Some things never change. A 50s-era monument to the anti-fascist partisan women of Venice was blown up four years later by neo-fascists wanting to rewrite history. Only the base, by Carlo Scarpa, survived

Are any key media outlets going to cover this story that Farage’s right hand guy has been convicted for taking money from the Russians to parrot their messaging? @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social ? @itvnews.bsky.social @channel4news.bsky.social

There’s no one more authoritarian than a Labour Home Secretary: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

In my feed, this video is next to Kemi Badenoch's promise to create a UK version of ICE.

Amateur wannabe SS clowns www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Great article by @djtaylorwriter.bsky.social about my dad, 'paranoid' George Orwell, and sneaking a peek at the manuscript of 1984: www.the-tls.com/literature-b...

@zackpolanski.bsky.social is asked about the Home Secretarys comments that yesterdays protests about Israels actions were dishonourable (she also said they were unBritish). Zack is spot on.

Tories continue their ‘let it burn’ approach post-Brexit, post-climate. Well on their way to joining GOP as a death cult

Nationalise these chancers

This is great! Back in 2006, to support a travelling exhibition by CABE, the UK's Commission for Architecture & the Built Environment, we suggested a train complete with film truck, debating carriages and a fold out exhibition. 60% of UK households are within 15 min cycle ride of a rail siding.

With Trump putting the US economy into free fall, Balsonaro heading to jail, and Neoliberal poster boy Milei in deep doo-doo, has the far right feverdream broken?

In other news, Kemi Badenoch's party has taken at least £7 million in donations from funders and directors of climate change denial lobby groups bylinetimes.com/2025/03/18/k...

Farage, Trump, Musk: your boy Javier Milei just took one hell of a beating. Why so quiet? | Aditya Chakrabortty

Pope Leo XIV denounced people who deny climate change today, arguing that they are contributing to the destruction of God's creation.

🗣️THIS is the message!! Brava, Congresswoman @aoc.bsky.social!!

Tommy Robinson’s Unite the Kingdom Rally was sponsored by a convicted fraudster allegedly behind cryptocurrency ‘rug pulls’ The far-right rally was bankrolled by convicted fraudster alleged to be behind two cryptocurrency scams, Byline Times can reveal bylinetimes.com/2025/10/01/t...

One for the Yimbys and supply guys:

"It’s absolutely hilarious that a nominally ‘libertarian’ government is being bailed out by the largest and most powerful state in the world. It just goes to show – capitalism cannot survive without the state." open.substack.com/pub/gracebla...

Good to join this collection of non-North American urbanists! 🫡

Trump: "The ones that are run by radical left Democrats -- what they've done to San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles. They're very unsafe places & we're gonna straighten them out one by one. This is gonna be a major part for some people in this room. That's a war too. It's war from within"

Exc - Labour is in a fight against “global network of right-wing billionaires” who want to undermine net zero for their “vested interests”, the energy secretary, Ed Miliband, has said. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

There’s no one more authoritarian than a Labour Home Secretary: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

I admit that I tut-tutted the obsessive coffee fettling in Melbourne, but I’m calling it – with a few honourable exceptions, trying to get a decent coffee in London is a fool’s errand.

The thought that Reform could take #Caerphilly, the adjacent seat to Nye Bevan’s, in an election this week is shocking. My mum (from Bedwas) and Nye will be spinning in their graves. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

When Trump calls climate change a "con job," he is representing his fossil fuel billionaire friends, not science.   Climate change is REAL. It is an existential threat to the planet and future generations. We must transform our energy systems away from fossil fuels.

…Or what about amplifying the qualities of existing places, that might otherwise be struggling? Here’s a project to retrofit Harwich and Felixstowe, the UK’s premier port, into a city on the River Stour: www.5thstudio.co.uk/projects/sto... #NewTowns

Lots of talk about New Towns today – but how do we make distinctive places with their own economy, rather than build soulless dormitories? Here’s one idea from 10 years ago: www.5thstudio.co.uk/projects/cal...

‘While we shall be judged for a year or two by the _number_ of houses we build … we shall be judged in ten years’ time by the _type_ of houses we build.’ - Nye Bevan, 1944, quoted by @municipaldreams.bsky.social

Nathan Gill is no fringe politician. He was the leader of the Reform Party and before that UKIP in Wales. A Brexit Party MEP. A friend and ally of Nigel Farage, who in 2016 called him: "terrific," and "as honest as the day is long." This is a MASSIVE story www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Nish Kumar, "What is the Green Party's vision for how we redraw the economy of this country?" Zack Polanski, "The first thing is to have a big conversation about public ownership" "Nothing we need, and need to use, should be in private hands. All of our utilities should be nationalised"

Thameslink to be nationalised in May, joining Greater Anglia. Nationalisation will bring cushions for the sore botties of all the class 700 travellers, together with plug sockets and tables, fixing one of the worst-specified rolling stock on the Cambridge -Brighton run: www.gov.uk/government/n...

The man who led Farage’s Reform Party in #Wales has been convicted of taking bribes to peddle Russian disinformation – let that sink in: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

After the Brexit disaster Farage ally promises right-wing Bolshevik Revolution Cull civil servants it doesn't like Eliminate regulators Tax cuts for the rich Cut govt spending More power to corporations End ECHR Mass deportation of legal immigrants Will wreck economy/society archive.ph/OcxzP

this is an extraordinary canary in the coal mine

McSweeney has become the news – as we saw with that other ‘Svengali’ Cummings, that only presages a fall.

🚨 BREAKING: The former leader of Reform UK in Wales, Nathan Gill, has pleaded guilty to #bribery, admitting he received corrupt payments as a Brexit Party MEP in exchange for making statements in the European Parliament to promote Russia’s interests in #Ukraine.

This Global Progress Summit – presumably half way through they’ll open the doors to a load of far-right speakers, in recognition of the role of the centre left as international handmaids to fascism?

Starmerism has almost destroyed the Labour party, but I still have hope for renewal | Clive Lewis

The government wants to bring back private finance in our NHS. 🤬 This would harm patients by siphoning off hundreds of millions of pounds in profits from our NHS. 🤑 Rachel Reeves and Wes Streeting, you can still drop these disastrous and unpopular plans. Share if you agree.

Trump is absolutely cratering in new Quinnipiac poll: Overall approval: 38-54 Approval on economy: 39-56 Approval on trade: 39-54 On National Guard into cities: 42-55 On immigration, his "best" issue: 41-55 Trump is weak, unpopular, and failing. Treat him that way:

No content with the economic and social self destruction of Brexit, this is the Tory’s new plan to smash shit up for clicks

From the original Swedish researchers.

People say Keir Starmer is the pointless prime minister, but we have to acknowledge his real skill in disappearing at moments when when the country needs leadership

Just 9 months into his presidency Trump in contrast to his role models Putin and Orban in their early years "is deeply unpopular." - @pkrugman.bsky.social on how public sees Trump "as chaotic and inept."

From 19–25 Sept, anyone can join the Big River Watch. If government won’t monitor, we will. Owen Sennitt reports

Unbelievable ‘they’re eating the cats, they’re eating the pets…’ rip off from poundshop Britain Trump www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

In @projectsyndicate.bsky.social, I argue school meals must be reimagined as a platform for industrial strategy. This is more than hunger, but a way of bringing together welfare policy and innovation to create equity, farming, care, and public procurement. Read here ➡️ buff.ly/ajkbTBz

New t shirt just dropped from @modernistestates.bsky.social