So grateful for all the folks on the streets in Gorton and Denton today, and over the past weeks, creating so much hope and possibility.

In between all the Heated Rivalry-related thing, I’m seeing so much high quality @greenparty.org.uk-endorsing content from such a wide range of creators ahead of the Gordon and Denton by-election. It’s very impressive

This is such an awful and important read. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

It brings me an incredible sense of peace to imagine the fear and feeling of walls closing in for men who abused women and girls with elite impunity

#OtD 19 Feb 2002 legendary transgender activist of Puerto Rican and Venezuelan descent, Sylvia Rivera died aged 50 in NYC. Born in the Bronx, she was a friend to Marsha P Johnson, active in the Gay Liberation Front and the Young Lords stories.workingclasshistory.com/tag/8460/syl...

Re-upping this for the Monday crowd... I think my favourite, most revealing detail is that the guy seems to not realise he's in trouble because London Centric's reporting didn't hit anything like his view counts, so therefore it can't really matter.

“The Global South is where the majority of these critical minerals are located, but these countries have not been included in this conference.” @stefanzylinski.bsky.social speaks to @aljazeera.com on the US-hosted conference developing a Global North coalition on critical mineral security.

Watching a bunch of nerdy middle aged men being made to awkwardly sing Joni Mitchell on TV is one of the reasons I love #OnlyConbect a whole lot

I’m pretty jaded and cynical about the immoral, back door dealings of certain politicians, but the Mandelson leaks today have left me with my gob hanging open #c4news

Thompson Twins were the first band that were ‘mine’, not my older brother’s or sisters’, and I loved them with fierce passion www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...

Yep, The Times is going with 'The murder of Renee Nicole Good is the fault of immigrants'.

Nothing says 'christmas cheer' like a quick blast of Fugazi. Thank you 6 Music

Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.

It's so hard to contrast all the nice warm, Christmas feelings with the stress and trauma of what families of the hunger strikers in prison are going through right now. I've made a donation to them as part of my last minute Christmas shopping. chuffed.org/project/filt...

My rare pleasure of buying an actual newspaper for a long train journey ruined by it having Wes Streeting’s face all over it.

I genuinely despair at the continuous conflation of 'terrorism' and 'protest' in media spaces in the last few days. This is such effective right wing discourse that will undermine all kinds of democratic rights.

I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork

🔴 REVEALED 🔴 The Institute of Economic Affairs – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group that "incubated" Liz Truss – was bankrolled by oil giants and Rupert Murdoch’s media empire. 📝 Exclusive findings from @desmog.com 👇

My first ever name check on @laurenlaverne.bsky.social's 'six of the best' segment today on #bbc6music - a very proud moment. The theme was 'women in drums' and obviously I went for the incredible Sheila E #6musicdilf

Respect to this guy for making himself vulnerable and reliving childhood traumas. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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...