Armenia is voting today. Russia is pulling out all the stops to keep the country in its sphere of influence.

Poor and working men are meant to have women of their class to abuse and dominate as compensation for the exploitations and humiliations of capital. When you point out that allowing this is a violation of class solidarity working class women, you’re accused of siding with management’s interests.

If Nigel Farage is heading towards power let it not be because journalists forgot the basic craft of their job and because Michael Grade was nodding at the wheel www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/uk/...

I remember when Michelle Obama was criticised for wearing a sleeveless dress, saying her attire was inappropriate for a First Lady.

Any time a Spanish speaking government does right by its poorest the New York Times summons the ghost of United Fruit

When EMI pulled funding on LIFE OF BRIAN days before shooting, the Pythons turned to a fan. George Harrison put up around £3 million of his own money to make the film, simply because he wanted to see it. Eric Idle called it "the world's most expensive cinema ticket."

Scott Pelley: “Bari Weiss sends an email to my boss, Tanya Simon: can we make the protesters look more violent? I’m paraphrasing Also: Renee Good’s car. You need to describe her as driving toward the officer. That’s not what the video shows. The officer is standing off the front of the car”

There’s a reason why the global fascist movement is pushing so hard at Britain specifically, and it’s because they can see they are pushing at an open door.

"The average charge to the state by a private provider for a child in “care” is now £384,020 a year. .... Some providers now levy more than £1m per child per year...." THIS is where taxpayer money goes: to companies and scammers pretending to offer services because public services have been cut. 1/

Dear BBC journalists, you really do not have to 'debate' every far-right talking point that pops up on your X feed. It is not "deeply contentious" to suggest non-white people can't be English. It's racist. The word you're looking for is racist

Your periodic reminder that Jeremy Hunt’s utterly cynical, completely unaffordable, salt the earth for the incoming government tax cuts cost £20bn a year. www.thetimes.com/article/cc86...

AMLO and Claudia Sheinbaum have lifted 13.5 million people out of poverty in the last 8 years, but NYT wants us to know that Mexico “can’t go on this way.”

Keep talking about the £5 million. Keep talking about the £5 million. Keep talking about the £5 million. Keep talking about the £5 million. Keep talking about the £5 million. Keep talking about the £5 million. Keep talking about the £5 million. Keep. Talking. About. The. £5 million.

Nadhim Zahawi describes Nowak as someone "who lost his life because of incompetence". Greg Dyke points out that nobody is saying the mistake by police caused the death. Phillips intervenes with "nobody knows". A lack of basic research on a very sensitive topic. Paragraph 16 of sentencing remarks:

"Working class" in 2026 means a blue haired barista with they/them pronouns, a Asian immigrant nail technician, and an undocumented hotel cleaner. And we are going to keep having the same fights until we let the midcentury illustrator mirage of the white guy in plaid with the lunch pail go.

A woman on the till in Tesco thanked me for choosing her and not the self serve option. It landed hard. Never really gave it much thought. A simple choice I'm free to make. We can change things for the better in easy, peaceful ways sometimes.

The beaches of Normandy were stormed to liberate Europe from people like Hegseth.

In the face of frenzied right-wing attacks, this government has successfully executed one of the most ambitious climate change projects in the world. Time to give credit where it's due iandunt.substack.com/p/guest-post...

This is how politicians of the Labour right used to deal with the fash, btw

If he can push the country towards PR and create an atmosphere where progressive parties can work in tandem to stop the far right that would be massive progress.

"My book came out, and they were talking about this false naive style of drawing. There was nothing false about the naivety of my style. I couldn't draw better. This is it." What a star Marjane was...

Who won the 20th century? – @jemgilbert.bsky.social

Really good one from @stephenkb.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/aa94...

Thames Water should be nationalised, says Andy Burnham. All water companies have criminal convictions, failed to meet statutory duties, dump sewage, neglect infrastructure investment, fleece customers to pay dividends. Must enforce environmental laws, bankrupt them, nationalise at knockdown prices

Never feel guilty for borrowing books from a library. Authors LOVE libraries. And libraries pay authors a small sum every time one of their books is borrowed (which in many cases comes to more than the percentage earned from the sale of a book in a discount outlet)...

