In the sacking of Davie and Turness, why is Michael Prescott being touted as an 'independent external advisor' to the BBC? He worked in senior roles at the Sunday Times for over a decade: hanovercomms.com/our-team/mic... This is a scalp for the Right, whether or not you like Davie's BBC record.

Here's something that's not talked about enough The air pollution from burning fossil fuels kills an estimated 10 million people a year 1 in 6 deaths is caused by fossil fuels www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

If you missed the news last night, the Greens (in England & Wales) now have 100,000 members for the first time. At this rate - around 15,000 new members a week - they’ll very soon overtake the Conservatives. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

🌎New article! 🌎 Camillo Stubenberg and I have a new article out on why diesel generators are everywhere these days:

The Greens now have nearly 200 more councillors than Reform. This is not something you'd be likely to guess from all the copiously salivating media coverage of Farage & his crew of billionaire-backed far-right chancers.

In about an hour we have a Commons urgent question on Kneecap, submitted by Tory MP Mark Francois. I genuinely remember when we last had a proper moral panic about popular music. It must be a while.

when you have no idea how to govern on the macrofinancial front, you go 'brr, migration' even if the universe screams at you it wont actually do much for your miserable poll standings, driven by your failures on the economy front

This article says more about the state of the nation than it intends to, I think: (tldr: Londoners benefit from amazing facilities but get soaked for rent, then move to countryside to discover non-existent facilities thanks to decades of austerity) www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

The fact that this monster can say shit like this and no one in the Euro-American governments say a word is a lasting stain on all our consciences.

Larry Fink's 2025 letter: we will solve distributional crisis of capitalism if you give me your savings so I can privatise every public good under the sun. We shall call this democratizing investment. www.blackrock.com/corporate/in...

Diesel generators seem to be everywhere these days, chuntering on in the background. But *why* are they everywhere? Where do generators sit in our grand schemes for electrifying the world? Camillo Stubenberg and I have a new paper coming out soon that tries to answer these questions. 🧵👇 1/13

As I said to BBCBreakfast government *isn’t* proposing reform. It’s cuts. The DWP has a genuine plan for reform to help more people get support, healthcare & work when they can. Treasury is driving the opposite. Cruel & counterproductive cuts for short term savings.

It's hard to comprehend the scale at which supertrawlers are murdering life in the oceans.

They must have hacked his account, surely (surely?)

newleftreview.org/sidecar/post... Tariq Ali showing exceptional tankie energy here. It turns out that Assad was a key member of the Arab resistance (who knew?) and that Syrians are but pawns of the West unless they funnel arms to Hezbollah (the death of satire)

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength

The media is reporting this story as 'scary jihadis' rather than as the liberation it is. I've written this text giving background on Assad's detention and torture state, to show what's at stake for Syrians. Please read, and share.

@nytimes.com’s Ben Hubbard on the latest in Syria: www.nytimes.com/2024/12/05/w... Includes my thoughts.

The personal estates of the King and the Prince of Wales are worth £1.8bn. Last year they made £50m profit. They are exempt from corporation and capital gains tax. This situation is unfair and costing the country millions in lost revenue. It must not continue. taxjustice.uk/blog/the-roy...

Morgan McMilestone

'Fascism doesn’t begin when people begin to shoot one another — it begins when the establishment of the state begins to discriminate against the Left in comparison to the Right.' tribunemag.co.uk/2024/11/anti...

Top ten news items: men behaving badly

An academic short paper with the main experts survey findings from the World Bank "carbon pricing in the Global South" report that we published in September (see 🧵 below) is conditionally accepted at Environmental Research Letters. Find the paper here: federica-genovese.com/downloads/Le...

‘Child poverty has risen to 44% in single-parent households, but when children do receive maintenance it cuts the child poverty rate by 25%. Why does the state fail to collect on children’s behalf?’ New research from Gingerbread supported by JRF 👇 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The CBI complaining about increased taxes is laughable when you consider the extraordinary profits that UK businesses achieved during 2021-2023. We need to investigate and discuss seller's inflation much more in the UK context! @isabellamweber.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Just incredibly bleak that when a Labour government is finally in power, disabled people still have to wake up to front pages calling them a blight on society.