Firing Kristi Noem doesn’t mean Trump should be able to get away with a case of amnesia over everything that happened in Minneapolis. Read the details, connect the dots, and remember to say their names, especially Renee Good and Alex Pretti. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

40 years and one week ago precisely, The Wolfhounds got our first feature in the NME, courtesy of Jerry Thackray. I rushed down to WH Smith in Romford, snapped one up and read it – twice – on the fountain wall. I'd been reading the magazine for 10 years by that point. It was all downhill from there.

The BBC is an apartheid propaganda outlet. The editors deserve to face justice and prison.

Israel’s holocaust of Palestinians reached a horrific new low today. No different than trains heading to gas chambers. Shame on everyone silent about this.

Still very embarrassed for all of you who got into sea shanties for a minute there a couple years back

This is called “strategic defeat.” You have ended up in a worse position than before you began, with your adversary, while battered, emerging in a stronger position than before.

The obvious impact of "we were unhappy with the negotiations so we killed the negotiators" is that nobody else will risk negotiating, and this has been obvious for 1000s of years to every human with above-gerbil intelligence. And yet.

Israel’s parliament has passed a controversial bill that seeks to impose the death penalty on Palestinians convicted of killing Israelis in acts of terror, but not on Jewish Israelis who kill Palestinians in similar circumstances. ft.trib.al/aSDzL0l

You’ll recall that we can’t more cheaply produce generic drugs, because that is dumb student politics.

Oh, God, W.H Smith in Romford! L shaped. The principle entrance faced the brutalist fountain ( rarely was there water, but it was nicer to wait to get home ) the back emptied out next to Halfords, where you could buy a puncture repair kit.

Please may we have a new album soon, Mr Callahan?

40 years of Lazy A being on sporadic rotation because, for me, it singularly scratches an itch that nothing else comes close to scratching (last time was about 5 weeks ago and this has put it back in my head, so enjoy your 0.00000000168p royalty, Callahan).

40 years and one week ago precisely, The Wolfhounds got our first feature in the NME, courtesy of Jerry Thackray. I rushed down to WH Smith in Romford, snapped one up and read it – twice – on the fountain wall. I'd been reading the magazine for 10 years by that point. It was all downhill from there.

A lot of people really haven't noticed that "nobody else gets to do ethnic cleansing except our people, who have suffered a lot historically and would thus never do ethnic cleansing unfairly" is what every single ethnic group that does ethnic cleansing tells itself and the world

"We'll obliterate your civilian energy *and water* infrastructure in a series of war crimes for no strategic purpose" is one hell of a message to send to the Iranian people, whom Trump is supposedly doing this for.

I think the new Green leader would be well advised to wait until the dumbest member of the British commentariat makes the craziest, most insane allegation imaginable and then blast him or her into space dust with fireballs of terrifying litigation. Pour encourager les autres.

There are only so many times you can ask Holy shit, that’s a bit much, isn’t it? before you realise that to the type of person who gets a regular column to talk about their views on Israel/Palestine in British newspapers, there isn’t really such a thing as “too much”.

Probably not a good sign that the opening gambit is nasty ethnic slurs about group members seen as pandering and deferential. Where are you going to go when it’s time to turn the hate up to 11, Stephen.

Indiepop Chronicles #75 40 years ago 22/3/86 NME The Legend! meets The Wolfhounds around the release of "Cut The Cake". "Proud in their isolation, arrogant about their music, sincere in their ambitions" "We just want to give people something to think about" - @davidlancecallahan.bsky.social

I'm happy to announce this new paper — we compile evidence on the extraordinary harms caused by IMF and World Bank structural adjustment programmes in the global South since the 1980s. gh.bmj.com/content/11/S...

Four things we know. 1. Trump cannot stand to lose face. 2. The Iran debacle is the biggest humiliation of his presidencies. 3. He is entirely lacking in moral restraint. 4. Nuclear weapons offer a swift apparent "resolution" to the crisis he has created. It is not a happy chain of thought.

Ever wonder why most of the media provide wall-to-wall coverage of everything the far right does or says, while ignoring far bigger rallies and events and far more interesting discussions elsewhere on the political spectrum? There's no mystery. It's because they want the far right to triumph.

