they don’t even have him on supporting the Palestinian resistance on Oct 7th, absolute nothing story

‘months after Oct 7’ so he was calling for the heavy defeat of a state that was several months into happily carrying out a sustained campaign of ethnic cleansing

Music for a while Shall all your cares beguile...

"You opposing Zionism can only be explained by one thing: you've never heard of the Holocaust" Doesn't occur to them that Anti-Zionist Jews are aware of our history, it's just that instead of using it to justify oppressing others, we use it to understand why oppression is ALWAYS INEXCUSABLE

The oxygen that keeps us alive comes from natural ecosystems: half on land, half at sea. It's not complicated: we are TOTALLY dependent on the living world. Yet it's still treated as nothing but 'resources', to exploit and destroy for profit.

It is IMO not much more complicated than: when the financial crisis obliterated Thatcherism as a viable model of governance, our ruling class chose Johnson, Starmer and finally Farage as infinitely preferable to admitting what they had done to the public.

A huge problem with (neo)liberals is that while they like a society built on some concessions to the left they absolutely and completely despise the left. And so they assume the result of those compromises is actually just their own beneficient decency and the left aren't needed.

The neoliberal project, implimented by Labour along with the entire western ruling class, sought to systematically remove every pressure release valve from society. They actively removed any constructive way for the public to express discontent assuming nothing would change. This is the result.

the warning that Russia may target drone manufacturing facilities in countries participating in the Ukraine war fell on deaf ears not much left now, those who do not listen, must feel my guess is Russia feels they have to strike NATO drone manufacturing facilities in EU to send a message scary

I'm not guessing, Sergey Karaganov, influential realist policy advisor since disastrous Yeltsin era, a type of Kissenger figure but without the power, advocates literal nuclear strikes in Europe destroy the will of the neo-liberal warmongers. Interview: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Gd5...

If “can we improve society somewhat” and “who gets the money and power” are completely off the table and not at all up for debate - and that really is the situation - then yes, you’re going to have to get very stupid about it, because there is nothing else to do.

Our politicians and media outlets are not interested in good governance. They have been defensively stationed around the neoliberal revolution for about 18 years, all guns pointed outward at the public, opening fire on anyone who e.g. suggests our rivers shouldn’t be full of human shit.

The Thatcherite consensus is non-negotiable and criticism of it is unacceptable, so that leaves a vanishingly small area for political contest. Which is why we’ve had well over a decade of scything cuts and screaming abuse at various minority groups and the left: it’s all there is to talk about.

You’re a ‘Professor of Politics’. How are you this naive? Obviously, I’m joking, I know full well it comes with the profession.

This is fucking mental. Protesters in the UK can now be convicted of criminal damage but be sentenced as terrorists despite never having been convicted of a terror offence and without the jury knowing anything about it. Just a un unbelievable abuse of power by Justice Johnson.

I sometimes feel insane that we don't constantly talk about the time Labour gave a black guy who was poised to unseat Nigel Farage the sack because he was a better poster than Keir Starmer

This is my favorite shot from Artemis II so far—absolutely stunning CREDIT:NASA

The coverage of "hate marches" in the UK has been almost entirely about those in solidarity with Palestine This is compared to euphemisms used to describe increasingly emboldened fascist and their billionaire enablers Excellent from @desfreedman.bsky.social www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ma...

A thread: Why socialist Labour was stopped... ‘We will launch the biggest ever crackdown on tax avoidance and evasion and reform the inefficient system of tax reliefs.’ – Labour Manifesto, 2019. #CouldHaveHad & #WhyWeWereStopped

Don’t know who this guy is, but his analysis is very erudite and considered. Well worth watching. youtu.be/NRvJ9_ZEQQU?...

If @democrats.org would run on this platform, they'd win in a landslide. But the #DonorClass says "No," so they will run on a GOP-lite "We're not Trump" platform ... and likely lose.

Give a listen? 🙏

Spending some time reading a good book may be more worthwhile than spending that time on Twitter.

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Does anyone know what’s happened with Maduro? I think we all moved on too quickly from America just fucking stealing the leader of a whole country!

@ John McDonnell @ Clive Lewis etc. Either turn your words to actions and help defeat Labour or keep quiet. "Change from within" only matters if the vehicle is still viable. Labour is a rusted car shell with an arrow spray painted on it pointing to a Reform Government.

I'm sorry, but I don't want to hear about why Labour lost and what it should mean for the party from any MP who has remained a Labour representative over the last few years. Leave and fight against it. You can't slag Labour off and still ask us to vote for you as a labour MP. Have some dignity.

I reckon this is much more on the money than many people realise. Starmer is a sinister mfer. Trilateral Commission, lots of sinister meetings and destroyed files etc. His job is to ram through tons of unpopular shit on behalf of the British state (which is in crisis) and then be disposed of.

Wrong. Starmer must stay. Labour must die. morningstaronline.co.uk/article/quit...

I’m considering coming out of retirement to become a transatlantic political consultant. My brand? Promise not to steal it? Don’t tell your core voters to fuck off.

So very true...

“More than a third of members polled said they were considering resigning their membership” LOL keep going lads, if it gets low enough you can have whoever you want as leader

I reckon this is much more on the money than many people realise. Starmer is a sinister mfer. Trilateral Commission, lots of sinister meetings and destroyed files etc. His job is to ram through tons of unpopular shit on behalf of the British state (which is in crisis) and then be disposed of.

Really can’t rule out the possibility that Starmer’s MI5 handlers simply won’t let him quit.

We obtained the diary of Tzipi Hotovely, the former Israeli ambassador in London. It reveals how she held private meetings with Met police commissioner Mark Rowley in November 2023 and assistant commissioner Matt Jukes in August 2024👇 www.declassifieduk.org/revealed-the...

these are all bad but holy shit that snooker one

Even I am shocked at how quickly and unrepentantly all the lads have gone straight back to late 2019 levels of wildly irresponsible screeching, pointing and screaming whatever accusations you want, regardless of merit, at the prospect of the Sensible Moderates losing ground to the liberal left.

Anyone on the left who wasn’t actively involved from 2015-19 needs to know what’s coming. 1, they’re going to throw multiple, often contradictory lies at the wall to see what sticks. Polanski will be simultaneously weak and strong, timid and aggressive, passive and dictatorial, old fashioned and

Over two decades, Media Studies was vilified, ridiculed, and caricatured in the UK press to the extent that it was basically eradicated as a viable course. Why might that have been?

This simple, short thread is VERY, VERY instructive

The Guardian's "Zack Polanski" tab. One story from the last week is missing, here, the Guardian don't seem to have covered it at all.

You probably follow me for sardonic remarks about British politics. But did you know I have a website called 'Society from the Top' down where I post about elites, politics & computational social science? tamills1981.github.io/society-from...

We need more people to wake up and see what is really happening and not the lines fed by the billionaires. When I speak to people pointing at boats and I tell them it's the billionaires, their eyes glaze over!

The BBC vaguely mentions this surely crucial piece of information in a vague sentence at the end of their report. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Once you see it, you realise its everywhere, and always has been? Doesnt bode well for private projections of the environment that theyre pulling up the drawbridges and securing resources at any cost now, though.

As ever: they don’t have to convince *everyone* with campaigns of hate and fear, and they aren’t trying to convince everyone. They only have to shitehouse the 10% or so of any potential left/lib vote who are the most easily led.