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It is Book Launch day for @amaramarasingam.bsky.social and My edited volume "Contemporary Far-Right Culture The Art, Music, and Everyday Practices of Violent Extremism"
www.routledge.com/Contemporary...
www.routledge.com/Contemporary...
September 30, 2025 at 3:54 PM
It is Book Launch day for @amaramarasingam.bsky.social and My edited volume "Contemporary Far-Right Culture The Art, Music, and Everyday Practices of Violent Extremism"
www.routledge.com/Contemporary...
www.routledge.com/Contemporary...
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Thought:
If Morgan McSweeney was a mole, serving external interests, what would Starmer be doing differently?
Bear in mind he's a very good friend of Maurice Glasman, who is a very good friend of Nigel Farage, who is a very good friend of Donald Trump who is a very good friend of Steve Bannon.
If Morgan McSweeney was a mole, serving external interests, what would Starmer be doing differently?
Bear in mind he's a very good friend of Maurice Glasman, who is a very good friend of Nigel Farage, who is a very good friend of Donald Trump who is a very good friend of Steve Bannon.
September 25, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Thought:
If Morgan McSweeney was a mole, serving external interests, what would Starmer be doing differently?
Bear in mind he's a very good friend of Maurice Glasman, who is a very good friend of Nigel Farage, who is a very good friend of Donald Trump who is a very good friend of Steve Bannon.
If Morgan McSweeney was a mole, serving external interests, what would Starmer be doing differently?
Bear in mind he's a very good friend of Maurice Glasman, who is a very good friend of Nigel Farage, who is a very good friend of Donald Trump who is a very good friend of Steve Bannon.
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Looking forward to this launch. Some great writers lined up from the (former) Observer.
"Former Observer columnists comedian Stewart Lee and agony aunt Philippa Perry will both write for The Nerve" - as well as Carole Cadwalladr pressgazette.co.uk/news/former-...
"Former Observer columnists comedian Stewart Lee and agony aunt Philippa Perry will both write for The Nerve" - as well as Carole Cadwalladr pressgazette.co.uk/news/former-...
Former Observer big-hitters launch new title with redundancy payouts
Five former Observer journalists including Carole Cadwalladr have launched their own culture publication using their redundancy money.
pressgazette.co.uk
September 26, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Looking forward to this launch. Some great writers lined up from the (former) Observer.
"Former Observer columnists comedian Stewart Lee and agony aunt Philippa Perry will both write for The Nerve" - as well as Carole Cadwalladr pressgazette.co.uk/news/former-...
"Former Observer columnists comedian Stewart Lee and agony aunt Philippa Perry will both write for The Nerve" - as well as Carole Cadwalladr pressgazette.co.uk/news/former-...
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UK and EU reportedly negotiating British return to Erasmus programme
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UK students get chance to study in Europe from January 2027 under new Erasmus deal
The EU is pushing for a rapid agreement for Britain to rejoin the student exchange scheme
inews.co.uk
September 25, 2025 at 9:19 AM
UK and EU reportedly negotiating British return to Erasmus programme
inews.co.uk/news/politic...
inews.co.uk/news/politic...
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#TheHack
70% of hacking victims were not famous. They were ordinary people. Victims of crime, terror, other newsworthy incidents.
This was never about celebrities.
70% of hacking victims were not famous. They were ordinary people. Victims of crime, terror, other newsworthy incidents.
This was never about celebrities.
September 24, 2025 at 8:40 PM
#TheHack
70% of hacking victims were not famous. They were ordinary people. Victims of crime, terror, other newsworthy incidents.
This was never about celebrities.
70% of hacking victims were not famous. They were ordinary people. Victims of crime, terror, other newsworthy incidents.
This was never about celebrities.
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If you enjoyed #TheHack tonight here’s why the story mattered….
Robert Redford, me, Toby Jones - and a reporter who found corruption in his own backyard. Thoughts on the coming ITV drama, The Hack www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...
Me, Toby Jones and a timely reminder of why we need a free press
A new drama on the phone-hacking scandal shows us journalism at its worst, but also how reporting can make real change
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
September 24, 2025 at 9:01 PM
If you enjoyed #TheHack tonight here’s why the story mattered….
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Media storms over Winter Fuel Payments & benefit caps dominate attention. Quiet wins on wages, pensions & health barely cut through.
@eastangliabylines.co.uk @stephenmcnair.bsky.social
@eastangliabylines.co.uk @stephenmcnair.bsky.social
Things are not really that bad: balancing the government’s books
This government has become identified with a few bad mistakes. But the real balance of achievements points to a rather different picture
eastangliabylines.co.uk
September 22, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Media storms over Winter Fuel Payments & benefit caps dominate attention. Quiet wins on wages, pensions & health barely cut through.
