Can we please stop pretending we live in a democracy? No majority or people would choose/vote for that And yet, that's where we are and it's very much because of the people supposed to represent us Call me a populist, I think it's basic democracy... www.theguardian.com/business/ng-...

Revealed: major oil firms make $93bn profits amid war and climate crisis

Iran conflict windfall over three months reignites calls for companies ‘cashing in on human misery’ to pay for environmental damage

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📢Happy to see our article “Far-righting the mainstream: endogenous drivers of reactionary shifts in western party politics” with @alvarooleart.bsky.social published in Compartive European Politics A short thread 👇 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Far-righting the mainstream: endogenous drivers of reactionary shifts in western party politics - Comparative European Politics

Research on the relationship between the far right and the mainstream has predominantly focused on how far-right electoral success exerts external pressure on mainstream parties, leading them to accom...

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"He was jailed in 2015 for more than three years after posting “vile” antisemitic material online ahead of a planned neo-Nazi rally" The Guardian edges on calling *check notes* antisemitic material posted by a neo-Nazi vile Must be one of those "populists"... www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Former neo-Nazi activist selected as Tory candidate for Somerset council election

Joshua Bonehill-Paine, creator of satirical Crewkerne Gazette, has convictions including for harassing a Jewish MP

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So how many more disabled people and older people should have been allowed to die so that young people could go out more during a pandemic? As one of these young people who was then at uni, struggled with lockdown & depression, and who also ended up in a wheelchair from long covid... Really?

Long article making big claims about Reform notably, calling them "hard right" 🙄 and making much of its 8.7% of the vote The final paragraph casually mentions the turnout is one of the lowest ever with 25% So yeah, Restore on 2.2%, Reform on 5% etc and abstention on 75% Priorities I guess...

christ if that’s not a metaphor for our times

Just watched the BBC 10 O'clock news @bbcnewsunofficial.bsky.social Two stories - one on the Suffolk wildfire and another on the countrywide Welsh drought - with not a SINGLE mention of the climate Just beyond belief www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Drought declared for whole of Wales amid sustained high temperatures

Wales is on course for its driest July on record in almost 190 years.

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“AI will supercharge government”

Eric Geller@ericjgeller.com · 6d ago

"A US government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a state department presentation at a global conference in Brazil this week, causing a stir among attenders who took screenshots and posted them online."

From widespread racist violence, to attacks on places of worship and burning down homes and businesses of people of colour, our new Prime Minister is inheriting a country which is ripping at the seams.

Bridget Phillipson, reflecting on her years spent standing idly by while UK higher education crumbled into the abyss and tens of thousands of university workers implored her to do something, literally anything, to save their jobs: BUT WHAT ABOUT ME THO www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

‘It hurts to lose a job you love’: Starmer loyalist Bridget Phillipson fights on despite cabinet demotion

Exclusive: The former education secretary on her new role as Labour chair and continuing as the minister for women and equalities

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The Daily Telegraph has raced through all five stages of climate denial this week. But this is, perhaps, the most ridiculous column so far: "Without minimising the severe downsides…especially on some poorer nations, many in Britain would enjoy the kind of warmer climate predicted by modellers..."

Meanwhile, look at the extreme discordance and dissonance of stories on this news page in the same edition...

Oldest trick in the book - privatization of profits, socialization of losses (while describing ‘socialism’ as the purest form of evil of course).

It’s not a slogan. It’s a cause. Abolishing slavery was a cause, and everything that’s written below about prison abolition was written about abolition of slavery. It’s good to have causes, if they are just.

@takethepith.bsky.social · last wk.

"Abolish Prisons" is a slogan that will immediately turn off 95% of people, regardless of the nuances in the literature. Far more harmful than helpful. The right clearly always wanted to make abortion illegal and punish women who got them. But they didn't make that their slogan! They knew better!

