It never ceases to amaze me how many election pundits don’t understand the dynamics of First Past the Post, and how vote-splitting works under the UK’s electoral system. John Curtice does. Listen to John Curtice.

If you want to stop Reform at the next GE, there really is now only one option #VoteGreen 💚

perhaps the most curious fact from our long read today on the Mandelson scandal www.ft.com/content/a829...

Just voted Green — hoping they win big and that some other left independents get in too

One from the archives. "If you don't like the changes that we've made, I say the door is open, and you can leave"

I'm Lead Judge of the James Tait Black Prize for Fiction, awarded at University of Edinburgh since 1919 and due to be announced this month. But the university is currently withholding 100% of my pay for participating in a marking and assessment boycott. So, at present, there will be no prize.

Our breakdown of Wes Streeting’s donors has been doing the rounds online for the last year. Now we’ve updated it – with another £55,000 from OPD Group.

Keir Starmer’s niece was made a candidate in a safe Labour council ward over two sitting black female councillors, it has been reported

This petition is nearly at 50,000 signatures! 💪Can you sign and share so we can reach 50k TODAY?

BBC News leading all its bulletins on demands by former Government advisor Lord Robertson for more defence spending, without at any point mentioning his current paid senior role for US defence lobbyists

Current status of the Strait of Hormuz dispute

Let's highlight a CRAL project! @lucyjones.bsky.social carried out a project focused on language and LGBTQIA+ youth, analysing marginalised identities through an intersectional lens. From this came the LGBTQIA+ Youth Manifesto and the language guide. 🏳️‍🌈 #uoncral #language #lgbtq #researchproject

It is being reported on the ground in Cuba that everyone on a ventilator at this hospital died overnight. As a Cuban, I'm devastated.

The BBC will be appalled to learn that the BBC also put content warnings on Wuthering Heights

Here is the letter where govt say they must pay Mandelson £75k in case of an "Employment Tribunal " - which is nonsense because he had no Employment Tribunal claim (needing 2yrs service) . Last line is real reason, to stop "Peter goes public on some of his claims"

90 labour mps abstained on whether or not to strip british citizens of trial by jury. they abstained. only 10 opposed.

Last year Jessica's son got ill after playing in the River Thames. Her message to Environment Minister? Don't let our children get ill. Stop the illegal sewage. If you agree sign our petition: vist.ly/4txpt

Everyone should watch Dirty Business. Apart from being excellent drama, it shows how elites are devastating our environment. We need to do something about it, now. www.channel4.com/programmes/d...

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

1908: the Lancet, one of the most respected scientific journals, calls for 18 age limit on reading in bed amidst a moral panic surrounding children becoming "addicted" to novels, which were "designed to keep kids hooked" and destroy their attention/mental health

Currently British Media willful blindness is failing to see any sort of connection between these two events

Starmer blamed his decision to appoint Mandelson on the vetting. Cooper blamed her decision to proscribe Palestine Action on the advice. Starmer blamed his decision to ennoble Matthew Doyle on the vetting. And now Kinnock blames the latest u-turn on the advice Spot the pattern?

The Greenland ice cap is losing around 30 MILLION tonnes of ice an hour due to the climate crisis - 20% MORE than what scientists originally thought. No time to waste. Stopfossifuels. #ActOnClimate #climate #energy #renewables #go100re

Epstein is the sub- plot... My post. open.substack.com/pub/annpetti...

For those that can’t remember tiny bits of news from September 2025: Lord Mandelson failed security services vetting & agency officials went on the record saying Mandelson was a bad idea. This was ignored by UK Gov/PM.

This interview with the wonderful Ash Sarkar has already had more than 100k views…If you don’t have time to watch - buy the book: The Global Casino. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xu3V...

Palantir is using medical records to help ICE target its victims in the US. And Wes Streeting is pitch-rolling for Farage to do the same in the UK.

Starmer is wrong to opt for suppliance on the basis that the UK has no leverage over the US. British holdings of Treasuries have ballooned and surpassed China's. European holdings overall are major.

I wrote an article for Critical Quarterly about an unpublished manuscript by the critic Ian Watt, which bears an uncanny resemblance to Marshall McLuhan‘s The Gutenberg Galaxy. You can view it for free here onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...

I wrote an article for Critical Quarterly about an unpublished manuscript by the critic Ian Watt, which bears an uncanny resemblance to Marshall McLuhan‘s The Gutenberg Galaxy. You can view it for free here onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...

Molly in the Blackburne Arms, Liverpool, 1972, photo by Tricia Porter.

'In total, the 20 universities spent £8.3 million on remuneration for their vice-chancellors. The accounts also reveal they collectively let go almost 7,000 staff in the same year – costing £124.6 million in compensation for loss of office.'

We will either end fossil fuel dependency and the predatory extractivist basis of global production, or they will end us through wars and ecological collapse - all at the same time.

This report in Nature on the costs of competing for & administering scientific grants is shocking: "In other words, European taxpayers will have spent more on the funding process than on the funding itself, and the scientific ecosystem has been drained." www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪

the enthusiasm for generative AI would not have been possible without prior decades of capitalist conditioning to view works of art as products, rather than acts of culture and shared human life

The Anglo-Saxon model

If you think that dramatic spikes in ocean temperatures aren’t much of a concern, it’s time to think again. There is no time to wait. #ActOnClimate #climate #energy #heatwave #ClimateBreakdown

Some of my editorial work comes via Reedsy. Over the past year it's become completely overrun by people (I can't call them authors) who are asking for editorial help on manuscripts that have been generated by #AI. Often, what they want is for someone to make the text sound more human.

Wondering how things are going for Elon?

French authorities are taking X to court because Grok is now doing straight up holocaust denial. Gas chambers intended for disinfection, cyanide residue tiny, ‘story’ persists because of taboo against critical examination. (Full translation in alt text)

Exhibition Launch: *Manchester Museum, December 2, 2pm* Come and have a glass of wine (or something more sensible!) while exploring some super interesting artefacts used to predict the future! Funded by the @britishacademy.bsky.social Info: www.museum.manchester.ac.uk/event/the-ar...

An absolute 🤯 at every level

Maybe it's just me, but I find the positive tone of posts like this infuriating. It isn't "good" news. To limit warming to 2 (not 1.5) degrees, emissions must fall by ~8% p.a., every year, from NOW. Fossil fuel use GROWING for ~5 more years would be an unmitigated disaster.

The Soviet-era statue of Friedrich Engels at Tony Wilson Place in Manchester. It was originally installed at Mala Pereschepyna in central Ukraine and was discarded in a field after the display of Soviet symbols was outlawed in 2015. Engels lived in Manchester and Salford between 1842 and 1869.

URGENT: 6 WEEKS LEFT - We're 743 signatures away from forcing a Government response The UK Government is rolling out freeports and free zones nationwide with billions in taxpayer money, yet operates with an alarming lack of transparency. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...

🚨 BREAKING: The government has tabled their plan to restrict repeat protests. Demonstrations could now banned based on the 'cumulative disruption' that previous protests have caused in the area - regardless of if they have been organised by the same people or not. This is worse than we feared.