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You’ll have to get to know me, we’re not just lists of the things we like or hate.
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Ellis Beck
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I think he’s a very talented writer, although I have only read a few of his books. However, I’d never conflate that with having some kind of insight into what he’s like as a person; and certainly not with any duty to defend indefensible behaviour in his part. I wonder why anyone would feel that way.
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Ellis Beck
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I haven’t seen anyone defending him though and, ultimately, his actions only reflect himself.
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Joe Katz
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This is particularly important to understand because Trumpist authoritarianism is the descendent of Jim Crow far more than say Hitler or Pinochet or Orban, and it's going to look a lot more like 1930s Mississippi than 1930s Berlin.
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Ellis Beck
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His novels are set in a shared fictional universe but he makes the links peripheral; the stagecoach company Hodge and Hatches is mentioned in his westerns, The Hot Kid is the grandson of a character in Cuba Libre, numerous examples of characters referring to protagonists from from other books etc.
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Ellis Beck
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Names are really important in his books, nearly all his books ( though I’ve not read them all) includes a scene where a character’s name is either changed, revealed or commented upon.
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Ellis Beck
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Bad folk use charity like moral deodorant.
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Ellis Beck
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They made the poor old man do all that walking in the garden for the money. He looked confused by the whole thing to me.
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Ellis Beck
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It’s less than 1997 and 1906.
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Ellis Beck
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Running away and coping with problems both sound like active expressions of a character’s needs to me.
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Ellis Beck
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Do you mean internally or in terms of plot?
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Ellis Beck
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Basically the right has stolen anti authoritarian anger from the left, not just in the UK either.
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Ellis Beck
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Are they the same person? I’d been hoping for an alliance but it won’t be possible if it’s the same chap.
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Ellis Beck
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🤮
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Ellis Beck
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🤮
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Ellis Beck
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Thanks for all your amazing posts on the election.
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Ellis Beck
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It might sound churlish but I’d hoped for 100 or less for the Tories.
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John Reppion
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Comics
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Ellis Beck
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It means he’s sad that being openly misogynistic can lead to criticism.
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Ellis Beck
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A friend of my was asked something about Queen Elizabeth during the diamond jubilee and she said she admired the way she’d always followed the rules and was a great figurehead etc but she didn’t support the monarchy as an institution. They edited out the last comment. Personally I’d never go on tv.
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Ellis Beck
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I watched something recently that included a box pop from the 1980’s and the average person interviewed just sounded so thick. I agree that people still sound dim now but I feel like people are generally smarter now, or maybe mainstream media just treats people less like stooges since the internet.
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Ellis Beck
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I’m sorry to hear your challenges and I totally agree with your reservations about Starmer’s Labour. We have to just hope that the Tories are so decimated that LD becomes the opposition and that breaks the neoliberal consensus (where Labour only have to be marginally ‘better than the other lot’)
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Rose Schmits
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I have genuinely not known peace since the next prime minister said I shouldn’t have rights ive had all my life two days ago
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Ellis Beck
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Let’s go GTTO!!!
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Ellis Beck
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Brilliant
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Ellis Beck
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I feel like Labour now is the Cameron Conservative Party, the Tories are UKIP and Reform is the BNP. My hope is that the Lib Dem’s end up as the official opposition.
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Ellis Beck
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When the Liberal Party only won 59 seats in the 1929 election they never seriously challenged for government again. They’d been the party of government or official opposition for most of the 19th and early 20th centuries. It’s a proven fact that no political party has an inherent right to exist.
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Ellis Beck
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If the dream of circa 65 Tory seats came true then I’m sure Sunak would actually prefer to lose his own seat.
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Ellis Beck
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😂
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Ellis Beck
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It would challenge the neoliberal consensus in which Labour only have to offer (marginally) ‘better than the other lot’.
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Ellis Beck
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I really don’t think they’d come back from being a third party. It would be the most significant redrawing of the political map in about 80 years. I think Labour are actually quite scared of the idea too because it would put them in uncharted territory.
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Ellis Beck
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The people who read something decades after it was published are the ultimate audience from a different culture.
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Ellis Beck
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Remember what Liz Truss did could (and should) be a Labour catchphrase in the next 3 elections.
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Ellis Beck
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Well, I think the winter of discontent and the unions’ betrayal of Labour in that era was damaging for a long time (although the Falklands War was also a key reason for the 1983 rout). I think this era’s Conservative excesses could be their equivalent. They might be out of power for 20 years.
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Ellis Beck
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I wish what was coming wasn’t a neoliberal austerity government (albeit one, no doubt, that will be more efficient, less corrupt and less arrogantly celebratory about the iniquities it inflicts). Nonetheless it will be great to see the Tories beaten, hopefully generationally decimated (below 100)
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Ellis Beck
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When food, rent and energy bills all rise enormously in a short time, you can’t see a dentist or a doctor and the government’s response is a smiling billionaire saying he’ll cut taxes then even the least educated can see the causal link.
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Ellis Beck
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I think there’s a disconnect with less educated voters between their lives slowly and inexorably getting worse and what goes on in parliament. That’s why culture war nonsense has previously been used so effectively to engage that demographic. However, anyone can see it now.
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An autistic man was wrongfully convicted 20 yrs ago & put on death row for his kid’s death based on a now discredited theory
Hospital staff judged his autistic traits as signs of guilt
Read more & Sign here to help stop the Oct 17 execution of Robert Roberson an innocent autistic father
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Ellis Beck
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Enormous numbers of people now feel a clear and direct link between their sustained degradation in quality of life and the government’s behaviour in office. That’s the game changer.
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Ellis Beck
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Please, please, please be true.
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Ellis Beck
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What a great piece of writing. I’ve never read one of her novels but she’s going on my ‘to read’ list now.
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Ellis Beck
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I hope so.
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Mr Dr Bae
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Staple this to your forehead.
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Twlldun
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Looking forward to retweeting this thread when the exit poll drops
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Ellis Beck
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I know he was an admirer of John Franklin Bardin, I used to own an omnibus edition of 3 of his novels which Healey wrote a foreword for. He was also a keen photographer and wrote a book about photography in the 70’s.
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Ellis Beck
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I wonder what he would have thought about it. Is there any record of his thoughts about earlier Marvel movies?
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Ellis Beck
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Thanks for sharing this previously forgotten cultural moment.
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Ellis Beck
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I somehow thought of him as from an earlier era.
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Ellis Beck
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Healey met Zig and Zag?
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Ellis Beck
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Where are the pro democracy protesters storming the Supreme Court?
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Ellis Beck
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How horrible, at least she might be of dozens rather than hundreds of Tories. I feel like we just need one more Sunak gaffe before the polls close to make that more likely (although he’s delivered so brilliantly for people on the left during this campaign that it seems a bit churlish to ask)
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