I can't imagine a party running on a platform offering to ban or at least heavily tax second home owners or landlords would be unpopular Sure, second home owners and landlords are louder (and many would be in elite position and able to shape the agenda), but still... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Second home owners 'feel unwelcome' while locals struggle to buy

Are second homes - a hotly contested topic in Wales - pricing young people out of areas they grew up in?

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv)@theserfstv.bsky.social · last wk.

They're coming for your children www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/06/jk-r...

CW: rape US military bases in the UK are effectively acting as consequence-free rape centres. They should all be shut down. Why aren't the "protect our women and girls" crew storming these bases?

Has anyone conceptualised horseshoe theory? I can't seem to find anything which surprises me as it would be very useful!

Now expect self-congratulatory pats on their own backs from the mainstream elite claiming to have defeated the far right, missing that it was only popular by contradistinction thanks to their own actions, that Burnham has sent many bad signals in this respect and that its politics are now mainstream

Luke Tryl@luketryl.bsky.social · last wk.

Our latest voting intention sees cross over. Labour move ahead by 4. Their first lead since March 2025 & highest share since Nov 24 🌹 LAB 28% (+4)
⏩ REF 24% (-2)
🌳 CON 22% (nc)
🔶 LIB DEM 12% (+1)
🟢 GREEN 8% (-3)
🟡 SNP 2% (nc) N = 2061| Dates 24-27/7| Change w 22/7

Farage has said he thinks it’s “absolutely nuts” for CO2 to be considered a pollutant, while Badenoch says candidates aren’t welcome in the Conservative Party that support net zero. Leaders of the civilisational collapse cult.

The stranglehold the rightwing and far right have on our politics is absurd. Not a single policy or idea that benefits the country. A wild aversion to tax, immigration, NetZero, the EU.. trapping us in a dismal dead-end, unable to make progress for fear of the DailyMail demographic losing its shit.

These are designed to break people. This is what’s left of British democracy in 2026.

CarolineJMolloy@carolinejmolloy.bsky.social · last wk.

“A terrorist sentencing also means defendants’ serve at least two-thirds of their tariff in prison, much longer than is the norm. To obtain parole they must rescind their political views.”

“A terrorist sentencing also means defendants’ serve at least two-thirds of their tariff in prison, much longer than is the norm. To obtain parole they must rescind their political views.”

What the guy who likes to march around dressed an SS officer? That guy??

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

Jake Tapper reports that Greg Bovino on a call with the office of the US Attorney in Minnesota during Metro Surge made an antisemitic remark about the Trump-friendly US Attorney in Minnesota

AP running a puff piece on this woman:

The Associated Press@apnews.com · last wk.

AP Exclusive: In a Ukrainian bomb shelter, Laura Loomer explains her shift on Russia’s war and wants to admit that she fell for some falsehoods of her own.

I stressed the need for red lines at an event recently saying that if we are to turn the tide I was told that saying that we should not waste our energy "debating" bad faith reactionary actors who seek to dehumanise entire communities and entrench authoritarianism was "cancel culture" Sigh

Dorian Lynskey@dorianlynskey.bsky.social · last wk.

The decision of so many people to keep using X in its race-war phase has made me a bit more cynical overall about the ability to draw moral red lines. It’s beyond disappointing.

The decision of so many people to keep using X in its race-war phase has made me a bit more cynical overall about the ability to draw moral red lines. It’s beyond disappointing.

I join you from the Blaenavon wildfire in Southeast Wales, brought to you by BP, Shell and Equinor. Though it does not look dramatic, the fire has been out of control for days - for a very particular reason. 🧵

Would assume everyone knows it by now, but just in case "First the traitors, then the invaders" is an explicit reference to The Turner Diaries, where a white supremacist revolution overruns "The System" and kills all their enemy during the evocatively named "Day of the Rope".

The Turner Diaries - Wikipedia

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · last mo.

X owner Elon Musk indicates he would prioritise political violence (assassination of pro-migration politicians is the common sense meaning) over violence against "invaders" (refugees, asylum seekers, maybe ethnic minorities generally) while endorsing call for violence (killing) against both groups