Owen Jones has been banned from 'Labour' Party conference - but Maya Forstater is welcome. And they wonder why progressive voters are deserting them in droves.

Now. And always. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Fash overwhelmed by anti-fascists in Glasgow. As always, we're joyful, singing ABBA and chanting, and the fascists are just standing gloomily, not even bothering to chant or sing.

"I just want to say, go birds, fuck ICE and free Palestine," "Hacks" star Hannah Einbinder at the #Emmys

culture workers for Palestine

Where is Keir Starmer? Where is the leadership? Fascists marched on our streets yesterday and he hasn’t said a single word. Instead the Prime Minister spends his time defending the “best pals” of paedophiles. He is a coward. He should resign.

Look what happens when these empty suits are held to account. Lord Walney - former head of Labour Friends of Israel - can't even justify the existence of a proscription he has argued for. Excellent journalism from Isobel Yeung - the rest of the media should take note

the Wong Kei and strangers on canteen seats.

talking about the decision to not have children despite being 'someone who comes from a long line of people who had children'

loved this. so solemn and so playful and so intricate and careful and studied and technical and compassionate and quotidian and death ! and life ! and munching sounds. and bird song. What a thing to have on the London scene

Labour have had a year to do something like this, to walk onto Farage's own turf and put the screws to him. Instead, they've taken every opportunity to raise his profile and advance his messaging as part of a deliberate strategy that's killing their own party. Polanski's still in his first week.

The wild thing is that McSweeney spent months and years explaining the plan was to fuck off the left, ignore the libs and build a crushing electoral bloc of Sensible Moderates and Reasonable Tories. And it was *instantly* clear the day after the election that this had not worked, nor would it ever.

Newly elected Green Party leader @zackpolanski.bsky.social is asked, would he ever work with Keir Starmer?

absolutely rotten stuff. horrible. fuck off

One of the asylum hotels is, in fact, at the end of my street and it's fine? It's on my way to the pub and like it's a hotel where people who deserve better are being housed? The only issue is how they deserve better.

Starmer saying he is "completely at one with them" when asked about the asylum seeker accommodation protests is, by some degrees, actually worse than Trump's "very fine people on both sides" Charlottesville comment. But it of course won't be reported with anything like the same indignation.

Yvette Cooper looked at current British asylum policies and thought, what we need is for *more* children to die in the English Channel

Labour could have made the case for a humane immigration system that treats refugees with dignity and respect. Instead, they have fanned the flames of racism and emboldened the far-right. My piece for @tribunemagazine www.tribunemag.co.uk/2025/09/labour-is-paving-the-path-to-fascism

People’s homes are being stormed by far-right groups. The govt. Is saying nothing about how violence like this will not be tolerated. Where is Starmer’s “law and order” now? They’ve no control and we are moments away from someone being killed. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

some good news from the bar italia toilets

It’s a pretty common newsroom practice to say that protests of a few hundred (or even a few thousand) people aren’t headline news because they happen all the time. And it’s largely true. What I can’t explain is why even Ofcom regulated TV is determined to make *these* protests news.

fundamentally the problem is that if you think "hotels are where I stay on holiday and I like being on holiday so living in a hotel must be fun and it's not fair others get to do it and not me" then you have the intellectual reasoning of a little child and it's going to be hard to engage with you

Starmer’s Labour government says there’s no money to scrap the two-child benefit cap and lift 500,000 children out of poverty — but there is £2,000,000,000 for Elbit, Israel’s partner in genocide. This obscene deal must be stopped. They have Palestinian blood on their hands.

This is in the replies and it demonstrates a real issue which is if you find profundity from an AI, you’re responding to something profound a human being wrote that was vacuumed up and what ends up happening is you thank AI and not only don’t thank the person, you have no idea they were involved

Perhaps, one day, schoolkids will study this squalid little chapter in British terror-panic history. When they do, I hope these two headlines from today are printed side by side, with clear annotation of which individual faced more outrage and condemnation.

It's amazing watching the ideological descendants of Blair try the same shit, but even less convincingly.

Look, putting Palestine Action aside for a moment, Patriotic Alternative are not proscribed. If your argument is that damage to property and scaring individuals is sufficient, then surely trying to burn down asylum hotels and rioting is markedly worse than the actions described here?

This should happen to all the Fascists. Let them eat their hate.

Really exciting new archaeology report showing that two people who died in 7th century Kent had West African grandfathers. It’s suggested they’d travelled here as traders and settled thanks to the Byzantine Empire’s trade network that linked North Africa to Britain

Trans men using the ladies toilets and trans women using the mens toilets will lead to 5000% more bathroom incidents – what this is supposedly meant to stop – but it'll put trans people in harms way, or force them to stay at home, so it's full steam ahead

Honestly, with hindsight, Radcliffe, Watson and Grint's public statements where they sided with trans people, expressed their support with no caveats, and willingly blew up any chances at future ties to the franchise has only gotten more and more noteworthy as more actors are revealed to be cowards

If you're using AI to write essays, eulogies, a text to your wife, I do think less of you as a person. Ceding your mental and creative abilities to a machine is an embarrassing thing and people should be ashamed to admit doing it in public.

palestinian self-determination is the inalienable right of the palestinian people and should not be conditional on whether israel do or do not decide to finally abide by some actual rules

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Half a million people signing up to a party that doesn’t even have a name let alone any policies yet but is just saying “we think things could be less shit” should be a clear signal to Starmer that the trajectory he’s taken Labour on isn’t going down well at all

The business secretary Jonathan Reynolds says the racist protesters intimidating asylum seekers in Epping are "upset for legitimate reasons.” I don't remember any Labour frontbencher saying the same about people protesting the genocide in Gaza. On the contrary, they've criminalised peaceful dissent.

hope @piercepenniless.bsky.social doesn’t mind the screenshot from the other place but obviously true thread addresses a lot of labour bluesky nonsense too

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Government secrecy over a major escalation in nuclear dangers is totally unacceptable. The PM must make an urgent statement & Parliament should have its say

All famines are man-made, all famines are political. Historians of empire and humanitarianism have known this forever. Gaza is not starving, Gaza is being starved, by Israel, and this starvation is enabled by our government and by every other government that does not step in to force food and aid.

Kiefer/Van Gogh at the RA

Essential reading www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

in the mean time, shit like this is going to happen. the government is not made up of very serious people but the implications of their actions are very serious indeed bsky.app/profile/netp...

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Parliament in a nutshell: Yesterday MPs, including Yvette Cooper, celebrated the suffragette legacy of civil disobedience that won women the right to vote.. Only to then vote to designate non-violent direct action group Palestine Action as terrorists. Westminster is broken.

My statement on the government's absurd and authoritarian proposal to proscribe Palestine Action.