
2025-07-23 13:31:22
“The band said: ‘You know what’s “not appropriate” Keir?!’ They then used an expletive to accuse the prime minister of arming a genocide.
Israel has strongly denied allegations of genocide relating to the ongoing war in Gaza.”
– BBC
israel has strongly denied that it’s raining, have they, BBC? So tell me, what do you see when you look out the fucking window?
#bbc
"Labour will eliminate unauthorised sewage spillages in a decade, environment secretary says"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Sewage
I support Palestine Action more than I support this terrible genocide-enabling so-called "labour" government.
Does that mean I'm going to go to jail? Will I have to hand myself in?
#ukPol
Get the Labour Party to reinstate the only 4 MPs brave enough to oppose their unfair and unwise welfare cuts. #stoppoverty #labourparty #keirstarmer
Why is #Labour blind to the urgent need for PR?
When there are more than 2 parties, FPTP allows parties to get an overwhelming majority of seats on a smallish vote. Labour just did it. Next time, it could be Farage. Is Labour too arrogant to recognise that possibility?
Keir had not been the same since he rented his mouth hole to the Bovine Excrement Delivery Company. https://mastodon.ie/@bullivant/114727764609793797
👷🏾♀️ Labour must create green jobs or lose voters to parties who oppose net zero, unions warn
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/23/labour-unions-green-jobs-net-zero-energy
The Times They Are-a-Changin: Labour is no longer the default left option | Morning Star https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/times-they-are-changin-labour-no-longer-default-left-option
#UkPol Good question!!
"Why is Labour so afraid to admit that we must tax the rich?"
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/
Toward an African Agenda for AI Safety
Samuel T. Segun, Rachel Adams, Ana Florido, Scott Timcke, Jonathan Shock, Leah Junck, Fola Adeleke, Nicolas Grossman, Ayantola Alayande, Jerry John Kponyo, Matthew Smith, Dickson Marfo Fosu, Prince Dawson Tetteh, Juliet Arthur, Stephanie Kasaon, Odilile Ayodele, Laetitia Badolo, Paul Plantinga, Michael Gastrow, Sumaya Nur Adan, Joanna Wiaterek, Cecil Abungu, Kojo Apeagyei, Luise Eder, Tegawende Bissyande
Adam Dorr concluded that the current AI wave will not just convulse -- but obliterate the labour market by 2045.
What cars did to horses and carts, and electricity to gas lamps, and digital cameras to Kodak, are templates for the coming shock, he says.
“Technology has a new target in its crosshairs – and that’s us. That’s our labour.”
Some sectors will have an interregnum during which humans can work effectively alongside robots
– just like the period when chess gr…
"Want to import toxic chemicals into Britain with scant scrutiny? Labour says: go right ahead"
George Monbiot explains:
"Yes, these proposals might reduce costs for business. But the inevitable result is to transfer them to society. ...
"Many have paid with their lives, health, education or livelihoods for previous “bonfires of red tape”: through the Grenfell Tower disaster, filthy rivers, collapsing classrooms, consumer rip-offs and the 2008 financial crisis. But as long as these costs can be shifted off corporate and current government balance sheets, that is deemed a win for business and win for the Treasury."
#ToxicChemicals #law #UKLaw #UKPol #KeirStarmer #RachelReeves #LabourParty
Collective action gets the goods, yet again.
It seems that the government didn't think Section 107 would hold up in court (at least not with this strike), and the Air Canada employees effectively called their bluff. This is exactly the kind of stand that needs to be taken to keep labor rights from being rolled further and further back.
(Also, I didn't realize just how tightly connected the government is with Air Canada)
"On nous a assuré que le seul engagement de la BCE en faveur de la stabilité des prix était un impératif technocratique - non touché par la politique, non façonné par l'idéologie.
