“When you don’t know someone you fear, and when you fear you hate, and when you hate you dehumanise. After that, terrible things happen on both sides.” www.jewishnews.co.uk/bereaved-isr...

"We see a ... divide today within the movement for trans equality, between activists fighting for the right of trans people to join mainstream society and activists who want to remake mainstream society in the image of trans people." What a good piece. www.queermajority.com/essays-all/h...

I am not sure I've seen anyone involved in the immigration debate discussing the mass population movement that climate breakdown is precipitating. Does anybody think it won't increase? Nation states need to act together otherwise it's going to be a race to the bottom of inhumane treatment.

Hamas off our campuses (I can't get into this but speak from experience) www.thetimes.com/uk/education...

Good.

And in a nutshell, you see the roots of discontent.

Be honest that nation states in the rich world released - still release - so much greenhouse gas we disrupted the water cycle, jeopardised crops, spoiled the climate. It's true not everyone can move to the UK. But we cut international aid, so where's the sense? Where's our leg to stand on?

The Prime Minister said in September that we are at a fork in the road. These asylum proposals suggest we have taken the wrong turning. The idea that recognised refugees need to be deported is wrong. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

For about ten minutes after Keir Starmer’s conference speech it seemed like the PM understood what his voters wanted to hear – an actual challenge to the racism of Reform. But instead of seeing it as the start of new messaging, it feels like his team just regarded it as job done.

My mum exclaimed today that I "sounded like the Communist Manifesto". This is disappointing since I aspire to be mainstream and relatable.

So I am hoping we won't tomorrow be hearing such overhyped deportation fantasies language from the Home Office ("the moment your country is safe to return, you will be removed") about what the UK govt trying to copy a system of temporary, renewal protection would actually involve

"Just as a viewer of #BBC in English, there were so many times when as an Israeli you felt that bias." Yonit Levi on the recent Prescott memo. Jeremy Bowen, skilled in insinuation, juxtaposition & omission, somehow gets to carry on. I need BBC News to be better. open.spotify.com/episode/1X9q...

The biggest problem with Yore Party is that everyone in it is an ego posing as a victim www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/mp-...

Starmer is showing no signs of learning any lessons in fact the opposite. I only arrived at this position this week after he managed to create his own leadership crisis out of thin air - but next year, probably after May, we need to get rid. He's not capable of governing or beating Reform.

Missed of the "hero" before the rail worker there, Sky. I hope he gets the help and support he needs and is honoured by our country at the earliest opportunity. news.sky.com/story/rail-w...

When you say "I don't want to be out on strike today", yes you do. You ... have had a 28.9% pay rise, the highest in the public sector, two years in a row ... The leadership of your union are not honest enough that some of this change takes time. Wes Streeting rightly to the BMA resident doctors.

Lavender blooming in November. People still releasing greenhouse gas like it's going out of style.

BBC has a case against Trump. WhiteHouse Chief Press Officer called the BBC ‘100% fake news.’ Which is defamatory and untrue.

An AI potemkin company, from birth to certain death. Whose death don't ask me. www.wired.com/story/all-my...

Water is broken. I can't easily find what a bio-bead is or what it's for. This trade mag doesn't seem bothered to cover this major pollution disaster on the south coast that is going to devastate marine life. One tiny incurious article. www.watermagazine.co.uk/2025/11/11/s...

We are devastated to confirm that bio-bead pollution has reached Rye Harbour Nature Reserve. We're working to assess the damage to the precious saltmarsh habitat and plan the clean-up.  Full statement here: https://sussexwildlifetrust.org.uk/news/bio-bead-pollution-at-rye-harbour-nature-reserve

So far I don't think Mary Shelley would have liked what Netflix has done with Frankenstein. Huge liberties taken.

When will mainstream campus Palestine activism wean itself off the pleasures of antisemitism? www.jewishnews.co.uk/ucl-urged-to...

Secondly, voters said at every point in the campaign that they believed the government *should* increase taxes and spending. They expected Labour to increase tax and *they agreed with that idea*. Look at the red lines and the blue lines - which is closer to the black line (average voter preference)?

