Attacks on racial and religious minorities in Britain are rising, and becoming more violent Recent months have seen murder, attempted murder, rape, sexual assault and physical attacks of all kinds, all driven by hatred And these crimes are not happening in a vacuum www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/w...

Labour's inability to condemn last years far right riots, and the Home Secretary endorsing the ludicrous flag campaign are probably two of the most shocking moments from a sitting government in my lifetime.

Some obvious additions News from Nowhere - William Morris The Iron Heel- Jack London (a bit imperfect, but still worthwhile?) Red Harvest - Dashiell Hammett They Shoot Horses , Don't They - Horace McCoy

Note how Wes Streeting is apparently universally loathed by even whatever Labour Party membership remains, despite months of the press bigging him up as Labour’s self-evident heir apparent, prompting questions re: on what basis such claims were repeatedly staked, and for whom it was all for.

The amount of coverage there's been boosting Streeting, Mahmood and Al Carns as future Labour leaders over the past couple of years and collectively they manage a grand total of 5%

4% of Labour Party members pick Wes Streeting as their first choice for Labour leader

(1)What that Guardian 100 best books list would have had if the Guardian was a socialist/radical/alternative paper PLife of the Automobile -Ilya Ehrenburg USA -John Dos Passos The Jungle - Upton Sinclair Ragged Trousered Philanthropists - Robert Tressell Germinal-Zola Company K - Willam March..

Multiple Sensible people today saying that this is just bullshit and shenanigans as a wrecking tactic. But surely nobody would do that

Not to get too bleak about it, but: we’re a dead empire ruled by bad people www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

I see that everyone now understands the Labour right deliberately sabotages their party’s electoral prospects with idiotic bullshit and shenanigans whenever they don’t get their way, and that this isn’t an insane conspiracy theory for terrifyingly extreme tinfoil hat crackpots any more.

Wes Streeting is trying to crash the car to stop anyone else driving it - raising "rejoin EU" to hurt Burnham's chances. Its just what the Mandelson-led "People's Vote" did to Corbyn, a fake campaign to hurt the left with a side issue they didn't care about winning anyway

"People's Vote 2: Electric Boogaloo" . Remaking the old movie about confusing the liberals to drop the left in favour of an unachievable will-o-the-wisp

2026: Wes Streeting says the UK will one day be back in the EU 2022: Wes Streeting said "people need to move on" and "Britain isn't going back into the EU"

In @privateeyenews.bsky.social In The Money - the company dumping engine oil in the U.K., via Dubai, that EU says is “materially supporting Russia’s military and industrial complex”. No sanctions here though.

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Labour's Immigration Bill is the most immoral and repugnant thing this Government has done. It would mean a care worker who came to this country looking after our elderly, working night shifts on low pay, would wait 10 years to apply for citizenship But an investment banker could apply in 3 years

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How @privateeyenews.bsky.social first delved into Christopher Harborne’s background a mere six and a half years ago….

Completely unacceptable from the Board of Deputies. This nakedly partisan hypocrisy does not represent me or many other British Jews. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Which headline is better ? If Reform had surged but Greens hadn't, would that be better for the nation ? For Labour even ? Team Starmer would rather lose to Reform, then try copy Reform . But even for most Labour members, the Green surge is better.

Cos the Greens won seats, the narrative is "Labour is losing support both Left +Right and must deal with it".If the Greens hadn't stood, the narrative would have been "Labour lost votes to Reform and must move right". Anyone, inc Labour folk, who don't want go Right owes them a debt

I think we now have the answer

If all the papers were cheering because the SNP or the Greens had been taken over by a tiny clique of union flag waving English nationalists/petrochemical lobbyists who keep saying Scotland is rubbish and fossil fuels are awesome: would nobody smell a rat?

Like, if you set up a United supporters club for your local team and it was swiftly taken over by people who openly hate the club and its supporters and want it to be more like Rovers in the town over - and are incredibly nasty about it, to boot - what would we say has happened there?

As previously noted: do we not think it’s weird that the main left party is dominated by very right wing professional class cranks who quite openly despise their colleagues and members, and work to disempower and insult them? And that the national press goes crazy, if those people are ever removed.

