‘The Islamic Republic is likely to emerge transformed or weakened in ways not yet visible. But the notion that it would simply dissolve under pressure was always fanciful.’
Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi on the US’s war on Iran, new on the blog.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ma...
The Grounds of Planning PART II: @abenanav.bsky.social on Utopia, Socialism, and Rationality
criticaltheoryinberlin.de/podcast/podc...
In the 19thC Engels described the suffering of the working class for which the bourgeoisie was responsible as social murder. The austerity policies of recent times are a continuation of the same responsibility.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The profitability of pharmaceutical companies supported by the US government is attempting to take priority over the health needs of UK citizens.
NEW | ‘The Green Menace': The Daily Mail's newest scary stories for Middle England
Ahead of the Gorton and Denton by-election, the paper's working hard to cast the Green Party as mad, bad, and dangerous to know.
brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/the-green-...
NEW | A look at how newspapers polish Donald Trump’s babbling as he makes the case for his latest war…
US WAR ON IRAN: A TALE OF TWO TRUMP INTERVIEWS
brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/us-war-on-...
2/. The individual suffering and its obfuscation by public bodies, and the public suffering from the worship of private finance enabled by governments. In other words the neo-liberal settlement imposed here and across the globe.
1/. The C4 documentary series Dirty Business (www.channel4.com/programmes/d...) is an example, although and extreme one because water is a monopoly; of the suffering caused by the privatization of public functions; and the excessive faith in markets as a solution to social failures.
There's now a UK parliament petition to sign too...
#DirtyWater #DirtyBusiness
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75...
Wrote up the by-election, the Green victory and the conferences for Labour at the @lrb.co.uk www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/fe...
This is so good
I’m pretty sure this is an AI-generated news story about my newsletter saying I’ll never use AI to write it. nationaltoday.com/us/oh/clevel...
“This is not normal politics. It is democratic decay unfolding in real time.”
I’ve written for @tribunemagazine.bsky.social about the Josh Simons / Labour Together scandal, and what it tells us about the degeneration of British democracy.
tribunemag.co.uk/2026/02/smea...
Excellent piece by @sarahoconnorft.ft.com. TBH, Covid should have done much to cure us of this when we learnt how much we all depend on people whose very real skills are stigmatized as lesser
NEW | Oh, so *now* dirty tricks are bad…
BEFORE LABOUR TOGETHER TRIED TO SMEAR SUNDAY TIMES JOURNALISTS, IT WAS A VITAL SOURCE FOR THEM
The real problem is that the Starmtroopers turned their dirty tricks on Murdoch's men.
brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/before-lab...
NEW | On Wes Streeting’s late-in-the-day denunciation of Mandelson…
WES STREETING’S MARIAH CAREY METHOD
Just how stupid does the cabinet minister think we are as he denies the extent of his relationship with Peter Mandelson? Very.
brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/wes-street...
"The recent emphasis on Keir Starmer's "decency" might appear odd even if you only had a passing acquaintance with his track record of duplicity and spite, not to mention his readiness to sack others to save his own skin." More ...
fromarsetoelbow.blogspot.com/2026/02/this...
A review of Christoph Schuringa's A Social History of Analytic Philosophy marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviews/2251...
An excellent and accurate portrayal.
I just signed a petition on Your Party's Members' Oversight Committee: transparency and accountability, not secret oversight. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/me...
‘Peter Mandelson is a case study for the way the Westminster ecosystem protects its own.
Protecting the system, and the powerful men who feel entitled to benefit from it, matters more than protecting the people it harms.’
New from @judeinlondon.com:
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/fe...
A handful of figures will be sacrificed - but only to protect a wider culture that believes rules don't apply to the ruling elite.
Read my latest on the Epstein Files here: www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/crim...
David Stern: Epstein's source who sat next to the queen, sent him lewd messages and brokered deals - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/david-stern-epsteins-source-who-sat-next-queen-sent-him-lewd-messages-and-brokered-deals
Ex-ambassador Craig Murray explains how the Palestine Action trial was rigged by the government, police and judge to secure convictions – and yet still the jury refused to do as they were told.
They had good reason, as Murray explains: www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/202...
Why Is the Media Not Touching Jeffrey Epstein’s Clear Connection to Israel?
They’re instead focusing on the possibility that Epstein was a Russian asset, writes @premthakker.bsky.social.
Read now: zeteo.com/p/why-is-the...
