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Zohran Mamdani focused on childcare costs to win the race for New York Mayor, and the UK needs to have the same conversation about how no-cost childcare could help more than just parents. Me for @glamouruk.bsky.social: www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/article/zohr...

Is this same Labour Government expanding airports, refuses to rule out extracting more fossil fuels from the Rosebank Oil Field Intent on destroying bats, newts and doesn't care about nature? Not sure going to Brazil alone is going to do much good. Join.greenparty.org.uk

A new day, and a new poll showing Greens on their joint record polling (YouGov have Greens on 16% - same as Tories and one point ahead of Lib Dem’s).

Is it just me or is this article (v prominent on Guardian’s website) giving off weirdly Daily Mail vibes, i feel like I’ve just read an advertorial for Randox private testing and private iron infusions and I’m not convinced www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Is saying that the Jews run the world antisemitic or just vigilant? Tune in for next week's episode of "is it racist to be racist"

Pochin's comments were just "poorly phrased"? To be upset at the sight of black and brown people on TV in 2025 is - obviously - racist. It's the same reaction as Jenrick in Handsworth, or the constant attack on immigrants across the political spectrum. www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/new...

Two quotes, if TLDR (1/2): 'I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice'... 'Perhaps I was

‘protesting nazis and/or nazism is as absurd as nazism itself’ — your party

As Reeves travels to Riyadh to discuss trade, Saudi Arabia is in the middle of an execution spree. The UK must not cosy up to regimes with appalling human rights records. Trade deals can’t come at the cost of our values; our govt must not prioritise profit over human rights.

Can we name this for what it is, it’s got sod all to do with a sensible immigration policy, it’s just the worst kind of rapacious corporate landlordism, legitimised with a side helping of racism. Warehousing of old, young, & otherwise marginalised people is big business in neoliberal Britain.

Still buzzing from the social for new Green Party members last night (120 people have joined @stroudgreens.bsky.social in the last week alone!!). Every person I spoke to said the biggest reason they’d joined was they detest Reform and are furious at Labour’s refusal to take the fight to them.

Gloucestershire Solidarity Network are organising a counter-protest against a right-wing rally at the Ibis Hotel. 🗓️ 12-4pm, Sunday 2nd Nov 📍 Meet at Barnwood Park Please attend to show solidarity and support for asylum seekers 🙏🏼 You can find more info on Glos Solidarity Network’s Facebook page

Waking up, again, to the sound of two white men on the radio arguing about whether it is ok to be made "mad" by the very sight of black and Asian people on TV. 😒

“It’s only ‘mushroom, mushroom, mushroom’ in your head” On land rights, health, happiness and the Finnish way… www.bigissue.com/life/food/fo...

If they were alive today, what would a) Nye Bevan b) Keir Hardie c) Jennie Lee be voting? I reckon its a) Plaid, no question b) Green or possibly SNP - but most likely Green (end landlordism, yay!) c) Your Party or Green, but I reckon Green cos she'd have lost patience with Corbyn by now

🌍 Joint-highest Green Polling EVER (15%) ➡️ Lowest Reform Polling Since July (26%)

Starmer and Mahmoud’s planned refugee “accommodation” is an extension of Priti Patel’s COVID-era prototype. Here’s what life was like in that prototype: www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemoc...

God, re-reading this and it’s incredibly depressing to realise just how far Labour & media has accepted Priti Patel’s COVID-era quiet bait & switch, of squalid barracks style quasi-incarceration *for people who have done nothing wrong and should be free to live in the community*

I usually refrain from personal comments / diagnoses, but having watched a bit of Katie Lam on Peston last night, and having read her backstory (she doesn’t even believe this hate-stirring shite, it’s just a vehicle for her ambition) I am gonna make an exception & say she seems a bit of a sociopath.

