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MD ANT🏅 Egalitarian, music, film, politics. Mog to a grog, the star of white chalk. Bluesky asylum seeker from dystopia. Give me a follow and I’ll follow back. 👍

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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 4h
There’s a reason why so few truly leftwing politicians are visible in public life. Because the media’s role is to weed them out, discredit them, place them beyond the pale. Read my latest here: jonathancook.substack.com/p/how-the-bb...
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How the BBC sets a trap to make sure leftwing politicians never get a fair hearing
There’s a reason why so few truly leftwing politicians are visible in public life. Because the media’s role is to weed them out, discredit them, place them beyond the pale
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 3h
At times like this, the mask really comes off the British media. There is no pretence - at all - about their impartiality or objectivity towards the Green Party. It is a blatant naked partisan cross-media assault against the Greens.
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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 5h
One by one the sensibles reveal themselves to be crackpots of the first water, and yet nobody will ever admit they might have been wrong.
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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
What’s shameful is that no party before the Greens called Zionism racist. Read my latest here: www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/what...
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What’s shameful is that no party before the Greens called Zionism racist
Israel was forged out of ethnic cleansing and apartheid. The Greens have very belatedly recognised what should have been obvious all along
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 5h
“Clown country”, is pretty much all that can be said here. This is what happens when your ruling class turns to the far right to save them from the left, in short.
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"You are obsessed with Gaza, you are obsessed with everyone else but the British people."
Reform UK councillor Jaymey Mclvor tells Green Party deputy leader Rachel Millward why he believes the party's brand has been
"very damaged."
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Harry Eccles @harryeccles.bsky.social · 8h
My piece about Zack and his leadership 💚 harryeccles94.substack.com/p/the-greens...
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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 21h
I'm taking my "Norway's wealth tax didn't reduce tax revenue" victory lap.
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021–2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an “exodus” of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times, 2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners’ firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners’ savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms. Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms, nor is there any evidence that the reform induced more bankruptcies. ...
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧🇬🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 11h
Destroying one of the UKs most successful sectors just to be racist.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 8h
Obviously it isn’t good that there’s this level of totally overt hatred and racism in public life, but look: this is what it was with Labour and Corbyn in the 2010s. It’s what it is now. They’re just racist wingnuts, it really is not much more complicated.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 21h
This is all of Britain, it’s how it’s been for 18 years. It’s why everything is fucked. And it can’t change, because our beloved ruling class is in charge and nothing can ever - ever! - remove them or change things.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 18h
republicans used to complain about the violence in gangster rap and now they want to livestream an execution
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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
As per Raphael Lemkin's definition
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Council Estate Media @councilestatemedia.uk · 09/10/2026
The media is not demanding Polanski's resignation because he's doing a bad job. It's demanding his resignation because he's doing a good job.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 22h
John Harris here: one of the better ones, I would say. He does at least see that it’s incredibly shit and bordering on intolerable, but the idea that he personally should say anything against it, that he should stand up and be counted? Completely insane, why would you ever join the dirty hippies.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 23h
"The United States are not the champions of freedom they pretend to be, but rather the main culprits of the oppression and misery of the world's peoples." - Che Guevara, UN, 1964.
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Charlotte @charlottor.bsky.social · 23h
I am not a mathematician but I am pretty sure that the 12,292 votes they got yesterday is not as many as the 18,884 they got in 2024. If I am right and the 2026 number is *smaller* than the 2024 number then in what meaningful sense is this ‘winning back’, pls?
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
You see in the Media outrage that a Political Party would dare stand against Israel. But no outrage at all for all the other parties who refuse to acknowledge a Genocide and in fact support it. The whole corrupt 'British' Media establishment belongs to Israel.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 22h
