"we are working to line the pockets of billionaires. We are being bled dry. And I don't think it's extreme or radical to think that hard work should get you a nice life. We have shown we don't have to accept being turned against each other at all." Hannah Spencer MP

Mood youtu.be/ZYg4bN8G0II?...

in case anyone ever needed confirmation that it's not about building a democratic Iran, it's about collapsing Iran and turning it into a land of rubble that can be bombed every six months

Every time pedophile billionaires get too close to consequences they decide to murder scores of other kids in the global south to regain popularity.

"The attack on Iran is a clear violation of the UN charter, in any absence of any credible, imminent Iranian threat to the US." And the UK government must say so, loudly and clearly www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Israel and the US have launched an unprovoked and illegal attack on a sovereign nation during ongoing diplomatic negotiations. We should not allow the UK to be dragged into another American war. We must do everything possible to stop this and uphold peace in the region.

6/ It was almost inevitable that a transphobic, pro-billionaire Libertarian crank like Jacob George would be appointed, driven by both structural transphobia and a mistaken faith that deregulation alone leads to better health outcomes.

You almost have to admire the hubris of trying to frame this as a “preemptive attack” when the ENTIRE PURPOSE IS TO PROVOKE A RESPONSE FROM IRAN in order to justify ongoing and more extensive strikes.

Well, you’ll recall that we’re supposed to be in year six of The Great Realignment here, enjoying year two of Boris Johnson’s crushing second election victory over an utterly destroyed left.

Getting a lot of replies from Americans today about how Labour’s woes portend doom for the Democratic Party, if they don’t mend their ways. I think that’s right, in one specific way: both wanted so badly, for so long, to claim the centre ground as the party of mean-as-fuck Business Win authority…

What if the centre ground of Sensible Politics was vacated not because anyone went crazy, but because it’s a polluted, malarial swamp that will swiftly kill anyone trying to occupy it? What if defending the status quo just leaves you holding the bag for decades of farcical crimes against the public?

"Let's be blunt. Let's be brutally honest with ourselves. When you lose an election in a democracy, you deserve to. You don't look at the electorate and ask them, what were you thinking? You look at yourself and ask, what were we doing?" Keir?

I've always seen half of Australia as a dog's head but only today did I realise WHICH dog and what the other half resembled. You might say it was a "Woah" moment #australiaisanelaboratehoax #tintin

Lucy Powell here giving the game away, writes about 'colleagues' rather than 'comrades'. I suspect there's two reasons for this. Firstly, the language of solidarity sticks in her throat, but secondly that the people in the crowd are mainly Labour employees or representatives, not members.

Gorton and Denton turnout: 47.6% (+0.8) 36,903 votes cast

TBH I'd rather be a member of a party which gets out the vote with 1.5% of its membership than with c.30% of its employees, but hey, each to their own.

It's Reform Vs the Green Party. Vote for the Green Party. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Dear @lucympowell.bsky.social, Why did you invent a fake tactical voting company to stop the Green Party beating Reform? I'm starting to think your letters haven't always been in good faith...

this is exactly the correct answer to "who do we be mad at when two groups' rights' are in conflict", the answer is "whoever tf is putting them in conflict", which in this case is "the assholes at the BBC"

The entire apparatus of the state bent towards one goal: making sure you have an email job that they want to replace with AI.

Who knows what works long term but polanski's general attitude of "fuck you, nazi clowns" instead of labour 's "we are sorry we will do better," in response to right wing media, is refreshing

this is my favourite washing machine setting

🚨 WIPE THE SMILE OFF FARAGE'S FACE ✅ Elect the FIRST Northern Green MP 👇 Come campaign TOMORROW! We’ll only win if we do what Greens do best: Turn up and get stuck in! Reform will throw money at this and make a lot of noise. What they don’t have is YOU actionnetwork.org/events/actio...

It's not BAFTA who need to be reviewing this so much as the BBC, who broadcast it.

"Former Labour voter Mohammed Sarfaz, who has run the Andaaz clothing shop in Longsight for 24 years, has placed a Green Party poster in his window. "He said he had concluded that without Burnham as a candidate he would be voting Green."

