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Is the government going to sit and watch while the #PalestineAction hunger strikers die? Is most of the media going to carry on ignoring them? Just how callous has the Establishment become?
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Families of Palestine Action hunger strikers seek urgent meeting with Lammy
Justice secretary urged to ‘show a bit of humanity’ with protesters severely ill after refusing food for weeks
www.theguardian.com
December 23, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Is the government going to sit and watch while the #PalestineAction hunger strikers die? Is most of the media going to carry on ignoring them? Just how callous has the Establishment become?
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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If only more people cared!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
Petition: Require media retractions be made as visible as original headlines or articles
We think media companies should not be allowed to get away with printing false, misleading and malicious headlines, only to hide the retractions on interior pages or fine print some days later. Retrac...
petition.parliament.uk
October 14, 2025 at 12:16 PM
If only more people cared!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
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If michael o'leary sees this I'll never forgive you
September 18, 2025 at 1:17 PM
If michael o'leary sees this I'll never forgive you
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If the police arrest me for this, it's a direct attack on the expression of opinion: ie on free speech. But the Terrorism Act is so madly oppressive and loosely framed that I have no idea which side of it I'm on. And I suspect it's the same for them.
July 26, 2025 at 11:53 AM
If the police arrest me for this, it's a direct attack on the expression of opinion: ie on free speech. But the Terrorism Act is so madly oppressive and loosely framed that I have no idea which side of it I'm on. And I suspect it's the same for them.
America plans to withhold weapons from Ukraine that are crucial for its defence. Well what a surprise. When do we finally learn that Trump is a wrong un and stop trying to flatter and play him. Europe has to go it alone.
"Daddy" Just Accelerated The Killing Of Ukrainians
open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
"Daddy" Just Accelerated The Killing Of Ukrainians
Phillips’s Newsletter is a reader-supported publication.
open.substack.com
July 3, 2025 at 5:18 AM
America plans to withhold weapons from Ukraine that are crucial for its defence. Well what a surprise. When do we finally learn that Trump is a wrong un and stop trying to flatter and play him. Europe has to go it alone.
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This is a brilliant and crucial article about the demonisation of empathy by @joolia.bsky.social (Julia Carrie Wong).
It's a reminder that there is no idea so perverse that some people won't turn it into a doctrine. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
It's a reminder that there is no idea so perverse that some people won't turn it into a doctrine. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
Loathe thy neighbor: Elon Musk and the Christian right are waging war on empathy
Trump’s actions are irreconcilable with Christian compassion. But an unholy alliance seeks to cast empathy as a parasitic plague
www.theguardian.com
April 9, 2025 at 7:18 AM
This is a brilliant and crucial article about the demonisation of empathy by @joolia.bsky.social (Julia Carrie Wong).
It's a reminder that there is no idea so perverse that some people won't turn it into a doctrine. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
It's a reminder that there is no idea so perverse that some people won't turn it into a doctrine. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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China Just Turned Off U.S. Supplies Of Minerals Critical For Defense & Cleantech
cleantechnica.com/2025/04/05/c...
cleantechnica.com/2025/04/05/c...
cleantechnica.com
April 8, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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China Just Turned Off U.S. Supplies Of Minerals Critical For Defense & Cleantech
cleantechnica.com/2025/04/05/c...
cleantechnica.com/2025/04/05/c...
cleantechnica.com
April 7, 2025 at 10:16 PM
China Just Turned Off U.S. Supplies Of Minerals Critical For Defense & Cleantech
cleantechnica.com/2025/04/05/c...
cleantechnica.com/2025/04/05/c...
Great thread from the wonderful George Monbiot.
1. You feel powerless? Don’t know what you can do to resist the rise of fascism?
Here is an answer: Good Things.
Fascism inflicts pain and harm as a matter of doctrine.
Kindness, care and conviviality defend us from it.
The more we build community, the less it can take root.
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Here is an answer: Good Things.
Fascism inflicts pain and harm as a matter of doctrine.
Kindness, care and conviviality defend us from it.
The more we build community, the less it can take root.
🧵
March 10, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Great thread from the wonderful George Monbiot.
Trumpcession. Love that word. Repeat as much as possible so it seeps into the language of the US nation. Nothing Trump will hate more!
March 10, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Trumpcession. Love that word. Repeat as much as possible so it seeps into the language of the US nation. Nothing Trump will hate more!
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And Donald Trump's shoes. You'd clean them with your tongue, Mr Farage.
You are the Lord HawHaw of our times, a friend of foreign despots, not of our country.
You are the Lord HawHaw of our times, a friend of foreign despots, not of our country.
March 5, 2025 at 10:53 AM
And Donald Trump's shoes. You'd clean them with your tongue, Mr Farage.
You are the Lord HawHaw of our times, a friend of foreign despots, not of our country.
You are the Lord HawHaw of our times, a friend of foreign despots, not of our country.
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Don't remember much about Hillbilly Elegy (J.D. Vance's 2016 book) but I knew there was a parable about the importance of standing up to bullies in there. I'm sure he meant it at the time.
