John Merrick

Tbf this is Lord Miles, a fascist shitposter who was advocating for a private invasion of Haiti only a few months back. He's found a way to make a lot of money by doing posts like this. Obviously doesn't make it any better

The press in this country wants blood in the streets

In fact i'd go so far as saying that his awful politics at times helped him see far further and clearer than his leftward peers. A truly great artist

Naipaul

UEFA: Farewell to Suleiman al-Obeid, the 'Palestinian Pelé'. A talent who gave hope to countless children, even in the darkest of times.

How did he die? Why are the times dark?

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Private Eye cartoon about my new book Fascist Yoga. Love the caricature of me with a cup of tea. You can buy the book online here (& elsewhere): www.plutobooks.com/978074535112...

Appalling journalism, allowing a member of a political party, who has knowingly shared the stage with a member of the Homeland Party, to portray herself as a political naif who is just concerned about her family. Awful

You can't in one breath claim she is a political naif and in the next say she is standing for election

It'd be helpful if the BBC stopped doing these party political broadcasts for Reform soon

Targeted by the right, Britain’s asylum hotels are places of fear and disorder. Bad political decisions made it so | Daniel Trilling In the frenzy of racism and culture warring, the issue of why hotels are used gets overlooked, says author Daniel Trilling

I wrote this to explain how we reached this point, in the hope it would be a resource for people arguing with friends and family, people with questions, perhaps even people thinking of joining a protest. Do share with anyone who might find it useful. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Brilliant piece by Daniel Trilling, on the long series of political failures that lead us to the situation we are in.

"It is a story of public penny-pinching and market forces causing a problem that is then made worse by politicians promising a quick fix or finding a convenient scapegoat."

looks like it!

Jemima Kelly is there most Fence-like writer

Like a vintage Amis scene

Brutal
www.ft.com/content/0e24...

Asylum hotel protests spread to prestige London postcodes [FREE TO READ] Canary Wharf and Islington residents mobilise as unrest moves south from more deprived parts of northern England

Did some reporting on asylum hotel protests in London, which have kicked off again this weekend. NIMBYism, public safety debates, and estate agents fielding calls from nervous buyers in Canary Wharf.
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Ah this is an interesting (if ultimately bleak) proposal

The GHF-run food distributions in Gaza, Palestine, have become sites of “orchestrated killing and dehumanisation”, not humanitarian aid. A new MSF report documents the horrors witnessed by MSF staff at two clinics that regularly received mass influxes of casualties following violence at sites run by the GHF. MSF calls for the immediate dismantling of the GHF scheme and the restoration of the UN-coordinated aid delivery mechanism.

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF):

GHF-run ‘aid’ sites are sites of “orchestrated killing and dehumanisation.”

“In MSF’s nearly 54 years of operations, rarely have we seen such levels of systematic violence against unarmed civilians.”

www.msf.org/ghf-run-food...

My mum is blind. I and other family members have helped her fill in forms before. Is this also "sickfluencing"?

Just doing my weekly twitter check in – first thing i see is the Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions QTing a far-right anon spewing nonsense about an advice and support organisation for disabled people 👍

James Vincent · Where the Power Is: Planet Phosphorus Phosphates are locked inside rocks, folded into continental strata or scattered as sediment on the ocean floor. It is...

‘The rarity of phosphorus makes it the most limiting factor for the growth of biomass on Earth. It is, as Isaac Asimov puts it, “life’s bottleneck” – the toll which must be paid by all matter that aspires to be something more.’

@jjvincent.bsky.social on phosphorus: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Looks like a good LRB this one. Particularly looking forward to Seymour on Graeber and a new
@jjvincent.bsky.social joint (love to see my mates being successful)

There is a new Chotiner interview that really underscores what is unique about Israel's genocide in Gaza: it would be very easy for the world to stop it if only a few countries wanted to.

An aerial photograph of a completely devastated Gaza

An aerial photograph of a completely devastated Gaza

A photograph of aid being parachuted into a completely devastated Gaza

Today is the 80th Anniversary of the atom-bombing of Hiroshima.

You will not see a more tangible encapsulation of the genocide. A war of utter annihilation waged as a joint enterprise between the Israeli state on the ground and its allies in consistent support. The debt of reparations that the West owes to the Palestinian people at this point is incalculable.

“This landscape of destruction looks otherworldly, yet it is not; it is this world, and what is happening may yet come to define one of its darkest eras.”

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My deepest condolences, Gavin