NEW Has the government overreached in using terrorism law against Palestine Action? A disclosed MI5 document indicates that the basis for proscription may be weak By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

👏 @farefreelondon.bsky.social - all the right people in the room to build support for free public transport. Pearl in her intro explained free fares would mean she could afford to visit her grandmother more often. Clear case based on public health, cost of living, workers’ rights and climate.

The picture of John with @zackpolanski.bsky.social embodies the hope the Green Party brings for us all. Please help us get our message across to voters in Macc. It will be John, or another Keir Starmer Labour candidate, and we can win in Macclesfield Central www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/macclesfie...

Exact same thing this morning. First item on 6 Music News is a story about migrants trying to get on boats in France 🤯

I have come to the conclusion the EHRC guidance on single sex spaces should not even come to Parliament. It is misleading and has caused distress for my trans constituents. I urge @bphillipsonMP to reject it on grounds of practicality and human rights. sianberry.org.uk/publications/l…

The former leader of Reform in Wales, Nathan Gill, has been convicted of taking bribes from Oleg Voloshyn to promote the interests of Putin - the leader Farage said he most admires. Here’s Farage with Voloshyn’s wife. If Gill had been a close associate of Jeremy Corbyn this might be bigger news.

Concerning reminder: nuclear power is not safe in a war zone. Which means it is not safe anywhere. #NoNewNuclear www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

A state committing genocide should be chucked out of every international body, from the UN to Eurovision. If that doesn't happen, participants in those bodies should cold-shoulder that state's mouthpieces, as UN delegates did with Netanyahu today.

Nathan Gill, former leader of Reform UK in Wales, pleads guilty to taking bribes to make statements to “benefit Russia regarding events in Ukraine”. Support for Putin's brand of kleptocratic fascism + outright criminality. How very Reform. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

That's a great team - and with writers and contributing editors incl. Stewart Lee, Michael Sheen, Rebecca Solnit, Brian Eno and Peter Geoghegan, this promises to make a big - and much needed - impact on the UK media landscape.

Is it "move to Dubai"?

Leaving the ECHR won’t “Take Back Control” – it will hand your rights to politicians The myths are seductive, the reality is very different – without the ECHR your freedoms rest on whichever Home Secretary wakes up grumpy eastangliabylines.co.uk/politics/jus...

It should be crashingly obvious that digital ID will not stop rogue employers hiring people off the books and paying them cash in hand. Properly hired workers are already required to have a National Insurance number.

In November Eurovision will vote on banning Israel. If 35 of the 68 countries vote to ban them they are out. Out of UEFA in October and Eurovision in November. Lets make it happen.

1. I've long contended that austerity doesn't save money. It merely transfers costs from one group (the very rich, who would otherwise pay more tax) to others. Last night was a powerful reminder of that. Before I go further, I should say I’m fine. Just a black eye, cuts & bruises, no serious harm. 🧵

Important statement from James Comey. A great deal now depends on whether others in US law enforcement & the military show similar courage & commitment to the rule of law, or whether they bow to the whims of a proven rapist, conman & would-be dictator.

Our rivers are full of it. Urgent, effective action is needed now. “Farmers must be properly supported in making the changes needed to tackle this pollution crisis, together with strong legal deterrence in place to ensure that polluters pay for the cost of their actions.”

Amongst the gloom of Reform gains yet another poll predicts a Green win in the Huddersfield Constituency at the next General Election. Click here to donate to our Crowdfunder for the next local elections www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/kirklees-e...

What a state the US is in, in so many ways. "The top 10% of earners account for almost half of consumer spending – the highest level since the late 1980s." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

And a SECOND win in the night!!! Huge congratulations to @ashfordgreenparty.bsky.social for their successful win. Great to see Greens winning right across England and Wales. Join.greenparty.org.uk

I can’t quite express how much I loathe Starmer’s position here I’m just so grateful that @zackpolanski.bsky.social and @greenparty.org.uk are making the positive case for the movement of people and the huge contribution immigrants have made to the UK

Brilliant discussion with the fab @graceblakeley.substack.com on everything from growth to inequality, power & community organising, & how capitalism is actually a “system based on centralised planning & control rather than free markets”, where big biz is protected from consequences of failure👇

Why would Pete Hegseth want to honour the war criminals who massacred 250 Native Americans, including women & children, at Wounded Knee? Most likely because he will soon demand troops to commit similar crimes of violence against US citizens. #fascism apnews.com/article/woun...

Trump backing plan for Tony Blair to head transitional Gaza authority, "seen as reassurance for Israeli PM Netanyahu". One war criminal to preside over the smoking ruins left in the wake of another war criminal's genocidal violence? How very reassuring. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Rebekah Brooks, the News of the World editor portrayed in #TheHack, got off charges of conspiracy to hack voicemails, conspiracy to pay public officials & conspiracy to pervert the course of justice. Brooks is now back with Murdoch's toxic lie machine as CEO of News UK.