Cependant, la nouvelle Revue Stratégique 2025 de la BCE confirme ce que les syndicats ont depuis longtemps mis en garde :
cette neutralité est un mythe, et les politiques de la Banque continuent Š faire pencher le terrain de jeu économique en faveur du
‘Open prison’: The forced labour driving India’s $5 trillion economy dream | Labour Rights | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2025/6/7/open-prison-the-forced-labour-driving-indias-5-trillion-economy-dream?traffic_source=rss
Leveraging Pathology Foundation Models for Panoptic Segmentation of Melanoma in H&E Images
Jiaqi Lv, Yijie Zhu, Carmen Guadalupe Colin Tenorio, Brinder Singh Chohan, Mark Eastwood, Shan E Ahmed Raza
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13974
Predictably, Ottawa ends Air Canada strike, imposing binding arbitration: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/air-canada-operations-suspended-flight-attendants-strike-1.7610916
This is the moment to defend the right to strike in Canada - CCPA https://www.policyalternatives.ca/news-research/this-is-the-moment-to-defend-the-right-to-strike-in-canada/
Hi Labour - based on this: https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360718926/how-would-farmers-vote-if-election-were-held-today-results-might-surprise-you the farming vote is goneburgers. Take it on the chin an…
I’m not quite sure what it says, but it certainly says something that prices for next week have *barely* gone up to take the train from Montreal to Toronto, despite the fact that Air Canada (the biggest transportation carrier between these two biggest cities in #Canada ) might not be operating those routes (due to a labour dispute).
It strikes me that a podcast about #Labour politics should be renamed "Politics Weakly".
Politics Weekly UK: One year of Labour - Politics Weekly live at Crossed Wires festival
Episode webpage: https://www.
"Labour’s economic strategy, if it can be called a strategy, is based upon growth delivering the tax income needed to fund our public services, with limited tax increases and the hope of ‘trickle down’ from wide-ranging deregulation of finance and planning."
John McDonnell still hanging in there it seems. A forlorn hope? Or a careful programmatic tactic?
Wasting a glorious political opportunity – 1 year of Labour in Government. John McDonnell exclusive
Augmenting cobots for sheet-metal SMEs with 3D object recognition and localisation
Martijn Cramer, Yanming Wu, David De Schepper, Eric Demeester
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13964
Labour housing plans could destroy 215,000 hectares of nature in England, analysis shows https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/10/building-regulations-nature-biodiversity-analysis-england
Come on #UK! This is not the way to go!! You want more heat waves, pollution, droughts, storms, floods? No?? So do something!!
”UK falling behind EU on environmental rules amid post-Brexit rollback”
Netanyahu: “Palestine is ours, regardless of what the people there want.”
Yes, these enemies of democracy must all be defeated.
#israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing
Why we still don’t understand what happens to women’s bodies during labour
<https://theconversation.com/why-we-still-dont-understand-what-happens-to-womens-bodies-during-labo…
He can’t even organise a party of two people 🤣🤣🤣
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/
'In the local data that the audit examined from three [THREE] police forces, they identified clear evidence of “over-representation among suspects of Asian and Pakistani-heritage men”.
'However, the review also criticised the ongoing failure to collect ethnicity at a national level, with it not recorded for two-thirds of perpetrators, making it impossible “to provide any accurate assessment from the nationally collected data”.'
Not so conclusive then.
"Labour housing plans could destroy 215,000 hectares of nature in England, analysis shows"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Nature
Exploring the Feasibility of LLMs for Automated Music Emotion Annotation
Meng Yang, Jon McCormack, Maria Teresa Llano, Wanchao Su
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12626 https://
On Starmer
tl;dr: hypocrisy and expediency
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jul/29/keir-starmer-labour-party-human-rights-mixed-record-international-law
"The real threat posed by generative AI is not that it will eliminate work on a mass scale, rendering human labour obsolete. It is that, left unchecked, it will continue to transform work in ways that deepen precarity, intensify surveillance, and widen existing inequalities."
"The current trajectory of generative AI reflects the priorities of firms seeking to lower costs, discipline workers, and consolidate profits — not any drive to enhance human flourishing. If we allo…
Amazing story, "North Koreans tell BBC they are being sent to work 'like slaves' in Russia"
#northkorea
Good electoral reforms. But it's VERY disappointing that Labour clings to first-past-the-post. Not only does FPTP make no sense when there are more than 2 parties, but, most importantly, change to PR could be the only way to prevent a far-right majority in 2029. Wake up!
https:…
"A new government of austerity and war, in a deteriorating international situation, after 17 years of economic slump and stagnation, unable to confront crises from genocide to climate change to housing shortages and preparing the way for far-right rule, would warrant sustained opposition from the left under any circumstances."
The Times They Are-a-Changin: #Labour is no longer the de…
Keir Starmer will go down in history as even worse than Tony Blair in the Labour PM rankings, which is no small feat.
If he was just trying his best to deliver the UK to the far-right with all the repressive apparatus ready to go, he wouldn't be doing a better job at it.