Thread on ex-sociologist David Miller and employment tribunal. I’m ashamed at how many of my colleagues defended him and that none (afaik) have recanted that. His case is similar to that of ex-political scientist now hate preacher Matthew Goodwin — but Miller’s new friends are full neo-Nazis.

When the Renewable Heat Incentive was being designed, no one seriously imagined it would benefit the masses. The RHI's purpose was to kick-start investment in and take-up up of heat pumps, and one should judge it accordingly. I know something of the RHI having edited the Department of...

On Tommy Robinson fathomjournal.org/the-jewish-q... @fathomjournal.bsky.social

One important thing to understand about these policy support mechanisms (“benefits for middle class voters”) being scrapped or slashed is that they are *expressly designed* to incentivise people with money to spend it on clean technology, on basis that public spending can’t deliver transition on own

We're living in an era where voting for the least worst option isn't palatable. I find that personally infuriating because a) I've never had the opportunity to vote for anyone but the least worst option so I resent others refusing to do so and b) this is one reason why right-wing authporitarians win

Good luck Bristol Uni. Miller is obsessively hateful. He fantasises that Jews control Britain and calls anyone who doesn't agree with him a Zionist. He called Mamdani a Zionist for condemning the painting of swastikas on a school. Nb my UCU branch leadership has supported him against Bristol.

National Library of Israel in Jerusalem will honour national day marking departure and expulsion of Jews from Arab countries and Iran

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I wrote about why far-right influencers like Tucker have been working to rehabilitate Hitler here:

Tucker Carlson has hosted Hitler apologists on his show. Now he says Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a pastor who tried to kill Hitler, was not being Christian. He isn't making a theological argument. He's just morally inverting World War II and the Holocaust, to make space for their villains to rise again.

"The doctors have done better than others, which is why Streeting can’t and won’t give in. He’s ... been eager to settle with them but has been snubbed by the BMA’s ungracious haste to strike". The resident doctors strike is wrong. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Leicestershire County Council has announced it is to pay consultants £30m to carry out a cost cutting review. They said it would be £1.4m. They lied. They said Reform DOGE would do all this. They lied. Same council that said they would cut taxes on day one.

We know why Reform UK have pulled out of the BBC documentary… Captain Chaos Linden Kemkaran (Kent County Council leader) doesn’t want to be shown up on national TV… www.bbc.com/news/article...

Hi Nigel Farage, do you approve of your councillors calling people “black cock slapper junkies”, whilst talking to Paul Golding of Britain First? Because your councillor Peter Mason did that, and Leader on Staffordshire Council Ian Cooper thinks it’s fine…

Reform UK Ltd’s net zero incoherence in Staffordshire centralbylines.co.uk/politics/ref...

I cannot fathom how any one person would prefer Farage and his incompetents over Starmer and his very competent government. They have met, or are on course to meet, 58 of their Manifesto commitments. And they’re only 16 months into their term.

Wherever Reform is in power, they're inflicting chaos on our communities in every way they possibly can. #NeverVoteReform

Well well well the evidence is mounting! Time to release those Epstein files Trump! #DonaldTrump

Having seen a real-life fatberg laced with wet wipes at Oxford Sewage Works - I'm delighted that plastic will now be removed from wet wipes.  Let's bin the wipe! #BintheWipe

Given the state of women's health and the need to discuss it for it to be improved, I'll mention that my perimenopausal hot flushes are of a frequency and intensity that makes me fairly likely to have a heart attack down the line. No hrt for me (breast cancer). So there we are.

There isn't anything to it! Yes, the PLP is deeply unhappy and looking around, but no, that is not something Wes Streeting is orchestrating.

Reading this and feel immensely resentful and rather frightened. I - vegan, carless, flightless and relatively careful - live way, way above my means in terms of emissions. And I'm low for my neighborhood. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Never do this. It panders and they push you around even more

I tried articulating my reservations about Mamdani's candidacy in a way that is grounded in both Jewish experience and leftist principle here: joshyunis.substack.com/p/the-mamdan...