The demonstration has come and gone, but Billy Bragg's song written to counter the"Putting the Christ Back into Christmas" demo by far-right racist criminal Tommeh Robinson is a great piece of work ... youtu.be/liRd9pjSBDA?...

Absolutely no chance. "The nation's sons & daughters" might need a great deal of persuading. Fighting for what, exactly? A future of personal debt, climate collapse &huge wealth inequality? All while the sons and daughters of the wealthy play on far flung beaches at the same time?

Without suggesting stopping our individual efforts, there's a bigger picture. We need to create a right to repair law into manufacturing (including imports) and to ban materials that aren't environmentally safe. End the focus on consumers changing behaviours, focus on manufacturers doing better.

At least Denmark is waking up. The Danish equivalent(ish) of a National Security Statement includes a short statement suggesting that the US is now a "potential security concern." Well done, Denmark. Not before time.

Another hazard for vulnerable pedestrians in order to put more money in wealthy pockets while removing jobs for the rest of us.

Every time a politician from any party says something is being "over diagnosed" - what they mean is, "I prefer an unequal society in which the weakest suffer and, ideally, just die." "Over diagnosed" just means "we don't want to pay for it, even if we caused it." #UKPolitics

"US government believes that its national security is best served by the destruction of liberal democracy in Europe. In other words, the US is not just an unwilling ally, it is a willing adversary." (Cas Mudder) www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

By adding piracy to the long list of crimes, after openly declaring political war on Europe, the USA must now be regarded by our supine leaders as a hostile rogue state. Won't be, of course, they're cowardly idiots. Get US troops out of Europe. Close embassies. No travel. Seriously, USA - fuck off.

What price the environment? westcountryvoices.co.uk/last-patch-o...

So much for the claimed "civilising" influence of colonialism, if indeed anyone still believes in that. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Symptomatic of the state of our nation and the wider, greedy corporate world. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"...a society that arrests an 83-year-old retired vicar for holding a placard supporting non-violent direct action, and opposed to genocide, is firmly on an authoritarian pathway." The UK, now. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"Shared family values", eh? Look out for all Starmer's relatives getting influential appointments and plenty of government business, then. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Well, there's a surprise. 🤣

And this, too. Not my Labour. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Labour's belief in human dignity writ large. “Someone who needs assistance to cut up food, wash their hair and body below the waist, use the toilet and dress/undress their lower body wouldn’t receive Pip under the new rules.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Israel's Minister for National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir, "People who attack hospitals are Nazis." Does anybody want to tell him?

Hitting the nail firmly on the head. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Incontinent and can't wash your lower body? That's fine. You're not disabled enough. Go get yourself something more debilitating to suffer from and come back and try again. This government is really going from strength to strength. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Oh, ffs! www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Interesting and useful. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A small sample of the human beings whose family lives are the sacrifice on the altar of appeasing the far right. Come on, Labour, you really should be doing better. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

I'd laugh, but it's really not funny. eastangliabylines.co.uk/politics/loc...

BEFORE going to trial. BEFORE being found guilty, which, as we still allegedly have the presumption of innocence, he might well not be. If this happened to a British citizen overseas, there would be an outcry, but it's happening here, under a Labour government. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Does this make you uncomfortable while you laugh? It should.

If the profits going to Private companies in the UK went to the Government they could build 7m houses a year or 3,500 New Hospitals. And before privatisation nearly 60% of it was.

Valid point.

Of all the self help instructionals that I've seen, this is the only one that is guaranteed to work as stated.

If Farage ever gets to run things, we'll find out pretty quickly.

35 years of England water privatisation. Industry controlled by companies with 1,135 criminal convictions. 1trn litres water a year lost in leaks. Sewage dumped in rivers for 3.62m hrs a year. £85bn dividends, £70bn+ debt, people fleeced Last decade, £112m exec bonuses . Must end privatisation.

Not just in the US.

Oooh, you mean it's OK to leave, realise it's a mistake, then rejoin? 😉

Who said it had to make sense?

Good to see Richard Tice back on TV. It's about time Laura Kuenssberg did her bit to normalise Reform policies by platforming a party with only 5 MPs almost every week.

I doubt it...

🔴 19 days after winning general election, Labour tech sec Peter Kyle met Google Deepmind CEO Demis Hassabis During the meet Hassabis agreed to “act as a ‘sense check’ from industry" for government's policy "on AI opportunities, legislation and safety.” democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-s...

"Fuck your concrete"

Welcome to America, where protesting illegal kidnappings without due process is an insurrection, but attacking the nation’s Capitol is not.

I don't care if these monstrous ICE raids are a "federal operation". This is authoritarian violence, plain and simple. Just because Stephen Miller has kidnapping quotas for brown people he doesn't want to see on the street doesn't mean we have to think it's okay.

Yes, exactly this. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

For the unbelievers. 🏳️‍⚧️ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"Watching two of the very worst people in the world direct their nastiness at each other is extremely cathartic." 😁 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

1. These people are Black Nigerians, with their own lives and livelihood in their home country. A Labour government is refusing them permission to visit close family in the UK. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

It doesn't matter whether you believe climate change is human driven or not, the natural world continues to react. Our children and grandchildren will face the consequences we are ignoring. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Decent politicians need to push back against Farage's comments on Lucy Connelly. "millions of mothers after Southport feeling exactly the same way"? No. Millions did NOT feel the need to call for mass murder of asylum seekers & we simply cannot allow the idea to be normalised.

How can it not be counted if someone cannot wash themself below the waist? Clean armpits are a need, but a clean bum is just an unnecessary luxury? It is, let me remind you, a so-called Labour government proposing these cuts. Shame on them. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"A Labour government is in power and we are still debating whether the state should help children who are cold, hungry and dirty." Although maybe "they" rather than "we"? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

And who the hell thought it was OK to challenge someone because of what they looked like anyway?