Ruth Devlin

The lessons from Brazil and Serbia? Don't concede one inch of ground to the far right. Don't appease. Don't triangulate. Don't grovel. Don't say they have "legitimate concerns". Mobilise your base, and fight them with all the democratic means at your disposal.

#GMB on the banks: "£45.9bn profit in 2024. They've already generated £21.4bn in the first half of [this] year" "And on a personal level.. executive bankers are earning in 2 days what it takes a lot of people a year to [earn]"

Labour now briefing young people won't get the same minimum wage uplift. Even Starmer didn't break this pledge. Workers rights mean same rights, pay & conditions, same rate for the same job. What does this Labour government have against young people? inews.co.uk/news/politic...

Memorial monuments demolished by Israeli forces during raids on villages near Nablus.

Meanwhile in Sweden 🇸🇪: Disappointment over AI-generated chocolate advent calendar where Santa has no hands and the table is on fire.

Bust of John Logie Baird enjoying the sunset at Helensburgh, Scotland, photo by Helen Sadie (via BBC).

Absolutely hands-down the best thing that happened to me in my 14 varicoloured years on Twitter.

THREAD.

Also DT: “This was the best budget I have ever heard a chancellor deliver, by a massive margin,” said Allister Heath on the front page of the Daily Telegraph the day after the budget.

Is there anything better than cardboard?

How on earth is it viewed as being "outspoken" or some kind of trouble-causer or rabble rouser to say AI needs to be annihilated, instead of being yet another person who just shrugs, rolls over and accepts its ruination? How do we live in a world where that is not viewed as a normal, sane opinion?

Data centers have become a major risk for the politicians who support them, with less than two weeks left before the midterms. Half of Americans now oppose data centers being built within three miles of their home — nearly double the share of people who said the same back in January (28%).

Oh, loads of stuff. But to take two examples, you can get a train to France now, and on that train you can drink a coffee which tastes nice.

Bernie Sanders: "If you believe as I do that Donald Trump is the most dangerous president in the history of the United States, we need to get rid of that rubber stamp Republican leadership in the House and Senate."

The people have always been so far ahead of the politicians.

The march in Paris is over 4km of this density crowd. Europe is having an awakening.

Jackdaw gas field is not a jobs plan. It is not an energy bills plan. It is not an energy security plan. And it is certainly not a climate plan. We cannot wean ourselves off fossil fuels by burning more fossil fuels. Read more here:

“It’s not what it looks like,” said Anne, giving her sweetest smile to the constable, “Dick was driving us to the tuck shop for a bag of pear drops and lashings of ginger beer, and the next thing we knew, we were in the middle of a football match, flinging offensive leaflets out of the window”.

Mark Carney on Elon Musk crippling Ukraine’s Starlink: “I search for the right adjective to describe whoever took this decision… against a country that is literally fighting for the lives of its citizens against naked aggression."

Bill Clinton: "I think Congress made a mistake not protesting turning the Rose Garden into what looks like the entrance to Liberace's bathroom"

This week, scientific publisher Taylor & Francis concluded an investigation which cleared Jason Arday, the former Professor of Sociology of Education at the University of Cambridge, of plagiarism. The Guardian hasn't commented.

Happy 54th anniversary of the day Roger Moore recorded this in his Live and Let Die filming diary www.google.co.uk/books/editio...

We acknowledge that no one has the bandwidth for this, but if it helps: -It’s ‘sleight of hand’ -It’s ‘bated breath’ -It’s ‘lo and behold’ -It's 'buck naked' -It’s ‘brass tacks’ -It’s ‘free rein’ -It’s ‘toe the line'

it’s becoming intolerable really

THREAD. I've been feeling bad that Jim (tomcox.substack.com/p/jim-an-ins...) & Roscoe (tomcox.substack.com/p/at-home-wi...) have had all the attention recently so I wanted to say a bit about our other cat, Professor Charles Cardigan, who is also an uncompromising individual & fabulous companion...

Moll 1922. Safety First

By Haruka Kawakami

When someone says "Not all Men"

Imagine if, for once, The Guardian decided to tell the truth about immigration on the news pages rather than the opinion pages, or even with one of their 'deep dives...' www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Currently wondering what message the UK govt thought it was sending by dressing up the Minister for Net Zero in a literal Shell logo.

A favourite argument of Israeli supporters is, the issue is Netanyahu, not Israel "When it comes to this election, how much real difference is there between the major parties when it comes to Palestine, Palestinian rights.. a Palestinian state?" Xavier Abu Eid: "There's not much difference"

This is Burnham getting into his flow. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

House on Lund Street, Blackburn, Lancashire, 1963.

@daliagebrial.bsky.social : "What [the govt] didn't anticipate was that the people who would break the law because they found that law to be unjust wouldn't just be the people the govt felt they could easily demonise, it wasn't just Muslims.. black & brown people, it was old white ladies.."

Big respect to the person on high quality drugs in the distant past who decided to call maidenhair spleenwort 'maidenhair spleenwort'.

'Record profits' isn't a good thing.