After a number of requests I’ve made all of the TV clips on my YouTube channel public. They’re now searchable on and will appear on my homepage and in the videos tab. youtube.com/@brokenbattery

1. The approach of mainstream Democrats is summed up in this astonishing February advice from the Democratic strategist James Carville: “Roll over and play dead. Allow the Republicans to crumble beneath their own weight and make the American people miss us.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/o... 🧵

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📢 Exciting news! Today, we are proud to launch the Overlapping Illness Alliance, a coalition of charities working to improve recognition, care and support for those living with complex, overlapping conditions.

The Big Survey is now live! It has been such a privilege to get to work on this with such a wonderful, inspiring team at @actionforme.bsky.social, including our brilliant Patient and Public Involvement Group, made up of people with lived experience of ME and Long Covid.

We've just launched the first large, site-less (home, direct to participant) randomized trial for treatment of #LongCovid, testing tirzepatide (a GLP-1 drug) vs placebo. Please help spread the word www.scripps.edu/news-and-eve...

The fact that they belittle @zackpolanski.bsky.social and the Green Party surge just shows, I’m afraid, how out of touch mainstream politicians and media are with the longing for radical change and honesty that so many of us of all ages feel.

#ME #MEcfs

The Spectator and others have chosen (deliberately I suspect) to interpret this article as a desire to stop a future Reform UK government from legislating. My purpose is to stop *any* government crushing our fundamental rights. It’s just more urgent now. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

So few researchers or medics of any kind have started from the lived experience of an individual #ME patient and seen the whole picture that is being presented. It may be unique and a very different and difficult way of working but it may be the only way forward.

This is the loveliest book. Cloth bound with words and drawings that are so healing. An antidote to so much of the horror of the world. 💛 @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social

Dr Clare Gerada has been appointed a crossbench peer in the House of Lords and is now a baroness — I’ve put together a short thread about her involvement in #MECFS. twitter-thread.com/t/1981309222...

Genuinely never realized why the pity response to disability is so uncomfortable, even frustrating, until I realized: it's because "ohhh how sad!" is about the listener. "By telling me that, you've made ME sad." It centers the listener, and even sounds accusative: you've burdened them. By existing

Delighted to welcome a Labour councillor defection to @greenparty.org.uk in Swindon! "Hope from social justice to the environment. Hope for a fairer society and cleaner natural world. Hope for equality and opportunity whilst living side by side with nature." swindonlink.com/news/greenco...

So many families, like ours, have been hugely enriched by the blending of people born far away with our own solidly English roots.

And now so many #LongCovid patients, children included, meet the criteria for #ME from which the world moved on last century as we were handed over to the psychiatrists whose job was to stigmatise us. It worked!

More archiving. This article by Kenneth Friedman compares the histories of ME/CFS and HIV/AIDS pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

#ME Installation in front of the Ministry of Research, Berlin. Body bags depicting the unseen, imprisoned lives in the tiniest, darkest spaces in which ME patients live their half lives. Also a memorial for those that have died from this appallingly neglected illness.

Today's column is about the government's huge, unprecedented assault on nature ... and about the eerie, astonishing silence of the big nature groups. The RSPB, National Trust, Wildlife Trusts have 7.5m members between them. A vast force, completely unmobilised. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

They are working overtime on Zack because they are terrified of being out of jobs in a Britain that isnt divisive and politically illiterate.

To be effective, protest must be noisy, obstructive, annoying. No longer is this allowed. Now the last attribute of effective dissent – persistence – is also to be banned. But the moment protest ceases to be effective is the moment democracy dies. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Yup.

NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine. My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask: Why, even now, is no-one asking questions? t.co/BUTtpK9C4S

Glad to see Nigel Farage has finally remembered Nathan Gill, former leader of Reform in Wales - found guilty of taking bribes from Russia. Maybe he'll now remember how much he took from Putin's propaganda broadcaster Russia Today for all his TV appearances when he was a MEP?

Membership at record levels. Polling at record levels. Winning elections at record levels. What a time to be in @greenparty.org.uk metro.co.uk/2025/10/10/z...

@zackpolanski.bsky.social pls help us! Ppl with #severeME have been subjected to extreme neglect for decades @georgemonbiot.bsky.social has written about it We’d really appreciate your help… 400,000 min-1 million max votes up for grabs. Add in 2 million #LongCovid, 50% go on to be diagnosed #MEcfs

Former Head of Comms for the IEA, Annabel Denham, says the super rich will leave if we have a wealth tax. Yes, the very same IEA that brought us Liz Truss’ disastrous mini budget. 🤦🏽‍♂️ Green Party leader Zack Polanski explains that their taxable assets can’t leave. #bbcqt

We cant trust Trump or Netanyahu. But want Gaza for their own purposes. Jared Kushner is involved in the peace talks. He was the first public figure to describe Gaza as “ great real estate”. These are people with ZERO compassion

As you may know, the big DWP BPS push against people with ME/CFS and other conditions began under New Labour. Mansel Aylward was highly influential along with SW. Detailed account here: mecentraal.wordpress.com/2021/08/22/s...

