Captain Zarmband
@stelladebris.bsky.social
In the Dark Times will there also be singing? Yes, there will be singing. About the Dark Times. (Bertolt Brecht 1938) Je bouge mon corp instinctivement 🎶
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Proud to have put my name, with so many colleagues, to this brilliantly drafted letter
Hundreds of lawyers call for UK sanctions on Israel over Gaza war
Their letter warns of genocide in Gaza, and calls on the UK to take concrete actions to meet its international legal obligations.
www.bbc.co.uk
May 27, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Proud to have put my name, with so many colleagues, to this brilliantly drafted letter
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Dear Leaders of the Free World,
We're not with these maniacs.
Sincerely,
Decent Americans
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/dear-world...
We're not with these maniacs.
Sincerely,
Decent Americans
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/dear-world...
Dear World, (An Apology From Decent Americans)
Dear World,
johnpavlovitz.substack.com
February 15, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Dear Leaders of the Free World,
We're not with these maniacs.
Sincerely,
Decent Americans
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/dear-world...
We're not with these maniacs.
Sincerely,
Decent Americans
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/dear-world...
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By Portuguese cartoonist Zez Vaz. Simply brilliant.
February 15, 2025 at 6:27 PM
By Portuguese cartoonist Zez Vaz. Simply brilliant.
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A brave and urgent column by the Labour MP Clive Lewis - @labourlewis.bsky.social - calling on his own party to stop appeasing capital and work on behalf of people and the living world.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I’m a Labour MP – but the government’s ‘growth’ mission reeks of panic | Clive Lewis
The decision to expand Heathrow is just the latest evidence that my party is chasing policies that serve profit, not people, says Labour MP Clive Lewis
www.theguardian.com
January 31, 2025 at 9:20 AM
A brave and urgent column by the Labour MP Clive Lewis - @labourlewis.bsky.social - calling on his own party to stop appeasing capital and work on behalf of people and the living world.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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It is not just that Musk is attempting to 'influence' democratic politics in the UK & elsewhere. Above all, he is attempting, with success, to cause disruption & chaos: instilling a sense the game - of media; politics; truth - has changed. It has. And it accelerates faster than we can all keep up...
The Psycho-Social-Techno Politics of ‘MAGA’ Trumps Democracy – And the Liberal Left Has No Answer
Donald Trump’s second victory in the United States is a warning sign to democracies everywhere of the centrality of emotions – and their manipulation – in the new politics of gross inequality and psyc...
bylinetimes.com
January 6, 2025 at 11:34 PM
It is not just that Musk is attempting to 'influence' democratic politics in the UK & elsewhere. Above all, he is attempting, with success, to cause disruption & chaos: instilling a sense the game - of media; politics; truth - has changed. It has. And it accelerates faster than we can all keep up...
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I love how Denmark isn’t taking any shit from Donald Trump. 🇩🇰 🤣
December 25, 2024 at 6:53 PM
I love how Denmark isn’t taking any shit from Donald Trump. 🇩🇰 🤣
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How come Labour can find money when it wants to? youtu.be/vdnMDz3wuqs?... Labour found £6 billion in the last week to buy 166,000 houses for the Ministry of Defence. The spending wasn’t budgeted, so how did it fund the money all of a sudden?
How come Labour can find money when it wants to?
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
youtu.be
December 22, 2024 at 7:31 AM
How come Labour can find money when it wants to? youtu.be/vdnMDz3wuqs?... Labour found £6 billion in the last week to buy 166,000 houses for the Ministry of Defence. The spending wasn’t budgeted, so how did it fund the money all of a sudden?
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Definitely worth a read.
Piece from me on how 14 years of Tory rule prepared the ground for a Faragist takeover. So great has been the party's failure that it is now too frightened to explain why traditional conservatism is better for the country than know-nothing charlatanism
nickcohen.substack.com/p/conservati...
nickcohen.substack.com/p/conservati...
Conservative immigration betrayals have turbocharged the radical right
Why Farage may be the UK's Trump
nickcohen.substack.com
December 22, 2024 at 7:26 AM
Definitely worth a read.
@writerinpyjamas.bsky.social My Christmas decoration this year - I called it Red Bull Fallen Angel Road Kill
December 19, 2024 at 6:53 PM
@writerinpyjamas.bsky.social My Christmas decoration this year - I called it Red Bull Fallen Angel Road Kill
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Wow… Ex chief of Reform exposes how Nige owns and runs Reform like a corporate dictatorship. They are trying to buy democracy…
We need this law changed. Our democracy is not for sale…
We need this law changed. Our democracy is not for sale…
December 19, 2024 at 1:39 PM
Wow… Ex chief of Reform exposes how Nige owns and runs Reform like a corporate dictatorship. They are trying to buy democracy…
We need this law changed. Our democracy is not for sale…
We need this law changed. Our democracy is not for sale…
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New Christmas lights just went up in Clacton.
(Farage is still the MP who makes most money from second jobs. By a long way.)
(Farage is still the MP who makes most money from second jobs. By a long way.)
December 17, 2024 at 11:29 PM
@jayrayner1.bsky.social this truly must be a contender for world's greatest comfort food even if it's probably knocked months off my life expectancy ! Lasagne of confit de canard, sauce au ceps & duck fat fried chips. Winter signature dish of the Café Pablo in Céret in the French Pyrenées Orientales
December 17, 2024 at 1:10 PM
@jayrayner1.bsky.social this truly must be a contender for world's greatest comfort food even if it's probably knocked months off my life expectancy ! Lasagne of confit de canard, sauce au ceps & duck fat fried chips. Winter signature dish of the Café Pablo in Céret in the French Pyrenées Orientales
"Middle Class Women Of A Certain Age"
Compiling Colin's Christmas Woke List and need a bit of help. What are the wokest things this year?