I watched this to hear Lam put on the spot. She didn’t say to a TV audience what she’d said elsewhere. Peston didn’t grill her on what she’d said elsewhere. She will say it again when those ITV viewers who now think she’s entirely reasonable aren’t listening. And her extremism will go unchecked. 👇

Something extraordinary is happening. +6000 new members in ONE SINGLE day. @greenparty.org.uk just hit 130,000 members and rising!!! Join.greenparty.org.uk

“It’s outrageous to even talk about spending cuts when people are already exhausted and struggling. We need to tax the wealthiest and invest in our public services.” Green Party leader @ZackPolanski says the government must stop punishing working people and start taxing wealth fairly. #Peston

The price of beef has climbed almost 25% over the past year, while butter is up 19 per cent and whole milk, 13%. Cocoa prices have c.tripled in three years, due to the ravages of drought and coffee prices have also zoomed up.

Not to mention the recent case of an AI counsellor telling a recovering meth addict to take a little hit "as a treat". 😱 futurism.com/therapy-chat...

IMO at this point in proceedings it’s time to put your money where your mouth is & join the political party that’s not afraid to talk sense about migration. Because the official opposition is slithering into fascism & his majesty’s government is letting itself get dragged along on fascist coattails.

Just to repeat, Katie Lam is advocating for ethnic cleansing and Robert Peston just nods it along

We deserve better than this sloppy and inaccurate journalism, which wholly botches the opportunity to hold our official opposition to account as they slither rapidly to the extreme right. Perhaps Peston should have stuck to schmoozing business scoops.

Good thread on how a big part of the problem of British politics is big media figures with no real interest in being across the details.

JFC, this is proper crazy, makes Enoch Powell look like a moderate, far right shit, being mainstreamed by the Conservative front bench, the Sunday Times (and about to be mainstreamed on Peston).

The entire "free speech on campus" moral panic was manufactured to blackmail us into making space in intellectual life for bigots and charlatans who couldn't get there on their own merits. Its a DEI scheme for fascism. Congratulations to everyone who took it at face value.

Bloomberg calling Zack Polanski ‘the British Zohran Mamdani’

I also think slagging @zackpolanski.bsky.social off for their teeth is a stupid right wing strategy because it just reminds people of the inequality in this country (good teeth is massively upper middle class coded) & of what happens to public healthcare when you have a private tier for rich people

Right wing commentators have switched to slagging off a Jewish guy for “pointy teeth” cos they realised that calling Zack Polanski “the boob guy” is a terrible strategy which prob just makes voters think “mmmm boobs” & because they are twats who weaponise bigotry every day of their working lives

A mainstream “journalist” calling for a British MP to be deported. Is it because I’m Muslim? Next time, just say it with your chest.

Who would have thought a year ago? Greens have overtaken the official opposition! 👏🏻👏🏻

Good to see centrist acknowledgement that privatised, contracted-out tests fragment & harm patient care, along with too few beds (meaning exhausted staff finding workarounds). The latter is a design favoured by the PFI model & current appointees like Dash & Milburn. samf.substack.com/p/on-the-edg...

Define "Perfect Ending"?

There’s not much to say about the solid wall insulation failures that hasn’t already been said. A diabolical policy failure that wasted money and harmed people. But one thing I will add is: I think it highlights the need for more state delivery capacity on warm homes, not just regulation 🧵

bloody hell, even if this is an outlier the trend is amazing

👏 "We've lived here all our lives. And I have never felt so unwelcome in my own hometown as I do since your party came into Caerphilly." "With all the rhetoric that you bring in, I have to say to my sons, please don't go there. Please don't do this." "I blame you for that."

“Interestingly, people who use AI more tend to score higher on aversive personality traits, particularly Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy, though these patterns were stronger among students"

Share this with anyone who gives you the Jonathan Haidt (“over-coddled”) version of why young people are unhappy

Can’t have Labour MPs hearing the simple, obvious truth about oil dependency at party conference! It may have been the lobbyists, not the party itself, who cancelled the economist, but it’s the party who’s responsible for platforming the shitshow lobbyists… www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Thank you, @telegraphnews.bsky.social, for playing along so gamely