The RICH are paying HIM to keep the POOR Opposing the POORER

There we go. The press projecting equivalence of the interests of a tiny but wealthy minority with the interests of the ‘Nation’. The other classic is: “foreigners bad”. Now if you just alternate between the two… I wrote a bit about this last week: thelivingweft.wordpress.com/2025/11/23/o...

3/ "Even if the U.S. were at war with the traffickers, an order to kill all the boat’s occupants if they were no longer able to fight 'would in essence be an order to show no quarter, which would be a war crime,' said Huntley, now director of the national security law program at Georgetown Law."

About 100 members of the Sudanese community and supporters rallied at Parliament House to call for an end to the genocide in Sudan. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1443/ne...

🔴UK Government Flouted Own Rules Designed to Stop Gaza Intelligence Harming Palestinian Civilians The revelation raises questions over whether UK applied safeguards designed to prevent information from 600 RAF intelligence flights being used to harm civilians in Gaza bylinetimes.com/2025/11/18/u...

Watching the Mahmood announcement and debate. Tory backbencher (Karen Bradley) suggests putting refugees into debt and making them repay during the rest of their lives. Mahmood says she’ll think about it.

In my wildest dreams I never imagined that the answer to the question "What does the Labour Party mean to you?" would be "Confiscating jewellery from asylum seekers"

The Prime Minister said in September that we are at a fork in the road. These asylum proposals suggest we have taken the wrong turning. The idea that recognised refugees need to be deported is wrong. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Unspeakable suffering in Tawila. Over half of the fleeing survivors are children. One injured woman I met walked into the camp after surviving an attack, carrying her friend's starving child. They're asking the world if help is coming. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

ICE almost deported a Native American woman. azmirror.com/2025/11/12/a...

Increase in productivity since 1979: 87% Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32% Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%. As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.

Reminder that Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500. And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers?

‘Worrying reports’ continue of abductions and disappearances in Syria — Global Issues https://www.europesays.com/2553244/ “Eleven months after the fall of the former government in Syria, we continue to receive worrying reports about…

This is what oligarchy looks like: If you're Elon Musk, the richest man alive, Tesla gives you a $1 trillion pay package & Trump gives you a huge tax break. If you're a poor kid on SNAP, Trump appeals a court decision that would have prevented you from going hungry. Obscene.

"By my calculations, some 26 families with a net worth of over a third of a trillion spent over 22 million dollars trying to prevent 8 million New Yorkers from getting free transport and affordable homes." Me on Mamdani: thelivingweft.wordpress.com/2025/11/06/t...

Social media footage and satellite imagery show killings as Rapid Support Forces took over Al Fashir (El Fasher). Bellingcat geolocated one incident on the city’s outskirts and showed it to the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/11...

The @lesleyriddoch.bsky.social podcast is always a pleasure but this week's tribute to the Scottish curator, the late Elspeth King, is fascinating. I'd never heard of her, but her work at the People's Palace Museum in Glasgow sounds joyful and inspirational. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/j...

Walmart and McDonald’s are among the top employers of workers who rely on food stamps. McDonald's CEO raked in $18.2M last year — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay. Walmart's CEO pocketed $27.4M — 930x the company's median employee pay. See the problem?

Blood spilled in Sudan can be seen from space. Nobody can feign ignorance about what’s going on | Nesrine Malik

#Sudan: MSF fears large numbers of people remain trapped in grave danger in #ElFasher, blocked by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) from reaching safer areas after they and their allies seized control of the city this week. www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/sudan-msf-de...

Labour's ugly rhetoric has consequences: a sentence I frankly wish I'd never felt the need to type. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

An estimated 130,000 children in Al Fasher, Sudan, are at a high risk of grave rights violations, with reports of abduction, killing and maiming, and sexual violence. UNICEF calls for an immediate ceasefire, safe, unimpeded humanitarian access, and the protection of civilians, especially children.

Ards Historical Society’s Bully’s Acre exhibition in the Newtownards Tourist Information centre. The @heartsofdown.bsky.social Forgotten Famine film is the centrepiece.

