Labour Minister Chris Ward says Andy Burnham can’t do much because there’s ’no money’. This nonsense is why Labour fails. The 50 richest families own as much wealth as 50% of population. Don’t let Labour tell you it’s not possible to transfer this obscene wealth into the hands of the many.

Thousands upon thousands of people who had been Labour members for decades heard his message and left. Now it's his turn to "Foxtrot Oscar"🤬 What comes next may be little better, but I shall enjoy dancing on Starmer's political grave.

Chatting with Glenn Diesen on the essence of the Trump-Iran agreement (a major US defeat), on what it means for the Gulf states, on Europe's radical irrelevance in a geostrategic game that deepens its crisis etc. etc. www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9rB...

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"... He wasn't there again today Oh HOW I wish he'd go away ..." www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/159685...

Beware the #Mandynomicon 😱 Are Mandelspn and Blair like Yog Sothoth and Cthulhu?🤔

I'll be performing at the LAST EVER POETRY SHACK with @williamwyld.bsky.social (seen here with me & a pig) THIS THURSDAY www.candidartslondon.com/product/25th...

The people of Makkerfield voted for hope. *I* hope it proves not to be a false one. What is really remarkable about this though, and should be the final nail in Keir Starmer's political coffin, is that both the Labour vote *and* the turnout were so much higher than in #GE24

Congratulations to Andy Burnham. But this isn’t a team of advisers which looks like challenging wealth and power. The race for Greater Manchester mayor starts today and it’s Greens v Reform.

Really not beating those 'gone into hiding' rumours

Pleasure to be at UNISON conference in Brighton. To bring our communities together - we need to end Rip off Britain. And that starts with tackling extreme wealth.

He probably will win today, but he doesn't deserve to!😡

"In a hole in the ground, there lived ...who?" Inspired by a book belonging to my late mother, I googled the Russian translation of that question: "в норе под землёй жил ... кто?" Google it in images and you will be delighed 😍😊 www.google.com/search?sca_e...

Ah yes, if only we knew the special stuff that only the government knows, we would agree with everything it does. Says every authoritarian state, everywhere.

"The government and judicial system treat far-right terrorism more leniently than leftwing dissent. So perhaps this should lead us to another answer to the question of how best to describe what we are seeing. It might be a nominally Labour government. But this is rightwing authoritarianism."

The Tulsa Massacre🤯 1/2 www.tiktok.com/@tjanfoqbror...

Have Donnie and his mates been shorting the markets again?🙄

What Ivanka & Jared are doing is worse than I thought they are destroying natural wetlands of Albania. The corruption is unpalatable. Ariel Brunner is fighting them tooth & nail and boy oh boy is he angry. As he should be. Ariel Brunner is Europe & Central Asia Director of BirdLife International.

📸 Thousands turn out for an anti-racism rally in Glasgow, with speakers including Aamer Anwar, Holly Bruce, Iris Duane and Susie McCabe addressing the crowd Read more: www.thenational.scot/news/2...

I have just had another message from a parent. I have (anonymised) photos of the daughter but they are too distressing to publish.

Jobs for young adults is a pressing issue of our times. One possibility is that a freeze or reversal of the state pension age could release jobs for younger adults. It could also give a respite to senior citizens being worked to death. What do you make of the Minister's reply?

Trumpian censorship in the UK Teacher, librarians under pressure to remove books on race, identity, social justice from libraries. 200 titles pulled from one Greater Manchester school library, including books by Black authors. Freedom to read is a major casualty on the road to tyranny.

Despite a few progressive *sounding* sound-bites, which I don't trust, Andy Burnham is looking more and more like continuity Starmer with a more human mask. I'm afraid that, as in 2015, Andy hasn't got the bottle to be a truly transformational leader. #LabourIsDead - vote #Wakefield4Makerfield

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'The Sinking Ditheraire', being pulled nowhere by Reeves, and Healey attempts to torpedo it ... JMW Turner meets Shit Creek - what a #FurCup!😈

I hate the thought of class war and social conflict, but it's being perpetrated on us whether we like it or not.🤬 Perhaps it's time to crowd-fund a guillotine?👿

UK cost-of living tsar, multi-millionaire Iceland boss wants to axe pension triple lock. Full UK state pension (received by 35% of pensioners) is less than 50% of minimum wage. Millions can't save for private pension 2m pensioners live in poverty. 110,000 a year die in poverty. archive.ph/OIdCF

In what feels like a metaphor for modern Britain we now have vast swathes of 'law,' protecting your privacy, to which no consequences attach for breach. The ICO won't act and you can't sue.

🥰😍🥰 This isn't humour - it's pure joyful mirth: God bless Harry Corbett💕 www.tiktok.com/@jon_degnan/...

"Dad, what was a 'slow news day'?"

The statue of Trump 😏 www.tiktok.com/@everythings...

A very interesting and at times moving conversation between Miriam Margolyes, Michael Rosen and Alexei Sayle. I took two sessions to watch it all, but it was time well spent. Via @doubledown.news www.youtube.com/watch?v=URpI...

Flowering hibiscus and fruiting pineapple - I loved Hawaii, so I've recreated a bit of it in my own living room😍 (I'll do without a volcano in my back garden though! 😁🌋)

The Right Wing Media and the BBC comes out to defend Nigel Farage and his lies. As expected, the Media works for the billionaires and Nigel Farage works for the billionaires.

June 6 is D-day, probably ANTIFA's most heroic moment.

The voice of Sméagol/Gollum reads Trump's tweets.🤣 www.youtube.com/shorts/T6lKj... (This video goes back to The Donald's first term. but is as hilarious as ever)

Is Nigel Farage - or is it really #Faraj - about to convert to islam?😇 www.tiktok.com/@officialcit...

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What I painted for Brockley Max in Oscars Cafe in Ladywell this afternoon

Here is Prof @richardjmurphy.bsky.social on why the bond markets are not to be feared. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMfC... "Bond markets" are widely cited by people who have no idea how they work: it's like a big bogey monster under the bed, used to frighten other people who haven't a clue either!

😋Ordering some antipasti online - definitely attracted by the highlighted (claimed) health benefit!😂

At this point he's flaunting his corruption with the obvious market manipulation. 👇

Foreign money funding Reform UK. Another 7m from two overseas British crypto billionaires - £4m from Hong Kong-based billionaire, £3m from Thailand. Tax exiles shaping UK politics. Modern equivalent of representation without taxation. What have they been promised? Must ban political donations.