Was listening to Martyn Ware’s (Heaven 17) podcast last week, and he spoke of knowing Starmer some years ago, and how he’s a mendacious ladder climber with few morals and a questionable allegiances. Never heels much stock in these accusations before, but they’re giving me pause for thought now.

And the fun part is, Morgan might have got away with it all if he hadn’t *deliberately gone out of his way* to tell the lobby hacks the whole thing was a fraud he personally cooked up that could not have worked, except for the 100% cooperation of the lobby journos in the lies, terror and bullshit.

I'm not super jazzed about the whole hypnotic breast enhancement thing but it's hardly the same thing as deliberately coming up with an entire fake policy program to win a leadership election and then immediately purging anyone who actually believed in that platform

“Almost all the 165 people killed in the attack were girls aged between seven and 12, according to local officials. There were around 170 girls at the school in southern Iran’s Minab at the time.“ A double-tap strike on little girls at school.

"working hard used to get you something.. but now, working hard, what does that get you? .. life has changed. Instead of working for a nice life, we're working to line the pockets of billionaires. We are being bled dry" Part of Hannah Spencers acceptance speech

1. Many here seem bemused by the anger and disappointment this government attracts. Please bear with me while I try to explain it. Let’s begin with Gaza. Starmer’s complicity is one of the major reasons so many people are disillusioned. rethinkingsecurityorguk.wpcomstaging.com/2025/10/07/i... 🧵

Remember that whole long period where the Times kept issuing new demands for obedience from Labour, to prove they were worthy? A new hoop to jump through every six weeks or so, and jump they obediently did, no matter how bad it made them look. Whatever was that about, do we think.

Reform’s new London mayoral candidate, Laila Cunningham, was undone by a rare GB News miracle: a good question. Asked why a party that says the Tories are terrible keeps hiring so many of them, the ex-Tory herself had a rock-solid response: "I can’t answer that."🤨

Whenever I see men post this I think about how when women are lonely, it's not pitied. It's used to chastise them for not being nicer to men. Meanwhile, when men are experiencing a "loneliness epidemic" they decide the answer is *also* that women should be nicer to men.

So… does Iran have a right to defend itself?

"Most of my patients were preteen children, their bodies shattered by explosives and torn by flying metal. Many died. Those who lived often awoke to find their entire families gone" Feroze Sidhwa addressing the UN security council today.

This literally happened with the proposed tax on carried interest lol www.theguardian.com/business/202...

How many more clear examples is it going to take? The Labour Party is done. Join.greenparty.org.uk

So this is MAHA??? www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

I have cut down A LOT of sycamore trees.

"Almost a quarter of women aged 18 to 24 voted Green last July, roughly double the number of young men who voted Reform" Feeling seen by @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social analysis of GenZ women like me voting Green because we "can’t understand why nobody seems to care" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This is completely fucking outrageous.

The thing about privilege: you can always see your background as poor and disadvantaged if you are oblivious to people with less than you and resolved to fit in with people with more than you. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

A new study from the RAND Corporation finds that $79 TRILLION was taken from the bottom 90% of the country. America’s problem is not a lack of “abundance.” America’s problem is oligarchs hoarding the abundance for themselves while everyone else suffers. www.levernews.com/abundance-is...

In the real world nobody knows who Matthew Yglesias is

This is outrageous and unamerican. It certainly sounds illegal to me, though I need more details on that front. This guy is a green card holder and married to an American citizen. www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...

Jack Grubman, 1999: What used to be called a conflict of interest is now synergy.

"How To Pay For The War" @tom-clark.bsky.social explains Keynes' wartime combination of forced saving and social justice. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/econom...

Huge opportunities in the net zero economy if we invest properly - this is where govt should be focusing, not on climate wrecking airport expansion or oil drilling! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The obvious problem I have with a “new left party” is that it doesn’t exist, and if it does come to be, is too late already. Do something now, don’t just wait for an amorphous thing to appear

I've lost track of how many times I've watched this already 😂

The chutzpah of the Tories and Labour to dare try saying @greenparty.org.uk ideas for a more equal society are "unworkable." My response:

UK billionaires' wealth has skyrocketed in recent years. ▪️2013: £246 Billion ▪️2023: £684 Billion We don't need more cuts - we need to tax extreme wealth. That's what I'm fighting for. Sign up below to join my campaign to make the super-rich pay up. actionnetwork.org/forms/join-r...

Funnily enough, this very good piece calling for a "green economic populism" (by @triofrancos.bsky.social & @aldasky.bsky.social) came out just when we submitted ours on the need for "climate populism": www.nytimes.com/2025/01/07/o... We are all living in the same conjuncture, I guess..

+ the time when politicians started to really listen to economists was when we were espousing free market ideas (that benefit rich donors), now that economists are less supportive of those ideas, we are listened to less. Not a coincidence.

The government does not want Israelis to know, because these stories would strengthen public demand to release the hostages in return to ending the war. In Israel, the hostages' cause is anti-war. While abroad, their cause is cynically used to give cover for the continuation of the war.

#homeless #unhoused #harmreduction

Given how hard it was to get rich countries to give just $300 billion a year to the developing world to decarbonize and deal with the impacts of extreme weather, how will we ever deploy CO₂ removal (CDR), which will cost trillions of dollars every year and mainly benefit the developing world?

Freeports Gazette 10 articles on free zones @bylinescymru.bsky.social bylines.cymru/freeports-ga... Silent Coup by Matt Kennard and Claire Provost Crack-Up Capitalism by Quinn Slobodian Adventure Capitalism by Raymond Craib UK Govt website on SEZs/Freeports