In solidarity with the Global Sumud Flotilla which launches this week in a bid to break the Israeli naval blockade and deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza, I've recorded a new song for Palestine www.youtube.com/watch?v=1axj...

This weekend's round-up of toxic media and advertisers include a barrage of anti-migrant hate pieces in The Express (all were published in just one day). Supported by ads from #Specsavers, #MarellaCruises (by #TuiUK), #BritishGas, #Asda, #Tesco, #OakFurniture #RyobiTools, and #Yimbly.

We must be doing something right. www.tes.com/magazine/new...

It can't happen here. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

embed.documentcloud.org/documents/26... Sensitive documents left behind on a public photocopier in the hotel in Alaska. It includes the lunch menu that was never eaten, and most shockingly, crème brûlée with ice cream.

The rich don’t spend the money they have, and the poor don’t have money to spend. This is a problem when 70% of the economy relies on consumer spending. Closing our nation's wealth gap isn’t just the right thing to do. It’s essential to save our economy. https://youtu.be/S6dCh48b4oI?feature=shared

Test cricket!

youtu.be/QHpnnlq779w?... 15 years ago.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... This.

Motherfucking wind farms…

'Think of Hitler’s top henchmen — Hermann Göring, Heinrich Himmler, Joseph Goebbels, Rudolf Hess, Albert Speer, Karl Dönitz — all of them as, if not more, fanatical and sadistic than Hitler, eager to carry out his orders, wielding considerable power...' open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

The biggest issue of Brexit Take back control of our borders Did not control our borders It hypercharegd small boat arrivals Because we left the EU And no longer had access to the Dublin returns agreement Brexit didn't fix small boats arrivals Brexit made it happen

This really is not getting the attention it should. The Tories' latest proposal is to exclude *any household that includes any foreign national from any benefit*. And when asked about it, they keep citing small boat crossings - a minute fraction of migration - to justify it. ~AA

Here's Home Sec Cooper with the Israeli ambassador who endorsed the complete decimation of Gaza ('every school,every hospital, every home'). Yvette doesn't count such language as terrorism. The other photo is 83 Yr old Rev Sue Parfitt. She calls for an end to genocide. Apparently THAT is terrorism.

Robert Reich open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

ICE and the growth of Trump's prerogative state.

Why They Hate Education open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

Of course. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

'Ephraim Mirvis said the controversy around the British rap-punk duo’s appearance at the Somerset festival was “a time of national shame”.' Indeed, it cannot be an easy time to be Israeli. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/j...

Absolutely incredible turnout for Budapest Pride! So proud of all the organizers, including some old friends, who estimate hundreds of thousands— major embarrassment to Orban

Makes me wish I was teaching A Level British Politics again. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... @willhaycardiff.bsky.social

America at war Subscribe to Private Eye: subsonline.co.uk

'I’ve written this to serve as yet another reminder that we all knew what was coming. Nobody can feign ignorance. Nobody can pretend they didn’t know.' www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We need to stop looking out for a single 'Enabling Act'. The unravelling of democracy is not a single thread pulled but many. But this one will make it into the summary table in the textbook of the future: www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

If thousands of us stand up and say "I support #PalestineAction", what is the government going to do? Lock us all up for "terrorism" offences? This is where we show them how solidarity works. My latest with the great @doubledown.news

The new job. Great idea for an end of term school play in the UK. open.substack.com/pub/anothera...

How not to submit to a tyrant open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

The latest from Steven Johnson on NoteBookLM has a history focus. adjacentpossible.substack.com/p/machine-re...

This is oligarchy. This is obscene. While 60% live paycheck to paycheck & kids go hungry, Jeff Bezos, worth $230 billion, goes to Venice on his $500 million yacht for a $20 million wedding & spends $5 million on a ring while his real tax rate is just 1.1%. End this oligarchy.

I’ve been in politics for over a half-century. I’ve watched as corporations and the super-rich flooded D.C. with campaign cash and ransacked our system. It won't be easy, but here’s how we break the corporate oligarchy and return power to the people. https://youtu.be/sP0pRIBRcDk?si=o8uynfvuoVhcX7p8

Today. But somehow this is not the headline news.

Above all else I love that the blurb describes me as a 'veteran IB educator'. Can somebody make me a badge with that on it? youtu.be/9Xmhm5kMG8A?... #education #historyteacher

www.internationalschoolhistory.com/is-trumps-us... Started in January, this lesson stopped being just a lesson some time ago. I expect it to grow over the coming months. #historyteaching #history #education.

Horst Wessel. www.bbc.com/news/article...

TANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank

"On Tyranny" is a #1 NYT bestseller again. I wish the moment were different. But I’m glad the book is useful. And grateful for all the kind words about putting the 20 lessons to work. snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

A thought about AI and cognitive outsourcing. Socrates said the same about books, 'This invention will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it' and he was clearly right. But is anyone arguing that learning was better in the days before writing?

“decide yourself” – Thank you, R.E.M. This support of Radio Free Europe is incredibly touching. ffm.to/remrfe2025?m...

'While castles, sweeping valleys and Ryan Reynolds-owned soccer teams are the blockbuster Welsh attractions...' Wrexham AFC straight in at #3. edition.cnn.com/travel/commo...

Trump encouraged the crowd to watch big screens that showed mainly Venezuelan alleged gang members having their heads shaved. The big screens offered the simple message, “100 days of greatness”, while the crowd cheered raucously: “USA! USA! USA!” www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KeX...

We need the best educated workforce in the world. We need the best teachers in the world. We need to pay our teachers fairly for the important work they do. No teacher in America should begin at less than $60,000 a year.