Steve Tooze

Why are jury trials under attack by the UK government? Let's look at some of the things juries have decided recently for clues. 🧵

We've reached a stage of late capitalist breakdown when the authoritarians in charge don't give a s**t about digital outrage. But I'm posting this one because it's important to let everyone see that everyone else hates the Labour, Tory and Reform fascists too. secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/...

For some inexplicable reason, this brilliant 1938 anti-Appeasement cartoon by the great David Low came to mind when I looked at the list of the Mega-Powerful / Hyper-Rich at yesterday’s Windsor Castle nosh up for our superhuman masters.

The Conservatives started this experiment. But Labour are fully on board too. No 10 refuse to comment or take action - but we're all paying the price for corporate greed. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

@zarahsultana.bsky.social @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social It's time to get your act together. Whatever the f**k is happening at Your Party, 800k supporters are depending on you to stop the ego-waggling and give them hope. @zackpolanski.bsky.social is looking like the way forward for lefties like me.

I’m not sure how good the analysis is when The Times puts all responsibility at Starmer’s door but stays silent on the complicity of right wing media (itself included) in promoting Farage and destabilising our democracy, by refusing to hold the ever more extreme and dangerous right wing to account.

"This is not dialogue. This is licking his boots."

"There's people who will cook food in their own homes and take it out and feed people who are less fortunate... That's patriotism. That's love for your community. And that's standing up for British values." Deputy Leader @mothinali.bsky.social on BBC Politics North this weekend.

It's both ambitious and not ambitious enough - but in the era of Trump rollbacks and fossil fuelled populism, it's something to see a centre-left government *that won largely on climate issues* actually trying to deliver. Or at least not ceding every inch of political territory to Scorched Earthers.

Alexa, show me a gathering of the worst people in the world

@zackpolanski.bsky.social shows how you deal with these smug right wing ghouls in a TV studio. Straight-forward facts and principles are garlic and holy water to them

The Centre is now on the Far Right.

Donald Trump is carrying out Genocide in Gaza so he can build a Trump Hotel. While also plunging the USA into a fascist dictatorship. This is like inviting Adolf Hitler. RT if he is not welcome in the UK.

The UN has only confirmed what we already knew: Israel is committing genocide. 64,000+ killed, whole families wiped out. Yet UK Govt rolls out the red carpet for Israel’s president & Starmer stays silent. Labour - this is a genocide. Are you going to continue to ignore that?

The first three sign-holders charged plead not-guilty to ‘terror offence’. Today’s plea hearing comes as the United Nations Commission of Enquiry has concluded that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. Take action with over 1,500 others on October 4th: wedonotcomply.org

The invitation to Trump is a sign of Starmer’s weakness…weakness the nation can ill afford - just as his billionaire friends threaten British citizens with violence… As Edward Luce notes in today’s FT...

The Mail making it quite clear this week that it hasn't shifted an inch from the days when - alongside many members of the Tory establishment & thousands of 'ordinary people' with 'legitimate concerns' - it came out in full support of Oswald Moseley & his fascist Blackshirts. Owner, editor or both?

A UN commission of inquiry has confirmed what was already clear: Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. The government’s position was already morally indefensible. It is now politically untenable. Keir Starmer and his Labour ministers must be held criminally accountable.

This genocide belongs to Britain, too. The government’s legacy will be its complicity in one of the greatest crimes of our time. We will never give up until there is justice, peace and freedom for the Palestinian people. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

@zackpolanski.bsky.social gets it. We want a vision of a world that is not out-of-control capitalism. There IS an alternative but the billionaires and their pet politicians and media don't want us to know that.

Great event and real pleasure to discuss winning the Info War alongside @rashmee.bsky.social and @dorothystein.bsky.social. Definitely an amazing audience and well done the St John's Society for pulling it all together. Still buzzing with new plans for the Media Revolution this morning!

Centrist hacks @theguardian.com show why Labour is dead party walking. Mystified that centre-right genocide enabler migrant bully Starmer 'not connecting' with left voters but socialist Mamdani is. Starmerhttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/14/zohran-mamdani-success-what-can-labour-learn

It looks like I need to update the Long Cycle of British Politics (originally drawn up in 2021 or 2022) to remove the bit about “tidying up”

UK Stop Trump Coalition: #fdt #oligarchy #obey #pedofuhrer #nevillechamberlain #idu #Britain #hategroups #racism

#Standuptoracism London

Sky News says police are "overwhelmed by the numbers". Met coped perfectly well with 2x as many at the pro-Gaza rally, 5x as many at the anti-Brexit march, and 15x as many at London Pride. They're not overwhelmed by the numbers. They're overwhelmed by the ratio of violent thugs in those numbers.

We’ve been living through 72 nonstop hours of this exact tweet

When speaking to Tommy Robinson at the far right demonstration in London today, Elon Musk wore a t-shirt saying "What would Orwell think?" So let's dive in - what would George Orwell think about Tommy Robinson and Elon Musk? 🧵

Feeling scared by Yackers and his far right boot boys turning out en masse in London yesterday - cheered on by Tech Bro Nazi Musk? Remember 750k people signed up for Corbyn's party with no name or policies to oppose rising fascism. And read this brilliant thread 👇 bsky.app/profile/redh...

Info Wars: How DO we regain trust? Join @rebelhack.bsky.social , Dorothy Stein of Salamander and me, from @mediacomgold.bsky.social , to discuss, debate and hash out a solution (or not 🙃 ). Sept 15. Details to book 👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/info-wars-...

This is why we must @defendourjuries.bsky.social "BREAKING: GANTRY CLIMBERS NOT GUILTY" 'A jury found Sam, Isobel & Rachel not guilty of public nuisance at Guilford Crown Court today, after they climbed gantries above the M25 in 2022 The jury decided they had a reasonable excuse for taking action'

Probably the most important but neglected scandal about Mandelson. Epstein was close to Peter Thiel. Thiel had secret meetings with Cummings and Johnson before Palantir’s 100m contract Mandelson’s Global Counsel was pitching Thiel’s Palantir to Starmer. What a carousel of cronyism

Same playbook, new villains: net-zero, refugees and asylum-seekers, free speech… take your pick - as long as it keeps your efforts and attention off of billionaire wealth.

We all got that scary phone alert yesterday. Wildfires. Floods. Extreme weather. The UK govt knows the climate 💩 is about to hit the fan. So do the billionaires — who are quietly building bunkers. 🧵

Men will build giant floating walls to prevent warm water from reaching ice shelves, and scatter microbeads onto sea ice to increase its reflectivity before just stopping the burning of fossil fuels www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

💯% this 👇 Trump, Farage and the rest of the 'strongmen' are capitalism's last throw of the dice. Fascism as a way to keep the profits flowing as long as possible before the inevitability of physics forces urgent radical societal change or collapse.

Interesting trend following the election of @zackpolanski.bsky.social as the new leader of the Green Party.

The Met have made many false claims and attempts to smear the protesters. This is a desperate deflection after Sir Mark Rowley pledged the Met would arrest every person who held a sign saying “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action” Which the Met factually did not do.

Another #starmer victory

While much of the UK press is busy trying to incite racial violence, freesheet Metro is publishing climate coverage from frontline nations.

www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025... As a veteran national newspaper journalist, I confirm this goes back to the 80s miners & printers strikes: cops attack peaceful protests, a few scared protestors defensively push back, cops howl assault, billionaire media and BBC amplifiers howl 'It's a violent mob!'

Another terrorist being apprehended by our corrupt UK government.

Just in case you've been sucked into Billionaire Media's 'all protestors are jobless hippies' nonsense...