"Ed Miliband says Labour will ‘win fight’ against UK net zero critics"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #NetZero #Climate
The current UK government, supposedly "Labour", looking more and more right-wing as days pass.. And then politicians wonder why people stop voting to the "left" 🙃
"UK will look into more ‘transactional’ approach to granting visas, says Starmer"
h…
"“Look, I’m not trying to get the world’s tiniest violin out to say, ‘poor MPs’,” [Chris Hinchliff MP] said. “But I will say there seems to be a certain set of people who behave in here more like a private schoolboy drinking club than serious professional people thinking about how to improve the country.”
Yes, this is the #Labour party he's talking about. Meet the new government, jus…
I see Sir Kier Starmer thinks that it's "inappropriate" for a music festival to have a band that campaigns for peace and an end to genocide, but that it's perfectly appropriate and may "alleviate" a "grave threat” for a country to bomb nuclear sites in a another country!
He thinks daubing some paint on airplanes as a protest is terrorism, but that using those planes in reconnaissance to support an ongoing genocide by Israel is a good and normal use of them.
What a fucking weasel, absolute death worshiping fuck-knuckle.
Goddamn Labour party loves them some illegal wars of aggression in the middle east. Can't get enough of it.
Please fuck off Sir Starmer.
#ukpol #iran #kneecap #starmer #fuckKnuckle
Protect existing claimants, punish future ones.
That will guarantee a future Labour Govt.
I can't decide whether the most conservative Civil Service since before the Second World War is passively pushing back on the Labour Govt or whether the Govt is stupid all on its own.
#UKPolitics
UK Gov to review taxes on gambling.
I know what to do - charge a completely random amount between 0 and 100% on winnings. Ask yourself, are you feeling lucky??
#ukpolitics #gambling
I suggest a corrected headline:
"Starmer shows his fragility as he vindictively stamps his foot."
Original:
"Starmer stamps authority with MP suspensions, but risks appearing vindictive."
Labour sackings: exuding authority or petty and vindictive? - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/…
Good for you Andy Burnham.
"At the weekend the continuity rebels won the backing of Andy Burnham, the mayor of Greater Manchester. Burnham, who has become increasingly vocal in recent weeks in setting out an alternative, more muscular, soft left alternative to what Keir Starmer is offering, ... he urged Labour MPs to vote down the bill."
A look at Walmart's use of automation to grow sales without adding staff, as analysts say its efforts raise questions about the future of US retail labor (Gregory Meyer/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/5be70b28-018d-42d7-af8d-ea5a4bed4d44
Labour government running that line between "there's not enough available resources to support immigrants" and "it's critical for the country to have babies that won't be economically productive for many years".
(An apparent dichotomy I imagine there's a non-racist reason for. And to be fair, despite the headlines, they haven't gone full national-natalist, just suggesting making it easier for people to start families.)
I wonder how it shows up in practice that the mayor of Graz is from the communist party since 2021? (Which got most votes in the municipal elections.) The coalition leading the city consists of KPÖ (communists), Greens, and SPÖ (Labour).
“We can’t pay you a fair wage or they’ll all be wanting one” is certainly *a* position for a Labour council managed by Labour-owned commissioners to take.
#BirminghamUK
China Mieville contra Perry Anderson: Anti-Streeck
»On immigration, socialist demands should include full labour and civic rights for migrants, full entitlement to benefits, unionisation across the economy, and an undoing of vulnerabilities that contribute to the super-exploitation of migrants.«
https://www.
‘Targeting trans people and migrants isn’t where oppression ends – it’s where it begins’
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/06/04/pride-month-migration-refugees-lgbtq-labour-uk/
any labour government after 1980 can't into worker's wellbeing, all they know is austerity, capitulating to terfs, eat hot chip and lie
Common ownership? Never, so long as society clings to economic monopolies and the machinery of state, true freedom for all remains impossible!
As Rocker argued, only the abolition of all monopolies and the creation of a federation of free communities, where the land and means of production belong to everyone, not privileged minorities, can end exploitation and allow genuine liberty to flourish.
Until then, "common ownership" is just a slogan, not a living reality.
Back to that non-traditional brand name for our chosen HVAC system. We went with Midea primarily to avoid tariff impact and the brand names (Trane, Carrier, Lennox, etc) all cost more due to market share and advertising. Our HVAC company provides a 10 year parts and labour warranty. I am familiar with Midea, a Chinese company in business for almost 60 years and well known for its A/C technology. So I wasn't put off by the manufacturer.
And where are Labour and E&W Greens MPs?
