Crime rate goes down radically and NYPD says it’s cuz they’re doing such a great job. Up and they say “more money, pls!”

Agree 💯 With Bernie.......

America's richest 10% now hold 60% of the nation's wealth. The bottom half of America? It holds just 6%. Wealth inequality is eating this country alive.

observer.co.uk/news/columni... Yes well said. But how? Where do we start to pierce and reverse the egoistic me based common sense of our age, bred by billionaire and celebrity culture

www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/12... Polanyi’s historical analysis of the myths of the ‘free’ market should never be forgotten. And his prophecy of the devastating costs of pursuing market fundamentalism.

“None of us can guess how the Trump assault on the BBC will play out, because he wields unprecedented power, unchecked by personal dignity or decency.” No. We can’t. But we can condemn forever the repulsive British politicians and media gobshites who would side with him instead of us.

Via NPR ~ Hundreds of celebrities have relaunched a committee to defend free speech that was first formed during the post-World War II Red Scare. It’s spearheaded Jane Fonda, whose father, Henry Fonda, stood against the Hollywood blacklists of the McCarthy era.⁠ ⁠

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... A pandemic of stupidity!

rwer.wordpress.com/2025/12/27/t... A cri de coeur not a whine. This article puts a cogent case for building up from the most amenable local bases to develop a little compassionate and truthful media presence. But as we are all aware power elites hold power, now massive. Still must keep on struggle!

www.theguardian.com/inequality/2... Yes. Trouble is all socioeconomic issues are viewed through a right wing lens, for over half a century. The lenses are dominated by an ever smaller number of ultra wealthy elites

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... To all who are in the Mystic Meg politics game, pundits to professors, this is an exceptionally challenging time. Doris Day said it seventy years ago. The future’s not ours to see…Que sera sera. Let’s hope

observer.co.uk/news/nationa... I find the government’s intransigence hard to comprehend. Sheltering behind an abstraction ‘unconstitutional’. Why does that override compassion and humanity? But then I find it impossible to comprehend the hard attitude to Palestine and environmental protest

After buying it for $18.8 billion, Walgreens' new private equity owner has eliminated paid holidays for all hourly workers on Christmas and New Year's. Last year, Walgreens had a CEO-to-Worker pay gap of 410 to 1. Corporate greed that would make even Scrooge blush.

jacobin.com/2025/12/neol... Even many of its critics think postwar quasi social democracy was undermined by its own intellectual failings or external shocks. As this article shows it was defeated by the resurgent power of capital winning a class war. This was facilitated by financial deviance

Police Violence in Berlin www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de... Policing Palestine protests brutalised increasingly, in US UK and Europe. Destroying pretension of democracy or justice

www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/12... Please Santa Baby hurry down the tree for all of us!!

www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/12... Yes indeed. There are alternatives to the reflexive Treasury orthodoxy coming out of most commentators’ mouths ‘But how do we pay for it?’ And it made the world a better place for a brief Camelot moment. Till the ultra rich stole the show and the power

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... How can our nominally Labour government come even so close to callous cruel calculated social murders?

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... I am shamed and bewildered that this story of brave fighters against mass murder and utter cruelty is far down the news agenda in the Guardian and nowhere elsewhere

British police have decided that Greta Thunberg is a terrorist open.substack.com/pub/councile...

If saying from the river to the sea is an offence police should arrest Netanyahu and the whole Likud Party. They’ve been saying it for decades, since their founding manifesto in 1977 first paragraph. It is horrifying to see the British government and police stoop so low in cruelty and injustice.

Greta Thunberg arrested for holding a sign opposing genocide. When peaceful protest is a crime, democracy is in deep trouble. Happening under a Labour Government.

novaramedia.com/2025/12/19/d... The government and the police and prisons seem locked into a vicious spiral of cruelty and brutality in their treatment of Palestine protestors

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d... Important review of new panoramic history of capitalism’s takeover of world. As Lynskey points out Marx and Engels identified in 1848 that its power lay in its virtues as much as its vices. But since 1970s neoliberalism, capitalism in vulture mode, has no upside

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... Performative and superficial apology surely better than none at all chief constable?

robertreich.substack.com/p/farewell-t... The collapse of the democratic stabilisers.

www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/gaza... Pinpoints Western cruel complicity in the destruction of Gaza. And how this is interdependent with a hollowing out of Western ethical discourse. Where talking of ought becomes incomprehensible against the is with it’s seductive and coercive pressures

Love and solidarity to Palestine Action hunger strikers their friends and families.

edition.independent.co.uk/edition/uk.c... The behaviour reported is indeed shameful and unacceptable. Let’s hope that this time the reforms following the scandals take root and protect potential victims

www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/the-... Corbyn was right. Be against antisemitism- and all forms of racism

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d... With the shameful acquiescence of our government and the eager support of US Israel sh

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... Save life now! The collapse into wickedness and incompetence of a government that promised so much is bewildering. Don’t proscribe Palestine Action in name of fight against terrorism and antisemitism. I am child of Jewish holocaust survivors. Don’t besmirch us

edition.independent.co.uk/edition/uk.c... Powerful defence of BBC against Trump’s onslaught. But I wonder if anything could teach his narcissistic ego a lesson

observer.co.uk/news/nationa... Shameless vultures feeding off vulnerable children and exploited carers.

observer.co.uk/news/nationa... Why is there not widespread outrage about the perilous plights of these heroes? We seem to have become more callously cruel to some whilst being hysterically sensitive to the fears of people supposedly scared of slogans and of strangers desperate for asylum

observer.co.uk/news/columni... The Bondi murders were inexcusable terrorism in the real sense. But labelling Palestine Action terrorist and penalising supporters are also inexcusable. It is hard to explain why Western governments are so responsive to the fears of some Jews but not Palestinians.

robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-tho... We Shall Overcome… Someday

Has public debt become unmanageable? www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/12... Sharp refutation of Thatcherite household model of economy underpinning austerity. The key to our economic woes is massive growing inequality. It sucks resources from majority to wealthy, whose interest dominates policy

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism as Liston described Korean techniques 70 years ago. Now billionaire brain control washes our minds through monopolisation of the means of communication. Attention grabbing distraction from the misery they cause

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... At last the Guardian pays due attention to the perilous state of the pro Palestine hunger strikers. When will other mainstream media pay attention to a tale of heroism unbounded?

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... Order without law, law without order. These tortuous judgements about when disruption is cumulative, when a group of Jews does or doesn’t threaten the Jewish community seem asinine. Shining through is the desire to clamp down on Palestine protests specifically

Who who else used this well-trodden line? Margaret Thatcher in 1981 after Irish prisoners died in hunger strikes. Her face was than plastered all over the planet and ruining the reputation of Britain It is now the turn of Sir Keir Genocide's face and the CENTRIST IDEOLOGY to be plastered