You are in quite a journey yourself @petergeoghegan.bsky.social !

I take this back! Trevor Philips takeaway at the end shows he was listening and impressed

This is a great interview worth watching in full, the laziness and disinterest of Philips is extraordinarily revealing of the complacency of those who think they 'know how to govern'

Meta take in $16 billion a year from running scams www.reuters.com/investigatio...

I agree with Jennifer Lawrence in the New York Times

Learn from Mandela by the late much missed Peter Weiss (h/t @johncavanaugh.org & @ips-dc.org ) otherwords.org/three-lesson...

A salute to Peter Weiss ips-dc.org/remembering-... seen here with Vanessa Redgrave and Cora Weiss. A vital figure for IPS in Washington @ips-dc.org and and TNI in Amsterdam @tninstitute.bsky.social

"Needless to say, copies of the Byline Times special issue have been circulating widely this week among the ranks of anti-Reform parties in the corridors of Westminster. The Gill case was also the main thrust of Lib Dem Leader Ed Davey's PMQs questions" Having an impact – outside of the system 👇

One month into Gaza ceasefire, what does Palestinians’ future look like?

If someone had told me a year ago, that this could happen in the UK I wouldn't have believed it. Now it's all happening very fast. Even if you consider Cummings as the 'career psychopath' he always was, this is a dangerous new level.

A recommended read. It might seem like kreminology of the fringes of US right-wing politics but it’s really about how and why an avant-garde is now the mainstream. This will affect UK politics where the extreme is also now in the ascendant using similar methods. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

A fine and deserved salute to the great Peter Weiss from @tninstitute.bsky.social www.tni.org/en/article/t...

It’s arrived. Looks superb. Don’t wait for the reviews! The great Peter Oborne on form.

Who is writing the budget?

If you like my investigations of the corporate capture of the British state, and analysis of the wider constitutional omnicrisis they're a part of, sign up to my newsletter here: abolishwestminster.substack.com

I also interviewed @zackpolanski.bsky.social about the problems of the British state, and revealed his support for Scottish and Welsh independence: open.substack.com/pub/abolishw...

Today, I revealed that City lobbyists have been seconded into the Treasury under the Labour Party, and that the Treasury wouldn’t tell me whether they are ‘helping’ write Rachel Reeves’ budget: open.substack.com/pub/abolishw...

Dick Cheney’s legacy is that he turned 9/11 from a national tragedy into a global disaster. He did so through a mixture of arrogance, stupidity and greed and blighted the last quarter century.

All the same I’d much rather be an activist than an academic. Also I’d trust an activist more.

Crime reporting at its best www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This by @willoyd.bsky.social is the kind of writing we need at the moment. Democracy's enemies think seriously about the realities of power, and act accordingly. It's one reason they're winning. Democrats have to do the same. www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...

I’ve always thought it was a shame that more women aren’t interested in these topics

Her son, the actor Sam West, leading a protest for Juliette’s organisation Culture Unstained earlier this month

It is way past time for the UK government & the BBC to get off X & for Musk to be treated as a threat to national security. The world's richest man is using his site to promote civil war, ethnic violence & the overthrow of an elected government. You won't win him over with another conference on AI

Great start to important new must read platform: The End of the West is not the End of the World!

Prunella Scales at the first Charter 88 vigil for a democratic constitution also Marina Warner, Margaret Drabble Ian McEwan and I think Julian Barnes...

Is saying that the Jews run the world antisemitic or just vigilant? Tune in for next week's episode of "is it racist to be racist"

South Park has a better, clearer, and more actionable platform than the Democratic Party

Sunder is heroic!

This weekend could exemplify the dynamic. Reform had to concede ugliness of Pochin's comments. May be more careful language. But contrasting perceptions too - they say its not racist to say you hate seeing black faces! - they will call you racist if you even notice all the ads get made in London

This is so well argued and restrained. A must read for all.

Thank you Meredith

Absolutely! And with the 40th anniversary of Charter 88 approaching, and liberal democracy under pressure across the world, democratic renewal should be an urgent cause for progressive politics.

People using these statistics seem to think that 75-80% of adverts should contain no black or Asian people. That would be the case if had an apartheid system (where all ads were all-white or all-black/Asian) In the UK, over half of ads include white people+minorities 3/10 have white people only

If you think calling for a democratic constitution now is "pure fantasy" imagine what it was like in 1988 with an entrenched two-party system that "worked"? This is exactly what we were told when we launched Charter 88.

Elon Musk's out of control X does so much to boost these kinds of antisemitic conspiracy theories, amplifying beyond all measure the hyper-racist factions who flirt with Reform but complain that Reform is too moderate on immigration and racism - and see Farage as submissive to Muslims and Jews

Hilarious🤣 open.substack.com/pub/jaccusep...

And so it begins

Game's back. join.greenparty.org.uk

🔴The Reform Backlash: Caerphilly By-Election Result Shows Nigel Farage’s Party Is Much Weaker Than It Looks Despite widespread media predictions of a Reform victory on Thursday, Farage’s defeat shows his party continues to be overestimated, argues @adambienkov.bsky.social

This is the CEO of my bank!! Hard to believe. His description of chief executive pay is something. @triodosuk.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUiT...

When we picture the Far Right, we still think of the thug. But the world inhabited by someone like James Orr is one of vicar's tea parties, church restorations, village greens. (They then manage to cram AI into this, because Thiel is promising to bankroll the entire project)

Yes, Yes, Yes! Perfectly timed by @georgemonbiot.bsky.social. It's the process not the piece of paper that matters most, if we want the country to belong to us the people. We have to move on from what was manipulated consent www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Great to see @russellscott1.bsky.social shortlisted for a British journalism award for his brilliant @bylinetimes.bsky.social investigations into the VIP lane PPE scandal pressgazette.co.uk/press-gazett...

The Green Party's proposal for a wealth tax on 1% of assets above £10m and 2% on assets above £1bn comes top of our list of tax reforms that Britons would support, with 75% giving it their backing yougov.co.uk/economy/arti...

Stephen Bush on the extraordinary draft legislation which Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp, Matt Vickers, Katie Lam and backbench colleagues have proposed in parliament It is a proposal that would seek to deport around 5% of the resident population, including over a quarter of a million with ILR

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Fabulous on reclaiming the city as ours not the car’s! www.google.com/url?q=https:...