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Historian here, reminding everyone that “chronologically” is how you present history if you want to make sure that no one ever thinks about history, which is of course Deform’s goal.

Labour’s great green energy plan could be a legacy as vital as the NHS | Polly Toynbee Ed Miliband has a rare chance to do for the climate what Nye Bevan did for health: create something future generations will be proud of, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

Oh, Polly. Ed Milliband will not be the Nye Bevan of green energy; he’s too busy drilling for North Sea oil and gas. Green council candidates don’t mention national energy policy in their fliers because councils have nothing to do with that. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Fixing Broken Things Standing Up For What Matters In Gorton & Denton

MattGPT Goodwin used AI to learn how to be a Nazi and how to lose by-elections. Richard Tice used AI to make it look like he campaigns in Birmingham when actually he prevents me from getting lunch in Denton. More here: open.substack.com/pub/lewiscal...

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This peculiar Edinburgh postbox has no royal cypher, so I can’t tell which monarch reigned when it was installed. Thankfully, a helpful Scottish republican has written “Abolish the monarchy” on it to remind everyone that it doesn’t bloody matter.

The future is Green. Reform are just a bunch of angry old white men and they will not be around forever.

When I taught at uni in America, I was president of the faculty union on my campus (California Faculty Association San Luis Obispo). This sounds very similar to the rubbish that management always tried there. I’m so happy that Rochdale Greens are standing with our teachers.

To call an anti-Zionist party that is led by a Jew antisemitic is, in fact, antisemitic.

Yes he was. Starmer allows US planes to use UK bases as they bomb Iranian civilians in a war that Starmer admits is illegal. Starmer also sent Mandelson to be ambassador to the fascist tyrant who started this senseless war. Keeping Starmer in No. 10 serves no purpose and makes Britain less safe.

Betting on North Sea oil is a gamble with our household bills Politicians who want to ‘get Britain drilling’ again in the North Sea are completely out of touch with what the public want – or need to keep warm, says Green MP Hannah Spencer

Good piece from Hannah Spencer MP. Fossil fuel companies make record profits while British families freeze. More drilling won’t help. “The cheapest energy is the energy we do not waste.” We need wind power, heat pumps, better insulation. Listen to the plumber! www.independent.co.uk/voices/north...

Congratulations Lionesses! England 1 - 0 Spain. Keira Walsh got her 100th cap AND served as team captain as our lasses won a crucial victory against one of the best sides in football!

And remember, if you are an Islamophobe standing for office in Manchester, all the Orbán money in the world will not save you from getting trounced by a Green plumber who is nice to Muslims.

Much-changed Spain will still test England in first meeting since Euro 2025 final Spain, the reigning champions, have a new coach and some new faces for the World Cup qualifier against England at Wembley

Good luck to Keira Walsh as she earns her 100th cap tonight! Head coach Sarina Wiegman says Walsh "has enormous vision and game understanding. . . .She is an important player in leading the team in how we want to play.” And how they want to play is Proper English! www.theguardian.com/football/202...

And very on-brand for Polly Toynbee. I mean, a week before the by-election in Gorton & Denton she managed to write an opinion piece that somehow never mentioned the Greens, and that really took some doing!

Everybody buy some Massive Attack records because they’re brilliant and also Vote Green.

It’s hard to find a silver lining in this cloud of incipient fascism, but it will facilitate the 7 May #Greenwave

Yes, and disbar him. Starmer purports to be a human rights barrister. His Government is abetting US and Israeli war crimes and continuing to arrest protesters AFTER BRITAIN’S HIGH COURT FOUND THE PA BAN TO BE UNLAWFUL.

The alternate timeline from “For All Mankind” seems to be trying to take over our shitty real-world timeline, and I am HERE FOR IT!

Come the 7th of May, the world will see that the British people hate racism and war crimes, and love our neighbours. #Greenwave

Agreed!

British people who want to know what UK government is doing in their name must get info from the IRANIAN GOVERNMENT, who correctly identify Starmer’s claim that the UK has only a defensive role as “nonsense.” US bombers fly from UK bases & murder Iranian civilians. www.thecanary.co/global/world...

Tony Blair is the gift that keeps on giving…to Green candidates. #Greenwave

Readers added context: Zack Polanski advocates an economic philosophy called Keynesianism. It is not radical. It was the dominant economic theory of the 20th century, until it was replaced by a neo-liberalism that enriches billionaires & makes everyone else poorer.
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Dear Prime Minister: saying that the UK is "staying out of the conflict” doesn’t change the fact that US warplanes take off from UK bases on their way to bomb Iran, and taking your glasses off for the photo on your editorial does not turn Clark Kent into Superman. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Zack Polanski’s urgent call for the UK to sanction the genocidal Israeli state was at the top of The Guardian for 10 minutes this morning. It has been replaced by an article about how Starmer wishes Israel would stop bombing Lebanon but won’t do anything about it. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The word “republican” is one of the most case-sensitive words in written English, particularly if Americans are involved in the conversation.

Change For Good, America Good or wicked? Time to choose.

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It is weirdly comforting to see that the American pope has reached the same conclusion that I reached a year ago, when I fled the fascist dystopia that the USA has become, knowing that I could not return until Trump is gone.

To His Majesty King Charles III: Please follow the good example of Pope Leo and cancel your upcoming state visit to the United States.

100% THIS. It brings tears to my eyes. Kindness and empathy are the words that we use to describe REAL leadership. This is how we save the world. I’m so proud to have taught at the university that educated Victor Glover and his whole family!