It's brilliant and exciting to see Zohran Mamdani elected. More leaders like him please, and fewer like Cuomo, Schumer and the rest of the oligarch-pleasing, hope-destroying, election-losing, right-centrist political class.

Time for a walk in the countryside, Barden Bridge near Bolton Abbey. Getting out in nature does wonders for the mind, body and soul!

Kashmir Day 2025 commemoration in Bradford. Ordinary people face the same problems across the world from the effects of climate change, the rise in the cost of living, political repression. Ordinary people of the world need to unite and come together against those that seek our exploitation

Shubh Deepavali to everyone celebrating in Coventry South and across the country! 🪔 As diyas light up our streets and homes tonight, we celebrate the triumph of light over darkness and hope over despair. Wishing you all a Diwali filled with joy, peace, and togetherness ✨

Shubh Deepavali! Wishing everyone a very happy Diwali. Across our city, families are lighting diyas and celebrating the triumph of light over darkness and hope over despair. New York shines brighter tonight because of the people who bring their light and traditions home.

Hot off the press…!

For too long, people have been denied a real political choice. Not anymore. My piece for the Guardian on the extraordinary response to www.yourparty.uk www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Palestinian statehood is not a bargaining chip. It is not a threat. It is an inalienable right of the Palestinian people. Our demands on this shameful government remain the same: end all arms sales to Israel, impose widespread sanctions, and stop the genocide, now.

Rewilding isn't only about saving nature, but re-filling the world with beauty and loveliness. We just need to allow it happen.

It's time for a new kind of political party - one that belongs to you. Sign up at yourparty.uk.

This is the political video I've been waiting to see. I have no party affiliations, but if I were in the Greens, I would vote for @zackpolanski.bsky.social

"People must see themselves as the authors of their own emancipation." Excellent new open-access article on the dangers of externally induced regime change with particular reference to Iran –– –– coauthored by Cardiff philosopher Patrick Hassan.

Tonight’s huge climbdown is testament to the countless disabled people who have tirelessly fought these cuts. Yes, UC was a loss and there’s more to do on PIP, but let’s not underplay this: a government with a vast majority has been forced to u-turn. Because of the disabled community.

"The Greens need someone...who will “challenge wealth & power” and speak “really clearly & unapologetically” when doing so." I'm running to be the next leader of the Green Party: let's build our grassroots & send a big team of Green MPs to Parliament. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

THE RISE OF END TIMES FASCISM My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social. The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

After 14 years of Conservative rule, we were told that austerity was over. That was a lie. A statement from The Independent Alliance on the Chancellor's decision to abandon those in need.

Under a Labour government, billions are being slashed for the elderly, disabled and children – the most vulnerable in society. Meanwhile, tech bosses rake in tax cuts and wealth taxes on the super-rich aren’t even on the table. Austerity 2.0 isn’t the “change” people voted for.

For a fab neuro-affirming glossary, check out the work I'm doing with @stimpunks.org 400 terms reflecting the needs of neurodivergent & disabled communities “Language is also a place of struggle.Thinking differently requires speaking differently" bell hooks (1989) stimpunks.org/glossary/#h-...

Labour seems set on imposing what I've called neoliberalism's privatisation of eugenic responsibility: instead of enforcing mass authoritarian eugenics, the world is made increasingly unlivable; welfare necessary for life is cut; ensuing deaths are then framed as caused by the individual's choices.

“Every time you see a headline on “the cost of the benefits bill”, what you are really reading is “the cost of disabled people”.  My col. on Labour’s reported benefit cuts and the toxic narrative of the “moral” virtue of work. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Disabled people are not a burden. They are our neighbours and friends — and they deserve to live fulfilling lives just like anyone else. A statement from the Independent Alliance on cuts to welfare.

The fact that humans can only survive on Earth doesn’t bother Trump – and I know why | George Monbiot

Gilbert Achcar on The Age of Neofascism and Its Distinctive Features. www.historicalmaterialism.org/the-age-of-n...

1. My column on what happened, what comes next, and just how easy our fake democracies are to overthrow. + short thread on where our remaining hopes lie. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

On the day after the day before: Look after yourself, and others. Find solace and strength in nature, and in like-minded, caring people all around. We'll need solidarity in the dark times ahead. Meanwhile, a taste of the magic of an Irish rainforest may help raise spirits. 🌏

No imminent threat to the reproduction of capitalism is on the horizon, so contemporary fascism manifests the strange spectacle of “preventive counterreform”—parasitic on resuscitating the racialized anticommunism of a previous era.—Alberto Toscano, 2020

What if "economic anxiety" and "racial/class/gender/nationality resentment" are not distinct things, but intertwined manifestations of a profound insecurity about how to think of one's place in an unpredictable and rapidly changing world?

God help us all.

At the end of The Empire Strikes Back the rebels are desolate. Han Solo is frozen in carbonite. Luke Skywalker has been defeated in battle by Darth Vader, losing a hand in the process. The Emperor's victory was total.... until the Jedi returned. Not sure what made me think of that.

Very good new and much needed article "Is neurodiversity a Global Northern White paradigm?" by Vishnu KK Nair, Warda Farah, and Mildred Boveda. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...