Simon Duffy

Wonderfully lucid translation which for a reason I can’t explain made me read more slowly than I’ve ever done so before. Beautifully putdownable?

Exemplary notes also.

Suleiman al-Obeid: Mohamed Salah calls out Uefa over tribute Mohamed Salah calls out Uefa over a tribute to Palestinian footballer Suleiman al-Obeid it posted on social media which failed to refer to the circumstances surrounding his death.

Silence in the face of evil looks like this.
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

Österreich, was geht?! 🙏❤️

YouTube video by UBIVisuals Dolly Parton provided wildfire relief using Basic Income

Did you know...?

Dolly Parton once gave out an emergency basic income due to wildfires in Tennessee.

The result? It was considered by researchers the most effective thing with workers returning to full-time work as soon as they could.
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They’ve forgotten the North - what a surprise. There’s only 15 million of us. Any easy mistake to make… if you make all the decisions in London.

Devolution?

Richard Seymour · Baseline Communism: David Graeber’s Innovations In his critique of economics, as in his philippic against ‘bullshit jobs’, Graeber stresses the political decisions...

In @lrb.co.uk delightful wander through work of the late, great David Graeber with @leninology.bsky.social

The headline? "Baseline communism happens wherever ‘no accounts are taken': giving a stranger directions, offering food to a guest, fixing friend’s car"
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Neo-liberal capitalism is that form that is utterly obsessed with ensuring that it seems that, as Margaret Thatcher so famously declared in the 1980s, “there is no alternative.” In other words, neo-liberalism has largely given up on any serious effort to argue that the current economic order is actually a good order and given up trying to prove it can create a world in which most human beings feel prosperous, safe, and free to spend any significant portion of their life pursuing those things they consider genuinely important. Rather, it is a terrible system, in which even the very richest countries cannot guarantee access to such basic needs as health and education to the majority of their citizens. Yes they say it works badly - but they want you to believe no other system could possibly work at all! - David Graeber

From David Graeber's 'Revolutions in Reverse' (2011).

A decent standard of living should be available to everyone. Now is the time to act and make meaningful change.
@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social @itvnews.bsky.social @itvnewspolitics.bsky.social @channel4news.bsky.social
@skynewsrss.bsky.social

Woman’s memoirs give fascinating insight into life in 17th-century northern England Newly reunited manuscripts by Alice Thornton show how she navigated personal crises during tumultuous events such as the civil war

#WomensHistory - good to see it being recovered and celebrated: Alice Thornton navigates the English Civil War

www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

Illustration of a pink face with closed eyes and flowers growing from the head, surrounded by sound wave symbols, next to the text 'Hearing Voices Group' on a yellow background.

The People Focused Group's (PFG) ▪️Hearing Voices Group▪️meets every Wednesday — find out more & come along, everyone's welcome!

👉 buff.ly/GFKlRUR

#PeerSupport #NeighbourhoodCare #Doncaster

I was just asked to write a few words about #UniversalBasicIncome. This is what I came up with

@ubilabnetwork.bsky.social @scottsantens.com @basicincomeearth.bsky.social @profmarkmaslin.bsky.social #UBI

Over 300,000 people rallied at Sydney Harbour Bridge today in Australia to express solidarity with Gaza.

A pink dahlia on a green background with the logo of Lives Through Friends advertises this year's Cheltenham Summer Institute on 23rd and 24th September,

⏰ Join LivesthroughFriends CIC and the Planned Lifetime Advocacy Network (PLAN) at this year's Summer Institute on 23rd - 24th September at The Butterfly Garden in Cheltenham — find out more & register now: buff.ly/sfo6uuK

Citizen Network: Communitarian Consensus-Building There are many different ways we can work together to make democratic decisions that everyone can support.

There's no need to reinvent the wheel.
There's so much we've learnt about building trust, understanding, and cooperation,
We should focus on applying the lessons on communitarian consensus-building, & helping to bring communities together: citizen-network.org/library/comm...

Hiya - you all okay?

How Britain privatised itself into failure Britain outsourced its state – now private firms profit while public services crumble. In Failed State, Sam Freedman explains what went wrong

This excellent article in @yorkshirebylines.co.uk explores Sam Freedman's Failed State: Why Britain Doesn’t Work and How We Fix It. Why England must empower its regions. Our centralised system is failing, and we need governance that’s effective and accountable yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/the...

Thank you for reposting this as disabled people are being denied medical care all over the country in these detention centers. My husband and I recently did Open Future Learning and it was incredible! I knew you would care! Thanks again

@disrightsuk.bsky.social @learningdiseng.bsky.social @scopepolicy.bsky.social

“they don’t see you as an individual, but as someone being deported” rodney taylor #immigrationjustice #disabilityrights #enddetention #humanrights #immigrationreform #lefttok TikTok video by bethanyquilter

@simonduffy.bsky.social in United States, ICE locked a man with electronic prosthetic legs in solitary confinement, refusing to let him charge his legs. Please share this with any disability rights orgs you know of www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8kP573g/

Great initiative.

Just think how influential our universities would be with meaningful regional devolution.

This is very worrying yes it’s started in Dudley but the video within the link is a good explanation.

www.itv.com/news/2025-07...

600,000 signed up - a social media image by Jeremy Corbyn’s new party.

I’m pretty sure that had anyone else in the UK formed a political party, with several MPs and seen 600,000 people join in less than a week it would be front page news.

Just another week on normal island.

Lucky man.

On this #PoisonedPlanet, last thing #PublicHealth or #Biodiversity needs is more #pesticices

This Labour government has failed. People want real transformative politics – we will give it to them | Jeremy Corbyn More than 500,000 people have signed up to our new party to help build a genuine alternative to poverty, inequality and war, says former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn

For too long, people have been denied a real political choice.

Not anymore.

My piece for the Guardian on the extraordinary response to www.yourparty.uk

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

How is your Sheffield neighbourhood organised? Made with Tally, the simplest way to create forms.

📍 So, we now know we have 147 neighbourhoods in Sheffield (see www.notion.so/dataforactio... for a potted history).

🤔 ...but how is each one of them organised and where are the 'anchors'?

⚡ You tell us: tally.so/r/wMlVXl ⚡

@dataforaction.bsky.social
@citizennetwork.bsky.social

Aberdeen South MP Stephen Flynn has confirmed, “I’ll not be meeting the President, I'll be busy getting a haircut, or washing my hair, or … looking after my OWN toddler at the time.” (Yes, this is Flynn, and yes, he's hairless. Gotta love it.)

@compassoffice.bsky.social @labourlewis.bsky.social - would it be worth stressing these contrasts in your excellent work in the nationalisation of water in England?

Gaza air drops 'a grotesque distraction', aid agencies warn Several aid groups say dropping food from the air onto densely populated Gaza is a risk to civilian lives.

When reliable and desperately needed means of getting food to starving people are blocked,
& fingers are pointing vaguely to the sky for salvation,
You know it's just more cruelties and lies ...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"Being poor is actually a full-time job and being broke is like a full-time job with the amount of paperwork and the time going from office to office proving what you have done. . With Universal Basic Income all that would be eliminated with the time liberated to do something socially productive." – David Graeber

In many ways its the knock-on benefits of UBI that make the policy so important.