Wes Streeting MP Lord Sugar Wes, are there any boots you wouldn’t lick, given the choice?

How I miss Dawn Foster:

I wrote about Aberdeen oil tycoon Ian Wood's green vanity project, which plans to build over a third of the only green space in one of the poorest areas of Scotland novaramedia.com/2024/04/10/an-…

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Meet the unelected lord shutting down peace protests to ‘save democracy’.

John Woodcock, AKA Lord Walney, is a former Labour MP turned arms-trade lobbyist, who is using his position to call for a harsher crackdown on protesters.

Great Editor writes 👇
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'Levelling up' talk omits the reason for it in the first place: the North was torn apart within living memory - deliberately.

It's a thought I kept coming back to whilst reading three books on place and politics in the North of England recently. 1/4

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Nina Simone the GOAT

🚨 BREAKING: Following Canada’s decision last night to halt arms sales to Israel, trade unionists are blockading arms factories in England and Scotland demanding Britain does the same.

These sites produce components for F-35 fighter jets being used to commit genocide in Gaza

Legends, legends, legends

Campaigners want 100,000 people to withhold tax in protest at the British government’s complicity in Israeli war crimes. Could it work?

Charlotte England reports 👇
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Why's she named the album like a novara journo's first book on verso

I wrote a 5,000-word piece about Katharine Viner, and what happened when a pro-Palestine author-activist became one of the most powerful people in global media novaramedia.com/2024/03/12/how…

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Cancelling all plans this afternoon as I'm now down a very deep rabbit hole

BREAKING: Palestine Action spray and slash a historic painting of Lord Balfour in Trinity College, University of Cambridge.

Written in 1917, Balfour’s declaration began the ethnic cleansing of Palestine by promising the land away — which the British never had the right to do.

'I can do nothing but be a part of this movement.'

Singer-songwriter Charlotte Church tells Clare Hymer why she marched for Palestine today.

Craig’s book is brilliant — a fantastic theoretical and investigative analysis of the emerging world of work. Get your preorders in!

Excellent piece from Janey Starling for Novara Media on how when MPs say protesters make them feel ‘unsafe’, most of the time what they really mean is that they make them feel ‘uncomfortable’.

It's clear to me that Northern mayors are intent on pulling in the same direction. What's less clear is how far they feel empowered to pull against Whitehall's reins.

My analysis of last week's #COTN24 :

With more than 30,000 Palestinians killed, and 1.5 million people trapped in Rafah facing military bombardment and mass starvation, our solidarity cannot waver.

Now is the time to scale up our action in the streets, in communities and crucially - in the workplace.