Tax dodgers union showing once again they have no understanding of how an economy works

No Left Field this summer, but you can recharge your activism at the Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival. It's a celebration of worker's power with music, talks, workshops and a whole weekend of radical solidarity. Get down to Dorset and get organised!

Tickets and details here: www.tolpuddlemartyrs.org.uk

Strong pro-Israel bias among BBC bosses, new data indicates BBC executives met nine times with pro-Israel Jewish groups and just once with pro-Palestinians in 14 months of genocide, Freedom of Information shows

👉 NEW -- Strong pro-Israel bias among BBC bosses, new data indicates

by Dania Akkad

BBC executives met nine times with pro-Israel Jewish groups and just once with pro-Palestinians in 14 months of genocide, Freedom of Information shows

www.declassifieduk.org/strong-pro-i...

Let’s not forget record fucking debt and not even a ferry to show for it….(happy landlords is a shit outcome and worth more to the resorts of Fiji than to actual kiwis)

On the money as always - thank you

Ridiculous statement from Ex Nato chief - UK unprepared for war due to an “ever-expanding welfare budget”.

25.3m people live below minimum income standard.
Since 2010 HMRC hasn't collected £500bn of taxes.

Does he think poor/ill make better defenders.

Silence on corporate welfare, taxing the rich

Cartoon. Title: “Great White Hope” Opposition leader Chris Hipkins on a call to Vice President of the USA, J D Vance. Hipkins is looking upward, with his fingers crossed, saying, “Pick up…pick up…pick up… Oh, hi, Mr J D Vance? Would you consider coming to New Zealand to endorse Mr Luxon and his coalition? Like you did for Viktor Orban in Hungary?” Vance, wearing a MAGA cap, looks angry.

The Great White Hope. Opposition leader Chris Hipkins makes a call to Vice President of the USA, J D Vance.
My #cartoon today #NZpol #USA #Hungary #NZelection26

This is as close to hopeful as I get...

Learned societies and academies, and their journals, need to take a stand. We need to make it clear that we expect our authors to be able to read (the references they cite) and write (the articles they claim to have authored).

They make EVERYTHING worse. Ban, tax, whatever, but acknowledge it already

‘Montesquieu, one of the great writers on federations, said that for an alliance to bind us it must be seen to be just. Alliance ceases to deserve the name when one party claims the right to command and the other is left with a duty to comply.’

Thomas Poole on the blog
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The U.S. has vast reserves of wealth that are becoming superconcentrated among fewer and fewer people.

We need to claw some back for the people of the United States to pay for things that we deserve—healthcare, healthy foods, clean air and water.

We can afford it if we want to.

Inflation a guide for users and losers by Mark Blyth and Nicolo Fraccarolo - highly recommend

Everyone needs to be talking about how we will pay the price for DOGE’s data theft if they are not held accountable.

Are gendered institutions real powers or just ideas in our heads? Grounded in critical realism, this piece by @grahn.bsky.social bridges the divide, advocating abductive methods to uncover their elusive mechanisms shaping practices. doi.org/10.1017/s174...
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The Middle East is full of religious extremists who blindly revere evil men.

Oops! I meant *The United States* not The Middle East.

Comparison by year: Jobs were tracking 2025 levels in first quarter. But, we're now spending hundreds of millions per month on fuel imports instead of activity that supports domestic demand. So, big Trump slump incoming. Govt will watch clueless from the lectern. Keep calm and carry on to WINZ [3/3]

Well-known likability expert Rachael Smalley on the job.

Phil Ochs Wrote the Soundtrack to the New Left The 1960s saw a stampede of lefty folk musicians, but none as politically engaged as Phil Ochs. A true activist-musician who thought of himself as a “singing journalist,” Ochs was as comfortable playing at a demonstration as at a concert hall.

The 1960s saw a stampede of lefty folk musicians, but none as politically engaged as Phil Ochs.

A true activist-musician who thought of himself as a “singing journalist,” Ochs was as comfortable playing at a demonstration as at a concert hall.

A moral giant in a hothouse of genocidal mania.

Zack being interviewed

Zack being interviewed

Zack in frame on a camera

Zack being interviewed

A solid few hours of back to back interviews today with a consistent message.

Wealth and power has been taken away from our communities.

We're taking it back - time to end Rip Off Britain.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Daisy Eastlake, "You said you would withdraw from the UK-Israel trade agreement, trade was worth £6.2 billion in 2025, do you accept policies like this come with an economic cost? And how would you plug gaps like that?"

Zack Polanski, "I don't think we should be putting a cost on people's lives"

Not quite but it's good and he should do it more. I don't think this kind of criticism is going to change the nature of what is already a damaged relationship.

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Medicare for All Is an Electoral Winner Working-class voters already back Medicare for All. Framed like Social Security — as a benefit earned from work, not a handout — it can reach two-thirds support.

Working-class voters already back Medicare for All.

Framed like Social Security — as a benefit earned from work, not a handout — it can reach two-thirds support.

The Iconography of Destruction Peter Jukes explores how the US President has spent his life riding the storm – but how much longer can he avoid reaping the whirlwind of his ‘American carnage’? The post The Iconography of Destruction appeared first on Byline Times.

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Peter Jukes explores how the US President has spent his life riding the storm – but how much longer can he avoid reaping the whirlwind of his ‘American carnage’?

Chart showing print books still dominate in the U.S., but use of e-books and audiobooks has grown over the past decade.

📚 Americans still opt for print books over digital or audio versions. Which reading format do you prefer? www.pewresearch.org/...

The Works rolls out Find Your Story push for National Year of Reading

The Works has unveiled a "Find Your Story" campaign to encourage children to discover books aligned with their interests, as part of the National Year of Reading 2026 👇 #BookSky