Right-wing journalist Andrew Neil says the genocide in Gaza is a "global left smear" x.com/TimesRadio/s...

youtu.be/Ds3R8AckpXs After the unpleasant atmosphere of the Labour Party conference, @owenjones.bsky.social checks out the Greens

I'm Jewish. I'm also Mancunian. Every other national party leader was interviewed by Laura Kunesberg during their conference. Maybe the BBC thought as someone who also supports Palestine - I had nothing to say? Let's keep growing: join.greenparty.org.uk

PROTESTORS: Please stop murdering vast numbers of children. LABOUR PARTY: You're all terrorists. TORIES: You want to kill all Jews.

Just when you thought Keir Starmer's Labour Party couldn't get more illiberal, or more like the Tories... "Change", my left foot. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

I think a whole podcast on what historical figures would've been like online. Marx, persistent pile on trollmonger. Darwin, coy and self deprecating. Kurt Cobain, full on conspiracy maniac.

Remind me again how Starmer's Labour is different to the Tories?

Many pundits today are pushing the line that everyone who protests the genocide in Gaza is basically either antisemitic or tolerant of antisemitism. But isn't that precisely the conflation of the actions of the Israeli gov't with all Jewish people, which is at the heart of this wave of antisemitism?

Shockingly cavalier planning processes by Exeter City Council in relation to the sale of parts of precious Riverside Valley Park. Great journalism by @exeterobserver.org exeterobserver.org/2025/10/04/b...

Interesting insider view by former NATO secretary general Jens Stoltenberg, but Trump is exactly as you'd expect www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Until we get "How the climate impact of neoliberal Israeli soya can decolonise patriarchal microaggressions", this headline will have to serve as peak-Guardian. But @georgemonbiot.bsky.social makes an excellent case that cutting public services doesn't save money www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Trump told NBC on Sunday that he saw some Portland riot footage on Fox and thought it reflected current events. It didn't. It was 5 years old, from the George Floyd aftermath. And we learned that due to the diligence of a local TV reporter, who got the transcript. www.cjr.org/laurels-and-...

A hideous, and for traumatised British Jews profoundly unhelpful, expression of allyship & agreement with a violent, racist, serial criminal & former member of an avowedly anti-Semitic organisation from the *Israeli Minister of Diaspora Affairs* and so, as Sunder says, the Israeli government. 1/3

The racists in the UK are not the ones attending pro-Palestine marches this weekend. The racists in the UK are the ones saying that you shouldn’t protest 53 Palestinians being murdered because two Jewish people were also murdered on the same day. Some of us can condemn both.

Zack Polanski shames Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood "Shabana Mahmood is being deeply irresponsible" "Conflating protests against a genocide in Gaza and weaponising that against an antisemitic attack on our streets, a terrorist attack, is deeply irresponsible"

So interesting that GB News is sticking with female archbishop story longer than BBC/Sky, going through her tweets live on air, starting to cancel her for being woke. They keep talking about the Christian public taking it badly, fits with the growing US-style religious vibe of the British right?

You can be shocked at the murder of innocent Jewish people in Manchester and also continue to be shocked at a genocide in Gaza. #genocide #gaza #manchesterattack

My wife is supposed to be doing synagogue security duty on Saturday. It's terrifying.

What 4 Labour policies have disappointed Liverpool the most? Did I guess right?

About time consequences were faced for the PPE scandal… But why only Michelle Mone? £15b worth of contracts were flagged with a corruption risk So where’s the rest of them? And what about the Tory ministers who greenlit that institutionally corrupt VIP lane?

Prime Minister Keir Starmer has condemned the "vile" terrorist who "attacked Jews because they are Jews" outside a Manchester synagogue

How is this acceptable? 😡 www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

I went to Labour conference - and then they revoked my press pass. I found a party defined by delusion - and literally running away from its record. Where to even begin. Watch it here 👇 youtube.com/watch?v=RLAp...

Under Keir Starmer's leadership, Labour membership has plummeted from half a million to 300,000. Youth membership has fallen from 100,000 to 30,000. At conference, lobbyists dominate, not members. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Good to hear the PM calling out the racism of the far right and Reform's mass deportation proposals in today's Conference speech. Patriotism is not about deporting our friends, colleagues and neighbours, it's about improving life for everyone that lives here.

