Typical that a fiction writer should (have) produce(d) one of the best and clearest demolitions of the current economic model that I've read. www.ursulakleguin.com/blog/33-clin... Not too surprising given that a focus of her work was thinking differently about how societies operate.

Let me pause and contemplate who's approach will work best in the medium to long term even if just talking economics not that one strategy renders human life on earth precarious to endangered; China or the Criminal in Chief of the former USA? e360.yale.edu/digest/china...

Wonder if she thinks the same about ICE agents across in the USA

Excellent. Weaves together some fundamentals like money, resource use choices, social values and defence; implicitly highlighting the need for change.

An important message for the Criminal in Chief and his pathetic fawning minion (Farage the Dulwich Bully) Thanking them for THEIR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER

Let's make them hold their breath (and no farting) until next year.

"Keir Starmer is, not for the first time, in a dreadful bind in relation to US president Donald Trump." - An argument from The Conversation. But the failure is to recognise integrity. If Starmer had a well anchored, consistent position of ethics and responses were clearly derived from it.

"Terrorism" was originally a description of a certain kind of governing. The Labour government are a terrorist regime. Using fear, intimidation and legal threat to control UK citizens. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The best placard I've seen recently reads "Billionaires, the only minority destroying our country!"

In this New Year’s Day video, I explain why the neoliberal myth of “free markets” is not just wrong, but actively destructive — and why rebuilding the state, rethinking capital and restoring democratic accountability must define our economic direction for 2026. youtu.be/vAkkZXfxb9Y?...

Read my statement about why I backed strike action by resident doctors www.clivelewis.org/uncategorise...

For all nine expert talks with Prof @mikebernerslee.bsky.social's introduction and @chrisgpackham.bsky.social's opening statement, please visit our YouTube page. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... Please share these talks with your MP, and ask what action they plan to take.

Pass it on. Please. Time’s a-wasting. youtu.be/M0TPq5XRPBg?... @climatemajority.bsky.social @liamkavanagh.ie @rupertread.bsky.social @planetx.bsky.social @clonalantibody.bsky.social @katharinehayhoe.com

Hope @rory-stewart.bsky.social is paying attention

The USA become high seas pirates? He's not the Criminal in Chief for nothing.

"More more more!!!!" Always building more is just lazy. Doing more with what exists and replacing when worn, broken or truly redundant takes skill and imagination. And is the only way to live within the natural capital envelope we exist in on earth. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Love to hear @rory-stewart.bsky.social explaining why any of this is wrong. He came out with the "printing money ... inflation" last week in TRIP Leading while patronising his guest.

My reading on this is that it's evidence Farage betrayed Britain in Russian interest working to achieve Brexit. Who in the world most wanted Brexit... Putin. Who was paying those around Farage (and wouldn't be surprised if Farage profited too) - Putin.

"The Labour Government is laying the groundwork for further crackdowns on dissent, whistleblowing and protest if it removes juries from so many charges that have state or corporate victims." - @sianberry.bsky.social

Personally if I needed a pointlessly large, pointlessly expensive car I'd honestly love one of these pink Jag's (no sarcasm, really I'd love one if I needed such a thing) images.pistonheads.com/nimg/49274/b... Can't believe the conservative anti woke war it seems to have attracted.

I watched this earlier (it's good) www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdB_... I'd listened to The Rest Is Politics Leading with Zack Polanski earlier. (Where Rory attacks him.) Now I have a label for it I'll suggest @rory-stewart.bsky.social of "motivated reasoning" as discussed toward the end.

1️⃣ Sign the Letter: Calling Keir Starmer, major broadcasters, and Ofcom to launch the national TV information campaign this emergency demands. www.nebriefing.org/open-letter-... 2️⃣ Share the message: Help us push out the follow-up events, including the briefing film when it’s released next year.

The censorship of the 2025 Reith lectures because they include a person stating their opinion about how corrupt Trump is in terms of abusing his office strikes me as being far from a legal paranoia.

www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no... The risk of mono culture; that's an approximation of my take on this excellent piece on AI and the vast amounts it isn't trained on that could be lost.

Thought this was a great piece.

I don't understand why any lobbyists are let in. Throw them all out. End fossil fuel. May fossil fuel pay compensation.

