What happened to the Palestine Action C4 Dispatches that was supposed to run last night?

Some realism at last. And adaptability. ‘Boots on the ice’ about sums it up. You don’t necessarily have to agree with Carney, and he respects that in his thinking. UK govt? Totally flat of foot in comparison. No big picture. globalnews.ca/news/1162087...

Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...

This is a masterpiece! Read on…

🧵 The German President last week. What you hear is the disappointment at the end of a political life: "our most important partner, the United States, has broken with the values that it helped to establish" ...and through his well-chosen words, a call to action. 1/2

#Greenland #Denmark

I can't believe I'm posting this video - but we actually have to have a conversation about the real world implications of America going to war over Greenland. Let me walk you through it. It doesn't turn out well for us.

Imagine. Just fucking imagine. 😳👇

This image is making the rounds on the Internet, but I am repeating it anyway since EVERYONE NEEDS TO SEE IT. (I don't know who originally made it, but hats off to them!) This BBC article includes a link to the video of Renee Good's last words: www.bbc.com/news/article...

Ex-Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura: “We’re a 3rd world country now. I know. I’ve been to ‘em. I spent 17 months in SE Asia while the draft dodger was playing golf… that’s what happens in a dictatorship. In comes the military. That’s what’s happening here.” 🇺🇸

Danish guy gets it

Sitting president or not: war crimes have no immunity. Office does not shield anyone from indictment under U.S. or international law. Jurisdiction, not power, determines arrest. History is clear—titles expire, accountability doesn’t.

This👇👇👇👇👇👇

The PM and Foreign Secretary should be condemning this illegal strike and breach of international human rights law. After years of arming a genocide and worshipping the “special relationship”, Trump now believes he can act with impunity.

If Trump’s concern was drugs, he’d not have pardoned Honduras’s corrupt leader; if terrorism, he’d have gone after Iran; if world order, Russia; if preserving US power, China. If democracy, human rights or humanitarian motive, dozens of other worthy cases. What’s left is oil. And Epstein.

@carolecadwalla.bsky.social called it

While people will stand up and be counted, there’s hope for all of us.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, "And you are going to forbid that debate in this Parliament?" "What is happening in Gaza is a genocide" "Repeat after me, ladies and gentlemen, it is a genocide"

As you begin to build your 2026 reading lists (which is a thing I assume some people do), consider adding my really very short book on AI and Eugenics. Disabling Intelligences:Legacies of Eugenics and How We are Wrong about AI has a lot in under 50k words. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Standing in front of cameras, and next to President Zelinskyy, Trump actually declared that “Russia wants to see Ukraine succeed.” What's your explanation for Trump? A) Senile delusions? B) Delivering Putin's talking point? C) Trying out as a comedian? D) He really is that stupid and gullible?

Flamborough Head, today. Seal central. #Flamborough #seals

Anyone done a cumulative cost of how much the UK has spent on the work done for Leeds not to have a Tram in the years between 1980 and 2025. My back of an envelope call is about £1Bn ……. And that doesn’t include the opportunity costs and lost economic benefits

Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.

What an amazing analogy of life under Trump!

If there only was a word for a governing system in which one set of laws applied to people of a specific race, and a completely different and much harsher set of laws applied to those of another race... www.cbc.ca/news/world/i...

The poorest 20% Britons pay higher proportion of income in taxes than the richest 20%. The bottom 50% of the population owns less than 5% of wealth, bottom 20% has 0.5%. Can't reduce child/household poverty and relieve suffering without equitable distribution of income/wealth.

So, to those who say "masks don't work", cite the flawed Cochrane report, insist upon an unfeasible RCT, accuse folks of panic, and undermine public health on social and mainstream media during a flu/RSV epidemic... 1. Seasonal viruses may be "normal", but they do immense harm.

Fine. Give us the Epstein files in Times New Roman, then.

History Reclaimed debunked.

This morning, from me to you, a personal message. #GoodMorning, everyone.

Yeah you think the Middle East is full of White people.

“Mum, Dad... I’m a homo sapien” From the Private Eye archive. Issue 865, Feb 1995.

I remember when there was a discussion on Twitter about Shein's manufacturing practices and some apologists invented all sorts of fantastical machinery and technology to avoid facing the more horrifying truth. Reminds me of this comedian's joke. IG bscomedian

If the 28-point plan came from Russia and somehow ended up in the hands of U.S. lawmakers, then we don’t have a “leak” problem we have a foreign influence problem. And anyone downplaying that should not be anywhere near national security decisions.

From the CWS ARCHIVE. 22nd March 2022.

"One side is led by fascists. It’s like saying the Civil War, the problem with the Civil War was polarization ...It’s nonsensical. It’s just fascism enabling." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

"Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty." — Hannah Arendt 🌱📷

"The Epstein case and the entanglement in it of a president...will forever be remembered as a sign of what happens when capitalism becomes not an economic system but a warped theology in which the appetites of the greediest drive us to dysfunction and great suffering."

Refugees are not “illegal”. Most flee war or persecution. What’s wrong with humanity, help to settle and work, recognising the value of migration? Stop this media obsession, slandering and persecuting defenceless people. We need to be better, and even more so, do our leaders.

From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."

My article on Joseph Dawson, Unitarian minister turned director of Low Moor ironworks, has just been published. Part of Oxford DNB's push to highlight great figures of the past in Bradford 2025 City of Culture. @bradford2025.co.uk @oxfordacademic.bsky.social

... and the Tories complain about BBC left-wing bias!

imo big part is simply that people respond positively to politicians that seem to be speaking honestly and in a "normal human being" register, as opposed to communications trained evasions and elisions. So much so that they vote for this:

Morning! How are we all? Here's the Great Hall roof to inspire you this Monday morning. You too can reach lofty heights and look marvellous whilst doing it. 😘

What a banger

REMINDER: A socialist act by a New Yorker was a major reason why polio was eliminated in the US.