This is right on the money, and a problem not just with AI but capitalism in general which is increasingly producing more, but what it produces isn't useful to anyone apart from the tech broligarchy and the political patrons.

There is a small minority of English people who want this debate, unfortunately they are all columnists.

True story.

We discuss how elite philanthropy works in three phases in the cyclical maintenance of capitalism. Firstly, by securing elite class interests through intergenerational wealth transfer (where philanthropy is used to socialise and discipline heirs) and accumulating wealth by creating new markets.

UK politicians being shills for US broligarchs while constantly pulling wool over the voters' eyes and wanting us to believe they are acting in the public interest.

In 2024 Labour won by being just acceptable enough to just enough people. Now they are unacceptable, for different reasons, to just enough people almost everywhere. The electoral valley of death.

Or maybe, just maybe, he doesn't have any values: www.theguardian.com/politics/202... Throughout, Labour has treated its own voters with nothing but contempt: not only taking our votes for granted but that if we disagreed, we were unable to comprehend what the 'real business of governing' involved.

More power to workers everywhere ✊🏾

Now we have different ways of calculating percentages!

Any Social Democratic party worth its name should stop chasing the far-right old white male voter and listen to the young female voter…

This should be top of most political and policy debates in the country - but wouldn't be of course! And we all know why.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaS3... 110 years since #EasterRising sent shockwaves across the world that empires days were numbered! Great song - and article links Irish freedom solidarity everywhere today against oppression m.thewire.in/article/hist... ✊🏽🤛🤝👊✊🏽

Chandu Maheriya's razor-sharp essay on the ubiquitous chappals and its entanglements with caste. www.equator.org/articles/you...

13.4m Britons, including 4m children, live in relative poverty. Median wage of an employee is around £31,000. Poorest 20% pay higher proportion of income in taxes than the richest 20%. 1% has more wealth than 70% of the population combined. No govt plan for equitable distribution of wealth.

Where the 21st c. U.S. is headed.

When you think there are no depths too low for him to fall down to, trust Blair to do just that. What a disgraceful ex-PM.

Welcome to Reform’s front bench Yusuf, Hampton School, £29,916 per year Jenrick, Wolverhampton Grammar, £17,835 per year Farage, Dulwich College, £30,618 per year Tice, Uppingham School, £58,176 per year Braverman, Heathfield School, defunct private school The authentic voice of the working class

This from Clive Lewis is right on the money. If anything, Mandelson and McSweeney's departure should be the end of the New Labour project.

Write a substack, they said. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Pour one out for every professional political pundit, writer, consultant whatever that has spent the last decade trying to pretend that the Trump phenomenon was about trade or opiates and not a big chunk of white america losing its mind over having a black president bsky.app/profile/kyle...

If only the other media outlets had a conscience they would do something similar.

If nothing else, pretty amazing Canadian PM Carney said the quiet part out loud today: international law has never been real and the ‘rules’ of the international order have never applied to the US and its allies. This may indeed be the actual death of neoliberalism. globalnews.ca/news/1162087...

It really is mad king stuff, untethered from reality. He tells the Norwegian leader, you did not give me a prize that you don't control, so maybe I will invade the territory of another Scandinavian country you don't lead.

"I learned from them very early that what one does with Nazis is kill them.” How Christie sabotaged S. Africa's nuclear programme; and fought the apartheid regime.

When the racist meme becomes national policy

orcas have the chance to do the funniest thing

Trump's America, 2025

The utter lack of reason and logic as well as any political judgement will be Labour's undoing as it keeps chasing Reform's tail and demonizing black and brown immigrants with its own version of thinly veiled racism, Islamophobia, and xenophobia. As if its own version is somehow morally superior.

In 2023/24, UK govt gave £78.2bn tax relief on pension contributions. 32% benefitted 29.2m basic rate (20%) taxpayers. 68% went to higher and additional rate (40% and 45%) tax payers. Equalizing tax relief at 20% to all, leaves govt £14.5bn spare to alleviate poverty.

The status of academic freedom in the world's largest democracy. Courtesy: @scholarsatrisk.bsky.social More details here: www.scholarsatrisk.org/resources/fr...

Well done, Nadia Whittome. It is shameful that words that one would once expected to hear directed at a Tory Home Secretary are now being directed at a Labour Home Secretary.

thewire.in/world/magas-... - two figures stand out as unlikely architects of a new Right Wing Order: Charlie Kirk and Michael Anton @martindbbrown.bsky.social @msenn.bsky.social @mjbayly.bsky.social @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social @cmcknichols.bsky.social @charleskeener.bsky.social @thenation.com

New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009

on the topic of dick cheney, one thing i’ve always said is that you shouldn’t kill a million people

Trump's America, 2025.

Why I remain hopeful. Even as the older, wealthy Tories are moving enmasse to Reform, the young people are rejecting it outright.

what else would we expect the Financial Times to say? keep making the case for workers to be taxed more because the wealthy apparently do not take dividends or hoard up assets but only invest in the future.

I wrote about the history of business schools in India: message me if you would like to read and cannot access a copy: journals.aom.org/doi/10.5465/... #management #India #B-school #history

Easier option was to ban firecrackers, or community firecrackers like the rest of the world, but the Sanatanis were offended that they weren't being allowed to celebrate Diwali; so we have gimmicks like this: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o... Except there are no rain clouds in Delhi winters.

Read some of the comments arguing it isn't antisemitism because unlike Aston Villa a particular religious/ethnic group isn't being singled out - except in that case too, football hooligans were singled out not a particular religious/ethnic group.

This is why I am proud of my MP for York Central, Rachael Maskell. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Elites who run the world.

The paintings of Gazan Ahmed Muhanna, seen today on their last day in Copenhagen. Expediency drove Ahmed to use flattened cardboard boxes from World Food Program aid packages. Necessity proved to be a brilliant mother of invention.

What happens when there is no internet and what it takes to put it back on. www.theguardian.com/news/2025/se...

I mean yes this is funny, but the fact that these unconstitutional stormtroopers are so directionless that they literally stand around waiting for random nonwhite delivery guys to bike past them is just pathetic. No mandate, no mission, no clue. Just racism.

I was never really a fan of T20 anyway (it isn't cricket at all), but more importantly this is why I don't like to follow cricket anymore.

Big Oil has no problem funding people who say the Civil Rights Act was "huge mistake” or that Ketanji Brown Jackson was "a diversity hire" or that trans people are responsible for inflation. As long as “climate change is fake” is part of it, they don’t care about the rest.

What we knew all the flag waving all summer was going to lead to: nine year old girl shot at with an airgun in a racially aggravated assault. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... Come on, Yvette, tells us how you love your flags and buntings and tea cozies.