Politics

2025-04-27

Brexiteer Ben Habib vows to ‘unite the right’ as he prepares to launch ‘super PAC’: Please no.

Was it the courts, the cops, or The Sun who killed Just Stop Oil?: ‘…the hammer of the state had simply flattened the organisation.’ - certainly some of the prison sentences activists got are pretty outrageous.

‘The message is clear. Trump and Putin want to destroy Europe’: ‘Trump and Vladimir Putin hold a worldview where “mighty” powers get to carve up the globe at will.’

2025-04-27: 📚 Want to read: Erasing History by Jason Stanley. Jason Stanley exposes the true danger of the …

2025-04-26

Trump lets the press know exactly what kind of questions he considers ‘good’: ‘He has certain expectations about what quality journalism looks like, and it involves asking him how awesome his awesomeness is’

ICE Can Now Enter Your Home Without a Warrant to Look for Migrants, DOJ Memo Says: ‘…anyone labeled an “Alien Enemy” is “not entitled to a hearing, appeal or judicial review.”’ - plus all police officers are basically immigration officers now.

2-Year-Old U.S. Citizen Deported ‘With No Meaningful Process,’ Judge Suspects

2025-04-26: 📚 Finished reading Autocracy, Inc.

2025-04-25

Elon Musk and DOGE’s Savings May Be Erased by New Costs: Not only have they saved only a tiny fraction of what they promised but also there’s ‘a rough estimate that firings, re-hirings, lost productivity and paid leave of thousands of workers will cost upward of $135 billion this fiscal year.’

Trump’s Crimea Proposal Would End a Decade of U.S. Resistance: Officially recognising Crimea as being Russian would break the principle ‘that no country can change the borders of another by force’.

Farage sparks furious backlash after claiming children with special educational needs are ‘over diagnosed’

2025-04-24: 📚 Want to read: Year of the Rat: Undercover in the British Far Right by Harry Shukman. The British …

2025-04-24

A year of hate: what I learned when I went undercover with the far right: Lonely people, into nonsensical ‘race science’.

Lib Dems back ban on playing music and videos on public transport in England: A ban on playing things out loud, to be clear.

2025-04-22

Trump Aides Solicit Ideas to Raise Birthrate, From Baby Bonuses to Fertility Planning

2025-04-21

There’s a Reason the World Is a Mess, and It’s Not Trump: Economic stagnation.

Hegseth Said to Have Shared Attack Details in Second Signal Chat: ‘The defense secretary sent sensitive information about strikes in Yemen to an encrypted group chat that included his wife and brother…’

The Guardian view on City deregulation: a recipe for recklessness: ‘…the Treasury seems to have forgotten one of the major lessons of the 2008 financial crisis: when regulation is lax, risks accumulate’.

Zelenskyy accuses Russia of violating Putin’s Easter ceasefire 2,000 times

NHS cancer patients denied life-saving drugs due to Brexit costs, report finds

This Is How Universities Can Escape Trump’s Trap, if They Dare: The rich ones, at least, could worry about their mission to educate the masses over preserving the size of their endowment.

2025-04-20

The authoritarian takeover attempt is here: And their incompetence is seemingly the main hope we have of stopping it.

There’s only one way to fight the climate greenlash: appeal to the naysayers’ self-interest: ‘If green policy is going to survive the culture wars, it needs a new pitch - cleaner air, cheaper bills and healthier cities’.

2025-04-19: The long list of words that the Trump administration has banned or restricted government workers from using

2025-04-19

Trump Officials Blame Mistake for Setting Off Confrontation With Harvard: Perhaps the letter with their ludicrous demands was sent only by accident (or perhaps they just didn’t expect the pushback?).