Venezuela: We condemn the US military intervention, in breach of the UN Charter and international law. We call for the immediate protection of civilians and all those detained, with full guarantees of due process and transparency. The EU must act to uphold international law.

It’s sobering to look back on the run-up to the Iraq war—a period of unceasing chattering-class debate, elaborate official lies, media complicity, unavailing global protest, in the end a giant stitch-up—and have it seem like some sort of paradise of public deliberation compared to these gangsters.

Early this morning, the U.S. bombed the capital of #Venezuela and forcibly captured President Nicolás #Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores. We call on Congress and world leaders to stop U.S. regime change in Venezuela. Read more: afsc.org/newsroom/no-...

obviously we shouldn't Bring Back Minimally Plausible Pretexts but we should at the very least want the barest investment in the thinnest veneer of values that incentivised them

Don't we have the verb "kidnapping" to describe this?

The US attack on Venezuela is an illegal act of aggression against a sovereign country (with lots of oil). Venezuela has become a more deeply repressive dictatorship & urgently needs democratic solution but this is unjustified & unjustifiable. Look forward to seeing swift UK Government condemnation.

Donald Trump’s bombing of Venezuela is an illegal attack on a sovereign nation. It is a blatant grab for Venezuelan oil, risking the lives of innocent civilians. All of us who care about international law must condemn this.

Venezuela - a question I asked in the #HouseofLords last month. Hoping we will get a stronger, clearer reaction this time from the UK government about the US attack, which cannot conceivably be legal under international law nataliebennett.org/latest/venez...

hey remember when a bunch of middle-aged drunk korean lawmakers climbed the locked gates to the national assembly to hold an emergency session after the president gave illegal orders to the military, all of which ended with said president being sentenced to prison

"Welcome to Decline" -- still one of my favourite graphs from last year. In the late 1970s, Britain's economic fate very clearly split in two. How much you blame Thatcher will depend on your politics, but her leadership is useful to understand the timing. tomforth.co.uk/welcometodec...

We've joined other NGOs in calling on the Israeli government to immediately halt its deregistration process. Otherwise it risks halting international NGO operations at a time when civilians face acute and widespread humanitarian need. https://ow.ly/cM3b50XR89a

Zuccotti Park 2026: 40,000 people line up alongside barricades to celebrate NYC’s democratic socialist mayor. For those of us who participated in Occupy Wall Street, today marks a turning point in the millennial left. It’s too early to say what it will mean, but it’s significant.

Why does trial by jury matter? In the light of the recent government announcement my first blogpost of 2026 reflects on what C17th and C18th reformers had to say about trial by jury. www.rachelhammersley.com/new-blog/2025/12/31/trial-by-jury

Throughout 2025, our writers delivered fearless analysis and creative resilience—refusing to compromise on fundamental values of justice and humanity in the face of brazen cruelty and democratic decline. Revisit the writing readers turned to the most:

Longterm intergenerational shift is a civic widening of inclusion. The short-term shift is hardening views within the minority position bsky.app/profile/prof...

Campaigner turned down MBE over ‘scapegoating’ of people with disabilities

You can't support liberty & oppose diversity. Human beings use their freedom in different ways make different choices abt life Difference just is the consequence of people exercising their freedom 'Postliberals' [sic] don't like some choices which is to say they are anti-liberty & its consequences

If you want to hear, not me, but the normally mild-mannered @profafinlayson.bsky.social suggest that Britain might now be entering a pre-revolutionary phase, get your ears around this massive Christmas pressie of a Culture, Power, Politics Emergency Podcast. culturepowerpolitics.org/2025/12/24/p...

We never properly discussed the implications of the Begum judgement for people with a claim to a 2nd citizenship - be that Bangladeshi, Egyptian, Italian, or Irish. The latter groups are now currently only legally protected from having our UK citizenship removed, by EU human rights law, IIRC.

Unelected politicians should not make our laws. Time for a reformed second chamber that’s accountable to the people.

America's richest 10% now hold 60% of the nation's wealth. The bottom half of America? It holds just 6%. Wealth inequality is eating this country alive.

