"You’ll notice that these quotes come from the Prime Minister’s official spokesperson. That’s because the actual Prime Minister is still missing, presumed shit."

Not to get preachy, but these are things I find in Quaker meeting. A solid chance to recenter and ground myself, community, and to know my input is seen and appreciated.

The populist right wants to remake the UK in the image of Dubai. We should all be careful what they wish for | Jonathan Liew

"The UK must stand up to Elon Musk, and properly enforce our laws" says Ed Davey, in the strongest criticism of a British political leader of the X owner, after Musk's call for violence by video-link last weekend

Why are we going backwards on racism in Britain? (A disappointing question to ask in 2025). Now that the Prime Minister is finding his voice again to address this, my Eastern Eye column on what he should say next + the actions that should follow on the causes www.easterneye.biz/racism-in-uk...

Having pondered it all morning, I'm still incredulous that all that Today programme coverage of migrant hotels at no point (unless I missed it) mentioned why people were here, what they might be fleeing from etc.

i mean, you could hang around for *checks notes* Andy Burnham to come save you but frankly at the pace the far right are organising we haven’t got time to wait bsky.app/profile/gree...

Judith Butler is being targeted by the US government. We must stand up | Joel Swanson

It’s quite shocking that Labour ministers and Keir Starmer are unable to attack Reform’s immoral plans to put an end to ILR on ethical and moral grounds and insist on technocratic objections.

LANDMARK MOMENT - the Greens now have more members across Great Britain than the Lib Dems! Let's keep it going! 👇🏼👇🏾👇🏽 join.greenparty.org.uk Latest stats available: 85,800 @greenparty.org.uk (England & Wales) + @scottishgreens.org combined membership 83,174 @libdems.org.uk (a single party across GB)

It's obviously true unless something unexpected happens, but a) the incumbent government needs to actually have *delivered for its coalition* to lead a republican front b) the leader needs to be a plausible leader of it and c) they do need to actually be able to say 'Vichy was bad'.

The truth: we need migration. The problem: too many politicians are terrified to say it. Why? They're led by a) toxicity of the charlatans & b) wealthy media organisations who demand these useful distractions rather than us talking about inequality. Reject it. Draw the line.

#ACFM examines the Future. @jemgilbert.bsky.social, Nadia Idle, and I ask, did young people always worry so much about their futures? Has the currency of emergency been devalued? Does conservatism have an idea of the future? With music from LTJ Bukem and FKA twigs. novaramedia.com/2025/09/21/w...

#WorldCarFreeDay A few decades ago, it was the norm for children in the UK to play out. Now, parked cars & moving traffic restrict opportunities for outdoor play. This report highlights the need to to prioritise young people & move away from car-centric urban design www.tcpa.org.uk/resources/ra...

If Labour and other parties can't find a way to scrutinise, criticise and condemn a policy like this, they give Reform a free ride and make the future less safe & certain for those who come here, work hard and contribute.

Absolutely this.👇🏼 Hopefully this will be a wake-up call to the Labour government. This is where is the talk about ‘legitimate concerns’ with immigration leads us. Most so-called ‘legitimate concerns’ are illegitimate because they are baseless and only promote xenophobia and racism.

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Reform are now coming after people with permanent residency. It'll be citizens next. No one is safe from authoritarian governments.

Unclear how far back this would go and if would attack settled status for EU nationals. But clear that we must oppose this because mass deportation is a crime and an attack on basic rights rather than "unworkable" or "bad for the economy". It is your family, friends and neighbours he's coming for

George Orwell was a democratic socialist & anti-fascist who fought fascists in the Spanish Civil War. He would be amused & revolted at Elon Musk & the supposedly libertarian American right co-opting him as one of their own.

From our foremost theorist of free speech and academic freedom: "My country waits apprehensively to learn whether the pinnacle of its federal judiciary...will somehow remember its obligation to the rule of law...That this should even be a question illustrates how far and how fast we have fallen."

There it is, the whole stupid thing in microcosm

Quakers in Britain welcomes the announcement by our government today to formally recognise the State of Palestine. We see this as a first step to right a historic wrong. Read the full story here 👇 www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...

That’s me in the video. And a Fox News host just celebrated me being assaulted by ICE. If ICE will do this to a congressional candidate with a big platform, just imagine what they’re doing to the people they’re kidnapping.

