Dom. cummings

• Brian Dixon

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  13 November 2020     14:03366233
  #1      
  the above jumping ship at christmass.
  
  https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-54925322
• Weird Granny Slater

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  6 May 2024     09:44384707
  #2      
  Maybe one other forum member might be interested.
  
  https://dominiccummings.substack.com/p/dostoyevsky-the-modern-intelligentsia
  
  It's insomnia notes (on history, political change, where we are, how we got here, where we're going, etc.) not essay, but perhaps a prolegommenon to a Spenglerian masterpiece (by which time I hope it's 'Dostoevsky').
  
  (I must warn fellow pedants that DC gets off to a bad start with a spelling mistake in his first paragraph, 'wondered' for 'wandered', but recovers quickly. It could be a play on the homonym, of course: surely we all wandered around foreign cities wondering at them in our youth? Though for my epiphany I didn't fly to Naples but Interrailed to Tito's Belgrade, and the dog-eared novel in my pack was Brave New World not The Devils.)
  
  Who knows, after this Lermontov might be back on the forum!
  
  Anyway, DC's general tenor is...
  
  

  
  'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
• Captain Haddock

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  6 May 2024     15:04384713
  #3      
  Tks. Got it a couple of days ago.
  
  Enjoyed this podcast with the lad himself. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/left-the-chat-no-2-fax-machines-and-foxy-natashas/id1659385785?i=1000651261960
  "The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
  
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• Captain Haddock

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  25 November 2024     19:09386217
  #4      
  Still got a lot of time for Dom.
  
  
  "The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
  
  Dr. Hunter S Thompson
• Captain Haddock

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  12 December 2024     13:18386347
  #5      
  Speaking at the Looking for Growth campaign launch, Dominic Cummings today described Kemi Badenoch as having:
  
  “Hancock levels of utter confidence, utter vacuousness, and utter uselessness.”
  "The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
  
  Dr. Hunter S Thompson
• Weird Granny Slater

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  29 May 2025     13:39387208
  #6      
  Excellent news from Mr Cummings:
  
  The Conservative Party has apparently
  
  'disintegrated on all areas. Its membership has either defected to Reform or retreated in disgust from politics, its donors have gone on strike, its local networks have collapsed, it cannot generate good ideas, it cannot campaign and communicate... In the recent elections, councillors got Thanos’d and if Kemi is still there in a year most of what’s left in England, Wales and Scotland will get Thanos’d.'
  
  In his latest, DC also waxes on deep state worries, security shenanigans, political violence and other insignificant indicators.
  
  (Anyone interested would already have read it, or know where to find it.)
  
  

  
  'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
• Keith Sansum1

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  30 May 2025     05:21387213
  #7      
  Wonder if Labour and Tories will recover enough for next general election ???
  
  Looking like we will have a new leader of Tories by the new year .
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• Captain Haddock

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  14 June 2025     18:27387271
  #8      
  Back to Thucydides’ !
  
  "Doubling down on this theme, Cummings declared that “both the old parties are already dead” but warned that insurgent parties like Reform UK weren’t the finished product. “It is obvious that Reform has not embarked on the kind of major outreach of talent which I think is needed,” he said. “Nigel Farage is in a sense the same as a lot of the other parties. He formed his views in the 1990s and 2000s. It’s very hard for him to adjust to a world where the truths and conventional ideas of that time have broken down.”
  
  https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/westminster-must-fall/
  "The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
  
  Dr. Hunter S Thompson
• Keith Sansum1

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  8 September 2025     13:50387419
  #9      
  Can we afford reform ???
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