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Hold on, as part of the Mandelson debacle, we just found out the hollowness of the “bond vigilante” narrative — Mandelson and Dimon against Darling, remember? Don’t try and pull this one on us now.

The New World asked me to speak to some British trans women about what life has been like for them over the past few years - here's what they had to say, in their own words: www.thenewworld.co.uk/marie-le-con...

This ruling and case should really scare everyone, basically you may think you have rights and be protected under the law, but a few well funded bigots can see your life destroyed for simply existing

The Jerusalem Post promoting the Israeli line on Iran. For all its efforts to position Reza Pahlavi as a credible opposition force, the end game is the disintegration of Iran in the name of the “self-determination” of ethnic groups . The very thing Israel denies Palestinians /n

Today First Glasgow put single fares up to a whopping £3.25, leaving us with some of the most expensive buses in the UK 💸

How can ScotGov allow this blatantly unfair situation to persist? 😤

𝗪𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝘂𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 by supporting SPT’s plans to take our buses back into public control 💷

Can some of you read my essay which has been somewhat betrayed by this out of context quote without shitting on it thanks

when the AI bubble bursts and we have hundreds of extra GWs of capacity on the grid, power will then be too cheap to meter and the hall–héroult process will be essentially free. i propose spinning up the aluminum industry and providing a weekly ration of aluminum billets to all americans

200 leading global artists, writers and actors are calling for the release of Marwan Barghouti.

An impressive list here.

freemarwan.org/public-figur...

My first poem in print. "Holes" in Gutter 32.
So proud.

@gutter.bsky.social

amazing q&a with paul krugman

The substantive point here is important too: underestimating the benefits of public spending should be considered an equally serious error as underestimating the costs.

Dan Davies is the Dorothy Parker of economics writing. A few people (not many) might offer comparable insight. But nobody does it as quotably. open.substack.com/pub/backofmi...

A TRANS PERSON MADE YOUR PUZZLE is LIVE !!!!

donate at least $10 USD to an American trans charity and receive 10 puzzles by trans constructors

edited by me and @cantorlope.bsky.social
beautiful cover art by @pseudonymjones.bsky.social
happy pride :)

tinyurl.com/transxwords

New piece: been working on this for the best part of a year. But really it's trying to draw on everything I've seen and thought about since I first started reporting on far right politics in the late 2000s. Online now and in tomorrow's LRB.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Europe now has:
20,500 brown bears (a 17% increase since 2016)
9,400 Eurasian lynx (12% increase)
1,300 wolverines (16% increase)
23,000 wild wolves (34% increase)
150,000 golden jackals (46% increase)
- but none of those in the UK!
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Campop blog #29: It's commonly thought that the Industrial Revolution (1750-1850) was characterised by an increase in people working in industry. In today's blog Leigh Shaw-Taylor demonstrates this was not the case. 1/3
@camunicampop.bsky.social
www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/2025/01...

is this a good time to repost my theory that, when the coalition decided to suppress public sector wages, they accidentally suppressed everyone else's wages and thus private sector investment, too

Adorno did talk about how cars condition drivers into fascist thought and behaviour...