After due consideration, having weighed up the relevant evidence, assessed the balance of arguments and gamed the likely implications, I have reached the conclusion that Keir Starmer can fuck off from a great height.

They say there’s no money for housing, food or health. Yet war, surveillance and repression are endlessly funded. The system protects capital not people. The real war is against the poor. No war but the class war. It's time for us to wake up and fight against the system before they kill us ⚡🏴

⚡🏴When our basic needs are met, we stop surviving and start living. Freed from hunger and fear, we unlock imagination. A nourished people don't just survive... they build, dream, and reclaim their dignity.

Cartoon for St George's day by Stephen Collins for the guardian. Script as follows: Scene is outside a cave, ST GEORGE in armour etc is confronting the DRAGON while the CAPTURED PRINCESS looks on. DRAGON: So let me get this straight. DRAGON: You’re hoping to reinforce ‘helpless princess’ tropes… DRAGON: By publicly stabbing an *endangered animal* to death with a *sword*… DRAGON: So you can force a whole Syrian village to convert to Christianity…. DRAGON: And become a nationalist icon for a colonial state… DRAGON: Through the cultural appropriation of ancient medieval dragon myths.  DRAGON: You’ve not been *online* very long, have you? GEORGE:  I have been quite surprised by the comments. GEORGE’S SOCIAL MEDIA ASSISTANT [who is filming this encounter on an iPhone]: I told you it’s problematic, George. DRAGON: Problematic? It’s a *bin fire*! DRAGON: OK. Here’s how you turn this round -  CUT TO a YoutTube post called ‘MY JOURNEY (An apology)’. GEORGE is crying to camera, Dragon in background. GEORGE:  I am *so sorry* guys… 

Happy St George' Day!

Oh FGS. Anything that upsets corporate power and/or the far right is now deemed by the BBC to invoke "public controversy", and must therefore be nixed.
The BBC has done more to censor public debate than any other organisation in the UK.
And still it goes on.

Carl Sagan when asked, "Are you a Socialist?"

Homelessness – the other housing crisis politicians aren’t talking about More than 120,000 people are homeless in Australia. The problem can be solved, but it will take more than just building more homes

Homelessness – the other housing crisis politicians aren’t talking about

theconversation.com/homelessness...

crookedtimber.org/2025/03/17/a...

Understanding the Monsters - Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung The reciprocity between fascization and obstructed transformation in Germany

Germany teeters on a dangerous precipice, grappling with a social and political upheaval. Without collective action for social-ecological transformation, this essay argues that it may spiral into unchecked authoritarianism.

By Mario Candeias in @rosaluxstiftung.bsky.social

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The war in Iraq was not a blunder or a mistake. It was a crime | Owen Jones Tony Blair says he did not know military action would be disastrous. In truth, he was warned many times

22 years ago today, the US and UK illegally invaded Iraq.

In doing so, they unleashed bloody chaos which so many are still paying the price for today.

As I wrote in 2016, the Iraq war was not a "blunder" or a "mistake".

It was a crime.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Happy Ostara 🐇🌼🌞🌕💛

There is a shameful tradition of demonising disabled people. Why is Labour reigniting it? | Frances Ryan Ministers run away from a wealth tax and then concoct a punitive benefits system. They have made that choice and it’s immoral, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

“Every time you see a headline on “the cost of the benefits bill”, what you are really reading is “the cost of disabled people”. 

My col. on Labour’s reported benefit cuts and the toxic narrative of the “moral” virtue of work. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

1. You feel powerless? Don’t know what you can do to resist the rise of fascism?
Here is an answer: Good Things.
Fascism inflicts pain and harm as a matter of doctrine.
Kindness, care and conviviality defend us from it.
The more we build community, the less it can take root.
🧵

Trump never had a peace plan for Ukraine. He had a plan for Ukraine's surrender, with a colonial resource grab. As Zelenskyy rightly refused it, or to cooperate in Trump's TV spectacular, the US has now cut Ukraine off.
That's what blackmail looks like.
That's what the world is up against.

Labour’s carbon-capture scheme will be Starmer’s white elephant: a terrible mistake costing billions | George Monbiot The supposedly green project – brainchild of the previous Tory government – will increase emissions, not reduce them, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Yes, the UK government SHOULD abandon its Carbon Capture and Storage scheme, which
a. would cause a net *increase* in emissions
b. is unlikely to work
c. uses tens of billions that'd be much better spent on genuinely green projects.
Let's hope it has seen sense.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

More Growth, More Problems: System Change Not Climate Change The illusion of endless growth and why bigger economies and capitalism don’t make our lives better.

medium.com/the-new-clim...

It's time to face the uncomfortable truth: capitalism must end or fundamentally change.

No second state visit for Trump This is UNBELIEVABLE. Keir Starmer has just handed Donald Trump a letter from King Charles, inviting him for a second state visit to the UK. It’s totally unprecedented, and I was so outraged when I he...

Unbelievable. Donald Trump has been invited to a state visit to the UK. We should not be rolling out the red carpet to celebrate this man. Agree? Add your name to the petition today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/no...

May the rotting flesh of kings feed the earth.

Halfway to the weekend. LFG!

When the rich wage war, it’s the poor who die. - Jean Paul Sartre

🎯

A Cool Guide Towards The Rise of Totalitarianism in the USA" based on the book Origins of Totalitarianism By Hannah Arendt.
#USA #Totalitarianism #Thinkthanks #wewantdemocracynow

Meme in a Grey background with white letters read "FUCK THE SYSTEM BECAUSE THE SYSTEM FUKCS U"

Idc what party you like, idgaf about politicians or ppl in power, institutions that are meant to keep us in different forms of suffering. Whether you vote blue or red, it’s the rich who fuck you up. You keep playing this cyclical game of my pick’s better and you gotta keep playing this game…

I received, and continue to receive, many extremely vicious attacks for standing with the people of Syria and Ukraine against prominent UK and US leftists who recited Putin and Assad's propaganda. Humanitarian principles must always transcend partisan loyalties. I won't be bullied into submission.

Filosofia de muro

Manufacturing consent

If you have not read this book yet (or listened to it) you are not properly prepared for what we’re facing right now, full stop. And it is clear far too many have not.