The reason the Right are so invested in the myth that the arts have no value isn’t because the arts don’t generate wealth (they do); it’s that studying the arts teaches people to imagine better ways of judging the value of an idea than by counting how much money it makes…

if you’ve ever watched the apprentice, that’s the world without arts or humanities degrees

Poor old Kemi has a problem. She doesn’t want arts subjects learned, because then people would understand how she’s talking bollocks. She doesn’t want sciences or mathematics studied, because then people would understand she’s talking bollocks. She doesn’t want law studied… 1/2

If you believe a pensioner saying 'Free Palestine' is a threat on your life, you are either lying or are delusional. We shouldn't just accommodate this bullshit anymore.

This is the world we now inhabit: red paint on military hardware is terrorism, while Israeli genocide in Gaza is standard operating procedure. Labour's decision to ban Palestine Action is far more than a simple law enforcement measure Read, share & subscribe www.plagueisland.com/p/red-paint-...

'The mask has slipped in British politics. Divisive politics are openly back on the ballot paper. Labour is capitulating to the anti-migrant talking points of Reform, all while talking the language of decency and fairness. It makes my toes curl.' Quite an opening paragraph.

Dunno, but a former UK prime minister declaring what will happen to Palestine is not something which went terribly well before.

Farage is keeping us prisoners in his Platonic cage with the nonsense he talks, which the media lets set the political agenda. We need to break the chains and go outside to find the light. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/09...

Legislation is meant to defend the public good, not provide cover for speculative development. If we cannot rely on the law to protect our past, we will have little left to hand on to the future ✍️Annie Zak

The Conservatives started this experiment. But Labour are fully on board too. No 10 refuse to comment or take action - but we're all paying the price for corporate greed. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Nigel Farage (Dulwich), Danny Kruger (Eton), Richard Tice (Uppingham) and Isabel Oakeshott (Gordonstoun) aren't 'standing up to the elite'. They are the elite.

I don't think Peter Mandelson is PM's biggest problem. The biggest problem is not standing up to the literal violent racism on our streets, supercharged by the richest man in the world, and threatening the very fabric of our society. If he and so many commentators can't see this, we're truly lost.

Starmer has to be next www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/09...

Labour's entire political platform is Reform going "We're going to do something horrific when we get into power!" and then them responding with "Not if we do it first!!"

English fascist party leader wants to control the teaching of history. Textbook fascism.

Israeli president Isaac Herzog incited genocide against Palestinians. His public imposition of collective guilt on the Palestinian people was repeated by Israeli soldiers as they rampaged in Gaza. His visit to London is a disgrace. He should be arrested

People that use tax avoidance schemes, offshore accounts, divide the people, impoverish the country, and ask dictators to impose sanctions upon us, should not be members of parliament, let alone considered for Prime Minister. It’s called hypocrisy. It’s traitorous. Full stop.

From Zack's victory speech: "...my message to Labour is very clear. We are not here to be disappointed by you. We are not here to be concerned by you. We’re here to replace you." Can't happen a moment too soon.

Our government is not defending us www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/09... The UK is facing the greatest existential threat since WW II and Labour is hoping we won’t notice.

Stephen Cottrell, the Archbishop of York, condemned Reform's migration policy yesterday. Christian teaching makes clear he had the right and duty to do so. That teaching is clear: you can support Reform, but you can't claim to be Christian and do so. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/09...

Say it again, and again, and again. They are not "illegal immigrants". -seeking asylum is legal and has been since 1951. This legally trumps all arguments of “but they arrived by illegal means”. That’s just a fact. That’s why you don’t see asylum seekers arrested & charged. Our MSM must do better.

If a Scotsman, or Englishman, or Welshman or Irishman allegedly commits a crime, we don't condemn the entire race. Why apply different rules to asylum seekers?

If you accept the premise that "illegal Migration" is a serious issue, then you are part of the problem. This is a moral panic and every time you affirm it as an issue you play into the signification spiral. Progressives/left must reject the issue itself not just the "solutions" of the right.

