Jason Pedlow

New Statesman cover this week. Online tomorrow. On newsstands Thursday.

Put this in your diary

Today was the day that the so-called 'Labour' Party announced its ultimate, and hopefully last, betrayal of the working class.

Sir Keir Starmer, doyen of the British establishment and Zionist puppet, has taken a massive shit on everything Labour was founded upon.

Tonight I voted against the Government's proposals in the Universal Credit and Personal Independent Payment Bill

Disabled people already face costs of an extra £1091 a month, we should not be taking more money away from the most vulnerable in society.

No matter how many last-minute concessions Starmer offers rebel MPs on the Welfare Bill, disabled people WILL end up worse off than before it passes. That's true even if some end up being protected.

A truly extraordinary state of affairs for a Labour government.

Quote of the week: “I wouldn't use this publication even if I ran out of toilet paper” [of The Mail on Sunday].

Don't let the b*stards grind you down @zarahsultana.bsky.social
Sending you my very best wishes and solidarity
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The latest data from CERES just came in, and the 36-month running mean for the Earth Energy Imbalance (EEI) held stead at 11.25 Hiroshimas per Second (HpS), or about 970,000 Hiroshimas per day worth of planetary heating.

Gina Miller is now on BlueSky
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Labour spending review must be ‘economic reset’, Louise Haigh to say Exclusive: Ex-minister to call for wealth tax, and Andy Burnham to demand focus on housing and education

Ex-Labour minister calls for wealth tax and public investment in June spending review.

UK needs an economic reset, end of cuts/austerity and neoliberal policies.

Can't revive economy without boosting the purchasing power of the bottom 50%.

Must redistribute. Tax the ultra-rich.

The problem with Solar Power is that electricity will be so cheap it is free.

And nothing is worse than free to them.

An abled couple sneered, not once, not twice, but thrice when I was able to gain access ahead of them with my disability ID.

“You don’t look disabled” with an eye roll.

Yeah? You don’t look human. Fuck yourself. How’s that?

It is very likely that May, 2025 will end up with a global temperature anomaly below 1.4°C.

If ENSO neutral (or La Nina) conditions persist this year, it is possible that 2025 will end up below 1.5°C.

Last December, the Climate Casino put the OVER/UNDER for 2025 at 1.52°C. I'll take the UNDER.

What Starmer and Labour have yet to figure out is that it's all very well having a 10-15 year grand plan for setting Britain to rights, but not if you do stuff that makes you so unpopular in the meantime that you only get 5 years in power.

The story of Alma Bowman, a disabled woman and US citizen detained by ICE, keeps getting worse

She’s been in the country for 50 years. They took her wheelchair, denied her medications & threw her in a detention facility in Georgia

Did you know she was a whistle blower against forced sterilization?

Compromising with bigots has taken us from Brexit to elected officials openly calling for the ethnic cleansing of people of colour from the UK. Never compromise with hate.

Social mobility has been declining for decades but that's fine, we don't need the talents of 340 million people as long as we have the several dozen children of our stupidest oligarchs

‘Access to Work showed me a working life was still possible… now Keir Starmer has put that at risk’ A leading disabled artist has been forced to stop working by “devastating” and “destructive” cuts to the Labour government’s Access to Work disability employment programme. Jess Thom (pictured this…

A leading disabled artist has been forced to stop working by “devastating” and “destructive” cuts to the Labour government’s Access to Work disability employment programme.
#AccessToWork #DWP
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/access-to-wo...

“Fixing climate change is too expensive.”

Um no. What’s really expensive is doing nothing.

Climate disasters cost billions—and those costs are rising fast. Climate solutions save money and lives, as well as building a better world for us all 🌏💚

Absolutely everybody has had their eyes opened to the blatant racial bias in our Media by the response to the Liverpool attack, who was a dangerous terrorist until he was found to be white.

Then he become a Company Director, happily married and living in a cul-de-sac with 3 kids

This is true. The Tories have destroyed themselves trying to ape Farage. Under the influence of Blue Labour, Starmer is doing the same to Labour.

Amplifying Farage's message merely drives people to vote for the real Farage rather than the pale copy.

“Elon Musk told people he was taking so much ketamine that it was affecting his bladder. He took Ecstasy and psychedelic mushrooms. He traveled with a daily medication box that held about 20 pills, including ones marked as the amphetamine stimulant Adderall…”

De Montfort University: the betrayal of jet-setting executives Leicester's De Montfort University executives treat the university as an international business, with lavish expenses and financial speculation

🔥 Superb article

De Montfort was meant to be an “anchor institution” and “civic university” working for the “benefit of local people and the prosperity of our places”.

But its executives have raided it and in 2-3 years claimed £278K in their own luxury expenses.

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Recent Canadian wildfires are record-breaking – and will threaten US air quality for days After historic seasons in last two years, blazes continue trend of warm, dry conditions intensified by climate crisis

Your 'moment of doom' for May 30, 2025 ~ Planetary Inferno

“For the first time, it’s not a fire in one region, we have fires in every region. That is a sign of a changing climate that we are going to have to adapt to.”

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I don’t want to live in a world where people are in jail and barred from work for smoking weed but an unelected man actively abusing ketamine faces no repercussions for illegally seizing all of our data and making decisions that kill hundreds of thousands of people

Robert Jenrick attacking train fare dodgers while he tried to help a billionaire illegally dodge millions in tax exemplifies everything that is wrong with the UK, they demonise the minor crimes while protecting the massive criminals from justice

How justice 'works'.

Hermer spoke articulately, lucidly and morally about human rights so of course now the dogs of hell are after him www.theguardian.com/law/2025/may...

Disabled people are not expendable

We aren’t “less than”

We aren’t “getting a free ride”

Being chronically ill is not like being on vacation

Receiving benefits or any type of support is not easy

The system is designed to dehumanize, discourage & punish

We need support, understanding & allies