Your Phone Isn’t a Drug. It’s a Portal to the Otherworld. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/o...

Disgusting, the Emiratis are culpable. www.politico.eu/article/uae-...

@anticapitalistmusings.com youtu.be/DUJ5xtoI8tE?...

#Politics #Britain

The 50 wealthiest families own more wealth than the bottom 50% of the population. How can this Labour Government say this is a "cost of living" budget and refuse to tax the rich? They care about protecting power and wealth. And cost of living is a buzz phrase for them. Dire.

Does this address the mirage of Thatcherism transforming Britain for the better? There was no "economic miracle" for the UK in the 1980s: only the rich & powerful; economic growth pa was the same as the 1970s. The UK was kept afloat by North Sea oil, privatisation & an explosion of household debt.

Possibly the stupidest idea I've heard in the last few months, which is saying something. Shows utter ignorance around practicalities regardless of the ethics/desirability.

When I was in govt we used to prep ministers for select committees by doing trial sessions. And we were so much better at it than MPs. They almost never ask the difficult questions.

That goal was well deserved. #Everton

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home... : This will be a vote-winner. Do it.

Well that’s cost us any chance in this game. No justification, Gueye should be ashamed. #Everton

Remembering the strange, sad story of Norris and Ross McWhirter. Despite founding the Guinness Book of Records, the twins became better known as Right-wing firebrands

#EndOfYearReviews #Books #BookReviews

#Books #BookReview

Marx vs. the British Left: How a Strategic Weakness Became a Permanent Blind Spot

100% : "When you put down barriers—a flag, a chant, a demand for papers proving your right to exist in a particular place—you kill the possibility of being present, of being at. You reduce everything to bloodline, to accent, to how many generations back your family planted roots.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​"

An open letter to Zarah Sultana about her advocacy of pro-kremlin neo-stalinists. @anticapitalistmusings.com @simonpirani.bsky.social @gemmaclark.bsky.social @georgemonbiot.bsky.social @neilmackay.bsky.social @ukrainesol.bsky.social @qunfuz.bsky.social heckle.scot/2025/11/an-o...

Ironically this far-right government could do what parts of the far-left have been advocating - no arms to Ukraine, make Ukraine gives concessions to Russia to secure "peace".

US ‘threatens to cut intel and weapons’ to push Ukraine into peace deal - Reuters It’s almost like the Trump administration wants to hand Russia the win.

Another day & another appearance on the #BBC by Spiked: the attention seeking right-wing contrarians who came from the Revo Communist Party & who include the Claire Fox Academy/Institute of Ideas. Tonight: Ella Whelan on #bbcqt: a group who add nothing positive to public debate.

Will always be the best album ever made, at the best time to be alive. RIP Mani. #Legend

This does feel like a major crossing of the Rubicon – the world's best-funded and in many ways most powerful public health agency is now actively pushing disinformation. I know there's a *lot* going on to care about at the moment, but this one really is significant, and matters well beyond the US.

Not reselected by Labour last year, under dubious circumstances. Now moving to the Green Party. It's a thing, now.

The Farage, Bannon, Epstein connection. @anticapitalistmusings.com @georgemonbiot.bsky.social @neilmackay.bsky.social @gemmaclark.bsky.social @gerryhassan.bsky.social @novaramedia.com @owenjones.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2025/11/19/d...

“Having someone like Robbie Gibb on the board is like a wolf in a sheep-pen. In some ways, it’s not his fault. It’s in his nature. He’s doing what he believes to be right. The real problem is the absolute lack of pushback from a weak chairman [Shah] and other board members.”