Ok but this is totally something Charlotte Church would do

The right does not get to own nihilism. Here's a thread of alternative nihilisms. Feel free to add your own. youtu.be/LCRZZC-DH7M?...

Call for papers #CFP Blood is the Price of Coal: Coal Communities, Health and Welfare in Britain and Beyond from the 19th Century to the Present 18 June 2026: 1 day conference + NUM archive exhibition Submit abstracts / express interest at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib... Deadline: 25 Jan 2026

Fifteen years of ideological choices to strangle & gut the public realm - NHS to schools to social services to local museums - is what underlies the anger "tearing our country apart"; immigration is simply the scapegoat that the far right are pushing people toward. Why can't Labour just say this?

Labour claims that boosting military spending will produce employment growth. Far from it, argues Richard Norton Taylor, it funnels money to private contractors that should fund public services www.redpepper.org.uk/global-polit...

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"The abuse hurled at her by critics on the right take her back to the only childhood she knows, one rife with her mother’s insults." In her first memoir, Arundhati Roy grapples with the complex forces which formed her writes Nandita Lal www.redpepper.org.uk/culture-medi...

From the archive: "Capital, in this view, is a meatgrinder that crushes human lives into sellable commodities" Capitalism entails endless misery and violence writes Mark Steven. Can cinematic horror help us to understand and overthrow it? (31 October 2021) www.redpepper.org.uk/culture-medi...

Following an extensive community consultation, the new look Red Peper Media has been guided by our readers – and is set to reshape the left media landscape www.redpepper.org.uk/culture-medi...

From the archive: Peace activists against the First World War were treated as enemies by their government, but left a legacy of perseverance writes Tim Gee (6 June 2014) www.redpepper.org.uk/global-polit...

Never knew about this before. Great to see - and fun to spot the numerous anachronisms if, like me, you enjoy a bit of pedantry. londonist.com/london/art-a...

Illegal migration isn't tearing this country apart, but our obsession with it is. It's an obsession fuelled by our media and politicians. Both profit from blowing the problem out of all proportion. It's been happening for decades, but never more so than now

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A piece I wrote about the manufactured ‘impartiality’ panics that greeted Tim Davie’s arrival just over 5 years ago, when GB News was still a glint in Robbie Gibbs’ eye www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Have Reform UK Ltd’s county councils delivered on their promises? A six-month review of Reform-led county councils explores how effectively they have delivered what they promised to their electors | Gary Gilligan @garygilligan.bsky.social @centralbylines.co.uk

Day 3 of the “no more than 2” day trial of Sandwich Guy. The prosecution intends to rest; the defense hasn’t decided yet. Dispute over jury instructions continues, a few morsels (sorry) to follow.

Did you ever wonder anything about the history of tenant organising and rent strikes? This volume, edited by me and @lucaspoy.bsky.social , might have some answers. Freshly published today and available with open access. uclpress.co.uk/book/rent-st...

"The X algorithm prioritises sending new users right-wing leaning content", a Sky News Data and Forensics investigation reveals news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

9. We will stop the billionaire autocracy only if these revenants make way for a radical, inspiring, lively politics, that doesn't wait for the other side to “crumble”, but gives people a reason to overthrow it. May Mamdani’s victory begin a new era of life-giving and life-affirming politics.

I keep seeing supposedly progressive podcasts saying “the problem is that people feel like they just can’t talk about these issues” while these issues are frequently the *only* thing that people are talking about 😩

Reminder that Powell was dropped like a hot potato for giving this speech while current Tories face no consequences and are more likely to be given an endorsement from the party leader or discussed as future party leaders in the press.

Reform lost by 11% in Caerphilly - because of a surge in turnout, because Reform looked set to win the seat. This illustrates Reform's vulnerability *because* they are leading the polls (in a 6 party system) while being an *unpopular* party. A much bigger problem under FPTP 2029 than PR 2026

The Workers' Stories Project published 55 stories from Scottish workers during the COVID-19 lockdown. I've co-authored a new journal article on the project and working-class narratives of the pandemic with three other members of the project team Hailey Maxwell, Ruth Gilbert and Suki Sangha.

Looking forward to taking part in this year's Newport Rising - come and say hello if you're there! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✊ www.newportrising.co.uk/events/chart...

