“If you go back a million minutes, you reach 2023. Go back a billion minutes, you reach the Roman Empire — that’s the scale of inequality we’re living with.”
Zack Polanski on #BBCLauraK discussing inequality and why a wealth tax should be in the budget
The only dangerous minority is the rich
#Marxistmonday
Wes Streeting has received £225k from private healthcare donors in the past year and I just don't think my morals could be bought for the price of half a London flat. I don't know if I have a number that would make me sell my country's health service down the river but Wes and I are different.
The Soviet Union’s toxic legacy of conflating dissent with mental ‘instability’ is remerging in the Georgian government’s attitudes towards protesters.
oc-media.org/how-politica...
Mehdi Hasan, "Is rejoining the EU a Green Party aim"
Zack Polanski, "Yes it is"
And just like that, the Green Party have leapfrogged the LibDems
Please tell me things that are actually #ruralpursuits #áras25
Zack Polanski,
"People are feeling hope because I'm talking about wages not being high enough, the cost of living is too high, and what we need to do is tackle inequality in the heart of our society"
"The 4 wealthiest people in Britain own more wealth than 20 million people combined"
British.
Nigel Farage is owned by Russia. Vote Leave was illegally financed by Russia. Brexit was and is a Russian active measure to harm Britain and its home in Europe.
feels a bit weird that we keep having these stories about individual cyber attacks but without anyone really joining the dots and going "okay, shall we maybe talk about this as a major global story"
Rachel wearing very flimsy looking apron, mask and visor in NHS setting
Here I am in 2020 in the flimsiest, most pitful PPE - like so many other NHS staff, some of whom died from the Covid they caught in their hospitals.
Tory peer Michelle Mone - who today lost her legal case & must repay the govt £122m - dares to claim she’s been ‘scapegoated’.
What, Michelle? 🧵
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This interview with @profafinlayson.bsky.social, on why the left still doesn’t get the Internet and why that stops us from combatting the far right effectively, really sharp:
Timeline cleanser 🐈
🔴The Attack Lines That Could Hurt Nigel Farage’s Reform UK Hardest
A new mega poll of voters reveals where Reform UK are most vulnerable to political attacks from their opponents
bylinetimes.com/2025/09/29/t...
I love how Starmer says the BritCard is going to be free.
If an online service is "free" - you, and your data, are the product.
Nathan Gill is no fringe politician.
He was the leader of the Reform Party and before that UKIP in Wales.
A Brexit Party MEP.
A friend and ally of Nigel Farage, who in 2016 called him:
"terrific," and "as honest as the day is long."
This is a MASSIVE story
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Every day I wake up and despite myself I think: Surely. Surely by now they've figured it out. And every day they haven't.
Assata Shakur, of the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army, has died at the age of 78 in Cuba, where she received political asylum in 1984.
3. this is not the moment for an incredibly expensive increase in state surveillance infrastructure to be run for profit by private tech firms just before Labour ushers in an (even more) authoritarian right wing government.
FIX THE GODDAMN COST OF LIVING INSTEAD YOU FREAKS.
The Brits have such a way with words. You know. Those things with letter that help you define and say stuff about things.
Fuck you, make me. — John Oliver
Thanks John Oliver
The #mega-rich are treating the planet like their personal playground:
🤑 dodging taxes
💨 mega-polluting our planet
📈 driving up prices
🏘️ buying up houses
🏥 crumbling the #NHS
#BILLIONAIRES EMIT MORE CARBON POLLUTION IN UNDER 3 HOURS THAN THE AVERAGE BRIT DOES IN A LIFETIME
It makes me want to sit them all down for a scolding. And I'm not even angry, I'm just disappointed.
British politics really needs to wake up to what is happening in America given we have imported a huge amount of its culture war politics. Maybe there are some clues about what would be on the cards here under a Reform government?
The UK is welcoming Donald Trump, hope he see's it.
