Caroline Lucas: England must talk about its future outside the UK thenational.scot/news/24266107.…

Latest from me: long read interview with Caroline Lucas, on England, Westminster loneliness, Elizabethan literature & more theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

This also shows that there has been massive and intelligent public support for a sustainable earth for over 50 years...

It's #EarthDay today: first held in 1970, it was the 'first mass reminder' of major global environmental challenges, according to the late, great Alistair Cooke - (as I write in #EarthTransformed ). Some things have got better; but many have got worse....

Starmer’s claim that Labour is the true party of English patriotism would be more persuasive if he didn’t muddle English & British throughout whole article. They’re not the same & I explore implications for English identity in my new book #AnotherEngland telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/2…

ICYMI:
- Romanian authorities say a protest against Maia Sandu in Bucharest last month was paid + organised by sanctioned Moldovan businessman Ilan Shor
- Footage of this protest was published at a European news website
- That website says it is now investigating the content

#EarthTransformed

One of the most famous Russian propagandists Olga Skabeeva, who has been broadcasting hatred of Ukraine and the West on TV screens for a decade, gave a master class on propaganda for young students in Kaluga.

She openly stated that Russian strikes on Ukraine are just a matter of

Tony Roberts I'm no designer, but it would be hard to do worse.

As the UK becomes more divided, England has re-emerged as a potent force in culture & politics. To counter rise of the populist Right, we need more compelling stories of a fairer, greener, more inclusive country. My new book, Another England, is out now bit.ly/3UHQGDR

We can’t let England’s stories be written by cheerleaders for exceptionalism & imperial nostalgia. Progressives need to tell better, more inclusive stories about who we are & who we can be. I was on BBC Radio 4 Today speaking about my new book Another England waterstones.com/book/another-e…

Reviewed it, awarded five stars, an oustanding piece of work
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I'm backing Bella crowdfunder.co.uk/p/backing-bell…

@iwm launches an important new project 👇👇👇
INDEX: Institute for Documentation and Exchange is a new cultural and research institution founded by IWM in Lviv to empower Ukraine's intellectual vanguard not only at the moment of existential threat but in the long term.

Agreed. Truss's eccentricities only mattered because Britain's biggest newspapers, richest donors & most vocal think-tanks cheered them on. And because unelected activists could appoint the PM.

This wasn't some drawing-room caper: it's about where power lies in British politics.

Alistair Barrie Yes, the irony is that Truss is half-right: her reign illustrates the power of unaccountable forces over UK politics. But it's not the OBR or Natural England that's the problem, but the plutocratic press, unaccountable think-tanks & unelected party members that made her PM.

Factcheck: England isn't an island.

This is bonkers. If you want to save the health of people in Wales you don't torch their history you celebrate it.

In 2019 I told the graduating students 'There are universities and there is Goldsmiths'. Now, it seem, the administration is doing everything to destroy its special character opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocra… Goldsmiths UCU Goldsmiths Stories Angela McRobbie Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