Tom Mills

Did like the way Curtis immediately cut in when the spectacular landslide was inevitably mentioned.

There’s a total of £49,255,200 changing hands in this network, although since Labour Together gives & receives donations, this double counts. So taking net for Labour Together there’s £47,631,589.

Network doesn’t necessarily identify most significant individual donors, because you could give a very large donation to Labour Together, but no other org/person in the network, and not feature. But imo is a good way of identifying networks of donors & politicians/political orgs.

Then I stripped away the network so it includes only peoples or orgs that have given or received a donation to/from two people or orgs in the network which have also given or received a donation to/from two people or orgs (this is called K-Core Decomposition).

This network was produced by identifying any ‘regulated entity’ Labour Together has donated to, all of Labour Together’s donors, as well as any other ‘regulated entity’ they have donated to, summing the repeat donations.

Thanks to Paul Holden’s ‘The Fraud’, the Labour Right’s vehicle Labour Together is in the spotlight again. Here’s the core of its funding network constructed from Electoral Commission data. Donors blue, ‘donees’ red.

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‘Grudging acts are those activities in which we really would rather not participate but which we perform nonetheless’.

Feel seen. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

None of us are safe in a world where basic norms in respect of the sanctity of human life are blithely disregarded. Those norms must be enforced, and enforced visibly. There must be political and legal consequences for every politician who made the genocide possible. The alternative is unthinkable.

This sweeping discussion is focused on the US, but there's so much that's directly relevant to the UK's dysfunctional political economy. Covers so much ill have to listen twice I think.

And it will

It was so clear to so many of us - ignored or ridiculed - the disastrous path we were on since 2008 (at the earliest). And here we are. We've arrived at our destination.

Still funny to me that academics have to organise 'retreats' to find time to write anything.

William Davies · Repeal the 20th Century: Pre-MAGA To understand the intellectual coordinates of Trumpism requires us to look in less conventional places and to pay more...

Interesting read on the roots of MAGA in early 90s conservatism. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Nigel Farage is the biggest charlatan in British political history.

And here's what his constitutents in Clacton really think:

We now go live to our Westminster correspondent who will explain with inordinate enthusiasm why keeping all the same people but changing their roles is in fact extremely interesting & important.

One of the things I enjoy the most in life is producing a highly detailed Gantt chart for a project that will never be funded.

Great initiative. Transformative politics needs its own media. Mad Corbyn never did this.

Had some in Rhodes the other week. Surprisingly good.

Missed this. Very clever and interesting paper.

'...the International Association of Genocide Scholars: Declares that Israel’s policies & 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'
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Israel Accuses Al Jazeera Of Being Mouthpiece For Journalism JERUSALEM—Following its ban of the Qatar-based news outlet’s operations in the country, Israel accused Al Jazeera Monday of being a mouthpiece for journalism. “It is clear from its continuous, 24-hour...

Israel Accuses Al Jazeera Of Being Mouthpiece For Journalism theonion.com/israel-accus...

Great book

Worth noting that Netanyahu has personally invested a lot of energy in promoting the concept since the 80s.

Yeah it's a weak position and I'm agreeing with David. My point though is this has much closer to how terrorism is defined in practice than the myriad of academic definitions. Imo it's an inherently propagandists term anyway.

Quite. But if you understand terrorism as political actions - violent or peaceful - that threaten or disrupt the geopolitical interests of states, then it makes more sense.

In a new article in @poppublicsphere.bsky.social I propose an institution reform to make representative government less oligarchic: having elected politicians held accountable by randomly selected "Constituency Juries"

This Weekend, We Saw the UK Descend Into Censorship, Brutality, and Authoritarianism Keir Starmer and Yvette Cooper's government arrested elderly protesters, a blind man using a wheelchair, and others – all in the name of providing diplomatic cover for a genocidal regime.

"This Weekend, We Saw the UK Descend Into Censorship, Brutality, and Authoritarianism"

Keir Starmer government arrested elderly protesters, a blind man using a wheelchair, & others – all in the name of providing diplomatic cover for a genocidal regime, writes @graceblakeley.substack.com for Zeteo.

Ran a Multiple Correspondence Analysis and a Latent Class Analysis today. Admittedly neither are going to be any use for the paper, but pleased with myself and that's the main thing.

Palestinian lives mean nothing to the BBC.

Everything in the UK is punishingly expensive. But at least the politicians are cheap.