Progressive people "must be willing to say, unapologetically, I am a Zionist", Chancellor Rachel Reeves said on Monday "I am a Zionist not in spite of my belief in democracy or freedom and equality, but exactly because of those beliefs"

Yes, again, none of “democracy or freedom and equality” are compatible with systematically destroying a subject populace of non-people who have no rights, that you have conquered and now rule over and murder with total impunity.

Starmer urges Europe’s leaders to curb ECHR to halt rise of far right Exclusive: PM calls for members of European convention on human rights to allow tougher action to protect borders

That's right! We should destroy human rights so that Keir Starmer can win* the next general election!

*Make it even more likely he'll lose by mainstreaming the far right politics he pretends to oppose

Jeez. All tourists - including those from Britain - will have to undergo a social media screening before being allowed entry into the US under new plans being considered by the country's border force

Have you seen anyone saying “Whoops, I personally fucked it very badly indeed with my noisy squealing about cancel culture?”. I haven’t seen anyone, but surely there must be one somewhere.

Oh look it's the centre siding with the far right to ratfuck us all again.

‘Food and fossil fuel production causing $5bn of environmental damage an hour’ UN GEO report says ending this harm key to global transformation required ‘before collapse becomes inevitable’

Food and fossil fuel production causing $5bn of environmental damage an hour, says major @unep.org report

- ending this harm key to global transformation required ‘before collapse becomes inevitable’

#climatecrisis
Story by me
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pete_wharmby_books & ••• HADLEY FREEMAN Wes Streeting must stand up to the ADHD activists I can help with the minister's review: some people are just confused by life Hadley Freeman pete_wharmby_books Ah, as expected the right wing press (and Freeman's pipeline from the Guardian op-Ed pages to the Times is worth looking into) is now piling on, suggesting that these scary ADHD activists are just trying to ruin things for everyone. Not, like, try to improve people's self esteem and sense of what is going on. 2025 is so horrifyingly, predictably *boring*

then, the transphobes , feeling victorious at how many people they have made unhappy and despairing in the previous week, move on to anything else that has a spectrum and the possibility of more colours than they can conceive - such hateful people - they cannot understand anything that is not THEM

Trevor Phillips with Greg Dyke, Melanie Phillips and Steve Richards

Britain is the best country because nowhere else could a show exist with a presenter who had Jeff Epstein's best pal as his best man, a man who resigned over the BBC's Iraq War coverage, a genocide denier cited by a mass murderer, & the dad of a serving govt minister all yucking it up of a Sunday.

It says a lot that This lady was cited in the manifesto of Anders Breivik and she is still invited to be on TV over 15 years later

I know this tweet is a few days old, but I’m wondering why you think that believing taxation only exists to curb inflation would propel someone to argue for limitless spending. It’s theoretically (yet not practically) possible but it’s also not really what MMT necessarily advocates at all.

History suggests that things don't go well when white nationalists are warning against "civilizational erasure" in Europe

“Former ISIS member… backed by Israel” would be a fun one to spring on a panel of experts, live on TV. On you go lads, bear in mind everyone is watching.

it's weird growing up seeing the huge growth of the information age and the rapid development of software, suddenly screeching to a halt, not because the technology doesn't exist, but because the incentives aren't aligned between the big established players and their users anymore

Streeting orders review into mental health and ADHD diagnosis The health secretary said the aim was to tackle a rising demand for services and the increased pressure on the NHS.

Hey Wes, I can save you the trouble. The reason a lot of people are struggling with their mental health in the UK is it fucking sucks here. Aside from usual late-stage capitalism stuff, everything that could be cool about living here has been systematically made worse by people like you, you cunt.

GB News now broadcasting calls to remove the ethnic minority MPs from parliament Connor Tomlinson c @Con_Tomlinson The British people are not represented by the sons and daughters of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh using Parliament to bicker about how best to import millions of their kin from the Subcontinent. We should ban those without native British ancestry from being MPs. We should be closing our doors to the third world, without anyone in Parliament putting pressure from foreign lobbies or ethnic loyalties over what is in our national interest.

