Malkintrash
@malkintrash.bsky.social
Eclectic personal brand, a poor fit for your TL guaranteed. He/him. Autonomist.
Reads Français / 中文 but posts on main in English
Reads Français / 中文 but posts on main in English
Can someone do a family chart of the clique of married couples running the Labour right because I am having trouble keeping track of it all. Gonna need a lot of think tanks to support the intricate network of princelings emerging from this; there's a separate clan busy populating the Fabians etc
🔴 SCOOP: Wife of Starmer’s comms chief had direct knowledge of Labour Together’s investigation into journalists, documents seen by D4S show
Revelation heaps more pressure on minister Josh Simons to explain why he paid a PR firm to dig dirt on reporters
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/starmer-al...
Revelation heaps more pressure on minister Josh Simons to explain why he paid a PR firm to dig dirt on reporters
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/starmer-al...
Starmer ally Josh Simons faces fresh questions about digging dirt on journalists
Tory and SNP chiefs call for Labour minister Simons to ‘come clean’ as we reveal new details of PR firm’s campaign to discredit journalists
democracyforsale.substack.com
February 14, 2026 at 11:06 AM
Can someone do a family chart of the clique of married couples running the Labour right because I am having trouble keeping track of it all. Gonna need a lot of think tanks to support the intricate network of princelings emerging from this; there's a separate clan busy populating the Fabians etc
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Forget goblin mode. It's all about amorous mothers of radioactive hybrid terror pigs mode from now on.
ICYMI: Fukushima's radioactive hybrid terror pig boom was driven by amorous mothers
Fukushima's radioactive hybrid terror pig boom was driven by amorous mothers
Genetic study finds domestic pigs’ year-round breeding sped gene flow into wild boar
Back in 2021, in the thick of pandemic mania, The Register gleefully reported that "radioactive hybrid terror pigs" were thriving in Japan's Fukushima exclusion zone.…
dlvr.it
February 13, 2026 at 2:26 PM
Forget goblin mode. It's all about amorous mothers of radioactive hybrid terror pigs mode from now on.
This is an excellent point
It goes further - imagine a by-election contest between a working plumber from Manchester and a professor from Kent? The media lines write themselves, except that the party allegiances are not how our commentariat would like them to be.
One of the fascinating things is that if the Reform candidate was a plumber who had just been on a plastering course, we would not hear the end of it in the media.
February 13, 2026 at 12:40 PM
This is an excellent point
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Y Cooper's brand was always the Lawful Evil; she'd deport people just as hard as the Tories but at least the paperwork would be filled in correctly. Now it turns out she wasn't even serious about the "lawful" bit, so I guess her brand is just "evil" now
May Labour's Yvette Cooper, the former Home Secretary, be remembered always as the politician who imposed the ban at the behest of Britain's powerful weapons industry, so it could continue to profit from the deliberate massacre of the people of Gaza
February 13, 2026 at 10:34 AM
Y Cooper's brand was always the Lawful Evil; she'd deport people just as hard as the Tories but at least the paperwork would be filled in correctly. Now it turns out she wasn't even serious about the "lawful" bit, so I guess her brand is just "evil" now
Please help Ahmed 💚 the situation in Gaza remains terrible:
Hello everyone,
I'm Ahmed, a father from Gaza.
These are my children, Ashraf and Rakan, and we are exhausted. The situation is still dangerous and life is very difficult. We need your help. I hope you will stand by us., my friends.
Please, we need your help. 🙏😭
Support link⬇️🔗
gofund.me/46ce1af1
I'm Ahmed, a father from Gaza.
These are my children, Ashraf and Rakan, and we are exhausted. The situation is still dangerous and life is very difficult. We need your help. I hope you will stand by us., my friends.
Please, we need your help. 🙏😭
Support link⬇️🔗
gofund.me/46ce1af1
February 13, 2026 at 8:36 AM
Please help Ahmed 💚 the situation in Gaza remains terrible:
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Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin
February 12, 2026 at 4:31 PM
Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin
From the Studio of the Four No's 🖤
"Because of the void everything is possible. Without the void nothing is possible.", Written in Bold Black Script https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/336547
February 12, 2026 at 8:19 PM
From the Studio of the Four No's 🖤
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Well I can't say responding to the UK government's sociopathic, impenetrable and frankly depraved consultation on how to punish immigrants and refugees even MORE has improved my morning
But it's important to push back every way we can.
Abolish the Home Office. Salt the earth of their foul ministry
But it's important to push back every way we can.
