1. The Green Party does have a fairly coherent economic strategy, probably a lot more coherent than the gvt’s. Whether you agree with it or not is another matter 2. Polanski’s positions on NATO - a long term need to either reform or replace so as to reduce reliance on US - are nuanced and common

Deeply depressing. Just lazy soundbites and bad economics. Populism without racism is infinitely preferable to the combination. But Greens badly need something that actually resembles a coherent economic strategy. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The generational warfare promoted by centrists and the Right, who have long been desperate to cut and privatize Social Security, is a fool’s solution to what ails the system. Taxing the rich is the answer.

“Disabled women are increasingly seen as stats and stereotypes – reduced entirely to our disabilities, or robbed of the dignity of being believed we have one.” Me on why it’s time to hear from disabled women in our own words. (Luckily, I wrote a book on it.) www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Perhaps it was on a defensive mission over Iran

In Iran and Lebanon, the US and Israeli militaries are bombing dense residential blocks, destroying civilian infrastructure, slaughtering children, and assassinating health workers. If it sounds familiar, it’s because this is the Gaza playbook.

Absolutely core statement

From 1 April 2026, gym bros wanting to launch a podcast will need: ➡️ a basic fact-checking license ➡️ able to season chicken ➡️ proof that they can go 10 min without saying ‘alpha mindset’ Repeat offenders will be forced to listen to @_BoldPolitics to actually learn something.

Another triumph for deregulation! By saving a few million in monitoring and enforcement, our governments have landed us with a vast illegal waste dumping problem, new organised crime networks and a clean-up bill that could run to tens of billions. My column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

🚨Your water bills are going up again today, in England and Wales. Private water companies are sucking us dry: ❌Paying themselves billions in dividends ❌Paying their CEOs £1.7 million a year on average ❌Loaded up companies with debt. AND WE ALL PAY FOR IT. www.mirror.co.uk/money/water-...

🌊This is how privatisation works: 1. Underinvest, pile on debt, and siphon off billions in dividends. 2. Send the bill to the public when you’ve turned rivers into open sewers. 3. Repeat. Time to kick out profiteers and put the public in control. Time for public ownership.

Interesting litmus test for the Greens' anti-Reform positioning? "Green Party candidates were elected to Penryn Town Council with a 75% of all votes cast, nearly 3 times the number cast for Reform & Labour combined." Greens say their membership in Cornwall has more than tripled in the last year.

Israel’s war with Iran reflects its new regional strategy on foreign and security policy. Following 7 October 2023, Israel has shifted from long‑standing containment strategies to an activist‑offensive posture. Amnon Aran for the @lsemiddleeast.bsky.social blog.

Join more than 141,482 people already calling on the visit to be called off: 38d.gs/USvisit_SMC_...

Tony Blair's latest bile underlines the desperation of Israel's cheerleaders. New column 👇 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Today your annual water bill goes up by £33 to £639 on average. 😕So what are YOU paying for? About a third of your bill is going on shareholder payouts and debt 🤑And what are THEY paying for? 1/2

German imperialism was responsible for the first genocide of the 20th century in its Namibian colony. The country’s socialist movement spoke out vehemently against the atrocities, offering solidarity across the barriers of race and geography.

😍Feargal Sharkey's absolutely right. Public ownership of water is a no-brainer, And 82% of the public agrees. vist.ly/4ww55

Good. Problem is, though, that once you say that the biggest political decision of recent years was wrong, you have to look at why our public sphere was so bad as to cause such a decision.

#OtD 31 Mar 2009 Belfast workers spontaneously occupied the Visteon Ford car parts plant in response to its closure. The next day, Visteon workers in North London occupied their plant while workers at Basildon trashed their site offices stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1038...

Israel has passed the death penalty solely for Palestinians, enforced through military courts with a 96% conviction rate. Israeli Minister Ben Gvir popped champagne. The Israeli government is raising a toast to genocidal apartheid. The UK government is arming and funding it.

Wales Green Party leader Anthony Slaughter said the party is ready to be the ‘kingmakers’ at the Senedd election. The party is launching its campaign today. Greens are running a full slate of candidates in Wales. They're the main challengers to Reform in six marginal seats, new polling suggests.

At the Wales Green Party campaign launch. Write up coming later

The Israeli government has approved the death penalty, but only to be used against Palestinians. This is deadly discrimination by design. We reiterate our call for strong sanctions and namely full arms embargo and suspension of the EU association agreement.

