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Since becoming health secretary Streeting has overseen the single largest sale of NHS services. The contract for community services in the south west was given to HCRG (owned by private equity) & is worth over a billion pounds. I know who's a threat to the NHS, & its not doctors

submitted 2 hours ago • 1 comment

Farage isn't stepping into anything. He's being put into position by your colleagues. Talk to them about why they are doing that.

submitted 46 minutes ago • 1 comment

ELON MUSK: It it it it's totally unfair - and illegal! - the way these uh the way these far left lunatics are are attacking my companies. It's actually terrorism. SNOOP FROM THE WIRE: that's fine man but get back on the plastic. SNOOP FROM THE WIRE: yeh now stay still as a motherfucker. that's good.

submitted 13 hours ago • 4 comments

many thanks to @wariotifo.bsky.social for alerting me to this charming story of Sean Ingle's wife completely accidentally veering off course in the London Marathon, posting a record time to Strava, boasting about it, then claiming she was doing a "liquid Radcliffe" and got lost, not cheating

submitted 9 hours ago • 1 comment

We’re at the apex of the “end of history”. There is no communism. I’ve lived in a capitalist world for nearly 40 years and I still ended up in an authoritarian state - only now instead of state mandated labour I have to work 3 jobs to pay my private landlord

submitted 9 hours ago • 1 comment

Everyone who said we could deal with this under capitalism was either lying to you or lying to themselves

submitted 7 hours ago • 1 comment

Look, Shah could be wrong as shoes on a dog but I don’t fuck with people whose clear intentions are to make sure nobody creative can crowdfund online (under the fear of ‘legality’) ever again except right wingers and that’s that on that.

submitted 12 hours ago • 2 comments

I will keep banging on about how intergalactically stupid DEFRA is forever and every and how every government turning the countryside into a smoking pile of dead grassland will come back to bite everyone in the next 20 years INSANE vandalism www.theguardian.com/environment/...

submitted 12 hours ago • 0 comments

been saying this for like 3 years now, the core constituency of the "manosphere" is not Gen Z or teenage boys, it is 35-55 year old dudes who wish they were still teenage boys

submitted 12 hours ago • 225 comments

'Live streaming their own genocide in the so far vain hope the world will come to their rescue.' Chilling words spoken in the International Court of Justice in January 2024 by Blinne uí Ghrálaigh KC.

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

I have spent much of my life looking for expressions of the complex politics of liberation that compress really messy and counterintuitive ideas into a few words and I really have never seen anything better or more succinct than "kill the Boer". It just works, you know?

submitted 22 hours ago • 2 comments

Somewhere at Reform HQ someone said “I promise you, the Labour Party will do whatever we tell them, watch” - made a policy statement they had absolutely no intention of committing to, and watched Starmer run like a panting little dog

submitted 21 hours ago • 1 comment

Global average temperature is expected to rise to almost 2C above preindustrial in the next five years, according to the WMO, with falls in crop yields and more than a third of the world’s population being exposed to extreme heat. People, I'm sorry but we have to deal with this. Later is too late.

submitted 20 hours ago • 28 comments

Food for thought for defenders of capitalism: 1.1 billion people, nearly a quarter of the global urban population, live in slums or informal settlements. That’s roughly the entire population of the planet when Engels and Marx published The Communist Manifesto in 1848. Is this progress?

submitted 19 hours ago • 16 comments

i cannot emphasize enough how transphobia is above all an elite panic phenomenon. the reason knowing a trans person tends to turn normal peoples opinions around is bc transphobia is not a strongly held one for most people. its the elite columnists, pundits, politicians, etc this doesnt hold true for

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

🚨 A statement: Over the past year James O’Brien & others have made claims about my departure from LBC. I’m restricted in what I can share with you but hope the statement below will draw a line under the matter. My focus is on moving forward. I am grateful for your continued support, Sangita

submitted 21 hours ago • 153 comments

ooft

submitted 22 hours ago • 3 comments

love to see one of these in the wild

submitted 22 hours ago • 2 comments

learn to code

submitted 22 hours ago • 5 comments

“I removed the whip to punish MPs who opposed me by supporting my moral mission”

