2026-08-18T15:38:41Z https://njump.me George Monbiot https://njump.me/npub1km547g2xegmnsc0fdhxp7uxg99y0p60w533a2z90ee50tdumwxnqr2204y https://oyster.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:codfx2epdduamfycuyi5fjpb&cid=bafkreicuddktqpbltt6wdcreskrdjcvklo2elbteqlvevnyud5xugfhamu https://oyster.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:codfx2epdduamfycuyi5fjpb&cid=bafkreicuddktqpbltt6wdcreskrdjcvklo2elbteqlvevnyud5xugfhamu https://njump.me/nevent1qqsz6wdvfgjquwudmm2gzms94098w64nm2t9qsgnywztth94anlmhxczyzmwjhepgm9rwwrpa9kuc8mseq553u8fa6jx84gg4l8x3adhndc6vc3df05 It&#39;s not just that we had two wasted years under Keir Starmer - years in which, with a vast majority and quite a lot of goodwill - he could have turned this country around. On crucial issues, we had two years of spiralling backwards, towards a very dark place. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...<br/><br/>Ed Miliband to acknowledge Lab... 2026-09-28T06:55:04Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqstv54pmpdwxkzfsnc9te0auwlt6fqcjdgj63sg238e2zzcvaucx6gzyzmwjhepgm9rwwrpa9kuc8mseq553u8fa6jx84gg4l8x3adhndc6vprjym4 Just loving how John Cleese, now reduced to one of his own caricatures, rages about immigrants coming to the UK and failing to accept &#34;our&#34; culture, from his home in ... (checks notes) ... Nevis in the Caribbean.<br/><br/><a href="https://oyster.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:codfx2epdduamfycuyi5fjpb&amp;cid=bafkreia27riil7rfp7cyrseydi2ke3dhhad2loyi6ea4jiskyy6fdowo74">https://oyster.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:codfx2epdduamfycuyi5fjpb&amp;cid=bafkreia27riil7rfp7cyrseydi2ke3dhhad2loyi6ea4jiskyy6fdowo74</a> 2026-07-28T06:48:02Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsx6h5pgekkrhsk7hvhd9v77kjk53wcux932fecstj75zg4v7hqjwczyzmwjhepgm9rwwrpa9kuc8mseq553u8fa6jx84gg4l8x3adhndc6vhjm2nx From 1941 to 1952 in the UK, the top rate of income tax was 98%. A luxury goods purchase tax introduced in 1940 later rose to 100%. <br/>Result? The share of incomes captured by the richest 0.1% fell from 7% in 1937 to just over 1% in 1975. That&#39;s what we need today. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...<br/><br/>Things are not going to get be... 2026-03-10T07:50:35Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsy3dh30v72eswz8a3n30xpgj5dgnenl0tjf6w5ccwdyjq3h0txzsczyzmwjhepgm9rwwrpa9kuc8mseq553u8fa6jx84gg4l8x3adhndc6vtuplgn Keir Starmer&#39;s attempt to paint the Greens as extremists yet again reveals his intolerance of political difference. His instincts are illiberal and authoritarian. 2026-02-27T19:44:28Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsguf68457t9we434aha4yll5a7ef96sha2883zs4g4c34jm06y59czyzmwjhepgm9rwwrpa9kuc8mseq553u8fa6jx84gg4l8x3adhndc6va7cc2e Please spread this far and wide, as stories don&#39;t get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we&#39;re heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem. <br/>Thank you. <br/>www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...<br/><br/>The UK government didn&#39;t want ... 2026-01-28T07:18:40Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqswqdw2e792p5t633rsjcwje62cnmckcyl3h2p3yx8fpge9ps7jm0gzyzmwjhepgm9rwwrpa9kuc8mseq553u8fa6jx84gg4l8x3adhndc6vljvanq This week&#39;s column is about something that&#39;s arguably more important than anything in the news, crucial as some of the other issues are.<br/>www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...<br/><br/>The UK government didn&#39;t want ... 2026-01-27T17:02:09Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs2tkeg0jlzxfzkdauadk6q0z60zmqvkfm55v3r34flyuv0kk4cg6qzyzmwjhepgm9rwwrpa9kuc8mseq553u8fa6jx84gg4l8x3adhndc6vepqztz If you are unlawfully killed by the authorities, you posthumously become a terrorist. 2026-01-27T07:14:03Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsr6yl92zsvtfv8xk69lt4fut7m3888axlwk2yussecwja0zfwymyqzyzmwjhepgm9rwwrpa9kuc8mseq553u8fa6jx84gg4l8x3adhndc6va7xrsz This is a tough thing to face. But on the left we *must* uphold the standards we preach. It concerns me that this is the only article by a leftist I&#39;ve yet read that handles the issue honestly. Otherwise I&#39;ve seen only tortured apologetics &amp; gross hypocrisy. www.europe-solidaire.org/spip.php?art...<br/><br/>Noam Chomsky&#39;s friendship with... 2026-01-26T13:11:49Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsp7njmnrx8mgn73m5g396g6zqk6fxvhfketxvsrv0p86uutly4aqczyzmwjhepgm9rwwrpa9kuc8mseq553u8fa6jx84gg4l8x3adhndc6vkxj2n2 10. It’s time to recognise how deeply weird this is, reserve our votes for people who give us what we want, and stop subscribing to media outlets that lie on behalf of oligarchs. <br/>More on this subject, with facts and figures, in my most recent column: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...<br/><br/>At the root of all our problem... 2026-01-23T11:38:43Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsxuq65ec9gw86w4d20zckxe4pwe7a6txcema90f0gwfsekqxky2sgzyzmwjhepgm9rwwrpa9kuc8mseq553u8fa6jx84gg4l8x3adhndc6vr0zuq6 1. This short thread is about the issue that dominates almost every aspect of politics, and causes or exacerbates most of our problems: the extreme wealth of a small number of people. Here’s the amazing thing: almost the entire political class aligns with the ultra-rich against the rest. 🧵1/10 2026-01-23T11:30:06Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsv3n2mrt4kmh7cqv2jtpvzn8qe0nh4aqehcr3zydjjsam6sednwygzyzmwjhepgm9rwwrpa9kuc8mseq553u8fa6jx84gg4l8x3adhndc6v9rlvfh It is the source of so many of our evils: the astonishing concentration of wealth in the hands of a very few, and the immense political power that gives them. We cannot solve our problems until we tackle it. <br/>This week&#39;s column.<br/>www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...<br/><br/>At the root of all our problem... 