Why is Keir Starmer utterly incapable of saying no to Donald Trump? Our national security requires us not to be dragged into illegal wars. The Prime Minister is making us less safe. Did we learn nothing from Iraq?

So wait… Is Tel Aviv now a no-go area for Jews? Are Maccabi Tel Aviv antisemitic for attacking Jews and Jewish police? Are Tel Aviv police antisemitic for blocking Jews from a game of football? Would I be antisemitic for criticising Israelis (and therefore all Jews globally) for rioting?

1/ I guess I’m ‘The Good Immigrant’: Been here most of my life now, never claimed benefits, paid taxes, worked for the NHS, taught students, done research for public good, volunteered, spoke English fluently. So why do I feel so alienated and hurt by the government’s anti- immigrant rhetoric?

4/ So I guess I’m not so ‘good’ after all. I don’t pull the ladder up behind me. I don’t use my privilege to bash the unfortunate. I don’t express gratitude for an unjust society that punishes people for their suffering. I don’t shut up. I speak up. I hope you do too.

This is what Israel is. And so long as we arm and otherwise support them, this is who we are as well.

Extraordinary stuff.

We often talk about the impact of figures like Andrew Tate on boys, but what about his impact on girls? What toll does it take on the psyche of a teenage girl to see him elevated by the media, protected by governments and worshipped by peers? What lessons are girls learning about their worth?

It’s gone so quickly from ‘boat people’ to all immigrants. So quickly from ‘I don’t mind if they come here legally and pay taxes’ to ‘actually it’s anyone foreign’. We are living in the ‘first they came for’ poem. All to give the population a scapegoat so the super rich can hoard yet more wealth.

It is politics by ego. This is what you get when you place the hopes of the left in the hands of celebrities and their bag-carriers, without nourishing the capacity to self-organise. The farce of recent days is the logical end point of that political method. For @novaramedia.com.

I of course welcome the recognition of the state of Palestine. And there won't be a Palestinian state left if government's continue enabling Israel's unfolding genocide. Labour can't credibly support Palestinian statehood whilst also continuing to arm Israel.

The Your Party vapourware shitshow failed Kickstarter project is still rumbling on. Not a single decent leader or leadership partnership, or project manager, or policy and marketing expert among them. They could have hired a project lead with the £1M raised but gave it all back. "The left". 🙄

Well, that's my 3 seconds of fame troops 🤣 So proud of everyone who showed up today to let the fascists know that these are our streets... And REFUGEES ARE WELCOME HERE! ❤️✊️

Statement from Jamie Driscoll, Beth Winter and Andrew Feinstein.

Wes Streeting is making the NHS make around 100k vital staff redundant and the £1billion redundancy cost has to be paid out of the existing NHS budget.

Yesterday (13th September 2025) I found myself in London, camera slung over my shoulder, moving through a crowd I wasn’t there to join but to try and understand. That’s what I do: I observe, I photograph, and I try, however imperfectly, to make sense of the world in front of me. More👇

The biggest far-right demonstration in British history is a gruesome reminder of how much trouble we are in. Since the financial crash, the direction of travel for the far right across the West has only been in one direction - and that is up.

The scenes on our streets are shameful consequences of decades of austerity - government after government fanning the flames of anti migration instead of tackling inequality. We can & must make different choices. Solidarity to all communities under attack. We stand together.

They are attacking the Police again, at the 'peaceful march'. Imagine if Pro Palestine supporters did this (they never do), they would all be instantly in jail.

Fascists aren’t welcome in our streets. Not today. Not tomorrow. Not ever.

It's physically unsafe for people like me to go into the centre of our home city this Saturday on account of the colour of our skin. Most politicians are either failing to stand up to this or actively contributing to the situation. We don't owe any of those politicians our votes. Not one of them.

100,000 plus on the facist march in London today. Police estimating 5000 on the Stand up to Racism counter demonstration. Recent events have clearly helped swell numbers for the far right but this is very worrying. In my life time I have never known facists out number antifacists like this.

If you want an informed explanation of what the messages on the bullet casings used by Tyler Robinson actually mean to the extreme far right internet edge-lord culture that he was embedded in, please watch this excellent video from @roterote.bsky.social. #r4today vm.tiktok.com/ZNdboB7vo/

The reporting on Charlie Kirk’s killer in the UK & US highlights again how fundamentally ill equipped mainstream media is to report on political violence in the digital age. They do not know anything about online far right meme culture & it’s starting to do real harm. #r4today

200,000 people marched in London yesterday for Gaza. It was emotional and incredible to be with so many wonderful people in solidarity with Palastine. #FreePalestine #stopthegenocide

It is becoming clear that the police have neither the capacity or the will to arrest the protestors at the #LiftTheBan protest in London this afternoon. Oppose #Genocide Action for #Palestine Meanwhile it's nap time for many #FreeGaza

Just when you think you have reached your capacity to be shocked. Then you discover the IDF are doing something so absolutely abhorrent that it floors you once again. I shudder to think what horrors will be discovered when this all ends and all the truth finally comes out.

