Lots of things can be true at once- - if the Golder’s Green attacker attacked one person known to him that was Muslim and two strangers who were visibly Jewish then that’s still v probably an antisemitic attack. - BUT it’s troubling that the third victim has been left out of media coverage…

Have to say.. as red flags go, proposing to set up concentration camps and taking a £5M personal bribe would be the top two when deciding who NOT to vote for. It is genuinely insane and extremely troubling that Farage could still be electable despite that… or even because of it. WTAF, UK?

While the world’s eyes are on fashion’s biggest night, we’re turning ours to the garment, retail, and warehouse workers who keep the industry running. From true love found on the picket line to a free tailoring school out of a Brooklyn basement — meet the New Yorkers who make it all possible.

Brexit Racism Russian bribes Christofascist Trump links Clacton house purchase Multiple jobs Tice’s tax The Epstein files The ruinous policies The inept councils The wild corruption… For love of god. When will Farage be held to account? Once he’s been red-carpeted into No.10 and it’s far too late?

We must understand that the Voting Rights Act was not merely about ensuring Black Americans rights, it was about democratizing America. This ruling is not just a decimation of Black rights and Black Americans’ ability to have representation, it is a fatal blow to multiracial democracy.

Still feel like "Musk and his crew of incels destroyed a bunch of stuff they didn't understand and thereby hastened the deaths of millions of children" did not get the public attention it warranted.

This piece is beautiful and wise

Hmm. This definitely tracks

An important corrective to the shameful, sensationalist BBC ‘investigation’ into ‘fake’ asylum claims

Sharing because I want the Greens to do well - and part of that requires constructive criticism and holding to high standards. Greens/Polanski need to get much better on international affairs.

Looking forward to reading this!

This is, sadly, so true...

Never trust anyone not over the 60s. Niall O'Shaughnessy on the sad history of industrial democracy in European Law. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

“I’ll be voting for Reform - it can’t get any worse” Oh it really can. You put a bunch of corrupt, racist, incompetent, lying Trumpists in charge and things will get very much worse. Potholes and empty shops will feel unimportant compared to the loss of the NHS, social care and a torched economy.

For the second day, the BBC are running a story that presents itself as providing evidence of endemic abuse of the asylum system based on seemingly a single encounter with someone who is neither a lawyer nor a registered immigration adviser. Words fail. This is reprehensibly irresponsible.

The BBC, yet again, helping to skew public understanding of - and encourage hostility towards - migration and asylum

Editorial in the new issue: @vbogoesky.bsky.social on the Court's AMWD decision and its impact on social europe. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Several hundred thousand people contributed to a govt consultation about settlement changes on waiting 10-15 Nothing like the energy on reporting that as on asylum That exemplifies the big skew identified in the BBC review that over-covers asylum, undercovers work & study migration dramatically

“Brexit IS the betrayal”

🔥This is an incredible result! A quick concession is of course in Hungary’s best interests. If Magyar also has a 2/3 majority (as looks likely) then he’ll have full control to remove Fidesz corruption. Finally- it’s a humiliation for Trump & Putin - and a boost for Ukraine.

It's a good night to read this excellent piece, on the Orban regime's network of financial support for the nationalist right in Britain. For many on the radical right, the tills are about to stop ringing. democracyforsale.substack.com/p/orbans-brits

i hope the white house sends vance to campaign for Reform in britain

Hungarians deserve every congratulations for giving Peter Magyar a bigger margin than Orban has ever gotten in all of his rigged elections - and this within the system that Orban rigged. Magyar now has a constitutional majority to undo Orban's constitutional prison and govern as a democratic leader.

It's not just that Orbán losing inspires hope in other competitive-autocratic countries ruled by right-wing nationalist authoritarians. It's that his loss materially changes things in those other countries, because he's been operating as a headquarters and funding source...

