South East Water says it can't provide water to all new homes
Water companies haven't built new reservoirs for decades, paid dividends, govts did nothing
Govt wants to build new homes but no infrastructure planning. That's what happens when you privatize essentials infrastructure.
"Four years ago I woke up to my house shaking and the sound of bombs exploding outside..."
Green Party activist Valentina Butenko calls on members to support motion E29, "Strengthening solidarity with Ukraine", coming up at the party's Spring conference (28 March, online)
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Hugely important article. Most of us are victims of serious but hidden violence robbing us of years of life. A social murder boom caused by austerity eclipses the homicide rate. Meanwhile the ultra rich who benefited from this keep it off the media they control.
There’s been a murder…
The good kind of infighting. Creasy explaining very clearly why the policy sucks. More power to the backbenchers
If we agree there should be a floor beneath which no one falls, is it unreasonable to ask if there should also be a ceiling?
This week, we’re resharing a conversation with @ingridrobeyns.bsky.social on why placing limits at the top matter just as much as protections at the bottom.
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You're welcome. This and your later post improved my own understanding. Thanks.
This is so good, we wish WE had made it! The history & lunacy of the disinformation campaign around 15-Minute Cities, by 2 “non experts” @iandunt.bsky.social & @dorianlynskey.bsky.social who show how experts SHOULD be communicating. Thanks to the @originstorypodcast.bsky.social podcast. #UrbanTruth
Two smiling tax administration employees standing at Arrivals section of an airport with a large hand-drawn banner with the text translated above
“To all influencers and other tax exiles in Dubai, the tax authorities wish you a safe return to France”
A humane and perceptive reflection on an episode that otherwise mainly attracted a mix of misunderstanding and performative outrage.
This election was a choice between hope and hate, and the people of Gorton and Denton chose hope 💚
🎉 Huge congratulations to the Honourable Member for Gorton and Denton! And to everyone who helped make this happen 👏
I can't wait to see you on Monday, Hannah, and give you the biggest, proudest hug
‘The beatings will continue until morale improves.’
Or, even more upsettingly, ‘We have to hurt you (darling) because we love you so much and it’s for your own good.’
They just cannot help using the language of the despicable abuser. It’s who they are. It’s what they are, to their cores.
Did they hear Badenoch’s “paedo” taunt at pmqs and think “we can go lower” ?
It's quite a pitch to be the party of working people by scrapping their home and work protections in favour of the businesses and landlords who exploit them.
Occupation is not peace! Russian troops out! Rally at Parliament (4 March)
Four years on from Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Ukrainians are living in bombed cities and freezing homes, but their resistance is unbowed. The UK workers' movement stands in solidarity. Ukraine Solidarity…
On the eve of the 4th anniversary of the full-scale invasion, the Trades Union Congress and nine unions representing a majority of organised workers in the UK have issued a statement in solidarity with Ukraine and its workers. Please read + share! ukrainesolidaritycampaign.org/2026/02/23/u...
The Guardian view on the BBC World Service: this is London calling | Editorial
![That which is for me through the medium of money - that for which I can pay (i.e., which money can buy) - that am I myself, the possessor of the money. The extent of the power of money is the extent of my power. Money's properties are my - the possessor's - properties and essential powers. Thus, what I am and am capable of is by no means determined by my individuality. I am ugly, but I can buy for myself the most beautiful of women. Therefore I am not ugly, for the effect of ugliness - its deterrent power - is nullified by money. I, according to my individual characteristics, am lame, but money furnishes me with twenty-four feet. Therefore I am not lame. I am bad, dishonest, unscrupulous, stupid; but money is honoured, and hence its possessor. Money is the supreme good, therefore its possessor is good. Money, besides, saves me the trouble of being dishonest: I am therefore presumed honest. I am brainless, but money is the real brain of all things and how then should its possessor be brainless? Besides, he can buy clever people for himself, and is he who has [In the manuscript: "is. - Ed.] power over the clever not more clever than the clever? Do not I, who thanks to money am capable of all that the human heart longs for, possess all human capacities? Does not my money, therefore, transform all my incapacities into their contrary?](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:givg3amslsq46o3f25ga5esh/bafkreig4odpf2rmnmzzaiw45dbmsiiltel6wiv4sv32o7ojwdz3vpuf34q)
That which is for me through the medium of money - that for which I can pay (i.e., which money can buy) - that am I myself, the possessor of the money. The extent of the power of money is the extent of my power. Money's properties are my - the possessor's - properties and essential powers. Thus, what I am and am capable of is by no means determined by my individuality. I am ugly, but I can buy for myself the most beautiful of women. Therefore I am not ugly, for the effect of ugliness - its deterrent power - is nullified by money. I, according to my individual characteristics, am lame, but money furnishes me with twenty-four feet. Therefore I am not lame. I am bad, dishonest, unscrupulous, stupid; but money is honoured, and hence its possessor. Money is the supreme good, therefore its possessor is good. Money, besides, saves me the trouble of being dishonest: I am therefore presumed honest. I am brainless, but money is the real brain of all things and how then should its possessor be brainless? Besides, he can buy clever people for himself, and is he who has [In the manuscript: "is. - Ed.] power over the clever not more clever than the clever? Do not I, who thanks to money am capable of all that the human heart longs for, possess all human capacities? Does not my money, therefore, transform all my incapacities into their contrary?
A bit long but here’s Marx from the 1844 manuscripts providing an exposition of Goethe and Shakespeare on the power of money that all happens to sum up exactly where we are right now. (Reminded of this passage by Epstein’s capture of prominent academics.)
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There are no unplumbed depths to Trump. He's the Mariana Trench of politics.
SMS. Selective memory syndrome.
Bullock’s Wager: An atheist choosing to believe in God for the sole reason that it opens the door to the possibility of beelzebub and all his little devils spending an eternity going to town on fascists who hid their venal lust for power and inflicting misery behind disgusting appeals to faith.
The main business model of Silicon Valley from Uber to AirBnB to Spotify is: skim profit off others' goods and labor. Often in ways that are exploitative of individuals or destructive of larger forces (as with Amazon and the retail that kept people heading out in public).
ASLEF condemns the Russian drone attack that killed at least 5 people on a passenger train in Ukraine.
Targeting civilian passengers is abhorrent and unjustifiable.
Solidarity with Ukrainian workers, millions of whom are without heating or electricity in the middle of winter.
"'What did we learn from the Holocaust? We have to act and we have to resist,' Tracht said, running out of breath as the car turned the corner. 'If I’m not going to act and resist now, then I shouldn’t call myself a rabbi and I can’t be a proud Jew.'"
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Stalin notorious for making sure you could walk to the shops
On passing through the veil into fascism
I’ll say it again: social media destroys reading comprehension. It’s depressing how often seemingly intelligent people misread even short posts. And it’s not down to education because schoolkids do get taught how to interpret tone, context, word choice, etc. It’s brainrot
Two days ago it was Elissa Slotkin. Last week it was Jerome Powell. Before that, Mark Kelly. Weaponizing the justice system against your opponents is an authoritarian tactic.
The only person not being investigated for the shooting of Renee Good is the federal agent who shot her.
Done
It will not surprise you to learn that Toby Youngs 'Free Speech Union' has obtained a High Court injunction banning the publication of a list of its donors open.substack.com/pub/democrac...
