Support Pret. Support your local pub. Do your civic duty and return to the office. Send your kids back to school. Drive 100 miles round trip to get a test. If you let the government blame young people for what's coming, you're a fucking idiot.

If the government can suddenly decide to spend another £100bn on containing Covid-19, it shows that state failures to address our climate and ecological emergencies have nothing to do with a lack of money and everything to do with a lack of will.

It's depressing that the opposition doesn't realise that by repeating your opponent's frame (nationalism, family values etc), you don't steal their votes, you just strengthen their narrative. If voters go into the polling booth thinking 'Britain first' and they'll vote Tory.

Last night I caught up with #ALifeOnOurPlanet on Netflix. Massive kudos to David Attenborough for the great shift he has made. Just two years ago, he called such film-making a “turn-off”. But here he confronts us directly and unflinchingly with the facts. Thread/

The lockdown measures Boris Johnson will announce later today were never inevitable. They are the result of a catastrophic failure of government. Serial incompetence has condemned our great country to being one of the hardest hit by this pandemic in the world.

We sacrificed so much to buy the government time to build an effective Test and Trace system. They handed it to private contractors, messed it up, and now we're back to square one. We should be beyond furious.

“Bristol University students living in halls are going on a rent strike and will be withholding over £1 million in rent money” thetab.com/uk/bristol/202…

Tory MPs just voted to plunge a million children into hunger. Britain has the wealth, resources and ability to ensure every single child has enough food. Imposing hunger on them is an act of violence.

This line has always been bullshit, but it takes a special kind of psychopath to use it IN THE MIDST OF A PANDEMIC

All child hunger could be abolished overnight. And should be. It's only our rotten government and the system it serves that means it isn't.

The most important demand everyone has to unite around now is that any lockdown needs a proper economic support package including the old furlough scheme in full. Otherwise we'll suffer mass economic ruin as well as the mass death the government are already responsible for.

This is one of the most important 11 seconds you can watch. It shows tax rates since 1950. The right-most part of the line represents billionaires. Watch what's happened to their tax rates over the last 70 years Source: nytimes.com/interactive/20…

Why is anyone in the labour movement demanding anything other than furlough at full pay, and full sickness and isolation pay for all? Why make your starting position a demand for a pay cut?

No matter the outcome, the fact that this election is so close is a clear indicator that Americans aren’t connecting material conditions on the ground — a depression, pandemic, low wages, etc — to the consequences of politics. Which is an abject, disgusting failure of Democrats.

There’s a lesson here for Starmer: if you want to defeat a rightwing populist by margins big enough to produce a political reset, it’ll take more than pointing out the incompetence and vulgarity of your opponent.