The logical plan would be to put in place all the good, positive stuff for kids *before* taking away everything they’ve already got.

More kind words about my book today, this time from Adrian Goldberg of @bylinetimes.bsky.social @bylinepodcast.bsky.social "Not just a great read about how supporters have been made to feel like outsiders in their own sport; but an urgent call for nothing short of a football revolution"

And just like that, it completely VANISHED from the media. But a sitting congressman, Ted Lieu, said on the record The Epstein files are being blocked because they show Trump raped and threatened to kill children. Don't trust me... listen to him 👇

Emma Murphy: "There is a huge challenge for the negotiators to get through these many many incredibly thorny issues.. there is then the issue of Lebanon & Israels position, whether Israel will allow this to move from a discussion toa peace deal" 'Whether Israel will allow this'

De Niro: Loving our country is starting to sound like an abused spouse saying they love their abuser. I can’t love a country that starts stupid and inhumane wars, killing thousands of innocents… I can’t love a country that’s led by a xenophobic tyrant. I can’t love a country that’s led by Trump

It is a great privilege to have come second in the ballot for Private Member’s Bills. After giving the matter a great deal of thought, I will be reintroducing the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill. You can read my full statement on this here or on my website: buff.ly/I78DfUX

The judgement in "The King on the application of Ammori v Secretary of State for the Home Department" – the government's appeal against the High Court's decision that proscribing Palestine Action was unlawful – is at 11am today in Court 4, Royal Courts of Justice in London

New York elected a socialist mayor and the Knicks won the championship, but nice try.

MPs are having none of Reforms anti-LGBTQ nonsense. Here’s a letter to Councillor Martin Murray of Staffordshire County Council.

🇬🇧🇵🇱 Poland needs to have a conversation about all those working class immigrants coming over to steal our jobs and smear their barbaric "culture" all over our pristine medieval old towns (obviously not Warsaw, you can't make that place worse than it is).

Curse of Tory Privatisation. UK faces deindustrialisation without relief from high energy cost. Energy companies profiteer. Thousands of jobs at risk. Discount schemes passing cost to other customers isn't the answer End profiteering. Nationalise energy.

This is one of the most horrifying scandals in recent British history. Mothers and babies died because of a demented ideology

After the donation was “properly declared” no audit is likely to take place on how the money is spent. In effect every declared donation is a tax free gift. Every MP knows this and acts accordingly.

Apart from trans people where he is a Christo-fascist!

All very well, Jonathan, but in whose interests are Streeting's plans? While he was health secretary Streeting accepted a long string of very large donations from businesses that profit from private health care. Is that what progressive capitalism looks like? Buying policy?

there's nothing progressive about wes streeting. he's a christian nationalist in the pocket of peter thiel.

They did. And about 330,000 people died. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

This weekend, Netpol is finishing the draft of our report on the violent policing of anti-fascist counter-demonstrators in Manchester on 18 April. Huge thanks for all the many testimonies, photos and videos shared with us. Look out for more very soon on how we plan to launch the report

Austerity has been shown to fail – so let's try more austerity. 🤦🏻‍♂️

And this is precisely how consent is manufactured for war. It’s beyond tedious/depressing to see this play out (and dupe so many people - low-information centrists esp) in real time.

Why is the narrative centered on cuts? We print money to pay corporations, banks & tax cuts for the rich but not to defend our citizens? Let's be clear the increases in the defence budget is a transfer of our wealth into the pockets of mainly US arms manufacturers not our soldiers, sailors or airmen

Nandy: "We've got to significantly increase the amount we're spending on defence" Over the last several days I haven't seen a single interviewer question this claim. Instead the challenge to politicians making it is, are you increasing it fast enough/by enough?

Fraud rates are around 2%. Minimal. Change the bloody tune. hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2025...

We're awash with money. It's simply in the wrong places. The UK is blessed with natural resources, a temperate climate and hard-working, clever people. We can sort this.

That book is a hard read and US focussed . Had to get the audio version to get through it. Try Richard Murphy instead www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/downloa...