There are good reasons not to do this. There are however bad reasons to do this, which brings us to Hegseth. He says the greatest danger to the US is not China or Russia but internal factors. He could be right, if what he has in mind is himself. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

From David Adler aboard the Sumud Flotilla on why he and others are sailing to Gaza: UN "member-states continue to arm, aid, and abet the state of Israel in its expanding campaign of destruction, eviction, and annexation of the occupied Palestinian territories" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Hegseth summons top US military officials from around the world for gathering in Virginia, without announcing the agenda. Very ominous. Could signal either a foreign war (e.g. on Venezuela) or some kind of loyalty test ahead of domestic military action. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Microsoft finally decides genocide is not a good look. How many Palestinians have been tortured, maimed and killed as a result of the "services" it provided to Israel?

"Blue Labour" should rename itself "Turquoise Labour". Lord Glasman's role appears to be to channel ideas from MAGA extremists and techbro fascists into the bloodstream of the Labour Party. And this project seems to have the blessing of the Labour leadership.

The head of the UK's leading anti-racism campaign group Hope not Hate wrote to Keir Starmer to complain about his "silence" in the face of a rising far-right threat. "At the time when people needed leadership there was silence. “And for the far right, that silence just emboldened them further"

Swan-lover Nigel Farage will be outraged to discover that swans (& cats & dogs) were being ritually sacrificed & buried in "witch pits" in Cornwall until at least the 1970s. Must have been the migrants. www.thetimes.com/comment/regi...

This excellent piece by @liamthorp.bsky.social focuses on Farage. But as it correctly says, the much more immediate threat is that *Labour* will move the goalposts. www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...

Spoke to a Turkish cabbie last night, who talked about how the English left felt as if it had disappeared; how he felt unsafe and vulnerable while watching the far-right get more popular. He was in his sixties, living in a tiny flat, and called himself one of the lucky ones. Quietly heartbreaking.

Reporting of potholes is the most absurd supposed benefit of digital ID cards so far advanced.

Not to mention Pol Pot's Year Zero in Cambodia, when many thousands of "intellectuals" were murdered. The mostly illiterate Khmer Rouge were not good at identifying intellectuals, so used wearing glasses or knowing a foreign language as a rule of thumb.

"Kill the intellectuals" is quite the metaphor. But not unexpected from Arron Banks, whose idea of a "joke" is a video of journalist @carolecadwalla.bsky.social being beaten up to the tune of the Russian national anthem.

The Dallas shooter Joshua Jahn was anything but a dedicated leftist, say those who knew him. He was a nihilistic "libertarian", a 4chan "edgelord" steeped in shooter games. "Anti-ICE" looks to have been a provocation designed to confuse & enrage. www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-ice-sh...

It's likely that some pregnant women will.listen to Andrea Jenkyns & Nigel Farage suggesting there may be truth to Trump's completely bogus claims & then decide not to use paracetamol to safely reduce fever. They & their unborn babies could be seriously harmed as a result.

Nothing to see here. Just Richard Tice holidaying with a Russian fossil fuel oligarch with a murky web of offshore companies & assuring him that a Reform UK government would create “an attractive regulatory environment" for such business interests. You bet it would. unherd.com/newsroom/ric...

Absolutely horrific. Putin's forces using the same human shield tactics in Ukraine as Netanyahu's genocidal war criminals in Gaza.

1/ In US & UK elections and referendums, Putin's regime has used large-scale social media disinformation + large amounts of money to selected politicians & influencers. Same in #Moldova, + direct vote buying, cyberattacks and incitements to violence.

True. Having been struck off the UK medical register for serious professional misconduct, the MMR fraudster Andrew Wakefield now makes a lucrative living from undermining public health in the US.

80,000 Green Party members by Saturday? Could you be the 80,000th? join.greenparty.org.uk

I am not shy to say when I disagree with Sadiq Khan. But I also think it's important to say out loud when other politicians get it right. This is exactly what the leader of a diverse and vibrant city like London should say. Thank you Sadiq.

It was great to get together last night with party members from across Waveney Valley to talk about my first year as your MP. Delighted to be joined by @cllrctopping.bsky.social, our mayoral candidate for Norfolk and Suffolk,

Looks like Trump's staff were responsible for both the escalator malfunction & the teleprompter glitch at the UN. Trump's deranged performance was all his own work, though. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

note that any stagnation would be on the rich too. most of us are stagnating more being crushed under the weight of crony capitalism.

Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator was banned in Nazi Germany but Hitler had it screened for him & it reportedly greatly upset him. I like to think of him watching Chaplin's great final speech. Hope Trump was watching Jimmy Kimmel's monologue last night too. www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7GY...

The 2 biggest old birches in the woods were both toppled in the same storm a couple of years back. The light gaps opened up have exploded with flowers like these devil's bit, flying insects, and young trees. The sheer *dynamism* of an Atlantic rainforest has been a revelation over these 16+ years.