Mike McCarthy

At least 27 killed in Israeli bombing of shelter in Gaza City, rescuers say Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians flee from southern city of Rafah in one of war’s biggest mass displacements

Another day another Israeli war crime - and yet another nail in the coffin of the West's claim to be civilised... www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

The @metpoliceuk really don’t get to tell you whether you can exercise your inalienable right to free assembly. Previous generations fought for this. We won’t give it away.

"So Mr Musk, Mr Zuckerberg and Mr Bezos what was it about a convicted felon and serial womaniser that made you prostrate yourself before him?"

Cheap history books klaxon! On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe is available for just 99p on Kindle all this month. I’m sorry for the self-promotion, but so glad that these important and marginalised histories are being made easily accessible to wide audience. 🗃️

Sophie Smith · Sleeping Women: On the Pelicot trial Gisèle Pelicot doesn’t conceive of her now ex-husband or the other men who raped her as ‘bad apples’, aberrations...

‘Gisèle Pelicot’s decision is astonishingly brave, not least because the culture she is condemning also produced the lawyers who have been questioning her and the journalists covering the case.’

Sophie Smith on the Pelicot trial:

If you swallow the rubbish about Reform representing the working class you're a mug.

Nigel Farage: Dulwich College
Richard Tice: Uppingham School
Zia Yusuf: Hampton School
Rupert Lowe: Radley College
Nick Candy: Epsom College

They're laughing at you.

A meme with native Americans about to a immigration raid on a group of settlers.

Here's the mighty Linda Smith on Packet of Three way back in 1991. Where she was introduced by the mighty Henry Normal - who's coming to the Gulbenkian to do the Linda Smith Lecture tomorrow night.
thegulbenkian.co.uk/events/linda...

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.

ICC issues arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu for alleged Gaza war crimes Warrants for Israeli PM and former defence minister put them at risk of detention if they go to some other countries

The international lawyer who leads the UK government is selling weapons to the war criminal who lead's Israel's

www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...

"It's the job of central bankers to operate monetary policy as a ‘worker disciplining device’.

When prices rise, workers have to pay so that capitalists don’t."

My piece on today's increase in inflation - and what it means for workers.
open.substack.com/pub/gracebla...