David Wearing

"...there is no significant divide ... in Israel when it comes to the Palestinians, but rather many shades of right ...Eisenkot has not charted a significantly different path here than ... Netanyahu; he, too, has said he rejects Palestinian statehood". www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/o...

Just the sort of mature, thoughtful content one would expect from the people who coined the term "anti-bedtime left".

Just the sort of mature, thoughtful content one would expect from the people who coined the term "anti-bedtime left".

This will be excellent 👇🏽 Janey knows her stuff

The UK does need a DSA-style Green Party. But it's difficult to see how this sort of vacuous, performative machismo is going to make that happen.

Remember the centrists doing their little victory dance around this? Turns out that decades of indulging "legitimate concerns", punctuated by occasional bouts of tutting at the overt far right, does more to strengthen the far right than weaken it. Who could have guessed? (Many of us).

Gleeful displays of cruelty and dominance are dictionary-definition evil. What you're looking at here is precisely what that word is for. Call this movement what it is, and treat it as such.

Gleeful displays of cruelty and dominance are dictionary-definition evil. What you're looking at here is precisely what that word is for. Call this movement what it is, and treat it as such.

It started as refuelling a few weeks ago, now its a direct intervention. Andy Burnham's first military action as Prime Minister risks dragging him into a quagmire. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Breaking: Working class increasingly out of touch with "The Working Class"

Vulgar economism has really undermined a lot of people's analytical capabilities. Humans are not narrow economic utility maximisers. Our motivating interests are far broader. Our subjectivities and senses of self & others are real & important. There's no analytical shortcut around this complexity.

The new militarism, and its accompanying discourse of national virility, is capable of taking us to a very dark place indeed.

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We will have more transformational politicians and fewer conformist politicians to the extent that political campaigning is treated as a pedagogical exercise rather than a marketing exercise.

Very proud to be a Fellow of this important organisation taking on the emerging pro-militarist consensus.

The anti-"woke" tide was always going to go out quickly, leaving many prominent people scrambling to make themselves look respectable.

Translation to English: Farage worked to suppress the most blatant expressions of racism in his movement so as to more effectively pursue a politics of substantive racial demagoguery. Classic decontamination strategy of the c21st Western far right. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Undercover journalists have unmasked shocking racism in the "hordes of men of colour are coming to molest our womenfolk" party.

"Hiding their true beliefs" behind a laughably thin veneer of deniability. Anyone prepared to engage their critical faculties for 5 seconds could see through it. But we were consistently shut down with demands that "legitimate concerns" be "respected". And now we're supposed to be shocked.

Almost 30 years ago I was appalled at how the New Labour government was indulging and validating the right wing moral panic against asylum seekers. And every year since then I've seen my fears about where that would lead prove entirely well founded. The "legitimate concerns" debacle continues.

A fair chunk of this expenditure goes to the US and UK to purchase major weapons systems, which the Saudis then use to e.g. pulverise Yemeni civilians from the skies for years on end. All that money never made Yemenis more secure, and hasn't made Saudis more secure either. Might be a lesson there.

Big win for the performatively serious "defence" (military) hawks. We're prolonging our reliance on fossil fuels to own...Russia? And we're dialling back efforts to tackle what is plainly our no1 security risk measured by severity and likelihood of impact, i.e. the climate crisis.

I thought it was a core principle of Western liberalism (e.g. US Declaration of Independence) that it is people that have inalienable rights, not states or system of governance. And if a system of governance denies or violates people's rights, the people have the right to change it.

Another dimension of this: the Gaza genocide can only be properly and fully understood as a joint venture between the far right Netanyahu government and its centrist enablers in Washington, primarily, but also in London, Berlin and elsewhere.

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