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Anwar Shaikh was the most brilliant Marxist economist of his generation. He leaves behind a legacy that has the potential to drive political economy forward for years to come.

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Anwar Shaikh (1945–2026)

Anwar Shaikh was the most brilliant Marxist economist of his generation. He leaves behind a legacy that has the potential to drive political economy forward for years to come.

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Truthout @truthout.org · 06/10/2026

For the first time in more than two decades, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe will not conduct oversight of the upcoming midterm elections after the Trump administration effectively blocked them from doing so.

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Trump Blocks International Board From Conducting Oversight of Midterm Elections

This is the first time in over two decades that the US has rejected OSCE participation in a federal election.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

NHS England waiting list hits 7.33m appointments for 6.21m individuals, rises for the third time in 4 months. Privatisation by stealth. NHS capacity neglected. Thousands suffer. Private sector profiteers. www.oecd.org/en/publicati... Hospital beds per 1,000 population, Comparison 2013 and 2023.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

'The University of Nottingham has confirmed that it will close its music and languages departments as it presses ahead with more than 500 job cuts despite widespread opposition from staff and students.' A blight on East Midlands and UK higher education.

timeshighereducation.com

Nottingham confirms course closures with hundreds of jobs affected

Languages and music departments to close despite strikes and protests but university insists it has addressed staff concerns in revised plans

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Dr Julia Grace Patterson @jujuliagrace.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It’s excellent that the Greens are doing this. Unsurprisingly it’s had almost zero coverage in the media outlets (who also do a shockingly poor job of telling everyone about NHS privatisation). Link to article: leftfootforward.org/2026/10/gree... jujuliagrace.substack.com

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

BT to buy the broadband supplier TalkTalk in a £400m deal. BT is already the biggest provider with 30% of the market. If the deal is approved by the competition regulator, it would be bad news for customers. Less competition, less choice, higher prices.

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BT to buy broadband supplier TalkTalk in £400m rescue deal, saving 900 jobs

Virgin Media O2 complains of ‘stitch-up’ over rival provider, which has 1.5m customers

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

".. a 15 year old boy who had his hand blown off after picking up a police stun grenade.. 4,000 out of the 5,000 arrested are under the age of 18.. right now.. pictures being broadcast around the world of police firing tear gas at French children" #GMB

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

@rmtunion.bsky.social & @unitetheunion.bsky.social members who work on a number of North Sea platforms are on strike today as they defend their existing pay & terms & conditions. Rather than negotiate, the employer (Wood Group) has instead threatened to issue fire-and-rehire notices.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Again, an *immediate* reaction from the cops and a forensic investigation by the EHRC would be quite clarifying here. Presumably this time with lots of shrieking about “Islamist infiltration” and so on, because a lot of important people have spotted they can just say what they mean quite openly now.

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EXCLUSIVE: More than a dozen Labour MPs have reported the Green party to Sussex Police and the EHRC over its 'Zionism is racism' policy, The Spectator can reveal.
Zack Polanski's party was plunged deeper into crisis this afternoon after politicians, led by former Home Office minister Mike Tapp, urged police in Brighton to examine whether events at the Green conference may have crossed into criminally actionable racial or religious hatred against Jewish people.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich: “The thorough cleansing that we are carrying out now in southern Lebanon is unprecedented. “They have nowhere to return to. Look at how it looks. “And by the way, the world isn’t stopping us.”

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tonx @tonx.coffee · 03/10/2026

posting to bluesky for posterity: created a Youtube playlist of all my recent Boards of Canada short videos (and I'm likely to make some new ones as time permits) youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Boards of Canada stuff - YouTube

starting making short vids about Boards of Canada ahead of the Inferno release and might keep making more.

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Council Estate Media @councilestatemedia.uk · 04/10/2026

The fact the British media is angrier about a "Zionism is racism" motion than about Zionists committing genocide speaks volumes about the British media

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Private Healthcare. You don't want it.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

ICE arrested the mom of a 9-year-old at a school bus stop in Austin, leaving him alone and crying. The video has profanity and is heartbreaking to watch, but it shows the fear/pain of what happened. This is evil. This is wrong. And it has to stop.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

there are PLENTY of writers who come from a blue collar background and have worked in the trades and i can't remember ever seeing one of them publish an op-ed about how everyone should pivot to hard, painful physical labor

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Millions of UK workers withdrawing from pension schemes to make ends meet Consequence of low wages and high cost of living forcing people into hardship choices - living now v income in retirement. They will have lower private pension in later life and state pension isn't enough even now.

bbc.co.uk

Why Gen Z are opting out of workplace pensions

A growing number of people are opting out of these schemes due to cost-of-living pressures.

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OldPompeyPics @oldpompeypics.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

OTD 50 years ago 02.10.76 - #Pompey's Phil Roberts can't get near Shrewsbury's Graham Turner who heads on for another future Shrews boss, Chic Bates, to make it 2-0 in the 4-1 #Pompey loss. Phil Figgins looks like he has oven gloves on to get a roast out. Att. 4,782

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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

You can currently download my Norman Conquest book for 99p. www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/...

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Disability News Service @johnpring.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The government’s youth inactivity adviser called Disability News Service’s editor a f***ing w**ker after being challenged about his failure to discuss the safeguarding risks involved in forcing tens of thousands of young disabled people into jobs. www.disabilitynewsservice.com/labours-inac...

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Labour’s inactivity adviser swears at DNS editor after being challenged on safety of young claimants

The government’s youth inactivity adviser swore at Disability News Service’s editor after being challenged about his failure to discuss the safeguarding risks involved in forcing tens of thousands …

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I Am Incorrigible @imincorrigible.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Simon Clarke MP was born on 28 September 1984. That's all you need to know. #r4today

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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I wonder how many BBC presenters are private landlords?

