Every year, $100s billions that should be funding schools, hospitals & social care is disappearing into tax havens to fuel crime, conflict & new private jets. The UK facilitates 26% of this global tax abuse, and has the power to expose it. Demand they act. taxjustice.eaction.org.uk/iP_tax-haven...

I can only imagine how frustrating it must be for Labour that voters refuse to recognise the difference between the government's progressive, well-intentioned racism and the destructive, toxic racism of Reform and the far-right.

These are not legitimate political tactics justified by the threat of Reform. These are insane fog-of-war actions of the kind that are entirely outside the boundaries of acceptable conduct and that need to be officially recognised, condemned and punished.

Pretty sure it’s racism which is tearing Britain apart

Tommy Robinson is claiming credit for the language/policy being used by the Labour government (about deporting people found to be refugees once their home country is deemed safe)

This is the politics of blackmail. The alternative is not a Reform government. The alternative is maintaining our international commitments to being a compassionate nation

This is as bad as anything proposed by Reform. Leaving refugees in permanent limbo and unable to build a new life in the UK would be a complete abdication of our humanitarian responsibilities www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Labour are now the "darker forces" Mahmood is scaremongering about. Depriving people who have fled unimaginable horror the ability to rebuild their lives in safety and security, which this does, is sickening. Labour is sickening. #r4today www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Morocco is killing dogs ahead of the World Cup. It’s cruel. This is what FIFA gets hosts to do—kill animals, move unhoused people, erect barriers around neighborhoods they deem in poor taste—FIFA compels countries to commit the inhumane and inexcusable in the name of the beautiful game.

22 authors in a new OA peer-reviewed article in Soc of Sport Journal: Israel is committing *athleticide* in Gaza, "an indispensable component of the overall genocidal campaign enforced by the Israeli settler colonial regime and bankrolled by the US." journals.humankinetics.com/view/journal...

How is AI *really* impacting jobs? Henley Chiu, the CTO of Revealera, a jobs data analysis firm, analyzed 180 million jobs listings in 2024 and 2025, in an effort to find out. Chiu found an: -8% drop in all jobs postings -~30% drop in art, photography, writing jobs -22% drop in journalism jobs

Never underestimate mediocre white men's ability to solicit sycophancy from other thoroughly mediocre white men. It's why they hate diversity - it shows how inadequate they are and would be without the power structure they hold so dear.

In 1996 I did a little in internship at BBC Westminster. At the time, Robbie Gibb was one of the producers there. Even in that period, he was self evidently a pro-Tory apparatchik, who made no attempt to hide his agenda from his colleagues or even from the little work experience kid.

NEW The letter the BBC could send back to Trump A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim By me. Enjoy. emptycity.substack.com/p/the-letter...

Jeffrey Epstein, two days after Michael Cohen pleaded guilty in 2018: “you see, i know how dirty donald is. my guess is that non lawyers ny biz people have no idea. what it means to have your fixer flip”

The BBC can retrieve something from this mess (and show US broadcasters what a spine is) by sending Donald Trump a four letter response: “See you in court!” www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...

Trump is a convicted felon who has been found guilty of sexual assault and has been held liable for fraud. The greatest thing ever to come out of this would be for the BBC to show some backbone and take him on. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

“Do something … not for me. I’ll be executed on Tuesday. Do it for the other 32 Egyptians. They’re going to execute us all.” A piece for all the shills pushing Saudi Arabia's PR-driven reform narrative. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

People who benefit from the status quo and who dismiss our demands for action as unrealistic, know this: We’re not going to politely acquiesce in our own extinction forever www.theguardian.com/environment/...

👏🏼 I love these ads, part of @badvertising.bsky.social's campaign calling on @london.gov.uk to ban advertising by airlines and other high polluting businesses on TFL. TFL should not be promoting climate-hostile businesses at a time of #ClimateBreakdown. #FlyLess Photo: @crisortunity.bsky.social

C'était ouf. Ils sont géniaux sur scène et le public était bien chaud. Ça fait longtemps que j'avais pas autant transpiré en concert 🥵. On va aller reposer me ms jambes de vieille personne maintenant.

Every single aspect of Dubai that I hear Dubai people enthusing about is a bad thing.

Incredible that Robbie Gibb - most influential person on BBC board by many accounts and from journalists I speak in BBC - was involved in setting up GB News. GB News of course has breached Ofcom rules on *multiple* occasions - no sign of resignations though www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Written before the BBC resignations but this by @arusbridger.bsky.social is really worth reading. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...

