Offered asylum by the mad king, British Jews seem less than keen.

Trump is obsessed with the Nobel because Obama got one. He's a longstanding racist (Central Park Five case, 1989) who led the Obama "birther" conspiracy. The black guy still has something he hasn't. His madness isn't an individual matter, it's the madness of slavery, Jim Crow, racist cops.

On BBC R4 Today Amol Rajan reads out the letter in full, discussion politely avoids the plain fact that the most powerful military in the world is controlled by someone who had the mind of a 3-year old or is actually insane.

Everything Trump and his base are doing are also a reaction to the rebellion. It’s no coincidence it is Minneapolis again

Farage really is a nasty racist piece of shit

A day of protest and strike action against ICE has been called for January 23 in Minnesota and unions are supporting the call as well as faith and community groups. inthesetimes.com/article/minn...

Women are feral for Heated Rivalry. What does that say about men?

Ikea's range of discreetly political doormats expands from LGBT to include Palestine. 🙂🍉

A Venezuelan socialist analyses where things stand with Trump, oil, Rodríguez and the "Donroe doctrine". The end of repression in Venezuela and return of political debate there is crucial, as as international solidarity with the Venezuelan people. revsoc21.uk/2026/01/12/v...

Great to join trans people, trade unionists and other allies at today's counter-protest at Elephant and Castle leisure centre in London. Transphobes want to end the centre's trans-inclusive policy - we outnumbered their protest by 2 to 1.

Some 2 million trans people are thinking of moving state, and 1.5 million are thinking of getting a different job. 1 in 4 LGBT people are taking steps to be less visibly LGBT than they were. open.substack.com/pub/erininth...

Latin Americans are sick of being bombarded, exploited and looted by the United States. Inside Parliament and out, we stand with the Venezuelan people in defence of their sovereignty 🇻🇪

Trump's argument that "they haven't invested in the land so they have no right to it" similar to Locke on why native Americans' land can be legitimately taken from them.

Hundreds, maybe a thousand, at Downing Street on a bitterly cold night protesting Trump's imperialist attack on Venezuela.

"We will do whatever Trump says we should do."

Worth recalling, since Trump's Greenland envoy is talking about opioid deaths, that many Americans are addicted to opioids, and tens of thousands die each year, because of the irresponsible marketing of Oxycontin by Purdue - owned by the Sackler family, none of whom have spent a second in jail.

I’m at Times Square, where an emergency “No War On Venezuela” protest just took to the street. Easily a thousand people here in real-feel 20°F weather. “No more coups, no more wars, Venezuela’s not yours!” “No boots on the ground no bombs in the air, U.S. out of everywhere!”

Maybe it sounds like crude socialist propaganda to say that the rich aren't subject to the law like the rest of us, but that is actually the case.

Useful intro to the key issues here. Argues issue is not oil - much of Venezuelan oil is effectively privatised - but about allowing Trump to mass deport Venezuelan migrants and increase power of ICE. Very risky for Trump, who promised no new wars.

Alice Sullivan's complaint against Bristol Uni sees high-profile transphobes abandoning claims about social justice for women and adopting right-wing arguments about "free speech". Latest from my Substack.

"And so, having long debated what to do about this situation, I dug a fire pit in my backyard and burned my complete set of hardcover Harry Potters." I have a lengthy and long in the works piece live this morning, from @literaryhub.bsky.social Hope you all enjoy ... lithub.com/burn-harry-b...

US survey finds 38% of people estranged from a family member. If you're dreading seeing family over Xmas or opting out, you can feel all families are happy, you're the odd one out, maybe it's your fault. They're not, you're not, it isn't. You deserve to have a great time any way.

UNISON members in @rs21.bsky.social write about the recent left win in the contest for General Secretary of Britain's biggest union.

Excellent slogan here. Imperialist genocide generates blowback - not against well-protected Israel, but against less-protected Jews elsewhere - and Netanyahu knows this.

Excellent news. Andrea replaces Christine McAnea, who had prioritised loyalty to Starmer above everything else.

