Thirty-eight-year-old Daniel Shaw, a softly-spoken social worker, will spend the next four years in prison. His crime? Leading a Zoom call about a climate protest that never happened. via Global Witness globalwitness.org/en/blog/labour…

If the left of the left in Labour have any sense of their own political survival, this will be their Reims congress moment. They're outnumbered, with no room to maneouvre in the party, just like Mélenchon was...

Evidence that whatever one thinks of the current Labour government, the fact that they aren't the Tories offers huge opportunities for the left to put pressure on them on a whole range of issues. That thin election result already has them worried.

All Starmer’s failings play into the hands of Farage – the prime minister is the gift that keeps on giving My column theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Planning Christmas dinner like

it feels like this is very quickly not going to be particularly enforceable. it’s crazy state overreach

“I have no ideological position on this conflict. I approach it simply as a lawyer and a historian. But I sometimes wonder what Israel’s defenders would regard as unacceptable, if the current level of Israeli violence in Gaza is not enough. This is not self-defence. It is not

Pretty much explains the Zarah Jeremy debacle.

This is some kind of Chris Morris shit

Every time you board a bus, or catch a train, you are caught in a web of private ownership. “Public” transport is not public. Why is transport costing more while our services keep getting worse? 🧵 Let’s look at the facts.

predictable seeing some self proclaimed socialists attack Gary over this. In s wales we are now in the fight of our lives to stop reform winning in labour heartlands-presumably we should scream at people on the doorstep, call them bigots? Not engage with them? Unserious children

Good policy. However, the only way to do it in practice is to improve pensions, particularly for the self employed, & ofc raise wages, i.e., stuff away from the housing sector. As long as housing is the *only* way of obtaining any financial security it’ll continue

Describing landlords as offering 'a product that [people] *want* to pay for' is so unbelievably tone deaf. Started interview saying how much social housing they were building. Dugmore explained that it would be less than that lost over same period to right-to-buy. They've no clue

Written on the Greens emergence as genuinely mass party of the left in England - but it needed a sharp break not only with Labour but with the traditions and institutions of “Labourism” to make this happen. Full link below

The unhinged reaction of right wing politicians & the media today is a step up from during Corbynism. If you listen to any right podcasts, this won't have been be a surprise. Even more sensible sections of the right have been on a weird trip for a while now. Truly losing it.

Iran strikes are an act of bloody criminality and dangerous stupidity. Domestically they also reveal the truth about Farage: he wants us as the 51st state, a petty satrapy for a decaying American empire and its spasmodic violence. No.

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