Abby Innes

We have agreed that attempting to maintain a habitable planet is not in shareholders' interests.

If you needed anymore proof of what a nerd I have become, I find this extremely interesting. 👇
Seriously, in times of DOGE-mania, it matters.

‘Hic’…

Safe Money!
Fire the bureaucrats!
Unleash Britain!

Oh.

It begs the question of why: what do they now think of these services and how they should be run? 🤔

A party which isn't even interested in talking about the most important public service to voters is not a party serious about returning to government.

1937 Germany would like its propaganda machine back

Hard agree - there are very vivid examples of why the disappearance of a functioning centre right option in a system which props up the two largest parties every single day, when the news reports on the Trump administration.

Late neoliberal Britain…the original vanguard party reduced to an extinct movement regime, kept alive by little more than the sponsors of the interests most threatened by change. Until they recant their economics, Trumpism on a budget is apparently all they’ve got left.

Oh God, i suspect that’s closer to the mark from this perspective…

a black and white photo of two men in military uniforms standing next to each other in front of a filing cabinet . ALT: a black and white photo of two men in military uniforms standing next to each other in front of a filing cabinet .

Also, you need to be able to climb up a curtain 🌻

“If I was to hand you a list of centre-right parties that have beaten the radical right at their own game, I’d hand you a blank sheet of paper.” Terrific piece, this

No idea on the last, but as a matter of logic it sounds like full equality between ‘races’, otherwise known as being ‘a normal human being’ and ‘not a racist’ ❤️

The executive branch calling the enforcement of the law by judges "insurrection" is a five-alarm fire for democracy.

Right, that's it. I'm founding a new populist party of the centre called Go Outside!

'WHAT WILL JESUS SAY?' TONY BLAIR, BIG TECH AND THE ISRAEL CONNECTION As Trump announces the former British PM as his choice to help govern Gaza, Carole Cadwalladr investigates the opaque workings of Blair's institute, its funding from friends of Israel – including bill...

Larry Ellison has given nearly half a billion dollars to Tony Blair's institute. Now, why do you think he'd do that..?

Terrific piece by @carolecadwalla.bsky.social at @thenerve.news

Orban and Putin will be pleased…Soros’s Open Society Foundation is a particular bugbear, even though it actually paid for Orban’s Oxford education as a Soros Scholar at Pembroke (ungrateful sod).…🤔

I think you have to. Which is also exactly what #BigOil funded #Fascism wants. I don't know else what you do but I do know there's a majority In America & all over the world that wants better & politics as usual doesn't even speak the language

To be played on a summer day…🌻absolute favourite XTC song…
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"Europeans, let's wake up!" — Defend Democracy “We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.” President Macron on the occasion of German Unity Day, 3 October 2025.

1/Striking speech by Macron: The future of European democracy depends on taking back its digital information space. A remarkable turn from Silicon Valley as source of enlightenment to being a purveyor of slop. And the stakes aren't just ad revenue but the nation.
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British Muslim Trust response to arson attack on East Sussex mosque, exemplifying fears of anti-Muslim attacks to 'retaliate' for the murderous attack at the Manchester synagogue. "We encourage everyone to come together in solidarity and stand united against hateful rhetoric against any community"

Wonder what @oldtrotter.bsky.social makes of it 🤔

David Runciman · Down the Rabbit Hole: Britain’s Europe Problem From Macmillan to Wilson to Heath to Thatcher to Major to Blair to Cameron, a succession of prime ministers persuaded...

Interesting review…
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Very different indeed, and primarily because of the economics, though it’s not clear how we’d have held out against the emerging neoliberal right in the US, but perhaps we’d have been part of European alternative rather than the neoliberal vanguard within the EU…?

Terrible this is happening; great that we have a prominent governor telling us about it in real time.

I think it shows just how powerful the government of the day’s ability to agenda-set really is. “How do we win” is the government’s only real vision, and as a result British politics is uniquely obsessed with the next election too.

The Conservative Party's lurch deeper into xenophobic authoritarianism to catch up with the Reform Party means that Farage will inevitably move even further towards radicalisation to remain distinct from the Conservatives who will then lurch even deeper into..

snap 🌻

Trump’s hatred for renewables means the US is falling behind the rest of the world As well as embracing ‘beautiful coal’, the president has set about obliterating clean energy projects

Trump’s hatred for renewables means the US is falling behind the rest of the world

It's what's Meredith Whittaker is warning about here.

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