Will opposition parties just go on complaining from the sideline or actually step up & STOP Government plans to restrict our right to protest!

They need to get behind the fatal motion tabled by Jenny Jones and stop this out of control Government thelondoneconomic.com/politics/where…

What a stunning tribute Matthew d'Ancona

'At some point, someone will figure out how to cut us out of the loop, creating a God-like AI capable of infinite self-improvement. By then, it may be too late.' Possibly the most important essay you'll read this year: ft.com/content/03895d…

Sending sympathy to people stuck in traffic heading for Dover, trying to get to Europe for a holiday. If you keep a lookout for movement in the opposite direction, you may glimpse the extraordinary sight of massive chickens coming home to roost.
#brexitshambles

Here’s my i column, on why it’s very important that we deport an Afghan pilot who tried to come and live here, the piloty scavenger apple.news/ADuGupPEbTESpG…

To any budding authors out there: I have just read the best possible guide to becoming a writer, by the ever-brilliant The Fence Magazine. 11 of these 12 points are deadly serious; one is a joke, but I won't say which. (h/t Hattie Crisell and her substack!)
the-fence.com/issues/issue-o…

1. As I arrived back at St Pancras International this evening having travelled under the Channel, I was greeted by a sign informing anyone who has been trafficked to tell someone so they can get help.

“The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.”
Mary Oliver left us 4 years ago today. Her immortal wisdom on creativity themarginalian.org/2016/10/12/mar…

Question from the new Rishi Sunak maths syllabus: if 13 years of Tory government knocks 20% off your real income and 40% off your pension, puts £500 a month on your mortgage and lands you with a £2000 gas bill, should you vote Tory at the next general election?

A song for the dads doing their last minute Christmas shopping. Good luck and happy holidays to you all

I’m sorry, this is a brilliant pun.

Extraordinarily eloquent exposition from Peter Frankopan on BBC Radio 4 Today just now of the situation in China and the potential global repercussions. So succinctly informative, it was a mini lecture on Sino state activity and paranoia, at 8.20am

I’m a 3rd year undergrad at University of Oxford, and part of possibly the most disrupted uni year group in recent times, studying throughout a global pandemic, multiple lockdowns, and now a cost of living crisis.
But guess what? I support the @UCU strikes wholeheartedly. Here’s why. 1/

For some reason I'm ridiculously touched by this

Hell hath no fury like a woman who told you exactly where something is but now has to get it herself because you couldn't find it.