'This crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, trained to worship acquisitive success as preparation for a future career.' www.kurimanzutto.com/exhibitions/...

'We can no longer pretend that we are sleepwalking into climate catastrophe. We are doing it consciously, with our eyes wide open, and hang the consequences.' www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

BREAKING: Peaceful protestors arrested outside the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool Yet more peaceful protesters are being arrested today and hauled from the streets by police - a scene which just a few months ago would have been shocking but is quickly becoming the norm... 🧵

As of Sunday, the 271st day of 2025, there had been more than 320 mass shootings - cases in which four or more people are shot or killed - in the US, according to the non-partisan Gun Violence Archive. In 2014, Nigel Farage called the UK ban on handguns “ludicrous”. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A blistering seminar to open the new academic year led by Prof. Pablo Mukherjee on Wells' War of the Worlds - on the violence unleashed at historical points of energy transition; on instrumentalism vs joy - an ecocritical model of its kind. An honour to have this brilliant man within our Ensemble!

BREAKING: The FBI has fired agents photographed kneeling during a 2020 racial justice protest that followed the death of George Floyd, AP sources say.

The sheer evil of the Israeli/US genocide & ecocide in Palestine will echo through history. The international governments that stood by silently - or facilitated it through supplying weapons and intelligence - will be permanently marked with shame. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The faces of Gaza's children carry mountains of sorrow, exhaustion, and loss. What crime has their childhood committed to deserve such relentless suffering and stolen innocence ? #Gaza#Palestine 🇵🇸

In the November 2024 election, 77,303,568 US citizens assigned the moral, intellectual & economic leadership of their nation to a solipsistic imbecile. We all now reap what they have sown. zeteo.com/p/missed-tru...

Migrants eat swans; Haitians eat cats; there is no climate crisis. The repellent little spiv, Farage, supposedly owns the truth & the burden of disproving his flood of cretinous lies & slander evidently falls upon the rest of us. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

How precisely has the lack of a 2nd runway 'held back business, trade and tourism?' The usual unexamined lies and bilge from the business state racketeers who strive to hasten ecocide. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

As I told @newrepublic.com, "Once last week, twice today, ICE has picked me up and thrown me on the ground. Honestly, it doesn’t compare to what our neighbors who are trapped inside the Broadview processing facility are going through. They’re committing crimes against humanity there."

Big US tech company Nvidia saying they're gonna build data centres in the UK and we have to burn more gas to power them? Uh, no. British people shouldn't be paying higher bills and suffering accelerated climate change for your bottom line.

Today we welcomed the 54 members of the new 2025/26 NSotA cohort, joining us from Britain, Ireland, Chile, Colombia, Palestine, Syria, Saudi Arabia, France, Germay, Holland, Belgium, the US, Sicily, Korea, Nigeria and more: building a new planetary society in the shell of the old!

"You know, your leader is coming over to see me very soon. I’m going to tell him about you. You set a very bad tone. You can set a nicer tone.” The boyman to whom hegemony panders. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/s...

Tallymen, Newcastle, photo by Jimmy Forsyth (1914-2009), who bought a cheap camera from a pawn shop in the early 1950s and used it to document his Scotswood Road community before buildings were demolished (@sidegallery.bsky.social).

• 3.8 million Britons living in conditions defined as "destitution" • 6.6 million people in England described as having "very poor literacy skills" • 27 year gap between the life expectancy of the poorest and richest in society Enjoy your meal.

Another step is taken towards the civilisational nadir.

🇬🇧👀🇺🇸 UK ready for Trump visit!

Everything's Gone Green.

How low can the groveling British hegemony bow to this abhorrent fascist ape? www.tiktok.com/@ledbydonkey...

UC Berkeley, home of the free speech movement in the 1960s, turns fascist collaborator. The day shall come when its President, Rachel Zaentz, & her senior bureaucrats & lawyers will have to answer for this venal act of betrayal. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

"Over £16bn has been paid in dividends to owners of bus & train companies: £14.2bn since 1996 to shareholders of privatised train companies & £1.82bn for shareholders of bus companies since 2007." The answer's clear: 1. More privatisation; 2. Blame migrants. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

The State of Israel’s barbarism is fathomless.

13th September 2025. Whitehall, London. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Endq...

"...3 three Palestinians were killed... when Israeli bombardment struck a tent... near Gaza City’s Firas Market. On Thursday alone, 53 Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces..." Gaza Hospitals Report Scores Killed as Malnutrition Deaths Surpass 400 www.palestinechronicle.com/gaza-hospita...

“Under Macron, tax cuts for businesses & the very wealthy have simply handed money to the president’s bourgeois friends, while the rest of us can’t make ends meet. Our lives are being stolen from us. Things have to change.” --A teacher from southern France The revolution will be convivial!

"The deaths [including 2 children] come just days after former home secretary Yvette Cooper announced the suspension of refugee family reunion, a safe route used mainly by women & children to reunite with immediate family members granted refugee status in the UK." www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

With grateful thanks for the life of Rick Davies and the yearning, gentle soul and wit of Supertramp. Go well, Rick. m.youtube.com/watch?v=kln_...

The largest citizen flotilla in history is sailing to Gaza with food and medicine. Israel has threatened to seize it - but together we can be their shield. Add your name to help watch over the flotilla and demand its safe passage! action.wemove.eu/sign/2025-09...

"...to understand what England will look like with a Reform government, just come to [Faversham]. Racists & thugs are acting with impunity, intimidating local residents & people of colour, who are living in fear. This is England 2025." A warning from the future. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...