Mike Tucker

The profitability of pharmaceutical companies supported by the US government is attempting to take priority over the health needs of UK citizens.

'The Green Menace': The Daily Mail's newest scary stories for Middle England Ahead of the Gorton and Denton by-election, the paper's working hard to cast the Green Party as mad, bad, and dangerous to know.

NEW | ‘The Green Menace': The Daily Mail's newest scary stories for Middle England

Ahead of the Gorton and Denton by-election, the paper's working hard to cast the Green Party as mad, bad, and dangerous to know.

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US war on Iran: A tale of two Trump interviews As he continues to attack Iran, Donald Trump is babbling in public, working out what he thinks as he goes along. And there are journalists willing to help him with that.

NEW | A look at how newspapers polish Donald Trump’s babbling as he makes the case for his latest war…

US WAR ON IRAN: A TALE OF TWO TRUMP INTERVIEWS

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2/. The individual suffering and its obfuscation by public bodies, and the public suffering from the worship of private finance enabled by governments. In other words the neo-liberal settlement imposed here and across the globe.

Dirty Business Shocking real-life drama about the muck in our water and a corporate scandal

1/. The C4 documentary series Dirty Business (www.channel4.com/programmes/d...) is an example, although and extreme one because water is a monopoly; of the suffering caused by the privatization of public functions; and the excessive faith in markets as a solution to social failures.

Petition: Nationalise water companies to make water a non profit publicly owned asset To make water a non profit making national asset that ensures we have a secure water infrastructure that ensures our water security for future generations.

There's now a UK parliament petition to sign too...

#DirtyWater #DirtyBusiness

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75...

Wrote up the by-election, the Green victory and the conferences for Labour at the @lrb.co.uk www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/fe...

This is so good

Journalist Rejects AI-Generated Content in Newsrooms - National Today In this edition of his newsletter, Mic Wright strongly condemns the use of AI-generated content in journalism, arguing that it represents a betrayal of readers and a devaluation of the craft of writin...

I’m pretty sure this is an AI-generated news story about my newsletter saying I’ll never use AI to write it. nationaltoday.com/us/oh/clevel...

Smears and Lies Glue Together Starmer’s Government The Labour Together spying scandal shows how Britain’s mainstream press looked the other way when dirty tricks were deployed against the Left — allowing a culture of surveillance and paranoia to take ...

“This is not normal politics. It is democratic decay unfolding in real time.”

I’ve written for @tribunemagazine.bsky.social about the Josh Simons / Labour Together scandal, and what it tells us about the degeneration of British democracy.

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We have to stop calling some jobs ‘low skilled’ Freeing ourselves of these labels might help young people to think more creatively about the future

Excellent piece by @sarahoconnorft.ft.com. TBH, Covid should have done much to cure us of this when we learnt how much we all depend on people whose very real skills are stigmatized as lesser

Before Labour Together tried to smear Sunday Times journalists, it was a vital source for them The real problem is that the Starmtroopers turned their dirty tricks on Murdoch's men.

NEW | Oh, so *now* dirty tricks are bad…

BEFORE LABOUR TOGETHER TRIED TO SMEAR SUNDAY TIMES JOURNALISTS, IT WAS A VITAL SOURCE FOR THEM

The real problem is that the Starmtroopers turned their dirty tricks on Murdoch's men.

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Wes Streeting's Mariah Carey method Just how stupid does the cabinet minister think we are as he denies the extent of his relationship with Peter Mandelson? Very.

NEW | On Wes Streeting’s late-in-the-day denunciation of Mandelson…

WES STREETING’S MARIAH CAREY METHOD

Just how stupid does the cabinet minister think we are as he denies the extent of his relationship with Peter Mandelson? Very.

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This Charming Man Mandelson is the British political system incarnate: bitchy, anti-intellectual, venal.

