Michael Robinson

I've now published my latest novel, Proxima. It's set in the future, about a ship captain that finds a lost colony and then has to try to stop it from being taken over by outsiders. It is very political, in a way that is extremely relevant right now. books2read.com/u/4DvEW7

Look, I know all the reasons we got here, but we really need to start seriously thinking about what we do in a world where The Markets punish whole countries for voting for decency, compassion, and fairness. We must stop pretending the capitalist machine is an objective, value neutral force.

⏰️ It's time for a bold, green budget that brings down bills, tackles inequality and works to protect our environment. Will Labour deliver?

The real unfair competition women are being forced into with men is having women's sports constantly separated off as a distinct event which is made to compete commercially with much better funded and socially and institutionally enfranchised men's sporting events & found inadequate by that standard

People around the world are uniting to say no to Trump. Yet Andy Burnham does the opposite by approving the Jackdaw gas field.

Incredible scenes from Brazil after Brazilians saved their democracy.

It’s going to be interesting to watch many Americans come to terms with the fact that Netanyahu is not The Only Problem

Politico wrote up Zohran playing basketball with the uncovering-a-big-scandal tone the same day the NYTimes wrote up "credible allegation that The President of the United States raped a woman" as a political strategy story. Broken media in a nutshell

David Graeber explained that one of the ways that Neoliberalism functions is through hopelessness. Our hope is killed until we think there is no point anymore and we just give up. Lula's amazing victory shows there still is hope. We should never give up!!!

The utter contempt that they hold workers in is incredible. First it took until halfway into this government to get a meeting, then they go "actually although this has never been a problem before, it's a problem now". They are not your allies and every action they take expresses this.

This is about Bill Maher being a loser

Today marks the start of Ace Week. This year we will be amplifying the voices of our co-chair @kathrynbristow.uk who is ace:

This week's Budget must tackle the cost-of-living crisis. Tax the super-rich. End austerity.

Once again, nobody seems to be asking if the Greens should demand that local Labour parties distance themselves from racist immigration policies or support for genocide

I wonder what would happen if you decided not to name your child

BBC editing out pride flags and protect the dolls while insisting on poppies really really laying bare its a state propaganda mouthpiece innit

Two University of Leicester students speak out over ‘absurd’ and ‘Orwellian’ decision by the BBC and ITV Studios to edit out pride pins worn on University Challenge

On the same week the DCCC released its first anti-transgender ad, popular Democratic politician Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez did not mince words. When asked about anti-trans Democrats, she called them "shameful," "wrong," and decried them for "scaring so easily." Subscribe to support our journalism.

Not the top Steam review of Dressmaker making me cry this morning!

Miatta can clearly see right from wrong but she's rowed into line twice with a Labour government siding with Shell and Donald Trump on climate vandalism, and into line now on cruel immigration reforms. What is the point of Labour if they can't even do the basics to protect people and the planet?

Billionaire living in a castle calls minority group she is paying hundreds of thousands of pounds of her own money to legislate out of existence ‘elitist’

One thing that I keep coming back to in this Green tumult is that if we can survive it *relatively* unharmed then we will have proved ourselves to be stronger than Labour and will send a message that you cannot defeat us with the same smears that defeated them in 2019.

The popular monsters of the era reflect the cultural zeitgeist. In the 2000s, it was zombies. In the 2010s, it was vampires. And now, it's women!

the fact that this can be about two different things today

if you still, for some reason, are not using a password manager let the phpocalypse be your sign from God telling you to take up the faith

A president saying clearly and with his full chest “I am directing the Department of Justice” to do … anything, would have been a five-alarm scandal in previous years. Now? It’s just a Tuesday.

Guardian: "Andy Burnham is kicking hippies again" The hippie's: "hey actually we're respected scientists pointing out that all these new wildfires are completely avoidable. Why do you keep calling us hippies? Would you like to look at some hockey stick graphs?"

Today's decision by Labour to approve new drilling in the North Sea is climate vandalism. It's a betrayal of all of our futures, and Labour has abandoned all credibility in the fight against climate change. This is a victory for Shell over the people. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cw...

the idea that it is the role of the government to legislate what people jack off to is so deranged. like, not ensuring safe working conditions for people in porn, but essentially saying "these are sexual fantasies the uk govt says you aren't supposed to have"

When this busts I'm gonna buy like three computers

the labour mp who wants to ban trans people from hospitals also thinks 5G causes cancer because of course she does

everyone is mad at james carville for saying this but he's just saying what every liberal believes. they would rather live under fascism than allow the left to have any power whatsoever. for all their bleating about 'purity tests' and so on it's ultimately just this: liberals love fascism.

She was murdered by transphobia 😥😥😥

Literally the only way people have to know about my latest novel is word of mouth. It's free to read, and I don't have the money to advertise it. (It would kind of suck to write a novel about capitalist colonialism and then ask people to give capitalists money to read it)

Made a little video about my reporting on “Tommy” from the viral @abdulelsayed.bsky.social town hall

I'm pretty sure rioting and executing their leaders is a defining aspect of French culture and history

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.