Don't take your policy out in public, it's unseemly. Your policy is not your message. The *outcome* of your policy is your message - the life it will deliver for people. In other words, sell the brownie, not the recipe, like every effective marketer knows.

If people feel comfortable saying these things on an incredibly public platform, imagining what they are saying/doing in private www.bbc.com/news/article...

There is nothing inevitable about politics. Grateful for the many people who knocked on many doors and told a different story www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Grateful for @theblessedmadonna.bsky.social standing up for our community in the face of such horrific ignorance. www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/23/t...

BREAKING: Right to protest is under sustained attack in the west, report finds Counter-terror laws being ‘weaponised’ against pro-Palestine groups in UK, US, France and Germany, says International Federation for Human Rights www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Do you know people who are reporting on the UN climate talks in Brazil (Nov 10-21)? We have a very comprehensive list of international folks who will on the ground and are are available for interviews, quotes, briefings, opinion pieces or any other media needs. Message me for the list

How do we live in a world where we allow this to happen? www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

What even is the point if Ofcom? www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/06/g...

Transphobes want to exclude trans people from all the spaces that they possibly can, including the beautiful bathing ponds on Hampstead Heath - here's a short consultation form that it's important for allies to fill in hampstead-heath-bathing-ponds.commonplace.is

Noticeable how police resources are stretched to deal with ‘actual terrorism’ when they are having to deal at the same time with ‘not actual terrorism at all but ridiculously designated as such by the government’

More than 60,000 people have signed a new petition within 24 hours calling for PPE-scandal peer Michelle Mone to be stripped of her peerage and removed from the House of Lords www.change.org/p/strip-mich...

Grateful that we have a political leader in the UK - @zackpolanski.bsky.social - who unapologetically articulates a positive vision of migration. This is a mainstream position - the Spanish Prime Minister says very similar things. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Synagogue attack in Manchester just so grim and horrific. Thinking of all Jewish friends and beyond who don't feel safe.

‼️ URGENTE ‼️ @juanbordera.bsky.social desde el mar: están a punto de ser interceptados por Israel. 🔴 Viajan sin protección, abandonados por los gobiernos que deberían garantizar su seguridad. 🚨Testimonio urgente de un crimen en marcha.

"And these children that you spit on, as they try to change the world"

I've backed @fairtaxunionjacks.com - supporting this campaign is a simple way to push back against the Billionaires funding fascism and refocussing our anger on the real problem: WEALTH INEQUALITY! #TaxTheSuperRich www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/fair-tax-u...

Can you imagine the uproar of (for instance) the Spanish government forcing UK retirees in Spain to do community service?

There's lots to decode looking back on The Hitman and Her that ran in the late 80s and early 90s, but one thing that I cannot get my head round is all the men wearing shirts and ties in a nightclub www.youtube.com/watch?v=53WJ...

"This isn't a choice between more North Sea drilling or imports — that ship has sailed. It’s between more imports or ramping up renewables. The transition must be better planned...but as long as the spectre of more drilling hovers, governments will continue to delay." My letter in today's FT:

Wonderful news - Alaa is free! www.bbc.com/news/article...

Happy to bung in a few quid towards this www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/fair-tax-u...

Disappointed that this BBC news piece about Trump not wanting Mayor Sadiq Khan at the State Banquet doesn't once mention Khan's race or religion. If you leave out that Khan is a brown Muslim man, you gloss over why he's targeted by Trump. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It's weird that the Free Speech Union don't seem to be saying anything about the Jimmy Kimmel censorship today - it's almost as if the 'free speech crisis' only gets weaponised to reinforce one particular political position.

All political tribes can be hypocritical but the right's current level of hypocrisy on free speech is deliberate. It's an assertion of power not a blindspot.

It's incredible after years of the right manufacturing a free speech crisis over cultural audiences being a bit anti-racist, that the right are suddenly launching into censorship at scale www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Russia designated the 'LGBT Movement' as a terrorist organisation. They know there is no such group; that's the point. It means they can choose to arrest ANYONE with any association with LGBT issues and treat them as a terrorist. The fact that 'antifa' is not a group should not be a comfort here.

Spanish learners! I cannot recommend this 'intermediate learners' podcast enough. Brilliant pace and clarity for an immersive listening experience, and dealing with all sorts of engaging subjects podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i...

I was going to call this a 'systematic transfer of wealth' but its feels more like just basic looting, from our collective purse, to the pockets of the richest in society www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Progressive populist messaging is like a breath of fresh air in UK politics right now.

Reflecting today on the hundreds of thousands of people across the U.K. who regularly take to the streets, to stand in solidarity with Gaza, to support migrant right, to demand climate action - and much more. Much smaller sporadic protests from the far right take a disproportionate amount of space

FWIW, just wanted to acknowledge what US friends are going through now amidst calls for retributive violence - especially those who’ve put heads above parapets to speak out against rise of the far right. Now is a good time to check in with folks. The only way we get through all of this is together

Nothing says "last days of Rome" quite like SUV uptake in the UK www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

I've had the opportunity to present some of the socio-ecological dimensions of wildfires in Spain and the Mediterranean, as part of the flammable capitalism in which we live, at @aljazeera.com. 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾 www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

"These fires are not natural phenomena. They are expressions of a system in combustion, accelerated by climate change induced by our socioeconomic order & aggravated by land-use policies subordinated to accumulation, profit & growth" [email protected] www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

Here for it.

I don't know about you but I've had about enough of mainstream media & politicians legitimising racist anti-asylum protests that terrorise refugees & communities. I had to push back hard, TWICE on BBC yesterday about supposed "legitimate concerns" www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtkA...

How is democracy in action a 'hostile takeover'?

I am one of the 14 authors who chose to leave the Polari Prize, and I find myself frustrated and saddened at the way this entire story has been represented. 1/

"Powerful oil- and gas-producing countries and the plastics industry oppose production limits. They want a treaty focused on better waste management and reuse." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

@simonblackbourn.net Such a great listen and made me think of you (and a couple of others into this kind of thing) badgayspod.com/episode-arch...

An incredible new art work created by Anish Kapoor in the North Sea on a gas platform www.greenpeace.org.uk/news/anish-k...

EXACTLY as trans people predicted... Cis women & non-binary people are being harassed & assaulted in toilets since the supreme court misjudgement. @libbybrooks.bsky.social in the Guardian. I'm now working on a way to monitor, document and record incidents like these. Attn @cliveefford.bsky.social

Crying more useless tears this morning.

An incredibly powerful mass act of courage and conviction in Central London yesterday. Time for the Home Secretary to back down. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

@sachacoward.bsky.social Hello, the 'fossil free books' campaign folks wanted to reach out to the Polari withdrawl people to see if they could offer support based on their experience - do you know who they could reach out to?

Update on withdrawals from the Polari Prize: Jason Okundaye, Sacha Coward, Amy Twigg, Mae Diansangu, Ciara Maguire have all withdrawn so far, in protest of the inclusion of John Boyne.

I am literally 5 mins awake and its already time for the percolator on bbc 6 music. Quite the gateway into consciousness.

If you have to spend the first half of your election pitch throwing coded shade at what your opponent is doing, it kind of comes across like you've lost the battle already.