Brits keep getting arrested for tweets. Elon Musk is (part of) the reason.: ‘…by refusing to even attempt to regulate social media networks directly, the government has tacitly accepted that police will be left to police unmoderated social networks directly’
Politics
2025-12-09
2025-12-09: An NBER paper estimates that Brexit caused a massive cost to the UK's economy, employment and productivity
2025-12-07: Gardner's 'Time for change' report calls for a positive vision of immigration in the UK, demanding policies that will benefit us all
2025-12-04: In the UK, people who receive certain types of benefits get a £10 Christmas bonus each year. Whilst …
2025-11-29: The public reaction to last week's UK budget.
2025-11-28
King of slop: How anti-migrant AI content made one Sri Lankan influencer rich: He now teaches a course on how to leverage that anti immigrant sentiment in Britain to make huge profits.
2025-11-23: The 14 common features of fascism according to Umberto Eco
2025-11-22: Prem Sikka's progressive ideas for Labour's budget this week
2025-11-21
‘Too little, too late’: damning report condemns UK’s Covid response: The findings of part 2 of the Covid enquiry.
2025-11-20
2025-11-13
America’s Dumbest Billionaires Fail to Stop Zohran Mamdani: ‘What these oligarchs spent to stop Mamdani feels like less on an annual basis than he wants them to pay for a better future for all New Yorkers’
2025-11-09: I hate that the British flag is being deliberately transformed into a symbol of hatred
2025-11-08: 📚 Finished reading Minority Rule by Ash Sarkar.
2025-10-27
Tory MP criticised after demanding legally settled families be deported: A disgusting policy idea that seems akin with Reform’s appalling ideas on the subject.
2025-10-25: UN expert claims that the appalling rise of UK far right populism is fuelled by the incessant cuts to the welfare system
2025-10-25
2025-10-23
We must act now: without a written constitution, Reform UK will have carte blanche to toxify our nation: ‘… a constitution is no guarantee against autocracy…But it makes the would-be despot’s job much harder, and equips us with the tools to push back’
2025-10-13
UK charities say toxic immigration rhetoric leading to threats against staff: due to ‘increasingly toxic rhetoric around immigration and race by politicians and extremist activists’.
2025-09-29
How A Private Equity Firm Brought About The Death Of British Steel: ‘British Steel has collapsed into insolvency’
2025-09-28
Trump sounds the alarm on pain relief drug – and Kennedy’ and Kennedy’s allies look set to profit: A lot of them happen to sell ‘non-medical’ pain relief for profit.
2025-09-18
2025-09-14
Why Tommy Robinson rally was different to any other: “…an overt Christian nationalism”.
2025-09-14: Upsettingly, yesterday saw Britain's 'largest ever far right rally' take place in London
2025-09-13
Charlie Kirk’s Murder Is a Tragedy and a Disaster: ‘Escalating political violence corrodes democratic norms and poses a unique threat to the Left.’