A prime example of how the far right can never be appeased. Give them whatever they demand and they’ll bank it, then use it as a new base camp to strike out for more and worse.

• INTRODUCTION Based on overwhelming evidence, we have previously concluded that exposure of susceptible babies and children to acetaminophen (paracetamol) causes many if not most cases of autism spectrum disorder (autism). 1,2,3, 4 Further, we concluded that

The new “journal” launched by RFK jr and his merry band of human carcinogens where they declare not only is a link definitive or even that it’s causal, but that it causes “many if not most” cases of autism.

Hello, foreign oligarchs and corporations! Please come and sue the UK for billions | George Monbiot The case of a planned Cumbrian coalmine shows how governments around the world are being threatened by litigation in shadowy offshore courts, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

I wish more people were aware of this. Considering the scale of the threat, the media's near-silence is both remarkable and culpable.
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While obviously Lammy's proposal of scrapping many jury trials is getting the headlines, it seems odd how little attention his proposal to scrap the automatic right to appeal is getting. That seems like quite a big thing to be honest, especially for poorer and more marginalised defendants. #r4today

I'm excited to announce this new study, published in The Lancet Planetary Health, which explores public support for degrowth and ecosocialist transformation. The findings are quite surprising.

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That’s good and bad because some of the improvements in the way we could think about economics are genuinely huge. But if not reigned in or caveated, you can be led down the garden path and sound downright silly.

Zack doesn’t do a good job in this interview but I hope he’ll be back to represent the position stronger in future. MMT as a description of how fiat economies actually work monetarily is basically undeniable, but the ideas that follow often trend along revolutionary lines.

Jury trials scrapped for crimes with sentences of less than three years The reforms are being brought in to tackle unprecedented delays in the Crown Court.

' A defendant's right to a jury trial would be restricted to prevent them from "gaming the system", Lammy also said. '

WTF is that supposed to mean?!?

Jurors have an absolute right to acquit a defendant based on their conscience - THAT IS THE SYSTEM

#BlueLabour 🤮

According to what metric?

He went to London School of Economics and studied Economics and Mathematics. He then worked for a massive multinational Bank. All before the YouTube channel. I don’t know which of his ideas you disagree with but I’m not sure mocking him being called an economist is a particularly objective position.

Why? I mean there are some terrible economists out there who still called themselves economists. It feels like in 2025 you can allow a guy with a huge audience whose channel is called Gary’s Economics to be called an economist by someone without losing it…

To be fair - Murphy and Stevenson has their strengths, and seem to understand some core truths between them. I went to see Paul Johnson give a talk once and when somebody asked “if you were the chancellor what would be your *ONE* change” … he said stamp duty. Econ is so obviously self selecting.

The resignation of the chair of the OBR is all over the front pages - but we're more interested in how the OBR vastly underestimated the impact of austerity on our economy and how it continues to lock us in to a cycle of cuts and low growth.

Ironically Apple’s lack of too intrusive an AI eco-system is probably a massive USP at this point.

SAS ‘shot toddlers in their beds’, Afghanistan inquiry told Special forces soldier feared the elite regiment would “go down the sewer” unless he blew the whistle

👉 NEW -- SAS "shot toddlers in their beds", Afghanistan enquiry told

By Richard Norton-Taylor

Special forces soldier feared the elite regiment would “go down the sewer” unless he blew the whistle

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Google search for Rahmanullah Lakanwal

@chadbourn.bsky.social hard to tell if this is real or mad conspiracy stuff but right after Rahmanullah Lakanwal was named as the Washington shooter there was a huge spike in Google searches for his name. No problem. But a few hours *before* the shooting there was 36% of that peak traffic. Weird!

“The BBC continues to be really stupid, I think, and there’s no cure for stupidity.”

Salman Rushdie criticises the BBC’s self-censorship in a Reith lecture, saying it hands ammunition to those who want to take down public broadcasting.

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