In other news, Kemi Badenoch's party has taken at least £7 million in donations from funders and directors of climate change denial lobby groups bylinetimes.com/2025/03/18/k...

My mother was shot by the police – and that bullet changed everything www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

And thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

Absolutely spot on.

Don't know enough about pros/cons of ID cards to have a strong view. But can its supporters explain why the govt should waste finite time, energy and political capital pushing this through given its irrelevance to countering the existential threat of the far right? Just seems detached from reality.

Perfect comments that describes UK politics, not just Scotland…. Brexit is a disaster but #FarageRiots won’t own it!

Yes, it's ludicrous - at best. I remember polls in 1981 indicating the SDP was on course to form the next government. We all know what happened in 1983. And at worst this is a sinister abuse of media power which normalises expectations that a Farage Gvt. is coming.

Absolutely right. Be warned and stop these fascists in business suits - because that is exactly what they are.

Excl: Labour would take a two-point lead over Reform with Andy Burnham as leader, new More In Common polling shows. www.newstatesman.com/politics/lab...

Science for the win! Someone should ask Nigel Farage if he takes a stance on this.

This is spot on.

"... whether one leans towards Team Jeremy or Team Zarah in the current fracas, the ballast lies with Corbyn. Only he can be the midwife of the new party."

oh bravo @privateeyenews.bsky.social 🏆

A historic opportunity for the British left is being thrown away. This very public Your Party row must stop now | Yanis Varoufakis and Ken Loach www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"... the situation can and must be retrieved. Open the membership, put the party on a firm financial and organisational setting, regularise the already-existing branches and fora, and let's have this founding conference where the purpose and politics of our party can get thrashed out."

Today is a big day of strike action against budget cuts and austerity here in France:https://www.midilibre.fr/2025/09/18/direct-greve-du-18-septembre-manifestations-blocages-revendications-suivez-la-situation-en-temps-reel-12933687.php

It was trivially easy to predict that the Starmer government's belated condemnation of far right criminality last weekend would be quickly followed by even more intensive pandering to the far right's politics. Its who they are. They won't change www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Solidarity with Diane Abbott, who has faced disgusting sexism and racism (misogynoir) for the crime of being a black woman in possession of brains and opinions, from across the political class including from the disgusting laddish culture that Starmer has so pathetically cultivated in Labour.

Spot on.

Shot, chaser Young men more likely to vote Green than Reform. Young men second most progressive group of any demographic. Combined right-wing vote barely bigger than Green vote alone for young men

I have no doubt that we are far more than the fascists and far right The issue is clearly whose politics are setting the agenda, being hyped, legitimised and mainstreamed by the powers at be Media coverage and mainstream parties' reactions show what we're up against in terms of public discourse

Keynes's comment should be recited every day by all those keen to build a just society until it becomes part of their intellectual makeup. It's not just an aspiration but a pithy statement about the social, economic and political priorities regarding the way we treat our national resources.

Yes, and she and her colleagues are doing a good job in making it pretty certain that future 'proud working class women' are not going to have the opportunities that were available to her.

Fascinating. This new book looks to be well worth reading.

Chris Mason is the worst person to have covering politics at the worst time. He’s a sycophantic yes-man who has no idea what critical journalism is, which (as Chomsky would no doubt say) is the reason he has the job

Bravo to this piece by Jeremy Corbyn: tribunemag.co.uk/2025/09/labo...

“Farage claimed last year to have “bought a house” in his constituency but the property is actually owned in the name of his partner, meaning he legally avoided higher-rate stamp duty on the purchase of an additional home – given he already owns other properties” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

A smattering of points on a Labour right confessional.

Interesting thread on a how a coterie of Dubai based millionaires want to bring their pro fossil fuel ethno nationalism to the UK via GBNews and a closer relationship with MAGA. If Reform were in power, Marshall et al. would end the BBC. He wants it defunded.

Good piece by Jonathan Liew in today's Guardian, well worth a read: www.theguardian.com/football/202...

"... we're in the less than optimal situation where the watered down promises to improve workers' rights might rest on Rayner's beleaguered shoulders alone."

"... Labour's defences against Polanski's eco-populism are so many chocolate fireguards. The Greens stand on the threshold of an historic opportunity, and every sign points towards their readiness to capitalise on it."

I don’t want to be too shrill about this but I think the BBC, ITV and Sky have disgraced themselves in their coverage of the anti-refugee protests. A massive failure of judgement. But now we know the next time a progressive protest “isn’t news” that it’s nothing to do with numbers

This is just getting ridiculous. Nothing that has happened (or is reported below the headline to have happened) this weekend remotely justifies talk of an explosion or mass protests. The media are confecting a crisis, and, in some sections of it, hoping to provoke one. 1/3

While relatively small gatherings of far-right protesters are reported as the start of some kind of national civil revolt, much larger protests on other issues are routinely ignored at best, and openly demonised at worst www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/anywhere-b...

Straight up Quisling behaviour. No one hates this country more than the extreme right.

This is not trivial either because this is how mediated meaning is created The vast majority of people will not have been on the ground or know people who were and will rely on the media to tell them what happened This is how the far right is hyped and normalised

We need less think pieces on how new media is radicalizing the young and more think pieces on how old media is radicalizing the old

'Anything we can actually do, we can afford' - JM Keynes in 1942 on the financial rules for building Britain's New Jerusalem'. This is a world which was won and then lost and desperately needs fighting for again. See my piece on Keynes in Lobster 90: www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/article/issu...

It says everything about the sewer the Tories are wallowing in that this will not invite his dressing down, let alone sacking and expulsion from the party.

Opposing Israel's genocidal crimes is NOT antisemitism. Jewish historian Zachary Foster explains why

'It’s a world away from Antony Crosland, never mind Keir Hardie!' Aaron Bastani on Labour landlordism - www.newstatesman.com/politics/eco...

Delete your old emails to save water during drought, Environment Agency tells Britons. This is desperate. How about building new reservoirs; renewing old pipes; not contaminating rivers with sewage; building a national grid, ending privatisation.

Britain’s elite has made itself butler to the world, and will perfectly happily switch from serving neoliberalism to serving authoritarian capitalism. British people need to think about how we are going to challenge that. www.declassifieduk.org/how-britain-...

Abuse of suspected migrants not an ‘innocent mistake’, says UK equality campaigner www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Letter of the day (in the Times)

Some side notes here: The pool of potential future defectors from Labour is massively skewed. Just 5% of still Labour-ers see Reform as a potential vote, while around half are open to voting LD or Green. Even among Labour to DKs, twice as many would consider LD or Grns than Reform.

A bit behind schedule, but how voters moved in the year since the 2024 election. Labour facing same splintering of the last govt: a significant bloc crossing floor to primary electoral opposition, with a numerically larger chunk moving to opponents on same side of spectrum, plus many 'don't knows'.

Bristol against the fascists