
Ben Cobley
@bencobley
Writer. New book, 'The Progress Trap' (Polity), out 30th May 2025. Previous one: 'The Tribe: the liberal-left and the system of diversity' (2018).
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https://existentialpolitics.substack.com/ 10-02-2009 20:41:14
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Ed West Dominic Frisby An addendum - I didn't go into DEI, but that's all there. Diversity quotas are real. On screen - i've had perfectly good contributors dismissed out of hand because they are white men, forcing me to go back, waste more time, and find female and minority contributors who just



Harry Phibbs Tim Montgomerie š¬š§ Lucy Powell MP I interviewed Julie Bindell about this yesterday for an upcoming The Scandal Mongers Podcast. She recalls with some bitterness this exact same 'oh that's a dog whistle shut up or you're boost the far right' response from over 20 years ago when she - and others on the British left like Ann






Joe Nutt That's a thing about this. I don't think it's lying per se. In my first book I invoked Harry Frankfurt's distinction between lying and 'bullshit' + Heidegger's notion of 'idle talk'. It's *chatter*, not intended to deceive but rather to pass the word along within the group. It's