Do they have to copy EVERYTHING the fascists do?

Labour has banned two left-wing journalists from its conference, including @owenjones.bsky.social

Look at the exemplary moral stance of the UK, banning the export of arms being used in serious violations of international law. Completely clean hands in relation to war crimes and crimes against humanity... 😙🎶 www.channel4.com/news/factche...

In today's "fighting antisemitism" news, Cornell has suspended a Jewish professor and cancelled his classes because they disagreed with his political views

Seeing this written down makes me realise just how disappointing Labour has been, even with the low expectations set by the Manifesto.

I realize a lot of these laughs are likely from Russian troll farms, but at least some might be by ghouls radicalised into Far Right demonisation of migrants

There’s a Labour talking point at the moment that the left has ignored immigration to this point. I’m not sure who it’s aimed at. Immigration was point 4 on the Ed Stone… www.theguardian.com/news/2015/de...

Is the British government finally prepared to acknowledge the Gazan genocide?

When you consider the *ecocide* alongside the genocide being perpetrated in Gaza, you begin to grasp the totality of the Israeli state’s attempt to eliminate both the Palestinians and their homeland. My column today. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

TORIES IN POWER: The Government should have absolute power to do whatever it wants, with no possibility of objection, protest or legal challenge. LABOUR IN OPPOSITION: That's appalling! LABOUR IN POWER: Yeah, what the Tories said, but in red. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Look out for false dichotomies in politics. They're everywhere www.theprsd.co.uk/2025/08/28/f...

I have a fair idea why Richard Murphy has blocked this question, which I'm happy not to share at this time. But if he ever decides to try to break out of the "fringe loon" niche in which many situate him, I think he might consider why blocking reasonable questions like this doesn't help.

Starmer says past governments have been "squeamish" talking about immigration. Bullshit. Starmer isn't bravely breaking a taboo. He's blaming vulnerable people & deflecting attention from the super rich who hoard power & wealth. Want something better? join.greenparty.org.uk

A mass walkout of the UN General Assembly as Netanyahu prepares to speak.

Prof Richard Murphy has blocked me from commenting on his blog, but I do think he provides an interesting alternative perspective on government deficits, borrowing and bonds. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/09...

The #GlobalSumudFlotilla is delivering life-saving aid to Gazans deliberately starved under Israel’s genocide, including 1 million children. Spain is sending a naval vessel to protect the flotilla and ensure aid reaches those in desperate need. The UK must do the same.

This week's post: Farage and the BBC mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/09/fara... On Monday 22nd September I watched a party political broadcast on behalf of Nigel Farage’s Reform Party. It was on the BBC, and it was entitled ‘News at Ten’.

Keir Starmer still wanging on about "illegal migration" as if it's a huge thing and austerity isn't.

Now do climate change.

The oceans are dying, just as happened in The Great Dying 250 million years ago Only today it's happening much, much, faster And do the world's governments and fossil fuel giants care? Do they hell www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The LibDems are hammering Farage on his closeness to Trump. It's an anomaly that Farage's outfit is riding in the polls while Trump is so unpopular.

Trump brags about extracting $16 million from ABC settlement, says he wants to “test” the network out again. More explicit threats that if a private company doesn’t do his bidding, Trump will punish with lawsuits or government action.

"Keir Starmer’s Government’s refusal to explicitly condemn the Reform leader’s plans to tear thousands of families and communities apart is only clearing his path to Downing Street" @adambienkov.bsky.social writes

Labour's approach to Farage's cruel nonsense is like saying "it's too expensive to cook criminals and feed them to the public because our energy prices are ludicrous, and the number of hygiene certificates you'd need is beyond belief" rather than "cooking human beings and cannibalism are WRONG".

Keir Starmer’s spokesperson asked for the PM's response to Nigel Farage’s plan to deport hundreds of thousands of people living and working completely legally in the UK, replies that he thinks it is “unworkable” and “unfunded”. So his objection is that they’ve got their sums wrong