"The recent emphasis on Keir Starmer's "decency" might appear odd even if you only had a passing acquaintance with his track record of duplicity and spite, not to mention his readiness to sack others to save his own skin." More ...
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‘A Social History of Analytic Philosophy: How Politics Has Shaped an Apolitical Philosophy’ by Christoph Schuringa reviewed by Iñigo Baca Bordons The success of Christoph Schuringa’s A Social History of Analytic Philosophy depends on whether its coordination of historical and philosophical material manages to be a non-reductionist ideological a...

A review of Christoph Schuringa's A Social History of Analytic Philosophy marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviews/2251...

THIS is why Ghislaine Maxwell refused to testify EXPOSED: Ghislaine Maxwell’s DARK Secret

THIS is why Ghislaine Maxwell refused to testify

An excellent and accurate portrayal.

Members' Oversight Committee: transparency and accountability, not secret oversight We call on the MOC to publish its members' names, clarify how it was formed and who runs its communications, and commit to a public report before it dissolves. Secret oversight can’t be held to accoun...

I just signed a petition on Your Party's Members' Oversight Committee: transparency and accountability, not secret oversight. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/me...

Jude Wanga | The centre shrinks Peter Mandelson is a case study for the way the Westminster ecosystem protects its own until it is forced, by leakage...

‘Peter Mandelson is a case study for the way the Westminster ecosystem protects its own.

Protecting the system, and the powerful men who feel entitled to benefit from it, matters more than protecting the people it harms.’

New from @judeinlondon.com:

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The criminal elite exposed in the Epstein files are burying the truth A handful of figures will be sacrificed - but only to protect a wider culture that believes rules don't apply to the ruling elite

A handful of figures will be sacrificed - but only to protect a wider culture that believes rules don't apply to the ruling elite.

Read my latest on the Epstein Files here: www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/crim...

David Stern: Epstein's source who sat next to the queen, sent him lewd messages and brokered deals Stern, a trusted figure in royal circles, sent Epstein sexually explicit messages and organised then-Prince Andrew's business trips abroad

David Stern: Epstein's source who sat next to the queen, sent him lewd messages and brokered deals - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/david-stern-epsteins-source-who-sat-next-queen-sent-him-lewd-messages-and-brokered-deals

Filton Acquittals Demolish Starmer and Cooper Lies About Palestine Action - Craig Murray As the trial finished at Woolwich Crown Court of the six Palestine Action activists who entered the Filton factory to destroy Israeli killer drones, Starmer, Cooper, Lammy and Mahmood are left bereft ...

Ex-ambassador Craig Murray explains how the Palestine Action trial was rigged by the government, police and judge to secure convictions – and yet still the jury refused to do as they were told.

They had good reason, as Murray explains: www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/202...

Why Is the Media Not Touching Jeffrey Epstein’s Clear Connection to Israel? They’re instead focusing on the possibility that Epstein was a Russian asset.

Why Is the Media Not Touching Jeffrey Epstein’s Clear Connection to Israel?

They’re instead focusing on the possibility that Epstein was a Russian asset, writes @premthakker.bsky.social.

Read now: zeteo.com/p/why-is-the...

Epstein files: Mandelson scandal indicts the entire British establishment New revelations shed light on a deeply corrupt system of government that functions in the interests of criminal elites

Epstein files: Mandelson scandal indicts the entire British establishment - https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/epstein-files-mandelson-scandal-indicts-entire-british-establishment

I love the comparison of the media to Captain Renault of Casablanca expression of shock towards Mandelson, and the shaming of the classic purveyor of post Thatcher conventional wisdom, Mathew Parris.

The Epstein rot goes deep America must now ask itself if it can restore a culture of shame

"Since prison for Epstein’s fellow abusers gets unlikelier over time, America’s deeper question is whether it can restore a culture of shame." - marvellous, marvellous column by @edwardluce.bsky.social:

Rob Lucas, Stranglehold? — Sidecar On Cuba.

If Snowden, Huawei, TSMC signalled a new fear of tech dependency, Nord Stream II and the US embargo on fuel for Cuba should ring alarm bells on the risks of fossil fuels for the sovereignty of those without major deposits. Renewables against chokepoints!

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