Farage: epic grifter

Some good news/ Home Office evaluation of the Refugee Transitions Outcomes Fund - pilot schemes to help employment, housing and integration for newly recognised refugees. Substantially improved employment outcomes & had positive fiscal impacts. www.gov.uk/government/p...

Insane story out of India

Watch this space, we have some exciting news.

Spot on “Many of Labour’s younger voters are already tempted by the Green Party, which combines environmentalism with left wing economics. Now by mocking Green protections & cosying up to developers, chancellor is giving them more reasons to jump ship”. So here it is join.greenparty.org.uk/join-us/

I love the phrase ‘a nation of neighbours’ here. We don’t have to be ‘all the same’, or ‘share an identity’ to learn to share the neighbourhood democratically.

As Yom Kippur ends, it is terrible that a holy day has seen people killed at a place of worship in Manchester I hope many of us will express solidarity + support for Jews in Britain, and work with them + those of every faith and none to deepen our efforts to tackle antisemitism, hatred + extremism

Our thoughts, prayers and solidarity are with the victims and the whole community at Heaton Park synagogue. This horrific attack coming on Yom Kippur will only compound the pain felt by our Jewish friends and neighbours.

So horrifying. Both the terrible violence in Manchester and the fear this creates for Jewish people everywhere, especially as they mark Yom Kippur. My thoughts with everyone affected

Another great project developed by the Centre for Public History at QUB

So exhausting..

2 days until the Global Greetings event at Queen's Uni Belfast! Bring your own lunch, take away a language (well, 9 basic phrases for greeting others in a range of languages)! Wednesday 01.10.2025 12.30-1.30pm, South Dining Hall. Follow the QR to register or visit: go.qub.ac.uk/byol-taal

Did you know it's the European Day of Languages? A timely reminder to advertise this: GLOBAL GREETINGS! Bring your own lunch, take away a language! Queen's University Belfast, Wed 01.10.25 REGISTER: events.humanitix.com/byol-taal

Only just learning that the sequence of three asterisks you often see in books (generally used to denote a break within a chapter) is called a dinkus

Practical meeting of UN humanitarians with Transitional Prime Minister of Sudan at #UNGA80. We discussed more visibility for Sudan, worsening situation in El Fasher, expanding access and UN presence, and ensuring more lifesaving aid gets everywhere it is needed

This country made significant progress against racism in my lifetime - but we did not do so by chance. There is a visible visceral regression in experiencing of overt racism because the toxic fringe with the most extreme views have a sense of permission & impunity www.easterneye.biz/racism-in-uk...

Introducing slightly less cruel/damaging version of Farage's plans would not "outmanoeuvre Reform";would be an economic/ political own goal Far better to attack Reform/Tories for Powellite ethnonationalism & say migrants who come here, contribute & *choose* to stay are welcome -and become British.

Evidence has been found for the first time that abducted Ukrainian children were used by russia to assemble military equipment, according to the head of a Yale University team investigating the fate of nearly 20,000 minors reported to have been kidnapped or forcibly displaced.

They say "we own this street - not you". They are a marking of territory. In this context, they are not a symbol of unity, but exclusion. A visual reminder that I am not welcome. *You* may not get it, because you have the right look and accent, but I assure you that those putting them up get it. 4/

On the same day in the Telegraph:

CFP: Research Society for Victorian Periodicals 2026 conference at TCD

I enjoyed doing this interview about my book: kevincoldiron.substack.com/p/the-measur...

Good report on refugee family reunion on Today programme with Amol Rajan, with Houbab (sp?), a Sudanese refugee now living in Scotland with her children, and then me. From about 7.09am. [with updated link] www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Good report on refugee family reunion on Today programme with Amol Rajan, with Houbab (sp?), a Sudanese refugee now living in Scotland with her children, and then me. From about 7.09am. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Draw the line. Join the Green Party today ⤵️ join.greenparty.org.uk?utm_source=s...