I hate to RT an RT but this really is the situation: the maximum permissible position is the Lib Dem one, in which they agree this is genocide but seem to think nobody should do anything about it. That is the extreme outer limit of possibility in Britain, for our political/media class.
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧🇬🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 23h
It’s gone from a safe Labour seat with a 30k+ majority in 2017 to a marginal with 3,364 majority with the Greens in second what the fuck are you on about
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 23h
We TRIPLED our vote share. Second best byelection result in Green Party history. On a date that Labour chose to deliberately clash the same week as our conference. All with a brand new PM in previously a "safe" seat. Best response to all the absolute nonsense today? Join.greenparty.org.uk
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I do have to underline this: Johnson might have been more obviously corrupt, insulting, stupid and clearly disastrous, but a lot of people liked him and he had a massive chunk of the electorate onboard with his bullshit. Almost nobody liked or wanted Starmer, McSweeney or Mandelson. And yet
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Starmer’s Labour is IMO probably the most bleak, idiotic, damaging fraud to be perpetrated against the electorate in this country. An obvious no-talent assclown, a Derek Zoolander figure used by the most vicious and cynical swine in politics, forcefully shoved into office by the British press.
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
@zackpolanski.bsky.social : "[Palestinians] are facing an ongoing genocide & its very obvious to me & clear, that if there is an ongoing genocide then that is underpinned by a racist ideology" 🎯
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
With respect, I have to point out that *it did* happen here: we have already proven that our politicians and media outlets can successfully sell World War II-level crimes against humanity to the public. Not only have they already done it, but they ran successful hate campaigns to support it.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I urge you all to remember Nick’s radio interview with Morgan McSweeney - the only one that bland psycho has given. Morgan simply denied he would ever do factionalism, denied being mates with Peter Mandelson and said he wanted to bring the Labour family together, and that was just fine by Nick.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Time for everyone to kick out their American ambassadors, or simply shut the fuck up forever about law and human rights (they will do neither)
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solomonhughes.bsky.social @solomonhughes.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The Green vote has gone up by 3.5% on the combined Green/Andrew Feinstein vote of 2024. The Labour vote is down 3.7% . This is in the Burnham bounce and +during intense media focus on Polanski. Will Burnham's Labour get more popular ? Or will Polanski's Greens get much less popular? Nothing is fixed
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The deliberate slaughter of children. That is where racist supremacy leads.
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
In his report on Israels response to Pillay winning the Nobel peace prize Parsons reports "she is a divisive figure" You mean a regime (& its enablers) thats spent 3yrs bombing hospitals, murdering journalists, starving families & slaughtering thousands of kids doesnt like her?
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The winner of Nobel peace prize doing what the Government of the United Kingdom will not do: calling Israel's actions in Gaza a genocide.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Because it’s a genocidal ethnostate expanding into the territory of its neighbours and murdering or expelling the residents, Nick. I appreciate that you don’t get to be a radio presenter unless you are willing to pretend you are an honest to god clueless moron, but that makes things a bit trickier.
Nick Robinson ® @bbcnickrobinson
Why is this a difficult question to answer ?
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BBC Radio 4 Today * 4 @BBCr4today • 4h
"Do you think that the state of Israel, as a safe home for Jews after the Holocaust and after the pogroms, has a right to exist?"
@bbcnickrobinson repeatedly asks Green Party...
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Polanski not winning a very safe Labour seat is not the vast failure that it is being spun as but that’s going to be the story all day.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I assume this is a bombshell because a real person who matters has said it, because it was absolutely crystal clear at the time that he didn’t give a fuck and the IDF were implementing the programme of destruction and mass slaughter they had been itching to put into practice for many years.
Shibley Telhami @stelhami.bsky.social
In bombshell interview, the man who served as Netanyahu's military secretary on October 7, 2023 says that the Israeli pm passed up clear-cut opportunities to bring more hostages home from Gaza alive because doing so would have risked his political career!
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026
This afternoon in Marble Hill, a New Yorker was shot by an ICE agent in a residential neighborhood. Early reports indicate agents surrounded him and a 5-year-old child in his car before firing multiple rounds. We believe the child was physically unharmed.