December 2, 2024 at 11:44 AM
"Middle Class Women Of A Certain Age"
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Special Economic Zones???
It goes like this: break up a nation, subdivide the land, invite foreign venture capitalists in, and hand over powers of governance to them while reducing elected government oversight.👇🏻
It goes like this: break up a nation, subdivide the land, invite foreign venture capitalists in, and hand over powers of governance to them while reducing elected government oversight.👇🏻
Did you vote for this? Freeports are part of a process through which libertarian ideologues are installing a global push to reconfigure nation-states, to reverse and dismantle democracy in the 21st century. Thread
December 1, 2024 at 8:40 AM
Special Economic Zones???
It goes like this: break up a nation, subdivide the land, invite foreign venture capitalists in, and hand over powers of governance to them while reducing elected government oversight.👇🏻
It goes like this: break up a nation, subdivide the land, invite foreign venture capitalists in, and hand over powers of governance to them while reducing elected government oversight.👇🏻
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“Some 56% of farmland bought in 2023 was sold to landowners who were not working farmers. The revenue per acre is too low to warrant the purchase, unless you are extremely wealthy and are avoiding inheritance tax”
🚜🌾 vs. 🧐💰
🚜🌾 vs. 🧐💰
Whose land? Tax avoidance and the broken economics of British farming
Noise in the billionaire press about inheritance tax changes hides a basic fact: the non-farming rich own too much land
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
November 30, 2024 at 10:25 PM
“Some 56% of farmland bought in 2023 was sold to landowners who were not working farmers. The revenue per acre is too low to warrant the purchase, unless you are extremely wealthy and are avoiding inheritance tax”
🚜🌾 vs. 🧐💰
🚜🌾 vs. 🧐💰
That's Christmas presents for everyone sorted...
Palestinian olive oil and zaatar spices
Yes it's virtue signalling and everyone should do the same.
🍉🍉🍉
Palestinian olive oil and zaatar spices
Yes it's virtue signalling and everyone should do the same.
🍉🍉🍉
November 30, 2024 at 9:37 PM
That's Christmas presents for everyone sorted...
Palestinian olive oil and zaatar spices
Yes it's virtue signalling and everyone should do the same.
🍉🍉🍉
Palestinian olive oil and zaatar spices
Yes it's virtue signalling and everyone should do the same.
🍉🍉🍉
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not seen it mentioned elsewhere so: my theory is that Elon has become obsessed with Britain because he's essentially stopped sleeping due to drugs and/or madness but for like six hours of his nights Americans are sleeping so Brits are the one English-speaking timezone awake and posting
November 29, 2024 at 9:27 AM
not seen it mentioned elsewhere so: my theory is that Elon has become obsessed with Britain because he's essentially stopped sleeping due to drugs and/or madness but for like six hours of his nights Americans are sleeping so Brits are the one English-speaking timezone awake and posting
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Why are Guardian and Observer journalists going on strike for four days in December over the deal to offload the Observer onto a failing digital startup? Five reasons here. Please repost 🙏
November 22, 2024 at 7:50 PM
Why are Guardian and Observer journalists going on strike for four days in December over the deal to offload the Observer onto a failing digital startup? Five reasons here. Please repost 🙏
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Olympe de Gouge was the 1st french feminist revolutionary and was executed during the Terror for daring to challenge Robespierre and the lack of women's rights in the new republic's constitution. In 1791 a year before Wollstencraft she wrote the Déclaration des Droits de la Femme et de la Citoyenne.
November 25, 2024 at 1:17 PM
Olympe de Gouge was the 1st french feminist revolutionary and was executed during the Terror for daring to challenge Robespierre and the lack of women's rights in the new republic's constitution. In 1791 a year before Wollstencraft she wrote the Déclaration des Droits de la Femme et de la Citoyenne.
November 23, 2024 at 10:31 PM
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The campaign against Labour’s planned changes to inheritance tax for wealthy farmers and landowners risks backfiring, amid a deluge of statistical manipulation and unsympathetic spokespeople
My latest on the farming row for @bylinetimes.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2024/11/19/j...
My latest on the farming row for @bylinetimes.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2024/11/19/j...
Jeremy Clarkson, James Dyson and Junk Stats: Is This the Best the Anti-Inheritance Tax Farming Lobby Has to Offer?
Millionaire landowners are using dubious statistics to campaign against the Government's inheritance tax reforms
bylinetimes.com
November 19, 2024 at 1:00 PM
The campaign against Labour’s planned changes to inheritance tax for wealthy farmers and landowners risks backfiring, amid a deluge of statistical manipulation and unsympathetic spokespeople
My latest on the farming row for @bylinetimes.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2024/11/19/j...
My latest on the farming row for @bylinetimes.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2024/11/19/j...
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Farmers need to stop talking nonsense www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/11... Wealthy farmers are protesting about inheritance tax changes today. Of all the people with a reason to gripe in this country they are about the last with a reasonable right to protest.
Farmers need to stop talking nonsense
Farmers need to stop talking nonsense. I thought it worth sharing an anecdote based upon a BBC Northern Ireland radio discussion I took part in yesterday with regard to Labour's new, very modest, inhe...
www.taxresearch.org.uk
November 19, 2024 at 7:55 AM
Farmers need to stop talking nonsense www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/11... Wealthy farmers are protesting about inheritance tax changes today. Of all the people with a reason to gripe in this country they are about the last with a reasonable right to protest.
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40% of UK Farmland is owned by billionaires.
Now you know why they are so angry it will be taxed.
Now you know why they are so angry it will be taxed.
November 18, 2024 at 1:49 PM
40% of UK Farmland is owned by billionaires.
Now you know why they are so angry it will be taxed.
Now you know why they are so angry it will be taxed.