Just going to pin this for future reference theguardian.com/politics/202…

That's bullshit. If he didn't agree and sign off on it being the "tradecraft manual" for the SDs then it wouldn't have been circulated to undercover officers. #Spycops #Idiot #SexRing #GroomingGang

The Undercover Policing Inquiry is back today. As ever follow @tombfowler for all the developments #spycops

Advocates of this ban have framed it as 'standing up to big tech' when the enforcement mechanism requires anyone who wants to access these websites to hand over personal identification documents like passports and driving licenses to Meta, Google and Elon Musk. Mad stuff

We go again. This time, it's the SDS managers' turn to be grilled. Excited to finally see the fella that always went on holiday with me. And the one who recommended relationship counselling when Carlo Soracchi told him about his 'affair' (their words not mine). #spycops

“We have liaised with [the host of the illegal land sale convention] and [a hardline zionist pressure group] and have deployed officers to [bludgeon anyone who has a problem with war crimes]"

How will this not end up appealed? It’s outrageous.

Israel's attempts to dissociate itself from its genocide is unraveling. The recent call published by The Lancet to remove the Israeli Medical Association from the World Medical Association is delivering a precise blow to self-perpetuated Israeli delusions of "professionalism" and "morality". The IMA fully accepted the widely discredited Israeli claim that all Gazan hospitals served as Hamas command posts and did not merit professional solidarity, even as Israel was intentionally killing medical personnel. Letters of protest were issued only when it became clear that Israel was starving Gaza. In fact, letters of protest were most likely issued when the leadership of the IMA realized it no longer had international allies and that its attempts to weave its way between Israeli authorities and universal professional standards were failing. When a well-know physician, an anaesthesiologist known for joining rescue missions to far-off destinations (demonstrating Israel's "morality") as well as for serving in the IDF reserves rven after he had turned 80, came forth to testify about the events taking place in the infamous Sde Teiman camp, he was seen as a civic hero. His testimony brought about the arrest of a group of prison guards who had been documented abusing a Palestinian prisoner. While these guards have since been reinstated, the physician published an op-ed with Haaretz today, self-exculpatory but also full of justifications for his actions while serving in the camp. He specifically demanded defense as a servant of the state, insinuating that responsibility was now a lethal load and was being denied by every component of the genocidal apparatus. All this to say that Israel can no longer claim even the pretense of coherence in its self-justifying narratives. It is now a matter of denial ("it's not genocide!") or "following orders". This process has taken a criminally long time. It is compounded by Israel's removal from international and regional decision-making forums. Still, it is gathering momentum. The rats are fleeing.

The John Healey business is a case study in How Britain Actually Works. A big policy demand is advanced by Tony Blair, a minister resigns to acclamation, some spooky MP you never heard of gets lots of attention, generals pop up in support, not a breath of dissent or scepticism.

Such an odd book series as a result of asking people to cover massive distance in such a small space (such as Hugh Collins’ Marxism and Law, but also Williams’ Marxism and Literature) Would really recc this on Miliband in general

A very good read. All hail General Ludd!

I have become slightly addicted to this podcast. I had no idea that it was possible to study cultural studies as an undergraduate. Earlier episodes on Stuart Hall, religion in politics, multitudes in Spinoza, pretty much all of this is spellbinding.

I really am afraid that the entire political/media class can power-fist “Oh wow, it turns out Johnson and Gove were just a crooked imbecile and a vicious little far right dork” up to their gall bladders. They knew this then, in 2016, and behaved like that anyway.

Bathing Machines, Eric Ravilious, 1938. This is one of a series depicting Aldeburgh beach in #Suffolk. The original artwork is in the collection of @TownerGallery. (The Hen is a vending machine!)

OK, it’s official, Boston is now a Scottish city.

They didn’t march through the city centre — they went no more than 100m from the train station!

Its hard to undersell just how large the demonstration in Belfast was today. It was one of the largest demonstrations i've ever seen in the city.

I just bought Tom Fowler a Coffee on Ko-fi! ❤️ @tombfowler Ko-fi.com/home/coffeeshop?tx…

RT @Art4PalestineUK: As Acclaimed Irish novelist Sally Rooney said ahead of today’s sentencing: “Protest that poses no threat to the public…

The cost of electricity will rise by 6% from 1 July. So why is British Gas slashing by 20% the amount it pays homeowners when they sell back electricity from their solar panels? Are solar panels worth it anymore? With Madeleine Gabriel of Nesta @Moneybox noon @BBCRadio4