Starmer: "I'm taking the fight to Reform ..... by doing a Reform-lite, Christ I'm bold!" No ‘golden ticket’ to UK as refugees will have to earn right to stay https://nation.cymru/news/starmer-no-golden-ticket-to-uk-as-refugees-will-have-to-earn-right-to-stay/ #ukpol

"Whether through the People’s Assembly, “Your Party,” the Greens or union organisations like trades councils, we need mobilising vehicles that will take the fight to both Labour and Reform. How to do that should be the focus of every socialist organisation and activist." The Morning Star take on […]

Debating degrowth: A response to Jason Hickel. https://www.resilience.org/stories/2025-10-02/debating-degrowth-a-response-to-jason-hickel/ We (coordinators of the DegrowthUK website) will possibly write something about this. Broadly, we agree with Jason but there are important points in this […]

Gustavo Petro of Colombia expels Israeli diplomatic mission following the detention of Colombian flotilla participants in Israel's act of Piracy […]

Shocking attack on Jewish people in North Manchester. Manchester synagogue attack: What we know so far - BBC News https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd63p1djgd7o

@markhburton You'd think leaving your bike in a secure location at a station, with CCTV, would be the best option, and something to be encouraged. This is insane

"Whether through the People’s Assembly, “Your Party,” the Greens or union organisations like trades councils, we need mobilising vehicles that will take the fight to both Labour and Reform. How to do that should be the focus of every socialist organisation and activist." The Morning Star take on […]

Bike thefts at stations 'decriminalised' - BBC News https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8jm3wxvlkjo

On the day the Tories announce they cease the already inadequate efforts to decarbonise, in the face of climate breakdown, it would be a good day to read our piece on the issue. It includes links to the long piece on which it's based […]

Starmer: "I'm taking the fight to Reform ..... by doing a Reform-lite, Christ I'm bold!" No ‘golden ticket’ to UK as refugees will have to earn right to stay https://nation.cymru/news/starmer-no-golden-ticket-to-uk-as-refugees-will-have-to-earn-right-to-stay/ #ukpol

One got through! Israel’s illegal naval blockade is not impenetrable! Keep the ships sailing, together we will break this siege to protect genocide! #globalsumudflotilla

'...in 1981, an English teacher reportedly wrote to the headteacher asking him to reconsider his decision to appoint him [Garage] a prefect, citing reports of fascist views. Another teacher allegedly said that on a Combined Cadet Force camp organised by the college, Farage and others “marched […]

#donaldtrumpgazaplan A piece of macabre theatre. No Palestinian participation. Zéro chance of success. Ignore it. Am I right or am I right?

"Palestinians, already living under Israeli military occupation and siege, are required to disarm completely whilst nuclear-armed Israel, which has killed at least 66,000 Palestinians in Gaza since October 2023, faces no restrictions on its military capabilities and has operated with impunity […]

#yourparty "To join, you must be 16 or over, resident in the UK, and you cannot be a member of another national political party." So goodbye to any ideas of the party as a federation of radicals - same mistake that Momentum made. They could have opened it to Greens, members of PC, SDLP […]

Y yo me pregunto, de la misma manera que estos psicópatas asesinos colonialistas imponen un plan sobre Gaza, ¿no podríamos el resto ir imaginando con igual o más detalle cómo sería una Palestina libre? Una en que las decisiones se tomaran desde una democracia real de la población, la […]

#donaldtrumpgazaplan A piece of macabre theatre. No Palestinian participation. Zéro chance of success. Ignore it. Am I right or am I right?

**Trump’s 20-Point Gaza Plan: A Rubber Stamp of Legitimacy on Israel’s Subjugation of#Palestine** _After his White House speech,#netanyahu said Israel will never withdraw from Gaza and promised to resume the genocide if Hamas does not disarm._ from #dropsitenews Jeremy Scahill and Jawa Ahmad […]

I just signed the campaign: Sauvons les trains de nuit Paris – Berlin et Paris – Vienne ! It would mean the world to me if you could also add your name to this important issue. Every name that is added builds momentum around the campaign and makes it more likely for us to get the change we want […]

"The government is not raising enough in tax. Most people, understandably, want a level of public services comparable to our neighbours in Western Europe. The amount of taxes we collectively pay, however, is significantly below most countries in Western Europe. ..[It's] a consequence of 14 years […]

I just signed the campaign: Sauvons les trains de nuit Paris – Berlin et Paris – Vienne ! It would mean the world to me if you could also add your name to this important issue. Every name that is added builds momentum around the campaign and makes it more likely for us to get the change we want […]

Labour Party also says what so many of us have been long saying: Israel is committing genocide. Sanctions now! 'Maryam Eslamdoust, general secretary of the Transport Salaried Union (TSSA), said: "Today the Labour movement stood on the right side of history and in solidarity with the Palestinian […]

Labour Party also says what so many of us have been long saying: Israel is committing genocide. Sanctions now! 'Maryam Eslamdoust, general secretary of the Transport Salaried Union (TSSA), said: "Today the Labour movement stood on the right side of history and in solidarity with the Palestinian […]

Things I had not expected to see today: Deutsche Bank making a numbers based argument that "AI" is a bubble and won't last https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/deutsche-bank-grim-warning-ai-industry

NASA is facing backlash after reportedly being ordered to destroy a fully operational satellite that plays a crucial role in monitoring the Earth’s atmosphere. Imagine a perfectly good, high-tech spacecraft gathering invaluable data on carbon dioxide – a key player in climate change – only to […]

Shabana Mahmood, the latest in the line of migrant heritage Home Secretaries to show just how tough she can be on.... migrants. Simultaneously playing with fire (we know how this ends) and pulling up the ladder after her (meanwhile basking in privilege). It would be better if everyone, migrants […]

