Thank goodness all these dangerous terrorists have been arrested 🙄 Over 2000 people have been arrested this year since the proscription of a 'terrorist' group, this government is a joke!

Freelance Nov25: Latest threat to copyright is 'AI' rewrites www.londonfreelance.org/fl/2511copy....

The digital version of our Nathan Gill timeline is now online ⬇️⏳ www.thenerve.news/p/nathan-gil...

“These are the times in life — when nothing happens — but in quietness the soul expands.” One of the most quietly wonderful things I ave read in a life of reading: www.themarginalian.org/2022/02/15/r...

Dear Bluesky, www.thenerve.news is still tiny. We launched it with no dirty money (no money at all, lol!). But we're proving what's possible with a small expert team & no billionaire owners. We knew the UK press wouldn't understand or properly cover this story, so we did. Thank you for the support!

The Constitution needs a better Marketing Department than Citizens United and the Heritage Foundation

'In my experience it’s always people who don’t understand AI who are enchanted by it.' www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

There is no accurate reporting, anywhere in the world, on how many people are dying due to climate breakdown.

The enshittification continues apace.

Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

It would be more of a karate chop from Miss Piggy, but close enough.

Among other topics, we discuss the sale of children in care. They're worth roughly £100k each. The profit you can extract by sending them across the country to the cheapest housing in derelict places, cutting them off from all hope and contact, is off the scale. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xx6...

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We thought we'd bring the Department of Health and Social care an early Christmas present today...17,000 signatures to our petition calling for no new private finance in our NHS. Add your name at vist.ly/4e2fd

Whenever I lose faith in humanity (almost every day, given the state of the world) I turn to something that is, at the same time, supremely logical and deeply moving. It gives me the strength to carry on, and to hell with all the oligarchs and right-wing thugs. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeng...

Every day of 2025 I think, 'This is the day everyone in America, all 340-million of us, will stop what we're doing and march on Washington.'

This remains the most wonderful, unexpected thing I've ever read about the mystery of the self www.themarginalian.org/2018/10/25/l...

“We can change, evolve, and transform our own conditioning. We can choose to move like water rather than be molded like clay.” I needed this today, perhaps you do too: www.themarginalian.org/2024/01/26/w...

Our friend Rachel hand delivers an important message to Downing Street.

This has saved me many times – Baldwin on how to live through your darkest hour: www.themarginalian.org/2020/04/23/j...

Do not underestimate what a big shift lies behind these events today, and how much advocacy for and with the survivors and against the abuser-in-chief made it happen.

'Will Ai benefit all of us - or just billionaires?'

November 18, 2025

I feel the same as Hank Green about this. Trump is notorious for calling women Miss Piggy. I happen to love Miss Piggy and would be wildly amused, maybe even delighted to be addressed as Miss Piggy. But 'piggy', without the Miss in front of it? That's a capital offense.

New Yorker cover from Westminster Week 1965. The artist, Birnbaum, chose to illustrate the rising Afghan Hound, as Greyhounds were dropping in prominence. The strap, on the left, illustrates the six primary dog groups at the time. Terrier Working Hound Sporting Non-Sporting Toy

Young women in the UK are twice as likely to buy a home as young men. On average, women investors fare better than men. Women owned businesses show greater capital efficiency - for a fraction of the funding received.

NEW: Peter Thiel has blinked. Yesterday, I posted an article about the "Great AI Bubble". And today, we find out that he's bailed on the market. Has he cut & run? Or is this some 3-D chess-type voodoo? Thoughts please. open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

Carole's latest Substack update, which I have not yet fully read myself. Urgent to share as soon as possible, as I suspect Thiel has triggered a global markets collapse - the kind of thing wanker billionaires like him can just do without self-consequence. broligarchy.substack.com/p/peter-thie...

Wonderful idea. When governments fail us, we take care of each other.

This is a must-see film for anyone who wants to understand the history of British colonialist terrorism in Palestine. Our government has 100+ years of blood on its hands. Nothing has changed. I guess our guilt is why this part of our history is not taught in schools youtu.be/2bk9dPHEfWU?...

“While the AI industry claims its models can “think,” “reason,” and “learn,” their supposed achievements rest on marketing hype and stolen intellectual labor. In reality, AI erodes academic freedom, weakens critical reading, and subordinates the pursuit of knowledge to corporate interests.”

Traitors on the inside, Trump on the outside ... who’d want to run the BBC now? Actually, I would This week’s column by Stewart Lee www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...

NEW: Welcome to the Great AI Bubble. Yes, it’s here. And yes, it’s going to burst. It’s also got way more in common with the Epstein scandal than you really want to know. open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." Malcolm X. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Climate breakdown is driven by a storm of lies. This lying is systemic, funded and coordinated, and operates across almost all media, old and new. This week's column argues that we cannot fight the climate crisis without also fighting the epistemic crisis. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Do please join me on World Soil Day, 5 December, 2pm GMT, for the global launch of the most exciting thing I’ve ever been involved with: The Earth Rover Program, developing a new scientific approach which will massively enhance our understanding of #soil. Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Compliments @newyorker.com

"The main thing a musician would like to do is to give a picture to the listener... That's what music is to me—it's just another way of saying this is a big, beautiful universe we live in [and] here's an example of just how magnificent and encompassing it is." John Coltrane by Jean-Pierre Leloir.

I consider Cohen's advice several times a day when deciding how to respond to disappointing people.

November 14, 2025

Soothing English garden 🐦‍⬛