“The smear campaign against the Greens will now reach unprecedented heights. It will come from an unholy alliance of Reform, Conservatives, Blairites and large swathes of the media. And much of it will be racist”
Great analysis by @owenjones.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
NEW: this is how the US press would report on this if it was happening in a ‘shithole country’. It’s an execution. But it also reveals how weak Trump really is
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Board of Peace - Season 1
Have you ever been mocked because of how you sound? Did you ever get mocked at university because of the way you speak?
Our research on accents and social mobility features testimonials from students and professionals who have experienced accent bias ⤵️
www.suttontrust.com/our-research...
24m Britons live below minimum socially acceptable living standards.
Major parties make sound bites, no plan to address cost of living crisis.
Won't end profiteering, increase real wages, redistribute wealth, curb power of corporations/rich.
Need more working class people in parliament.
The story behind the striking depiction of Trump as Hitler published by a Slovenian news magazine
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Got to feel for Thomas Frank
He says he can get to the big roundabout on the North Circular and is more than happy to pay your petrol money…
Wonder how many more club staff will have to be sacked now to fund Ruben Amorim’s payoff and the shocking waste/incompetence of Ratcliffe & the other Man United high-ups…
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Steven Knight & Stephen Graham on class and acting/writing 👊🏼
“It takes 20 years to recover from a working-class upbringing,” says Knight
“It took me ages to get rid of that imposter syndrome,” adds Graham. “It’s only dissipated completely in the past 5 years”
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Also 54 years ago today, I was born an Evertonian
The very day #EFC left fans devastated by selling resident World Cup winner Alan Ball to Arsenal for a British transfer record fee
Great that this bullshit is being called out more now.
It was pathetic. Embarrassing. And shameful for Arsenal
But it just gives EFC a chance to reaffirm the huge commitment to all the vital work
@sfoodbanks.bsky.social does
Hillsborough: the scandal of police lies and political/institutional/scumbag tabloid cover-ups that seemingly never ends
Yet still the perpetrators go unpunished
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
To all the people who love to explain that this is not in fact a make or break budget, you're wrong.
Hopefully this week's episode will show why.
Think indoor soccer. Then make it 5v5, switch the ball, change some rules, and amp up the speed. Now it's futsal, a game "born in Uruguay and raised in Brazil" per @jamiefahey.bsky.social. The first FIFA Women's Futsal World Cup is on now. My story for @theworld.org theworld.org/segments/202...
So two non economists on BBC radio 4 flagship news programme to answer the question on how fiscal choices shape growth. Ridiculous. “Only business creates wealth” says businessman. “Cut welfare” says political adviser. That’s the inane debate chaired by who else Amol Rajan !
Labour has entered its musical chairs era – and we’re sucked into another pointless death spiral | Nesrine Malik
Half of all UK jobs shed since Labour came to power are among under-25s
Exclusive: David Blunkett warns Keir Starmer Britain’s youth are in danger of becoming ‘lost generation’ on his watch
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
AI, Covid and taxes: what is behind steep rise in youth unemployment?
Last year’s employer NICs increase and a weak economy are adding to tricky conditions for young people
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
“Starmerism was always devoid of principle & purpose. Its original sin was deceiving the membership by offering Corbynism without Corbyn, only to cynically ditch all that in an attempt to drive the left into permanent oblivion”
@owenjones.bsky.social on Labour
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Great picture. A decade before i was playing around there as a kid though. Can’t work it out. What end of Queens Road is it? Breck or Mill Road end?
“Welcome to Britain in 2025, where musicians angry at genocide are dragged through the justice system, while politicians facilitating genocide walk free”
@owenjones.bsky.social on the campaign of deflection from Britain’s complicity in the crime of the century
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About time…
And the sort of mass action that should have been instinctive last year to support the seven Labour MPs suspended for daring to oppose the despicable two-child benefit cap. It would have sent a clear message of defiance and prevented this continuing austerity shitshow
Socialist Zohran Mamdani could be New York’s next mayor. This is what the western left could learn from him | Owen Jones
💬 "The Trust’s report, A Class Act (2024), demonstrates that this area of British culture is disproportionately produced by the most privileged segment of the population."
Our research on class diversity in the creative sector cited @uk.theconversation.com ⬇️
This is a barn-stormer.
The part about Keir Starmer is boggling.
What a loss.
Duncan was a hero to so many of us. A great journalist and a great man. Bullshit free, loved by all, supremely fair, incredibly wise and so effortlessly cool. A unique combo. God, he'll be missed. ❤️❤️❤️
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/m...
If this person sat next to you on a bus or train and started ranting about Bruce Springsteen in this way, you would get up and move to a different seat.
In the United States, we have him the nuclear codes.
