Josh White

On Twitter I once had a long conversation with an American about Smethwick in Birmingham being a "no-go zone for whites". He was insistent, despite the fact that I lived in Smethwick and he'd never set foot on the same continent.

The ECHR needs practical reform Conservatives who say the UK should withdraw from the ECHR have the wrong solution to a political problem

As the Tories promise to review the UK’s commitment to the ECHR, lawyer @davidallengreen.bsky.social says, “Oh no, not again!”
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To be clear this is a proposition by the insanely corrupt and broken EHRC. It's not law, it's not guidance, it would lose in court. Don't panic, don't do it

Leftist Success Story The Case of Novara

What Novara has achieved without corporate backing is a testament to technological change and the decline of traditional news. It’s a millennial left response to status quo media, made possible by YouTube and other platforms. @jtwhitenoise.bsky.social, for @battlegroundeu.bsky.social .

If you're interested in Pope Francis's legacy when it comes to tax policy, I recommend this piece by my Law360 colleague @jtwhitenoise.bsky.social

@bphillipsonmp.bsky.social I want you to explain to me why I should suddenly turn my life upsidedown and stop using public spaces - that I need for work and participating in public life - when I've used them every day for the last 10 years. Have you ever even spoken to a trans person before?

Something to watch.

Germany Forms New Gov't With Plans To Cut Corporate Taxes - Law360 Tax Authority German political parties the Christian Democrats and the Social Democrats reached a coalition government agreement, including terms for corporate tax cuts and support for the global minimum corporate ...

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Is Rachel Reeves constrained by the City? Is the City really stopping Rachel Reeves from doing what Labour wants, or is she just using it as a convenient excuse for her neoliberal austerity? This is the audio version: This is the transc...

A narrative is recited almost everywhere: that Rachel Reeves is being "forced" to cut benefits, and is faced with "hard choices" or "no choice". This story, a staple of neoliberal doctrine, is completely false, as @richardjmurphy.bsky.social explains: www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/03...

News for British Muslims 5Pillars and the Far Right

"Even the interviews with the far-right were Hussain’s attempt to de-mystify the men and women who demonised his community. Perhaps this endeavour revealed more about those individuals than 5Pillars."

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Nationalism is Back The New British Right

Britain is more broken than ever. Josh White, on the rise of Nigel Farage’s far-right Reform UK party and how a negligent, neoliberal Labour government opened the door for them.

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Scientists aiming to bring back woolly mammoth create woolly mice

Life is a series of disappointments.

Line plot showing percent agreeing that the best way to run the country would be to have a strong leader who does not have to bother with parliament or elections. The data show that Gen Z are the least likely to agree with the statement.

We've asked the 'Strong Leader' question eight times in the British Election Study Internet panel since 2016. Not only is the % of Gen Z supporting dictators much lower than reported by the Times (13% in 2024 vs 52%). Gen Z are the *least* likely generation to support a strong leader.

The Erdoğan Effect From Gezi Park to Rojava

Welcome to Hearing Aid, the new Battleground column dedicated to field recording and found political sounds. Every fortnight, I'll explore new ways of using original audio in political commentary. The first edition focuses on Turkey's troubled relationship with the Kurds.

Saw @jtwhitenoise.bsky.social remark that the UK grooming gangs scandal could be Starmer's equivalent to Corbyn's Labour antisemitism scandal.

No matter how much he does/has done to remedy it, it will never be enough for his opponents.

Tories Are Dead 2024 UK Election Diary

If the Tories were a vegetable, they would’ve been composted years ago. Not in UK politics, where rotten parties stick around long after they’re past due. Announcing Josh White's Tories Are Dead spoken word LP, and why Nigel Farage got the most out of the 2024 election.

Same War Everywhere Aperture Priorities Contact Sheet #25

To many Italians, Gaza and Giorgia Meloni are increasingly indistinguishable. Even if Italy isn’t involved in the war in the same ways as the United States, it doesn’t have to be. Yours truly on Israel/Palestine protest politics in Torino.

Jewish Left Media Why Vashti Matters

Right-wing critics will claim the platform is unrepresentative of British Jews, but this misses the point: conservative media does not speak for Jews who oppose this war of annihilation. @jtwhitenoise.bsky.social, on why Vashti Media has a growing following.

Amnesty International Finds Israel Is Committing Genocide in Gaza Israeli and American denials ring hollow in the face of the overwhelming evidence Amnesty presents supporting the case for genocide charges

Israeli and American denials ring hollow in the face of the overwhelming evidence Amnesty presents supporting the case for genocide charges

Amnesty International Finds Israel Is Committing Genocide in Gaza

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Anti-Assad protest. Berlin, August 2018.

Donald Trump didn’t win by a historic landslide. It’s time to nip that lie in the bud | Mehdi Hasan In 2024, we have a new post-election lie – Trump didn’t just win, Republicans say, but he won big. He won a landslide. That’s false

"Trump won the crucial blue wall states... by 231,000 votes? So if just 116,000 voters across those three swing states – or 0.7% of the total – had switched from Trump to Harris, it is the vice-president who would have won the electoral college … and the presidency" - me for the Guardian:

The Disposable Newspaper Why Metro Thrived

It's the biggest newspaper in Britain. If you could call it one. @jtwhitenoise.bsky.social, on the peculiar Metro, and why the freesheet tabloid puts its politics in the background.

Difficult to describe what a dangerous moment we are in.

The owner of Twitter/richest man in the world/closest adviser to the next US president is promoting a far-right Tommy Robinson (!) documentary to his 200 million followers.

This is the mainstreaming of violent, Islamophobic fascism.

Christo Nationalism…..

Farm Offensive Look at how the newspapers describe the farmers' marches and you'll notice a very different attitude to their usual reports on protests.

NEW | Considering press coverage of the farmers' protests...

FARM OFFENSIVE
Look at how the newspapers describe the farmers' marches and you'll notice a very different attitude to their usual reports on protests.

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Sacre bleu!