@eastangliabylines.co.uk @stephenmcnair.bsky.social
@eastangliabylines.co.uk @stephenmcnair.bsky.social
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More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site
As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.
www.miamiherald.com
September 23, 2025 at 5:39 PM
More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
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The government is struggling and urgently needs some new ideas.
This week’s letter to 99% members has some important suggestions.
sh1.sendinblue.com/3g5z5z62bglp...
This week’s letter to 99% members has some important suggestions.
sh1.sendinblue.com/3g5z5z62bglp...
September 22, 2025 at 7:46 AM
The government is struggling and urgently needs some new ideas.
This week’s letter to 99% members has some important suggestions.
sh1.sendinblue.com/3g5z5z62bglp...
This week’s letter to 99% members has some important suggestions.
sh1.sendinblue.com/3g5z5z62bglp...
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Great moment to mention the anti-Yarvin Heather Marsh! georgiebc.wordpress.com/2025/07/01/n...
New book! How to Dismantle a Dictatorship is here!
How to Dismantle a Dictatorship is a guide to dismantling a dictatorship (surprising, I know) from the perspective of Binding Chaos theory. Because dictatorships are power structures, and all power…
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July 9, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Great moment to mention the anti-Yarvin Heather Marsh! georgiebc.wordpress.com/2025/07/01/n...
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🚨Our upcoming documentary on the VIP Lane made the ITV news this evening.
“Waste of taxpayers' money': Whistleblower says billions wasted on unfit PPE during Covid pandemic”.
🎥Tune in to ITV Sunday 10.15pm to watch the rest of “The Covid Contracts”
www.itv.com/news/2025-09...
“Waste of taxpayers' money': Whistleblower says billions wasted on unfit PPE during Covid pandemic”.
🎥Tune in to ITV Sunday 10.15pm to watch the rest of “The Covid Contracts”
www.itv.com/news/2025-09...
September 19, 2025 at 10:23 PM
🚨Our upcoming documentary on the VIP Lane made the ITV news this evening.
“Waste of taxpayers' money': Whistleblower says billions wasted on unfit PPE during Covid pandemic”.
🎥Tune in to ITV Sunday 10.15pm to watch the rest of “The Covid Contracts”
www.itv.com/news/2025-09...
“Waste of taxpayers' money': Whistleblower says billions wasted on unfit PPE during Covid pandemic”.
🎥Tune in to ITV Sunday 10.15pm to watch the rest of “The Covid Contracts”
www.itv.com/news/2025-09...
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For me the PPE scandal exposes the politicians whose first thoughts were to try and make as much money as possible, FOR THEMSELVES, out of the global pandemic, rather than how can I help the country and the world survive this.
Also a reminder of @chrischirp.bsky.social 's paper on Public enquiries
Also a reminder of @chrischirp.bsky.social 's paper on Public enquiries
What is the point of inquiries?
The UK needs a stronger, more efficient system for ensuring that recommendations from inquiries are implemented to avoid repeated failures, writes Christina Pagel
The UK Covid-19 Inquiry has just pu...
www.bmj.com
September 21, 2025 at 12:41 PM
For me the PPE scandal exposes the politicians whose first thoughts were to try and make as much money as possible, FOR THEMSELVES, out of the global pandemic, rather than how can I help the country and the world survive this.
Also a reminder of @chrischirp.bsky.social 's paper on Public enquiries
Also a reminder of @chrischirp.bsky.social 's paper on Public enquiries
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Please attend this if you plan on going to a No Kings event this weekend.
TONIGHT: at 7 PM ET: KNOW YOUR RIGHTS training for the upcoming NO KINGS events this Saturday: act.aclu.org/a/2025-kyr-t...
Know Your Rights Training: Get Ready for June 14
Take action with ACLU People Power!
act.aclu.org
June 11, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Please attend this if you plan on going to a No Kings event this weekend.