Starmer government considers leaving the #aarhus convention. This is an international treaty signed up to by the EU and other countries in Europe, which protects the right for campaigners to bring legal claims against large infrastructure projects such as waste plants, nuclear power stations and […]

#gaza: 86% of cultivation destroyed and 12% Inacessible (probably an underestimate now). Much of the land from which Palestinians expelled in 1948 afforested with non native, non-food trees, to obliterate traces of Palestinians ties with and care for the soil, and to build the lie of 'making the […]

Shabana Mahmood, the latest in the line of migrant heritage Home Secretaries to show just how tough she can be on.... migrants. Simultaneously playing with fire (we know how this ends) and pulling up the ladder after her (meanwhile basking in privilege). It would be better if everyone, migrants […]

Restoring a 1960s F-frame Moulton cycle. Quite a weekend wrestling with stuck cottar pins (used a vice and socket as a press in the end, with a long tube on the handle for super torgue), then the bottom bracket fixed cup, and now have stronglight 145mm (not for me) cranks installed. Chain line […]

Titus Andronicus - for strong stomachs, but so relevant to our dark times. I read this play last year - one of Shakespeare's best maybe. Bloody excellent | Morning Star https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/bloody-excellent

Manchester, Woodhouse Park ward by-election (Thursday 25/9) Greens held the seat on a very low turnout in this predominantly white 'working class 'ward. Reform POX (who didn't campaign) pushed Labour into 3rd place. The Green Party – 826 (43.8% -5.7) Reform UK – 556 (29.5% New) Labour – 386 (20 […]

@markhburton aye. When I was four, my family moved from London to Newcastle, and we travelled on the Flying Scotsman. My father took me along the platform to see the huge black locomotive, hissing like a sleeping dragon, with the sooty fireman shovelling coal into the fiery mouth of the firebox […]

200 years of the railway. Rather shockingly I've lived through more than a third of that! Breeching, demise of steam, reduction of night trains, HSR, privatisation, and no more British Rail yellow fruit cake. #rail200

It was on a steam hauled train on a 1950s journey Liverpool to Malvern with mum that I first saw mini pots of jam, in a dining car with white tablecloths. A a smut came in through the window, dirtying the cloth. I'd forgotten that til yesterday. #rail200

I also remember being awed (terrified) by the power and noise of huge express steam engines, including streamlined ('Pacific class') ones coming into stations. I was about 4

Coming up on Friday Beyond Growth conference in the Spanish parliament. Good to see mention of key concepts, #emergencybrake and societal #collapse. #degrowth takes the stage "Académicos, políticos, sindicalistas, intelectuales y representantes de la sociedad civil debatieron este viernes […]

Best rail journey? Glasgow to Oban. Other contenders: Crewe to Bristol via Hereford, Bernina Express (Switzerland to Italy), Flam (Norway), Andean Explorer (Cusco to Puno, Peru), Milan to Lausanne (Italy to Switz).

Netanyahu: si pisas suelo español, irás preso. 🎥 @larahernandez.bsky.social

Family history and railways: A great great grandfather was an engine cleaner, then a fireman (stoker). A great great great grandfather claimed insurance after a railway accident. A great uncle was an engine driver. A daughter worked 10 years at Victoria station. Probably more too.

2025 is being celebrated as the 200th anniversary of the birth of the passenger railway. A bit premature, although there was a one-off excursion on the Stockton and Darlington railway, with passengers traveling on coal wagons, the regular passenger service from 1825-1830 used horse-drawn […]

The locomotive we see today at the museum is actually a not-particularly-accurate reconstruction of that engine that was made in 1857 in order to put on display on a plinth at the Stockton & Darlington Railway. There’s very little of the original engine surviving, the boiler having exploded in […]

200 years of the railway. Rather shockingly I've lived through more than a third of that! Breeching, demise of steam, reduction of night trains, HSR, privatisation, and no more British Rail yellow fruit cake. #rail200

EN | 𝟐𝐧𝐝 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐔𝐍 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐩 𝐨𝐧 𝐔𝐍𝐃𝐑𝐎𝐏 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝟔𝟎𝐭𝐡 𝐒𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐑𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐥 - Seven years after the adoption of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas (UNDROP), the situation […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Both BBC and ITV now presenting faux investigative journalism with same aim: show that migrants cost the 'tax payer' lots of money. It is material aid for the fascist and xenophobic fringe. #migrationmoralpanic #bbcbias #itvbias

#BBC asylum seekers taking taxis to health appointments: If they can't work or claim proper benefits, how else can they get to health appointments? There is a duty of care so unless government can find another way? #itv convicted criminals have air fares paid and walk free on deportation: if […]

Ian Sinclair on the SAFER report from Climate Majority. "Could ‘strategic adaptation’ combat climate breakdown and the surging hard right?" | Morning Star https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/could-strategic-adaptation-combat-climate-breakdown-and-surging-hard-right The report itself […]

3. ⁠this is not the moment for an incredibly expensive increase in state surveillance infrastructure to be run for profit by private tech firms just before Labour ushers in an (even more) authoritarian right wing government. FIX THE GODDAMN COST OF LIVING INSTEAD YOU FREAKS.

2. Countries that have ID cards - like the whole of Europe - still have the same irregular migration problem (you may have heard!!!) & in fact the UK has the lowest share of its economy estimated as irregular economy in Europe so if it fixes the issue WHY DIDNT IT FIX IT THERE?

Ok. They’ve pissed me off. I’m back to tell you 3 things about ID cards: 1. Migrants ALREADY HAVE biometric ID cards & govts have been trying to digitise them for years w repeated fuckups & failures causing complete chaos - they don’t work, you do not want that system for you.