2026-01-16T18:18:38Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsr6e42amnhczklw6kn94p66j8lsk3h4znn2le6atr483pnlp6sr4czyzmwjhepgm9rwwrpa9kuc8mseq553u8fa6jx84gg4l8x3adhndc6vd7u7rm Any weaponry the UK has acquired from or developed with the US is likely to contain a kill switch, making it inoperable if the US government does not endorse its use. This includes our entire nuclear arsenal. As old alliances rupture, we find ourselves sitting on a multi-billion pile of bricks. 2026-01-14T07:20:44Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsxrmt544snz2fflgh2x2n9nxs5r3x62qntu8vc4zpmju8pcxjm47szyzmwjhepgm9rwwrpa9kuc8mseq553u8fa6jx84gg4l8x3adhndc6v8as0f4 This is on Starmer, on Lammy, on Mahmood. Heba&#39;s impending death, it seems, is a matter of policy. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...<br/><br/>Let’s be clear: if the Palesti... 2026-01-12T17:24:48Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsdycjsnpnq4hvhx9d8mh9qd6av55n075sc7ctw8sz5s8m5qkunzxczyzmwjhepgm9rwwrpa9kuc8mseq553u8fa6jx84gg4l8x3adhndc6vl9z3rf The government sits and watches as Heba dies. It&#39;s heartbreaking, horrible, almost impossible to compute. Didn&#39;t people vote in the hope (however forlorn) of ending the Tories&#39; psychopathic mode of government? Yet on it goes, under Keir Starmer. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...<br/><br/>Imprisoned hunger striker link... 2026-01-12T17:22:48Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqspf2tgtrptzdlkvrqdmh65j6qqsqrqwfzrapl8e2r8kz74c72wq9qzyzmwjhepgm9rwwrpa9kuc8mseq553u8fa6jx84gg4l8x3adhndc6vcdvwl5 Never forget: the people who hate their country most are those who style themselves &#34;patriots&#34;.<br/><br/><a href="https://oyster.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:codfx2epdduamfycuyi5fjpb&amp;cid=bafkreifxcaxjkhscyjg2omid526frbdjfesxpua7gxhry43lyl63zic7yu">https://oyster.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:codfx2epdduamfycuyi5fjpb&amp;cid=bafkreifxcaxjkhscyjg2omid526frbdjfesxpua7gxhry43lyl63zic7yu</a> 2026-01-12T12:31:56Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs8q2lsvhv7n279dgeqzks8mqmpsl0ttndjn9sh7m8cwmq5v4xma8czyzmwjhepgm9rwwrpa9kuc8mseq553u8fa6jx84gg4l8x3adhndc6vx2fz43 In the spirit of brotherly love, could I gently enquire why the almighty **** are government departments, government ministers and Labour MPs *STILL* using X? 2026-01-12T10:27:52Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsrvdwhsr4mr3xp9u96dff72ntenldq46a9ex6sz5krkmcmlsxf28qzyzmwjhepgm9rwwrpa9kuc8mseq553u8fa6jx84gg4l8x3adhndc6vmn0gqz Q. How do you know a government has undemocratic tendencies?<br/>A. It calls those who challenge it terrorists. 2026-01-11T15:08:20Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs2yxf2n8rpc4ul4rg7ndfc6s665q2gl7c27q8sp8gtgayv7le6ccszyzmwjhepgm9rwwrpa9kuc8mseq553u8fa6jx84gg4l8x3adhndc6vj5cprt A dominant theme of Hitler&#39;s speeches in the late 1930s is that Germany was surrounded by threats. These threats were imaginary: it was Nazi Germany that threatened other nations. But they were used to justify pre-emptive attacks. Trump is following this script. 2026-01-10T10:51:13Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsp2k662ca9tguckwtdk0llc5uvukc0s45aq38zv77pp7qmdfgwjdczyzmwjhepgm9rwwrpa9kuc8mseq553u8fa6jx84gg4l8x3adhndc6vk2rfyx If the Palestine Action hunger strikers die - which they could do at any moment, as they are now very close to the end - it will be the government that killed them. Today’s column explains why. Please share, and write urgently to your MP. <br/>www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...<br/><br/>Let’s be clear: if the Palesti... 2026-01-07T08:07:03Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsdr0vy00h0rdczy6jn0d285304784gtvc278lk46tths8qw3j9mlgzyzmwjhepgm9rwwrpa9kuc8mseq553u8fa6jx84gg4l8x3adhndc6vw2nae2 In July 2024, I warned that if Trump were re-elected, &#34;The age of multilateralism would be over, and something much worse will take its place. The UK and Europe will need to find the means of defending ourselves&#34;. <br/>I was called &#34;hysterical&#34;. <br/>Well, here we are. <br/>www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...<br/><br/>I never thought I’d argue for ... 2026-01-07T07:05:02Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqswvl9k4pza0s6fyu02rp7grllgp856zfzmnx088n8esc4fa5pnmjgzyzmwjhepgm9rwwrpa9kuc8mseq553u8fa6jx84gg4l8x3adhndc6vdqerc0 Many of those who complain about mining for batteries / solar / wind power have curiously never raised a squeak about the far greater extraction required for fossil energy. Funny how they become concerned about the planet only when fossil fuel interests are threatened. 2026-01-06T17:24:04Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsgaknuksz7u3575875xr8u4cl6xx52vkg63he5j3qxn79d8zgx59szyzmwjhepgm9rwwrpa9kuc8mseq553u8fa6jx84gg4l8x3adhndc6vvqh3qe Unhook ourselves from oil and gas and we unhook ourselves from dependency on dictators, autocrats and expansionist regimes all over the planet. <br/>Renewables and other low-carbon energy sources are not just good climate sense. They are also good political sense. 2026-01-06T17:04:14Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsfytldalfg4neqjzutw7fgxmfhla7ql2hjt280y3e5kuven57757czyzmwjhepgm9rwwrpa9kuc8mseq553u8fa6jx84gg4l8x3adhndc6vd78xvl This explains so much. <br/>People with psychopathic traits and low cognitive ability are over-represented in online political activity.<br/>If someone is being cruel, obnoxious and ridiculous, don&#39;t try to reason with them. Chances are you won&#39;t get anywhere. Just block. <br/>www.nature.com/articles/s41...