Abolish the Home Office. Salt the earth of their foul ministry
I urge you to fill in this consultation if you can - with this very helpful support from Amnesty International - although AND because ! it is heart-breaking that this country has sunk so low that Amnesty suggest in a number of cases to provide no answer as the terms of the question are so evil
The UK government is proposing radical and punitive changes to settlement rules. This is settlement, not citizenship. The consultation is open until 12 February; please respond to it and oppose these evil proposals. Amnesty have a good guide: www.amnesty.org.uk/resources/gu...
February 11, 2026 at 9:21 AM
Well I can't say responding to the UK government's sociopathic, impenetrable and frankly depraved consultation on how to punish immigrants and refugees even MORE has improved my morning
But it's important to push back every way we can.
Abolish the Home Office. Salt the earth of their foul ministry
But it's important to push back every way we can.
Abolish the Home Office. Salt the earth of their foul ministry
Just crashed my wheelie chair into a rug & invented the word funt. See if you can guess what it means 🤗
February 11, 2026 at 2:04 PM
Just crashed my wheelie chair into a rug & invented the word funt. See if you can guess what it means 🤗
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A UK student in the US went to a protest for five minutes. ICE subpoenaed Google for his private details. Google complied.
theintercept.com/2026/02/10/g...
theintercept.com/2026/02/10/g...
February 11, 2026 at 7:47 AM
A UK student in the US went to a protest for five minutes. ICE subpoenaed Google for his private details. Google complied.
theintercept.com/2026/02/10/g...
theintercept.com/2026/02/10/g...
MS spellcheck is now trying to tell me that "irresoluble" isn't a word, so I'm back to browsing flights to the PNW.
You know what? I actually love AI. I just asked Google for the home address of the guy who designed the spellcheck function in MS Office & it *gave it to me*. Any mutuals who live in the PNW & fancy hanging out/ potentially providing me with an alibi, hmu
February 11, 2026 at 8:55 AM
MS spellcheck is now trying to tell me that "irresoluble" isn't a word, so I'm back to browsing flights to the PNW.
I love how many of us didn't read the instructions properly before setting our horse to run 😊
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Draw a horse, watch it run!
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February 10, 2026 at 3:11 PM
I love how many of us didn't read the instructions properly before setting our horse to run 😊
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This is sadly how a broken system routinely doesn’t work for people with many different conditions
We need to urgently fix health and social care
Additionally we need to change how severe ME/CFS is seen by health and social care professionals and wider society, people just don’t accept the reality
We need to urgently fix health and social care
Additionally we need to change how severe ME/CFS is seen by health and social care professionals and wider society, people just don’t accept the reality
In this week's #ThereForME blog our co-founder @karenlhargrave.bsky.social writes about the challenges she and her husband James have faced accessing NHS Continuing Healthcare funding.
She explains why CHC funding for very severe ME is an issue that deserves attention.
🔗 in next post 👇
She explains why CHC funding for very severe ME is an issue that deserves attention.
🔗 in next post 👇
![A picture of a young woman and man together smiling (Karen and James). Overlaid on the picture: "When I first came across CHC funding it felt like the perfect fit [...] Their initial assessment concluded he was eligible. Yet, one year on both our CHC application and subsequent appeal have been rejected." Karen Hargrave. New #ThereForME Substack post.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wjbaponwuqichcsh2fiwono5/bafkreifod7x7n4p4nd4i7wresiukfpxc4sb3rewzva7r63te4vpqpioo2m@jpeg)
February 10, 2026 at 2:55 PM
This is sadly how a broken system routinely doesn’t work for people with many different conditions
We need to urgently fix health and social care
Additionally we need to change how severe ME/CFS is seen by health and social care professionals and wider society, people just don’t accept the reality
We need to urgently fix health and social care
Additionally we need to change how severe ME/CFS is seen by health and social care professionals and wider society, people just don’t accept the reality
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Hello from Eurosky.
February 10, 2026 at 2:42 PM
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Excellent piece!
🔴The End of Morgan McSweeney: Peter Oborne on Keir Starmer's Departing Chief of Staff
As McSweeney resigns, we re-publish Peter Oborne’s Byline Times reporting on how Keir Starmer's chief strategist drove Labour towards defeat by the far-right
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/the-end-of...
As McSweeney resigns, we re-publish Peter Oborne’s Byline Times reporting on how Keir Starmer's chief strategist drove Labour towards defeat by the far-right
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/the-end-of...
The End of Morgan McSweeney: Peter Oborne on Keir Starmer's Departing Chief of Staff
As McSweeney resigns, we re-publish Peter Oborne’s Byline Times reporting on how Keir Starmer's chief strategist drove Labour towards defeat by the far-right
www.bylinesupplement.com
February 9, 2026 at 1:14 PM
Excellent piece!
Fewer juries, more secret trials. Labour's remaining defenders are authoritarian by instinct but it's time for everyone else to refuse to let them dismiss civil liberties as a luxury issue.
