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Jacob S

@peopletrees.bsky.social

Organising, tenant unions, writing, post-capitalism. Bristol, formerly London. My book Renters Unite is an account of the new wave of tenant organising around the world. No access to DMs. https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745350011/renters-unite/

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flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · 2w ago

Culturally, this is because we had twenty years of roaring all-channels advocacy for increased racism, harder crackdowns and latterly more deportation and demonstrative cruelty. We had this alongside - at best - total contempt for those opposing austerity, war, racism, police violence and genocide.

College kids defacing a McDonalds during a climate change rally lead to calls to call in the tanks, whereas coke-head wife beaters trying to burn refugees alive get sorrowful expressions of sympathy for their "legitimate underlying concerns" and "lads with strong feelings, what can you do?" shrug.
Jacob S@peopletrees.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This chimes with my take on it. Disappointed the Greens joined this game of avoiding direct confrontation with the fascist.

Phil McDuff@mcduff.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The worst thing about the Count Binface thing is how it seems designed to appeal to the Marina Hyde Column Industrial Complex people. That peculiar British politics thing, where it's incredibly stupid and insulting but absolute arseholes keep explaining it's very clever, playing a blinder etc.

Philippe Auclair@philippeauclair.bsky.social · 2mo ago

It is impossible to read this without being filled with anger and sorrow, anger towards a judicial system which ordered that the neck of a victim of domestic abuse should be broken on the scaffold, sorrow for her and her children, who had to live with that awful trauma. Peace be with her at last.

Ruth Ellis, last woman hanged in UK, granted posthumous conditional pardon

Ellis, 28, was executed in 1955 after fatally shooting her abusive partner David Blakely

theguardian.com

Jacob S@peopletrees.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I am a fan of Tom Paine. Not a particularly fashionable position because both left and right take issue with him. But he was right more than he was wrong, took real risks for his beliefs, and was influential while being radical.

Bo Thompson@gaudipern.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Thomas Paine is my favorite founding father. He was famously abolitionist and one of the earliest voices to point out the hypocrisy of fighting for independence while keeping slaves. He also firmly believed that keeping any friendship which required compromising your morals made you a bad person.

Jacob S@peopletrees.bsky.social · 2mo ago

There's been too little discussion of the fact the current English devolution model is even less democratic than the absurdly undemocratic and weak council system.

Natalie Bennett@nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The "strong leader" model of a single elected mayor is undemocratic and inadequate. As the NAO says, local accountability arrangements need to be "substantially strengthened and tested". Which means an elected body holding each mayor to account www.nao.org.uk/reports/devo...

Rob Sheridan@rob-sheridan.com · 2mo ago

The thing about social media age restrictions is that it treats today’s internet as an inevitability we all just have to deal with. The internet (and the WORLD) wasn’t like this until like four dudes were allowed to own & monetize as much tech real estate as they wanted. Fix THAT problem.

Dominic Dean@drdominicdean.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I don’t want to be a crude leftie, but the Guardian has a column on Where It All Went Wrong for Starmer that doesn’t mention Gaza/Palestine even once either as a foreign policy issue or as a target of domestic repression - come on, man.