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.

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I would be happy to donate. I am a disabled pensioner and I simply don't have any free financial resources. I will repost your request.

May your God go with you! ❤️

Out of the ten most deprived areas in Europe, nine of them are in England. The only reason Scots areas aren't included is because Scotland, by comparison, has more social housing.
Of course, Scotland removing the Right to Buy in '14 helped.
The wilful destruction of the Countryside is... wrong!

I couldn't agree more Mike. I've watched the greenbelt between Glasgow and Edinburgh being swallowed by "ticky tocky boxes" utterly without supporting infrastructure.
As Billy Connolly once described Easterhouse a "desert with windows", they are missing "soul".

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More Housing? No Thanks! thephilosophicalmuse.blog/2026/04/14/m...

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BREAKING: We're taking the government to court over Palantir Peter Thiel's surveillance firm is embedded in the NHS. Wes Streeting won't show us the briefings - so we have launched a legal challenge.

BREAKING: We’re taking the government to court over Palantir.

The government is refusing to hand over important briefings given to Wes Streeting about the £330m NHS data contract with Peter Thiel’s surveillance firm

So we’re taking legal action.

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Sustained Protest Works. That’s Why Starmer Wants to Stop It | Harriet Williamson By its very nature, successful protest is sustained, persistent and disruptive. By giving police powers to stop 'cumulative' protests that cause 'serious disruption', Keir Starmer is dismantling dissent, writes Harriet Williamson.

Sustained Protest Works. That’s Why Starmer Wants to Stop It | Harriet Williamson

Claims and ideas which happen to favour the ruling class don't dominate public life by accident. They're paid for by oligarchs and corporations then promoted by media outlets other oligarchs and corporations own. Once they've been drummed into our ears enough, they're internalised as "common sense".

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Happy #SocialistSunday and #Solidarity to all! ✊✊✊

Let’s work together and organise to fight #Capitalist oppression and poverty creation, tackle the #ClimateCrisis and build a better world for all!

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One horrendous news report from Belgium is that UK Arms Companies are using passenger airlines to smuggle arms to Israel. The Belgians confiscated the shipments.
How much more will it take to wake up the minority of British people to our utterly compromised country? 🇵🇸

Mike’s Diary 29 March – 9 April Sunday 29 March Tony Blair in The Times: “We must end left’s unholy alliance with the Islamists.” I’ve no idea how he plans to go about ending this ‘unholy alliance” and anything he has to say shou…

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Photo of Lev Chernyi, with mustache, holding his chin. By Unknown author - http://www.ephemanar.net/septembre29.html, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=40980243

Today In #LaborHistory 4/11/1918: The Cheka arrested hundreds in #Moscow for #anarchism. The Black Guards, including Lev Chernyi, resisted the attacks. Chernyi, was an individualist anarchist, activist and poet. He was arrested by the Cheka and executed in 1921 without trial.

I like to see parts of the UK I don't know. I've seen a fair bit but I never assume it's enough!

I suppose I should have known that from the white rose!
They are beautiful! 😄

Where is that Mike?

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Happy Easter Mike!

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What happens to Britain's radical right if Orbán loses? Inside the money, power and patronage connecting Hungary and the British right

From Roger Scruton cafes to paying Matt Goodwin $10k a month, Viktor Orban has built a network of populist right think tanks, journalists and activists

Today Democracy for Sale delves into Orban’s allies on the British right

Well worth a read
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/orbans-brits

An important read

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Gun laws and the 2nd Amendment A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.Constitution of the United States, 2nd Amendment Gov…

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The next tipping point in the energy transition is approaching.

Overall, solar has already been cheaper than fossil power for a while, but upfront costs used to be higher.

That's no longer the case. Solar is now competitive upfront AND has vastly lower operating costs (no fuel).

Britain needs its own foreign policy – to rupture the principles of domination and imperialism www.morningstaronline.co.uk/article/brit... #morningstaronline

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Next week’s disability cuts will make people destitute – and you might not understand how bad they are until it’s too late | Frances Ryan If new claimants don’t meet strict criteria, they’ll lose half of the health element of universal credit. Don’t ignore that: in life’s lottery, that could easily be you, says Guardian columnist France...

Labour going after the disabled once again. Horrible stuff!

Screwing the poor, not taxing the rich.

"If new claimants don’t meet strict criteria, they’ll lose half of the health element of universal credit. Don’t ignore that: in life’s lottery, that could easily be you”.