<br/><br/>Dark personalities in the digi... 2026-01-06T07:05:37Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsv48wzg3ats9dcd4sqz63ep9qzyctw246wsvka3hpkadc4lua3vvszyzmwjhepgm9rwwrpa9kuc8mseq553u8fa6jx84gg4l8x3adhndc6vvnhcwt I&#39;m writing about the Palestine Action hunger strikers at the moment, any of whom could die at any moment, and the astonishing media and government silence surrounding them. The Establishment seems to have become even crueller than when Thatcher was PM. 2026-01-05T12:27:32Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsgv0ravrjzqndkk7g6367udsgf04hvnu8qjr789nmufm4wsrcfhpqzyzmwjhepgm9rwwrpa9kuc8mseq553u8fa6jx84gg4l8x3adhndc6v5xwecj To all those saying &#34;but if our government spoke out, there might be consequences&#34;, please remember that not speaking out also has consequences. The history of appeasement is not a reassuring one. 2026-01-05T09:28:11Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs0txyk8gy7aqeag995uaaevaukp0wytrt69yfvtyzlze3pujv6cgczyzmwjhepgm9rwwrpa9kuc8mseq553u8fa6jx84gg4l8x3adhndc6vrqwjjz Whatever you might think of Maduro, the seizure and kidnapping of a head of state takes us to a very dark place. Vast, arbitrary, extra-legal power, which could be exercised almost anywhere, regardless of the character of the target government. 2026-01-03T10:14:02Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsx7tm9cufgf48l94hkpm9lr589g7yfn4x6z6xj34a7ek7x6pfrugszyzmwjhepgm9rwwrpa9kuc8mseq553u8fa6jx84gg4l8x3adhndc6va48wn8 The bombing of Venezuela is an act of aggression: unprovoked, unjustified and unjustifiable. 2026-01-03T09:25:15Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsgxz67lwq3p2nt9dsl83hkr9aaqcy8dkwh2p4qft878hjp6dqvr8czyzmwjhepgm9rwwrpa9kuc8mseq553u8fa6jx84gg4l8x3adhndc6va7kp8p 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?<br/>www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...<br/><br/>Families of Palestine Action h... 2025-12-23T07:58:22Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsynfuqghsk5jk6ggrq5m60wzqlt0wcc53jkxx3wf92nte3jdt4ljgzyzmwjhepgm9rwwrpa9kuc8mseq553u8fa6jx84gg4l8x3adhndc6v6mxs05 The more I think about it, the more I reckon the 2003 Iraq War began the process that let Trump win. The blatant lies we were told by our governments, the disregard for public opinion and mockery of international law created a rupture that never healed. Trust, consent and cohesion were smashed.🧵 1/3 2025-12-19T08:33:09Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsx353vv98h8zkrs3w6zfw6tjpjray67yqtum8h45795rkjzmf3xrczyzmwjhepgm9rwwrpa9kuc8mseq553u8fa6jx84gg4l8x3adhndc6vh6098z So yes, do both if you want to, while being aware that one activity is useful and the other is futile. But be aware that for most population obsessives, it&#39;s either/or, and is used to avoid moral responsibility and effective action. <br/>More on all this here: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...<br/>13/13<br/><br/>The facts are stark: Europe mu... 2025-12-15T08:07:31Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs8kgn6aaxr953jzcxln3t8g72q6nsjyczz2x727lstju9rx9erg3qzyzmwjhepgm9rwwrpa9kuc8mseq553u8fa6jx84gg4l8x3adhndc6vhulkhp In the short run, we can survive the decline in wealthy countries by reopening the door to immigrants, which would also offer sanctuary to people fleeing from the climate breakdown and conflict we&#39;ve caused overseas. Two wins, in other words. In the long run, we&#39;ll steadily shuffle away.<br/>8/13 2025-12-15T08:01:57Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsvdzkt8hva7etf0s6s9ewmdu7306am4ttzm66eav8gn9y8yyh6hpgzyzmwjhepgm9rwwrpa9kuc8mseq553u8fa6jx84gg4l8x3adhndc6vd22a0q How many times do we need to point this out?<br/>By appeasing the far right, you do not weaken it. You strengthen it.<br/>While weakening your own position.<br/>There&#39;s a vast amount of academic research showing this.<br/>But Labour will not listen. <br/>www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...<br/><br/>Starmer urges Europe’s leaders... 2025-12-10T10:56:39Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsfasrjr28h7wl5jq47axj8a477usnsmjqzxy8qjyudqlnmd6hnduszyzmwjhepgm9rwwrpa9kuc8mseq553u8fa6jx84gg4l8x3adhndc6vkxqfur No good deed, thanks to the vicious propaganda campaigns of the billionaire media, now goes unpunished. <br/>They hate it when anyone tries to make life better for vulnerable people.<br/>www.theguardian.com/society/2025...<br/><br/>UK charities face ‘culture of ... 2025-12-09T09:57:24Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs9yxlwrcy9nsxwg82j3dmkq3g92n6xmvsj6fzq7sersyyvv3krzqqzyzmwjhepgm9rwwrpa9kuc8mseq553u8fa6jx84gg4l8x3adhndc6v5zvvdm 1. I hate to see good people wasting their time and energy. And there’s perhaps no greater waste of time and energy than seeking to change the trajectory of the human population. It’s not just futile, but also a massive distraction from things we CAN change. This thread seeks to explain why. 🧵1/12 2025-12-07T10:22:08Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsr4lrkm2pdhammeu5xqh8hl4rlr9kpf0jmctuqsqkxhl9gnmwekuszyzmwjhepgm9rwwrpa9kuc8mseq553u8fa6jx84gg4l8x3adhndc6vk8yzjx 1. Some good news at last. This week’s column is about the amazing thing a couple of us stumbled into three years ago, which we’ve now developed into a global research programme. It doesn’t change everything, of course, but it could help change quite a lot. + 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...<br/><br/>Over a pint in Oxford, we may ... 2025-12-05T06:55:46Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsxam7st53xs22qsk5e9cm2qengmmjc7n6pmj4ywundj3yse5x58lqzyzmwjhepgm9rwwrpa9kuc8mseq553u8fa6jx84gg4l8x3adhndc6vrh6wvh Researching this week&#39;s column, I stumbled across something that amazed me:<br/>the near-absence of reliable data about climate impacts over most of the<br/>world. Due to the rich world&#39;s failure to fund research. We don&#39;t know<br/>because our governments don&#39;t care. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...<br/><br/>There’s a catastrophic black h... 2025-11-21T08:06:58Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsp3m0jrztcz6vqq8u4algswjl72dsrh5q78rgq3znqwf06tknevfszyzmwjhepgm9rwwrpa9kuc8mseq553u8fa6jx84gg4l8x3adhndc6vahyxxl Among other topics, we discuss the sale of children in care. <br/>They&#39;re worth roughly £100k each. The profit you can extract by sending them across the country to the cheapest housing in derelict places, cutting them off from all hope and contact, is off the scale. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xx6...