German study shows how far right sets agenda thanks to mainstream parties reshaping their communications to respond to what are initially fringe issues, boosting the spread of these ideas and signalling to voters that these ideas and stances were legitimate shorturl.at/OFfig

Fifteen years of cuts have left the UK trying to "efficiency" its way out of a collapse – and somehow still expecting growth to show up as well | The Bear

When the main theme of an election campaign is an issue over which the parliament concerned has no power - in this case immigration - it’s clear that our democracy has become dysfunctional ✍️Martin Shipton wp.me/p8Mk4U-17oE

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"In an enthusiastically curated showcase of soft left thinking, more than a dozen opinions are offered on ways forward for Labour" A new collection from Mark Perryman asks some bold and urgent questions about dialogue on the left, writes Kevin Davey www.redpepper.org.uk/culture-medi...

Jerry Iles speaks to Geoff Kirkwood about how a Tyneside Social Club became a cultural beacon – driven by cutting edge DJs, bingo nights, experimental orchestras and ‘open-minded collectivism’. Now, it’s reclaiming culture for everyone www.redpepper.org.uk/culture-medi...

A real treat to write about Jurassic Park as anticapitalist inspiration for the new @leftcultures.bsky.social (with brilliant illustration as ever) A great project celebrating radical politics in unexpected places

TWT is back, with a new approach to galvanise the British left. Join us to shake off nostalgia, get organised and rise to meet growing threats, write Andrea Gilbert, Lydia Phillips and Isaac Rose The World Transformed starts tomorrow in Manchester www.redpepper.org.uk/political-pa...

Following an extensive community consultation, the new look Red Pepper Media has been guided by our readers – and is set to reshape the left media landscape Read about how RPM is forging ahead into the future here: www.redpepper.org.uk/culture-medi...

"Football, basketball, and Olympic representation are not just games; they are pillars of national identity and instruments to project the nation and its legitimacy abroad" Nicola De Martini Ugolotti and Max Mauro on efforts to ban Israel from sports www.redpepper.org.uk/global-polit...

Anglian, Northumbrian, Southern, South East and Wessex Water are all being allowed to put their bills up ANOTHER £28. Why are we not Nationalising Water?

"One-third of votes cast might be enough to enable Reform to win an absolute majority of seats and be able to pass any laws it likes" A campaign for constitutional reform is an urgent priority for the UK, argues Mark Corner. www.redpepper.org.uk/political-pa...

Phil Wigglesworth reflects on the launch of Left Cultures in 2023 – and why the international left must embrace non-hierarchical approaches to publishing www.redpepper.org.uk/culture-medi...

Issue 4 of Left Cultures out now featuring a piece by Red Pepper co-editor @siobhan.bsky.social In Issue there's over 50 stories discussing a dazzling array of past and present cultural moments to create a Lexicon of the Left, fully illustrated throughout. leftcultures.com/collections/...

From the archive: Selina Nwulu looks back at revolutionary Black Panther Assata Shakur’s autobiography and the ways in which it remains relevant following her passing in September 2025 (1 October 2014) www.redpepper.org.uk/culture-medi...

From the archive: Ewa Jasiewicz considers the impact of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla and its violent raid by Israel, in Palestine, Israel and internationally (27 September 2010) www.redpepper.org.uk/global-polit...

Infighting over centralised power, corruption and economic crisis has led to defeat for a once-inspiring Indigenous leader and social movement party. Linda Farthing and Benjamin Swift report. The full article found in @NACLA www.redpepper.org.uk/global-polit...

If the state wants to avoid cumulative protests, maybe the answer is to stop its cumulative support for injustice, its cumulative inaction on the climate crisis and its cumulative complicity in genocide. It won't: and so, no matter how many new laws ministers create, protests are inevitable

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Nigel Farage claims his mass deportation plan would save the UK hundreds of billions of pounds over the coming decades. New analysis of official statistics, forecasts and Reform's own figures suggests it would actually *cost* the UK hundreds of billions over the same period

They will just... break things. Things we treasure. Things we depend on. Things our lives will be much more difficult without. They will just break them, and laugh, and blame foreigners and wokists.

From the archive: Tom Palmer, aka Agent Kingfisher, was the ‘messiah’ of London’s squatting scene until his death last year. But who was responsible for his fate? MI5, late capitalism or simply a drug overdose? Matt Broomfield investigates. www.redpepper.org.uk/law-police-j...

"We have always believed in the importance of grassroots, community politics. Now, however, it is urgent." Economic power in the community – cymunedoli – is the antidote to the far right’s growing appeal in Cymru, write BethWinter and Leanne Wood www.redpepper.org.uk/economics-un...

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