🧵This is a serious use of force violation. The violent attack of this woman must be prosecuted by Chicago/Illinois for violation of state’s rights. I’m going to break this down. You see her blocking the ICE van. Agents violently push her to the ground. Then you see 1 guy target her & choke her.

I would like Never Trump Republicans to demand that George W. Bush appear and speak up for democracy in this country. Why do ppl always ask Obama to do things and “where is Kamala”? Where is the 43rd President of the United States while democracy crashes & burns. This is the party he led. 1/

The long-awaited emergency podcast on Rayner, Labour's deputy leadership election, Burnham, Mandelson, that other guy, and Your Party internal tension. With me and @profafinlayson.bsky.social. Available here and on all podcast apps: culturepowerpolitics.org/2025/09/18/e....

Has the government overreached in using terrorism law against Palestine Action? A disclosed MI5 document indicates that the basis for proscription may be weak. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th... Lift The Ban: wedonotcomply.org

We’re very happy to be name-checked alongside lots of pioneering new local news outlets by @georgemonbiot.bsky.social

God this is good on what ails Your Party - & easier to digest than the longer version I was sharing yesterday. Genuinely unclear though why people as smart as @archimbaldo.bsky.social aren’t now putting their energy into Greens as plenty other TUists are prometheusjournal.org/2025/07/10/l...

Powerful corporations are enabling the Trump administration to muzzle workers’ free speech and threaten their jobs. America’s unions stand for workers’ fundamental freedoms.

BBC continues its laundry job on the far right. Yeah, he's a violent racist but he loves his mum. It's just like the coronation really. Look at the photo- a patriotic street party. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.

An actual quote from the Secretary of State for Business and Trade Too often people go to university to ‘explore research and knowledge’ Look forward to Wes S saying 'too often people go to hospital to have operations' or Heidi Alexander saying 'too often people go to the station to catch a train'

We’re protesting outside the Broadview ICE facility and an agent came out to tell us to go away. We said we’re exercising our First Amendment rights so he shot the ground with pepper balls and said, “Your First Amendment rights are on the sidewalk.”

When I was young, being a carer simply wasn’t talked about. We’ve come a long way since then, but government still all too often ignores the millions of carers across Britain. I was proud to write the foreword to this IPPR report calling for real and transformative change.

The far-right majority in the Dutch parliament (BBB-FvD-JA21-PVV-SGP-VVD) has just designated “Antifa” a terrorist organization. This is a dark day for Dutch democracy and the final nail in the coffin of the VVD as a serious liberal democratic party.

It's been a tumultuous time for the Labour Government at present - and Conference next weekend might be the last thing they want. Compass members can join us LIVE at 6pm on Tuesday 23rd as we sit down with @rachaelmaskell.bsky.social MP and @jemgilbert.bsky.social to discuss what's next!

Protestors in the Soviet Union would sometimes simply write an article from the Soviet constitution on their posters.

Tory & Labour politicians are entitled to respond to Polanski in this way. So long as they're prepared to disavow everything they've said since 1945 about Britain's brave stand against fascism in WWII and the "liberal rules based order" it supposendly helped built and uphold during the Cold War.

IT'S OFFICIAL: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York State, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and New York City have formed the Northeast Public Health Collaborative. The collaborative will issue their own vaccine recommendations and coordinate public health efforts.

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

Today, two podcasts I recently gave came online. First, a podcast with Andrew Keen, host of Keen on America, with whom I talked about my book Limitarianism, which will be out in Paperback next Tuesday:

I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose??? This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.

While our government must have diplomacy with Trump, we should never roll out the red carpet for him. Trump is a far-right leader who propagates hate, undermines democracy and makes the world a more dangerous place for us all. This unnecessary state visit is just normalising his politics.

The involvement of the Downing Street press operation in this is genuinely shameful. Someone present should use their question to grill the PM on this, on camera.

The Royal Society should centre not simply "his decision to address Robinson's rally" but esp his call for pre-emptive political violence [against left/liberal politicians, against migrants + minorities] given the inevitability of violence + his accusation of 'cowardice' of those who challenged that

On September 19, The Visions for the Future Speaker Series recommences after our summer break. And what better way to kick off than to be joined by Elizabeth Anderson, who will present on "From Limitarianism to a Better World." Online, please do join us! Register ➡️ forms.office.com/e/qp9A3AGV9T

Spoke tonight with the Financial Times. 👇🏼