Remembering Alan Stratford Johns, born this day in 1925.

Interesting analysis of Netanyahu’s ‘Super-Sparta’ speech. www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/supe...

This article, despite repeating baseless slurs against Corbyn, demonstrates that Starmer only shifted to recognising Palestine under massive pressure from public opinion.

‘It’s our South Africa moment’ …

Quite a good piece on the Your Party crisis by Andrew Murray. morningstaronline.co.uk/article/your...

Interesting article on the Trump clampdown but it underestimates McCarthyism, which didn’t just target Hollywood, universities & the civil service but involved a plant-level purge of trade unionists at a time when the power of organised labour was at its height.

Excellent response to the YP chaos by @tomashtengely.bsky.social socialistworker.co.uk/news/what-is...

Mediocre food and terrible company - not much of a banquet: What's on the menu and who's on guest list at state banquet? www.bbc.com/news/article...

“What we are seeing in Trump’s use of force is different, because his foreign policy and his national security policy is different from the first term. He sees the threat to the homeland as greater than the threat from China. And he likes shooting at targets that can’t shoot back.”

It’s striking from BFI of Robert Redford’s ten best films how much they are concentrated in the 1970s. Maybe this helps to explain why he remains so young and beautiful in our memories. www.bfi.org.uk/lists/robert...

Let’s hope the tide is turning against Milei. on.ft.com/4nBMrFi Under-fire Javier Milei appeals for weary Argentines’ patience

‘On Monday, two senior administration officials, who spoke anonymously to describe the internal planning, said that cabinet secretaries and federal department heads were working to identify organizations that funded or supported violence against conservatives. The goal, they said, was to … 1/

Bezos’ MAGA Washington Post Fires Columnist Over ‘Unacceptable’ Charlie Kirk Posts www.thedailybeast.com/bezos-washin...

My latest column, on how the military balance is beginning to tilt in China’s favour. socialistworker.co.uk/alex-callini...

Interesting piece by @gideonrachman.bsky.social on.ft.com/4maynRP on why his views on Israel v. Palestine have shifted: How Ukraine and Gaza scrambled the ideological map

@tomashtengely.bsky.social on how to beat the far right. socialistworker.co.uk/anti-racism/...

Israel’s isolation is growing. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Objective data show BBC & ITV bias. Reform featured in 49 bulletins between January-July 2025 whereas Lib Dems(with 72 MPs) were in 18% of bulletins, with 35. Reform referenced in nearly 1 in 5 ITV News At Ten bulletins, but 6% for Lib Dems www.theguardian.com/media/2025/s...

Israel admits killing 200,000 people in Gaza, but says that’s not enough revenge www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Excellent @socialistworker.bsky.social response to today’s far-right march. socialistworker.co.uk/anti-racism/...

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Maybe. It’s all very ramified, messy, confusing and complex. Rabbit holes inside rabbit holes. The meme culture reportedly referenced by Tyler Robinson is multi-layered, recursive and often ironic. Literal readings are likely to miss the point. bsky.app/profile/waja...

‘ a number of people noted online on Friday that a version [of ‘Bella Ciao’] appears on a Spotify playlist meant for Groypers, the followers of Nick Fuentes, the white nationalist who occupies a political space to the right of, and in opposition to, Mr. Kirk.’

Good luck to everyone mobilising against the fascists today in London. x.com/antiracismda...

If it’s true SIS advised against appointing Mandelson, this is potentially devastating for all concerned - Starmer, Lammy, AND McSweeney. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Burnham prepares to challenge Starmer for leadership www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...

Trump is basically following in Biden’s footsteps in supporting Israel come what may. ‘Last year, the US gave Israel $12.6bn in military aid — considerably up from the annual $3.8bn that Israel ordinarily receives.’

Trump's declaration that radical right extremism is justified as a response to the left will likely be heard all over the far right as a clear invitation to violence. “That statement is basically a permission slip," one tracker of right wing extremism tells me. newrepublic.com/article/2004...

Mass murdering, genocidal orchestrator of political assassinations cries out against political assassination

BBC under fresh pressure over extent of Reform UK coverage

Bolsonaro sentenced to 27 years in gaol - the first of many of his ilk, I hope. on.ft.com/46o5ITF Brazil’s former leader Jair Bolsonaro sentenced to 27 years in prison on coup charges

True to form, Starmer, after defending Mandelson yesterday, now disposes of him.

Stathis Kouvelakis sets French political paralysis in the context of the EU's locked-in austerity regime. www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/...

This, by Chloe Cornish, is one of those articles that make @FT worth reading - deeply researched into the Trump’s business dealings in the Gulf, interspersed with vignettes that convey the grossness of the whole affair, on both sides.

Stephen Jay Gould was born OTD in 1941. “Organisms are not billiard balls, propelled by simple and measurable external forces to predictable new positions on life's pool table.... Organisms have a history that constrains their future in myriad, subtle ways.” 🦫🦋🐋🌱🧠🗃️🧪#HistSTM #PhilSci #EvoBio

@alexcallinicos.bsky.social in @socialistworker.bsky.social explains why the term "polycrisis is still useful to describe the state we're in: socialistworker.co.uk/alex-callini...

Ursula von der Leyen calls for suspension of EU trade with Israel

My latest column, responding to a provocation from @adamtooze.bsky.social socialistworker.co.uk/alex-callini...

A pretty grubby picture of Mandelson’s dealings with Epstein: Epstein brokered billion-pound deal with Mandelson www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/09...

I wonder if the new French prime minister, late of Les Republicains and very close to Macron, will be flattered by this description: ‘A skilled manoeuvrer, tireless in the game of compromise, he is as greedy for flattery as he is for bitchy barbs.’

True. And helps explain the fear induced by the Mamdani campaign making in-roads, particularly with younger people and people who haven't voted in the past.

“Trump being idiosyncratic and never quite predictable, he reacts to the latest turn of events. He’s right now in a ‘Bibi, do what you want’ phase, which is not necessarily where he’ll be tomorrow.”

Breaking News: Poland said it had shot down Russian drones that entered its airspace during strikes on Ukraine, calling the incursions an “act of aggression.”

An important victory for the antiwar movement at theTUC. socialistworker.co.uk/news/unions-...

A very perceptive piece by @edwardluce.bsky.social