Unbelievable scenes at the finish of the Vuelta de España today as Basque people turn out in a huge show of solidarity with Palestine. The race couldn't finish. 'Some things are more important than sport', the commentator said. Palestine wins the stage 💚

I know it’s been said but WOW nothing makes me think someone is more pathetic than obsessing over the flag assigned to the manmade borders you’re born in to. Frightened little rabbit boys, they’re so pathetic x

Why, you might ask, do the BBC and Sky News, casting their editorial guidelines to the wind, keep giving massive airtime to the far right, while shutting out leftwing voices? Don't their bosses understand the likely consequences? Only one explanation now remains. They do. And it is what they want.

That rarest of things ... a new blog post.

Reform UK, which has a grand total of four MPs, was just given an uninterrupted platform for an hour and a half on the BBC and Sky News channels, in order to talk about its plans for mass deportations When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?

And like clockwork, there is David Lammy's handwringing tweet. I bet they’re shitting themselves in Tel Aviv over Lammy’s latest “horrified” tweet. He continues to arm Israel and refuses to improper sanctions. Prison awaits.

To be clear what happened here. Israel bombed a hospital. They waited for paramedics and first responders to arrive. Then they bombed it again. This is known as the 'double tap'. You are watching unfathomable evil, armed and facilitated by the West.

Definitely think the ingredients for fascism/authoritarianism are always with us even under democratic conditions. And the price of complacency and illiteracy about that is the loss of democracy

It's not asylum seekers who jack up rents, undermine the NHS, hold down wages and keep people insecure. It's capital. The role of the far right is to shift the blame for decades of economic attacks by the rich and powerful onto powerless people who have only just arrived here.

At Forwards Festival with @zarahsultana.bsky.social. Free Palestine. 🇵🇸

Day in, day out, I speak to ordinary people who are organising to welcome the asylum seekers accommodated in their towns. They befriend, support them, reach out to them as fellow human beings. That's the Britain I know, the one I see around me & we never get told about on TV.

I'm going to keep going on about this btw.

Spent a depressing evening trying to explain that a meme about Muslims in Britain was completely inaccurate. Ofcourse they didn't care about the inaccuracies and just doubled down with more nonsense. We had, invasion, 5 star hotels, rapes, sharia courts, forced Islamic education in schools.

"But they came here illegally" 1. No, they didn't. Seeking asylum is a human right protected under Article 14 of UDHR. 2. Even if they did, who even gives a fuck?! We would ALL break the law in a desperate situation. Less chat of legality more chat of justice & morality pls They're not the same.

Proud to see my former PhD supervisor Gilbert Achcar here, alongside some of the biggest names in progressive academia. Every one of us needs to raise our voice in this moment. Its a matter of basic moral obligation and civic duty. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

New YouGov polling. A monumental failure of our political class to educate, a monumental failure of our media to report fairly, for a generation

Watching footage of the massive March for Humanity in Sydney today and wondering if the UK palastinian protest scene needs a slight change of focus. Weekly protests are impressive. But are they exhausting activists without having much impact. Would a one off massive protest be more effective?

Great footage of the March for Humanity accross Sydney Harbour bridge today. Organiser estimate 300,000 attendees. We could do with a protest of this size in the UK. www.facebook.com/share/r/1BRx...

Let me be clear, I do not give a fuck about the lives of racist settler colonialists whose sole existence is an act of oppression. There is no such thing as an innocent civilian in a settler colony where your every action goes toward sustaining the supremacist colonial project.

What do you suppose the percentages would be if we polled the Labour and Tory frontbenches on these questions? Or the leading media pundits? Time for Westminster and Fleet St to get their house in order. Root out the extremists in their midst.

Hero. www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

We are beyond statements, we are beyond arms embargos, we are even beyond sanctions and boycotts. At this point we should be sending the army in. Yet we do nothing. #stopthegenocide #FreePalestine

Who knew if you don't invest in the economy it shrinks! Absolutely useless numpties. Labour clueless, brainless, and idealess. 15 years of real world data to tell us austerity doesn't work. So what do they do, more austerity! www.theguardian.com/business/liv...

Historically, one interesting aspect of how incoming fascist governments have consolidated their position is the extent to which their predecessors have helpfully laid the table for them.