A morning of printmaking…

Might a Plurality Pledge help to clean up our politics? open.substack.com/pub/leedsgre...

Trump has just posted a video of the Obamas pictured as monkeys. This should hit headlines. We warned you about him years ago, but many made him a friend, defended him, salivated and gave him football shirts. Our thoughts are with black people everywhere and my own family. I am sorry. I am so sorry.

"And Nigel was in the pub"

Finally, a politician prepared to fight against the huge roll in public life being handed over to Palantir by our corrupt govts. Why is Palantir being given NHS contracts? They are reportedly involved with rounding up migrants in the US and targeting mainly civilians in Gaza.

An hour of prime time for Reform!? I await @zackpolanski.bsky.social’s @greenparty.org.uk getting similar BBC treatment

From systems thinking to collective discernment Part 2 freshthinking.substack.com/p/from-syste...

You couldn’t make this stuff up. Robert Jenrick and Suella Braverman accidentally voted with Labour to abolish the two-child benefit cap tonight after entering the wrong lobby!

One more lost asset for our community, The Leeds Labour run council is determined to sell off community assets, assets which we all benefit from. Austerity never ended it took on a new mask!

"Policy becomes a liability" 👇

Just added 4 more places on The Thread and the Listening World which starts Feb 16th at 3pm UK time. Pay as you feel. Free is fine! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-thread...

Tonight, Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band opened their Land of Hope & Dreams Tour. Bruce launched this run of shows with three statements about the situation in the United States, with comments preceding his songs Land of Hope and Dreams, House of a Thousand Guitars and My City of Ruins.

The rise of performance politics Politics has always been a performance art, but does modern politics offer us only the performance and none of the substance? By Mike Chitty @mikechitty.bsky.social

The rise of performance politics yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/the...

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Wealth is generated by our Interdependence, including the accumulated ingenuity of the dead. Without employees, regulated shipping lanes, public R&D, schools, roads, public sanitation, health systems, public arbitration, postal systems, electricity grids etc, Jeff Bezos is just some dude in a field.

Are you a bundle of beliefs? Or questions. And does it matter? open.substack.com/pub/freshthi...

Recovering the lost art of contemplation… open.substack.com/pub/freshthi...

Make it make sense.

Just two places left on the next group who wish to Follow the Thread www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-thread...

And perhaps that is the question, not whether we can lead across the system, but whether we can remain truly human within it.

Is this true? In the Premier League era, Arsenal have been top of the table at Christmas on four occasions and failed to win the title every time. They were top this Christmas…

Tawdry keeps coming to mind… What/who do you think I might have in mind?

Is there some kind of race to the political bottom! Labour are playing well if there is…

You cannot be brought closer to nature… You are nature… I hope. You might do well to remember that I suppose…

Is it fair to expect our local councillors and backbench MPs to be activists in their ward and on the global front?

It is not just wrong. It is malicious, disrespectful and deliberately manipulative...

That’s it … I’m voting Green from now on. Labour has proved that it is incapable of standing up for the values I thought it was created to represent. This video shows exactly what life in today’s UK is like and promises to change it.

"The love of our neighbor is the only door out of the dungeon of self." George MacDonald

Zack Polanski stood outside Palantir HQ to demand that the spy-tech firm - which has supported deadly ICE raids and enabled genocide in Gaza - gets out of our NHS Say no to Palantir in the NHS ❌👇 goodlaw.social/658abc

“The crucial distinction lies not in whether politicians perform, but in what their performance is for. When performance communicates policy, values and responsibility, it can deepen democratic engagement. When it replaces them, politics risks becoming a reality horror show.”

Not the sort of letter committed to paper by a well man. "Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace"

What matters is not whether one walks or stays, withdraws or remains, but whether one is willing to recognise what obscures reality and accept what reveals it...

First the NHS and now the MoD. Deals with Palantir, done in the name of jobs and investment are a disgrace…

The Government is planning to send King Charles to the US to celebrate with Trump. Giving him a royal visit right now sends a terrible message that his behaviour is acceptable. We can stop this if enough of us speak up. Will you add your name to the petition? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ca...

He isn’t big on consent is he?

Top trolling from the TUC! 👏

Much of what now passes for a “green economy strategy” is simply extractive growth logic painted green: productivity uplift, sectoral competitiveness, wage premiums, GVA multipliers. Nature becomes infrastructure. Care becomes resilience. Justice becomes risk mitigation.

Marco Rubio, June 2012.

The new #mufc caretaker manager channelling the Donald. Tone deaf. As ever.

Nigel Farage is noted as one of the very top disinformation spreaders on X. No surprise there then. 🤷‍♂️ #LiarFarage

I’m in!

In a world that seems to be falling apart from the consequences of our own ambitions, The Thread offers a space for reflection, resistance and personal development. It is an invitation to step out of the noise of perpetual striving and into a deeper listening. www.eventbrite.com/cc/the-threa...

In a world that seems to be falling apart from the consequences of our own ambitions, The Thread offers a space for reflection, resistance and personal development. It is an invitation to step out of the noise of perpetual striving and into a deeper listening. www.eventbrite.com/cc/the-threa...

Looking for something different in the way of development this year? Come and explore the nine parables that make up The Thread and the Listening World. open.substack.com/pub/freshthi...

Looking for something different in the way of development this year? Come and explore the nine parables that make up The Thread and the Listening World. open.substack.com/pub/freshthi...