@naeemap.bsky.social
Researcher, speaker & writer on People Vs AI and how jobs & work are changing Hoping we balance good thinking to prevent wars, inequality & unethical AI Fundraising for: Save the Children, UN and Refuge
I'm not kidding: I reported on this FOUR YEARS AGO in "The Decade In Tory"
It also contained the entire COVID Inquiry (cost: £200m). And every single Brexit mistake (£140bn per year).
And it's £2.50 on Amazon.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Sign reads: Free Nobel Peace prize with an order of shrimp tacos.
#peaceprize
#tacos
Anyone noticed how UK media is a lot less obsessed with Farage’s alleged antisemitism than Corbyn’s alleged antisemitism?
Odd that.
The line here that made my ears prick up (and should really spook Labour) is the third one (that we need “fair and managed” migration). That’s not the answer of someone who has come to get his 12 per cent. That’s a much more “no, when I say I want to replace Labour, I’m not coming to play” line.
05.12.2025 18:15 — 👍 547 🔁 100 💬 22 📌 8Zia Yusuf - the unelected multimillionaire policy chief of Reform - makes his fourth Question Time appearance tonight.
The party has five MPs
People are so terrified of being labelled anti-Semitic if they criticise Israel.
Eurovision had no problem banning Russia when it invaded Ukraine.
Israel's guilt in slaughtering more than 66,000 Palestinians is just as egregious. Israel is JUST ANOTHER WARMONGERING COUNTRY, FFS. #Eurovision
🔴 Nigel Farage’s Reform is more reliant on super-rich backers than any major party in modern British political history
75% of *all* Reform donations *ever* have come from just three rich men
Is this what democracy looks like?
New on Democracy for Sale
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/75-of-refo...
Zack Polanski headshot with an abstract pattern of green stripes behind him.
While I think most literate people can be insightful and articulate in text form, if given enough time to collect their thoughts, it is a rare talent to be able to do that verbally, in real time, while responding to interruptions, hostile jibes or pointed questions and STILL get your point across.
04.12.2025 23:30 — 👍 174 🔁 30 💬 3 📌 1
How the right-wing newspapers still manage to dictate BBC coverage.
Almost all of the Beeb's big post-Budget interview with the Chancellor devoted to asking whether she is a liar.
Next to nothing on any of the big measures announced this week
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-real-b...
Some odd double standards on antisemitism going on from the Jewish Chronicle’s Stephen Pollard…
www.thenewworld.co.uk/rats-in-a-sa...
Left: Luke Johnson, Chairman of Gail's Bakery, who was pro-Brexit, criticises Labour for not understanding the private sector and how wealth is created
Right: The thing he voted for, Brexit, costs the UK £90 billion in lost tax revenue every year #BBCQT
LibDem Calum Miller, "The biggest opportunity the UK has to grow is to restore our relationship with the European Union"
"The National Bureau Of Economic Research in the US says the UK loses £90 billion a year in tax revenue"
#RejoinEU #BBCQT
The first Gilded Age had railroads and robber barons. The new one has AI / LLMs and tech oligarchs. Same script, new machines.
Guy Anthony Ayres reflects on the utopia being promised
Ash Sarkar, "What's your vision of the good life?"
Zack Polanski, "I think it's one where we can spend more time with the people that we love"
This one really is useful because you won’t see a more clear demonstration of one of the most damaging political phenomena of the era: the reactionary professional mind rejecting unacceptable reality, only able to process and comprehend it via something close to conspiracy theory.
24.11.2025 09:06 — 👍 870 🔁 273 💬 19 📌 3
Eight bodies pulled from rubble in Gaza after Israeli strike - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/eight-bodies-pulled-rubble-maghazi-after-israeli-strike
24.11.2025 10:41 — 👍 26 🔁 22 💬 0 📌 1
Israel cannot break ceasefires, they can only “test“ them by killing dozens of people
22.11.2025 16:10 — 👍 1635 🔁 584 💬 15 📌 23
When Arab officials privately - and increasingly publicly - state that Israel and not Iran is the source of instability in the region, this is why:
During a year-long "truce" between Israel and Lebanon, Israel violated it 10,000 times!
Turns out the media & most of Parliament is as out of touch with reality as Twitter. Dear England.
22.11.2025 20:19 — 👍 1208 🔁 302 💬 53 📌 7
Has the England flag become a racist symbol? Most ethnic minority adults say it has
England flag
All GB adults: 39% has become racist symbol
White adults: 36%
Ethnic minority adults: 52%
UK flag
All GB adults: 19%
White adults: 18%
Ethnic minority adults: 26%
yougov.co.uk/society/arti...
I sincerely hope Your Party in Wales
negotiates an electoral pact
with Greens & Plaid Cymru
"Your Party organisers in Wales register new party to fight next year's Senedd elections"
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/your...
#SocialistSunday
Mamdani just played Trump without sacrificing immigrants, Muslims, workers, or the LGBTQ.
Trump did his transactional charm offensive, Mamdani countered without compromising.
He won big and this is the man the Democratic Establishment still won't embrace.
What more do people need to see?
On Wednesday, Israel killed 33 Palestinians, including 12 children, in its latest violations of the Gaza ceasefire. Those killed include Palestinian families trying to return home and others caught in Israeli attempts to assassinate Hamas leaders.
20.11.2025 22:37 — 👍 173 🔁 114 💬 9 📌 11
Israel caries out demolition beyond yellow line in Gaza - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-caries-out-demolition-beyond-yellow-line-gaza
21.11.2025 07:32 — 👍 4 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0can't believe the BBC edited Donald Trump's posts to make it seem like he threatened violence against members of Congress
20.11.2025 17:24 — 👍 676 🔁 150 💬 15 📌 3
Having Johnson & Cummings in Downing Street when Covid struck was, just like Brexit, an entirely avoidable disaster caused largely by utterly appalling journalism. And now exactly the same clowns, arses & bigots with bylines are rolling out the red carpet for Farage.
www.thetimes.com/article/1b15...
On this Trans Day of Remembrance, we remember the bright and courageous trans people whose lives were stolen by hatred. Their absence is felt across our city.
We will honor them by building a New York where every trans person can live safely, fully and freely.
The Curse of Private Equity
Asda to raise £568m in sale and leaseback of stores.
Company loaded with debt, cut staffing, wages.
Already sold most of its warehouses and 25 supermarkets in sale and leaseback deals. Asset stripping continues.
Company losing market share.
What next?
John Major, "Our links to Europe and America may be loser now than once they were and that is a loss"
"The loss of trade with Europe alone costs us £100 billion of lost trade every year"
"That's a tax yield of £40 billion"
"How useful would that have been in recent months to the Chancellor?"
