Don't forget this is a 10-year plan. Partic on housing, people need convincing signs quickly. Find the sites, put hoardings up: "500 new council houses here." Also bear in mind that the right will put round no end of crap about homes being for immigrants. It'll get ugly. But AB should proceed fast

Hesitating to recommend something that benefits Bezos, but JustWatch informs me that for the first time since forever The Ploughman's Lunch is available to watch in the UK. One of the best films about UK politics and journalism ever made and a harbinger of the even worse to come.

A weird fact for your morning. When that fine singer and actor Kris Kristofferson was young, he was at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar doing a B.Litt. One of his tutors was J.R.R. Tolkien.

As unserious as she is nasty. I hate it when people talk shit and then complain that any criticism of the shit talked is "language policing". That glib dismissal might work on X but not if you're a party leader. She's just a vile human being

Dripping with class hatred until they have to pretend to be on the side of (white, male, conservative, anti-immigrant) working-class people again tomorrow

We cannot trickle our way to a fairer Britain www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/06... Burnham can't transform the economy with trickle-down economics: he has to address needs directly, and growth has never done that.

A leading human rights lawyer used Saturday’s 5,000-strong anti-racist march through Leith to accuse Nigel Farage and Reform UK of directly inciting the Islamophobic knife rampage that left five men injured across Edinburgh last week. Read more here: searchlightmagazine.com/2026/06/fara...

“The fear of the far right exploiting the issue has only made it easier for the far right to do exactly that, and to shape the narrative.” My @theobserveruk.bsky.social column: observer.co.uk/news/politic...

www.theguardian.com/politics/202... Voices of reason. But how many billions of pounds can they offer compared to fuel lobbyists?

If you break this down, the logic of this argument is: The Far Right want fewer/no immigrants AND The Far Right cause trouble if they do not get what they want AND We do not want trouble THEREFORE There should be fewer/no immigrants. Simple, cowardly, revolting, indefensible logic.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Encountered Starmer last century in glory days as civil rights lawyer. As PM he has been utterly mendacious, and cruel to the people he once represented: principled protesters and the poor. Final Chutzpah was to declare he saved the Party from moral bankruptcy!

Sneering contempt is at the heart of everything Badenoch says. She’s one of those haters the rappers warned us about

jewishvoiceforliberation.org.uk/statement/mu... This demonstrates two tier reporting by mainstream media of antisemitic and Islamophobic attacks

Understanding fascism is one of the most important tasks to face our current political moment. The Institute for Advanced Studies, UCL is hosting a workshop on this 30 June. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

New statement from the genocide prevention charity the Lemkin Institute "Othering a group of people and separating them from the rest of society is inherently disrespectful to that group’s human dignity. It is also a common genocidal tactic." www.lemkininstitute.com/statements-n...

Today's Stop The War International Anti-War Conference is right to oppose welfare cuts to fund warfare But wrong to oppose military aid to Ukraine This would lead to the victory of Russian imperialism - the annexation of democratic Ukraine by fascist Russia. NO! @ukrainesol.bsky.social

Michelle and I loved reading to this bright group of kids today! We hope this new Chicago Public Library branch at the Obama Presidential Center will be a place where folks come to read, check out books, and connect with one another for years to come.

Great news - we are delighted that the @wearethemu.bsky.social as affiliated to Ukraine Solidarity Campaign (becoming the ninth national UK union to do so, alongside ASLEF, NUM, PCS, UCU, UNISON, GMB, Unite and CWU). The MU represents over 35,000 musicians across the British music industry.

The accession of Prime Ministers with no General Election: Rishi Sunak, Liz Truss, Boris Johnson, Theresa May, Gordon Brown, John Major, James Callaghan, Alec Douglas-Home, Harold MacMillan, Anthony Eden too, tho' he had a GE a month later in 1955.

A question to the Stop the War Coalition: would you have asked the Spanish workers to capitulate to Franco's fascists ninety years ago?

Every time I hear Trump on the radio talking about Iran he sounds like an ailing mob boss. He embodies the Arturo Ui connection between fascists and gangsters but this fascist gangster is 80

I was born and grew up in South Shields in the ‘80s and ‘90s. My paternal grandfather was a miner. I never met him though. He died when my dad was 12 from Black Lung, unable to breathe from hardened, blackened lungs filled with coal dust. My grandma got £12 life insurance. 1/

Nice review here: theleftlane.media/the-establis...