<br/><br/>How To Platform Socialist Idea... 2025-11-20T14:03:41Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsfr3ekddql6lvgu3l8var0ssvwat56rulwevlsxckyxhn2n2jcxngzyzmwjhepgm9rwwrpa9kuc8mseq553u8fa6jx84gg4l8x3adhndc6vn8ga3h The sheer scale of it shows that these people know they can get away with anything. The Environment Agency has been reduced to a chihuahua, sent out to do battle with rottweilers. It can yap, but can&#39;t land a bite. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...<br/><br/>River close to engulfing Oxfor... 2025-11-19T11:13:44Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs99mkh4cajfzkfukkqqy34epxq2lnq4ga8k9tpgunn8q5d3pp9q0czyzmwjhepgm9rwwrpa9kuc8mseq553u8fa6jx84gg4l8x3adhndc6v3azg3f The catastrophic illegal waste dumping in Oxfordshire (see next post) is a direct result of the deregulation-by-stealth I wrote about in 2021, when my dead goldfish became a registered waste disposer. I warned it would let the mafia in. And here we are.🧵<br/>www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...<br/><br/>Britain through the looking gl... 2025-11-19T11:11:24Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsghjtrck3zw7lxt6mfu3jpqtkcvh9mysmedlva59jw23wnll5rm4czyzmwjhepgm9rwwrpa9kuc8mseq553u8fa6jx84gg4l8x3adhndc6v3dvtau &#34;If you&#39;re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.&#34; Malcolm X.<br/>www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...<br/><br/>Dark forces are preventing us ... 2025-11-16T10:41:28Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsrnd5vxnx6esnsmyh6nqujpf5vs96qcmq7zsfeyqmaz5s3u7vgjqczyzmwjhepgm9rwwrpa9kuc8mseq553u8fa6jx84gg4l8x3adhndc6vlql5vu If the government really intends to seize jewellery and other valuables from refugees, <br/>either<br/>- it is staggeringly ignorant of the historical precedents<br/>or<br/>- it&#39;s aware of the precedents, and thinks, yeah, we&#39;ll have some of that. <br/>www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...<br/><br/>No 10 tells Labour MPs it expe... 2025-11-15T11:41:51Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsz89gn80jx9m4fnamcqrrf2n8kvclc90mamdnghkeaxcqk8ngu0cczyzmwjhepgm9rwwrpa9kuc8mseq553u8fa6jx84gg4l8x3adhndc6vas95ru Climate breakdown is driven by a storm of lies. This lying is systemic, funded and coordinated, and operates across almost all media, old and new. <br/>This week&#39;s column argues that we cannot fight the climate crisis without also fighting the epistemic crisis. <br/>www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...<br/><br/>Dark forces are preventing us ... 2025-11-14T06:47:45Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs8ewss8nxnxt6277jze7wr8lgan74wrgzs88k8v30fzn8rpqlp9pqzyzmwjhepgm9rwwrpa9kuc8mseq553u8fa6jx84gg4l8x3adhndc6vcehwt2 4. Those who own media platforms repeatedly bang the drum for longer sentences and greater criminalisation of the underclasses. They frequently exaggerate the dangers of crime and claim it is rising when it is falling. They push governments ever further towards a prison state. 4/8 2025-11-13T06:56:51Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsy23d2jfxl3mcx05t23tvdsagxeemtq6k3edjykddzc4v36xpdplqzyzmwjhepgm9rwwrpa9kuc8mseq553u8fa6jx84gg4l8x3adhndc6vatjshh The allegation here is that wealthy tourists paid to be able to shoot human beings. Perhaps killing wildlife wasn&#39;t enough for them. If true, psychopathic scarcely begins to cover it.<br/>www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...<br/><br/>Milan prosecutors investigate ... 2025-11-11T18:17:50Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsfsk8z5yd6vk2rd6zed9sexzcmj3pkt2kx2wrav08gmqtn9zxctgszyzmwjhepgm9rwwrpa9kuc8mseq553u8fa6jx84gg4l8x3adhndc6vslstwa Let&#39;s stop pretending that the billionaire media, endlessly attacking the BBC, has the slightest interest in balance, impartiality and accuracy. They won&#39;t be happy until the BBC is more rightwing than Vlad the Impaler. And then it still won&#39;t be enough.<br/><br/><a href="https://oyster.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:codfx2epdduamfycuyi5fjpb&amp;cid=bafkreic3glartcmo4sk6nkjjm64daxn5d76cibi66zpazhhzn7yjcxyjrm">https://oyster.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:codfx2epdduamfycuyi5fjpb&amp;cid=bafkreic3glartcmo4sk6nkjjm64daxn5d76cibi66zpazhhzn7yjcxyjrm</a> 2025-11-11T08:01:12Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs0c07f7hzvc9uqllc30tv9wk9tcut322fqepecjefd3pdk7aj3mpqzyzmwjhepgm9rwwrpa9kuc8mseq553u8fa6jx84gg4l8x3adhndc6vxqvz6u Panorama made a stupid editing mistake. But compare this to the deliberate and systemic attempt, sustained across years, to ensure that BBC output aligns ever more closely to the demands of economic power. Against your straw of bias, I raise you a haystack. 2025-11-10T06:00:20Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqszhz478lmcftr2hxu6ax5vjzc9ktuhhfv5dz6q5jl7rhk6d59jppgzyzmwjhepgm9rwwrpa9kuc8mseq553u8fa6jx84gg4l8x3adhndc6v32s2p2 I mean, just look at how far they stooped to try to appease not just the right but the far right. But you can never stoop far enough. Appeasement gets you nowhere. bylinetimes.com/2025/06/09/b...<br/><br/>Bot Verification 2025-11-10T05:50:09Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsgj7p2xuwhmzvmfcg5w2auhuzdqxatngtg76usyj63ze8tutfrn7czyzmwjhepgm9rwwrpa9kuc8mseq553u8fa6jx84gg4l8x3adhndc6vuhfppa Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough … 2025-11-10T05:44:33Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs0a8jn67yw5pqnddzl588p7x9xmcqhpdk9d3l8ey6x56fz7saxxdszyzmwjhepgm9rwwrpa9kuc8mseq553u8fa6jx84gg4l8x3adhndc6vahtqky This is a scorching article on the absolute state of The New York Times, and much of the rest of the media. <br/>Not just the billionaire media, note, but also the billionaire-*compliant* media, which both-sides every issue with purchased junktank talking points. <br/>lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...