"why use google?" webpage from 1999

The idea English identity is confined to ethnicity & ancestry is more niche than abolishing monarchy/joining Euro But media elites skew & overcompensate to an imaginary caricature of public = weird assymetry: venerate niches on right as 'authentic' but would lecture progressives about median voter

Exactly right. What makes it worse is that Hunt was blowing up the public finances to set a political trap for the Opposition. We can criticise Labour for walking into that trap, rather than having the courage to call it out, but it was a shameful way for a Chancellor to act & has done lasting harm

How you can you write the first sentence here without realising that it completely nullifies the second?

Amazing story about how Starbucks launched a "Tank" marketing campaign in South Korea on the anniversary of a massacre by the military.... including a slogan referencing the beating to death of a student. AI did it. Emails were signed off unread by managers www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

I know there’s a lot going on in the world, and we don’t have enough attention to pay to any of it. But the throttling of Cuba by the US should be a bigger story than it is. There are about 10 million people in Cuba, subjected to horrendous collective punishment. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

I'd be furious too if I got the political ideals that I wanted and they crippled the country

For the last 69 years, Israel has held the West Bank and Gaza under military occupation, where local Palestinian residents have no civic rights. A very long time. -more than a third of the world's nation states are younger than 69. -East Germany or Apartheid South Africa survived less than 50 years

I suspect this might be the best photo I ever take

The Albanian people have been massively protesting for several consecutive days against slumlord crook Jared Kushner and Crimestress Ivanka seizing land in their country to the sum of billions of dollars to build a trashy resort. I hope they don’t stop until their evil corrupt deal is reversed.

Imagine having a megaphone that large and pretending you’re silenced.

UK publishing generated £7.4 billion in revenue last year. Compare that to: Premier League football: £6.6 billion Home entertainment: £5.6 billion UK film industry: 2.8 billion Now tell me again why authors don't deserve fair contracts and better pay.

"When someone shows you who they are, believe them." Maya Angelou

I mean this as no disrespect to his great work elsewhere, but Anthony Head somehow turned instant coffee ads into the greatest romcom of the 1990s www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJ8J...

Ah man. Anthony Head One of those actors that has roles that completely hit different generations. Any obituary that doesn’t mention Nescafé will be dismissed as not serious

Another murder of a student - this time a Saudi man - with a knife. This one took nearly a year to reach a conviction. Sentencing awaited. Will media and politics take any notice? www.cambs.police.uk/news/cambrid... Perpetrator - victim #R4today

It's hard to convey just how monstrous the privatisation of children's care homes has become. Highly vulnerable children have been turned into cash machines, with devastating impacts on their wellbeing. Please sit down before reading this week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

So the police force accused by Nigel Farage of "anti-white racism" is over five times more likely to target black people for stop and searches than white people The figure is higher than the average for England and has got worse over recent years www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

The former Prince Andrew made money by subletting three cottages on the estate where he lived rent-free for two decades, according to a report on the royal family's properties released Friday by the U.K. public spending watchdog. https://to.pbs.org/4xgpXzm

You could simply have Ofcom enforcing its rules on GB News for starters.

'government budget is like household budget' is the simple metaphor deployed by people who either lie to justify austerity/capital freedom or have never looked at who owns/trades government debt

They’re packaging it like this so it looks like a shallow trend, but Gen Z has gone through two financial crises, a pandemic, rising fascism, active shooter drills since they were toddlers, and are now being told by the oligarchy they’re to be replaced by robots. Socialism is the logical conclusion.

*Shocking, Reform UK's Robert Kenyon again refuses to apologise for insulting Carol Vorderman, and doubles down* #BBCQT

Lex Greensill has been banned from being company director for 9 years Dr Susan Hawley, Exec Director of Spotlight on Corruption, said: “Five years on from the Greensill scandal, Lex Greensill has finally faced some accountability." Plenty of reforms still needed to stop similar scandals, she adds.

As we look at a rapid and extreme contraction of the university sector, lots of good advice and discussion in the quotes of - and replies to - this post. As the HE world we've known comes to an end, there will be many very painful choices ahead. So we should support each other and share wisdom. ☹️