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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 06/10/2026

On the podcast: @naomiaklein.bsky.social and @astra.bsky.social join @adamshatz.bsky.social to discuss what fascism looks like in the age of AI, and why we have reached a point where tech billionaires declare they are ‘unapologetically on Team Humanity’. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

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Fascism in a time of AI

Podcast Episode · The LRB Podcast · 6 October · 54min

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Sam Knights @samknights.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Watched this in the cinema last night, it is a devastating and very important film. Haunting.

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Sam Knights @samknights.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

As barricades appear in Paris once again - this time, full of overturned wheelie bins and burning lime bikes - resharing a piece I wrote last year about the cultural life of barricades.

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What is a barricade?

The symbol of the revolution

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Sam Knights @samknights.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

After passing the Hillsborough Law, the Government have now announced a consultation on curtailing the work of the Undercover Policing Inquiry. This would be yet another miscarriage of justice. The spy cops scandal must be investigated in full.

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Sam Knights @samknights.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Sad to see that the Major Oak of Sherwood Forest has died. Here's a blog post I wrote about it a couple of months ago... "For many centuries after its death, the Major Oak will be standing here too. Stood tall, and still carrying word of Robin Hood."

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The Major Oak

Great British Trees #7

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Sam Knights @samknights.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

It's beginning to sound glib to say "think about what Nigel Farage will do with these powers" every time the Labour government unveils another authoritarian or racist policy. After all, this is what Labour are doing right now. But categorising protest as terrorism is truly a slippery slope to hell.

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Sam Knights @samknights.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

This comes after the Filton case last Friday, which was the first time in Britain that anyone has faced terrorism enhancements without being actually convicted of terrorism. And all done without the jury ever knowing. The right to a fair trial is under attack.

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Sam Knights @samknights.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Their ruling just now: "[Palestine Action] is not, as it claims, a direct action civil disobedience protest group like the suffragettes, operating transparently in the open." Wildly ahistorical stuff. How can judges with such a poor grasp of protest history sit in judgement over such a case?

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Sam Knights @samknights.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Absurd decision by the Court of Appeal to uphold the ban on direct action via the proscription of Palestine Action as "terrorism". The idea that support for a protest group is now punishable by up to 14 years in prison make a mockery of our democratic rights. A dark day for British democracy.

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Sam Knights @samknights.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Let that gut-wrenching wave of anxiety you feel compel you to take action. This is not normal and we cannot continue to pretend otherwise. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Collapse of critical Atlantic current is no longer low-likelihood, study finds

Scientists say ‘shocking’ discovery shows rapid cuts in carbon emissions are needed to avoid catastrophic fallout

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Sam Knights @samknights.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

As Israeli soldiers massacre Palestinians at aid distribution points, our government continues to provide Israel with military, intelligence, and political support. For Starmer and Lammy, the blood will never wash off.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Keir Starmer's Government's welfare cuts will push 250,000 more people into poverty, including 50,000 children, according to the DWP's own impact assessment

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Sam Knights @samknights.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Optimisim always! Utopia always!

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Kai Heron @kaiheron.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

"British police arrest environmental protesters at nearly three times the global average rate, research has found, revealing the country as a world leader in the legal crackdown on climate activism." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Britain leads the world in cracking down on climate activism, study finds

Research shows UK police arrest environmental and climate protesters at three times the average global rate

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Sam Knights @samknights.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

The Palestine protests have been an admirable exception, but - let's be honest - we've otherwise neglected mass mobilisation on the UK left. Yeh, it's hard. Yeh, nobody wants to fund it. But it's important and it actually affects things, creates things, sparks new possibilities.

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Sam Knights @samknights.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Watching the overton window shift rightward as the Starmer government cedes ground on everything from benefits to public spending, migration to human rights, is truly depressing. But vital to remember that we have agency here too. Mass mobilisation doesn't just randomly happen!

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Sam Knights @samknights.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Not sure if I'm here for good or just snooping. Anyway, here is a tired Che Guevara, photographed by René Burri...

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