.uk/events/greek-t… It is FREE to register and I promise you lots and lots of fun facts + plus you can ask me any mythology-related questions afterwards!

We made Aesop. He is a crowd-sourced literary celebrity. He is the lie that sustains the truth of his stories. At a time when the distinction between fact and fiction is paper thin, how we use fiction to support facts - what we call “a narrative” - matters more than ever.

“Very strong ideas of religiosity, which are not just about personal belief, but about how society should be organised and which are often, at best, agnostic towards democracy have become increasingly strengthened,” says @PeterKGeoghegan. Let us keep you company on your commute.

💣 SPECIAL: How dark money is taking our politics backwards Issues thought closed - like women's reproductive health - are now relitigated. @sturdyalex chats to @PeterKGeoghegan about how this interference is being funded. 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/4XSXFm… 🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/qui…

📜New @AlexPodyssey AESOP I - Virtue Signaller or Fake News Merchant?🏛️ Part 1 of 3: Stories have had a moral for as long as we've had stories. So why is Aesop, enduringly, one of the few moralists we accept can dish it out? 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/0lP7PE… 🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/ale…

Let joy be unconfined!* After weeks of sleepless battle that nearly broke me, with the story and fables of Aesop, a Nolanesque epic trilogy is here. "Aesop, Part I" drops tomorrow, Sunday, with Part II and Part III the following two weekends. *Or should that be "unconfirmed"?