This guy has crafted some incredibly damaging trade and investment deals in the last 12 months, opening Britain to greater domination by Big Tech and Big Pharma. Those deals now must be reopened & rescinded.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
It would be good if the dehumanising and abusive way migrants still get treated in the UK got even half the coverage and attention as what is happening under Trump in the States
bylinetimes.com/2026/01/09/1...
BREAKING: At least 373 Palestinians have been killed and 970 wounded since the start of the ceasefire in October, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/ro90fr
🧵On our revelations today about the BBC Coup and the Prescott Dossier.
The leaked ‘BBC Bias’ memo Trump used to attack the BBC was authored by Michael Prescott — a Hanover lobbyist paid by US tech/media giants tied to Trump. Full story: bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/b... 1/12
‘To be held without charge and questioned under threat of criminal prosecution without a lawyer is otherwise unheard of in British law. At a port of entry or exit, this cornerstone of British justice no longer applies.’
Asim Qureshi on misuses of the Terrorism Act:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
"You can’t reboot the planet if you crash it" | My commentary on Bill Gates' flawed new climate missive for @thebulletin.org: thebulletin.org/2025/10/you-...
Meat is a leading emissions source – but few outlets report on it, analysis finds
This deserves *way* more attention than it’s getting
Reform’s former Wales leader admits he received corrupt payments in exchange for making statements in the European Parliament to promote Russia’s interests in #Ukraine.
A Spanish naval vessel will join the Global Sumud Flotilla to provide assistance and, if necessary, conduct rescues, says Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez.
Italy earlier announced it was dispatching a frigate after a night of drone attacks on the flotilla opposed by the Israeli gov't.
In discussion with a computer scientist from the University of Cambridge last night:
Me: "you've described some of the things that AI is good at. How would you describe the category of things it's not good at?
**pause**
Him: "Anything where it has to be right".
President Trump has fanned the flames of the far-right.
And now a toxic form of politics is spilling out onto our streets.
These are dark times, but those who seek to divide us will not win. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Across 142 routes in Europe, trains are on average twice as expensive as flights
On some routes, they are 26 times the price
Low-cost airlines profit from unfair tax exemptions, but trains are burdened with VAT, energy taxes and high track fees
Governments and the EU must stop rewarding polluters
🚨BREAKING🚨 ICJ ruling that a healthy environment is a human right could be a real turning point in setting out governments’ legal responsibility to tackle #climate crisis 👇
Sharing This Video Could Get You 14 Years in Prison @georgemonbiot.bsky.social
‘Given the size of Palestine Action and the breadth of support so far expressed for it, proscribing it could lead to a significant proportion of civil society being criminalised, including MPs, journalists and NGOs.’
New on the blog: Daniella Lock on Palestine Action. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...
So this hapoened today and I’m so humbled to have my contribution to health equity in nursing and academia recognised by the hoghest in the land. www.linkedin.com/posts/lsbu_c...
Appalling speech by Starmer. Dishonest, inhumane and most of all, cowardly.
It's hard to get your head around the scale of the environmental vandalism the Labour government is hoping to unleash. The Planning and Infrastructure Bill is up there with Trump's executive orders. And the reason is the same: corporate power.
This week's column.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
‘There’s nothing surprising about Trump’s attack on the universities, or on the liberal law firms that he also despises. What is shocking is the ease with which his attack has so far succeeded.’
Adam Shatz on Columbia’s capitulation, from the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma...
NEW: El Salvador has released this video of the deported men arriving in their country.
Their hands & ankles are shackled and they’re manhandled by hooded guards. They have their heads shaven.
Trump has published no names nor evidence. People ripped from their lives in the US with no due process.
Yet again, #DowningSt shows itself to be trapped in a misinformation and disinformation bubble when it comes to nature laws.
Meanwhile, the PM seems to have very little to say about housebuilders that are sitting on 100ks of granted planning permissions, but not actually building houses!
Screenshot of a page from the Byline Times: REPORTAGE in our series The Return of Trump: A New Order & What is Extremism? Trump's War on 'Woke' and DEI: Incubated by a Nazi Eugenics Foundation Mainstream American conservative icons Christopher Rufo, Peter Boghossian, and Richard Hanania - who inspired Trump's assault on diversity - were bankrolled by the funder of a Nazi eugenics foundation By Nafeez Ahmed 27 February 2025
“The ‘war on woke’ did not suddenly appear. It is an idea deeply rooted in a form of scientific racism that has been laundered into the mainstream over decades by the Pioneer Fund and right-wing activists connected with this group” bylinetimes.com/2025/02/27/t...
Per Dr Atul Gawande, ex USAID: “All malaria supplies protecting 53 million people, mostly children, including bed nets, diagnostics, preventive drugs, and treatments – terminated.”
There are no words that sufficiently describe this level of cruelty and sadism.
Tell Keir Starmer to bring in a wealth tax to fund public spending, rather than punish the poorest people in the world 👇
act.globaljustice.org.uk/dont-cut-aid...
The climate crisis calls for a radical rethinking of education as a force for ecological and social renewal.
📢 Have insights? Share a short contribution by 28 Feb to help shape “Key Insights on Education for Planetary Futures”, launched at Climate Week NYC & COP30.
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The UK's anti-protest laws pre-legitimise far right authoritarianism. Labour must repeal them now.
My column today.
www.theguardian.com/global/comme...
#6 in HRER’s all-time most cited articles is by @citizenlj.bsky.social @annaliddle.bsky.social & @helenyoung.bsky.social - an analysis of the knowledge students drew on to discuss rights-based dilemmas and the implications for #HumanRights Education
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
"Keir Starmer’s Government Votes to Block UN Plan to Tackle Global Tax Avoidance"
bylinetimes.com/2025/02/04/k...
When will Govt learn you can’t out-Reform Reform - you end up simply legitimising their toxic narrative. To see off populists, Labour needs to invest in public services & local communities, making a real difference to people’s lives - levy a wealth tax & use it to improve people’s lives *now*
a colourful blue, orange, red and purple chart showing a light and dar kblue history for temperatures, recent shifts upwards through orange and light red, and two futures: one of light and dark red (1.5c), and one of deep purple (3c and more)
I think this is one of my favourite colourful climate chart type things, because it depicts two things at once:
- Things are going to get worse, no matter what
- The degree to which they get worse depends on decisions made today
theconversation.com/my-new-dark-... by @edhawkins.org
