"There is an irony in the fact that as the Tory party has fallen apart as a political force since 2015 so its grip on the BBC has tightened". More ... fromarsetoelbow.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...

Impartiality is an impossible standard. It leads to all the awful both siding on most issues. Accuracy and honesty is what is needed in presenting everyone's views.

A carefully written pice which corresponds to my view.

On the differences between how the experiences of Palestinians and Israelis and their supporters and the reports and academic analysis, upon their experiences, are treated differently in public debate in the western world.

Class societies didn’t begin with capitalism: the ancient and medieval worlds had their own systems of exploitation. Marxist historians have set out to explain how those systems worked — and what their eventual demise tells us about what might lie ahead.

New: for @equatormag.bsky.social I spent months talking to BBC journalists, from front-line reporters to the former head of the World Service, about how the corporation came unstuck over Gaza. But as I was working on the story, it collided with something... bigger... www.equator.org/articles/ins...

A particularly fine read from @adamtooze.bsky.social adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...

Following up on the two recent #FutureHistories episodes with Aaron Benanav (@abenanav.bsky.social), here you'll find the full versions of his new papers #BeyondCapitalism 1 & 2 -> buff.ly/k23voql Must read! Find the two episodes here: Ep1 -> buff.ly/MkPKGXT Ep2 -> buff.ly/dqWZ5Q3

The BBC whitewashed Israel's genocide - and has now capitulated to Donald Trump. It's in crisis - for all the wrong reasons. New post 👇 www.owenjones.news/p/the-bbc-is...

The BBC is the vehicle for and always has been for the British establishment as Mic states. However in the current British media eco-system it would be a backward step if it was abolished, unless replaced by something better than what its right wing critics desire.

Andrew Lownie wrote an explosive book about Prince Andrew Then came the backlash. Legal threats. Palace sources told journalists not to speak to him Anonymous social media accounts accused Lownie of visiting sex workers. New on Democracy for Sale: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/inside-the...

"... from the standpoint of British capital, Starmer's disastrous leadership is on the verge of liquidating organised labour as a political force. Something worth a shower of damehoods, gongs, and knights garter."

New online: Nikhil Pal Singh on Zohran Mamdani. www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

Twitter/X is a powerful communication tool. Musk is using it as a policital weapon, amplifying the right-wing, extreme, hateful voices to influence the UK. To beat him, we need to understand him. How? Read this and then watch panorama. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

Sadly, for all his dubious classification of political movements here, Piketty himself is a "nationalist" (like the party he supports) because he cannot think beyond the framework of the nation-state.

NEW | Keeping an eye on the usual suspects… ON A TERRIBLE TRACK After this weekend's knife attacks on a train in Huntingdon, the media is filled with voices out to exploit the horror. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/on-a-terri...

Galina Rymbu, An Open Letter To Zarah Sultana syg.ma/@media-resis...

”He saw that capitalism would corrode into fascism, or that fascism would infiltrate and take over capitalism, that what appeared benign and beneficial would corrupt and destroy old forms of life. […] He warned about the ecological costs of industrialisation”

"This is not stabilization—it is the active production of instability that justifies permanent external control." LOLA ALLEN on Javier Milei, the IMF and the contradictions of Argentina's extractive economy. Read the full essay👇

Heather Mendick The Fraud: A Review - Keir Starmer, Morgan McSweeney and the crisis of British democracy m.youtube.com/watch?v=VcmB...

Thanatos and Civilization

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My latest interview for The Nation is with Tom Meaney, editor of Granta: “I am a fortunate son of the American empire, born during Reagan’s Second Cold War in the garrison state of South Korea. The dictator Chun Doo-hwan—“our son of a bitch”—lived down the street.”: www.thenation.com/article/cult...

The crimewave sweeping Britain? Illegal houses in multiple occupation | Aditya Chakrabortty With private-sector villainy and public-sector complicity, what makes this HMO scandal so characteristic of modern Britain is how far the guilt spreads Fan of true crime? Then this column is for you....

An excellent criticism of the sycophants of the monarchy in the UK press and I absolutely loved this phrase describing the current incarnation of 'the Telegraph, the British press’s most unhinged fanzine dedicated to privilege and power.

Preview of my book INK! out in the Guardian today - 'A poet for his people'. Economic insecurity, Race riots, incendiary media. Sound familiar? It was 100 years ago. If only we could learn history's lessons.... www.theguardian.com/news/2025/oc...

This is a classic case of how the media can distort reporting that becomes propaganda that has long term effects on political decisions as in the current case of national politicians denouncing the decision to ban Maccabi Tel Aviv fans www.doubledown.news/watch/2024/n...

Trump is a product of the 1980s and the lasting changes in ownership structure that took place then and that still informs his theory of politics and the state today.

Now online: 'The USSR Home Front and World War II', Mike Haynes reviews Wendy Z. Goldman and Donald Filtzer (eds.), *Hunger and War. Food Provisioning in the Soviet Union during World War II*.

Investors are betting big bucks on the idea that AI will create an explosion of leisure time...e.g. it was a key part of the public rationale for the massive $55bn takeover of video games maker Electronic Arts. But are they right?? (short thread linked to my column today www.ft.com/content/4011...)

The EU’s regulation on deforestation-free products obliges importers of beef, soy, timber, coffee, cocoa, palm oil & rubber to prove supply chains are clean. The law is due to apply from late 2025 though Brussels recently delayed enforcement www.ft.com/content/f544...

As the media class now have such a large influence on the political class where they are not already interchangeable this is entirely imaginable.

On the Labour Party's housing policy (lack of) under Steve Reed and Keir Starmer.

Why Tony Blair just can’t kick the habit of imperial interference in the Middle East | Oliver Eagleton The Blair-Trump fantasy for postwar Gaza shows the former PM still thinks that free enterprise can solve all the world’s ills“There are two types of politician,” Tony Blair observed in 2012....

NEW | On the latest story about students (and sex): THE KINK IN THE TIMES’ POSITION ON UNIVERSITIES AND FREE SPEECH Why is a national newspaper obsessing about student societies and quoting extreme pressure groups? I think we all know the answer... brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/the-kink-i...

My essay on stupidology (originally published in N+1) is in today's Guardian www.theguardian.com/news/2025/oc...

“The escalation from Trump One to Trump Two has seen irrationality spread from the deliberative public sphere to flood the veins of government.” In our brand-new issue: an anatomy of stupidity by @will-davies.bsky.social. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/pol...

EXPOSED: Starmer, Epstein, Mandelson & the REAL Prime Minister

The transition from the liberal international order created after 1945, that was violated de facto by the USA, to the contorted linguistic and legal justifications for violations from the Great War on Terror, to its abandonment by Trump. www.thenation.com/article/worl...

A very good judgement of the machinations of Morgan McSweeney.

"Having silenced most institutional dissent within his first nine months, what could Trump accomplish in the next fourteen?" My column. www.ft.com/content/a284...

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