Scottish, Wales and Irish MPs call on Starmer to recall Parliament and ‘impose sanctions’ on Israel | Morning Star
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/scottis…
Very impressed with DJI service: 45 EUR total (incl. labour, postage) to repair a damaged gimbal. With sub-week turnaround.
"Brian Leishman, Neil Duncan-Jordan, Rachael Maskell and Chris Hinchcliffe will now sit as independent MPs."
“I firmly believe that it is not my duty as an MP to make people poorer, especially those that have suffered because of austerity and its dire consequences.”
- Brian Leishman, MP for Alloa and Grangemouth, one of many who voted against the government’s disability benefit cuts.
Respect to the rebels, for voting with their consciences even when it got them into trouble!
I wonder if any of them will join up with Corbyn & Sultana's new thing?
#UKPol #KeirStarmer #LabourParty #LabourRebels
Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch said he was "flirting with Neil Kinnock's demand for a wealth tax" after the former Labour leader called for one on Sky News.
Sir Keir Starmer dodged the question by saying his government has stabilised the economy, but was asked again by Green Party co-leader Adrian Ramsay if he would stand by his promise that "those with the broadest shoulders should carry the largest burden".
The Prime Minister simply said: "We can…
#UkPol
"Starmer says UK ‘can’t just tax our way to growth’ as he brushes off call for wealth tax – UK politics live"
https://www.theguard…
"Bulldozing UK".
My new name for Labour's planning reforms / Britain under Starmer/Reeves.
"Labour must create green jobs or lose voters to parties who oppose net zero, unions warn"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #NetZero
I think that our Labour (and yes, Green) Party among others need to watch this: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=vCRY0GZOuzg or https://www.
Just read that our Labour councillor David Barker, aka one of the only councillors I’ve ever had who was responsive and I felt acted in the best interests of his constituents, has been internally deselected by the Party.
#BirminghamUK
Dear Emily Thornberry,
I don't usually bother to write to you on most issues because I figure there is pretty much no point communicating with a whipped MP in a safe seat under first past the post. Such an MP has no reason to listen to their constituents at all, and is entirely a tool of the party leadership.
I make an exception today since I hear your government is about to classify Palestine Action as a terrorist group. Despite them being peaceful, non-violent, and dedicated entirely to preventing the greater crime of the ongoing genocide of Gazan Palestinians.
This is obviously a gross overreaction and a completely unjustifiable act designed not to prevent domestic terrorism but to cover up British forces and UK government involvement and collaboration with the genocide in Gaza.
If we are taking suggestions for groups to ban as terrorists even though they aren't terrorists, I would like to suggest the Labour Party! The party has helped facilitate a genocide abroad, and continues to supply the perpetrators with arms and intelligence to aid their actions.
I don't expect you to take that suggestion seriously, but maybe Reform will take it seriously when they get elected in a few years and I suggest it again to them. After all, a precedent will have been set that groups which aren't terrorists can be banned under anti-terror legislation anyway. Democracy will have already been eroded.
I was ready to be disappointed by this Labour government, but I confess that the level of gut-wrenching visceral disgust I am experiencing at them surpassed all my wildest expectations. Taking money from the disabled to buy new war-planes from a fascist US president while abetting a genocide in Gaza makes me wonder if Reform wouldn't be better in the end anyway. At least they might do electoral reform and nationalize the water companies.
Labour's only hope, the country's only hope, is to remove Starmer. I wish you had won that leadership election instead of him.
Anyway, as I say, I don't expect it to make any difference at all because under this election system even MPs in safe seats are nothing but tools of the party leadership and the party leadership seems determined. But I thought I'd let you know that I see you. I see what you are doing.
I support Palestine Action more than I support this government. Let me know where I should hand myself in for my "crime".
Yours sincerely,
Adam
"As a political force, the Labour left is finished. The tactic of entryism – entering the Labour party and changing it – is finished too."
"..a string of local council victories next year would pave the way for an unprecedented challenge to #Labour – not from the right, as the party has always had to fight, but from its radical flank. And this new movement could take parts of Lab…
Automated Seam Folding and Sewing Machine on Pleated Pants for Apparel Manufacturing
Ray Wai Man Kong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06518 https://arxiv.org/pd…
> “Dad was disgusted with how small it is now and how much they charge for it,” Leonie Wadin, 74, told Sky News from her home in Melbourne. “He’d roll over in his grave if he could see it now; he’d be disgusted. It was a penny chocolate. Since Dad died, I haven’t bought a Freddo.”
Another failure of the Labour government.