ME/CFS is a devastating condition that has long been denied, dismissed, psychologised and underdiagnosed. Research is at last starting to catch up with it, with glimmers of hope for those who have been left untreated for so long. There's a huge BUT coming ...🧵 www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Let's make hope normal again. youtu.be/qxt4HCjd7VA?...

You should be angry at private companies making massive profits from our taxes to house the most desperate people in appalling conditions... And NOT the people forced to live in them. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

She was arrested for holding a sign reading: “I do not support the proscription of Palestine Action” How that would warrant arrest is very unclear. I wonder if the police here even understand the boundaries of the bizarre law they’ve been forced to enforce.

It breaks my mind that two British political parties have seen scenes like this and decided to try and replicate it in Britain. Thuggary, lawlessness, state brutality. Farage and Badenoch decided they liked the look of it.

The current policy is obviously not working as a deterrent it’s simply splitting the country ever deeper and making it harder for Jews and everyone else to feel safe with this endless rhetoric. Draconian measures will only inflame the situation. Hard to believe that this isn’t the plan.

Zack Polanski’s response to the Manchester terror attack has been a masterclass in mature statesmanship. Soulful, human, eloquent, empathetic, nuanced, confident and focused on healing. And bold. It has shone in contrast to so much weaponising or ill thought through commentary. Thank you Zack. 💪

"I'm here to talk about what others won’t. To tell the truth about what makes our country great and what makes it not so great. While others thrive on creating scapegoats, I am here to tell you a different story." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Zack Polanski saying what every politician should be saying, "It's problematic to weaponise the synagogue attack to silence protest in this country against the genocide in Gaza" "These are separate things and we should condemn them both"

Since privatisation England's water companies paid £88.4bn in dividends. 90% of water companies owned by foreign investors/govts. 90% of dividend not recirculated in the UK economy. No UK tax paid on dividends. Public ownership would make a difference.

“Let’s call it for what it is: bullshit. The truth is, politicians have talked about little else but immigration for decades and in the most dehumanising ways. Polanski added: “Stop the boats’ is all we hear. Well, today I'm saying ‘stop the bullshit’.” www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

How is this not front page news? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

1. I've long contended that austerity doesn't save money. It merely transfers costs from one group (the very rich, who would otherwise pay more tax) to others. Last night was a powerful reminder of that. Before I go further, I should say I’m fine. Just a black eye, cuts & bruises, no serious harm. 🧵

This is a very important story in the context of Nigel Farage’s publicly expressed - if apparently unconnected - admiration for Putin and other links with a regime that only wants to harm our country.

Mrs R: "There was a woman on the ward today who didn't want to take paracetamol. We've had to explain that we're not giving it to her because she's got a fever and we want her to feel better, but because she's got a fever and if we don't get her temperature down then her baby is going to die."

I guess we should thank Donald Trump for making the relationship between fossil fuels and fascism explicit.

It is possible to cherish the BBC as an institution while also saying that BBC News is failing very badly, day after day, in its duty to inform and that it always fails in a right-wing direction. It desperately needs to recover its integrity

For 56 minutes Sky News and BBC News interrupted everything else and carried a Reform UK feed live, uninterrupted, unchallenged. The stream spluttered, froze, pixelated - dozens of times - still they stuck with it. FOR ONE HOUR. This is an editorial choice. No other party gets this coverage. ~AA

On LBC today, I discussed the government's announcement of a second runway at Gatwick Airport and its rumoured decision to allow new oil and gas extraction. Is this Trump’s doing, Shelagh Fogarty asked me? No, it's worse than that. youtu.be/rGI_bbSDh5o?...

A month ago, the famine in Gaza, deliberately created by the Israeli government, was officially confirmed by UN agencies. Since then, there has been an eerie silence in the media here, with far fewer reports than there were before. But it hasn't ended. On the contrary, it has intensified.

Apparently, it’s socially unacceptable to compare anyone or anything to Hitler. Mention Hitler, and you’ll be shouted down with a chorus of “Godwin’s Law”. Well sod that. Until we start comparing Trump to Hitler, we’re unprepared for what is barrelling towards us. 🧵1/4