Superb. Really engaging discussion on the populist right and how to challenge them, with @goldbergradio.bsky.social probing intelligently and @davidedgar1.bsky.social and @liambyrnemp.bsky.social responding thoughtfully.

The Australian Labor Party did something most social democrats can't this decade - win ANOTHER election. But how did they do it and what can UK Labour learn? We sat down with New South Wales Legislative Council Member Anthony d'Adam to find out. www.compassonline.org.uk/lessons-from...

The plan was simple: give stuff away for cheap, capture market share, and then increase prices. It worked during the first tech boom. But this strategy doesn't pay off in a world of low growth, high interest rates, and strained supply chains. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Let's send a message from the British public: we want Palantir OUT of our NHS. 38d.gs/breakclause_...

Critics of Marx often get the great socialist thinker wrong. We're here to set the record straight.

Probably not a good sign that the opening gambit is nasty ethnic slurs about group members seen as pandering and deferential. Where are you going to go when it’s time to turn the hate up to 11, Stephen.

The Right would rather eat each other become allies. The public would rather they eat each other too. Progressives can't afford to waste this chance. The progressive majority exists and now is the time to make it a reality.

Watch my talk, to a packed hall of climate advocates in Guildford, on how the #Iran crisis of food and fuel will forge our future: a future in which preparedness/ adaptation/resilience IS rapidly taking centre-stage.

The big defining test of our time: Do you think Palestinian life has equal worth? Our politicians and media outlets don't even pretend to pass it.

It looks like nobody fancies dealing with Trump, his insane war, looming financial calamity and another summer of the far right running wild in the street while Farage, the Tories, the Mail and the Sun cheer them on.

The Green Party are the party of the workers. Lower bills. Raise wages. And take on the cost of living crisis.

To tax the richest Americans, we need to go after their wealth, not just their income. Two proposals — one in California, one in Congress — could finally do it. The alternative is an ever-more-powerful billionaire class that threatens democracy itself.

Spain has closed its airspace to US planes involved in attacks on Iran. Meanwhile, the UK is letting US bombers land, refuel and re-arm. Complicity is always a choice — and our government has chosen to drag Britain into an illegal war.

Fuhrerbunker or Epstein temple, or maybe both

I went to Cuba - and saw a society being destroyed by US warfare. Watch the documentary exclusively in advance by signing up 👇 www.patreon.com/posts/154338...

Is Kemi Badenoch proposing the nationalisation of North Sea oil? Of course she is not. Rather she is just engaging in empty virtue signalling & the right's love of fossil fuels: whose big corporates just happen to bankroll large parts of the UK right-wing.

The Left’s urban success is often credited to progressive, homogenous populations, but that’s superficial. When budgets allow, cities make redistribution and public investment far easier to deliver and their benefits further-reaching.

The No Kings rallies have evolved beyond basic anti-Trump liberalism. Their messaging is sharply antiwar, anti-oligarchy, and far more substantive than the “resistance” politics of Donald Trump’s first term. The Left should be proud to participate.

We did several test runs for “the public are unreasonable greedy bastards who want unicorns and a magic money tree” and it didn’t catch on, but I imagine there’ll be another big punt for that one soon.

Elon Musk sells us sovereignty through technology in an age of crisis. Muskism resembles past futurisms, but with an important difference: this time, the question of who owns the machines is paramount.

I spent the day at Welsh Labour's manifesto launch. There is A LOT to say about it. Check it out my analysis: willhaywardwales.substack.com/p/inside-wel...

During the conflict in the North of Ireland, British security forces colluded with loyalist paramilitaries responsible for hundreds of sectarian murders. The record of collusion should be a cautionary tale for the contemporary US as the far right grows.

Britain also, and let me explain: If important people stop bullshitting and blowing things up for five seconds, reality might intrude and everyone might notice it’s just been a series of World War II level war crimes all along. So it can never end, we must plough on forever.

You’ll recall that we can’t more cheaply produce generic drugs, because that is dumb student politics.

Join the livestream at 6:30 pm [ET] tonight to watch @davidharvey.org discuss his new book, The Story of Capital: What Everyone Should Know About How Capital Works, published by @versobooks.bsky.social, in conversation with @adamtooze.bsky.social. youtube.com/live/gJNhbXt...

Some things are bigger on the inside. From the TARDIS to the local news, the BBC is woven into the fabric of the UK. It’s ad-free, independent, and belongs to all of us. We can’t let this national treasure be exterminated. Are you with us?