Alex Kanefsky (he/him)
@alexkanefsky.bsky.social
Writer, theatre-maker, bread enthusiast.
Book-writer: Cable Street.
AD of Paper Balloon Theatre.
Living/working with chronic illness
OUFC 💛
AlexKanefsky.com
JBR Creative Management
Book-writer: Cable Street.
AD of Paper Balloon Theatre.
Living/working with chronic illness
OUFC 💛
AlexKanefsky.com
JBR Creative Management
Reposted by Alex Kanefsky (he/him)
posted by a friend who is Professor of Molecular Biophysics. PM me if you have any ideas and want to be put in touch.
November 17, 2025 at 8:03 PM
posted by a friend who is Professor of Molecular Biophysics. PM me if you have any ideas and want to be put in touch.
Reposted by Alex Kanefsky (he/him)
Labour has comprehensively trapped itself by agreeing to play entirely by their opponents’ rules.
The game is fixed so the only move that’s ever available is more and worse cruelty, while at the same time no level of cruelty will ever be enough to win.
A moral & political death-spiral.
The game is fixed so the only move that’s ever available is more and worse cruelty, while at the same time no level of cruelty will ever be enough to win.
A moral & political death-spiral.
Lots of Labour MPs asking Mahmood tonight to rule out child detention. She won’t rule it out. That’s because forced removals of families will mean children in detention for periods.
Home Office ruling out deportation of lone minors but the changes will certainly mean more detention of children.
Home Office ruling out deportation of lone minors but the changes will certainly mean more detention of children.
November 17, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Labour has comprehensively trapped itself by agreeing to play entirely by their opponents’ rules.
The game is fixed so the only move that’s ever available is more and worse cruelty, while at the same time no level of cruelty will ever be enough to win.
A moral & political death-spiral.
The game is fixed so the only move that’s ever available is more and worse cruelty, while at the same time no level of cruelty will ever be enough to win.
A moral & political death-spiral.
I hate it here
Lots of Labour MPs asking Mahmood tonight to rule out child detention. She won’t rule it out. That’s because forced removals of families will mean children in detention for periods.
Home Office ruling out deportation of lone minors but the changes will certainly mean more detention of children.
Home Office ruling out deportation of lone minors but the changes will certainly mean more detention of children.
November 17, 2025 at 9:42 PM
I hate it here
Reposted by Alex Kanefsky (he/him)
Starmer’s anti-asylum policies show how utterly clueless he is about the right-wing media’s role in politics.
He’s trying to fix a “problem” contrived by Farage, GB News and The Telegraph. He’ll never win, because ultimately he’s fighting a ghost – he’s fighting something that doesn’t really exist
He’s trying to fix a “problem” contrived by Farage, GB News and The Telegraph. He’ll never win, because ultimately he’s fighting a ghost – he’s fighting something that doesn’t really exist
November 17, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Starmer’s anti-asylum policies show how utterly clueless he is about the right-wing media’s role in politics.
He’s trying to fix a “problem” contrived by Farage, GB News and The Telegraph. He’ll never win, because ultimately he’s fighting a ghost – he’s fighting something that doesn’t really exist
He’s trying to fix a “problem” contrived by Farage, GB News and The Telegraph. He’ll never win, because ultimately he’s fighting a ghost – he’s fighting something that doesn’t really exist
Reposted by Alex Kanefsky (he/him)
If this was nationalised, the usual suspects would say "typical government, nothing works!" But things working is a function of care, investment, management, staffing, resource allocation. The only difference privatisation makes by itself is how many middle men you pay.
The state of privatised Post Office in UK...
This is a busy Broadway post office in London ...
Nothing is working
This is a busy Broadway post office in London ...
Nothing is working
November 17, 2025 at 11:24 AM
If this was nationalised, the usual suspects would say "typical government, nothing works!" But things working is a function of care, investment, management, staffing, resource allocation. The only difference privatisation makes by itself is how many middle men you pay.
Reposted by Alex Kanefsky (he/him)
This weeks post is from the brilliant @deldridgewriter.bsky.social 💓
open.substack.com/pub/morganll...
open.substack.com/pub/morganll...
An Honest Day In The Life Of A Writer #34
David Eldridge
open.substack.com
November 17, 2025 at 9:22 AM
This weeks post is from the brilliant @deldridgewriter.bsky.social 💓
open.substack.com/pub/morganll...
open.substack.com/pub/morganll...
Reposted by Alex Kanefsky (he/him)
Landy Penises
Venezuela, Catholic Church Records, 1577-2022
Venezuela, Catholic Church Records, 1577-2022
November 16, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Landy Penises
Venezuela, Catholic Church Records, 1577-2022
Venezuela, Catholic Church Records, 1577-2022
Reposted by Alex Kanefsky (he/him)
Y'all. Folks who study such things know this is competitive authoritarianism. They know this is fascism. They know we are dancing on the knife edge of civil war.
If it isn't yet impacting you? mazel tov. Maybe pay attention to your broader community.
Don't let the waves of "normal" deceive you.
If it isn't yet impacting you? mazel tov. Maybe pay attention to your broader community.
Don't let the waves of "normal" deceive you.
November 16, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Y'all. Folks who study such things know this is competitive authoritarianism. They know this is fascism. They know we are dancing on the knife edge of civil war.
If it isn't yet impacting you? mazel tov. Maybe pay attention to your broader community.
Don't let the waves of "normal" deceive you.
If it isn't yet impacting you? mazel tov. Maybe pay attention to your broader community.
Don't let the waves of "normal" deceive you.
Reposted by Alex Kanefsky (he/him)
If they don't call this the Quorn Laws then the country truly is gone.
November 16, 2025 at 3:46 PM
If they don't call this the Quorn Laws then the country truly is gone.
Reposted by Alex Kanefsky (he/him)
The murder rate in London is now the lowest in decades, perhaps centuries. (The Times)
November 16, 2025 at 1:27 PM
The murder rate in London is now the lowest in decades, perhaps centuries. (The Times)
The slope is slippy, because the far right and the right have been pissing on it for years. Now Labour have decided to go luging. Lugeing? Anyway they’re at top speed careering towards the bottom, which is a mire of 💩
If you currently rely on the European Court of Human Rights for your minority group to *not* be targeted, you're in trouble...
November 16, 2025 at 12:22 PM
The slope is slippy, because the far right and the right have been pissing on it for years. Now Labour have decided to go luging. Lugeing? Anyway they’re at top speed careering towards the bottom, which is a mire of 💩
Reposted by Alex Kanefsky (he/him)
This is the logical consequence of Labour’s appeasement of the far right - this is an arms race Labour should never seek to win
Not everyone is unhappy about the Government's descent into anti-refugee politics
November 16, 2025 at 10:27 AM
This is the logical consequence of Labour’s appeasement of the far right - this is an arms race Labour should never seek to win
Great thread, terrible marketing 🧵
Okay, I can't let this one go. I live in Ireland, not the UK, but the use of this image by a supposedly socialist party is so stupid and offensive, I'm going to get stuck in.
Let me explain to you why any experienced illustrator/designer could have stopped you making so many miserable mistakes. 1/
Let me explain to you why any experienced illustrator/designer could have stopped you making so many miserable mistakes. 1/
November 16, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Great thread, terrible marketing 🧵
You too, could take part in the loneliest, most depressing dystopia there for only $4999999
November 16, 2025 at 11:25 AM
You too, could take part in the loneliest, most depressing dystopia there for only $4999999
Reposted by Alex Kanefsky (he/him)
Her portrayal of asylum seekers doesn't just respond to the racist narratives of the Far Right: by othering asylum seekers as unworthy winners of riches, in implicit contrast to struggling families, Shabana Mahmood actively promotes and feeds those Far Right lies.
For Shabana Mahmood to attack some of the most cruelly treated people in the world as having won a "golden ticket" because they manage to get to and claim asylum in Britain is unforgiveable.
A new, far right, low for which I can think of no precedent, by any UK Government.
A new, far right, low for which I can think of no precedent, by any UK Government.
November 16, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Her portrayal of asylum seekers doesn't just respond to the racist narratives of the Far Right: by othering asylum seekers as unworthy winners of riches, in implicit contrast to struggling families, Shabana Mahmood actively promotes and feeds those Far Right lies.
Reposted by Alex Kanefsky (he/him)
I have a simple test: Would you have sent my Jewish Grandma back to Nazi Germany? Seems that pretty much all Con/Ref & many Lab politicians fail this test.
LibDem/Green/Plaid/SNP as a rule, do not.
Labour are not only reprehensible, but also inconsistent (integration?) & electorally stupid.
LibDem/Green/Plaid/SNP as a rule, do not.
Labour are not only reprehensible, but also inconsistent (integration?) & electorally stupid.
November 15, 2025 at 1:13 PM
I have a simple test: Would you have sent my Jewish Grandma back to Nazi Germany? Seems that pretty much all Con/Ref & many Lab politicians fail this test.
LibDem/Green/Plaid/SNP as a rule, do not.
Labour are not only reprehensible, but also inconsistent (integration?) & electorally stupid.
LibDem/Green/Plaid/SNP as a rule, do not.
Labour are not only reprehensible, but also inconsistent (integration?) & electorally stupid.
Just on a personal level, I wasn’t going to vote for this Labour Party again anyway after the last 3 years. But this latest tyre screeching lurch to the right has helped make the decision to actively help campaign against them. I’m afraid threatening us with Reform isn’t going to hold water anymore
If the government really intends to seize jewellery and other valuables from refugees,
either
- it is staggeringly ignorant of the historical precedents
or
- it's aware of the precedents, and thinks, yeah, we'll have some of that.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
either
- it is staggeringly ignorant of the historical precedents
or
- it's aware of the precedents, and thinks, yeah, we'll have some of that.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
No 10 tells Labour MPs it expects support for tough new asylum policies
Some backbenchers already opposing planned immigration crackdown seen as ‘economically and culturally illiterate’
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Just on a personal level, I wasn’t going to vote for this Labour Party again anyway after the last 3 years. But this latest tyre screeching lurch to the right has helped make the decision to actively help campaign against them. I’m afraid threatening us with Reform isn’t going to hold water anymore
Reposted by Alex Kanefsky (he/him)
This is one of the most shameful laws, Denmark has ever passed. It’s still in effect, but the notion that refugees come with truckloads of jewelry and other valuables was - of course - false. A quick search shows that the law has been used 17 times in ten years. Which is 17 times to many.
November 15, 2025 at 12:02 PM
This is one of the most shameful laws, Denmark has ever passed. It’s still in effect, but the notion that refugees come with truckloads of jewelry and other valuables was - of course - false. A quick search shows that the law has been used 17 times in ten years. Which is 17 times to many.
Reposted by Alex Kanefsky (he/him)
If the government really intends to seize jewellery and other valuables from refugees,
either
- it is staggeringly ignorant of the historical precedents
or
- it's aware of the precedents, and thinks, yeah, we'll have some of that.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
either
- it is staggeringly ignorant of the historical precedents
or
- it's aware of the precedents, and thinks, yeah, we'll have some of that.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
No 10 tells Labour MPs it expects support for tough new asylum policies
Some backbenchers already opposing planned immigration crackdown seen as ‘economically and culturally illiterate’
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 11:41 AM
If the government really intends to seize jewellery and other valuables from refugees,
either
- it is staggeringly ignorant of the historical precedents
or
- it's aware of the precedents, and thinks, yeah, we'll have some of that.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
either
- it is staggeringly ignorant of the historical precedents
or
- it's aware of the precedents, and thinks, yeah, we'll have some of that.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Reposted by Alex Kanefsky (he/him)
Without asylum:
Marks and Spencer wouldn't exist
Queen would have been without a front man
The other queen wouldn't have had a husband
Judith Kerr would never have written The Tiger Who Came to Tea
And thousands of less famous people wouldn't have been teachers, politicians, neighbours, etc
Marks and Spencer wouldn't exist
Queen would have been without a front man
The other queen wouldn't have had a husband
Judith Kerr would never have written The Tiger Who Came to Tea
And thousands of less famous people wouldn't have been teachers, politicians, neighbours, etc
November 15, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Without asylum:
Marks and Spencer wouldn't exist
Queen would have been without a front man
The other queen wouldn't have had a husband
Judith Kerr would never have written The Tiger Who Came to Tea
And thousands of less famous people wouldn't have been teachers, politicians, neighbours, etc
Marks and Spencer wouldn't exist
Queen would have been without a front man
The other queen wouldn't have had a husband
Judith Kerr would never have written The Tiger Who Came to Tea
And thousands of less famous people wouldn't have been teachers, politicians, neighbours, etc
So in the future there will be no M&S, no Freddie Mercury, no SIR Mo Farah, no Milibands, no Ben Elton, no Judith Kerr - in fact virtually no Jews in this country at all without refugees. My family would cease to exist had this policy operated 100 years ago, & once again it WON’T STOP FARAGE
This is as bad as anything proposed by Reform.
Leaving refugees in permanent limbo and unable to build a new life in the UK would be a complete abdication of our humanitarian responsibilities
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Leaving refugees in permanent limbo and unable to build a new life in the UK would be a complete abdication of our humanitarian responsibilities
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UK set to limit refugees to temporary stays
Shabana Mahmood is expected to say the era of permanent protection for refugees is over, in major changes to the UK's asylum and immigration system.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 1:05 PM
So in the future there will be no M&S, no Freddie Mercury, no SIR Mo Farah, no Milibands, no Ben Elton, no Judith Kerr - in fact virtually no Jews in this country at all without refugees. My family would cease to exist had this policy operated 100 years ago, & once again it WON’T STOP FARAGE
Serious bit of reporting on the #bbc “crisis” by @bylinetimes.bsky.social here; it all looks very much like an orchestrated coup, or perhaps just carefully arranged sabotage by people with vested interests in seeing the public service broadcaster destroyed
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/b...
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/b...
'BBC Bias' Memo Was Authored by Lobbyist Tied to Pro-Trump Tech Giants
The leaked memo that fuelled Trump’s attack on the BBC was written by a lobbyist at a firm paid by US tech giants tied to the President
bylinetimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Serious bit of reporting on the #bbc “crisis” by @bylinetimes.bsky.social here; it all looks very much like an orchestrated coup, or perhaps just carefully arranged sabotage by people with vested interests in seeing the public service broadcaster destroyed
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/b...
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/b...
@newhamcouncil.bsky.social hi this is what happens when you try and report a missed bin collection on the website, any suggestions? Thanks
November 14, 2025 at 3:27 PM
@newhamcouncil.bsky.social hi this is what happens when you try and report a missed bin collection on the website, any suggestions? Thanks
@newhamcouncil.bsky.social hi this is what happens when you try and report a missed bin collection on the website, any suggestions? Thanks
November 14, 2025 at 3:16 PM
@newhamcouncil.bsky.social hi this is what happens when you try and report a missed bin collection on the website, any suggestions? Thanks
Perfect
![[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.]
JANET:
Ugh...
LIZ:
What's up?
JANET:
I am so bored of cooking peas!
LIZ:
Have you tried...
AI peas?
JANET:
AI peas?
LIZ:
They're peas with AI!
[Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI].
LIZ:
Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas
JANET:
What
LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines]
Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas?
[Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it]
LIZ:
Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine
[Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas]
LIZ:
With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas!
JANET:
What
LIZ:
Shut up
LIZ:
Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow
From opening the bag of peas
to boiling the peas
to eating the peas
To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means.
JANET:
Is it really necessary to-
LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]:
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET
[Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan:
AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas.
[Ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreiayqa37f7kik7l7s7fbtfp2sir5ckb662ry2lylinyjrfa2rkvvka@jpeg)
November 14, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Perfect