Here's what I have to say about Elon Musk becoming a trillionaire: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It's 10 years since Jo Cox died. This is the piece I wrote in a tearful frenzy the following morning. She was a very good person www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This is true but he also sounds like he's reading the shipping forecast. "Starmer's leadership: good, occasionally moderate, becoming very poor later. There are warnings of gales in Makerfield."

“The wider issues thrown up by the case should concern even those who oppose the activities of Palestine Action.” My @theobserveruk.bsky.social column: observer.co.uk/news/opinion...

Today marks the ninth anniversary of the Grenfell Tower fire. And still no accountability. x.com/Grenfellnext...

Glasgow now, there is no place in Scotland for racism or fascism.

Thousands of anti-racism protesters drowned out a small far-right rally in Glasgow. Close to three thousand people attended the protest, organised by Stand Up To Racism. Read more: www.thenational.scot/news/2...

Absolutely huge crowds in Belfast to reject the far-right, paramilitarism, racism and border violence. A loud message to the politicians who pandered to violent paramilitary groups this week

Thousands have turned out for an Anti-Racism rally in Belfast city centre, organised by United Against Racism and supported by Trade Unions

Oxford Union president Arwa Elrayess has rescheduled her 'debate', providing a platform for racist criminal Tommy Robinson, to 17 June, surrounding him with shabby collaborators and zero-credibility opposition speakers in a cynical bid for headlines. Read more here:

Several families have, in the face of immense personal tragedy, plead in public for their family members to not be the next Horst Wessel justifying fascist mobs committing race riots. Imagine how much moral courage it takes in a time of private grief to extend that care and love to others

Keir Starmer's spokesman tells me there has been "no change" to the Government's policy on using X, despite Elon Musk helping to incite the hateful scenes we saw in Belfast last night. Also no new plans to take action against X for its role in the violence

Fascists in Belfast set fire to buildings with people inside them. People of colour left work early to stay indoors. This is being actively encouraged by the world’s richest man whose openly pro-white nationalist platform X is still used by the UK government www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Of course one should think about addressing the root causes of broader unrest in the UK but right now the government needs a very different plan to deal with the pogroms and the race-war crew. You don't stop that lot by regenerating the high street

If I were Andy Burnham, watching Starmer's hopelessly impotent response to the national emergency caused by fascist agitators at home and abroad, I would see both an opportunity and a necessity to do things very differently

What an absolute disgrace. A FIFA-certified referee being denied entry to the United States purely because he is Somali. The World Cup is meant to bring people together. This is racism, plain and simple. Shameful. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

It’s not as if the BBC News is amplifying claims of anti-white discrimination because it lacks evidence to dismiss them. The evidence is accessible and unequivocal. Any systemic bias is against black people. It’s a broadcaster’s duty to challenge lies, not platform them. www.gov.uk/government/s...

A fine piece by Nesrine Malik. Should be read in conjunction with the latest column by her Observer colleague Kenan Malik (no relation) for a dissection of the backlash on race. (I'm reminded also of Nina Simone's & Langston Hughes's "Backlash Blues") www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“Politicians who have been vocal in criticising “victim culture” are now at the forefront of promoting white victimhood.” My @theobserveruk.bsky.social column: observer.co.uk/news/politic...

Oh no 🥺 The French-Iranian artist, comic book author and director Marjane Satrapi, who became world-renowned with the graphic novel and film "Persepolis," has died at the age of 56. She also directed Chicken with Plums (2011), The Voices (2014), Radioactive (2019), Dear Paris (2024)...

Next plenary session at #WIC2026, on 'Utopia and Dystopia in the 21st Century", with Kim Stanley Robinson and Thomas Piketty.

Headline them as fascist inciters of riots. All the same, a handy naming of the racist and fascist outfits roaming in our midst.

Talked to @mrjamesob.bsky.social about the far right trying to exploit Henry Nowak's murder and what we can do about it. youtu.be/U5joqIE6jLc?...

Presentation of the Global Justice Report.

Andriy Melnyk, Leader of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists It is high time to think differently, to reconsider which persons and movements are worthy of cherishing. John-Paul Himka Andriy Melnyk was the leader of the entire Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) in 1938-40 and of…

Musk's Grok of shit sets the target - wrong, but there's no right one here; Farage cries rage and lets slip Robinson's attack dogs. Lives are at stake here if we allow this fascist rampage.

Who, I wonder, is too racist for the BBC now? This is the language of the NF and the BNP, neither of which were invited on to the sofa to chat politics. Racism spreads when institutions legitimise it