Tom Kemp

Very good.

Keir Starmer is obviously not a very inspiring political leader but what is really happening here is that our political system no longer generates legitimate governments

What is the point? I live in her constituency and am a member of the Green Party - I'd love her to go green. I just see how it's difficult for her and think the greens locally need to work hard to show it can work...

I think it would be risky for her to quit without clear local indicators that Nottingham East would follow her to the Greens at the next election. For the Greens, that means campaigning in the local elections in May 2027 hard for councillor gains. But Greens have one councillor at the moment.

We have a paper on how Labour's strategy is disastrous.

There's an exclusive coverage in @newstatesman.com

www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...

"Therefore, the International Association of Genocide Scholars: Declares that Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide in Article II of the United Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948); Declares that Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity as defined in international humanitarian law and the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court; Calls upon the government of Israel to immediately cease all acts that constitute genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity against Palestinians in Gaza, including deliberate attacks against and killing of civilians including children; starvation; deprivation of humanitarian aid, water, fuel, and other items essential to the survival of the population; sexual and reproductive violence; and forced displacement of the population;"

BREAKING: The International Association of Genocide Scholars declares that Israel's actions in Gaza "meet the legal definition of genocide" and "constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity."

(Source: genocidescholars.org/wp-content/u...)

Feeling this so much.

Hard to express how fucked this is.

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I’m always pro-disabled people leading what affects them but the reality is, many disabled and chronically ill people are paying a huge physical price for fighting tomorrow’s welfare bill. Many are suffering more pain and exhaustion from campaigning, all whilst in a brutal heatwave. 1/2

If you think that calling them terrorists, banning the whole group, handing prison sentences for road blocking are all new ways of treat protesters that are bad. Why say the youth are just whining about similar things happened to you and apparently just accepted.

Still now they're banning protest groups of against current, in going genocide as terrorists you continue to go on about the youth of today 'whining' .

Just to say that in 2022 they introduced prison sentences for road blocking. When you road blocked there was no prison sentence for it, just a fine.

Maximum sentence for criminal damage is 10 years. Trespass on such a site is a year. This is for protesters against a genocide throwing paint on a plane. I'm not sure what you think is enough to satisfy you. But point is why ban a group if your object is not to punish all kinds of protest.

I understood that, but banning groups has the same practical effect when the group does a variety of actions - some of which you support (if I understand correctly). Why not - from your point of view - just enforce criminal law against people who did a criminal offence?

There is already a kind of injunction against breaking into an RAF base - it's called the criminal law which they admit has been broken. A ban on a group - that does a many different kinds of protests - is a much wider attack on freedom of expression and protest.

116 TEASER | Are We Losing our Morality? Alasdair MacIntyre’s After Virtue and the Nihilism of Modern Society <p>In this episode, we discuss Alasdair MacIntyre’s landmark book <em>After Virtue</em>. MacIntyre, an ex-Marxist and committed anti-liberal, offers a defense of the Aristotelian tradition and its sea...

Psyched for this - Alasdair MacIntyre's After Virtue is so influential to how I understand radical ethics. player.fm/series/whats...

After all the political disappointments and losses of the year, Mamdani's victory brings some hope. I'll take that for the moment.

Black text on a red and white background reads: We are all Palestine Action

We are all Palestine Action!

We stand in unequivocal solidarity with Palestine Action as they resist the Labour government’s defamatory threats of possible proscription.

#PalAction #PalestineAction #Palestine

Yvette Cooper vows to ban Palestine Action under anti-terrorism laws Home secretary to ignore warning from group’s lawyers that doing so would be ‘unlawful, dangerous and ill thought out’

I stand with #PalestineAction. Lock me up as a terrorist, Yvette Cooper.
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Labour’s great nature sellout is the worst attack on England’s ecosystems I’ve seen in my lifetime | George Monbiot The horrifying planning bill, which rips up environmental protections, was drafted with CEOs in mind. We know because Keir Starmer told us, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

It's hard to get your head around the scale of the environmental vandalism the Labour government is hoping to unleash. The Planning and Infrastructure Bill is up there with Trump's executive orders. And the reason is the same: corporate power.
This week's column.
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Watching the spring statement, what will stay with me is the juxtaposition of welfare cuts and the grandstanding about being a 'defence industrial superpower'.

This is racist link to make. Lammy is dispicable but this is beyond. If a white person had sold out his family, you wouldn't be saying this. Pls delete.

Peer who led government NHS review failed to declare shares in health firms Lord Darzi’s undeclared interests in four companies included $500,000 of shares in US-based healthcare venture

These people have nothing but contempt for us. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

As mass murder and genocide escalate in #Gaza, the UK government should denounce them, cut off all support to Netanyahu's government and assist in its prosecution. Instead, Starmer silences his ministers. In doing so, he facilitates the crimes.

The news today has been awful.

Fully accept women's prisons etc are copies of mens. And that women's treatment by cjs is appalling. I just asked for the meaning of 'designed for' to be spelled out, as opposed to 'designed to punish'. It sounds like the cjs has been designed to meet men's needs which I would dispute!

In what sense are they designed for men?

Israel cuts off humanitarian supplies to Gaza as it seeks to change ceasefire deal Netanyahu wants Hamas to allow for release of hostages without troop withdrawal, in plan Israel says came from US

Headline says it all really. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Indeed, the consistency of the trend since 2015 is also notable. Here the same thing is seen but with the quarterly totals shown on different vertical axes.

That suggests macro-level factors are probably more important overall than anything the forces are doing.

If we survive the mask-off era, lets at least ensure that it's a pedagogical experience.

"Personal liberties" means absolute impunity for rich white men
"Free markets" means unfettered corporate power

The right's abuse of this language has been indulged for far too long.