Even the Guardian seems to be over reporting Reform compared to Greens. At least three front of website stories today and nothing Green. Not even serious prior coverage of the many polls on voting intent for how the young vote is heavily Green.

Austria's innovation to cope with public unpopularity of pylons for power lines. www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/aus...

That means each person of the 0.1% super rich is actually producing carbon emissions at a rate 400000 times that of a person in the poorest 10%. Which demonstrates the obscenity better than the 4000x group comparator. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Reform and the right wing press can hound a Labour minister out of their role for tax related issues so which of Reform senior tax dodgers will resign over this? (None, they operate to double standards because they can't be trusted.)

Perhaps Tim Davie gave other examples than BLM and Kamala Harris but it's interesting that both the things he's quoted using as examples are things you suspect he's against. While being OK with instances of favouring the right that so frequently happen on the BBC under him.

One of my fav' headlines/titles for a while

Kemi Badenoch vows to commit future generations to extreme suffering, war, famine, drought and mass extinctions. By ignoring scientific evidence and looking at what is happening around the world right now. It's idiotic short term attempts at vote grabbing.

Public disillusionment with the political class isn’t a passing phase. It's the reality of a system where the dividing line between the state - and wealth, oligarchs and corporate power - has been systematically erased. Read my article for @bylinetimes.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2025/09/29/t...

The less open, the more secretive, the less trustable. When governments try to ban encryption their argument is "you have nothing to worry about if you've nothing to hide". Any public officials dodging reporting and journalism have to be assumed to be treacherous.

No Mr Starmer, greater equality and a just society is the antidote to division. And your growth driven bowing to the super rich isn't helping.

Good moment to remind ourselves about causes of terrorism- from DOJ: “militant, nationalistic, white supremacist violent extremism has increased in the United States” and that “the number of far-right attacks continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism”.

Labour, particularly Starmer, are showing tremendous skill at coming up with continuing reasons why they don't get my future vote. This time it's chipping away at the rule of law; again.

Even if this were true rather than "10 years away"[1] it would be a bad thing. [1] the standard physics joke about nuclear fusion, it's been 10 years away for 70 years now.

You can have free speech, so long as you aren't being critical of us... Just one more example how they speak about free speech but don't actually mean it. Liars and decievers, plain and simple.

I read the linked article, then scanned the comments. It was overwhelmingly negative, sniping, criticism with no positive or constructive engagement. People want something done then just rubbish all proposals. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This kind of trying to get the facts out there has Zack growing on me. Reform really aren't on the people's side when you look at the details of ideas they support.

I don't like blocking people. But when they attack me such as "who do you think you are deciding X" and throw in some argument that doesn't fully relate to what I've put nor attempt to offer reasoned criticism of my argument I can't be bothered to respond to them.

We need to tax wealth not work. Why? Because usually no matter how hard you work, the compound interest on huge wealth grows much faster than your wages + the rich use this passive income to buy all the assets. Someone made a game to show this: therichdont.work

Migrants didn't cut council funding. Migrants didn't cut NHS funding. Migrants didn't close youth centres. Migrants didn't sell off council houses. Migrants aren't filling our rivers with sewage. Farage and co. will tell you to point the finger at migrants. Don't fall for it.

And Labour cement my never voting for them again. Just so utterly imbecilic. Once some things are gone they cannot be replaced.

The cost to users will rise and/or the quality drop. The rich will make a profit off the health of the poor (i.e. the majority of us). Labour, in doing this, further entrench inequality, with workers getting just enough care to survive another day of work for the rich.

Rachel Reeves thinks that weakening environmental protections during a nature and climate crisis will boost 'growth' and that will magically solve all our problems. The Cambridge dictionary has a new word for that...

Why aren't people very scared and demanding immediate major action to avoid an unlivable future? www.theguardian.com/environment/... It's not life as normal was people. Predictions, on the current path, are for much worse much faster. Unless we embrace change.

Solar for All will slash electric bills for working families by up to 80%. Now, Trump wants to illegally kill the program. Working families are getting crushed by skyrocketing energy costs. The planet is literally burning. Sabotaging this program isn’t just wrong — it’s insane.