Ben Bowsher
@benbowsher.bsky.social
Political Theorist and Researcher. Always overthinker. Sometimes designer. Now the useless kind of doctor.
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Guardian has a game designed to show you how hard Rachel Reeves’ job is and within 30 seconds I made everyone happy by raising taxes somewhat on very wealthy people and corporations and slightly cutting them for everyone else, undid welfare cuts, got the budget into surplus. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
November 20, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Guardian has a game designed to show you how hard Rachel Reeves’ job is and within 30 seconds I made everyone happy by raising taxes somewhat on very wealthy people and corporations and slightly cutting them for everyone else, undid welfare cuts, got the budget into surplus. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Not to become one of those “politics happens when the council don’t do my bins properly” guys but my green bin suddenly stopped being taken 8 weeks ago. Only just got an answer why - somehow our bin is from a different council, and apparently that is some magic code for unemptiable.
November 20, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Not to become one of those “politics happens when the council don’t do my bins properly” guys but my green bin suddenly stopped being taken 8 weeks ago. Only just got an answer why - somehow our bin is from a different council, and apparently that is some magic code for unemptiable.
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This excuse would be pretty grim even if Labour were now very popular thanks to their flag-saluting foreigner crackdowns, which they really are not.
November 17, 2025 at 4:47 PM
This excuse would be pretty grim even if Labour were now very popular thanks to their flag-saluting foreigner crackdowns, which they really are not.
I fucking would!
I would never have believed we would see a headline like this under a Labour government
November 17, 2025 at 5:33 PM
I fucking would!
Shabana Mahmood just needlessly justifying fascist rhetoric to chase a tiny percentage of voters who won’t vote for them anyway. 🙃
November 17, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Shabana Mahmood just needlessly justifying fascist rhetoric to chase a tiny percentage of voters who won’t vote for them anyway. 🙃
Capitalism is dependent on an ever expanding war machine
November 16, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Capitalism is dependent on an ever expanding war machine
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Is it “tell the racists how very right they are” this week, and “wring your hands over them“ next, or the other way round? I get so confusicated
Racism returning to UK politics – and people are very scared, says Starmer
PM attacks ‘toxic division of Reform’ and gives strongest signal yet that two-child benefit cap will be lifted
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Is it “tell the racists how very right they are” this week, and “wring your hands over them“ next, or the other way round? I get so confusicated
Hearing people are urgently needed at the counter demo at New Bridge Hotel in Newcastle today - if you can show up to support local asylum seekers and to say no to the fash!
November 8, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Hearing people are urgently needed at the counter demo at New Bridge Hotel in Newcastle today - if you can show up to support local asylum seekers and to say no to the fash!
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1 trillion dollars with nothing more than the hope that this time the monorail will work behind them. Obscene.
November 7, 2025 at 12:28 PM
1 trillion dollars with nothing more than the hope that this time the monorail will work behind them. Obscene.
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Capitalism has made this man a trillionaire. Can we be honest now that it’s not a real and effective way of organising social relations.
November 7, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Capitalism has made this man a trillionaire. Can we be honest now that it’s not a real and effective way of organising social relations.
Capitalism has made this man a trillionaire. Can we be honest now that it’s not a real and effective way of organising social relations.
November 7, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Capitalism has made this man a trillionaire. Can we be honest now that it’s not a real and effective way of organising social relations.
Capitalism efficiently distributing $1trillion dollars to one man who continuously bullshits about what his companies will be able to do and then doesn’t deliver.
November 7, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Capitalism efficiently distributing $1trillion dollars to one man who continuously bullshits about what his companies will be able to do and then doesn’t deliver.
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🚨 Today, Common Wealth launches the Green Planning Commission.
A major new initiative to tackle the twin crises of our era: climate breakdown & the affordability crisis.
To meet these challenges, we need a new era of democratic planning.
🧵
https://www.common-wealth.org/green-planning-commission
A major new initiative to tackle the twin crises of our era: climate breakdown & the affordability crisis.
To meet these challenges, we need a new era of democratic planning.
🧵
https://www.common-wealth.org/green-planning-commission
October 30, 2025 at 9:04 AM
🚨 Today, Common Wealth launches the Green Planning Commission.
A major new initiative to tackle the twin crises of our era: climate breakdown & the affordability crisis.
To meet these challenges, we need a new era of democratic planning.
🧵
https://www.common-wealth.org/green-planning-commission
A major new initiative to tackle the twin crises of our era: climate breakdown & the affordability crisis.
