I have a new piece today at Bearly Politics. Thanks to @bearlypolitics.co.uk for giving the space. It may be stating the bleeding obvious here, but If politics pays no heed to moral considerations then we're in serious trouble. www.bearlypolitics.co.uk/p/morality-i...

Second half of free reading #poem #library #books #atwood #jamesbaldwin #progressive #kurtvonnegut bookshop and library tour of my new #poetry book and the paperback edition of Normally Weird www.robinince.com

Filthy sewage is still being dumped into our rivers, beaches and seas. Meanwhile, water company bosses pocket massive bonuses and hike up our bills. It’s time to end the great sewage cover up.

Crazy temperatures today for this time of the year..around 14 degrees Celsius above average for some 🌡📈...

USrael destroyed the Pasteur Institute of Tehran, an important centre for epidemic disease research & a main producers of vaccines in the ME. Established over 100 yrs ago by Dr. Sabbar Farmanfarmaian on land donated by his father Prince Farmanfarma. This is a crime against humanity.

Of course they fucking did www.reuters.com/business/ene...

Trump went from making insane genocidal threats this morning to hyping the “golden age” of Iran hours later, and he received no concessions in between. He’s an absolute basket case who needs to be removed from power before he follows through on one of his mass murder fantasies.

Donald Trump has done more damage to the United States of America than any foreign enemy accomplished in our nation’s 250-year history.

BREAKING: JOINT STATEMENT FROM THE LEADERS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM, FRANCE, ITALY, GERMANY, CANADA, DENMARK, NETHERLANDS, SPAIN, THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION, THE EUROPEAN COUNCIL AND JAPAN.

Trump is gifting Melania the $70M luxury jet that Kristi Noem and DHS “needed” — on our dime.

It just never stops

Have they learnt nothing from the Greensill scandal?

SAVE OUR LIBRARIES! STOP LABOUR'S CUTS TO BRIGHTON & HOVE LIBRARIES PROTEST: SUN 12 APRIL 2026 1.30 PM JUBILEE SQUARE BRIGHTON OPEN MIC - HAVE YOUR SAY!

JD Vance claims US is not interfering in #Hungary election 🖊️ Ashifa Kassam in Budapest US vice-president says on visit to Budapest 'we had to show' support for Viktor Orbán, as opposition leads polls www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Blimey, 6 miles. No wonder it's just brief greetings. He'd never get to work if he stopped to talk

Exactly this.

...and ANOTHER thing...

The Art of the Deal.

It looks like Reform-run Nottinghamshire Council are putting up council tax they said they'd cut to pay for flags they said wouldn't cost a penny ... meme via Terry Haines

Over 4 years of this. Russia terrorising ordinary 🇺🇦 citizens in its pursuit of an illegal and very very stupid war. A wee child and her mother. Wiped out.

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Release all the Epstein files now!

America, every single day before 2025: "We need to have all these guns in case the government become tyrannical and we need to overthrow it!" America, since 2025: "We are powerless against the government."

Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:

🎯 💯 Spain, at least, can hold its head up.

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www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ma... This is such an important essay (HT @jjn1.bsky.social ) about the dangers of blaming AI rather than humans for war crimes

The US and Iran agreed to a two-week conditional ceasefire after a last-minute diplomatic intervention led by Pakistan, canceling an ultimatum from Donald Trump for Iran to surrender or face widespread destruction.

Iran has said that safe passage through Hormuz will be possible through coordination with its armed forces.

We're on the verge of a genocidal, nuclear war that our supposed "ally" has said he's ready to unleash. Would it be too much to ask for the Prime Minister to have something to say about it? Or do? Suspend US bases on UK soil now.

This is not about being “anti-American”, or “pro-Iran.” It’s about being pro-civilization, and pro-humanity against a rogue American regime, which is wreaking havoc and explicitly threatening war crimes on a massive scale. If the world does not draw a line now, what next? If not now, when?

“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.” -Trump Article III The following acts shall be punishable: (a) Genocide; (b) Conspiracy to commit genocide; (c) Direct and public incitement to commit genocide; (d) Attempt to commit genocide; (e) Complicity in genocide.

“Are these “only words”? No, they cannot be “only words.” As any historian of mass atrocity knows, there is no such thing as “only words.” The notion of killing a whole civilization, once spoken, remains.” @timothysnyder.bsky.social

drone maker backed by President Donald Trump's two oldest sons is trying to sell to Gulf countries while they are under attack by Iran and dependent on the U.S. military led by their father. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

New Iran thread. Starting with a Lest We Forget: Hillary Clinton, 9 years ago: “This is not someone who should ever have the nuclear codes – because it’s not hard to imagine Donald Trump leading us into a war just because somebody got under his very thin skin.”

The President of the United States is threatening to commit war crimes and wipe out a "whole civilization" — all because he started a disastrous war of his own making and had no plan and no strategy for how to end it. This is abhorrent, and the American people do not support this.

Why is the Thiel puppet meddling in the election of another country 😏

@aoc.bsky.social spitting truthbombs here. x.com/i/status/204...

If the world knows that the President of the United States is about to commit war crimes by bombing the infrastructure of another country, isn’t it imperative that he be prevented from doing so rather than simply watch it happen

The Seattle area should have been building out housing for millions of climate refugees. Instead Seattle City Council (and most other local govts) have dithered to NIMBY lies for decades.

The GOP are the biggest cowards ever! They are so greedy and corrupt, they would rather that turd burn the world down than do the right and correct thing. They are flawed and craven. How do they walk without spines?

Glad to know the US Congress is out on a vacation and is resting from the strong effort they demonstrated.

Dear #merica, #ShadyVance is also working for putin.

Calling for the erasure of a civilization is dangerous and unhinged coming from any leader, let alone an American President. It is not a tactic. It is not a joke. America is not at war with the Iranian people. (1/2)

Smith: He is clearly unfit to lead this country.

Trump & Vance’s 🇺🇸 is NOT an ally And they definitely do not represent civilisation let alone Western civilisation or Christian civilisation. And definitely not truth or freedom. Lies and repression.

Just noting - Tucker's son works as a comms staffer for checks notes .. JD Vance.

The USA is a signatory to the UN Genocide Conversation. This is what it says. He's demonstrably, undeniably guilty of breaking Article 3 (c) and probably (b), (d) and (e) before morning. You don't need the 25th amendment. www.ohchr.org/en/instrumen...