Problem with Western Capitalism summed up here Too much political power & wealth accrues to 2 few www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Financial Times and Guardian reporting this accurately... www.ft.com/content/4e16...

An increasing majority of people in western countries will no longer vote for any party that they feel broadly supports the way in which outcomes are distributed in their country. They are looking for parties to explain why it's like that and what significant change they will make accordingly.

All about the money, Farage recognises a person's value only by how wealthy they are, just like any grifter www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

BBC Newsreader calls a spade a spade, and gets her description exactly far right! GBN ...not sure what they are complaining about www.gbnews.com/news/charlie...

Nuts!!! GDP...f the ecosystem we depend on!!! Strange how the more obvious the effects become, the harder we seem to go at doubling down on them and making the problems worse It takes millennia for environment systems to recover from the damage being inflicted www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Rob Smythe Gaurdian MBM😁 www.theguardian.com/football/liv...

Even Trump has not gone this far... Israel deciding that anti Israel propaganda (or anti Israeli reporting, I know not which) is a reason to be targeted as an enemy combatant. Injuries and deaths of innocents as well, may each persons God go with them www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

But that's the raison d'être of the far right. They want to remove all protections from oridnary people such as human rights so the rich have no obstacles to profiteering. They would use any issue that was effective in conning ordinary people into giving up those rights They've chosen Immigration

Parasitic political class seems to have evolved over much of the West, especially on the right

🎶 When your eel gets all wack On a Thames full of gak That’s a moray 🎶

Interesting that a convicted criminal thinks he has the right to get a visa and enter a foreign country, apparently under the misapprehension that rules should only apply to others and that just maybe they have the right to say NO! Exceptionalism...it drove Brexit, it drives these idiots!

In the UK that's grounds for behaving like a terrorist organisation and being proscribed by the current Labour Government... SKS and pals showing NF what can be done under the law currently for when they get into power....aaaagghh!

How can we justify banning Israel from international football - I’m asked. They’ve been found guilty of genocide by the UN, openly spoken of ethnic cleansing, and are starving millions of people, to death - is my answer. We banned Russia for far less.

She is quoted as saying " I chose to stand for a principle that should unite us all" The only principles that I can think of that should unite all non violent, sensible people are Human Rights not something that I believe Stephen Yaxley supports

Great idea about the screen shot, wish I had thought about it when cancelling my small subscription

Lots of supposedly "non violent" rightists celebrating violence! Is that what Jesus would have done?

Looks like advocating for violence against people... #sadpeople

I’ve just realised that I haven’t listened to BBC radio 4 routinely now for years. I stopped the news programmes including the today programme over a year ago when they became unashamed mouthpieces for Farage. I was a lifelong radio 4 listener. I wonder how many others there are.

Apparently the BBC watches the polls to decide what content it airs....and then discards any content left of centre!!

Higher investment, sustainable spending, raise taxes/reform pensions so better-off older people pay their share. Advice for the Chancellor from Gus O'Donnell, @mazzucatom.bsky.social, Jim O'Neill, @uofgvc.bsky.social @elerianm.bsky.social, @sjwrenlewis.bsky.social & me. archive.ph/I9PVc#select...

Has he not been awake for the time Trump has had the Presidency? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Britain has gone quite, quite mad.

In big surprise, top athletes are less than average (more than average😜)! Presumably Male top athletes are likely to be different to the average man, should those that are really exceptional be banned to guard the integrity of male sport? Feel sorry for all www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/s...

Not someone that has come across in a small boat.. Women and girls have a right to be frightened/scared. Society must do better to help prevent this type of predatory mindset develop. It is, and will be a slow process. Do not get derailed by fools & the foolish www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

As short sighted as ever. GDP being placed before long term sustainability www.theguardian.com/environment/...

This is both correct and likely to be ignored in the bunker since it was already obvious last year and before

PBS News is doing more to expose the facts than the FBI… 📌 Many young extremists who grew up on social media and never knew life without school shootings now see public violence as a way to go viral. So the chaotic confusion we are seeing right now is possibly by design.

👏👏👏👏 www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...

“gross disproportionality” www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

The Northern Pacific Ocean is currently smashing temperature records. And it is reaching these levels far earlier than the current generation of climate models had expected. A short thread 🧵

In their own words gregolear.substack.com/p/we-mustnt-...

So SKS what are you giving to Trump in his "Antifa" war? Let me guess DATA!

A path that the War on Terror, after 9/11, was always likely to lead the world down. A path of paranoia

Mordaunt missing the point that appeasement of corrupt leaders in authoritarian takeovers of democratic states has, so far, not proven to be the correct course of action.

Democracies don't have some god-given right to prevail. Great nations can descend into autocracy, and more - throughout history - great civilisations have been known to crumble practically overnight. 80 years of peace and relative prosperity have lulled millions into believing it all immutable.

Meanwhile @mrjamesob.bsky.social Over at The Spectator.... "Are the Tates really that bad though"... #fascism

Left: JD Vance, "Under Donald Trump's leadership, we may disagree with your views, but we will fight to defend your right to offer them in the public square" Right: President Trump celebrating the cancelling of the Jimmy Kimmel Show after he mocked Trump's response to the murder to Charlie Kirk

Exporting US restriction on Free Speech, enacted in a very British way Bad enough with GDP led Starmer, imagine what fan boy Farage will bring to the spineless exertion of power in favour of US authoritarian policy!

Nice FT piece by dataman @timharford.ft.com Make sure you look around for all your tools, just because you have a 🔨 in your hand doesn't make every screw head a nail!

I wonder why far-right leaders and their mainstream enablers are not targeting this minority which plays a key part in deciding the plight of the left behind... It is a real mystery... www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Nail head Great political point

There's a remarkably simple way to attack Nigel Farage & Reform. Pass an anti corruption act stating that to stand as an MP you must first 1. Release your tax returns 2. Your party must make all it's donors public 3. You must put your finacial assets in a blind trust.

Superb

An insight into how a Reform led government will act. At least 110,000 will vote to censor speech not Reformy enough www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Most U.K. Political Leaders Are Cautiously Welcoming Trump. Not This One. Ed Davey, of the Liberal Democrats, says that President Trump does not represent British values, and is boycotting a state dinner with the U.S. leader over Gaza. #EdDavey #LibDems 🔶 #Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/w...

Asylum seekers would have right to work - Ed Davey He also said the government should move asylum seekers out of hotels. "The way you do that is by processing applications much more quickly than the government have done, and the Conservatives who created the mess..” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Dictators gotta dictate...oh sorry the only self styled 'democracy' in the Middle East has to dictate what its citizens must do at all times www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...

Privatisation isolated small towns and villages. Economic decline follows. Despite subsidies can't get a direct bus/train from a town like Ludlow to Birmingham. It is all about profits and shareholders, not needs or community building. Yet major parties still obsessed with privatisation.

The lying liars that find it impossible to govern without destroying measured reality, as it does not live up to their fictional world www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...