A civilisation built on violence, oppression and destruction of nature is killing itself and everything else. There is no reforming this. Green capitalism is an oxymoron. We need to build non-hierarchical alternatives here and now as the system crashes around us. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The media need to stop with this pretence that there is any question that the “peace deal” will succeed. We all know that Trump has none of the intelligence, stamina, compassion or diplomatic skill necessary to make it work. www.bbc.com/news/article...

How law protects the powerful. Threaten one man on social media and you get 5 years in jail. Threaten whole communities and you make money, top opinion polls and get talked about as a future PM. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Amazing how any amount of nonsense about the least powerful - immigrants, trans people, welfare recipients - is tolerable to the right wing media. But suggest that the most powerful might contribute a little more to society, and they lose their shit. 🤔

Yesterday, many Palestinians (some children under the age of 18) who had been held without charge & denied their basic rights by the Israeli government were finally released

But thousands more remain in arbitrary detention under appalling conditions and must not be forgotten

🤣 Oligarchs are rich because of: ruthlessness, sociopathy, inherited wealth, exploitation of others, compound interest, sycophancy to other rich and powerful people, avoiding tax and regulatory oversight and, most importantly, dumb luck. They are decidedly not smart.

This is no accident. Elites know their system is failing: wages stagnating, youth unemployment growing, welfare state collapsing. Rather than embrace greater equality and democracy (which challenges their wealth and power) they are opting for repression. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Technology-driven growth has brought the world to the brink of destruction and generated vast amounts of suffering and oppression. Giving the most important economics prize to people who ignore this fact will just perpetuate our delusion. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Witkoff tries to praise Netanyahu in Tel Aviv, but has a hard time finishing his thought because of booing

This is why I think the next Democratic president needs to use the EXACT tools that SCOTUS has handed Trump. Don't leave room for any distinctions.

Impound funds for deportation. Give ICE the USAID treatment. Refuse to collect government-backed debt. Purge MAGA loyalists from the executive branch.

Morgan instinctively detests any demand for rights from the oppressed. Women, people of colour, LGB people have heard that derisive laugh from privileged white men millions of times over decades. Now it’s used to shut down trans rights. Huge credit to @zackpolanski.bsky.social for being so strong.

In case this isn’t clear

As capitalism struggles to give people decent lives, it becomes harder to govern by consent. That is why the wealthy back fascists. When the next crash comes, expect a ramping up of authoritarianism as life gets harder. The left must be ready for the fight of its life. www.bbc.com/news/article...

🤣🤣🤣 I wonder at what point centrists will realise that boom and bust is a feature not a bug of capitalism. The rich get richer during the boom then make sure working people take the hit during the bust. Only a fundamental reset of power relations will change this. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I joined Zack Polanski in Handsworth today 👏

Guess what...he met an incredible and integrated community 🙏

The 2008 Crash was caused by banks. But working people suffered as wages, welfare, public services were cut. Those who caused the Crash just got richer. When the next crash comes (maybe v soon), the left will have to fight much harder to have the powerful carry the can. www.bbc.com/news/article...

On #BBCQT - Fiona Bruce said that the audience and public didn't want to press Reform UK on their dodgy links to Russia.

I disagree.

RT if you agree it's in the public interest for Reform to explain about their links to Russian money and bribery!

Under feudalism, many assumed noble birth conferred wisdom. It didn’t. Under capitalism, many assume great wealth confers wisdom. It doesn’t. If we created a society where large feet gave you power, many would assume large feet conferred wisdom. It’s always a con. www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

6. I should point out I am no migration specialist. I can just read reports from objective bodies like the Migration Observatory rather than take whatever Zia Yusuf or Nigel Farage say at face value.
migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/br...

5. Despite years of net positive migration, the foreign-born population in the UK is only around 15% and not particularly high compared to other nations. In fact, the UK is pretty much slap bang in the middle of OECD nations.

4. The latest data suggests that that period of high migration has ended and far fewer people came to the UK in 2024. A trend that seems likely to continue in 2025.

3. This leap was caused by a number of factors: refugees from Ukraine and Hong Kong, universities recruiting more international students to make up for spending cuts, efforts by the Government to plug a huge shortfall in careworkers, and people migrating who were unable to during Covid.

2. For much of those 14 years, net migration was pretty steady at between 200,000 and 300,000 a year except for during Covid when the figure dropped sharply for obvious reasons. The big leap in net migration happened only in the last four years.