@eddavey.libdems.org.uk speaking sense over BBC 'there are people on the right of British politics who are following Trump's America + don't believe in a free, independent press...+ strong BBC... we are deeply worried that we're seeing right wing populism damaging our institutions like the BBC'

Six people died from tampered Tylenol and the company pulled 30 million bottles off the market. ChatGPT is accused of urging seven people towards suicide, and OpenAI just assures us they’re still working out the kinks. Billions in investment, zero accountability.

“Fifa is a parastate that acts like a parasite, treating World Cup hosts like its own private Vegas buffet.” 🔥🔥🔥🔥

Important protest calling out the #ManCity owners for the atrocities and war crimes taking place in Sudan. Solidarity from NUFCFAS

'"If there is any way to terrify a despot, it is by dismantling the very conditions that allowed him to accumulate power.” [Mamdani] was alluding to Donald Trump, but the sentiment also applies to Fifa.' Excellent analysis and advice from @julesboykoff.bsky.social.

A fantastic essay on the FIFA scandal that few know about, and the man best placed to expose it.

My latest @theguardian.com: As a genuine soccer fan & generational political talent, freshly elected NYC mayor Zohran Mamdani might be able to achieve the unthinkable: force the FIFA behemoth to share its lucre by targeting its tax exemptions & extreme privilege www.theguardian.com/football/202...

"Tax exemptions allow Fifa to suck vast amounts of money out of its hosts. The majority of the cost of preparing the tournament falls on hosts, while Fifa pockets all the revenue [from] broadcasting & marketing rights"said @ncgeehan.bsky.social @fairsq.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Perhaps the dumbest take in the last few days has been British people, including people on the left, loudly proclaiming we are too vicariously interested in New York local politics.

The Football Association of Ireland has been instructed to call on UEFA to suspend the Israel Football Association. Irish clubs win a landslide vote at an Extraordinary General Meeting today. A small but significant victory for democratic accountability in the game.

“… It is literally the same people. Club owner. Government. Football match. Bodies. The choice is simple. You either care or you don’t.” Important piece by @barneyronay.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/football/202...

"Qatar's cynicism is unbelievable," writes @frankctangberg.bsky.social on the eve of the World Social Summit. "It is difficult to imagine a country where the government's policies stand in sharper contrast to the UN's ambitions for decent work than Qatar." www.panoramanyheter.no/amnesty-gulf...

"The final part of his statement does more than recognising the legitimacy of President Trump, it endorses his political programme and actions and argues others should support them too." Professor Miguel Maduro on Infantino's breach of FIFA's code of ethics www.nytimes.com/athletic/678...

Many thanks to @billlaw49.bsky.social for putting my contribution to his excellent Arab Digest newsletter outside of their paywall. A piece on the staunchly misinformed criticism of the ban on Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters. arabdigest.org/sample-newsl...

It’s absurd that private jet fuel is still untaxed when ordinary people are seeing living costs go up and up. I joined We Are Possible to call on the Chancellor to end this unfairness & make the richest pay their fair share, to support our public services & a healthy environment

"The ban exists because a cross-border ethnic and religious war is being waged between irrevocably opposed sides." a) That's not true, it's a reference to the context of the ban. b) It's a gross misrepresentation of that context. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

If we had functioning political systems that served the interests and wellbeing of ordinary people, Chat GPT would be shut down as a danger to public health. But our political systems serve the interests of the egotistical billionaires foisting this crap on us edition.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.

For anyone still tempted to take Dominic Cummings at all seriously, he's now an advocate of Donald Trump-style open racism.

Dear GOD if you want to save money in the asylum system 1. LET ASYLUM SEEKERS WORK 2. FAST TRACK STATUS FOR EVERYONE FROM CLEARLY UNDAFE COUNTRIES like Sudan, Syria, etc 3. Run an asylum accommodation system that is NOT FOR PROFIT #r4today

The history of humankind will contain a chapter wherein a small group of white men from colonising nations known as “shareholders” sacrificed civilisation’s future for some stock buybacks and a company car And it won’t judge those who profited. It will judge those who allowed this

This is extraordinary.

A folly built on redundant leviathan piles, and bones: ”Fifteen members of the Huwaitat tribe who protested against their eviction were sent to prison, some for up to 50 years, and three others were sentenced to death, according to human rights observers.”

“At the marina, excavations by late last year had dug out 100mn cubic metres of soil, the equivalent of 40 Great Pyramids of Giza.“ The “marina” is more than a kilometre inland.

Monumental hubris, every detail is jaw dropping. ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...