People simply don't understand what "National Debt" means, it doesn't mean a Sovereign Currency Gov't has a "responsibility to pay" a Foreign Entity ND is just the Difference of how much Money (Dollars) a Gov't has placed into its Economy and how much has Taxed out, 2nd Grade stuff #MMT

We really have to work hard to kill the lie, constantly promoted by the media and politicians that there is NO MONEY. We can fund defence and social security. There is plenty of money. The government can create as much as it needs - read this book! #KillTheLie #LearnMMT

The question then is why is the state subsidising employers. Why is it a FTSE CEO might be on 7 figures and yet employees need state support.

Couldn’t agree more. Over 40% of UC claimants are in work. How about targeting the wealthiest not the poorest to help fund the urgently required defence spending?. Carns sounding more and more like a Reform spokesperson.

Wishful thinking… but they should certainly be in the Tory Party (or its fascist offshoots). Quacks like a duck, swims like a duck etc…

There really is no chance of me working again with my combination of conditions and the amount of time I've been unfit to work. Where are these supportive enthusiastic employers eh? I didn't expect much from Labour, but a better attitude and some realism. But no, let's please the bigots

Fuck. Off. Anyone who says ‘hand outs to hand ups’ should be hounded out of politics.

Oh, and if you think Reform and the Tories might have trouble forming some sort of government together after the next election, think again. Reform members would be more than happy with it, according to this new survey (lordashcroftpolls.com/2026/06/will...)

I can't fully explain how much it makes me wince when Nandy sets her budget model human face mask to "sincere". It's like putting my tongue in a dental cavity.

Nandy can't even do her day job competently and now she's an expert on national security? Andy "leafy mansion paid for by house flipping on expenses" Burnham who burdened us with PFI and sweetheart deals with property speculators is another national security expert? Labour sure fizz with talent!

Carns, Burnham, Nandy: all perfectly content to consign low paid workers, disabled people (including those who work), and the elderly to poverty. bsky.app/profile/saul...

@paulnowaktuc.bsky.social @unitesharon.bsky.social

I know it’s practically blasphemy to say so, but society should not require everyone to work. Some people can’t. Some people shouldn’t. Some people contribute more by *not* working than they would by working. Work isn’t that important.

Can we crowdfund a criminal prosecution against Farage for inciting violence? The police don’t seem interested.

Because there is a brand of people who believe this. They worship it. To these bigots, all that matters is the white wealth leads to white poor into the white future. And in the end, the wealth will euthanize the white poor along with everyone not in their direct gene pool. Idiots, the lot of them.

This type of reporting about #Musk is what matters. How the #Telsa board of directors, governments and other suck-ups can keep on ignoring how big a racist NAZI piece of shit Musk is will never stop amazing me.

Kremlin- and Trump-aligned Fascists backed by Musk are leading the polls both in Austria and Germany and their racist immigration policies have influenced those of supposed 'moderates'.

Punishable by fine as always meaning legal for the wealthy. I hate this government so much

"Don't upset the Nazis" stuff like this, from Wes Streeting, really isn't going to cut it. We need legislation banning X, criminal prosecutions for inciting violence, new legislation to tackle the Far Right threat (as exists in Austria and Germany) and (most of all) we need wealth taxes.

"We'll just take money from the people to fund our wars" is not only the kind of reprehensible we've condemned dictators for in the past, but it also relies on the very stupid premise that people on benefits have world war levels of money.

On a social media ban for kids: Richard Madeley "I think we should be grounding the tech companies until they clean up their act.. we have to go to the tech companies & say, you stop this today or you're closed down" Beeban Kidron ".. we should be banning the companies not the kids"

On tackling shadow fleets: ".. its very hard for the countries that see themselves as keepers of the rules based order" You mean countries supporting/arming a genocide? Urban then says "there often isnt a legal basis on which to hold them". erm, so what happened to the rules based order?

@paulnowaktuc.bsky.social @unitesharon.bsky.social this is not Labour values, principles or Conference voted policies. Too many Ministers, MPs & Advisors do not believe in what Labour stands for! 2029 will destroy Labour unless 'closet tories' are kicked out in 2026. No coup = Labour is toast

Carns is asked where the extra £ for defence should come from. ".. I think there are places, such as moving welfare from hand outs to hand ups" Describing welfare as hand outs tells us all about Carns politics & who he wants to target - the sick, disabled, low paid, pensioners