Good morning to all those people who wasted the last decade saying, "there's no point tackling climate change in the UK, because China." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

'Policies that favour the interests of the working class are routinely dismissed as a fantasy, whereas those that push wealth and power towards the rich come to be seen as a realistic status quo.' @theguardian.com having a 💡 moment. Zack Polanski has hit a switch. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Wes Streeting talking two years ago about how he would win the Labour leadership.

New report: The far Right in Britain has become an industry, with its influencers increasingly earning big money. "A cottage industry of digital vigilantes and migrant hunters now acts as viral content creators" and supposed "citizen journalists" irr.org.uk/wp-content/u...

Congrats to @brunoleipold.com for winning the 2025 Deutscher Prize for Citizen Marx ( @princetonupress.bsky.social ) press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

It is crazy that there is no testing or licensing regime for these things, dozens of deaths later. A drug which had such serious mental side effects would have been withdrawn instantly

"It's worth noting that McSweeney's crew, who normally target prominent women in government, have now branched out to attack an openly gay man. Coincidence or pattern of behaviour?"

Teaching Donna Haraway this morning, so here she is having larks.

"It's worth noting that McSweeney's crew, who normally target prominent women in government, have now branched out to attack an openly gay man. Coincidence or pattern of behaviour?"

The Russiagate and Epstein plot lines suddenly are joined...

Nice one!

"It's worth noting that McSweeney's crew, who normally target prominent women in government, have now branched out to attack an openly gay man. Coincidence or pattern of behaviour?"

We're hiring an editor in our New York office! Apply by December 1st, 2025

New podcast episode! In our latest Radical Read, we discuss pioneering text, Forces of Labor. Very important for us at WCH, the book looks at 130 years of class struggle across the globe to show how workers' unrest has shaped the world. Listen on Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/e113-r...

I don't believe that AI powered surveillance software works. I know for a fact that they can't ban vpns without upsetting the all-powerful gods of business, because, if any of these people had had a real job in the last 20 years, they'd know vpns are an essential part of office IT infrastructure.

Sunder's thread here demonstrating that every hour is amateur hour in Number 10.

He just stole this idea from Iain M. Banks' Culture books without acknowledging what Banks tells us time and time again is the reason that the Culture is able to function as a post-scarcity society: Communism.

How interesting

This kind of (seemingly) reverse corruption needs a look 1. Reform MPs praise JCB endlessly, councillors promote the firm's tech on their authorities. 2. Then the boss gives a £200,000 party donation. To a cynical eye, it looks like an affiliate rewards scheme leftfootforward.org/2025/11/bill...

"... it's tumbleweed from the government, even though Musk's behaviour constitutes overt interference in British politics that is corrosive of Labour's position."

If I had a national institution I wanted to undermine, Hanover Communications are who I’d go to. They’ve been undermining the NHS for years, successfully lobbying for firms to get NHS ££, including US giant United Health, & providing staff to pro-private politicians. It’s just what they do.

It's really not difficult. Film your bloody Bond as if it didn't happen. Let the lore nerds fill the void.

There is a lot to say about the BBC crisis, but as to Trump’s motivations, it’s worth noting that it is now the most trusted news brand in the US, after the Weather Channel.

"... it's tumbleweed from the government, even though Musk's behaviour constitutes overt interference in British politics that is corrosive of Labour's position."

What's fascinating here is that as she rhymes off the list of gender critical people at Newsnight pursuing an explicitly gender critical agenda, in the context of a discussion of ideological capture at the BBC, she doesn't recognise that she was part of the ideological capture of the BBC by GCs.

"... it's tumbleweed from the government, even though Musk's behaviour constitutes overt interference in British politics that is corrosive of Labour's position."

"... it's tumbleweed from the government, even though Musk's behaviour constitutes overt interference in British politics that is corrosive of Labour's position."

I did a write up on some thoughts I've been playing with on the influential role of student activists in the Conservative Party from the 1950s to the 1970s, which I think is a story that often goes missing in accounts of Conservative modernisation (although my thoughts here are probably derivative)

Why can't the BBC just be more impartial towards President Trump, like GB News, says Nigel Farage. GB News:

For the Humanizing Healthcare podcast, @allisonpugh.bsky.social, author of The Last Human Job, speaks to a live audience about connective labor and human connection in the age of AI:

Hi guys, I've decided as everyone else has to start a substack. Here's my first article, on how the Maccabi Tel Aviv fan furore lays bare the pretence at the heart of British politics. Feel free to subscribe, I'm going to try write at least 2 articles a month. open.substack.com/pub/tomusher...

Good. Now tell us what resisting this measure actually achieved, apart from causing families unnecessary hardship?

"Despite ... having been led for the last five years by a close ally of the Tories, being overseen by committees of Tory appointees, and Turness's own efforts to skew news story selection to "win over" Reform supporters, the right in this country want to see the BBC destroyed."

Sighting at Islington cafe of @serpents-tail.bsky.social edition of The Course of the Heart @mjohnharrison.bsky.social

"Despite ... having been led for the last five years by a close ally of the Tories, being overseen by committees of Tory appointees, and Turness's own efforts to skew news story selection to "win over" Reform supporters, the right in this country want to see the BBC destroyed."

"Despite ... having been led for the last five years by a close ally of the Tories, being overseen by committees of Tory appointees, and Turness's own efforts to skew news story selection to "win over" Reform supporters, the right in this country want to see the BBC destroyed."

Wouldn't be surprised if the government install another right winger to placate the right wingers.

I guess I need to apologize to the writers of Alien: Prometheus. it turns out scientists really do touch everything like that

Lovelies, if your Sunday needs a cosy, nerdy chat about Robert Holdstock's Mythago Wood, then the latest episode of Starship Alexandria can help! starshipalexandria.com/episode-8-my... Also features @aptshadow.bsky.social mentioning insects and me NOT mentioning ST:TNG (shocking, I know!)

It's fair to say that if we had this cat while I was writing my book, the book would never have got written.

🚨 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."