To meet these challenges, we need a new era of democratic planning.
🧵
https://www.common-wealth.org/green-planning-commission
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As the single most important news story this year, I can't wait to see the detailed and central coverage this will get in every media outlet we have
‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C climate target, says UN head
Exclusive: ‘Devastating consequences’ now inevitable but emissions cuts still vital, says António Guterres in sole interview before Cop30
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 1:00 AM
As the single most important news story this year, I can't wait to see the detailed and central coverage this will get in every media outlet we have
Other than noting the obvious patheticness of this, I note the figure on the left is wearing a replica Dr. Who sweater-vest from Sylvester McCoy’s “bring down the [tory] government” era. Just totally went over his huge bonce I imagine.
October 25, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Other than noting the obvious patheticness of this, I note the figure on the left is wearing a replica Dr. Who sweater-vest from Sylvester McCoy’s “bring down the [tory] government” era. Just totally went over his huge bonce I imagine.
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What happened when, after decades, there was finally a serious risk that Britain might elect a PM who was likely to e.g. ask to see the Northern Ireland files, just to have a look at what was in them. Was that welcomed, was it encouraged
Much like Hillsborough, you have to marvel at how Britain as a system is so utterly impervious to accountability: decades of orchestrated bullshit, legal shenanigans and institutional roadblocks, and then one final great rasping fart of “maybe it was elves that did it, and fuck you”.
October 23, 2025 at 12:34 PM
What happened when, after decades, there was finally a serious risk that Britain might elect a PM who was likely to e.g. ask to see the Northern Ireland files, just to have a look at what was in them. Was that welcomed, was it encouraged
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Out today - Anthropocene Communism: Land and Capital in the Age of Disaster by Paul Guillibert
Anthropocene Communism
In Anthropocene Communism, the philosopher and activist Paul Guillibert proposes a brand-new communism for life: biocommunism. With the aid of this system, he hopes to move us beyond the ecological cr...
www.versobooks.com
October 21, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Our fishbone cactus is happier than usual this year. The whole room smells amazing because of these flowers.
October 21, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Our fishbone cactus is happier than usual this year. The whole room smells amazing because of these flowers.
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Israel is breaching the ‘ceasefire’ by conducting air strikes on Rafah. They are claiming this is retaliatory, which is a lie.
October 19, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Israel is breaching the ‘ceasefire’ by conducting air strikes on Rafah. They are claiming this is retaliatory, which is a lie.
New Blood Orange record is so good
October 17, 2025 at 7:12 PM
New Blood Orange record is so good
I’m not a numbers guy but this seems very bad
October 10, 2025 at 2:40 PM
I’m not a numbers guy but this seems very bad
Anyone know a good place to learn self defence in Gateshead/Newcastle area? Don’t want to go somewhere and find they have various dodgy political commitments when I get there.
October 2, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Anyone know a good place to learn self defence in Gateshead/Newcastle area? Don’t want to go somewhere and find they have various dodgy political commitments when I get there.
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🚨 Our new investigation out today reveals how thousands of people who've taken their bosses to employment tribunals & won, never got paid, even after they approached the government for help.
This has serious implications for the Employment rights bill.
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
This has serious implications for the Employment rights bill.
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
Thousands of rogue bosses get away with not paying tribunal awards
The government scheme ‘enforcing’ money owed to workers has been unsuccessful in a staggering three-quarters of cases
www.thebureauinvestigates.com
October 2, 2025 at 7:46 AM
🚨 Our new investigation out today reveals how thousands of people who've taken their bosses to employment tribunals & won, never got paid, even after they approached the government for help.
This has serious implications for the Employment rights bill.
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
This has serious implications for the Employment rights bill.
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
Profoundly unhelpful intervention that obfuscates larger structural problems and solutions in favour of some vague moralising, which lays the groundwork for yet more muscular benefits policing. As someone who suffered severely with anxiety and depression in my twenties this discourse is infuriating
Starmer issues benefits warning for young people with mental illnesses www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Starmer issues benefits warning for young people with mental illnesses
The prime minister said he was concerned that young people on benefits could end up on welfare for life
www.independent.co.uk
October 2, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Profoundly unhelpful intervention that obfuscates larger structural problems and solutions in favour of some vague moralising, which lays the groundwork for yet more muscular benefits policing. As someone who suffered severely with anxiety and depression in my twenties this discourse is infuriating