Another one for the 'rather too-specific denial' file.

Sea traditionally gave the well-off time to scarper and make plans (so erosion was class-coded), now King Neptune becomes more capricious and is doing wild things to Thorpeness

call back tomorrow, and we do that until i run out of steam and give up? that's not a parenting failure. that's a policy failure. the NHS and its ability to give and administer preventative care has been cut to the bone by successive governments.

This is spot on. John Davidson could not help what happened, but there was also no need for it to be broadcast. Muting the sound for that brief moment would have protected everyone involved.

It’s not even a year since the BBC said they should have cut the live broadcast of Bob Vylan immediately, but it’s all shoulder shrugging at the thought of removing the N-word from a pre-record.

Darren Jones keeps saying that Labour Together is a 'separate' organisation from Labour This really doesn't tally with reality at all. LT ran Starmer's leadership campaign; his government is populated by LT people; LT gave £2.5 million to Labour ahead of 2024 general election....

Oh this is just beautiful

The leader of Scottish Labour, Anas Sawar, would rather people didn't share this image of him and his "old friend" Peter Mandelson. So please don't, Scottish Labour's poll ratings are already enough to make him cry.

This thread combines (a) a fascinating discussion of competing visions of technocratic municipal urbanism in an era of shrinking budgets and (b) the first reel of a nightmare horror movie.

Unanswered questions apparently don’t include “why does the Labour Party have a dirty tricks unit for secretly smearing perceived enemies” and “since we now see it does have one and it’s literally trying to report journos to the security services as traitors, what else might it have been up to”

When I met B W-P in the mid 90s he was already Mandelson's bagman. I'm hoping against hope that he hasn't had a chance to smash his hard drives.

If they can arrest Peter Mandelson just because of the many, many crimes he’s committed over the years, then they can come for any of us 😔

Talking openly about this in public too, so I think it’s time to ask ourselves what we collectively want to do in response to a billionaire class that is not embarrassed about declaring themselves kings.

I swear to god when I started to think of the Democrats not as a political party but rather a jobs program for consultants and their failsons it made everything much more clear

Where are her colleagues asking that she come clean? Where is anyone in her cohort asking why the press acts collaboratively with these tiny factions within political parties? They’re nowhere, because they like the system they’ve built and they want to keep it.

Final weekend. One last push. This is about whether you want local plumber Hannah Spencer or the extreme Reform candidate. It's hope vs hate. It's Greens vs Reform. Hope can win.

everyone loved the tech industry's free music and friendship machines of 20-30 years ago. it's unclear what could be causing people to feel the opposite about the industry's new racism and insanity machine

Oops. Turns out Persona, Discord’s age-verification service, was secretly screening selfies against government watchlists AND accessible by the feds. It's backed by Peter Thiel. “The state wants to see everything. The corporations want to see everything. And they've learned to work together.”

Obviously I’m not being serious about that but it is IMO pretty clear the country had a shadowy, undeclared media/political heist opposition for years and that it elected a shit clown government on very different terms to those declared. So.

lmao no I would never get hoisted like that, I mean it's my own freaking petard

<'Zhukov shrugs off cloak' gif>

The YPG like to say that discipline is what you fall back on when you run out of morale. Even when everything seems terrible, you still have to grit your teeth and do the work. This is a new stage of struggle, and things will be harder now, but the revolution is not over.

A CHAMBER IN WINDSOR CASTLE Enter KING CHARLES, attended. A HERALD enters. HERALD: My liege, ill news doth ride upon swift hooves And would not wait for ceremony’s leave! Your brother, York, hath broke his prison bonds And fled the Tower ere the morning watch.

She never lived to see this moment, but it’s worth remembering that none of this would have happened without Virginia Giuffre. She had the courage to speak out against power and privilege when it was just her word against Andrew’s. Thanks to her, justice & accountability may finally have its day.

This is the real story of Britain’s decline: an extractive class that squeezes money out of our island anyway they can, shifts profits offshore, dodges taxes, demands govt handouts, underpays staff, defunds our public services & then points the fingers at migrants. 10/10