📖 New book | Radicals: The Working Classes and the Making of Modern Britain (out April) by Dr Geoff Andrews Explores how working-class movements shaped modern Britain—activism, resistance & social change. #Politics #History #NewBook

Really helpful analysis

🔥 I took a couple of days to compile this long analysis. The elections in Hungary tomorrow are seismic, globally. So I cover: - The rise of Orbán - Orbán’s weakening - The emergence of Péter Magyar - The election battle - The JD Vance visit - What it all means for Hungary, the EU, Putin & Trump

Humanity did that. Science did that. Publicly-funded research did that. Excellent universities did that. Diversity did that. International cooperation did that. Artemis II is a perfect example of what we can do at our best. Welcome home, Integrity crew!

The Greens won against Reform *in Kent* It's all up for grabs folks. The myth of Reform's inevitability is just that, a myth. They can be defeated.

Such a clear explanation of what a single market means! Remaining remarkably calm at having to explain it to Brexiters for the umpteenth time…

Seems this needs to be explained again. The agglomération of small regulations is what makes a single market. Without them, you have no 🇪🇺, no unity. Focusing on the minutiae where the UK is not happy, and not the 1000s of regs the UK doesn't notice, is what led to Brexit. 1

Jeff Bezos has $222 billion. If he paid my wealth tax this year, we could fund insulin in America for everyone who needs it plus free school lunch for every kid in Texas—and have plenty of money left over. And Bezos would still have $215 billion dollars to spare.

Trump's firing of Pam Bondi and the war crimes of Pete Hegseth both illustrate the perils of personalist rule. Flattery, tribute, and the willingness to break laws for Trump are all that matter. We are seeing the disastrous consequences everywhere. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/2086...

Being outside the EU is sort of the natural consequence of leaving the EU and not punishment for it… www.majorcadailybulletin.com/news/local/2...

A necessary, and sobering, read on one of the many, many negative consequences of Brexit - from the perspective of a family business being forced to close

I don't see this said enough: the widespread use of generative AI is not only making our jobs as educators harder logistically, but also emotionally. It is genuinely sad to be suspicious of students when you have spent so much time building a pedagogy based on trust and not being a cop. It sucks.

"We are confident we could do it if we wanted to." (Senior government official, on using the contract's break clause in 2027). So, keep up the pressure. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Must read thread. Deeply depressing. “Theory and Society” is no longer a serious academic journal. The original, highly regarded, editorial board resigned en masse in 2024. Journal is now a platform for the likes of Eric Kaufman, Matt Goodwin, Frank Furedi

Labour lost white working-class voters to Greens in Gorton and Denton, party analysis finds www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The Black Cultural Archives in Brixton are holding an open day next Sunday blackculturalarchives.org/events/open-...

If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.

Exc: As many as 80 Labour MPs are braced to oppose the home secretary's immigration policies Dozens of backbenchers and ministers are understood to be hostile to Shabana Mahmood's reforms. After the Gorton by-election they're pushing for a "recalibration" observer.co.uk/news/politic...

Just naked racism from Farage and the Mail. Only British and commonwealth citizens are allowed to vote. It's not 'stealing' to legally take part in your own country's elections

Several canvassers say the *settlement* reforms (make over a million voters wait 10-15 years for settlement, not 5, is a top of mind concern for those affected & friends, family A basic fallacy in Home Office citing more in common polling on asylum reform - a different issue - and net migration

In the end, it wasn’t even close. Hope triumphs over hate

Gorton and Denton by-election result: GRN: 40.7% (+27.5) REF: 28.7% (+14.7) LAB: 25.4% (-25.3) CON: 1.9% (-6.0) LDEM: 1.8% (-2.1) Green GAIN from Labour.

Well that's some good news to wake up to. Relieved to see @greenparty.org.uk win Gorton and Denton. Hopefully this will now also prompt Labour to stop pushing such hostile right wing policies against marginalised groups and recognise that people want progressive politics.

This is entirely correct. It is *also* true of Labour's earned settlement proposals -which while not as extreme/overtly racist as Reform's, would still have precisely this effect for hundreds of thousands of people Not too late for government to change course www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

We need to go back to a situation where racism is shameful rather than electorally advantageous.

The demographics of the Gorton & Denton ward make by-election predictions almost impossible - but this is an insightful yet succinct analysis from Prof Rob Ford