March 2, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Don't remember much about Hillbilly Elegy (J.D. Vance's 2016 book) but I knew there was a parable about the importance of standing up to bullies in there. I'm sure he meant it at the time.
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This is a brilliant and rather terrifying analysis of Starmer and the Labour right by the great @owenjones.bsky.social www.owenjones.news/p/keir-starm...
Keir Starmer's own aides say he isn't actually in charge
Starmerism is a train wreck in office, but his own aides want to pin the disaster on their frontman - rather than their failed ideology
www.owenjones.news
February 4, 2025 at 9:14 AM
This is a brilliant and rather terrifying analysis of Starmer and the Labour right by the great @owenjones.bsky.social www.owenjones.news/p/keir-starm...
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Finally! We now know the backstory to this classic "Planet of the Apes" ending.
January 20, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Finally! We now know the backstory to this classic "Planet of the Apes" ending.
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Ketamine is a hell of a drug.
January 20, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Ketamine is a hell of a drug.
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yesterday I assembled an entire woodshed without even needing to consult the instructions
Today I will dismantle an entire woodshed
Tomorrow I will re-assemble an entire woodshed, this time while consulting the instructions
Today I will dismantle an entire woodshed
Tomorrow I will re-assemble an entire woodshed, this time while consulting the instructions
January 20, 2025 at 1:42 PM
yesterday I assembled an entire woodshed without even needing to consult the instructions
Today I will dismantle an entire woodshed
Tomorrow I will re-assemble an entire woodshed, this time while consulting the instructions
Today I will dismantle an entire woodshed
Tomorrow I will re-assemble an entire woodshed, this time while consulting the instructions
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Here, broken down into a thread, is a copy of my last post on X.
1. This is my farewell post. I am not deleting this account, as I don’t want to lose the archive, and I don’t want my name taken by imposters. But, for as long as Musk owns the platform, I’ll no longer use it.
1. This is my farewell post. I am not deleting this account, as I don’t want to lose the archive, and I don’t want my name taken by imposters. But, for as long as Musk owns the platform, I’ll no longer use it.
January 20, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Here, broken down into a thread, is a copy of my last post on X.
1. This is my farewell post. I am not deleting this account, as I don’t want to lose the archive, and I don’t want my name taken by imposters. But, for as long as Musk owns the platform, I’ll no longer use it.
1. This is my farewell post. I am not deleting this account, as I don’t want to lose the archive, and I don’t want my name taken by imposters. But, for as long as Musk owns the platform, I’ll no longer use it.
Don’t think Donald has quite got the hang of this Christmas thing.
MAY THEY ROT IN HELL. AGAIN, MERRY CHRISTMAS
This is both schtick and evidence of a diseased mind.
December 25, 2023 at 10:46 PM
Don’t think Donald has quite got the hang of this Christmas thing.
Six months prison for an “act preventing a road being used to any extent”. So marches on the road are now illegal. Wow.
With scarcely a voice being raised against it, we are sliding into a police state, in which an entirely peaceful protester, trying to prevent a societal catastrophe, can get six months in jail for marching slowly down the road.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Just Stop Oil activist jailed for six months for taking part in slow march
Stephen Gingell, 57, thought to be first to receive prison sentence under new Public Order Act
www.theguardian.com
December 16, 2023 at 7:51 PM
Six months prison for an “act preventing a road being used to any extent”. So marches on the road are now illegal. Wow.
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1. I’m very grateful for the response to my appearance on Question Time, but also puzzled. I felt that in all cases I was simply stating the bleeding obvious.
Is this now so rare in public life that it becomes an event when someone does it?
The grim truth seems to be: yes.🧵
Is this now so rare in public life that it becomes an event when someone does it?
The grim truth seems to be: yes.🧵
December 10, 2023 at 10:48 AM
1. I’m very grateful for the response to my appearance on Question Time, but also puzzled. I felt that in all cases I was simply stating the bleeding obvious.
Is this now so rare in public life that it becomes an event when someone does it?
The grim truth seems to be: yes.🧵
Is this now so rare in public life that it becomes an event when someone does it?
The grim truth seems to be: yes.🧵
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Hate to copy a post on twitter but this response from George Monbiot is absolutely worthwhile watching. He destroys the Tory policy on Rwanda completely.
x.com/thecraigkaye...
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December 7, 2023 at 9:55 PM
Hate to copy a post on twitter but this response from George Monbiot is absolutely worthwhile watching. He destroys the Tory policy on Rwanda completely.
x.com/thecraigkaye...
x.com/thecraigkaye...
Excellent article as always by Rafael Behr. Good analysis of the increasingly incompatible traditional and nationalist strands in the party and Sunak’s abject unsuitability to unite them.
On Rwanda scheme, small boats and a prime minister who is about as badly snookered as you can get. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Rwanda is a proxy in the war for the Tory soul. It’s a war Rishi Sunak is losing | Rafael Behr
A brave leader would admit he is cornered and set out a new direction to his party and the public. He’s not that guy, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2023 at 7:12 PM
Excellent article as always by Rafael Behr. Good analysis of the increasingly incompatible traditional and nationalist strands in the party and Sunak’s abject unsuitability to unite them.