me when the eclipse tries to burn my retinas

so I'm not the only genius thinking of this

Not only is almost no new social housing being built but the last of the existing stock is being quickly sold off? This policy was a disaster driven by neoliberal ideology, played a huge role in creating the current housing crisis (and rise of fascism!) and it's unbelievable that it's still in force

From a report on the SpaceX moon crash... The same global fascist billionaire tech-bros who deny and hasten climate change are simultaneously blocking what they believe to be their own future escape plan of "colonising Mars", polluting even the space around Earth with their garbage?

I'm old enough to remember when a sitting Labour MP, Jo Cox, was shot and stabbed to death by a white supremacist for her pro-remain stance on the Brexit referendum, and a few days later Farage hailed the leave victory as having been won "without a single bullet being fired".

Is there a more apt summary of the Starmer-Mahmood years than "expressing a positive opinion will now be an offence punishable by up to 14 years in prison"? The IRGC and GRU are doubtless terrible state forces doing terrible state crimes but how does more UK state authoritarianism address that?

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I bought an old 35mm SLR and started taking pictures on film for the first time in about 20 years. It's not only radically different and more fun than a phone but also shows that resolution does not equal "quality". Exhibit A: lad who guards a tiny farm in a hamlet on a hill in Umbria.

This is where buying into a bootlicking ideology gets you. Punching down at people more marginalised, minoritised or vulnerable than yourself, while the ruling class goes through your pockets.

and of course his government always makes time to punch down at refugees, even when it no longer has any mandate and he's already resigned...

Exactly one week ago Starmer's spokesperson promised "no new major policy or spending commitments" before he leaves office. He seems not to have got his own memo on this. Or he's actually *addicted* to u-turns and just couldn't resist squeezing a few more in before he leaves, just for the thrill?

um, labour is already in power and that's the problem?

tbf this is one of the most consistent decisions this government has made, in line with both its total lack of moral and political principle, and its stubborn refusal to understand or even learn how politics works or what anyone actually wants

the PM says he knows people are unhappy at paying the price for a war in the Middle East "we are not involved in"

"special relationship" update: the British Library categorises the Library of Congress as "inappropriate for use in a public area"

Labour is losing *seats* to Reform because it's losing *votes* to the Greens (not my analysis, John Curtice's). What chance they will pay attention to this fact and re-consider their strategy of adopting ever more far-right policies on immigration, asylum, protest, genocide? I'm guessing zero.

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People are experiencing severe delays and understandable frustration due to the implementation of the #EES, but to learn what the real European "border nightmare" looks like, check out our new report, out today: www.refugee-action.org.uk/lockedoutloc...

I spoke to Shelagh Fogarty yesterday about the people tragically killed in the Channel by UK-funded racial border violence. It's from 02:10:30 here: www.globalplayer.com/catchup/lbc/...

The result of a year-long, cross-border research project with people seeking safety in the UK and France, mine and Haleemah Alaydi's new report for Refugee Action is out on Monday 13th April. I'll post more here then.

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Halfway down the article, that critical fact so many Brits and the UK government have been only too happy to ignore when they are making money and dodging taxes, living it up in resorts built by enslaved labour, or selling weapons to be used in RSF atrocities in Sudan. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Whether they call it a "difficult system", as Shabana Mahmood does today, or a "hostile environment", as Theresa May did in 2012, Labour and the Conservatives are equally committed to regressive, reactionary, and racist immigration policies that do nothing but harm to the UK and its communities.

such democracy! so liberal!

The newly announced Reform candidate for Gorton and Denton, echoing Enoch Powell's explicit racism a couple of months ago. For these white supremacists, UK citizenship is merely a "piece of paper", and Black and Brown people will never be *truly* British.

Of 2025's many pre-emptive UK state concessions to the insurgent far right, this police guidance on publishing the "nationality and / or ethnicity" of suspects is particularly egregious. It amounts to saying that when far-right social media accounts demand it, police must weaponise racial identity.

imagining this privately-educated multimillionaire struggling to make his lips form the words "down the pub"

Piracy, kidnapping, robbery, extortion - the USA pivots from the "global policeman" brand it cultivated in the immediate post-Cold War era to "global highwayman". Doesn't mean it wasn't always imperialist, but does make idiots of European leaders still spinning "democracy" lines on Venezuela attack.

This is what that "peaceful transition to democracy" for Venezuela that Keir Starmer told you about yesterday looks like in practice

And, to bring this thread full circle, here's another leading voice of the supposedly "progressive" or "liberal" political and media elite welcoming Ovenden's racist sentiment.