Very much nerdy electoral politics, but interesting on why Labour does so badly in the polls and Reform so well.

not the kind of behavior I expect from the winner of the fifa peace prize

"Santa Claus Never Comes to the Ghetto" by Yellowman, "AIn't No Chimneys In The Projects" by Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, "Santa Is a Gay Man" by Big Freedia and many more good things here.

New UK govt stats show LGB population continues to increase - those aged 16-24 over 6 times more likely to identify as LGB than those aged 65+, big increase in LGB 25-34 year olds.

UK govt estimates show restricting visas for care staff and "skilled" workers will cost up to £10.8bn in visa fees and taxes. Migrant workers contribute - and Labour talk of "growth" and financial "black holes" disappear in their desperation to mimic Reform. archive.ph/b1Ji9

@davidkr.bsky.social Renton argues that the proposed abolition of most jury trials is a further step away from democracy - and won't even reduce waiting times, which are caused by underfunding the court system.

Labour's racist migration policy is inspired by Denmark, where the Social Democrats are about to lose control of the capital for the first time and the far right is growing. The good news is that a left-green alliance may win instead.

@leninology.bsky.social on Labour's new, racist migration policy. "If it sounds like Nazi shit, the prudent assumption is that’s how it’s supposed to sound. Even with a certain ambiguity retained for deniability and equivocation, hitting those notes is a strategy and not a slip."

The company behind Grand Theft Auto are union busters who have sacked 31 staff without union representation, notice or an investigation, in what their union president calls "flagrant contempt for the law". The workers are fighting back. @gtaonline.bsky.social revsoc21.uk/2025/11/14/s...

Excellent and detailed piece by @owenjones.bsky.social on the extraordinary right wing attack on the BBC. open.substack.com/pub/owenjone...

Worth watching the @novaramedia.com interview with The Fraud author @paulholden.bsky.social. Awareness grows in centrist Labour that Starmer/McSweeny needs to end. But do you also ditch Reed? Mahmood? Streeting? Where are the new people and political vision?

Farage said this was a movement of ordinary people - but investigation has revealed committed racists, a Hilter fan and the owner of a failed sex-doll business.

Analysis of the left victory in the Irish presidential election - where next?

Very useful summary of why AI is a bubble, why everyone knows this but it keeps going, what may happen when the bubble bursts.

It's now widely acknowledged that AI investment has created a bubble. Investors continue investing, confident that govts/central banks will intervene to stop the worst of the damage, as in 2008. That's probably true. Meanwhile, these same govts say there's no money for public services.

Interview with an Italian socialist. The Italian protests are on a huge scale, and the issue of Palestine is rebuilding the union movement there. Fascinating stuff.

Thinking that the Soviet Union or post-1949 China represent the communism advocated by Marx has been a longstanding problem on the left and remains one today, as I write for @rs21.bsky.social

NYC is going to get extremely intense with Mamdani’s election and Trump’s ire—streets saturated with ICE thugs, national guard, maybe insurrection act, lots of violence. Like Chicago and LA; maybe worse. I wish I had a clearer sense anyone was forming an adequate mass strategy to respond

Hsiao-Hung Pai reviews a new book about the jobs and consciousness of migrant workers, and highlights the similarities between their struggles and those of migrants in East London a hundred years ago.

Palestinian struggle and a global solidarity movement have thwarted attempted Zionist annihilation after 2 years of genocide. The future of Palestine must be determined by the Palestinian people, not colonial governance. The fight for liberation will continue. Statement from @rs21.bsky.social.

My latest is the story of how my community has rallied to protect and defend our neighbors in recent days, as ICE has targeted the Rogers Park neighborhood in Chicago. "This is not a story about a moment of victory, but a moment of being reminded of our power."

The US arms Israel, so it could stop the genocide whenever it pleased. Yet we're now seeing commentary suggesting that this is somehow down to Trump personally - he is "like a juggernaut" (Guardian). (1/2)

New Substack post from me about Jenrick and what exactly the right means by "integration".