Signs of a shift in the tectonic plates. The world turns towards sanity and we glimpse the shape of a coming community . . .

Johnson willfully ignored warnings &, instead, brazenly served his appetites. Johnson is guilty of Misconduct in Public Office, which can attract a sentence of life imprisonment. #ProsecuteJohnson www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Field notes on the third October gathering of the ISSA tribe, similiarly building a new society in the shell of the old. issa-school.org/reflections/...

A stirring piece. Ayisha and Juan-Carlos are voicing our future, not the fossilised petrochemical shills enforcing their murderous interests. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Johnson, Cummings, Sunak & Hancock served their raging masculinist egos rather than the British public & 23,000 people died as a consequence. Will these repellent narcissists face trial? Of course not. The UK establishment knows how to look after its wealthy chaps. www.france24.com/en/live-news...

'More universities use AI tools to teach students, generate course materials & give personalised feedback. A Dept of Education policy paper hailed this development, saying generative AI “has the power to transform education.”' Into an accreditational dystopia. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

The fearlessness of Mary Bruce before these murderous autocrats. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/b...

"In the aftermath of Jamal’s murder, Trump officials worked to launder Saudi Arabia’s bloody image. Jared Kushner was advising Prince Mohammed on how to “weather the storm”. Last year, Kushner’s equity firm received $2bn from Saudi Arabia’s private equity firm." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

As with Badenoch, Patel, Braverman, Kwarteng, Yusuf & Habib, Shabana Mahmood is a child of immigrants. If their cruel, ignorant & extremist migration policies were voiced by a white male, he'd be justly denounced as racist. Sickening hypocrisy & opportunism. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

A stirring piece by Sid Lowe on the most soulful of occasions. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

32 million tons of C02 have been unleashed by the IDF through its barbarism in Gaza. Genocide augmented by biocide.

More than 200 boats and 5,000 people sailed through Belém in a powerful Flotilla of Hope. Indigenous leaders like Marcos Xukuru (Brazil) and Rukka Sombolinggi (Indonesia) reminded the world that real climate solutions are rooted in ancestral knowledge. #COP30 #IndigenousRights

The levels of sheer entitlement, corruption & contempt of Trump's squalid ecosystem is unprecedented in recent history. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

All power to the Munduruku people. They have dignity, courage & soul--unlike the machine-species in the corporate compound. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A unwinding rumination last Friday from Jesse Darling on how we might engage with the end of the capitalist story & its zombie substrate of junk. Feral erudition! Many thanks, Jesse. Come back!

Trump sycophancy as vote-winner? At some point this blowhard spiv's wounded-victim shtick will lose its impact with supporters. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Farewell to a genius behind the traps & a gentle visionary away from them. Long live Jack DeJohnette, 1942-2025 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/a...

Southern Water's senior management knew it had caused an ecological disaster but covered it up & lied for two weeks to protect shareholder dividends & bonuses. Southern Water CEO Lawrence Gosden received a total compensation package of £1.4 million last year. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Neoliberal academic integrity in the news.

Ten years ago the contents of this article would've been interpreted as low-grade dystopian satire. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

The upteenth eco-social justice betrayal from Starmer's Continuity Tory Government. Morally & intellectually derelict. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Affecting mainstream seriousness & keeping a lid on Reform MPs’ & councillors’ luridly racist, outlandish & violent opinions, while cultivating insurrection through visceral supporter outrage is a chore. The strain is showing. Bang on from @rafaelbehr.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Volume turned up!

Descending into barbarism without limit. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

'[F]urther inquiries suggested the university was “explicitly trading my academic freedom for access to the Chinese student market.”' As it should be. After all, academics are mere service providers. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Despite the ceasefire, Israel’s attacks on Gaza and severe restrictions on aid leave Palestinians struggling to survive aje.io/iwge48

Human rights defender Greta Thunberg: "I am not scared of Israel, I am scared of a world that has seemingly lost all sense of humanity. What we are doing here is trying to show there is some humanity left. That there are still people willing to step up when all other means fail." #3E

History demonstrates that vulgar & contemptuous displays of wealth on the part of a monarch & his retinue in front of impecunious subjects has one inevitable outcome. It may take time. But it's coming. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

On the dizzying entanglements of Lord Haw-Haw & his circle with the Putin regime. As if being Trump's sycophant weren't sufficiently nauseating & sinister . . . www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

In 2004 US presidential aide, Karl Rove, chided a journalist for his "outmoded" belief that solutions emerge from "judicious study of discernible reality.” Now, said Rove, “we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality judiciously we’ll act again, creating other new realities.”

'The Idrîsî Ensemble sings the Mediterranean, not as a border between distinct identities, but as a space of exchange, communion, and evolution . . . they aim to complicate modern notions of identity and alterity.' Wow. youtu.be/VtJBbHgivYI

It’s a beautiful day for the end of the pagan year. Here on the farm we celebrate this as New Year’s Eve, tomorrow being the start of another turn of the Wheel. Blessings to all who also celebrate this day.

Terms of Surrender: The Conspiracy to Obstruct Justice in Palestine znetwork.org/znetarticle/...

An insight into how the UK establishment protects itself. Jaysley Beck is dead: one of her predators will serve 10 weeks in jail; another walks among us with impunity. Meanwhile, elderly women with scrawled Palestine Action signs face up to 14 years' imprisonment. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Colonial capital's gift to the world. theecologist.org/2025/oct/23/...

“Since the US Refugee Program was created in 1980, it has admitted over two million people fleeing ethnic cleansing and other horrors. Now it will be used as a pathway for white immigration." --Aaron Reichlin-Melnick White supremacist update. #BoycottUS www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

It is “an absolute vipers’ nest,” as one government official said last weekend. “This is no way to run a country.” On the moral cowardice & intellectual vacuity of a government that reached an existential terminus on the day it was elected. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

My hot take on this its great that the journalist acknowledges that the Green Party is at record membership, record polling and has huge momentum. But why say "dentally challenged?" Who or what is that serving? The state of journalism.

Really important piece

Mid Autumn. Peacock butterflies have stopped flying.