The Glass is Empty

This is why I despise the people who “govern” us.

These greedy bastards are always “at it”.

Since his ennoblement in Boris Johnson’s 2023 resignation list, Tees Valley regional mayor Lord (Ben) Houchen has claimed more than £25,000 in tax-free daily “attendance” allowances from the House of Lords for 73 days when he hasn’t voted, spoken or performed any recorded parliamentary activity.

Trump is gonna start bombing Brazilian fishing boats within the next few hours 👀 www.normalisland.co.uk/p/netanyahu-...

The pattern is the same in both: a captured judiciary, pliant media, and party financing that doubles as a protection racket. Orban and Vucic rotted away. Western Europe should treat this as a warning.

I regret not murdering more poors & sicks while I had the chance

The thing you need to know Obama is that he dronebombed civilians, expanded hydrocarbon extraction and sponsored the Israeli occupation, but with a really cool aesthetic

This is it. For the political media class of the minority white people world facing opposition from their own populations to the genocide this is a period buckling up & riding it out until the genocide is complete. Then it can be back to business as usual with some hand wringing & sad faces

The French elite love to claim the memory of the Revolution, the Rights of Man (sic), the resistance to Nazi occupation and other progressive moments in French history, but they are very quick to show they would have been on the authoritarian side whenever memory becomes action in the present

Because it’s a fascist imperial proxy 😊💕🇺🇦 thespectaclemag.substack.com/p/ukraine-is...

The Great & the Good will today gather in Aberfan to remember a disaster In common with Hillsborough, Grenfell, the Infected Blood scandal, innocent people died due to structural negligence Aberfan Hillsborough Grenfell The Infected Blood Scandal - common factor? No-one has been held accountable

The claim that Israel has a ‘right’ to exist is not what it seems. It’s really the diabolical claim that Israel has a right to commit apartheid, ethnic cleansing and genocide against Palestinians. Read latest here: jonathancook.substack.com/p/the-idiots...

It’s a function of the Right to never admit the fallibility of its economic system. It’s the job of the ethnonationalist to blame “the other” for every grievance. I therefore present you with the least surprising headline in newspaper history.

No it hasn't. The Times will always stand up for inequality and the power of elites. This drivel is published to deny the causes of the protests - a crackdown by Macron on the public realm.

The overwhelmingly biggest correlation in cancer survival in the USA is wealth and race. The null hypothesis here is that they've built a tool that tells you how poor and Black you are.

the labour mp who wants to ban trans people from hospitals also thinks 5G causes cancer because of course she does

Three things in this post. The first is sick. The second exposes justice in the US as political. The third stunned me. In Ireland, study of English is compulsory in school. We all do several Shakespeare plays*. And we also learn that his works were performed by men & boys in drag.

An incredible number of men born in the 1960s believe they were personally gassed at The Somme.

It is 68 years since J.K. Galbraith coined the phrase "private affluence and public squalor."

Article in Tribune… Labour is retreating into its established position as a defender of political Zionism and genocide.

(1)This is where Burnham joining an opportunist attack on The Greens leads - Lambeth Labour Group loudly declaring "Zionism is not Racism" - what, never ? Not when it means thugs burning Olive Groves ? Or the IDF systematically destroying hospitals ? IMO the motion is flawed , but this is much worse

Honestly, this should have done for Polly's career in explaining politics. Both the approach to policy bargaining and the tweeting it out

Labour's response to this will be to take to the morning telly sofas to utter their strongest words of condemnation with their most outraged faces plastered on while continuing to adopt aspects of Reform's racist immigration policy to be promoted with more dinner party friendly PR

You can't simultaneously say that the outcomes of Zionism are racist but that Zionism isn't racist. When freed black slaves from the US settled in Liberia they displaced the native population, enslaved them and enforced a caste system. The irony would be funny if it weren't horrific.

There is a reason why there are so few truly leftwing politicians visible in public life. Because the media’s role is to weed them out, to discredit them, to place them beyond the pale, to other them. Matthew Alford reads my latest: jonathancook.substack.com/p/listen-how...

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BIG Drumcree development this evening. The Portadown District have been given an out in this dispute, but will they and their confrontational paralegal take it? I think we all know the answer.

This a million times. People of colour being dragged on to debate maniacs about imaginary labels & race science is an abomination. proper ‘how German are you’ Nazi shit Note that people like me with white migrant parentage never asked to defend our identity Englishness. Is. A. Made. Up. Thing

Northern Irish politics is one side making the place too expensive for Ireland to take on and the other making us too expensive for the UK to keep us. Incompetence by design.

"While we were physically denied our freedom in the country of our birth, a city 6,000 miles away, and as renowned as Glasgow, refused to accept the legitimacy of the apartheid system, and declared us to be free." Amandla!

"The last thing I did is the report on Gaza naming what is happening there as genocide. One of the main reactions to that report [was] paying tribute to me for my courage.. why would you need courage to speak the truth?" Navi Pillay upon winning the 2026 Nobel peace prize

Open the books on State use of agents, enabling and prolonging far-right activities. MI5 linked Fulton/Keeley was written about as early as 2022, but PSNI used Neither Conform Nor Deny to conceal his identity for 4 more years. MI5 agent links to NI & Tommy Robinson’s rise echo dark state collusion.

Keep going ✊️🇵🇸 www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/mili...

Defibrillator for Rafa!

Nour Odeh: "It didn't happen because of the Oct 7 attack, in fact, Israeli society has been veering to the right for years" And of course it wasnt the Israeli right who established the occupation, settlement project & apartheid. No, it was the so called moderates who did that

Most decent rational people will agree with that. This whole tiptoing around Zionism is like being more concerned about the sensitivities of the parents of a murderer than the sensitivities of the parents of the victim

A people are being genocided for the audacity of being the native people on lands where Zionism built an apartheid ethno-state and everyone's losing their shit about whether Zionism is racism?

"There is no final victory, as there is no final defeat. There is just the same battle. To be fought, over and over again. So toughen up, bloody toughen up." - Tony Benn

I wanted it to pass. I don't give a **** about the press reaction to it. If I was governed by the press I'd still be in the Labour Party and if the Green party was governed by the press it would still have 60K members and 4% in polls. Let them bring it. They won't find us as pliant as Corbyn was.

I think part of the liberal outrage is that it doesn't put non-Palestinian voices, specifically the other side, front and centre on the question of Palestine. From British empire one, it's been considered the right of the coloniser to decide the terms of decolonisation.

None of the claims made here are true, but that's beside the point. What matters is the suggestion that certain people should not be subject to purity tests, while others should. For example, raise Palestine and you will be asked if you think Israel has the right to exist.