Jane Hayward

Greens Win Gorton We discuss the implication of the Green Party's historic win in last week's Gorton and Denton by-election. We cover the meaning of Manchester, making Britain normal and the ordinary charisma of new Gr...

Here is the long-awaited emergency podcast from me and @profafinlayson.bsky.social on the Gorton & Denton by-election.
You can find this in any app by searching for Culture, Power, Politics.
culturepowerpolitics.org/2026/03/03/g...

Mad about policy, but extra especially mad because we’re all having more fun than they are too!

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🗳️ BREAKING | Greens surge to 2nd (YouGov)

➡️ Ref: 23% (-1)
🟢 Grn: 21% (+4)
🔵 Con: 16% (-2)
🔴 Lab: 16% (-2)
🟠 Lib: 14% (=)

Poll: @YouGov, 1-2 Mar (+/- vs 23 Feb)

Really concerned to hear the Defence Secretary refuse to rule out UK's involvement in future strikes on Iran.

Iraq lessons must be learned.
Further escalation in the Middle East makes us all less safe.

Starmer must rule out UK involvement immediately.

One thing is clear.

Keir Starmer is singularly incapable of standing up to Donald Trump.

and strengthen “our” reactionaries in the name of battering theirs.

Only an egalitarian and internationalist politics can bring either peace or justice. The foreign policy world of Biden and congressional leadership is simply incompatible with such a project.

Reactionaries use violence to dominate others but they also revel in it.

Liberal imperialists don’t take the same pleasure in violence but they do embrace war, as we’re seeing today. War is a structural necessity to maintain global hierarchy.

In the end, they collaborate with…

Honestly, I do think that it’s good on the whole that the UK is more aggressive in its interviewing technique than their American counterparts, but this interview was fairly ridiculous and I think anyone watching it would struggle to think it was a good faith attempt to get to know Polanski.

Sir Keir supports whatever illegal shit the US tells him to

The most unpopular prime minister since records began stands resolutely behind the unprovoked attack on Iran by the two countries that are actively carrying out a genocide in the Middle East.

But please, do elaborate more about "extremism on the Left", Mr Human Rights lawyer KC.

Happy Chinese New Year everyone! 🐎🎆🐎🎆

Britain is getting poorer, and angrier We have become a precariat nation

Britain is getting poorer, and angrier. We have become a precariat nation. By @meadwaj.bsky.social

So happy to see this!

China’s Yangtze River shows signs of remarkable recovery after fishing ban Doubling of fish biomass and rebounding of endangered species shows government measures starting to work, biologists say

Guardian: The Yangtze River in China, which has been in ecological decline for 70 years, is showing signs of recovery due to a sweeping fishing ban.

One biologist said it was the most positive freshwater conservation story seen anywhere in the world in 20 years.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Millionaires of the world, unite! Nobody needs trillionaires

Millionaires of the world, unite!

Brian Eno writes: Nobody needs trillionaires

Our member Phil White had a great chat with @politicsjoe.bsky.social, discussing Davos, democracy and taxing the super-rich.
Catch the full interview here: https://youtu.pulse.ly/trlourlsit

Several copies of the book Islamic China

The book is out! www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

Nearly 400 millionaires and billionaires call for higher taxes on super-rich Mark Ruffalo, Brian Eno and Abigail Disney sign letter timed for WEF in Davos saying wealthy are buying political influence

An open letter, released to coincide with the World Economic Forum in Davos, calls on global leaders attending this week’s conference to close the widening gap between the super-rich and everyone else.

#WEF26 #Davos #TaxTheSuperRich

https://theguardian.pulse.ly/pg9cy42k7g

Nearly 400 millionaires and billionaires demand higher taxes for the super-rich “The super-rich are being given complete free rein,” the letter says, arguing that often unelected figures have “accelerated the breakdown of the planet”

"The statement, signed by high-profile figures including Oscar-nominated actor Mark Ruffalo and musician Brian Eno, warns that the extremely wealthy are having a negative effect on the world."

"The problem is is that wealth is magnetic — it attracts other wealth." - PMUK's Brian Eno

#TaxTheSuperRich

I am!

Some prices matter much more than others for livelihoods, production and distribution. They are systemically significant and key in the fight for affordability and against inflation.

So proud to win the Nelson & Freeman Prize for our paper! Thank you ICC! 🥳

academic.oup.com/icc/article/...

Libs of TikTok Not me. I would never try to run over law enforcement officers. Interesting admission though... Tobita Chow @tobitac She could have been any one of us. lan Miles Cheong @ianmiles No, I don't think so. Most people are not stupid or suicidal enough to drive into police officers. Tobita Chow @tobitac She could have been any one of us. Dinesh D'Souza @DineshDSou... Do you habitually drive your car into law enforcement personnel? Tobita Chow @tobitac She could have been any one of us. Katie Miller @KatieMiller Replying to @tobitac No, sane Americans aren't protesting ICE and

I went a little viral on the Bad Site with nearly 20k replies and QTs mostly from the right—some fascist luminaries and many randos. The reactions are all boring but I got interested in why so many of them felt the need to respond. It’s as if “she could have been any one of us” is triggering

Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

Let's choose kindness in 2026.

youtu.be/lopMMkz0law

Exclusive: Cabinet Minister Brands Zack Polanski A 'Con Artist' In Outspoken Attack Steve Reed also suggested the Green Party leader is immoral.

A Christmas Day tale in 3 parts.

1) Steve Reed - Housing Minister - launches a Xmas Day attack.

2) It's the Labour Governments usual shit.

3) join.greenparty.org.uk

Merry Xmas!

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/exclus...

YouTube video by Bold Politics with Zack Polanski Why The Media Is Looking At Economics All Wrong | James Meadway | Zack Polanski

Full interview on YouTube at 7pm: Full episode with @meadwaj on YouTube at 7pm: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RZG...

Why Rory Stewart might need to self reflect...

When the electorate perceives both major parties as frauds who have far more in common with each other than with the public, is that… wrong

It is not a familiar dilemma to British voters because democracy and stability have not seemed mutually exclusive. Our multiparty system allows peaceful rivalry between different political and economic interests. The opposition can become the government without bloodshed. The defeated regime yields without fear of retribution. Under conditions of rules-based competition, democracies can accommodate dissent before it turns to revolution. That makes them innovative and resilient. It is how free societies outperformed tyrannies and won the 20th century. Vengeful dictatorship wants a rematch. Putin thinks he can turn the west's strength into its greatest vulnerability.

This is a pretty incredible summary of what British democracy is, is it not. Is this how it works, in your experience? Is it how it has worked in the last ten years alone.

Putin thinks democracy is the west's weakness. We have to prove him wrong Rafael Behr The Russian strategy of exporting chaos to provoke extremism only works if liberals succumb to cynicism and despair Wed 17 Dec 2025 06.00 GMT

If cynicism and despair at our hilariously bent and openly insulting democracy is the enemy, then what would we say the 2019 and 2024 election campaigns were, given they delivered fraudulent governments that reached hated public enemy status within 18 months.