Allow people to arrive legally in big boats. There. Problem solved.

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You’re not immune from disability. You’re not immune from chronic illness. You’re not immune from homelessness. People always believe they’ll be the exception. That the bad thing won’t happen to them. That we aren’t trying hard enough. It’s not true. It can happen to anyone.

If you’re waking up to yet another news programme on tv or radio that is over platforming REFORM with 4 MPs and not mentioning any other opposition party, you know what to do. Sign here and get anyone else you know to sign. Fair coverage now. Takes 30 seconds petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...

Hands up if you thought Labour would compete with Reform in the Cruelty Olympics?

The Labour response to Farage policy of leaving the Refugee & Humam Rights Convention should not be “he won’t deliver”. It should be “this is not morally right” (not “British values” even). Voters want to see authentic consistent leadership. Not debate the workability of cruelty.

My vote will go to parties and leaders who unequivocally say Faragism is Fascism and is simply wrong

A United Ireland and a Disunited ‘Kingdom’ here we come…

Of course this flag nonsense is aggressive, territory claiming xenophobia. But there is a tradition of the Union flag being used in just this way. But folks in England just forget Northern Ireland exists. And the Welsh Dragon (which is equivalent to the Georges X) is often displayed without fascism

Richard is right: we have to repudiate Farage now. His ideas do not belong here.

God bless everyone crossing the Channel in a small boat today; May you find welcome, respite from persecution, and a new life into which you can bring your loved ones. We are not all hostile to you, whatever you hear from the megaphones of the Press. Croeso bawb sy’n cyrraedd yn heddwch.

Why we need migrants into the UK www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/08... Without inward migration, the UK faces a massive pension crisis. To pretend otherwise is to simply misrepresent the truth: without continuing inward migration, the UK, and those who live here, will be in the deepest trouble.

This is outstanding. God knows what Labour is doing: legitimising the racism that'll be its undoing, losing the coalition which put it in office, trying to secure voters who will never support it, digging its own moral grave. observer.co.uk/news/opinion...

Never assume that everything is in the catalogue archive researchers!

It's not asylum seekers who jack up rents, undermine the NHS, hold down wages and keep people insecure. It's capital. The role of the far right is to shift the blame for decades of economic attacks by the rich and powerful onto powerless people who have only just arrived here.

Lucy Connolly called for hotels housing women and children to be set on fire. Out of European countries, UK ranks 13th for asylum claims/capita and 1st for proportion of news media owned by billionaires. Only one country has widespread protests outside asylum seeker accommodation.

Imagine how different it would all be if, rather than aping Farage, Labour had worked from day one to establish safe routes, set up processing centres in France, process applications, and softly defuse the asylum issue.

No one owns the Water. No one owns the Land. No one owns the sand. These are given by Our Mother. The Planet provides for Free. Only by the hands of the Greedy does the Earth require a Fee 🌺

3 crucial roles for the university: to preserve, transmit, and create knowledge.

Insanity that these are going ahead without disclosing their projected electricity and water consumption, and in parts of the UK where water is already in short supply.

The core role of the university in society is the generational transmission of knowledge and rare skills. This has been already long forgotten by administrators who have prioritised rebranding universities as publicly-funded job-training centres in recent decades.

When politicians start policing history, you're firmly in the realms of autocracy. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/a...

Soft power image of the day! Roll up and get your international image of Britain and its unis! 🙄☹️ (2/2)

How about stimulating the brains of US citizens and their children with big historical questions, source criticism, and wide-ranging debate? That’s what they will need for rebuilding their country in the generation after Trumpism.

Israel murdered Anas al-Sharif, and his fellow Palestinian journalists, to silence witnesses to its genocide. Gaza's journalists - the bravest journalists who ever lived - never stopped speaking out. The least we can do is to speak louder than ever before.