What kind of people go on a visit to show solidarity with the perpetrator of genocide?
#Labour politicians under investigation for ‘Friends of Israel’ trip
https://www.declas…
"UK falling behind EU on environmental rules amid post-Brexit rollback"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #EU #EuropeanUnion
It won't be an easy path. I think maybe they should consider merger with the Greens and an electoral alliance with PC. Maybe later
MP Zarah Sultana resigns from Labour to co-found a new party with Corbyn | Jeremy Corbyn | The Guardian
https://www.…
"From clean air to pesticides: how UK has lagged behind EU on the environment"
#UK #Unitedingdom #EU #EuropeanUnion
Of course racism takes a variety of forms. It both affects and is experiencd differently by different groups, in different places, at different times. How could it possibly be monolithic?
Diane Abbott is not saying anything surprising.
She is being predictably targeted by the Labour right (and their yes men and women).
Received a response fro our front bench #Labour MP in response to our reply to his reply to our letter condemning ban on #PalestineAction.
Predictable, but at least, to our surprise he did use the word #genocide
Since Microsoft is organising a European Sovereign Tech Fund, we should ask Lockheed Martin to put together a European Sovereign Defense Fund. There’s probably also opportunity here to bring Amazon in to advise on EU labour standards and have McDonald’s take the lead on food safety policy in the EU.
CC @…
"MP Cites DeSmog Reporting to Bolster Call for Ban on Fossil Fuel Advertising"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #FossilFuels
Starmer's Labour government complicity.
Fury as minister admits Britain is still training Israeli troops amid Gaza genocide | Morning Star
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/fury-minister-admits-br…
This is welcome from #Burnham.
(Warning 15 cookies)
'Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham hit out, saying the decision would help “overheat” the economy. He warned: “It’s a model for an ever-overheating UK economy rather than a more balanced, levelled-up economy, which is what we would argue for. Manchester Airport has two runways and it doesn’t operate at full capacity.”'
"Labour using Brexit to weaken nature laws, MPs say"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Nature #Environment
“[Rubio’s] priorities speak volumes: financing Israel genocide on Palestine, torturing Cuba, going after health care services for those who need them most,”
Diplomat Johana Tablada.
USA can't tolerate Cuba's good example of free health care nor its international solidarity.
US sanctions Brazil health officials over Cuba’s overseas medical missions | Donald Trump News | Al Jazeera
The 2024 #Labour Budget allocated just £11.3 billion to climate change mitigation and adaptation—covering everything from carbon capture* and
nuclear energy* to tree planting and EV charging*—compared to
at least £58 billion for military spending.
NB, those with a * are fake climate mitigation.
#warmongering
Strongest yet from #JohnMcDonnell
How long will he give it though, flogging this dead horse.
Starmer and co are trashing Labour’s legacy. We must take back control of our party – before it’s too late | John McDonnell | The Guardian
"They misguidedly thought disabled people would again be an easy target, but this time they totally miscalculated the deep-seated adherence of Labour members to the principle and tradition of standing up for the poorest in our society."
Poorly led, strategically inept and shorn of democracy. Now I truly fear for this Labour government | John McDonnell | The Guardian
"The Conservative party has collectively decided that the threat of Farage is best met by copying him, so the idea that Badenoch could act towards Jenrick the way Heath did to Powell seems impossible. More extraordinary is that the Labour government is also under the misapprehension that the best way to combat Farage is to sound like him, a mistake that will seem incomprehensible in a few years time."
Fascism, Rivers of Blood, and today’s political and media elite
Rachael Maskell, the Labour MP for York Central, who is one of the leading opponents of the bill, said: “They are going to have to go back to the negotiating table … deaf and disabled people’s organisations [DDPOs] are rejecting these changes as it fails to address future need and gives no security for people with fluctuating conditions, for instance where people are in remission.”
Starmer still facing Labour anger over fears of ‘two-tier’ welfare system
Another of the supposed "defence experts" (aka #warmongers) advising Labour. The article identifies 2 others, "Lord Robertson, a former Nato secretary general, and the retired general Sir Richard Barrons".
Any experts on #peace,
What is missing, at least from the article, is the need to have productive land near where we live. Essential as systems-collapse looms.
Jeremy Corbyn attacks Angela Rayner for selling off allotments - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3dpkvkkjjno
Corbyn calling out the 'Labour' warmongers.
#warmongering
Good wishes and all power to the Labour rebels today. They won't vote to push 150,000 disabled people into poverty.
#UKPol #austerity #UKLabour