It took a two-year screaming all-channels hate campaign and a secret internal wrecking operation funded via illegal donations from a zillionaire, to hammer Sir Keir’s predecessor to a far better position than the one these geniuses achieved just by being themselves and doing what they think is good.

Keir, don't forget the line, I'm not going to walk away & plunge the country into chaos

Here's Nigel Farage's "Tiktok guru" and adviser, Jack Anderton, telling GB News that he would be "worried" if the Jewish population was growing in the UK. When do we start seeing all the coverage about the antisemitism crisis in Reform UK?

Thought this one was particularly weak Leaving NATO is a position shared by thousands of Labour members, and probably even a few of its MPs And a large proportion of the public are opposed to the proscription of Palestine Action.

(1)One of London Labour's slimy dossiers : Accusing Hau-Yu Tam of using a"Vile racial slur", which isn't: "coconuts" is an Asian equivalent of"Uncle Tom",not a phrase I'd use myself, but it isn't racist, it's crude, but the opposite. Accusing Brits from ethnic minorities of 'racism' is v.Labour now

"The situation in gaza"

Oh no she wants a diplomatic solution! Burn the witch!

Really telling that London Labour have gone for a retro "Special Branch" style for these smear "dossiers" they are putting out - like they saw the Spycops inquiry revealing Special Branch spying on the left for decades and thought 'that looks fun'.

Labour are in a scandal because Labour Together paid for smear dossiers to be leaked to the press. So London Labour celebrate with these Stasi-style smear dossiers accusing dangerous radicals of hating the IDF and loving Bob Vylan. Its their happy place

Guardian politics team pushing this story that some Labour headbanger rightwingers are angry Andy Burnham is speaking at a Neal Lawson 'cross party progressive' conference with Greens. This was once a v.Guardian approach, trying to make it forbidden is a bit mad www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

(1) In her awful "Hannah Spencer must drink with me" piece Labour MP Tonia Antoniazzi says Reform are populists because they "scapegoat immigrants" , but so does Starmer with his "Island of Strangers" speech , and anti migrant extend-indefinite-leave-to-remain wait to 15 years....

Again with the conspiracy theories about a secret, sinister nexus of Marxist intellectuals and menacing untermenschen who are polluting and undermining the Fatherland, to help our enemies invade and dominate us: available on the newspaper stand in every Tesco and Asda, for the last ten years.

If the seriousness with which you tackle anti-Semitism depends on the identity of the person guilty of it, it does begin to look as if tackling anti-Semitism is not your real priority.

List of those Starmer has called out for anti-Semitism: - The Universities - The Arts Council - The Green Party - Pro-Palestinian protestors List of those Starmer has not called out for anti-Semitism: - Twitter - Reform UK - The Trump administration Feels like there’s a pattern here.

The grim thing is that by making 'banning pro-Palestinian protests ' and 'the Greens are dangerous' central to his supposed "whole society response" to anti-semitism , Starmer is guaranteeing it will fail.

5. The majority of British Muslims do not support the IRGC.

4. The majority of British Muslims do not support severing ties with Israel.

3. The majority of Muslims are concerned about Islamist extremism.

2. More Muslims view Jews favourably than unfavourably. The largest share do not distinguish them to view either more or less favourably than other groups.

1. 71% of Muslims rate the cost of living and the economy as among the 3 main issues determining their vote. Only 25% select the Israel-Gaza conflict.

But how else could the data have been represented? Let's see what some equally accurate headlines could have been: www.jlpartners.co.uk/polling-resu...

3. "A quarter of Muslim respondents said they had a favourable view of the proscribed terrorist organisation Hamas, while more held a favourable than an unfavourable view of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps." 4. "higher anti-Jewish sentiment among Muslim respondents".

The headline data extracted from it was: 1. "The war in Gaza ranks above the economy in determining how Muslim voters will cast their ballots." 2. "Three in five Muslim voters said they would consider backing pro-Gaza independent candidates to prevent Labour winning locally"

🧵 1/10 Right wing lobbying groups are increasingly commissioning polls with leading questions and selective reporting of data to bolster their narratives and help achieve their political objectives. This one was commissioned by Policy Exchange: www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...