Remember that MLK said America suffers not just from "the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people."

2073: Barney Ronay: ‘…The word for that tactic which is not, in play here, is lawfare, a practice familiar to rich powerful entities faced with inconvenient regulation’ www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Here's the short speech I gave in Parliament Square on Wednesday. youtu.be/81Dnt2shYdc?...

the hysteria has gone off the rails so far that the average american thinks 1 in 5 people are transgender. pure absolute insanity that is driving the current lavender scare

Pure cinema: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...

21st century Britain where it's illegal to project an image on a wall but not illegal to supply weapons to mass murdering genocidal psychopaths

My interview with Kaouther Ben Hania for her wonderful film The Voice of Hind Rajab is in @thenewworldmag.bsky.social magazine www.thenewworld.co.uk/john-bleasda...

Reminder: When billionaires take control of communication platforms, it’s not a win for free speech. It’s a win for oligarchy. https://www.democracynow.org/2025/9/16/headlines/billionaire_larry_ellison_could_add_tiktok_to_media_empire_as_us_and_china_reach_deal

Starmer, Lammy, Cooper, the shamefully racist ‘New’ Labour UK Government, has fully endorsed & participated in Israel’s genocide; www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

There's no excuse of ignorance any more. Every single person on that fascist march knew who Tommy Robinson was and every single one of them knew why they were there. This isn't Brexit. People weren't conned. They willingly went out to join in, led by a five times jailed thug. Stop making excuses.

BREAKING: Business and trade secretary Peter Kyle defends the PM's decision to appoint Lord Mandelson, stating that it was deemed "worth the risk" news.sky.com/story/politi...

Still absolutely nothing to say about far right thugs rioting and attacking the police while a US tech billionaire calls for a violent insurrection on our streets

C’mon Liverpool!

Nepal joins the growing number of countries that have elected women leaders. The US remains the most significant outlier.

The Government proscribed Palestine Action as terrorists by claiming that secret intelligence justified doing so Newly leaked intelligence report reveals that most of their activity: - Couldn't be described as terrorism - Isn't violent but focused on property damage -Most of that damage is "minor"

This is late capitalism. No regulation. No idea of providing a decent service or product. Just endless transactions and money movements, asset stripping and unemployment

Player. Leader. Legend. 👑⚽ Thrilled to announce we will be releasing @asifkapadia.bsky.social's new documentary KENNY DALGLISH. In UK and Irish cinemas for One Night Only on 29th October and on Prime Video from 4th November.

My boy is nearly 10, the age I was when Ayrton Senna died. Tonight I showed him @asifkapadia.bsky.social ‘s masterful doc SENNA. I grew up in Brazil, and my lad is Canadian. Tonight was a cultural-ancestry-paternal event. Thanks, Asif. My boy knows me better now, and Senna, because of you. 🇧🇷🫶

This is what happens when justice serves power instead of people. Banksy’s latest piece shows a judge beating a protester. They rushed to throw up barriers to hide it. We need this here because it looks a lot like our own Supreme Court vs. the people.

You’ll shit when you find out what happened in Qatar yesterday

Oh.

4. Failing to clear out the Tories’ highly political appointments to the BBC. They should be replaced immediately with independent people. Until that happens, it will remain a public relations outfit for the hard right and far right.

3. Refusing to introduce Proportional Representation. Under our First Past The Post system, a party with a minority of the vote can achieve a huge majority (as Starmer did with 34%). There is no way Farage could become Prime Minister under a PR system. Only under FPTP.

2. Empowering and legitimising the far right by echoing its themes, threats, cruelty and nastiness. Even if you set aside the moral implications, it’s an utterly baffling policy, as all the evidence shows that this gifts voters to the far right. www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...

If Farage wins the next election, it will be down to one person. His name is Keir Starmer. This thread explains why. 1. Destroying faith in democracy. The UK decisively voted out the Tories, only for Starmer to give us a Continuity Tory government, shamefully beholden to economic power. 🧵

So where did they move to? Crewe? In unrelated news: @teamlabouruk.bsky.social make all protest in Crewe a terrorist offence. All imagined, of course. It can't happen here. ??? #WeCantAffordTheRich

Filmmaker @asifkapadia.bsky.social at the Frontline Club in London, on the ongoing global and reciprocally-reinforced drift towards strongman autocracy and tech oligarchy in his film "2073"—including the role of online platforms in the deterioration of the information environment.

WRITERS ON FILM @ the #VeniceFilmFestival part two with top film critic Bilge Ebiri podcasts.apple.com/it/podcast/w...

Why didn’t some of the Epstein survivors speak out earlier? “I thought someone was going to kill me,” one explained. As another asked, “Why did the government work so hard to protect Jeffrey Epstein and not victims like me?”

nobody: Labour:

The beautiful Szoboszlai scores a beautiful goal!!

C’mon Liverpool!!

Dummy www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Labour's 'Farage is right, just don't vote for him' strategy is going about as well as expected

Why, you might ask, do the BBC and Sky News, casting their editorial guidelines to the wind, keep giving massive airtime to the far right, while shutting out leftwing voices? Don't their bosses understand the likely consequences? Only one explanation now remains. They do. And it is what they want.

Is the BBC Reform UK's mouthpiece? Yup. "Researchers at Cardiff University have produced a detailed analysis of every episode of the BBC’s flagship Question Time programme broadcast between September 2014 and July 2023 to see if the broadcaster was balancing political viewpoints."

As several have pointed out, this also applies to the massive (100,000 or so) Trans Pride event. Almost entirely blanked.

Come on Grimsby!