Last year Jessica's son got ill after playing in the River Thames. Her message to Environment Minister? Don't let our children get ill. Stop the illegal sewage.
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Everyone should watch Dirty Business. Apart from being excellent drama, it shows how elites are devastating our environment. We need to do something about it, now. www.channel4.com/programmes/d...
FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?
1908: the Lancet, one of the most respected scientific journals, calls for 18 age limit on reading in bed amidst a moral panic surrounding children becoming "addicted" to novels, which were "designed to keep kids hooked" and destroy their attention/mental health
Currently British Media willful blindness is failing to see any sort of connection between these two events
‘Anyone thinking of voting green needs to pay some serious attention to the muck raking the guardian are doing right now’. As if we haven’t been through this hundreds of times already by now
Starmer blamed his decision to appoint Mandelson on the vetting. Cooper blamed her decision to proscribe Palestine Action on the advice. Starmer blamed his decision to ennoble Matthew Doyle on the vetting. And now Kinnock blames the latest u-turn on the advice
Spot the pattern?
The Greenland ice cap is losing around 30 MILLION tonnes of ice an hour due to the climate crisis - 20% MORE than what scientists originally thought.
No time to waste. Stopfossifuels. #ActOnClimate
#climate #energy #renewables #go100re
Epstein is the sub- plot... My post. open.substack.com/pub/annpetti...
I think Mandleson may have helped ‘change the Labour party’ too…
Headline form independent September 12th 2025 highlighting Peter Mandelson failed security service vetting
For those that can’t remember tiny bits of news from September 2025:
Lord Mandelson failed security services vetting & agency officials went on the record saying Mandelson was a bad idea.
This was ignored by UK Gov/PM.
Building a coalition led from your own principles is good, shaping them around cloaked reactionaries is very bad. Hopefully Polanski can manage the first one.
Absolutely—it’s an error that although I can see why he’s doing it
Fairly clear that in most cases that was just an excuse not to vote for a mildly left wing govt. The left in the Greens ought to be careful about courting these people imo
Preemptive bailout
This interview with the wonderful Ash Sarkar has already had more than 100k views…If you don’t have time to watch - buy the book: The Global Casino.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xu3V...
Palantir is using medical records to help ICE target its victims in the US. And Wes Streeting is pitch-rolling for Farage to do the same in the UK.
Burnham was a Govt minister when some of those things were sold off...
Starmer is wrong to opt for suppliance on the basis that the UK has no leverage over the US. British holdings of Treasuries have ballooned and surpassed China's. European holdings overall are major.
I wrote an article for Critical Quarterly about an unpublished manuscript by the critic Ian Watt, which bears an uncanny resemblance to Marshall McLuhan‘s The Gutenberg Galaxy. You can view it for free here onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...
To cut a long story short, I suggest that the ’literacy thesis’ - popularised most by McLuhan - is founded on a racialised view of African subjectivity and that it poses its own, very specific brand of metaphysical thinking, one that departs from what Derrida had called ‘the metaphysics of presence’
The piece tries to think through how these two authors came up with such similar ideas, which involves an excavation of the origins of the ‘literacy thesis’ and a critique of some of its assumptions
I wrote an article for Critical Quarterly about an unpublished manuscript by the critic Ian Watt, which bears an uncanny resemblance to Marshall McLuhan‘s The Gutenberg Galaxy. You can view it for free here onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...
Molly in the Blackburne Arms, Liverpool, 1972, photo by Tricia Porter.
'In total, the 20 universities spent £8.3 million on remuneration for their vice-chancellors. The accounts also reveal they collectively let go almost 7,000 staff in the same year – costing £124.6 million in compensation for loss of office.'
We will either end fossil fuel dependency and the predatory extractivist basis of global production, or they will end us through wars and ecological collapse - all at the same time.
This report in Nature on the costs of competing for & administering scientific grants is shocking: "In other words, European taxpayers will have spent more on the funding process than on the funding itself, and the scientific ecosystem has been drained." www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪
the enthusiasm for generative AI would not have been possible without prior decades of capitalist conditioning to view works of art as products, rather than acts of culture and shared human life