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

I do not consent to my Data being used

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

burn in hell you shithead murderers

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

Mockery is putting it mildly: they sent the fucking racist reactionary prick as a representative. It's also pretty damning that this isn't all across the rest of our media, instead we have to rely on an independence movement to flag up the UK's heinous behaviour.

submitted 23 hours ago • 1 comment

You don't need to be a prophet. Images like this - of starved Palestinians hammed into fenced cages by Israel - will be remembered for generations as hideous evidence of a terrible crime. And history will remember not just those who cheered it on, but those who stayed silent.

submitted 1 day ago • 26 comments

I was one of the examiners of Gregory’s thesis on the Communist Parties of Great Britain and Australia in the early Cold War period, and thoroughly enjoyed reading it.

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Look not to be insensitive to people putting their freedom on the line, but if an action involves 4 people there is zero reason the cops should have known about it in advance. This keeps happening with Roger Hallam projects. Even if they weren't ops to begin with, they are now by function.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Starmer Sausages.mp4

submitted 243 days ago • 4 comments

america tanking its high tech industries and university sector, which is such an enormous source of soft power, is absolutely mad. but i guess neutering the academy is one of the core points of fascism's attempts to preserve itself

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Look, these are kids and while Harry Potter must be destroyed we shouldn't be mean to them. With that said, this photo does seem to be taken from the POV of a homeless person they're about to set on fire.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Five more years of Boris Johnson and hard Brexit and it was just for this?? You fucking dickheads!

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Just so we're clear, the plan was: 1) Do more of George Osborne's policies, with slightly more investment but cracking down on actual incomes at the bottom end; 2) Throw the latest tech fad at it and hope it's another dot-com bubble. This was what you burned it all down for??

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The "art" of Led By Donkeys is distraction. The PPE scandal revealed a procurement system mired in corruption and a chumocracy at the heart of govt that sought to profit from public health. Instead we ended up focusing on Mone, in her bikini, on a yacht. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

not a single person in power has actually articulated in concrete terms how going all in on AI is going to fix the economy, and there are no extant examples of it doing so bsky.app/profile/poli...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

I see a lot of people assume that ML progress is effectively linear (or even exponential 😱) and it seems much more likely to me that it’s asymptotic The self-driving cars people already learned that getting 80% of the way there is not nearly enough, and we’re collectively forgetting this lesson

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

It’s baffling why an open banking is not more popular in the UK. After all it offers users no discernible ease of use benefits and removes the protection against fraud offered by charge back.

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

I think the fact that Lord Dog Shagger was a Labour MP for so long makes the case that the Labour Party one of the single most damaging forces in the UK

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

If bluesky is dying it's bc there are a million accounts with 100k followers that all follow each other and post things like 'orange man tiny hands' back and forth all day and having that inside me would cause me a terminal illness too

submitted 2 days ago • 12 comments

Absolutely surreal to have lived through the Napster days and watched as the titans of industry moved hell and high water to lock down any possible chance that someone's song might get swapped online without giving the studios a cut and now those same people are just like "well we gotta steal music"

submitted 2 days ago • 139 comments

Read this and then ask why kneecap are up on a terrorist charge for waving a flag? This guy was caught with an actual load of guns in his car and got a slap on the wrist. In the same week the media were in hysteria over Kneecap. British ‘justice’ only ever applied to one side. #Kneecap #Speirgorm

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Yeah but here's the thing: no western "liberal/centrist/centre-left" party has such a thing as deeply held values any more. The capacity to have such a thing has been removed from them through long years of fetishizing compromise for its own sake.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

This looks very much like the European Commission trying to intimidate its staffers into silence about the EU's complicity with Israel's genocidal violence

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

I wonder if we focussed less on politicians and more on labelling “civilian” CEOs, shareholders and top military personnel war criminals, what sorts of antagonism that would create - Starmer and Lammy are really just convenient fodder for the actual people who have vested interest in genocide

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Starmer's "High Quality Candidates" update:

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Whenever I lose a follower I look myself in the mirror, wipe away the single tear rolling down my face, and tell myself I’m one step further down the path towards degrowth communism

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