No such thing as an uncosted commitment when it comes to guns.

That looks suspiciously like an uncontested c.£12bn/year spending commitment.

Fiscal rules not being applied, then?

I’m honestly honored to be featured with a lengthy interview in this upcoming issue of Granta on the theme of EXTRACTION, alongside some writers whose work I love and have learned so much from…. Coming soon!!

'While much has changed in the past six months, the horrors we witness can only be truly comprehended as a cataclysmic new phase in a war that has been going on for several generations.' Today's The Guardian Long Read by Rashid Khalidi:
theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

The Cybertruck is a dud. The Semi still isn’t in mass production. The new Roadster is 5 years behind schedule. And the $25,000 model is dead.

Tesla was the EV leader. Now it’s fallen behind because it chased Musk’s pet projects and hyped up fantasies. disconnect.blog/tesla-is-in-se…

I see that British politicians will moralise about protests outside family homes while the state they arm murders the grandchildren of its opponents on Eid

In which we discuss Biden’s desperate effort to contain the inevitable strategic disaster, the Trump critique of Israel, the limits of national liberation and the difference between post-Marxist and “post-left”.

“Antarctic sea ice is ‘behaving strangely’ and might have entered a ‘new regime,’ the director of the US National Snow and Ice Data Centre (NSIDC) tells Carbon Brief.” carbonbrief.org/antarctic-sea-…

I interviewed Marxist historian Robin Blackburn, author of 'The Making of New World Slavery' & 'The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery', about his long-awaited concluding volume, 'The Reckoning: From the Second Slavery for Abolition, 1776-1888', for Jacobin.
jacobin.com/2024/04/robin-…

Yeah it’s weird how at the moment of historically highest national union density, none of the people in unions were ordinary or even working class. Also weird how it’s often guys who went to Eton who know all this.
Just one of those things, I suppose.

He was right the first time.

The 2000s are back, baby – and so are the fash.

Those celebrating the return of smooth-talking centrists to frontline politics seem to have forgotten the far-right they brought with them, writes Juliet Jacques.
novaramedia.com/2023/11/28/the…

Boris Kagarlitsky’s open letter from Russian prison: ‘Supporting left-wing political prisoners is an act of practical solidarity’ links.org.au/boris-kagarlit…

Please sign.. Petition: Immediately revoke all licences for arms exports to Israel petition.parliament.uk/petitions/6529…

'While much has changed in the past six months, the horrors we witness can only be truly comprehended as a cataclysmic new phase in a war that has been going on for several generations.'

Today's The Guardian Long Read by Rashid Khalidi

theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

I keep coming back to the point: we're in a world of permanently higher inflation. Climate change and nature crises give us this, and that impact will come to dominate others over time.

ft.com/content/5c6a2f…

In Journal of Institute for Palestine Studies, Neve Gordon and I analyse the emergence and circulation of 'medical lawfare' —Israel's discourse of legitimization of its attacks on lifesaving and sustaining infrastructures, from 2007 until the ongoing genocide in Gaza tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

To understand Britain’s malaise, visit Shildon – the town that refused to die
My column
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

📢 NEW PTO EXTRA 📢 - Richard Seymour responds to listener questions on an apparent turn against Israel on parts of the US right, the meaning of the protests against Netanyahu within Israel, and the significance post-Marxist tradition:

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“The problem that we’re facing is that weather is becoming so extreme that it is overwhelming our ability as farmers to continue to grow crops at all in some places,”

telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/0…