Politics

Apr 23, 2022: IPES food report: The Politics of Protein 🔗

Apr 13, 2022: Cloudalists: Our New Cloud-based Ruling Class - Project Syndicate op-ed 🔗

Jan 26, 2022: Why We Must Challenge Zuckerberg’s Ring of Power 🔗

Sep 24, 2021: Spirited Away 🔗 – by George Monbiot How the counterculture fell prey to the far-right’s conspiracy …

Sep 1, 2021: 🔗 Star Trek versus Imperialist Doctrine by Yanis Varoufakis America’s liberal imperialist doctrine …

Aug 27, 2021: Currently reading: How Did We Get into This Mess? Politics, Equality, Nature by George Monbiot 📚

Apr 20, 2021: Compulsory worship of national symbols is the sure sign of a culture in decline - Article by Nesrine …

Oct 31, 2020: The Weaponisation of Labour Antisemitism 🔗 — David Graeber

Oct 26, 2020: Without Trace - George Monbiot 🔗 If you are not incandescent with rage, you haven’t grasped the …

Oct 19, 2020: The State of It – George Monbiot 🔗 The Conservative promise to shrink the state was always a con. …

Sep 25, 2020: David Graeber, anthropologist and author of Bullshit Jobs, dies aged 59 🔗 — Excerpt: David Graeber, …

Sep 16, 2020: Currently reading: Another Now: Dispatches from an Alternative Present by Yanis Varoufakis 📚

Sep 14, 2020: Currently reading: Talking to My Daughter: A Brief History of Capitalism by Yanis Varoufakis 📚

Sep 2, 2020: How maps in the media make us more negative about migrants 🔗 — Excerpt: It’s like one of those …

Aug 4, 2020: Why Autonomy News? – Autonomy News 🔗 — Excerpt: The Autonomy News collective plans to produce …

May 5, 2020: Covid-19 surveillance tech explained: 6 ways governments are monitoring the virus – and you 🔗 — …

May 5, 2020: Brace yourself for the most dangerous idea yet: most people are pretty decent 🔗 — Excerpt: Right …

Dec 12, 2019: UK General Election. Polling stations open from 7am to 10pm. 🗳️ You don’t need your polling …

Dec 9, 2019: Labour’s Manifesto is fit for purpose. So, why are the middle classes so hostile to it? – link at …

Nov 26, 2019: Media misrepresentations of the Labour party are being used strategically to create left wing folk …

Nov 23, 2019: He may be an anarchist who has voted only once in his life, but the comics legend Alan Moore is …

Nov 18, 2019: There’s a really good explanation of a Green New Deal for the UK on the Labour for a Green New …

Politics and social media Nov 16, 2019

Nov 15, 2019: The Great NHS Heist, a documentary film that I supported on GoFundMe, is being released online on …

Trying a Labour Party Webinar Nov 14, 2019

Nov 1, 2019: A New Financial Order - Aaron Bastani Meets Yanis Varoufakis – link 🔗

Oct 21, 2019: Caroline Lucas & Yanis Varoufakis search for what went wrong with democracy — link 🔗

Oct 19, 2019: Wildcat and the Egghead: The life of Donald Rooum — link 🔗

Sep 28, 2019: Ne Travaillez Jamais! ca. 1965-66 - Situationniste Blog 🔗

Jan 7, 2019: 🔖 There is no leftwing justification for Brexit. We must fight it to the last.

Nov 15, 2018: HT @lohang@mastodon.social 🔖 War, censorship, and the invention of “fake news”

Oct 5, 2018: Mentioned this in a previous post, but just seen this in The Guardian, which has a little more …

Oct 5, 2018: Sian Berry, the Green Party’s co-leader, made some really good points on BBC Radio 4’s …

Aug 17, 2018: 🔖 Celebrity is not harmless fun

Jul 12, 2018: Good article by Owen Jones in The Guardian today – 🔖 Protest against what Donald Trump represents, …

Jul 2, 2018: Nice little quiz, in a format I haven’t seen used before – NHS at 70: how well do you know the …

Jun 1, 2018: Avoiding meat and dairy is ‘single biggest way’ to reduce your impact on Earth

May 29, 2018: Supporting The Great NHS Heist Documentary via @gofundme

May 30, 2017: Yanis Varoufakis at the Hay Festival

May 29, 2017: Just seen Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis speaking at Hay Festival - very impressed! #HayFestival

May 3, 2017: Adults in the Room by Yanis Varoufakis review – one of the greatest political memoirs ever?

Jan 31, 2017: Yanis Varoufakis: Europeans should be excited about Benoît Hamon winning the French presidency …

Feb 2, 2012: fin de Spectacle? - another edition of Spectacular Times found and displayed online at …