The problem, this guy says (just reading his manifesto), is that capitalism nefariously ‘allowed’ feminism so women could earn/spend $. As soon as women get their own money, everything collapses. It’s imperative to keep women from getting their own money because then guys like him don’t get laid.

Credit where its due: Three are dead, but a *much* worse catastrophe averted through Montreal police’s effective mass shooter response. The dead are Officer Mohamed Benredouane, the misogynistic, antisemitic would-be-mass-murderer himself, & civilian Michael Mizrahi, a Jewish-Lebanese suit salesman.

Take a moment to think about this and ask yourself what could motivate this choice.

EU could open deportation centres outside bloc by next year, says Denmark PM ft.trib.al/zh1cETP

The challenges of augury. I’m sure we will find out in due course.

Or are they showing their displeasure; who can tell?

Is this the gods approving of Burnham?

For those of us who see Palestinians as human beings, this was Starmer's defining moment. It is not sustainable to behave in this way while leading the nominally progressive party in a two party system. Starmer's unpopularity is not one of life's great mysteries. www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8_s...

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'Far from being confined to formal institutions and meeting halls, peace internationalism in the 1960s was characterised by physical and public action'. Carolien Stolte on the 1961 Perugia to Assisi march for peace and brotherhood.

A post code does not have a currency. (Pedants of the world, unite.)

Maybe the UK should take its own prime ministers more seriously. This makes it sound like it is irrelevant who the PM is, as long as the technical negotiation continue. If EU-UK relations are a top-level issue, the new Prime Minister should be able to take charge.

On the latest episode of The Economics Show with Soumaya Keynes, I asked @anandmenon.bsky.social what he would recommend the UK government prioritise when trying to strengthen the UK-EU economic relationship. His answer: don't. www.ft.com/content/660a...

SpaceX. “Controlled crash” is a familiar experience.

Les cancers et les maladies cardiovasculaires, premières causes de décès en France en 2024

I'm sorry what

I wrote a(nother) piece on the 10th anniversary of the referendum, including some thoughts on the role of UK in a Changing Europe

La prima pagina del @mm-ilmanifesto-bot.bsky.social con il mio commento sulla fine ingloriosa del governo Starmer.

JD VARnce.

3/ Second, I‘m no warmonger but “just buy the cheapest thing from whoever dominates the supply chain” is not how politics rn works even if the Dems were in power in US or a world w/o dem backsliding Gotta take the concern that this approach relocates the chokepoint rather than removing it seriously

2/ First, this take only describes the sectors that got cheap — batteries, solar, now EVs. Steel, cement, agriculture: those are a heck of a challenge, and I dont see the big competitive advantage logic playing there. The logic that “self-interest suffices” overstates how far we’ve actually come.

1/ A common move in energy/climate public writing is: argue that decarbonization has shifted from a shared public sacrifice to a competitive advantage, contend that self-interest will drive the transition. There’s truth here & I learn a lot from these voices — but this framing has important gaps. 🪡

Don’t miss this of @katemac.bsky.social and @70sbachchan.bsky.social (aka @thepolycrisis.bsky.social ) in @techwontsave.us . Electro states, China’s dominance in the new Industrial Revolution, and the winds of change in the energy political economies in devoloping countries.

"The three challenges of our age are inequality, climate, and democracy, and neoliberalism is terrible for all three of those things." trib.al/M5FWtJw

When white people react with hostility to sharing space with Black and brown folk, they don’t care if those folk were born here, migrated legally, or are “illegal aliens.” They only see non-white faces who “don’t belong in their space.” This is why “ordinary concern” about migration is basic racism.

Given the fascistic attacks on trans people, migrants, women, disabled folks etc, talking about “free speech” in abstract terms without confronting our political reality just enables bigotry to thrive. Bad faith actors use “free speech” to bully marginalised people. We must refuse this intimidation.

Thats my city thank you Glasgow www.thenational.scot/news/2619197...

Une société israélienne « probablement à l’origine » de la campagne de désinformation ayant visé LFI pendant les municipales, selon Viginum

It’s not just outrageous that some people have too much money; it’s downright dangerous when tens of millions are so personally inconsequential and so unguarded that they end up in the pocket of a prolific sex offender.

Immigrants are taking our jobs! And if you kick them out of the country they take their labour and initiative with them, leaving unfilled vacancies and skill and enterprise shortages. So unfair of them!

FUCK YEAH, BRAD LANDER!! @bradlander.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2026/06...

Interview at EQUATOR on the Pope's superb and much-needed intervention in the AI debates: www.equator.org/articles/to-...

The defence of the United Kingdom continues to collapse under the rhetorical and political corners we paint ourselves into. Our demand to be recognised as some form of ‘great power’ is not matched by our willingness to pay for it or make hard decisions. crackingdefence.substack.com/p/the-defenc...

The war in Ukraine — which has reached 1,569 days, or more than four years and three months — has now outlasted World War I. With peace talks stalled, it shows no sign of ending soon. trib.al/W8jGKp3

Such is the weakness of almost all government ministers that the only thing that they can do of wider import is to resign.

No no no. How many times do we have to tell you? The joke is ‘My dog’s got no nose.’

Hawaii just passed the first state law in the country banning corporations from making political donations in state elections. Now a Koch-backed legal group is suing to overturn it. Big Money won't get out of our politics without a fight — one that we the people must win. (via @levernews.com)

Trump: "We won this war militarily very early on. The only thing we didn't win is the fake news."

Trump: "The strait is open. But the straits have been open for a number of months already and you just didn't know about it."

Nah, there will be a new government by 21 June.

“Northern Ireland (and not only Northern Ireland) needs a political leadership willing to challenge misinformation, confront prejudice and speak up for those who have become the targets of systematic suspicion and violence.” Amen and Inshallah, Luqman Saeed

Complaining about nightlife when you *checks notes* choose to live in Soho is like living in South Kensington and complaining about the museums. Or moving to Hackney and grumbling about creatives. Living in Richmond and hating green space. It's all getting a bit silly, isn't it?

Mio commento sulla vittoria di Graham Platner nelle primarie democratiche in Maine. Mi pare non sia una vicenda che solo un interesse locale, o legato al controllo del senato: ilmanifesto.it/altri-democr... oggi su @mm-ilmanifesto-bot.bsky.social

Just read this astonishing essay by @david-batty.bsky.social. An extraordinary, deeply humane piece of writing. I will be reading it again later. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

My Death Row last meal has always been a chicken biryani, but if they were doing me in the morning I’d seriously consider a South Indian breakfast instead. With extra coconut chutney

new William Gibson book opening line dropped

Crucially, remaining on X is against the government's own interests! This has been palpably clear for nearly two years now...

This is exactly it. The work is the point.

It does. But the wilful blindness of the UK's political establishment to the scale of the danger scares me even more.