Starmer is against restoring Freedom of Movement. Please repost if you want our Freedom of Movement restored. We were robbed of our right to live, work, study, and love in 30 countries by the worst abuses of democracy in modern British history.

The left needs to fight the murderous austerity regime of Starmer, Reeves and Kendall. www.stopwar.org.uk/events/no-mo...

This @thepolycrisis.bsky.social newsletter first paragraph omg (“imperial gangsterism” 🔥) — and does not even include everything

Awful situation across the University sector 🥲 qmucu.org/qmul-transfo...

Someone needs to invent some kind of online calculator whereby we Brits can put in our recent healthcare appointments/meds/experiences and it’ll calculate what it would cost on average in the USA. Just to hammer home how bloody lucky we are to have the NHS and how fiercely we need to protect it.

Bath Christmas market and the owner of these doggies let me take a picture -expression on face of doggie at the back 😂😂

Pretty winter morning sunshine through the trees in the park

On the streets of Liverpool, there is a humanitarian crisis A perfect storm of problems means more and more people are finding themselves homeless & sleeping rough & it’s getting worse - it’s a situation playing out across the country A difficult 🧵 on what I’ve found reporting on this situation

Echoes of our privatisation of public services in UK. The Tories want even less public interest considerations as they rule in favour of the wealthy. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Starmer is clearly beholden to the US and his corporate donors, one of whom is BlackRock, itself heavily invested in the Nevatim corridor and the annexation of Gaza’ gas fields.

That Starmer is in bed with this malign planet destroying Trump loving company that pretty much owns everything is cause for extremely urgent investigation. The MSM must give the public the facts about Blackrock, the UK’s future is with the EU not US planet destroyers like Blackrock.

The latest issue of Legal Studies is now online! A range of fascinating pieces! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Devastating report but some small reason for optimism as “There are political leaders, as well as activists, scientists, renewable energy innovators and regular citizens doing all they can to turn things around…They deserve our support and our partnership.” bylinetimes.com/2024/11/20/c...

Tax due if parents hand on £3m house: £940k Tax due if parents hand on a £3m farm: £0 A reminder of significant tax advantage to farmers vs everyone else AFTER these changes

I’ll offer more later in articles and interviews but these are some of the things I’m thinking about. I’ll be talking about this (and more!) on Thurs, Nov 21 with some of my favourite people to think with - join us! RSVP for the online event, hosted by @haymarketbooks.bsky.social (8/8)

Heart-breaking photo essay on women’s lives in Afghanistan: “their hearts are tightened not only by the weight of repression but by the indifference of a world that seems to have forgotten them. Their stories deserve to be heard.” www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Sunlight and shadows on an autumn forest path.

Trump tapped into people’s fears and immiseration. He exploited their anger and frustration. The Democrats offered nothing, no real change. Of course, Trump is lying but people are desperate for change.

After yesterday’s news here’s a little picture to bring some cheer. Not a brilliant photo but I managed to get the lovely squirrel to look in my direction for a second 😍

We're on the cusp of seeing the effect play out of an extended lack of access to dental care. With preventative and ordinary care unavailable to many, they have to seek out accessible routes which are emergency care.

Lou Haigh’s comments on P&O explicitly represent govt policy on fire and rehire and PM’s views. It’s not her own view, it’s the government’s stated position. Starmer should have the integrity to stand by her or ditch the policy.

The ministers were right to criticise P&O Ferries. I remember the Parliamentary Select Committee hearings back in March 2022 - such disdain for the workforce from the CEO. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Excellent article on the profit maximisation and financial engineering tricks of the private equity firms, often at the expense of the most vulnerable. Greedy and immoral vulture capitalism. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Europe’s environmental programme faces a backlash from political and business interests fixated on growing the economy | Natalie Bennett

That £22bn is literally being poured, down a long pipe, into a black hole. The money will stay in the geological strata, even if the carbon dioxide won't.

