Streeting is being very clear here: if you’re angry at Labour over NHS privatization - or indeed Gaza, or the dropping of green policies - they don’t even want your vote.

Can we at the very least have a “when resources allow” for axing the 2-child welfare limit?

Both the Times and the BBC continue to employ this deranged, hate-filled racist. Shameful.

Solidarity Ghassan Abu Sitta We were supposed to be speaking on a panel together this evening in Berlin, me via recorded message. Ghassan Abu Sitta was detained by German authorities & is being deported for wanting to reveal the atrocities he witnessed as a doctor in Gaza 1/2

The speech that I could not deliver because German police burst into our Berlin venue to disband our Palestine Congress (1930s style). Judge for yourselves the kind of society Germany is becoming when its police bans the following words:

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There are exceptions but imo the standard of football punditry in England is desperately poor.

This clip is a great example of how enlisting an expert can really lift the coverage and give knowledge to the viewer, rather than the usual 'well they just wanted it more' bollocks.

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So if you invite journalists with expertise in a particular subject - rather than former footballers who do little preparation and talk in cliche - to talk about said subject, you actually get useful insight and analysis. Who'd have thought it. James Horncastle superb as always.

UCU Glasgow is extremely concerned by reports that Ghassan Abu Sitta is being refused entry to Germany and urge the University and Anton Muscatelli to extend all available support to him

Interesting how Keir Starmer's embargo on uncosted spending commitments goes out the window when it's time to get plaudits from The Daily Mail on defence.

Wes Streeting was a student politician, and it shows.

In student politics, his faction got off on doing and saying things to wind up the left.

That might have been a fun game to play in the National Union of Students.

It's no way to run a health service.

In 2016, we asked Ian Jack to write about Trident for The Guardian Long Read, and he produced this masterpiece —which makes very clear, over 10000 words, that the purpose of “our nuclear deterrent” has little to do with keeping us safe.
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Sorry to interrupt, Keir. But with the exception of the Navy, many of our armed forces aren't keen in Trident on the grounds that it is (a) useless and (b) siphoning badly need resources away from conventional defence.

This is a classic example of how Corbyn tried to build a Broad Church with the Labour Right to unite the party, he hated Trident but the Labour Right told him it was vital and he said, “OK, I’m a consensual leader”. His reward was for the Labour Right to lie about him eternally

Joan Robinson was a giant of Post-Keynesian economic thought and the supervisor of our co-founder Gar Alperovitz’s doctorate which became his first book, ‘Atomic Diplomacy: Hiroshima and Potsdam’—the first revisionist account of the use of the Atomic Bomb. bbc.com/news/uk-englan…

Spending a bigger share of GDP on the military means spending a smaller share on something else. What does Starmer think this something else should be? And if it's private consumption, how can he achieve this given his commitment to not raising income taxes?

A very moving piece on the evisceration of towns bled dry and abandoned by state and capital and working class struggles to sustain them. Shildon poses 'perhaps the central political issue of our time: how do people live when money has discarded them'?

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There seem to be similar alleged irregularities in the Ilford South selection as there was in Croydon East.

The Croydon East contest was suspended and people are under party and police investigation. Seems there's a strong case for the same in Ilford South

(via Private Eye Magazine)