Morgan McSweeney's ‘plot without precedent in Labour history’

Morgan McSweeney's ‘plot without precedent in Labour history’

In Get In: The Inside Story of Labour under Starmer, like its predecessor Left Out, which chronicled Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership, journalists Gabriel Pogrund and Patrick Maguire have grasped the core reality of Labour’s history over the past decade.  For all their portrayal as ruthless Stalinists, the left were hopelessly ill equipped for the life and death struggle Corbyn’s unexpected 2015 victory plunged them into.  They lacked organisation, co…

Will the real McSweeney please stand up?

Twenty-five years ago, the still-nascent Timothy McSweeney's Internet Tendency planned a cute little April Fool's Day prank (previously) with a family from Massachusetts (remember, dear reader, these were simpler times!). Then things swerved. (previously)For those who were there, parsing out the differences and motivations behind mcsweeneys: the .com, the .net, and the .org was perhaps the first ARG. Was there anything more Eggersian than the te…