🚨 Revealed: The billion-pound PPE contractor with a Tory MP on site Great report by David Conn. We now know that former Conservative minister Julia Lopez was in contact with Uniserve prior to its huge VIP lane deal💥 www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Hive mind, it's Autumn and Saturday evenings are bereft of Scandi noir. Does anyone have any recommendations?

Drives me mad that people talk about Danish immigration policy as a *political* success without bothering to look at the polls.

"... 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."

Last night in Leeds, I joined a powerful demo after recent attacks on brown women across the UK. I almost didn’t want to speak — because it’s women’s voices that need to be amplified. But this had to be said. If I say Sarah Everard, most people know that name. If I say Sabina Nessa, far fewer do

Kazuo Ishiguro was born on this day, so here are some of his book covers (couldn't identify artists). Not all are genre.

"... 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."

It seems pretty risky to tell people they won't see the change they want if they vote Green, given that they already voted Labour and didn't see the change they wanted.

I'm going to use this as the jonbar point in my upcoming alternate-history novel.

"... 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."

ICYMI: Adam Hayes, 'The Socio-Technological Lives of Bitcoin' - argues that cryptocurrencies and blockchains are important objects of general social science research and thought, but not for their ‘moneyness’ per se. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Someone Loves You Honey is very ... Eternal. #totp

As a white man, I hate AI for appropriating my culture of being confidently wrong about things while using Reddit as a primary source.

Which one is more English?

Hell yeah Hilde ❤️😇 I really love @workingclasshistory.com so much, their work is so important because it allows us to reappropriate our histories (of resistance, liberation and rebels of all kinds), against the powers that be's historical narratives and even bourgeois historiography

Incredible- Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, documents seen by Reuters show. And the social media giant internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day."

This is quite useful, actually. It focuses attention on disparities of wealth and raises questions as to why, despite this country being wealthier than it has ever been, living standards are sliding and the public realm is dropping to bits.

How will AI affect society? Find out by booking on 'Book Launch: Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence and Beyond: Theorising Society and Culture of the 21st Century' a free online @bsatheory.bsky.social event on 21 November tinyurl.com/4bspp3pr

It's almost like... like maybe the fascism *never* actually arose from working class "economic anxiety"... like maybe the working class *weren't* actually the ones radicalised by bourgeois resentment of "cancel culture" and "wokeness"... like maybe the working class have... more pragmatic priorities

Resist GenAI

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Such a mystery, what MASS DISABLING EVENT could have happened after 2019 to cause this?

Hands down the best front page ever.

Hello hope old friend.

"... limbering up to break tax promises wouldn't automatically put a black mark against the Labour's name, provided most people thought they were doing an okay and competent job. Unfortunately for this government, this is far from where the public are."

"... limbering up to break tax promises wouldn't automatically put a black mark against the Labour's name, provided most people thought they were doing an okay and competent job. Unfortunately for this government, this is far from where the public are."

All day, many of you have been asking for a Cheney obituary from me. Get ready:

Is the Reform leader losing his "populist" touch?

Neo-conservativism presaged Trumpian neo-fascism in several respects. It saw violence as a positive policy option not a defensive last resort. It held laws, norms and the lives of non-white people in total contempt. And many, many centrists either cringed in deference to it or actively collaborated.

🟡 MULTITUDES: How Crowds Made the Modern World is out in paperback from @versobooks.bsky.social today 🟡 www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

British socialists have become too used to making excuses for the flaws and shortcomings of our leaders. Look at this. This is the standard. We deserve this every bit as much as New York does.

Serwotka, in the Morning Star, tells us #YourParty do "class politics, not identity politics". Which explains their open transphobia. It also means they don't understand either class politics OR identity politics. morningstaronline.co.uk/article/stak...

Notable in today's YouGov that the centre/left bloc - Lab/Green/LD/SNP are on 54%. With Reform/Tories on 43%. That's the biggest differential in a long time. I think useful to track blocs given instability between parties at the moment.

The Treasury-Bank of England-City nexus is central to understanding the class politics of this country. Of course Reeves was always going to let this happen.

Is the Reform leader losing his "populist" touch?

Is the Reform leader losing his "populist" touch?

ON THE LITERAL EVE OF A DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST MAYOR BEING ELECTED, ANNA WINTOUR KILLS PROGRESSIVE AND PROFITABLE TEEN VOGUE POLITICS DESK WHICH HAD JUST INTERVIEWED HIM *That’s* the headline. (Unfortunately there’s hardly any news outlet left to run it 😭)

Devastating. Teen Vogue has done some of best political reporting over past five years.

Second class England No free bus passes for under 22s in England Under 21s don't get full minimum wage; pay rent, food, groceries, transport, tax, NIC at full rate. Scotland: 5- 22yr olds and over 60 get free bus travel, England at 66 rising to 67. No uni fees, prescription charges in Scotland.

"... this is an institution in retreat. Defending it by offloading a liability is quite easy, if personally painful. The challenge is winning over new support and securing the future. An altogether much harder task."

"... this is an institution in retreat. Defending it by offloading a liability is quite easy, if personally painful. The challenge is winning over new support and securing the future. An altogether much harder task."

"... this is an institution in retreat. Defending it by offloading a liability is quite easy, if personally painful. The challenge is winning over new support and securing the future. An altogether much harder task."

Here's video of an interview @kaiheron.bsky.social, @bertrussell.bsky.social, and I did with @plutopress.bsky.social recently. The interviewer Chris Browne did a great job and really pushed us to explore the arguments in the book.

This is why train companies must keep the guards on the trains.

Huntingdon - This comment from Simon Calder is worth repeating. My thoughts with all involved

“We are told that AI is inevitable, that we must adapt or be left behind. But universities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically.”

Council by-elections October 2025 CON 16% (-6 cllrs) LAB 13% (-6) LDEM 25% (+8) REF 30% (+10) GRN 8% (-1)

Proper Agas are always on.