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 30/09/2026

Hundreds of Israelis storm Al-Aqsa Mosque compound aje.news/4knbqq

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Incredible that we're talking like "if this keeps going it will become bigger than gdp and engulf the sun" when we're not even going to get to "equivalent with the minimum wage" for another 50 years. Absurd to decide this is the ticking time bomb we need to care about.

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The wild thing about the triple lock conversation is that even after over a decade of above-inflation increases, the state pension is still an unliveable, poverty level amount of money. At the end of the Blair government it was the equivalent of about £160 a week in today's money.

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🔴 We asked Tony Blair's think tank about charging businesses £500k for political access at party conferences and why one of its sponsor's logos disappeared after our reporting last week on TBI's alleged cash for access scheme This is what they said

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 30/09/2026

Human rights lawyer Wolfgang Kaleck represents the family of Patrice Lumumba, the first Congolese prime minister, who was assassinated in a U.S.- and Belgian-backed coup. “The liberal order was also the history of disorder in many parts of the world,” says Kaleck.

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Peace & Justice Project @peaceandjustice.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Today's news that evidence on 20 companies and 54 individuals relating to the Grenfell Tower fire, which resulted in the deaths of at least 72 people in 2017, has been handed to the CPS, is a welcome step towards justice.

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Grenfell fire: Response to evidence files being handed to CPS

Project for Peace and Justice, founded by Jeremy Corbyn. A hub for discussion and action, building solidarity and hope for a more decent world.

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Gillian Martin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If Burnham's speech was a move in the right direction, he would have the same enemies as Corbyn. He doesn't - indeed many of those who set up the coup against Corbyn's socialist Labour shadow cabinet are supporters of Burnham.

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Sean Fernyhough @seanfernyhough.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A main library in any town or city should have The Economist. But my main point would be: don’t encourage people to read The Economist.

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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 30/09/2026

Your 'doom quote' for today: "A general warming trend is expected because of rising greenhouse-gas emissions, but this sudden heat spike greatly exceeds predictions made by statistical climate models that rely on past observations." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Climate models can’t explain 2023’s huge heat anomaly — we could be in uncharted territory

Taking into account all known factors, the planet warmed 0.2 °C more last year than climate scientists expected. More and better data are urgently needed.

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Jason @jasonoflondon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

City have previously said they'd appeal but todays PL statement is basically "oh you want to appeal? We fucking dare you". Maybe the PL was right to spend so long on it afterall.

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Fiona Konca @fiona-konca.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The most heartbreaking photos I’ve ever taken, but it was something I needed to do. Goodbye old friend. . . . . . #demolition #graffiti #industrialarchitecture #industrialheritage #Twyfords

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

In Luxembourg the average state pension for 40 years of contributions is nearly 4x higher than in the U.K. Far from being unaffordable the UK State pension is a joke, what is unaffordable is the tax evasion which leaves us with so little money to spend.

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Daniel Larison @daniellarison.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It can't have been much of a "terror incident" in that case.

Mystery Deepens Over Alleged UK Terror Incident After Suspects Are Freed

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Andy Burnham announces end of triple-lock on the state pension from 2030. It will be replaced by double-lock, slower growth in state pension. Full state pension is already less than 50%of the minimum wage. Poverty awaits future retirees. £500bn of taxes not collected by HMRC since 2010.

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Wilfred Frost on the govt scrapping the triple lock: "The bond market will like this, because there's a big question of credibility, does the govt.. get the message that you can't fund absolutely everything" As Eddie Dempsey says, who elected the bond markets?

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Space Yak 🇻🇪🇨🇺🇵🇸 @spaceyak.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Mainstream pensions discourse is basically: The Boomer generation got a massive boost to private wealth relative to younger generations and we should correct this injustice by attacking the mechanism that improves future pensions. How do they not see the flaw here?

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mid wife crisis actor @ballistari.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

the shortest suicide note in history. fascinating stuff

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

All this is basically unknowable at present so there’s little point in speculating. But I will say that all these incidents have turned out to be way dumber and weirder than they first appeared www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...

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The RAF Fairford bomb plot was designed to fail. So who was behind it?

If this was a ploy to use old school techniques in the age of drones it was doomed from the start, says world affairs editor Sam Kiley

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The techbros don't want you to see this trailer. Pass it on.

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Podcasting is Praxis @praxiscast.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The only way you "get Britain on war footing" is to give people something worth fighting for and finally accept this is no longer a global power, and that that's good, actually. You build a state worth defending and military scaled For That, not "force protection" and training Saudis in warcriming

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Aaron Ransom "It’s simple logic"

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The amount of Amazon workers relying on SNAP and Medicaid has nearly tripled since 2020 — while Amazon’s annual profits soared by over 550%. It’s the same story everywhere: corporate profits are at record highs, while workers’ share of the economy is at a record low. We must unrig the system.

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Sean Fernyhough @seanfernyhough.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This is worth 15 minutes of anyone's time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBNE...

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The Climate Speech We’ll Probably Never Hear | Frankly 160

YouTube video by Nate Hagens

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The reality of Britain’s food poverty crisis: ‘Everything is so expensive, I only eat one meal a day’. 14m people face food insecurity. High rents, water, energy, food prices & low incomes create a crisis. No curbs on profiteering 50 families have more wealth than 34m people. Must redistribute.

independent.co.uk

Inside Britain’s food poverty crisis: ‘ I only eat one meal a day’

Millions of Britons are worrying about the cost of food as prices continue to rise. Albert Toth reports

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