<br/><br/>Maybe Don’t Talk to the New Yo... 2025-11-09T10:55:39Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs0x4wmawpnlvtu3z48gmvxeupqjx5rkuhw6lz4u335v2nf8pxddwqzyzmwjhepgm9rwwrpa9kuc8mseq553u8fa6jx84gg4l8x3adhndc6v8v4fc7 We should vote only for those who promise to make billionaires history.<br/>We need a great levelling, through tax and redistribution.<br/>www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...<br/><br/>I wish we could ignore Bill Ga... 2025-11-08T16:19:39Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsvgkzawas8ryz0cwchna7q45tp8sjmss9pcw3t7n88j5lf8gw2ueczyzmwjhepgm9rwwrpa9kuc8mseq553u8fa6jx84gg4l8x3adhndc6vw3m9y0 This week&#39;s column is on Billionaire Brain: the condition which seems to prevent extremely rich people from perceiving the utterly bleeding obvious.<br/>www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...<br/><br/>I wish we could ignore Bill Ga... 2025-11-08T08:19:46Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsy2y8m7l2fqn3lgq8p9vp2kw0frhgsw9a49fjal6nxkre2r645zqszyzmwjhepgm9rwwrpa9kuc8mseq553u8fa6jx84gg4l8x3adhndc6verpmtx 10. The freedoms we take for granted – political, economic, sexual, individual - were won through a combination of extraordinary struggle and extraordinary luck. There’s nothing “natural” or inevitable about them. They are in fact highly anomalous. And we won’t know what we’ve lost till it’s gone. 2025-11-07T06:42:20Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsfkjrg2uwswjnrfe2rj44kpzzhxpn9kef75em7vkmqth349edwjsgzyzmwjhepgm9rwwrpa9kuc8mseq553u8fa6jx84gg4l8x3adhndc6vl0uztm 9. An autocratic ruler can quickly assert control, shutting down democratic institutions and competing poles of power, building an apparatus of state terror to crush dissent, controlling beliefs through the media, social media and other propaganda outlets. Every step makes the next one easier. 2025-11-07T06:41:48Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs2qsp7vfzzg05ytelfk0g2mgvnx28e05vqr5m4u5x3wvag98d7zxszyzmwjhepgm9rwwrpa9kuc8mseq553u8fa6jx84gg4l8x3adhndc6v8mtet4 8. But it might not require Nazi terror for Europe to revert to default mode. We seem perfectly happy to vote or drift our way back to it. As the US might already have done. <br/>Once you vote for an autocrat, you might find it extremely hard to reverse the decision. 2025-11-07T06:41:12Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsye243dmtp547kxpkw8lvtf8h59fv2ecjyw3kxq7splncjpyusldqzyzmwjhepgm9rwwrpa9kuc8mseq553u8fa6jx84gg4l8x3adhndc6vwm8vw8 2. These regimes were sustained by terror: extreme punishments for slight infractions; spectacular acts of public cruelty; torture and killing of those considered “disloyal” to the lord/bishop/king/emperor/pope. Belief in many cases was rigidly controlled: dissent or “heresy” often meant death. 2025-11-07T06:37:17Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqszazrwyhnf67slf8hszflgu3w6dvnnmcyae9agfhcp0edq0y7nu0qzyzmwjhepgm9rwwrpa9kuc8mseq553u8fa6jx84gg4l8x3adhndc6v6v4zyk 1. This is a thread on freedom, and how easy it is to lose. <br/><br/>Over the past 2,000 years in Europe, there have been few periods and places of freedom. For much of the time we lived under highly oppressive tyrannies of various kinds, whether small or grand, local or imperial, secular or religious.🧵 2025-11-07T06:35:48Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqspkrt40dsalhw4hurfd9p8jy6dtn4cp5ms2rady2y3kfftjxsx90gzyzmwjhepgm9rwwrpa9kuc8mseq553u8fa6jx84gg4l8x3adhndc6v4072jz 1. The approach of mainstream Democrats is summed up in this astonishing February advice from the Democratic strategist James Carville:<br/>“Roll over and play dead. Allow the Republicans to crumble beneath their own weight and make the American people miss us.”<br/>www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/o...<br/>🧵<br/><br/>Opinion | James Carville: It’s... 2025-11-06T07:11:58Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsxyu49tgu0wxm5nca6azk8u9n4scn7j7yp2xg6dncjcafr4cqjtjszyzmwjhepgm9rwwrpa9kuc8mseq553u8fa6jx84gg4l8x3adhndc6v54p000 1. In the wake on Mamdani’s win, we’ll see a lot more far right anti-urban sentiment. Here’s a thread on its roots and evolution. <br/><br/>The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵 2025-11-05T07:58:01Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsrj6e2l3ugpfv76vkv2ytkuxj5l60vgvhp238k5l65xr0ky5gsmpgzyzmwjhepgm9rwwrpa9kuc8mseq553u8fa6jx84gg4l8x3adhndc6vhxvpa0 It&#39;s brilliant and exciting to see Zohran Mamdani elected. <br/>More leaders like him please, and fewer like Cuomo, Schumer and the rest of the oligarch-pleasing, hope-destroying, election-losing, right-centrist political class. 2025-11-05T06:49:03Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsdfmcdw4f7jtavw5cm5crd75z8d8gr20rw3f83swk797pcrkcklqczyzmwjhepgm9rwwrpa9kuc8mseq553u8fa6jx84gg4l8x3adhndc6vlttx8t Partly because so many formerly leftwing parties have turned to the right, there&#39;s a lot of confusion about what right and left mean in politics. I hope this helps:<br/><br/>The right defends economic power. <br/><br/>The left resists economic power. 2025-11-03T17:56:48Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs8yeux9djwgyzyn88u2ycdkps96fqtaxmk80mka4uwyr4q4v0tezgzyzmwjhepgm9rwwrpa9kuc8mseq553u8fa6jx84gg4l8x3adhndc6vl27z6c I’m not sure most people have grasped the implications of parliamentary, rather than popular sovereignty, and just how vulnerable this leaves us. Why should we not have guaranteed political rights? Why should we allow any government, current or future, to walk all over us? 2025-10-28T08:22:19Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsghlpqqrd6xxd9zz8m3348ku359nq2xtlcvvnt0t9gxqp2j06gmaczyzmwjhepgm9rwwrpa9kuc8mseq553u8fa6jx84gg4l8x3adhndc6v2ggzvu Help please. Does anyone know where I can find a copy of John Ruskin&#39;s lecture on &#34;Imperial duty&#34;? Thanks 2025-10-21T13:36:44Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsz9stpy6q5hzfjnepelzge7h6kxwsq0ymv6mzqtaptgezv9j6tpgszyzmwjhepgm9rwwrpa9kuc8mseq553u8fa6jx84gg4l8x3adhndc6vxx449u Worth reading Democracy for Realists by Christopher Aachen and Larry Bartels. 