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• Saturday, 31 October 2020

  The Weaponisation of Labour Antisemitism 🔗 — David Graeber

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• Monday, 26 October 2020

  Without Trace - George Monbiot 🔗

  If you are not incandescent with rage, you haven’t grasped the scale of what has been done to us.

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• Monday, 19 October 2020

  The State of It – George Monbiot 🔗

  The Conservative promise to shrink the state was always a con. But it has seldom been as big a lie as it is today. Johnson grabs powers back from Parliament with both fists …

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• Friday, 25 September 2020

  David Graeber, anthropologist and author of Bullshit Jobs, dies aged 59 🔗 — Excerpt: David Graeber, anthropologist and anarchist author of bestselling books on bureaucracy and economics including Bullshit Jobs: A Theory and Debt: The First 5,000 Years, has died aged 59.

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• Wednesday, 16 September 2020

  Currently reading: Another Now: Dispatches from an Alternative Present by Yanis Varoufakis 📚

  Books Politics
• Monday, 14 September 2020

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

  Books Politics
• Wednesday, 2 September 2020

  How maps in the media make us more negative about migrants 🔗 — Excerpt: It’s like one of those optical illusions: it looks like one face at first, but it’s actually two. Once you see the second face, you can never unsee it.  In this case, the illusion is how we view migration – it’s the maps we see so frequently that visualise migration for us.

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• Tuesday, 4 August 2020

  Why Autonomy News? – Autonomy News 🔗 — Excerpt: The Autonomy News collective plans to produce original articles like this one on a fairly regular basis, as well as reposting content from elsewhere. In our first article we examine the current historical moment, and why there is a need for a site like this.

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• Tuesday, 5 May 2020

  Covid-19 surveillance tech explained: 6 ways governments are monitoring the virus – and you 🔗 — Excerpt: Governments across the world face the same dilemma: how to contain the spread of Covid-19 while at the same time re-opening their shuttered societies. The stakes are immense. Open up too early and the death toll could sky-rocket, putting health systems under enormous strain.

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• Tuesday, 5 May 2020

  Brace yourself for the most dangerous idea yet: most people are pretty decent 🔗 — Excerpt: Right now, more than ever, we need a hopeful view of human nature. While we’re right to keep our physical distance from those around us to stop the spread of the virus, we also need to believe that it’s these same people who will get us through it. We need to trust them.

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• Thursday, 12 December 2019

  UK General Election. Polling stations open from 7am to 10pm. 🗳️

  You don’t need your polling card or ID to vote. You just need to turn up!

  A wet and breezy morning at our polling station.

  

  

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• Monday, 9 December 2019

  Labour’s Manifesto is fit for purpose. So, why are the middle classes so hostile to it? – link at The New Statesman 🔗

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• Tuesday, 26 November 2019

  Media misrepresentations of the Labour party are being used strategically to create left wing folk devils and moral panic – link from Politics and Insights 🔗

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• Saturday, 23 November 2019

  He may be an anarchist who has voted only once in his life, but the comics legend Alan Moore is calling on his fans to oppose the “rapacious, smirking rightwing parasites” currently in government and join him in voting Labour.

  Alan Moore drops anarchism to champion Labour against Tory ‘parasites’ – link 🔗

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• Monday, 18 November 2019

  There’s a really good explanation of a Green New Deal for the UK on the Labour for a Green New Deal website, with a number of detailed policy documents packed with information. Also nice to see that the site itself is well designed. The Green New Deal Explained – link 🔗

  Links Politics
• Saturday, 16 November 2019

  Politics and social media — Read more

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• Friday, 15 November 2019

  The Great NHS Heist, a documentary film that I supported on GoFundMe, is being released online on 30th November.

  The Great NHS Heist is a powerful account of how the nation’s proudest achievement, the National Health Service, has been fundamentally reshaped and undermined by successive governments in preparation for privatisation. The evidence of the heist is presented with a stark warning of the risks ahead through interviews with health care professionals, patients and experts in England and America.

  A trailer is also available on YouTube.

  Links Politics FilmTV
• Thursday, 14 November 2019

  Trying a Labour Party Webinar — Read more

  Photography Politics
• Friday, 1 November 2019

  A New Financial Order - Aaron Bastani Meets Yanis Varoufakis – link 🔗

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• Monday, 21 October 2019

  Caroline Lucas & Yanis Varoufakis search for what went wrong with democracy — link 🔗

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• Saturday, 19 October 2019

  Wildcat and the Egghead: The life of Donald Rooum — link 🔗

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• Saturday, 28 September 2019

  Ne Travaillez Jamais! ca. 1965-66 - Situationniste Blog 🔗

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• Monday, 7 January 2019

  🔖 There is no leftwing justification for Brexit. We must fight it to the last.

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• Thursday, 15 November 2018

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

  Links Politics
• Friday, 5 October 2018

  Mentioned this in a previous post, but just seen this in The Guardian, which has a little more detail – Never mind GDP – make free time the measure of UK wellbeing

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