Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet.
This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.
Israeli soldiers using sexual assault to force Palestinians out of West Bank, report says. Experts say attacks, also carried out by settlers, are leading girls to quit school and enter early marriages.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
C’mon everyone let’s get this reposted and circulated as much as possible. Farage is the ultimate grifter.
Who is he really working for?
It certainly isn’t the good people of Clacton!!!!
🙄 Says it all ➡️ "Under Keir Starmer, the party has generally been incurious, and often outright hostile, towards promising new policies and ideas from the left – despite the absence of them from the Labour right and the party’s urgent need for fresh approaches." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
😢 Where continuing and grinding austerity leads 🔽. This is what happens when the public realm is cut back and when the Tories and Labour basically agree it should be cut back... www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
They tried to repurpose this guy in a more static role but it just kept happenning.
bsky.app/profile/cpax...
Less than honest, economical with the truth or just downright lies.
Whichever way you look at it, Starmer's cabinet has made Britain complicit in #warcrimes committed by Israel.
www.declassifieduk.org/minister-mis...
Tice failed to pay £100,000 tax on profits of firms linked to Reform — story via The Sunday Times
Richard tax-cheat Tice.
And remember when Farage’s partner bought his Clacton house somehow, so he could avoid paying taxes on it?
That is all Reform UK Party Ltd exists for: money.
They are useful for splitting the right-wing vote.
You can’t expect Keir Starmer to have known Mandelson was dodgy as fuck. Nobody told him.
Probably nobody told him Israel was committing war crimes either.
Or that the two-child benefit cap was starving kids.
Or that trans people are human beings.
Or that immigrants are a net benefit.
The Brexit delusion is dead – so now Keir Starmer doesn’t need to pretend any more. To rebuild relations with Europe in a dangerous world, the prime minister needs to win big arguments, not hide behind outdated red lines
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
We’re at a geopolitical moment when the US can no longer be relied upon, and closer ties with Europe, for security as much as for the economy, are essential. And this means unpicking Farage’s one major achievement, Brexit.
Incredible that The Times and BBC are trying to grease his way to No.10 now.
Starmer’s lying around Mandelson is despicable. But this below is the actual reason I won’t vote Labour in May.
I will refuse to support a xenophobic party that wages war against migrants.
About as believable as Sgt Bilko.
I suspect most of the LD and Lab voters didn't realise how strong the Green vote would be. Next time the Greens will be able to squeeze them. The LD vote normally collapses wherever the Greens can win.
Incredible that nearly half think stopping immigration is important (when it's falling anyway and actually benefits the economy) It now looks likely that our climate will collapse by the end of this century making the country barely habitable and we will be the immigrants. bsky.app/profile/theg...
All the stuff about vetting, advisers and process misses the point that everyone knew who Peter Mandelson was, what he had done and who he had associated with for literally years before Keir Starmer made him ambassador and lots of people pointed it out at the time. He appointed him anyway
That he failed vetting is no surprise at all. That the government wants him for the post so badly that they were prepared to overrule is malpractice of both governance and national security. And Starmer is running out of heads to roll.
According to the Guardian story, Starmer announced that Mandelson was going to be US Ambassador before the vetting process even took place. Yet apparently it's the Civil Service who must be thrown under the bus.
Unfortunately, RefUK held the one in Leicestershire but with the Greens making a strong showing in third behind the Tories.
When Brits are the ones in small boats trying to get to France, will they let us in? Will anyone care if we drown in the channel?
So this should obviously be the main headline on every news bulletin on every channel, right? Right?
Thursday's GUARDIAN: War windfall: big oil makes extra $30m every hour during conflict
#TomorrowsPapersToday
“Rahmstorf, who has studied the Amoc for 35 years, has said a collapse must be avoided “at all costs”. “I argued this when we thought the chance of an Amoc shutdown was maybe 5%, and even then we were saying that risk is too high, given the massive impacts. Now it looks like it’s more than 50%.”
Almost certain to collapse by 2100. Not great for Europe.
Maybe we should –I dunno– do something about climate change?
Critical Atlantic current significantly more likely to collapse than thought
- Scientists say finding is ‘very concerning’ as collapse would be catastrophic for Europe, Africa and the Americas
#AMOC #climatecrisis
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The research combined real-world ocean observations with the models to determine the most reliable, and this hugely reduced the spread of uncertainty. They found an estimated slowdown of 42% to 58% in 2100, a level almost certain to end in collapse. The Amoc is a major part of the global climate system and brings sun- warmed tropical water to Europe and the Arctic, where it cools and sinks to form a deep return current. A collapse would shift the tropical rainfall belt on which many millions of people rely to grow their food, plunge western Europe into extreme cold winters and summer droughts, and add 50-100cm to already rising sea levels around the Atlantic. Dr Valentin Portmann, at the Inria Centre de recherche Bordeaux Sud-Ouest in France and who led the new research, said: "We found that the Amoc is going to decline more than expected compared to the average of all climate models. This means we have an Amoc that is closer to a tipping point." Prof Stefan Rahmstorf, at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany, said: "This is an important and very concerning result. It shows that the 'pessimistic' models, which show a strong weakening of the Amoc by 2100, are, unfortunately, the realistic ones, in that they agree better with observational data." He added: "I now am increasingly worried that we may well pass that Amoc shutdown tipping point, where it becomes inevitable, in the middle of this century, which is quite close."
How can anyone claim that halting global heating is not a critically urgent priority or that we need more fossil-fuel development?
Coal, oil, and gas have already heated the world so much that this👇now seems likely to happen in our grandchildren's lifetimes.
Rana’s really been struggling with this goal & I’m worried she’s losing hope, she’s so exhausted & breathing is not easy when her space is filled with smoke 😭
Let’s make this canister of cooking gas happen for her
My children are okay, but they don't see how much pressure I'm under. I'm responsible for everything school, food, and their needs especially now with school in such difficult conditions. I'm doing my best to keep going for them, but it's very heavy, and just hope to find some support or relief schools are overcrowded, they even sit on the floor, and the environment is not good at all. But at least they can continue their education 11:11 AM
‼️‼️Apr 14 Fidaa update:
✅💌 Accidentally miscalculated but thanks to Richard's recurring donation we are now only $6 away from meeting this goal! Can anyone close it today?
Pls read Fidaa's words below
$194/$200 USD groceries
bit.ly/save-fidaa
✅ Molly Shah
#SaveFidaa
This’s not a military uniform, this’s the paramedic uniform who was killed yesterday.
Israel has killed 88 paramedics and first responders after deliberately targeting ambulances and medical centers.
This’s a war crime, but international law clearly doesn’t apply to Israel.