This is absolute madness. Carbon capture and storage has failed time and again. Labour has slashed reliable green programmes, to pour vast sums of our money into a complete crock. The only possible explanation is lobbying by fossil fuel companies.🧵 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

“The problem for the Labour leader is that amid all the downbeat mood, his Government does already have a somewhat promising story to tell.” I just hope the promise becomes reality and has results that will help to clear up the mess we are in. bylinetimes.com/2024/09/24/k...

“We have to tell the residents of north Gaza that they have one week to evacuate the territory, which then becomes a military zone, [a zone] in which every figure is a target” An explicit announcement that they will execute every human in north Gaza - another statement of genocidal intent today.

These donations were declared by Starmer pre-GE, so where was the interest then when it actually mattered? *Especially* when he’d point blank refused to declare donors to his Labour Leadership campaign - which were as expected sketchy AF. Y’all didn’t care then OR most recently. Report on that.

The whole neoliberal system is inhumane. This is one important area of that failing system. Compassion for everyone in it - the job seekers and those who can help them- sorely needed. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It’s very difficult to mend broken trust. This new government has got its work cut out already. There is no room for the naivety on display in these early days. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Probably the greatest example of "wow, glad someone funded that when we needed it" in social scientific history. An amazing decade of work that made a real and lasting impact.

How is this acceptable? It makes no sense.

Interesting happenings on the left. I'm watching this. Green Party is shifting left. Corbyn and the Indy MP alliance is left, plus they're the unofficial Opposition. Now there's talk of a new leftwing party. It does need to happen if we don't want Farage for PM. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The betrayal of Jeremy Corbyn and the emergence of a shady character called Keir Starmer www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

“I don’t feel fearful. That’s how they want you to be.” Led by Donkeys speaking truth to power. Their creativity is humorous, daring and might inspire more direct action. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The extraordinary collapse of some state functions at the end of the Sunak Ministry should haunt the Conservative Party forever. It's a very long road back from here. www.thetimes.com/article/eddc...

New article alert! What's on my volunteering wishlist for the new UK government? Read the latest article on the Rob Jackson Consulting Ltd blog to find out and add your thoughts. robjacksonconsulting.wordpress.com/2024/09/13/a... #LOVols #VolMgmt #volunteering #UKGovernment

Important Supreme Court Ruling. Link to the judgment within the article. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Elinor Ostrom's work on collaborative management and avoiding the "tragedy of the commons" is very relevant. Here's an accessible introduction to her work that I wrote. The Uncommon Knowledge of Elinor Ostrom: Essential Lessons for Collective Action www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1642...

The new narrative that's suddenly being pushed about the NHS is that it's not underfunded, but the NHS themselves use the money they have badly. Beware of anyone pedalling this shit, and push back against it whenever you can. It's the new strategy to convince us all that privatisation is a good idea

Saying the NHS must "reform or die" makes it sound like it's their fault they are in decline. Not chronic underfunding and 14 years of Tory misrule, but the service itself. It's the wrong message IMHO, and it makes me worried about what Starmer going to do next.

This has an alarming tone of threat and blame with little offer of hope for the NHS’s future. The NHS workers on the ground are being worn down by years of deliberate undermining and underfunding. Demoralising for them and devastating for patients. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

These are eye watering blogs from Dark Arts on Open Democracy. I am always wary of the claim “they’re all the same” about MPs but these blogs make for dismal reading.

A thoughtful piece on the competing pressures “to plug holes in the public finances and repair public services”. Warns against the “treasury brain” approach. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Starmer announcing more pain and economic hardship is not what people voted for. The vast majority of the public already had this from 14 years of Tory austerity policies. THread

Starmer and Reeves are playing a dangerous game. How much more do they think Britain can take? | John Harris

Hamlyn Lectures | Me on Lawyers Ethics after the PO and other Scandals | 30/10 Exeter, 06/11 Leeds, 13/11 London. Baroness Hale, Paul Gilbert, Lord Arbuthnot in the Chair Book via links here law.exeter.ac.uk/about/theham...