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NEW: Open letter by me & @alasianuti.bsky.social signed by 112 UK-based political academics & writers
Starmer's anti-immigrant policies are wrong & won't work
www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/starmer
Starmer's anti-immigrant policies are wrong & won't work
www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/starmer
OPEN LETTER: 100+ UK Academics & Writers to Keir Starmer
New anti-immigrant rules are bad policy & will only validate the far-right
www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com
May 16, 2025 at 7:42 AM
NEW: Open letter by me & @alasianuti.bsky.social signed by 112 UK-based political academics & writers
Starmer's anti-immigrant policies are wrong & won't work
www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/starmer
Starmer's anti-immigrant policies are wrong & won't work
www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/starmer
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Labour is haemorrhaging support to the Lib Dem’s and Greens faster than to Reform. According to a poll by UCL’s Policy Lab and More in Common, a swing of just 1.5% from Labour to Lib Dems would enableTories to take back 80 seats without gaining 1 more vote.
www.theneweuropean.co.uk/keir-starmer...
www.theneweuropean.co.uk/keir-starmer...
Keir Starmer: The grown-up
In a global storm, the PM’s gears seem to be clicking again. Now he must keep playing to his strengths – reason and relentlessness
www.theneweuropean.co.uk
March 11, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Labour is haemorrhaging support to the Lib Dem’s and Greens faster than to Reform. According to a poll by UCL’s Policy Lab and More in Common, a swing of just 1.5% from Labour to Lib Dems would enableTories to take back 80 seats without gaining 1 more vote.
www.theneweuropean.co.uk/keir-starmer...
www.theneweuropean.co.uk/keir-starmer...
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Michael Gove was questioned at the Covid Inquiry regarding the unlawful VIP lane, the unlawful decision to delay publication of contracts & his cosy relationship with VIP PPE suppliers & Dyson.
This is how the Spectator covered the news ⤵️
(Remind me who the current Editor at the Spectator is?🤷♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️)
This is how the Spectator covered the news ⤵️
(Remind me who the current Editor at the Spectator is?🤷♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️)
March 10, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Michael Gove was questioned at the Covid Inquiry regarding the unlawful VIP lane, the unlawful decision to delay publication of contracts & his cosy relationship with VIP PPE suppliers & Dyson.
This is how the Spectator covered the news ⤵️
(Remind me who the current Editor at the Spectator is?🤷♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️)
This is how the Spectator covered the news ⤵️
(Remind me who the current Editor at the Spectator is?🤷♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️)
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A message from Spain's left-wing government to the UK: take heart from our success on workers' rights. Raising living standards is the key to combating the far right.
"If you fall into the dialogue of the far right, the far right wins."
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
"If you fall into the dialogue of the far right, the far right wins."
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
‘If you fall into the dialogue of the far right, the far right wins’: Spain’s deputy PM on the need for workers’ rights
Yolanda Díaz Pérez’s leftwing government has championed employment reform similar to Labour’s proposals – and she tells British business there is nothing to fear
www.theguardian.com
March 10, 2025 at 9:32 AM
A message from Spain's left-wing government to the UK: take heart from our success on workers' rights. Raising living standards is the key to combating the far right.
"If you fall into the dialogue of the far right, the far right wins."
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
"If you fall into the dialogue of the far right, the far right wins."
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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The UK’s 2024 election had one of the lowest turnouts since universal suffrage.
That’s a crisis, writes Calix Eden. Automatic voter registration & reversing voter ID laws are essential first steps.
That’s a crisis, writes Calix Eden. Automatic voter registration & reversing voter ID laws are essential first steps.
How to resist the far right: renew our liberal democracy
Democracy is grave danger, but the UK can fight back: bold reforms, from voter rights to election integrity, could turn the tide
eastangliabylines.co.uk
March 3, 2025 at 8:01 AM
The UK’s 2024 election had one of the lowest turnouts since universal suffrage.
That’s a crisis, writes Calix Eden. Automatic voter registration & reversing voter ID laws are essential first steps.
That’s a crisis, writes Calix Eden. Automatic voter registration & reversing voter ID laws are essential first steps.
"Lowe has also repeatedly endorsed mass deportations of illegal immigrants, declaring on Sunday that “if that results in one million plus deportations … so be it”."
It's somewhat a relief that even Farage doesn't want to go there. For now.
Because it's not mass deportation Lowe wants. It's camps.
It's somewhat a relief that even Farage doesn't want to go there. For now.
Because it's not mass deportation Lowe wants. It's camps.
Rupert Lowe row highlights split over direction of Reform Party, and threatens Farage’s ambition to be UK’s main rightwing force.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
In Reform UK’s power struggle, Farage takes on unusual role of moderate voice
Rupert Lowe row highlights split over direction of party, and threatens Farage’s ambition to be UK’s main rightwing force
www.theguardian.com
March 10, 2025 at 6:49 AM
"Lowe has also repeatedly endorsed mass deportations of illegal immigrants, declaring on Sunday that “if that results in one million plus deportations … so be it”."