2025-10-16T06:24:11Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsre57tahthzz9sw0tpzh5gpqjmnxdma5edelra04jfu0xd26cv2hczyzmwjhepgm9rwwrpa9kuc8mseq553u8fa6jx84gg4l8x3adhndc6vg7nw9n That&#39;s some serious system justification. 2025-10-16T06:18:48Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsr0j9g23ms6qljh6lm8dqy74nzwqr5hn89ml3nn3gflh996zhlwgczyzmwjhepgm9rwwrpa9kuc8mseq553u8fa6jx84gg4l8x3adhndc6vnrhs9j Ah yes, the folk theory of how democracy works. But never actually does ... 2025-10-16T06:16:10Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs00lkeclkxjgumh2ruynxz0vdaknl2zxzh2zz7djlr4r9uh54z75qzyzmwjhepgm9rwwrpa9kuc8mseq553u8fa6jx84gg4l8x3adhndc6vc4wkml The same thing has happened to the Labour Party and the BBC. It&#39;s as if some vitiating mist has crept across the political landscape, sucking the courage out of all the institutions it touches. Perhaps it&#39;s neoliberalism. Perhaps it&#39;s the growing wealth and power of the very rich. 2025-10-16T06:03:15Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsptes270e52qau393gg0hg0cdx83wt8ut53m0xupcy3hze9m93hngzyzmwjhepgm9rwwrpa9kuc8mseq553u8fa6jx84gg4l8x3adhndc6v7r9vsj Over the years, our big conservation groups, once brave and radical, have been taken over by suits: people with an Establishment mindset, who identify with the system they should be contesting. They wheedle and appease when they should be fighting with every legitimate tool they have. 2025-10-16T06:01:24Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsxwyp6dp58fqkxfmva78dtdpwzv9zkch3tkkm3c0l7hc6q9ygrklqzyzmwjhepgm9rwwrpa9kuc8mseq553u8fa6jx84gg4l8x3adhndc6vn8w5sk Today&#39;s column is about the government&#39;s huge, unprecedented assault on nature ... and about the eerie, astonishing silence of the big nature groups. The RSPB, National Trust, Wildlife Trusts have 7.5m members between them. A vast force, completely unmobilised. 🧵<br/>www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...<br/><br/>Wage war on nature to build ne... 2025-10-16T05:52:55Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsdav28fm46cgs5sfj7r2l3s35pepzp6amjs93alck8as7n0u89ndszyzmwjhepgm9rwwrpa9kuc8mseq553u8fa6jx84gg4l8x3adhndc6v3mrv63 To be effective, protest must be noisy, obstructive, annoying. No longer is this allowed. Now the last attribute of effective dissent – persistence – is also to be banned. But the moment protest ceases to be effective is the moment democracy dies. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...<br/><br/>Here’s what you need to know a... 2025-10-14T06:40:14Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqswufqe49zrraq4ejw0lz6dc452x4a8hx4mqldlen9y0nkx0ajpqzczyzmwjhepgm9rwwrpa9kuc8mseq553u8fa6jx84gg4l8x3adhndc6vv3r7fh Many patients have been forced into useless and sometimes dangerous “buck up” treatments such as Graded Exercise Therapy and CBT, in some cases long after these “treatments” have been debunked. The most eminent advocate of these treatments? Professor Sir Simon Wesseley. 2025-10-08T06:11:41Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsp97efzehs2anrdn5zpp9kd4q3tcy72mxcpacwu9u0h0dz8er9kzqzyzmwjhepgm9rwwrpa9kuc8mseq553u8fa6jx84gg4l8x3adhndc6v0j7kex Keeping people in poverty is an expensive luxury. <br/>My column on the false economies of austerity, which costs us all a fortune. Despite the government&#39;s claims, austerity continues under Labour. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...<br/><br/>It hurt when I crashed my bike... 2025-10-04T06:24:37Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqszyytrvxpukrrnspy0vf2au5f4wjnk482pjv2wgtjyahavyt3vfxqzyzmwjhepgm9rwwrpa9kuc8mseq553u8fa6jx84gg4l8x3adhndc6vlunqxd They are each 1,000 times more useful than Lord Glasman will ever be (or than I will, for that matter). His attacks on them are gobsmackingly snobbish and misanthropic. They reveal the real spirit of Blue Labour: a hatred of public sector workers and of the enabling state. 2025-10-03T10:50:51Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsrh3kwl7gu5tdsslk8d6n4ccyugcw8cejkvyrxelsatu06ma49weqzyzmwjhepgm9rwwrpa9kuc8mseq553u8fa6jx84gg4l8x3adhndc6ve2z4e5 This is his repeated attacks on what he calls the &#34;lanyard class&#34;. Who are the terrible people who wear lanyards? Doctors &amp; nurses, care workers, teachers, managers, administrators, secretaries. The people who hold society together, who keep everything running, who do the jobs he wouldn&#39;t stoop to. 2025-10-03T10:47:53Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsd60wtjxxuqtrfarvd0du0uxyp82n0m76mlf0c4xu8uxspjwt275szyzmwjhepgm9rwwrpa9kuc8mseq553u8fa6jx84gg4l8x3adhndc6vqjnx4e After clashing with Maurice Glasman recently, I&#39;ve come to realise just how pernicious he and his Blue Labour movement are. We could discuss his chumminess with Steve Bannon and JD Vance, endless pandering to the far right and evident hatred of the Labour left. But there&#39;s something even worse. 🧵 2025-10-03T10:43:31Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs80qx8guxrq02uu5kw984tqlnartlga246ehak6jjc9ec7ksveedqzyzmwjhepgm9rwwrpa9kuc8mseq553u8fa6jx84gg4l8x3adhndc6v0fy390 This is a brilliant demolition of Kemi Badenoch&#39;s nonsense about the Climate Change Act by @fionaharvey.bsky.social <br/><br/>www.theguardian.com/environment/...<br/><br/>As Tories vow to scrap ‘failed... 2025-10-03T10:03:10Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs24yvcxhy3e4hzxvjexqukj720jcvq8gqk2kzupk7wtpra37q36tszyzmwjhepgm9rwwrpa9kuc8mseq553u8fa6jx84gg4l8x3adhndc6vldwehg I&#39;ll be on Any Questions on Radio 4 tomorrow. I don&#39;t yet know who the other panellists are, but given the way things are shaking out, I&#39;m bound to disagree with them. 2025-10-02T13:36:12Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqstdk3u0v7mz0tgrc8ae7wfcxz0qnhxt6279zed6rmjp5d8ml9n8mszyzmwjhepgm9rwwrpa9kuc8mseq553u8fa6jx84gg4l8x3adhndc6v4atwpm Three of my great uncles, heroes all, died in World War Two to stop men like this. Will we now allow them to saunter into power?<br/><br/><a href="https://oyster.