Genuinely kind of disturbing how little attention has been paid to Israeli officials explicitly promising to do unto southern Lebanon what they did to Gaza

Me, at a disciplinary hearing after breaking my work’s data protection rules - ‘Come on now, this is edging into conspiracy theory territory'

If the world’s most powerful governments help criminals to evade responsibility and even public disapproval for their crimes, then that does not encourage the criminals to stop offending. It makes them believe they have total impunity. And indeed, these particular criminals do have total impunity.

Credit to @jackseale.bsky.social for being perhaps the first mainstream journalist to even acknowledge the possibility that the reason Sir Keir Starmer has reneged on every promise he's made is because he's not a particularly good or honest person. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

It’s not only the far right that view politics as basically a licence to be as much of an appalling, malignant prick as you can

Thanks to brilliant pod duo @mrnishkumar.bsky.social + @cocobyname.bsky.social for having Nerve columnist Stewart Lee as their guest on @podsavetheuk this week. It was a fascinating conversation covering the media -including a chat about the Nerve - misinformation & big tech. Link to full ep ⏬

I once had a teacher at secondary school who said UFOs were demons entering the earth's atmosphere and that every bottle of alcohol held a demon. Even the Jehovah's witness kid laughed at him ...

Morning all. Photograph John Bulmer, Broadway Inn, Manchester 1976.

The Tony Blair Institute's latest report on AI in education seems to see schools in England less as schools for educating children and more as permanent testing sites for AI prototypes

For whoever needs to hear this I'm the only Jewish person to lead a political party - third largest in the country. The Daily Mail have been & always will be my enemy - they historically supported fascists & continue to do so. I'll take no lectures from them on Antisemitism.

The tragic irony of the last few years is that, had the USG given Ukraine only a fraction of the weapons that they have expended against Iran in a few weeks (Patriots, Tomahawks, etc), Ukraine would have won, oil prices would not be skyrocketing and the US would be more secure.

I always thought green energy should be sold as a National security issue as well as a climate issue.

I’d never thought to use primary sources for historical research. Very cool.

The night before Prohibition went into effect in 1920, there were cocktail parties all around New York - people dressed up like they were going to a funeral - with black top hats and veils - and drank in rooms draped in black fabric, with coffins to collect empty bottles. buff.ly/4IZ9fm9

A week today. ALEXANDER HACKE BLAST Walthamstow Trades Hall, 2pm Tickets www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1982302812...

A remarkable photo from #NoKings in DTLA from Connor Sheets of @latimes.com www.latimes.com/california/l...

"The usual, Elon?" "Thought I'd try a change. Can you make me look like Frankie Howerd?"

”The oil companies were notified before Congress.‬ This is what an authoritarian oligarchy looks like.” @darrigomelanie.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/rbre... bsky.app/profile/mrjo... bsky.app/profile/rebe... bsky.app/profile/ronf... bsky.app/profile/darr... bsky.app/profile/ifin...

“On July 19 2023, federal Judge Lewis Kaplan rejected Donald Trump’s request for a new trial and confirmed that Donald Trump raped E. Jean Carroll. I’m going to submit this court ruling into the Congressional record.” Rep Ted Lieu 7/25/23 @reptedlieu.bsky.social @tedlieu.bsky.social #TrumpIsARapist

#DavidsMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge 29 - A Song By A Band With A Number In Their Name. What Kind of Monster Are You?, by Slant 6 youtu.be/8d_37XiePMM?...

If the estimates were right, there were about 9 million people at No Kings rallies today. That would mean this protest was THIRTY TIMES AS LARGE AS THE TEA PARTY PROTEST which we were told, over and over again, was a massively important sign that US politics had shifted dramatically to the right

This is a nationwide phenomenon. The centrists and normies are more viciously angry than the socialists and anarchists, who gave up long ago on the illusion of a working system. Would encourage leftists of all stripes to take it seriously, welcome them in while they’re receptive.

In other news the Stewart Lee/ Louis Theroux chat is well worth your attention. Properly fascinating. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

also has anybody pointed out that Goodwin's Suicide of a Nation title is playing on Birth of a Nation?

Britain has stopped believing in even the idea of protest www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/identi...

The Sensible Moderates pissed away the entire period of austerity, Brexit, escalating racism and fascism because they were adamant that nothing and nobody was fit to govern except for them and their racist-pandering bullshit. It took 18 months of power for that to be proven catastrophically wrong.