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Got to see the brilliant and inspirational Power Station film last night in Hackney. A beautiful toolkit for activism and people power ✊🏿✊🏽✊🏻 youtu.be/TaoJzRiZ25s?...

It’s increasingly clear that convicted Russian influencer Nathan Gill was a senior member of Farage’s entourage. (Banks and Wigmore were also in and out of the Russian embassy sharing FBI files, RT talking points, and discussing gold and diamond privatisation deals)

REVEALED: Donald Trump has picked Tony Blair for central role in Gaza ‘peace plan’… …but in our inaugural investigation for @thenerve_news, we reveal extensive previously unreported links to Israeli defence, media & tech. 🧵 1/ www.thenerve.news/p/tony-blair...

Finally hit middle age, middle class, and middle England all on the same night.

Odd that this isn’t top of the news headlines like every other Reform story.

Some discourse on the other site led me to this typically outstanding Emily Witt essay, which is both worth your time and IMHO not why Trump won www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

3/ Tech fascism in a nutshell: “Computers are so much more rule-based, controllable, fixable, and comprehensible than any human will ever be. As many political schools of thought do, these technolibertarians make a philosophy out of a personality defect.“ She wrote this in 2000!

9/24/45: Roberto Rossellini's Rome, Open City From back when everybody understood that fascism was bad More: @kristinmjones.bsky.social: www.wsj.com/articles/mas... Rosenbaum: jonathanrosenbaum.net/2022/08/rome... @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social: www.theguardian.com/film/article...

Being a trust fund baby can unleash incredible superpowers in adulthood.

Yes 👇🏼

Seriously if Labour - *Labour* - is going to tacit condone the far right what is the point of them? No wonder the worst people feel emboldened

Two very important graphs. Net migration reached record levels in 2023 - and has since halved. The vast majority of arrivals comprises students and workers. Arrivals in small boats and asylum seekers - less than 5%. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Rasmus Jarlov, chair of Denmark’s defence committee: “Denmark yesterday announced our biggest defence investment ever. We will buy air defence for 8 billion euros, and it will all come from European producers. It has been a strong political desire to buy from reliable and non-threatening partners.”

Unfortunately their inability to understand the signals and communicate them to their audiences means understanding will be replaced by the agendas of whoever is talking about the shooting.

The fall of Mandelson is first cross-party celebration since the vaccine. Remain, Leave, right, left: united at last.

Folks, as someone who watched an enormous amount of graphic footage in my time as a journalist and developed PTSD because of it, please do not watch the Charlie Kirk footage. Trust me. Once it's seared into your memory you cannot delete it.

While in office, Johnson appears to have held a secret meeting with Peter Thiel, the billionaire who founded the controversial US data firm Palantir, months before it was given a role managing NHS data. theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Some journos need to understand the difference between ‘revenue’ and ‘investment’. Byline Times runs at a profit on revenue. A lot of the media, including Press Gazette, only functions because some oligarch burns money on them

Odd that Tice isn’t subject to the same scrutiny.

When centrists adopt far-right rhetoric, they don’t make themselves stronger. They make themselves look inauthentic, legitimise the far right, and shift the political debate onto terrain defined by their opponents. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Social media algorithms prioritise engagement, not accuracy. That means the most aggravating and divisive content dominates public discourse. Politics is filtered through this distorted lens, not through truth.

Not a single Reform UK MP attended today's Commons statement on child rape gangs.

These fuckers hate Democracy.

Odd that the media is never interested in Richard Tice’s vast wealth.

Former IDF undercover special ops officer and now media personality Aaron Cohen leveraged the mass shooting of children at a church to tout his AI mass surveillance and threat detection product. Cohen previously infiltrated and disrupted the pro-Palestinian anti-genocide encampment at UCLA in 2024.

Establishment media casually priming the population for mass deportations.

YouGov (Aug 26-27): Reform: 29 (-1) Labour: 19 (-1) Taliban: 40 (+40)

The news / media information ecosystem is now so fucked that we’ve completely normalised doing deals with the Taliban.

New post just out: "The financial crisis theory of everything" Why the 2008 crash was the WW1 of our generation that led to nearly all of the problems we have today - from the rise of the radical right to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (£/free trial) open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...

‘Are​ we, as Richard Seymour suggests, “in the early days of a new fascism”? In 𝘋𝘪𝘴𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘕𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘮, Seymour argues that in trying to understand the new far right, we have been looking in the wrong places.’ @trillingual.bsky.social on far-right populism: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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The Five Questions Nigel Farage is Never Asked About Brexit, Trump and Russia – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2024/06/19/t...

Putin bombed a US factory yesterday.

Sure… let’s put the country’s critical infrastructure into the hands of a dangerous billionaire sociopath. Sounds like the implausible storyline from a long forgotten 1980s sci-fi movie, yet here we are.

I’m no security, defence, or geopolitical expert but my instinct is that Russia will instigate a conventional ‘hot’ war against Europe in the next 5 years. Possibly sooner.

🔴Robert Jenrick and the Conservative Party’s Embrace of ‘Blood and Soil’ Nationalism The British right is adopting an increasingly extreme form of ethnic identity politics, while failing to explain what the rest of us should be so worried about, argues @jdportes.bsky.social

It’s Reservoir Dogs. No contest. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/au...

EXCLUSIVE WIRED has learned that law firms across the country are working together to file hundreds of lawsuits against Roblox in the coming weeks on behalf of parents who are accusing the company of facilitating the sexual exploitation and grooming of their kids. www.wired.com/story/is-rob...

Moscow is demanding that Ukraine “accepts reality” and withdraws from territory Russia hasn’t been able to conquer after 11 years of war and 1 million casualties because they refuse to accept the reality that Russia can’t conquer Donetsk.

Remember: If we allow ourselves to fall into fatalism, or wallow in disappointment, or become resigned to what is rather than what should be, we will lose the long game. The greatest enemy of positive social change is cynicism about what can be changed.

Very telling that so many of these Reform folks admire fascist countries. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The meeting was a disaster for everyone except two people. Trump got his photo op and his ego boost. Putin got his photo op, whitewashing of war crimes and no sanctions. No one in Ukraine, Europe or the United States benefited in any way.

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.