“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.” James Baldwin

RIP to a real one

So the Telegraph is taking this well

Wait, Britain has politics as well?? Christ, when will it end

as a Glaswegian I was legitimately surprised to discover there are no religious considerations at all as to whether someone is a supporter of Manchester United or Manchester City

woke is back baby

we’re not doing this under Woke 2 sorry not sorry

we're getting all the downsides of cyberpunk (social alienation, ruthless hyper capitalism, digital mass surveillance state) but none of the promised upsides (cheap street food, cool jackets, super drugs that make you really fast and strong before they kill you)

senior scottish labour strategist reportedly encouraging sarwar to attend kneecap’s next gig to show voters he’s not shite chat

you know it’s long 2016 when celebs are dropping absolute clangers via the notes app

You're all here talking about geopolitics and meanwhile Brooklyn Beckham is spilling the tea on the family feud

pretty much everyone in the central belt has an opinion about this that they cannot share due to ludicrous UK libel law

can denmark put insane tariffs on ozempic or something. surely that’ll do it

Three UK hunger strikers end their hunger strike after the MoD meets one of their demands: The MoD has denied a major new £2 billion contract with the Israeli defence firm's subsidiary, Elbit Systems UK, for an Army training program.. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

obsessed with harriet acting like a martyr. “do not let this sacrifice be in vein” girl please

is it too early to say this is the best series of the traitors yet

i have deleted tiktok as one of my new years resolutions. i am not placing blame on it entirely but i will say it short form content has undoubtedly made me (feel) stupider, particularly over the past year. what is more angering though is how aware i am of this “decline”

need really twitter back i am gaaaaaged by this latest traitor episode

one thing you have to respect about traitors is that it has systematically destroyed the mystique of every profession. barristers, detectives, magicians, all frauds

bit early for new year’s resolutions but can 2026 be the death of barrel leg trouser please x

one reason people never seem the reference when discussing the death of the high street - online shopping will never force you overheat in your big winter coat in a middle of a rammed bookshop in the run up to christmas

do think it’s pretty appalling that employers can’t even send you a generic email to say your application is not being considered for interview. the hours that an applicant spends on a single application warrants that at least!

Because when you burn down a house and nobody ever rebuilds it, someone is still forced to live in the ashes

does anyone remember that young communist league article from a few years back which lambasted the left about not not looking “normal”

i don’t doubt AI has some wonderful uses but if you’re using AI to write the most basic emails you need to get a grip

digital social cleansing - but i guess influencers would call that aesthetic

reddit reviews of taylor’s new album are great

Apparently Israel’s genocidal acts are just “daft”.

NEW: Rent controls are set to be introduced in Scotland after the Government’s housing reform legislation passed at Holyrood

anyway bill passed! scotland has rent controls! onwards comrades

watching the rent control vote by myself in a hotel at labour conference which is just such a depressing and also comically evil end to years of organising for this moment lmao

it was his own staffer 💀

from our final rally for rent controls last night. debate is today and the vote is tomorrow - then towards a future of permanent rent controls in scotland. up the might living rent 💚

also engenders a dangerous complacency where the mass civil society response that is required to actually push back on this stuff doesn‘t happen because people convince themselves “it won’t happen so why should they have to put their heads above water on it“

big bold beautiful journey was terrible btw. farrell and robbie both being hot still doesn’t redeem it

one of the fash kept showing a pic of a cross on their phone to me and kat so every time he did we’d would roll our eyes back and act like we were going through an exorcism lmao

NEW Has the government overreached in using terrorism law against Palestine Action? A disclosed MI5 document indicates that the basis for proscription may be weak By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

your party changing its avatar to a black circle and doing a notes apology

take this offline for the love of god

bastani should retract his “snivelling little shit” statement. archie, although a pedant, is very insightful

In Britain, every time you... — turn on a tap — flip a light switch — board a train or bus — post a letter — drop your child at nursery ... you take part in a system designed to extract wealth & concentrate power. 🧵 From cradle to grave, this is how a failed experiment has shaped your life.

Good explainer thread on this chaos from @archimbaldo.bsky.social

this is so so so embarrassing

corbyn actually needs to back off from this new party if there’s any hope of it being successful

We have some new online publications, great readings on home ownership, rentierism, and decarbonized living! 🔸 Susan Smith and Gavin Wood discusses the edges of owner occupation and rentier capitalism ➡️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

tickets for TWT are now live - it’s a really good line up and i know a lot of hard work has gone into making this happen. (also this is a bit of shameless self promo but i’ll be there speaking!) get your tickets now comrades theworldtransformed.org/twt25/

A blanket condemnation of "political violence" in our current cultural context is worthless given the ways that any disruption of the status-quo is treated as "violence." In contrast, Pritzker locating the source of increase in violence in Pres. Trump's ongoing rhetoric attributes a cause.

People that actively promote, celebrate and campaign for evil, harmful ideas and revel in death upon others have to live and die by those beliefs I’m afraid. They are living in the world they wanted, death is a currency they live off.