Tony Harrison's V. Still gives me chills. RIP to Leeds' finest poet. youtu.be/FA3AL14d05k?...

Ok. They’ve pissed me off. I’m back to tell you 3 things about ID cards: 1. Migrants ALREADY HAVE biometric ID cards & govts have been trying to digitise them for years w repeated fuckups & failures causing complete chaos - they don’t work, you do not want that system for you.

I don't sign petitions very often but I like the idea of this one getting to a million pretty much as the policy is announced. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

The polio immunisation program started in the USA in 1955. Look what happened next.

A 7% decline in English birds in just 5 years is astonishing The web of life is unravelling fast

Zohran Mamdani’s win in the Democratic primary for New York mayor demonstrates the strength of organised socialist campaigning. Samuel Kelly speaks with NYC-DSA organisers about the work that made it possible. revsoc21.uk/2025/09/24/i...

As I was saying…

Just a little observation, but today we have the SNP arguing in favour of continued oil and gas exploration while Labour gives the green light to another runway at Gatwick—and still media types will ask Greens what makes them unique "now that all the other parties have adopted climate policies".

“Prompting people to actively notice birdsong, plant textures and smells can significantly improve wellbeing…” Interesting study that suggests simple and small interventions, eg signage, that encourage people to notice nature can boost people’s wellbeing. Open access article below.

Grim. They're not even opening a tree museum. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I've a message for Labour from Marcus Aurelius "Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good" You have 1 term. Don't flap around appeasing those who hate you. Do good in the world, because you're dead either way

Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

The discordant honk of trumpets against trump

So, the Lib Dems have responded to the current times by saying they'd treat asylum seekers better. I don't mind that at all. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I'll be speaking at the Stop Trump demo in Parliament Square today. A fascist autocratic clearly itching to declare martial law is not welcome here. share.google/sWEe8YGl3euj...

Come to London this Wednesday in the hope that we can help the world get worse much more slowly.

We must love one another or die. - Auden.

I’m no expert, but I’m not entirely convinced this ‘unite the kingdom’ march is going to unite the kingdom.

Proud patriots waving English, British and Israeli flags and shouting "Corbyn is a wanker" and "I'm Israel high!" in an attempt to disrupt a YourParty meeting just for funsies have been spoken to by the police because they were actually outside a disabled childrens dance class & scaring the kids.

In a long list of extraordinary things that have happened today, this strength of this statement by Andy Burnham's new movement is something else. A proper shot across the bows.

Got to hand it to the British authorities. At first I was mad when they scrubbed the #Banksy, but they have unintentionally made one of the most powerful artworks of all time.

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People are treating Farage like he's a normal politician who's hurt by having weird policy pointed out or not doing his paperwork. His supporters don't care about Clacton or sloppy thinking. Party point scoring means nothing here. There's a racist swamp in this country, we deal with it or we die.

Sheffield against the hotel botherers.

Keir Starmer’s new director of communications isn’t just the founder of Portland Communications – which represented Qatar, Russia and Kazakhstan – he’s also come straight from the board of the anti-trans charity Sex Matters. The government is heading in a dark direction.

I wouldn’t have thought many Labour MPs came into politics to strip the rights of torture survivors to be reunited with the spouses & children. They need to take a long hard look in the mirror & ask whether Starmer, Cooper & Reeves are really the leadership their careers should be remembered with.

Farage: "we should kill the first born child of every household" Labour spokesperson: "unfortunately there are severe logistical and legal difficulties to doing this, Reform just aren't realistic."

The problem with 'mass deportations' is not that they aren't feasible or legal. The problem is that they're wrong. Not so long ago, everyone would've agreed this is the morally reprehensible rhetoric of the NF or BNP. But today? Labour wring their hands and apologise that it just isn't practical.

The ever-eloquent @rafaelbehr.bsky.social pointedly refusing to mince his words on what Farage has done for us. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I like to remind people that Enoch Powell got fired by his Tory PM Ted Heath in 1968 and never had a cabinet position again, and the Times called it an “evil speech”. Now we get great replacement theory in the Times and politicians including Labour advocating for ethnic cleansing on a daily basis

100% this

The UK does not want to become "Trumpland 2". #RefugeesWelcome #HumanRights #RuleofLaw

Migrants didn't cut council funding. Migrants didn't cut NHS funding. Migrants didn't close youth centres. Migrants didn't sell off council houses. Migrants aren't filling our rivers with sewage. Farage and co. will tell you to point the finger at migrants. Don't fall for it.

Tomorrow's front page 📰 Refugees are welcome here: New series highlighting their positive stories in Scotland begins

I don’t want to be too shrill about this but I think the BBC, ITV and Sky have disgraced themselves in their coverage of the anti-refugee protests. A massive failure of judgement. But now we know the next time a progressive protest “isn’t news” that it’s nothing to do with numbers

It must have been difficult to conduct politics before the invention of flags and statues.

Hugleikur Dagsson

The Green Party will always be clear. Refugees are welcome here.

Is this all it takes for Labour to capitulate? Oh no, it's only when it's utterly reactionary do they bend themselves out of all recognition - genuinely mass protests are ignored, then smeared then utterly opposed.

I'm glad Maxwell cleared that up, because it did look a little suspicious for a moment - but we can all rest assured that there was no wrong doing at the convicted sex trafficker's house. Whew.

Just a reminder, God hates flags

every time you crank one out without showing ID a child dies 😞

I've been discussing what to write on a placard for this. Currently thinking of either "don't ponce for the yankee nonce" or "Trump and Starmer sitting in a tree K.I.L.L.I.N.G." Must be able to improve on this...

Updated figures - 400,000 were on Tel Aviv this evening and I hear that the police estimates that across the country 2.5 million Israelis protested throughout the day. That's a lot (Israel has just over 10 million citizens. So a quarter of the citizenry was demonstrating today??)

This thread is well worth reading

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I think the most unexpected thing for me, as I began to pay attention to politics was how the right seemed to be ideologically opposed to context.

Self-publishing is a power, it's a gift. You can put whatever you want into your little 'zines and minicomics, absolutely nobody can tell you no. Tell your story, don't worry if it's "good enough", make it anyway.