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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
For some inexplicable reason, this brilliant 1938 anti-Appeasement cartoon by the great David Low came to mind when I looked at the list of the Mega-Powerful / Hyper-Rich at yesterday’s Windsor Castle nosh up for our superhuman masters.
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Steve Bullock @guitarmoog.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Homework is basically just teaching kids to have a shitty work-life balance and to work for free outside their contracted hours.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
"I have a colleague...his fingers were crushed... They showed him a picture of his wife & said 'we're going to gang rape her in front of you if you don't admit you're Hamas.'" Dr Mark Perlmutter, in Gaza, on what Israel is doing to Palestinian doctors. My full interview: zeteo.com/p/us-embassy...
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Claire Hartnell @cjhartnell.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
This essay, mentioned by @georgemonbiot.bsky.social in his latest article, is chillingly relevant. Written in 2017, it is the warning we all downplayed back then. An unbearable depiction of the hatred for nature, vulnerability & femininity that has taken over in the US aeon.co/essays/the-m...
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The macho, violent culture of Italian fascism was prophetic | Aeon Essays
The glamour, bullying and violence of the libertarian alt-Right has a direct political ancestor, and it’s not Nazi Germany
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Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
In vast areas of the US, the sentiments expressed in this wonderful letter from a British man about why it's a privilege to pay tax to enable the National Health Service to run would see him probably certified as insane and labelled a "socialist".
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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Join the fightback: actionnetwork.org/events/no-th...
The German election — where the far-right AfD doubled its votes & came second — should be a warning for Labour.

Working-class communities need tangible improvements & hope — not more austerity or pandering to Reform in a race-to-the-bottom on immigration.

We need socialism.
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Martin Poyner @martinpoyner.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Chris Hedges - “The Ceasefire Charade” open.substack.com/pub/chrished...
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The Ceasefire Charade
Israel plays a cynical game. It makes phased agreements with the Palestinians that ensure it immediately gets what it wants. It then violates every subsequent phase and reignites its military assault.
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Martin Poyner @martinpoyner.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
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Grace Blakeley @graceblakeley.substack.com · 06/01/2025
Elon Musk’s fascist turn isn’t puzzling at all. It’s all about labour 🧵
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Martin Poyner @martinpoyner.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
my favourite musical releases from 2024 open.spotify.com/playlist/0ch...
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new in 2024
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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
The last photo of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, detained after refusing to abandon his colleagues and patients. In just one image, we see both the power of Palestinian humanity and the moral weakness of all those complicit in genocide. End all arms sales to Israel, now.
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 24/12/2024
He dives into the King’s soul, and there scatters Dangers, doubts, wringing of the conscience, Fears, and despairs
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 12/12/2024
there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Most of the hostels are super but the warden here is foul.
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The Artist Taxi Driver @chunkymark.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Turner Prize 2024 Jasleen Kaur youtu.be/6RoLMAf37qY?...
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Turner Prize 2024 Jasleen Kaur
YouTube video by chunkymark
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Tiberius @ecomarxi.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
From the great James Baldwin, who we lost on this day in 1987:
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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · 02/12/2024
71 years ago, MI6 and the CIA overthrew Iran's democracy. British officials wanted "a non communist coup d'état" in Iran to install a "dictator" who would promote UK oil interests, declassified files show. www.declassifieduk.org/iran-1953-mi...
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Iran 1953: MI6 plots with Islamists to overthrow democracy
Declassified British files highlight a little known aspect of the joint MI6/CIA coup against Iran’s democratically elected government in August 1953 – UK covert action in support of leading radical Sh...
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Martin Poyner @martinpoyner.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
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Alistair Coleman @alistaircoleman.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
What’s the matter hon? You haven’t been using your Dead Nan duvet and pillow set.
Facebook advertising featuring bedding based on a photo of a dead relative and is therefore very cursed.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
1. You think you’ve seen it all. You really have not. I’m a hard-bitten journalist of 39 years’ standing, but details of this story made me shout, weep and slap my head. This week’s column + 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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This society lauded a police officer who lied and cheated and ruined lives. At last, a reckoning | George Monbiot
As a ‘spy cop’, Bob Lambert callously betrayed innocent women. The official inquiry must ask harsh questions of him – and the state, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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+972 Magazine @972mag.com · 26/11/2024
Grappling with Jewish fears in a just Palestinian struggle - www.972mag.com/jewish-fears-just-pa…
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Grappling with Jewish fears in a just Palestinian struggle
Recognizing Zionism’s settler-colonial nature shouldn’t prevent us from reimagining a collective Jewish existence in this land, or taking seriously the fears that are weaponized to justify Palestinian subjugation.
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Israel is allying to ISIS affiliated criminal gangs to starve Gaza. You can read about this in the Israeli press. Why isn't this splashed on front pages in the West? New post 👇 www.owenjones.news/p/israel-all...
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Israel allying with ISIS affiliated militants to starve Gaza
Israel's publicly declared policy of starving Gaza has many elements. One of them is allowing criminal gangs to run rampage - including ISIS.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Another must-follow. The women who were deceived by spycops and are seeking justice, against the entire bloody establishment. @spiesoutoflives.bsky.social
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 27/11/2024
By cock and pie, you shall not choose, sir!
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Martin Poyner @martinpoyner.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
the web page for the recent LEGEPS N∃ I MOƧÅƧ show by Martin Poyner & Owen Piper at 36 Gallery is up: www.martinpoyner.com/legeps-w-owen-piper infinite thanks to Paul Merrick for letting / making it happen
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LEGEPS N∃ I MOƧÅƧ w/ Owen Piper — Martin Poyner
Returning to Newcastle, where they first crossed paths as young artists over 20 years ago, Owen Piper & Martin Poyner probe the relevance & emotional cost of making abstract art in 2024, presenting LE...
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