Important letter from an actual expert

It seems the first of the new 'nine river walks' the Government announced in place of a real access policy... won't actually create any new access? They're just upgrading the existing path and adding some signs and benches. A really rubbish level of ambition. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Here's me for @newstatesman1913.bsky.social arguing that the only way to forestall a Reform government is to make a more decisive break with neoliberalism than Starmer is ever going to, or most of the parliamentary 'soft left' still seem capable of imagining. www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

Do Quakers do Christmas? Traditionally, Quakers don't celebrate special days, but today the picture is more complex. Rhiannon Grant shares four questions she asks herself when thinking about whether and how to participate in Christmas activities.

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This is a factor in the UK too, where local journalism has been severly weakened. This means the centre/Westminster is even less aware of people's concerns, and weakens democratic accountability and policy responsiveness

Regulation has failed. This government imposed a Bonus Ban, but water bosses and shareholders will always find ways to reward themselves for their failures, with eye-watering payouts. It's high time for the whole English water sector to come into public ownership. vist.ly/4jhcw

christmas singalong dilemma solved

Happy Winter Solstice, where we celebrate the returning of the light, on the shortest day and longest night. On the solstice, when the land feels closest to its oldest stories, we’re reminded how much of England’s past remains out of reach.

Two Palestine Action-linked hunger strikers taken to hospital

We are deeply concerned for the health of Qesser Zuhrah, who has been on hunger strike for 46 days. We join those calling on the government to act now, and address the serious concerns raised by lawyers acting for the prisoners.

A representation of entrenched inequality not just between generations but families. The politics which follows is a vast ideological effort to justify that inequality as natural & necessary, to ridicule critics & distract opposition while ignoring the fraying of society that is its consequence.

This is horrific.

Quakers in Britain are continuing to work to ensure that all Quaker communities are inclusive of gender diversity, following a decision in 2021. A new document provides both theological background for this, rooted in the commandment to love one another, and practical guidance. 1/4

Tomorrow marks the 7th anniversary of Sudan's December revolution, before it was superseded by another war that separated and scattered millions of people across countless countries and worlds. Will slowly be posting readings on the uprising here, focusing first on those by Sudanese 🧵

A wee gift from @righttoroam.bsky.social this season: our first Christmas film! It's a beautiful mini-doc profiling the concept of Wild Service on a neglected river in east London, now being restored by a community of guerrilla guardians... Check it out here: youtu.be/7sjOGOguq5A

"Qesser Zuhrah has been refusing food for almost 2 months now" #C4News last night. The first time I've seen the mainstream news cover the Palestine hunger strikers.

Important read here on a collapse in Wales which looks set to provoke an existential crisis in Labour.

⚡ Zelenskyy: Putin does not believe in people; he believes only in power and in money. He spends around 40,000 soldiers’ lives on the front every month. Not wounded, 40,000 each month killed.

Huge thanks to Sanat Sogani for this conversation for the 'Justice Everywhere' site, in which we discuss punk, anarchism, radical republicanism, and the relationships between them. justice-everywhere.org/general/beyo...

Radical right parties in Europe have not moderated. Their positions and rhetoric have entered the mainstream. They have become normalized and legitimized. Unless we understand this, we have little chance of countering their success.

Trump’s legal challenge to the BBC is entirely without merit. The programme demonstrably did not damage his reputation in Britain, America or anywhere else. His reputation went up briefly at the time, for other reasons.

In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites. He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him. www.wsj.com/world/china/...

Do you condemn Mr Trump's remarks, Mr Farage? Do you condemn Mr Trump's remarks, Mr Starmer? Do you condemn Mr Trump's remarks, Ms Badenoch? The only questions I want to hear from media in response to Trump's latest vomit.

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The Republic Book IX remains the most essential political reading of the current era.

Honestly, I’m furious. Sandy Hook should have been the end of this. Yet on its anniversary more children are dead, injured, and traumatized. It is a horror that is entirely preventable. And we should prevent it. It is not impossible. No matter what the received wisdom has become.

Heartbreaking reading www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Why are mainstream journalists platforming these racists ? 20 years ago it would have never been entertained