I should add I agree with your initial post especially on the (not so creeping more galloping) authoritarianism of Starmer and the wider ruling class.

I also, sadly, agree that there are going to be much larger outbreaks of social unrest coming up. I'm sure "they" know that too hence all the new laws they've shovelled in to give them massively expanded powers to stop protest, and really to stop dissent itself.

One of the dangers of the rise of the "Straight-forwardly fascist" populists is exactly that they can stir up the knuckle draggers who just see "oh yeh they hate the blacks, I'm in" and then you get real race riots.

His (AM's) analysis of everything around the outside was interesting but he always seems to end in the same place "They are imperialist/bourgeoise" and that's the end of that. It always seems there's a danger when everything is "theory"; I'm sure some Somali in Leipzig getting his head kicked in by a bunch of JA headcases emboldened by the rise of the Afd will take comfort in the fact that their assailaints don't even recognise the imperial nature of the German state.

On the Paul Mason thing I wondered if it was a joke I missed; thankfully it was. I've bookmarked his channel as it seems interesting although he doesn't seem to put out much content. Any idea what he does the rest of the time?

Some analysis on to what extent the established political parties are using the further-right groups as K264 suggests above would have been interesting.