It's somewhat a relief that even Farage doesn't want to go there. For now.
Because it's not mass deportation Lowe wants. It's camps.
It's somewhat a relief that even Farage doesn't want to go there. For now.
Because it's not mass deportation Lowe wants. It's camps.
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Remember friends: in a fascist state “crime prevention” has the specific meaning of stopping fictional threats to jail opponents.
Every threat called out by the regime will be completely made up to explain why direct force is needed against the targeted people or groups.
Every threat called out by the regime will be completely made up to explain why direct force is needed against the targeted people or groups.
February 18, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Remember friends: in a fascist state “crime prevention” has the specific meaning of stopping fictional threats to jail opponents.
Every threat called out by the regime will be completely made up to explain why direct force is needed against the targeted people or groups.
Every threat called out by the regime will be completely made up to explain why direct force is needed against the targeted people or groups.
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1/5 🚨 Open Letter 🚨
Labour is turning to a failed playbook to deliver growth: deregulation. A model which has driven instability for over a decade.
We’ve written to the gov with @fairness.bsky.social and 24 business leaders, investors and legal experts to demand a re-think.
shorturl.at/w7jxB
Labour is turning to a failed playbook to deliver growth: deregulation. A model which has driven instability for over a decade.
We’ve written to the gov with @fairness.bsky.social and 24 business leaders, investors and legal experts to demand a re-think.
shorturl.at/w7jxB
Morning Call: Who scotches the watchmen?
Labour’s deregulation plan is a risk to the economy.
shorturl.at
February 14, 2025 at 12:21 PM
1/5 🚨 Open Letter 🚨
Labour is turning to a failed playbook to deliver growth: deregulation. A model which has driven instability for over a decade.
We’ve written to the gov with @fairness.bsky.social and 24 business leaders, investors and legal experts to demand a re-think.
shorturl.at/w7jxB
Labour is turning to a failed playbook to deliver growth: deregulation. A model which has driven instability for over a decade.
We’ve written to the gov with @fairness.bsky.social and 24 business leaders, investors and legal experts to demand a re-think.
shorturl.at/w7jxB
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Listen, for folks who don't know, I was a part of a small organizing team that led to a mass mobilization in 813 cities worldwide in 2019.
I am not talking out of my ass.
You should be VERY VERY VERY careful in this environment about sharing flyers for events that identify NO organizer.
I am not talking out of my ass.
You should be VERY VERY VERY careful in this environment about sharing flyers for events that identify NO organizer.
February 3, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Listen, for folks who don't know, I was a part of a small organizing team that led to a mass mobilization in 813 cities worldwide in 2019.
I am not talking out of my ass.
You should be VERY VERY VERY careful in this environment about sharing flyers for events that identify NO organizer.
I am not talking out of my ass.
You should be VERY VERY VERY careful in this environment about sharing flyers for events that identify NO organizer.
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Grocery prices aren’t going down. But no one really voted for that. They voted for the white supremacy. They voted to push back against the hard won progress we’ve made to get closer to a multiracial democracy. I know this because the Trump supporters are emboldened now. 1/
January 27, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Grocery prices aren’t going down. But no one really voted for that. They voted for the white supremacy. They voted to push back against the hard won progress we’ve made to get closer to a multiracial democracy. I know this because the Trump supporters are emboldened now. 1/
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⚠️WARNING⚠️As Elon Musk is to Trump, so Jeff Bezos is to Keir Starmer
CMA's deeply investigated reports on tech monopolists were basis for EU regulations and enforcement actions.
Another reason why Starmer says "There will be no rejoining the EU in my lifetime"
pluralistic.net/2025/01/22/a...
CMA's deeply investigated reports on tech monopolists were basis for EU regulations and enforcement actions.
Another reason why Starmer says "There will be no rejoining the EU in my lifetime"
pluralistic.net/2025/01/22/a...
Pluralistic: Keir Starmer appoints Jeff Bezos as his “first buddy” (22 Jan 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.net
January 24, 2025 at 11:06 AM
⚠️WARNING⚠️As Elon Musk is to Trump, so Jeff Bezos is to Keir Starmer
CMA's deeply investigated reports on tech monopolists were basis for EU regulations and enforcement actions.
Another reason why Starmer says "There will be no rejoining the EU in my lifetime"
pluralistic.net/2025/01/22/a...
CMA's deeply investigated reports on tech monopolists were basis for EU regulations and enforcement actions.
Another reason why Starmer says "There will be no rejoining the EU in my lifetime"
pluralistic.net/2025/01/22/a...