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:codfx2epdduamfycuyi5fjpb&amp;cid=bafkreifkx34vhxcp6ybkjyw2l6ysc5rppmow3uvezjt6lnrzqd5b4koiui">https://oyster.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:codfx2epdduamfycuyi5fjpb&amp;cid=bafkreifkx34vhxcp6ybkjyw2l6ysc5rppmow3uvezjt6lnrzqd5b4koiui</a> 2025-09-10T07:10:20Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsydva8f9ha8rnd5h4ythqeapn709u57rkgwl0f58uge99wqh5kcmszyzmwjhepgm9rwwrpa9kuc8mseq553u8fa6jx84gg4l8x3adhndc6v92xhdv Here’s the thing: we do not concede *one inch* to the far right. Ever. Anywhere. They are not just another political player. They are a threat to everything our ancestors fought and died to protect. They are not to be appeased. They are to be stopped. Rip down the flags wherever you see them. 3/3 2025-09-09T13:10:43Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs9clh8s3mmuef85lea2lpa8k6h6yuldw26xscuv7cv5r0zeaetrhqzyzmwjhepgm9rwwrpa9kuc8mseq553u8fa6jx84gg4l8x3adhndc6vqxca6j So when Yvette Cooper goes along with this pretence, boasts about all the flags she hangs in her garden shed (really? and, er, why?) and says “put them up anywhere”, she is, in effect, saying: “have the territory.” 2/3 2025-09-09T13:09:28Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs947eawjraddkjss2td8masxnkw3c3cmmre8gf9qfcgldv00fm4pczyzmwjhepgm9rwwrpa9kuc8mseq553u8fa6jx84gg4l8x3adhndc6ve3v3uz Could we please stop pretending that the flags being hung from streetlamps or painted on roundabouts are innocent expressions of patriotic pride? This is the far right marking out its territory. It uses these flags to intimidate its traditional victims and opponents. 🧵1/3 2025-09-09T13:08:11Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqswgaepv778qep7n07nzkt6n6hw8rktj5wdtwwtz3q4rjw6t4sm0dgzyzmwjhepgm9rwwrpa9kuc8mseq553u8fa6jx84gg4l8x3adhndc6vcluwgg 4. Failing to clear out the Tories’ highly political appointments to the BBC. They should be replaced immediately with independent people. Until that happens, it will remain a public relations outfit for the hard right and far right. 2025-09-07T16:50:00Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsw96vueunqh4d0zznnl5h5t430nckc5529sncrp5hl70xs7lvpmrczyzmwjhepgm9rwwrpa9kuc8mseq553u8fa6jx84gg4l8x3adhndc6vckkjr9 3. Refusing to introduce Proportional Representation. Under our First Past The Post system, a party with a minority of the vote can achieve a huge majority (as Starmer did with 34%). There is no way Farage could become Prime Minister under a PR system. Only under FPTP. 2025-09-07T16:49:35Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsfea2yhgu0u534fr4cwx67hy9yqjn5y4xc82zuc8ayvp2exw4nmvczyzmwjhepgm9rwwrpa9kuc8mseq553u8fa6jx84gg4l8x3adhndc6vrtqgnz 2. Empowering and legitimising the far right by echoing its themes, threats, cruelty and nastiness. Even if you set aside the moral implications, it’s an utterly baffling policy, as all the evidence shows that this gifts voters to the far right. <br/>www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...<br/><br/>It’s official – Keir Starmer’s... 2025-09-07T16:47:59Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs8qe3vfj6n3scy8w0kla50fzl6wpqjzg9ev9j2nr4tehp4xzg55vqzyzmwjhepgm9rwwrpa9kuc8mseq553u8fa6jx84gg4l8x3adhndc6vltwp38 If Farage wins the next election, it will be down to one person. His name is Keir Starmer. <br/>This thread explains why. <br/>1. Destroying faith in democracy. The UK decisively voted out the Tories, only for Starmer to give us a Continuity Tory government, shamefully beholden to economic power. <br/>🧵 2025-09-07T16:46:13Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs8ngx8mlrdkslfcr5kexey2plp3np7azhmdppdrkjmsyk7uk0dacczyzmwjhepgm9rwwrpa9kuc8mseq553u8fa6jx84gg4l8x3adhndc6vgqdcct But I think what got to me most was Tim Stanley&#39;s claim that claims of rightwing bias in the media are nonsense, because GB News is constantly complaining about leftwing bias. This, he appears to believe, is an argument. Yet he is treated, across the BBC, as if he were a serious voice. 2025-09-04T06:00:19Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqst46umcjacry7p3j8k46u6eu3j38v8hmngfwjrxwj5n2d5cd9rtqgzyzmwjhepgm9rwwrpa9kuc8mseq553u8fa6jx84gg4l8x3adhndc6vw65m3u I was on the Moral Maze last night, and I have to say, with the blazing self-deception of Tim Stanley and Paul Baldwin, and the failure of other contributors to grasp some basic realities, it was an almost perfect showcase of everything that is wrong with the media. <br/>www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...<br/><br/>Moral Maze - 03/09/2025 - BBC ... 2025-09-04T05:29:34Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsgtn5xwe8f73pqvp08rp0k30jwdthqgg0arr695stdr27rr775v0czyzmwjhepgm9rwwrpa9kuc8mseq553u8fa6jx84gg4l8x3adhndc6v3xlvh0 Across Europe, when centrist parties have adopted far right themes and sought to appease far right voters, they go down in flames. Why? Because:<br/>1. They alienate their own base.<br/>2. They tell other voters that the far right is correct.<br/>The determination not to learn this lesson is a wonder to behold. 2025-09-02T05:56:24Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsf737ften8d623wn72tpaxvlxwcx0xfmyju2kz0kxjlcd68l09twczyzmwjhepgm9rwwrpa9kuc8mseq553u8fa6jx84gg4l8x3adhndc6vs8wczn Why, you might ask, do the BBC and Sky News, casting their editorial guidelines to the wind, keep giving massive airtime to the far right, while shutting out leftwing voices? Don&#39;t their bosses understand the likely consequences?<br/>Only one explanation now remains.<br/>They do.<br/>And it is what they want. 2025-08-28T05:55:11Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs255rma7g2y6fdhv68f279mgkq7wyctyre8p7tcx9frzf4hrs6qcgzyzmwjhepgm9rwwrpa9kuc8mseq553u8fa6jx84gg4l8x3adhndc6vamn8t8 It&#39;s not asylum seekers who jack up rents, undermine the NHS, hold down wages and keep people insecure. <br/>It&#39;s capital. <br/>The role of the far right is to shift the blame for decades of economic attacks by the rich and powerful onto powerless people who have only just arrived here. 2025-08-24T16:19:07Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs94asnzn5s57gsy4ekpq2mcx43ketmu4pkvtwsg07g3mjq09nu0gszyzmwjhepgm9rwwrpa9kuc8mseq553u8fa6jx84gg4l8x3adhndc6v3h4mng Let&#39;s empty the jails so we can fill them with octogenarians who care about genocide. <br/>Because that&#39;s the real threat to society.