Mamdani's victory wasn't only a repudiation of an old and exhausted political establishment in the city, it was also a triumph over the framing power of the political press, and none more so than the New York Times, whose coverage and editorials worked relentlessly to dampen his appeal.

Top 10 US billionaires’ collective wealth grew by $698bn in past year – report Oxfam warns Trump policies risk driving inequality to new heights – but Democrats have also exacerbated wealth gap

The destructive obscenity that is rampant consumer capitalism continues to concentrate the planet's wealth in fewer and fewer hands

But the system responsible for climate breakdown will not survive it

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

Australian dad arrested in Japan after trying to see his abducted child Ninety Australian children have been abducted by their Japanese parent. Randy Kavanagh has been arrested after trying to see his daughter.

Australian dad arrested in Japan after trying to see his abducted daughter www.smh.com.au/world/asia/a...

Japan rolls out praise, putters and orders for pickup trucks as Donald Trump tours Tokyo Sanae Takaichi started where Shinzo Abe left off, lavishing the US president with compliments

Sanae Takaichi, Shinzo Abe’s protégé and successor, seems set to follow the same obsequious playbook toward Donald Trump. My piece in The Irish Times: www.irishtimes.com/world/asia-p...?

日本版“女性トランプ”の出現：高市早苗は、安倍2.0以降の日本の民主主義にとって最悪のニュース 90年代に『ヒトラー選挙戦略』をヨイショ、総務相としてテレビ局を脅し、根拠なく「外国人ばかりが奈良の鹿を虐待」と言い、挙句に神さまに語りかける。麻生太郎元総理の策略で、青いドレスを着た安倍晋三氏の亡霊が総理大臣になる日が最悪。

日本版“女性トランプ”の出現：高市早苗は、安倍2.0以降の日本の民主主義にとって最悪のニュース

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Japan's Jane Bond?: New Prime Minister Takaichi Is Obsessed With Strangling Spies, Muzzling Journalists, And Dismantling the Constitution Japan’s new PM Takaichi isn’t targeting inflation—she’s targeting dissent. Her prized Spy Prevention Law, a pre-crime surveillance regime beyond 2013’s secrecy act, would criminalize inquiry itself.

Japan’s new PM Takaichi isn’t targeting inflation—she’s targeting dissent. Her prized Spy Prevention Law, a pre-crime surveillance regime beyond 2013’s secrecy act, would criminalize inquiry itself.
The welfare of the people? A secondary consideration
tokyopaladin.substack.com/p/japans-jan...

1. It's fascinating to see, as you can from the responses to the post below, how many daft things people believe, to justify their continued meat eating. So let's examine a few of the common myths in the following thread. 🧵

Superb
@Guardian
interactive on WTF the Manosphere is in 2025: theguardian.com/technology/n... A sad tale, rooted in how gov'ts have allowed inequality and living costs to spiral, whilst under-regulated social media firms run amok

Beef, pork, chicken: the world loves cheap meat. If people knew what really goes in it, that love affair would be over | Devi Sridhar Antibiotic use in farming is now rampant. How meat is produced in China may mean the drugs you need here won’t work, says Prof Devi Sridhar, chair of global public health at the University of Edinburg...

Beef, pork, chicken: the world loves cheap meat. If people knew what really goes in it, that love affair would be over
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

British Zohran Mamdani is a distraction we can't afford.

Bloomberg seem confused.

We're not confused.

Tax the billionaires.

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Xi Jinping is preparing to go toe to toe with Donald Trump – and there will only be one winner | Simon Tisdall Beijing has realised that reckless America First policies are alienating old and new friends alike, creating a vacuum it can fill, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall

“Chinese exporters have had considerable success finding new markets. Last month, China’s year-over-year exports to the US fell by 27%, but exports as a whole were still up by 8.3%” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

British.

Australian tropical rainforest trees switch in world first from carbon sink to emissions source Researchers say carbon emissions change in Queensland tropical rainforests may have global climate implications

Australian tropical rainforest trees switch in world first from carbon sink to emissions source www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Is This The End Of Japan’s Golden Age Of Travel? The pandemic has put a damper on the Japanese tourism boom. Also discouraged by international crises, they now prefer local vacations.