The Ministry of Justice has ordered the deletion of the UK’s largest court reporting archive.
This risks undermining open justice, and I believe, undermines the public accountability role of the press by making it harder to see what is going on in the courts.
www.thetimes.com/article/77b0...
This risks undermining open justice, and I believe, undermines the public accountability role of the press by making it harder to see what is going on in the courts.
www.thetimes.com/article/77b0...
MoJ orders deletion of UK’s largest court reporting archive
Courtsdesk, which supports the media in monitoring records, is an important tool for journalists and the move raises concerns over open justice
www.thetimes.com
February 9, 2026 at 9:42 AM
Fewer juries, more secret trials. Labour's remaining defenders are authoritarian by instinct but it's time for everyone else to refuse to let them dismiss civil liberties as a luxury issue.
Would be an interesting consequence if this story drove Leveson 2 back up the agenda
Independent press regulator Impress has warned against misuse of privacy notices after a request from Peter Mandelson’s team for media to stop contact amid scrutiny over his links to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein www.impressorg.com/impress-warn...
Impress Warns Against Misuse of Privacy Notices Following Mandleson Notice to IPSO Publishers - Impress
As ITV's dramatisation of the phone-hacking scandal hits our screens, we introduce a new initiative to help independent journalism.
www.impressorg.com
February 9, 2026 at 9:31 AM
Would be an interesting consequence if this story drove Leveson 2 back up the agenda
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A bleak twist in what Engels on Manchester called 'social murder': the social invisibilities of economic production. In one way, a return to something like the home-based piecework preceding the city & factory. But now disembedded & detached from trad social visibilities: no Braudelian market-day!
"Firms deliberately operate from small cities & towns, where rents & labor costs are lower & a growing pool of 1st-gen grads are seeking jobs. Improvements in internet connectivity made it possible to plug these locations directly into global AI supply chains, w/o relocating workers to cities."
‘In the end, you feel blank’: India’s female workers watching hours of abusive content to train AI
February 7, 2026 at 2:43 PM
A bleak twist in what Engels on Manchester called 'social murder': the social invisibilities of economic production. In one way, a return to something like the home-based piecework preceding the city & factory. But now disembedded & detached from trad social visibilities: no Braudelian market-day!
Pebbles (P. S. Vinothraj, 2021). Tenderness, cruelty, geology.
February 8, 2026 at 10:47 PM
Pebbles (P. S. Vinothraj, 2021). Tenderness, cruelty, geology.
Finished reading Songs of Mihyar the Damascene yesterday, so have returned to this. I really like how it mixes cultural, intellectual & political history with close reading of poems. Am learning a lot about Lebanon in the postwar period too. Curious resonances with Taiwan here & there.
Have only read the introduction so far, but this is really good - on Arab modernism as it developed in the heyday of mid 20th c Beirut. Am reading it because I've been making my way through Songs of Mihyar the Damascene by Adonis, one of the focal points of this study.
February 8, 2026 at 8:08 PM
Finished reading Songs of Mihyar the Damascene yesterday, so have returned to this. I really like how it mixes cultural, intellectual & political history with close reading of poems. Am learning a lot about Lebanon in the postwar period too. Curious resonances with Taiwan here & there.
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Grete Stern, Sueño No. 1: Artículos eléctricos para el hogar (Dream No. 1: Electrical Appliances for the Home). 1949. Gelatin silver print, 10 1⁄2 x 9" (26.6 x 22.9 cm). Museum of Modern Art, New York
February 8, 2026 at 5:25 PM
Grete Stern, Sueño No. 1: Artículos eléctricos para el hogar (Dream No. 1: Electrical Appliances for the Home). 1949. Gelatin silver print, 10 1⁄2 x 9" (26.6 x 22.9 cm). Museum of Modern Art, New York
The spur for this is the Terminally Ill Adults (Assisted Dying) bill, by means of which a government too cowardly to own the policy has offered tacit support to a peer & an MP to do something that deserved care, resources & proper public consultation on the cheap, causing fear among disabled people.
"Wholesale reform" you say? Maybe it's time for something a little more radical, like abolition, but that would raise questions about the wider political system, so perhaps more tinkering would be for the best.
observer.co.uk/news/politic...
observer.co.uk/news/politic...
Lords reform to be tackled by new group of MPs
After The Observer raised the alarm, a new group aims to address filibustering and how to strip disgraced peers of their titles more quickly
observer.co.uk
February 8, 2026 at 4:52 PM
The spur for this is the Terminally Ill Adults (Assisted Dying) bill, by means of which a government too cowardly to own the policy has offered tacit support to a peer & an MP to do something that deserved care, resources & proper public consultation on the cheap, causing fear among disabled people.