The Voters Progressive Parties Are Ignoring | Cas Mudde at GLOBSEC Forum 2025 YouTube video by GLOBSEC

Any Social Democratic party worth its name should stop chasing the far-right old white male voter and listen to the young female voter…

This should be top of most political and policy debates in the country - but wouldn't be of course! And we all know why.

Sinéad O'Connor & The Chieftains - The Foggy Dew YouTube video by Siobhán McCarthy

www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaS3... 110 years since #EasterRising sent shockwaves across the world that empires days were numbered! Great song - and article links Irish freedom solidarity everywhere today against oppression m.thewire.in/article/hist... ✊🏽🤛🤝👊✊🏽

Caste and Chappals • EQUATOR What leather footwear reveals about discrimination against Dalits

Chandu Maheriya's razor-sharp essay on the ubiquitous chappals and its entanglements with caste.
www.equator.org/articles/you...

More than 13 million living in poverty, government figures show The level rose slightly on the previous year while the number of children living in poverty has remained steady.

13.4m Britons, including 4m children, live in relative poverty.

Median wage of an employee is around £31,000.

Poorest 20% pay higher proportion of income in taxes than the richest 20%.

1% has more wealth than 70% of the population combined.

No govt plan for equitable distribution of wealth.

Where the 21st c. U.S. is headed.

When you think there are no depths too low for him to fall down to, trust Blair to do just that.
What a disgraceful ex-PM.

Left to right - Zia Yusuf, Robert Jenrick, Nigel Farage, Richard Tice and Suella Braverman

Welcome to Reform’s front bench

Yusuf, Hampton School, £29,916 per year
Jenrick, Wolverhampton Grammar, £17,835 per year
Farage, Dulwich College, £30,618 per year
Tice, Uppingham School, £58,176 per year
Braverman, Heathfield School, defunct private school

The authentic voice of the working class

This from Clive Lewis is right on the money. If anything, Mandelson and McSweeney's departure should be the end of the New Labour project.

Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters Exclusive: Site takes a cut of subscriptions to content that promotes far-right ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism

Write a substack, they said. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Pour one out for every professional political pundit, writer, consultant whatever that has spent the last decade trying to pretend that the Trump phenomenon was about trade or opiates and not a big chunk of white america losing its mind over having a black president bsky.app/profile/kyle...

If only the other media outlets had a conscience they would do something similar.

For decades, countries like Canada prospered under what we called the rules-based international order. We join its institutions, we praised its principles, we benefited from its predictability. And because of that, we could pursue values-based foreign policies under its protection. We knew the story of the international rules-based order was partially false, that the strongest would exempt themselves when convenient, that trade rules were enforced asymmetrically, and we knew that international law applied with varied rigor, depending on the identity of the accused or the victim. This fiction was useful, and American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, open sea lanes, a stable financial system, collective security, and support for frameworks for resolving disputes.

If nothing else, pretty amazing Canadian PM Carney said the quiet part out loud today: international law has never been real and the ‘rules’ of the international order have never applied to the US and its allies.

This may indeed be the actual death of neoliberalism.

globalnews.ca/news/1162087...

It really is mad king stuff, untethered from reality.

He tells the Norwegian leader, you did not give me a prize that you don't control, so maybe I will invade the territory of another Scandinavian country you don't lead.

Renfrew Christie Dies at 76; Sabotaged Racist Regime’s Nuclear Program

"I learned from them very early that what one does with Nazis is kill them.”

How Christie sabotaged S. Africa's nuclear programme; and fought the apartheid regime.

Family Guy - officer holds up color palette to determine American or foreignness

Minneapolis: facial recognition app being used to detect brown skinned man

When the racist meme becomes national policy

@joepompliano on Threads posted a pic of a map dotted with dozens of yacht names and said: “Pretty much every billionaire that owns a superyacht is in St. Barth right now for New Year's Eve - Jeff Bezos, Miriam Adelson, Shahid Khan, Sergey Brin, Jerry Jones, and 100+ others”

orcas have the chance to do the funniest thing

Trump's America, 2025

The utter lack of reason and logic as well as any political judgement will be Labour's undoing as it keeps chasing Reform's tail and demonizing black and brown immigrants with its own version of thinly veiled racism, Islamophobia, and xenophobia.

As if its own version is somehow morally superior.

This is how Rachel Reeves could deliver a progressive budget The chancellor has an opportunity to boost the public purpose and deliver redistribution

In 2023/24, UK govt gave £78.2bn tax relief on pension contributions.

32% benefitted 29.2m basic rate (20%) taxpayers.

68% went to higher and additional rate (40% and 45%) tax payers.

Equalizing tax relief at 20% to all, leaves govt £14.5bn spare to alleviate poverty.

The status of academic freedom in the world's largest democracy. Courtesy: @scholarsatrisk.bsky.social

More details here: www.scholarsatrisk.org/resources/fr...

Well done, Nadia Whittome.

It is shameful that words that one would once expected to hear directed at a Tory Home Secretary are now being directed at a Labour Home Secretary.

MAGA’s Intellectuals: Kirk, Anton, and the Forging of Trump's America First Empire Kirk and Anton's combined force has transformed the GOP: from Reagan's shining city on a hill to Trump's fortified bunker.

thewire.in/world/magas-... - two figures stand out as unlikely architects of a new Right Wing Order: Charlie Kirk and Michael Anton @martindbbrown.bsky.social @msenn.bsky.social @mjbayly.bsky.social @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social @cmcknichols.bsky.social @charleskeener.bsky.social @thenation.com

New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009

on the topic of dick cheney, one thing i’ve always said is that you shouldn’t kill a million people

Trump's America, 2025.

Why I remain hopeful. Even as the older, wealthy Tories are moving enmasse to Reform, the young people are rejecting it outright.

what else would we expect the Financial Times to say? keep making the case for workers to be taxed more because the wealthy apparently do not take dividends or hoard up assets but only invest in the future.