For @dispatchmedia.bsky.social i went on the trail of the Totley Communists and the radical history of Sheffield. dispatch-media.com/the-commune-...

For @dispatchmedia.bsky.social i went on the trail of the Totley Communists and the radical history of Sheffield. dispatch-media.com/the-commune-...

Keep your Andy Burnhams and Keir Starmers. Today, @johnmerrick.bsky.social goes in search of the true communist Kings of the North.

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!!🚨!🚨!🚨!! Copies of @the-breakdown.bsky.social Issue #2 FRONTIERS now in the wild and coming to you soon. Plus a sneak peek of an incredible photo essay by Indonesian photojournalist Garry Lotulung, documenting nickel mining on the island of Halmahera Get yours: www.break-down.org/tag/issue-02/

ISSUE #2 has arrived 👀👀👀 …and will be on its way to subscribers very soon! Out MONDAY on our website and in print. Get your copy now at www.break-down.org 🔗

£416 — nearly a quarter — of your average energy bill was taken as pre-tax profits in 2024. Our new project — Who Owns Britain? — featured in @theguardian.com.

NEXT WEEK: Join us for a series of live debates and discussions with our editor, @adriennebuller.bsky.social 📣👇

"At policy conferences and across the glossy pages of ten-year masterplans, the Arctic is presented as capitalism’s backup plan—the consolation prize of a planet in ruin." NEW: Read Jacob Bolton for @the-breakdown.bsky.social on capital's dash for the Arctic www.break-down.org/after-the-th...

Wrote about all the wild speculation around the Arctic Ocean for @the-breakdown.bsky.social. In very good company for issue 2, go subscribe!

Feeling very secure in my Green membership

All so very depressing

This is a great interview with David Peace dispatch-media.com/david-peace-...

A new piece on extractive capitalism for @thetls.bsky.social, reviewing 4 new books, including @triofrancos.bsky.social's much-anticipated EXTRACTION and Partha Dasgupta's widely- praised ON NATURAL CAPITAL

Excellent as ever from Duncan – on how the failure of both politics and society to deal with the child sexual abuse turned into something far uglier

Surely you could just automate the weekly Rod Liddle column at this stage

For all the talk of decline in Britain today by the right, the thing that is never mentioned is privitisation and financialisation. Very glad to see @cmmonwealth.bsky.social tackling this head-on: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Today, it’s the defenders of privatisation who are clinging to an out-of-date ideology. They’re out of touch & out of time. Let’s end the rip-off & take back our future. Explore our new project — Who Owns Britain? — at the link below. www.common-wealth.org/interactive/...

Welcome to Rip-Off Britain. A country remade by privatisation. Our latest project — Who Owns Britain? — explores how a radical experiment transformed our society and shapes your life. 🧵

Issue 2 of The BREAK–DOWN lands with us on Wednesday. Subscribe now for £22, and get the best climate writing delivered to straight to you www.break-down.org @the-breakdown.bsky.social

Issue 2 of The BREAK–DOWN lands with us on Wednesday. Subscribe now for £22, and get the best climate writing delivered to straight to you www.break-down.org @the-breakdown.bsky.social

It must have been wild to see someone so Twitter-pilled in real life www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...

Has anyone written about the evangelical influence on the British (far) right? it seems increasingly pronounced, not only with Tommy Robinson and his crowd, as well as Nick Tenconi and the rump UKIP, but also people like Paul Marshall

As i've said before, despite all the bonkers conspiracy theories, imagine if the left had even a fraction of the insanely wealthy donors and cushy sinecures as the far right observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Shot, chaser Young men more likely to vote Green than Reform. Young men second most progressive group of any demographic. Combined right-wing vote barely bigger than Green vote alone for young men

Yeah man, keep being patronising snobs, that’ll get liberalism back on the road

An exciting panel event launching our collaboration with @cplusc.bsky.social — the Transition Security Project. Speakers: @stephensemler.bsky.social, @triofrancos.bsky.social & @iliasalami.bsky.social, chaired by @lalehkhalili.bsky.social Sign up for a free ticket below👇 📍 Online 🗓️ 16 Oct 6PM BST

In our latest newsletter, we preview the forthcoming print issue with our interview with @triofrancos.bsky.social about her latest boo,k, Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism breakdownjournal.substack.com/p/conversati...

Great read on the radicalisation of Dominic Cummings by @johnmerrick.bsky.social. Cummings cuts a distinctive figure as a British right-wing 'revolutionary' rather than a traditional conservative.

NEW: @kmac & I: The future is triage on an uninsurable earth www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ins...

Final (i hope) chapter in the saga, but the bike has been returned to me!

🚨 ONLINE EVENT Join us for a free panel on the war economy, the climate impacts of war & the geopolitics of the climate transition. Speakers: @stephensemler.bsky.social, @triofrancos.bsky.social & @iliasalami.bsky.social, chaired by @lalehkhalili.bsky.social 📅 16 Oct 6PM BST 🔗 shorturl.at/NwJCL

Just subscribed! The climate movement so often is afraid to link issues of justice and human rights. Always happy to support anyone that tries to tackle these contradictions head on.

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A short intro for Issue 2 of The BREAK—DOWN from me & @johnmerrick.bsky.social The issue takes many approaches to "the frontier", but always with a core question: which compromises for a sustainable future unavoidable, & which should we resist at all costs? www.break-down.org/on-frontiers/

Rightfully, the stupidity and offensiveness of using the legacy of the death of 144 people in the Aberfan disaster in South Wales to block a solar farm in Oxfordshire has been widely condemned. It’s also deeply ironic to refer to the legacy of coal in blocking replacing fossil fuels with renewables.

Everyone get hyped for @henrysnow.bsky.social's new book, Control Science, out next spring. I read half of it before i left Verso, and it is incredible

‘Self-regulation for good chaps’. Wrote this at the time. Was a witness for the CPSL in 2018 on ‘MPs outside interests’. I argued that decades of outsourcing had created hopeless regulatory drift that needed fixing, only to be told this had not been raised before. Wild! www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Issue #2, FRONTIERS, has now gone to print! This issue is one of the things i'm proudest of working on – featuring essays, photojournalism and on-the-ground reporting and dispatches from the frontlines of the climate crisis. And we have a new website where you can subscribe now www.break-down.org

This is superb, and articulates much of my own unease at the constant talk of community and movement building on the left in recent years novaramedia.com/2025/09/08/f...

Sabrina's essay, on Lula, development and agribusiness, is superb!

Read a note from our editors on the new issue 👇

Issue #2 has gone to print! Featuring an incredible range of essays, photojournalism, dispatches from around the world and an interview with the excellent @triofrancos.bsky.social check it out / subscribe via our shiny new website www.break-down.org

Introducing FRONTIERS Issue #2! Publishing 22 Sept. Pre-order or subscribe now at break-down.org 🔗

Issue #2, FRONTIERS, has now gone to print! This issue is one of the things i'm proudest of working on – featuring essays, photojournalism and on-the-ground reporting and dispatches from the frontlines of the climate crisis. And we have a new website where you can subscribe now www.break-down.org

ICYMI: On the far right's complicated history with the British countryside, from Mosley to Farage 👇 (@rsmythfreelance.bsky.social)

I love this account – a glimpse into the bizarre ahistorical funhouse mirror world of the very online

Labour have had a year to do something like this, to walk onto Farage's own turf and put the screws to him. Instead, they've taken every opportunity to raise his profile and advance his messaging as part of a deliberate strategy that's killing their own party. Polanski's still in his first week.

Nigel Farage is the biggest charlatan in British political history. And here's what his constitutents in Clacton really think: