New School of the Anthropocene
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Founded in 2022. Addressing biopolitical emergency & climate justice through art-critique-experiment. Building a new society in the shell of the old.
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An unmissable musical performance of reconstructed ancient Celtic war horns comes to the Art Workers' Guild on Friday 16th January. Everyone warmly welcome!
Tickets: johnkennycarnyx.eventbrite.co.uk
Tickets: johnkennycarnyx.eventbrite.co.uk
The Guardian discovers J.G. Ballard. A good piece from Aditya Chakrabortty, but too bad its writers overlooked him when he was alive, just as they ignore the fertile alternatives to the devastation of morbid capitalism now emerging under their noses.
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Want to understand the sickness of Britain today? Look no further – a novel explained it all 20 years ago | Aditya Chakrabortty
The racism, the predatory politics, the banality and cruelty: we struggle to make sense of it, but JG Ballard foretold everything we are living through now, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty
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December 18, 2025 at 12:58 PM
The Guardian discovers J.G. Ballard. A good piece from Aditya Chakrabortty, but too bad its writers overlooked him when he was alive, just as they ignore the fertile alternatives to the devastation of morbid capitalism now emerging under their noses.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Alarming graphics taken from the Climate Data Store of the Copernicus Climate Change Service, but brilliantly illustrative.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
How climate breakdown is putting the world’s food in peril - in maps and charts
From floods to droughts, erratic weather patterns are affecting food security, with crop yields projected to fall if changes are not made
www.theguardian.com
December 18, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Alarming graphics taken from the Climate Data Store of the Copernicus Climate Change Service, but brilliantly illustrative.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
An unmissable musical performance of reconstructed ancient Celtic war horns comes to the Art Workers' Guild on Friday 16th January. Everyone warmly welcome!
Tickets: johnkennycarnyx.eventbrite.co.uk
Tickets: johnkennycarnyx.eventbrite.co.uk
December 17, 2025 at 8:17 PM
An unmissable musical performance of reconstructed ancient Celtic war horns comes to the Art Workers' Guild on Friday 16th January. Everyone warmly welcome!
Tickets: johnkennycarnyx.eventbrite.co.uk
Tickets: johnkennycarnyx.eventbrite.co.uk
Rare sanity & enlightenment break-out from the UK government. Well done to all concerned.
(Now await the howls of resentment & outrage from the ageing misery grifters in the right-wing media, who enjoyed such opportunities as a given in their youth.)
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
(Now await the howls of resentment & outrage from the ageing misery grifters in the right-wing media, who enjoyed such opportunities as a given in their youth.)
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
UK to rejoin EU’s Erasmus student exchange programme
Exclusive: British students will be able to participate in EU-wide scheme from January 2027, sources say
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December 16, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Rare sanity & enlightenment break-out from the UK government. Well done to all concerned.
(Now await the howls of resentment & outrage from the ageing misery grifters in the right-wing media, who enjoyed such opportunities as a given in their youth.)
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
(Now await the howls of resentment & outrage from the ageing misery grifters in the right-wing media, who enjoyed such opportunities as a given in their youth.)
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
The transition towards a sane, just world depends upon those crucial small gestures of selfless bravery enacted by men like Aitor Aguirre and Sergio Manzanera.
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
‘I kept a shotgun next to the bed’: when a Racing Santander duo stood up to Franco
Fifty years on Aitor Aguirre and Sergio Manzanera still share a connection after their protest against executions in Spain in 1975
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December 15, 2025 at 4:55 PM
The transition towards a sane, just world depends upon those crucial small gestures of selfless bravery enacted by men like Aitor Aguirre and Sergio Manzanera.
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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This week’s column on the rise and normalisation of racism in both social and political discourse, and why that’s not just a right problem. The political establishment (and Labour in particular), is entirely absent or reckless when it comes to tackling racism, and how it is linked to immigration.
Welcome to the twilight zone where Nigel Farage can be accused of racism yet still lead the polls | Nesrine Malik
Welcome to the twilight zone where Nigel Farage can be accused of racism yet still lead the polls | Nesrine Malik
After weeks of allegations of schoolboy racism, the Reform leader is doubling down. And our political establishment is allowing it, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
www.theguardian.com
December 15, 2025 at 11:47 AM
This week’s column on the rise and normalisation of racism in both social and political discourse, and why that’s not just a right problem. The political establishment (and Labour in particular), is entirely absent or reckless when it comes to tackling racism, and how it is linked to immigration.
The latest cretinous announcement from Badenoch in the cause of hastening mass death.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Conservatives would end 2030 ban on new petrol and diesel cars
Party would also abolish zero-emission vehicle mandate, cutting legal requirement on carmakers to sell EVs
www.theguardian.com
December 15, 2025 at 11:57 AM
The latest cretinous announcement from Badenoch in the cause of hastening mass death.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
No doubt UCL & the other implicated universities will treat the affected students humanely & with great compassion.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Ghanaian students at UK universities face deportation amid funding crisis
Group asks Keir Starmer for help to persuade Ghanaian government to pay backlog of tuition fees and living allowances
www.theguardian.com
December 14, 2025 at 6:37 PM
No doubt UCL & the other implicated universities will treat the affected students humanely & with great compassion.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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Francesca Albanese: "politics might change, people who are now in govt will lose & might face justice.. people who stand for human rights and justice have just to persist"
December 14, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Francesca Albanese: "politics might change, people who are now in govt will lose & might face justice.. people who stand for human rights and justice have just to persist"
"By spring, 1968 the London Anti-University's numbers had risen to three hundred students and fifty faculty."
It shall rise again!
It shall rise again!
December 14, 2025 at 1:46 PM
"By spring, 1968 the London Anti-University's numbers had risen to three hundred students and fifty faculty."
It shall rise again!
It shall rise again!
The usual barbarism, but this time from Nottingham, which threw over £90 million at hideous new buildings for a business school to promulgate snake oil and capitalist cack.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article....
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article....
University of Nottingham students fight 'insane' cull of courses
Traitors composer Sam Watts is among those against plans to cut University of Nottingham courses.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 13, 2025 at 1:28 AM
The usual barbarism, but this time from Nottingham, which threw over £90 million at hideous new buildings for a business school to promulgate snake oil and capitalist cack.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article....
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article....
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We need to strengthen our institutions so citizens can take on the big polluters and we can make our world safer.
Shell is now facing a legal case over the damage caused by Typhoon Rai.
New climate attribution research finds that human-induced climate change has made an extreme weather event like Typhoon Rai 2x more likely.
It’s time to make polluters pay.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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New climate attribution research finds that human-induced climate change has made an extreme weather event like Typhoon Rai 2x more likely.
It’s time to make polluters pay.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Shell facing first UK legal claim over climate impact of fossil fuels
Survivors of a deadly typhoon in the Philippines have filed a claim against the UK's largest oil company.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 11, 2025 at 9:40 AM
We need to strengthen our institutions so citizens can take on the big polluters and we can make our world safer.
“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
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Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
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December 11, 2025 at 12:19 AM
“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
trumpcard.gov
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
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Putin's failure to subjugate Ukraine is measured in shocking Russian casualty figures: one million killed or injured. How much longer will the Russian people tolerate their mass-murderer dictator-president, the Salisbury poisoner, the indicted war criminal?
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Putin should have accepted Trump’s deal. Now Russia’s collapsing economy could lead to his downfall | Simon Tisdall
The war against Ukraine has hit ordinary Russians hard, and the deteriorating situation is likely to inflame tensions, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Putin's failure to subjugate Ukraine is measured in shocking Russian casualty figures: one million killed or injured. How much longer will the Russian people tolerate their mass-murderer dictator-president, the Salisbury poisoner, the indicted war criminal?
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
“Our country is crumbling before our eyes. We've homeless people dying on the streets that King Charles passed on his way to the coronation, whilst there are more empty homes than unhoused people in this country. It’s time the ultra rich pay their fair share.”
Faultless logic.
youtu.be/1BfZmPhmSV0
Faultless logic.
youtu.be/1BfZmPhmSV0
Moment activists throw food at the crown jewels display case in the Tower of London
YouTube video by Guardian News
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December 6, 2025 at 1:29 PM
“Our country is crumbling before our eyes. We've homeless people dying on the streets that King Charles passed on his way to the coronation, whilst there are more empty homes than unhoused people in this country. It’s time the ultra rich pay their fair share.”
Faultless logic.
youtu.be/1BfZmPhmSV0
Faultless logic.
youtu.be/1BfZmPhmSV0
To be clear: BP reported a rise in profits to $2.35bn (£1.77bn) between April and June this year.
Biocidal and sickeningly greedy.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Biocidal and sickeningly greedy.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
BP to scrap paid rest breaks and most bank holiday bonuses for forecourt staff
Exclusive: Plans to offset increase in minimum ‘fair pay’ set by Living Wage Foundation will affect 5,400 employees
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:15 PM
To be clear: BP reported a rise in profits to $2.35bn (£1.77bn) between April and June this year.
Biocidal and sickeningly greedy.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Biocidal and sickeningly greedy.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
"This is not so much a failure of circumstance as a triumph of structure. The system working as it was intended to work. Who gets to complain about housing policy in this country? Depends where you live, and how much your house is worth."
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Won’t somebody please think of Britain’s poor £2m homeowners? Oh, wait – everyone already is | Jonathan Liew
Contrast the furious reaction to Rachel Reeves’s ‘mansion tax’ to the response offered to those living with real housing injustice: indifference, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew
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December 3, 2025 at 12:12 PM
"This is not so much a failure of circumstance as a triumph of structure. The system working as it was intended to work. Who gets to complain about housing policy in this country? Depends where you live, and how much your house is worth."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Olly Wainwright's searing demolition of Norman Foster's newest affront to urban taste & intelligence is a masterpiece. For this lashed-together lump is all the destructiveness, violence & contempt of its banker-tenant, JP Morgan, given material form.
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
An eco obscenity: Norman Foster’s steroidal new skyscraper is an affront to the New York skyline
It contains enough steel to go round the world twice – and even has a fake breeze to flutter the stars-and-stripes flag in its lobby. If this colossus is just the first of a new breed of bulky superta...
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December 3, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Olly Wainwright's searing demolition of Norman Foster's newest affront to urban taste & intelligence is a masterpiece. For this lashed-together lump is all the destructiveness, violence & contempt of its banker-tenant, JP Morgan, given material form.
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
Squalid, treacherous lawyers, Tory MP Geoffrey Cox & Cherie Blair are representing fossil fuel & Russian oligarch law-suits against the UK Gvmt. They seek billions in investor-state dispute settlements: the most egregious form of racketeering on earth.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Hello, foreign oligarchs and corporations! Please come and sue the UK for billions | George Monbiot
The case of a planned Cumbrian coalmine shows how governments around the world are being threatened by litigation in shadowy offshore courts, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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December 1, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Squalid, treacherous lawyers, Tory MP Geoffrey Cox & Cherie Blair are representing fossil fuel & Russian oligarch law-suits against the UK Gvmt. They seek billions in investor-state dispute settlements: the most egregious form of racketeering on earth.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
'Sold as an origin story from within an immigrant and racialised experience, the purpose is to imbue [Mahmood's] politics with sacred authenticity – the credibility of the first person. It is clever and effective. It is cynical and disgraceful.'
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Shabana Mahmood is an avatar of open Britain – that’s what makes her fable about immigration so seductive | Nesrine Malik
‘She is the daughter of immigrants,’ supporters of her cruel asylum policies say. ‘How can she be wrong?’ Let me put them straight, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
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November 24, 2025 at 2:30 PM
'Sold as an origin story from within an immigrant and racialised experience, the purpose is to imbue [Mahmood's] politics with sacred authenticity – the credibility of the first person. It is clever and effective. It is cynical and disgraceful.'
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Will the impartial corporate media ask the salivating Badenoch, Farage & Tice for their responses to this news in light of their Net Zero weaponisation?
Perhaps the subject could be configured via the prism of immigration.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Perhaps the subject could be configured via the prism of immigration.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
UK wildfires devastated more areas in 2025 than at any time since records began, figures show
Firefighters call for long-term investment and say UK is dangerously underprepared as climate crisis worsens
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Will the impartial corporate media ask the salivating Badenoch, Farage & Tice for their responses to this news in light of their Net Zero weaponisation?
Perhaps the subject could be configured via the prism of immigration.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Perhaps the subject could be configured via the prism of immigration.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Signs of a shift in the tectonic plates. The world turns towards sanity and we glimpse the shape of a coming community . . .
👏 Congratulations to @sissemariewe.bsky.social who was just elected as the new mayor of Copenhagen.
💚Congratulations to all of the SF members re-elected or newly elected and for the incredible 17.9% of votes across the country.
🌻Denmark’s people and nature will have a Greener future.
💚Congratulations to all of the SF members re-elected or newly elected and for the incredible 17.9% of votes across the country.
🌻Denmark’s people and nature will have a Greener future.
November 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Signs of a shift in the tectonic plates. The world turns towards sanity and we glimpse the shape of a coming community . . .
Johnson willfully ignored warnings &, instead, brazenly served his appetites.
Johnson is guilty of Misconduct in Public Office, which can attract a sentence of life imprisonment.
#ProsecuteJohnson
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Johnson is guilty of Misconduct in Public Office, which can attract a sentence of life imprisonment.
#ProsecuteJohnson
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Boris Johnson took four days off as NHS warned Covid could ‘overwhelm’ system
Files show then PM was walking dog, riding motorbike and hosting guests as pandemic planning stalled in ‘lost month’
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Johnson willfully ignored warnings &, instead, brazenly served his appetites.
Johnson is guilty of Misconduct in Public Office, which can attract a sentence of life imprisonment.
#ProsecuteJohnson
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Johnson is guilty of Misconduct in Public Office, which can attract a sentence of life imprisonment.
#ProsecuteJohnson
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...