<br/>www.theguardian.com/society/2025...<br/><br/>Prison bosses make room for po... 2025-08-06T08:30:35Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs9xhkqt0ugg6yh7en9hvh4zfpsewf3rez4xalqsl2v3jzmt93kp5czyzmwjhepgm9rwwrpa9kuc8mseq553u8fa6jx84gg4l8x3adhndc6vgteru7 1. This is something I&#39;ve been saying for 25 years, but it&#39;s hard to get many people to listen. What counts is not the new energy sources you add, but the old ones you retire. Unfortunately it&#39;s politically easier to build renewables than to shutter fossil fuels.🧵<br/>www.forbes.com/sites/rrapie...<br/><br/>The Renewable Illusion: Why Fo... 2025-08-04T08:13:00Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqszr3sxws48kclgant79mmuwpnxsd8mr6ynhdyw752gtpqvufp33wqzyzmwjhepgm9rwwrpa9kuc8mseq553u8fa6jx84gg4l8x3adhndc6vx2j2fu By supporting the expansion of Heathrow Airport and spreading outright lies about decarbonising flying, Labour has again capitulated to lobbyists. <br/>This is its defining characteristic: doing whatever powerful lobbyists ask, regardless of the social, environmental and even political costs. 2025-08-01T08:26:01Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsvtyfmjk72nepl9uem5hn7njvswphvc7pftlknw7erj564txqr2yqzyzmwjhepgm9rwwrpa9kuc8mseq553u8fa6jx84gg4l8x3adhndc6vhwafqv It cannot be denied: this is a deliberate and coldly-calculated famine, engineered by a technologically-advanced state which knows exactly what it is doing. <br/>www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...<br/><br/>The mathematics of starvation:... 2025-07-31T15:38:41Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs8tm6q5ka7zjcsuk5lg6dstzhq88jfqyyt8l398j45faxpmrfcnrszyzmwjhepgm9rwwrpa9kuc8mseq553u8fa6jx84gg4l8x3adhndc6v9j3faw US students are being forced to attend political propaganda sessions in which facts are distorted and issues conflated. It looks like the kind of &#34;re-education&#34; imposed by dictatorships.<br/>I speak as someone fiercely opposed to antisemitism: <br/>*This does not help*.<br/>www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...<br/><br/>Antisemitism training designed... 2025-07-31T14:27:01Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqswlqqan9ku304xg5kvxcwcjqh5gpn9chmmuqudphq2tmercl20ppqzyzmwjhepgm9rwwrpa9kuc8mseq553u8fa6jx84gg4l8x3adhndc6vu0yr0p 2. The reason is as grim as you could imagine: a cynical and staggeringly expensive greenwashing scheme dreamt up by the fossil fuel industry and packaged as a &#34;climate solution&#34;: the supposed &#34;Carbon Capture and Storage&#34; scheme the government is funding. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...<br/><br/>Labour’s carbon-capture scheme... 2025-07-31T06:05:17Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsvvrfycqye0vlfejmvccqq4erla9vk8xzqcg9ftez037tgqmwj9qqzyzmwjhepgm9rwwrpa9kuc8mseq553u8fa6jx84gg4l8x3adhndc6vpzesql 1. A characteristically brilliant explanation by @billmckibben.bsky.social of why Trump&#39;s attempt to force the EU to buy US fossil gas (please let&#39;s stop calling it &#34;natural gas&#34;) will fail. Unfortunately, the UK is now locked into US gas dependence. 🧵 billmckibben.substack.com/p/how-the-gr...<br/><br/>How the Grift Works 2025-07-31T06:03:03Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs2yuny5nvakwpcvddc7s0rqv6g7gd6tppt2e8tyr87m77eywazmlczyzmwjhepgm9rwwrpa9kuc8mseq553u8fa6jx84gg4l8x3adhndc6v2rcl3s I support Palestine Action in its judicial review of the government&#39;s ban. 2025-07-31T05:22:25Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsv65fkl38nva3cj0f6y5rlm0trz9g3pfl56cp4kg99nupyl4zq7hqzyzmwjhepgm9rwwrpa9kuc8mseq553u8fa6jx84gg4l8x3adhndc6v90tnuc &#34;What if we just banned empathy? That should shut them up.&#34;<br/><br/><a href="https://oyster.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:codfx2epdduamfycuyi5fjpb&amp;cid=bafkreibgmndvmu4vsmyqpqdhivn7ysgw6nyckbmysycp4xiievpo5q724m">https://oyster.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:codfx2epdduamfycuyi5fjpb&amp;cid=bafkreibgmndvmu4vsmyqpqdhivn7ysgw6nyckbmysycp4xiievpo5q724m</a> 2025-07-30T15:33:14Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqstkyjd3rff0v03yzqleh3wkj59sxmcunmt6ucrp7ml8tagxdjyemgzyzmwjhepgm9rwwrpa9kuc8mseq553u8fa6jx84gg4l8x3adhndc6v8c3v05 What the government has achieved above all is to bring people onto the streets in disgust at its disgraceful facilitation of genocide in Gaza. Its authoritarian policy has backfired spectacularly. Try as it might, it cannot stop people caring.<br/><blockquote class="border-l-05rem border-l-strongpink border-solid"><div class="-ml-4 bg-gradient-to-r from-gray-100 dark:from-zinc-800 to-transparent mr-0 mt-0 mb-4 pl-4 pr-2 py-2">quoting <br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Article"><a itemprop="url" href="/nevent1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqlqm550h8xuk6mwnr5xze25tp0d9rlkc2tsqcft0a85wafvdla8nqpm2h75" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1">nevent1q…2h75</a></span> </div> Great news: the High Court has granted permission for a full judicial review of the government's order proscribing Palestine Action under the Terrorism Act. <br/>Let's hope he government's idiotic and draconian order is overturned. </blockquote> 2025-07-30T13:38:36Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs0sd628mnnwtddhf36rpv429shkj3lmv99cqvy4h7n68w5kxl7neszyzmwjhepgm9rwwrpa9kuc8mseq553u8fa6jx84gg4l8x3adhndc6vwgnjkl Great news: the High Court has granted permission for a full judicial review of the government&#39;s order proscribing Palestine Action under the Terrorism Act. <br/>Let&#39;s hope he government&#39;s idiotic and draconian order is overturned. 2025-07-30T13:34:53Z