According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, only 17% of Japanese citizens now have a passport！
worldcrunch.com/food-travel/...

Stalinism and Stephen Miller (video) Cause for concern

"Stalinism and Stephen Miller: Cause for concern"
(video)
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UK plastic waste exports to developing countries rose 84% in a year, data shows Campaigners say increase in exports mostly to Malaysia and Indonesia is ‘unethical and irresponsible waste imperialism’

Another benefit of Brexit ... the UK has returned to its traditional role as the dirty man of Europe.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"Some of the emperor’s more candid remarks surprised even me. He frequently voiced dissatisfaction with the provisions of Article 9 and repeatedly advocated for the necessity of rearmament through constitutional revision." My interview with Ryuichi Kitano: apjjf.org/2025/10/mcne...

Discrimination Persists for Foreigners Who Obtain Japanese Citizenship As anti-immigration sentiment rises, kikajin are being subjected to new scrutiny.

Discrimination Persists for Foreigners Who Obtain Japanese Citizenship thediplomat.com/2025/09/disc...

Ukraine has now killed a huge portion of Russian oil production. For a comparison, the Baker Institute has a richly detailed map of PRC energy facilities. Many of them are within easy drone range of Taiwan.
www.bakerinstitute.org/map-chinas-e...

My cartoon on Singapore denies entry to exiled HK pro-democracy activist Nathan Law
漫画新加坡拒绝香港民主运动家罗冠聪入境。

bbc report：
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‘My kids are too scared to go outside’: Kurdish migrants face hostility as Japan wrestles with demographic crisis Antagonism toward migrant communities visible in the UK, Europe and the US appears to be spreading to Japan

‘Racist messages have been scribbled on Kurd-related businesses, while social media users take secret photos of foreign residents they then post online, wrongly accusing them of shoplifting.’
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Meat is a leading emissions source – but few outlets report on it, analysis finds Sentient Media reveals less than 4% of climate news stories mention animal agriculture as source of carbon emissions

Meat is a leading emissions source – but few outlets report on it, analysis finds www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Israel’s ecocide in Gaza sends this message: even if we stopped dropping bombs, you couldn’t live here | George Monbiot Consider the annihilation of agricultural land alongside the genocide – and grasp the chilling totality of this attempt to eliminate all life, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

When you consider the ecocide alongside the genocide, you begin to grasp the totality of the Israeli state’s attempt to eliminate both the Palestinians and their homeland. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“The Japanese government has touted LNG as a cleaner alternative to oil and coal because it produces fewer emissions when burned for electricity. But recent studies have raised questions over whether LNG is even cleaner than coal when accounting for its lifetime emissions“

Consumed by convenience: The culture of disposability When Saabira Chaudhuri began covering consumer-goods companies for The Wall Street Journal, she thought she was writing about marketing campaigns, product launches, and quarterly results. What she fou...

Consumed by convenience: The culture of disposability
news.mongabay.com/2025/09/cons...

The Green Party now has 78,000 members.

Thats 10,000+ new members this month alone who want to draw the line.

I know there are so many more people who want to take a stand.

Join us: join.greenparty.org.uk

The actual state of Palestine…

Ghosts In The Newsroom: How Abe's Japan Became Trump's Blueprint Japan had Trump before America did: Shinzo Abe, grandson of a war criminal, muzzled the press, bullied broadcasters, and faked statistics. Now Trump, The GOP, and Disney are replaying the script

Ghosts in the Newsroom: How Abe’s Japan Became Trump’s Blueprint open.substack.com/pub/tokyopal...

I have now been a journalist for 40 years. The forces ranged against my profession have never been so powerful | George Monbiot Once, I believed that humanity’s problem was an information deficit. Now, I know you can’t speak truth to power if power controls your words, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

‘The mainstream media, with a few exceptions, is a single-issue lobby group, whose purpose is to assert the rights of capital.’
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...