This is an unconscionable and incredibly serious situation. I have called the President; when we speak I will demand that he ends all ICE enforcement actions in our city. I will not stand by while ICE agents terrorize our communities.

Our thoughts are with the injured New Yorker and his family tonight. We are praying for his recovery.

Get ICE out of our neighborhoods. Get ICE out of our hospitals. Get ICE off our streets. Get ICE away from our children.

Abolish ICE.
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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · 08/10/2026
📹NEW VIDEO -- The truth about Israel, lobbying and the Labour Party How has Labour Friends of Israel managed to keep its sources of funding a secret? We spoke to journalist Solomon Hughes whose discovery gave us some answers. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fvpo...
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The last entry on that bar chart is just a great middle finger pointed at the public, isn’t it? Whee, we can do anything, say anything, behave as badly as we want and there’s nothing that anyone can do to stop us. Fuck. You!
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NEW: Home Office stats released today reveal that arrests for "terrorist-related activity" in the year ending June 2026 were up 1,553% on last year and 94% of the arrests (3,630 of 3,867) were linked to showing support for Palestine Action.
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Some thoughts I shared while in the UK, where Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband has acknowledged that anti-genocide protestors "were right" but activists are still serving long prison terms for stepping in where their government failed. @astra.bsky.social
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is, I think, the data equivalent of every politician going on television naked and telling you that fire is wet and shite is shampoo, while you try to ignore their crinkled arses and saggy ballsacks
NEW: Home Office stats released today reveal that arrests for "terrorist-related activity" in the year ending June 2026 were up 1,553% on last year and 94% of the arrests (3,630 of 3,867) were linked to showing support for Palestine Action.
Figure 1.1: Arrests for terrorist-related
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Phil Free @philfree.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
“She’s a bad speaker with all the intellectual heft of a pamphlet you’d find in a box of anti-fungal cream & about as inspiring.” Kemi-charmed life - @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/kemi-charm...
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Kemi-charmed life
Praise for Kemi Badenoch’s Tory party conference speech shows the British right-wing press engaged in an act of collective fantasy.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is it. The final hours to vote. Greens got 10% here last time. And now we're genuinely on the cusp of winning it. Vote Green in Holborn & St Pancras! 💚
Zack in a group smiling outside Camden squareZack with a group of volunteers in Covent Garden Zack with volunteers taking a selfie Zack with volunteers outside Russell Square
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This week, Hugo notes conference season was all about resurgent, popular Labour and Tory parties celebrating their return to a robust two-party system, and asks the most obvious question: what if none of that is true, because it’s just bullshit?
The Two-Party Fantasy
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Labour and the Tories are feeling pretty good after party conference season - but is a return to two-party politics really on the cards, or are they kidding themselves?
Hugo unpacks the politics of the day with Cindy Yu and Juliet Samuel.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Voting is open until 10pm in Holborn & St Pancras - and remember to take photo ID. Rent controls, water nationalisation, tackling the climate crisis - I'll be pushing on these issues from inside Parliament. Vote Green 💚
Group of doorknockers with Zack in Kentish Town Group of volunteers in St Pancras Gardens Zack with Domi and El in front of a treeGroup of doorknockers from all over the country!
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
“Badenoch is more popular than her party in the way that being kicked in the crotch is preferable to beheading.” brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/kemi-charm...
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Kemi-charmed life
Praise for Kemi Badenoch’s Tory party conference speech shows the British right-wing press engaged in an act of collective fantasy.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This isn’t just my interpretation, by the way: Tony was broadly portrayed at this time as a dangerous psycho and a true believer in massive revolutionary violence against civilians, willing to endorse anything America wanted, because *that is what he is and always was*.
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Beyond awkward. Look how the Labour candidate in Holborn and St. Pancras responded when Palestine was mentioned. 😱😱😱😱
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"Are they still a friend?" Middle East minister Stephen Doughty: "Of course they are still a friend & indeed a partner" Israel is a genocidal apartheid state led by someone wanted for war crimes. That's who we're friends & partners with.
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sean jay @seanzjay.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
George assumes the Green Party would work with a so-called ‘Labour Party’ that armed, assisted and provided political cover for fascist-led, genocidal Israel’s indiscriminate mass murder in Gaza and ethnic cleansing in the West Bank 😬
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This is it!!!! It's the difference between a narrow loss or a Green WIN. And that difference is you!! Final sign ups for tomorrow 👇🏽 forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/respon...
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Poll Check are projecting the result as incredibly close. We CAN win this! Join us tomorrow anytime between 7am-10pm and then come celebrate the Green victory you helped make happen!! forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/respon...
Labour 40.4%, Greens 35.6%
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