Martin Phelps

1. Not sure when a new, on-the-record rape allegation against a sitting president isn’t considered news — especially considering Trump was found liable by a jury in a similar case — but it was ignored by most mainstream media outlets

If you wanted one headline to explain what happened to us, this might do it: trying to make bank off a ten percent chance of killing us all

“If we are to be truly prepared for all of the threats that we face, we need to have a clear sight of what those threats are.” Ellie Chowns makes the case for a broader approach to national security on #BBCQT.

So many people are still on X in spite of Musk trying to destroy our democracy and supporting Russia against Ukraine It's evidence of a highly damaging and widespread addiction The government could and should take action by shutting down X

We need a Budget that makes everyday essentials affordable, taxes extreme wealth fairly through measures like reforming Capital Gains Tax, and invests in warmer homes. More of the same from the Chancellor simply isn't good enough.

If Putin stops fighting, the war ends. If Zelensky stops fighting then his country will be occupied, leaders murdered, language banned, businesses stolen, children kidnapped. That's what happens in Russian-occupied Ukraine.

Could someone please convince me that all our connected devices aren't going to be defunct in a few months and we'll be fighting over mouldy turnips?

Palantir didn't have to evade the UK's controls on lobbyists to get astonishing, unminuted access to government ministers and officials, or even to hire them to lobby their colleagues. Why not? Because there aren't any. My column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Alexei Sayle - Free Palestine

Heat pumps ARE defence. We are fighting a war against fossil-fuel backed petrostates whose Achilles heel is our energy independence. Our weapons are as much heatpumps, EVs, grid upgrades, batteries, solar, wind as munitions. (I made this argument last week, speaking at @friendsofeurope.bsky.social)

A dose of joy on a Monday morning... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This a million times. People of colour being dragged on to debate maniacs about imaginary labels & race science is an abomination. proper ‘how German are you’ Nazi shit Note that people like me with white migrant parentage never asked to defend our identity Englishness. Is. A. Made. Up. Thing

Is this real? If so, Trump has struck a deal for Russian oil. If this goes ahead, the US will be funding Russia’s war machine as it murders children, tortures, rapes and murders Ukrainian people as part of its genocidal war

Free speech latest :

“The only sensible solution at this point is a moratorium on datacentres until very basic questions about how many we need, what for, where, and how pollution will be avoided are answered satisfactorily by the government” - @olliehayes.bsky.social 👏

What is it about Orr’s immensely rich backers that is making the University so cautious about talking about this?

You can see the genocide from space. Yet still it is widely denied.

Facebook really doesn't want you to see the new documentary exposing Elon Musk Neither do TikTok or Google or the eX social media site. Since they won't accept paid advertising, let's do some free advertising. Go see Musk in theaters October 9 www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...

Aguer-no!

New Post: Why I Love AI Next month it'll be twenty years since I went to university, learned to program, and studied AI. I wrote about why I loved it, why I still love it, and why, unfortunately, it no longer exists. www.possibilityspace.org/blog/posts/i...

Arrest and prosecute “Danny Tommo” or lose the country to the Fascists. That’s the choice here

NEW | I’m not surprised, but I am livid. BBC NEWS, ‘DANNY TOMMO’ AND THE DINGHY ATTACK THAT DISAPPEARED While the rest of the media – even the very worst parts – report on Daniel Thomas’ actions, BBC News fails to give its audience the facts. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/bbc-news-d...

@simonforstroud.bsky.social - do you think your government might take a little more notice of people like this, and a little less notice of the racist hooligans? Thanks.

Yep, she's not wrong... www.theguardian.com/media/2026/s...

Democracy depends on a fearless and free press. Without press freedom, we do not truly live in a free society. This is why I urge the news media to boycott the White House in response to Trump's ban on CNN, MS Now, and Politico. Giving in to tyranny only invites more of it.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-yF...

It’s easy to see why the AI companies wanted to hide this from the public. The statements are some of the most damning indictments of the ways LLMs were trained, how they work, and the immediate threat they pose to human labor. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social reports. www.404media.co/doom-loop-op...

The government has three months to decide whether to cancel its £330m NHS contract. We want Palantir out, join us 👇 https://goodlaw.social/658abc

The UK Government says it is acting to uphold international law, while continuing to allow F-35 components to be supplied to Israel. It’s time for the govt to end the UK’s complicity in the genocide in Gaza

It seems like this is a good time to tell you all why LLMs are never, and can never be, conscious.

“Nature’s silence is its one remark,” Annie Dillard wrote in a 1981 Atlantic essay. Dillard, who died yesterday at 81, spent her life listening, @isabelfattal.bsky.social writes.

#Gaza #WarCrimes The remains of what appeared to be entire families, including many women & children, have been unearthed from sites destroyed by Israeli attacks. Israeli strikes on civilian sites early in the war may have been war crimes [2024 UN report]. www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Trump in Ireland with President Connolly. If looks could speak. She conveyed the strong view of the Irish people "that the normalisation of war and genocide can never be accepted, and that we are in a world facing the existential threat posed by war and climate change."

a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes

Burnham knew this would be the result of dropping his pledge to cap political donations, but he did it anyway. Labour are determined to midwife a Reform government, like plenty of other centrist parties before them whose weakness paved the way for right wing extremists.

Farage / Reform already face numerous investigations for corruption. Now this. Why TF does this guy get to buy our democracy? Why does his say and his wallet get to wield such influence? This isn’t a “level playing field” at all. It’s a richboys’ membership club. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

This is completely on Andy Burnham Last week Labour could have stopped this. Now we have a single person giving more money than the entire general election spending limit for a political party www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...

only fraudulent economists are allowed now?

Elon Musk is sowing 'deliberate division' via his social media platform X that will be catastrophic unless regulated, the mother of one of the 14 confirmed children fathered by the world’s richest man has warned.

One reason England does so well is our second generation immigrants outperform their peers which is not true in most OECD countries. We are also very good at integration. And it's v sad that this is never acknowledge in debates on immigration.

Wildfires, drought, record heat, the worst-ever arable harvest: we have seen just recently what ecosystem collapse looks like in the UK, and we know it will only get worse. The govt must treat this existential threat as the national security issue it is.

It does make you wonder what they think “the law“ is. To most of us it’s the system of rules we have all agreed to live by. To them it’s some arbitrary external force that picks on fascists. 

Our undercover reporter, Chris Atkins, posed as a far-right journalist at the Reform Conference and got thrown out for asking difficult questions about Farage's corruption scandal @scatatkins.bsky.social

Newsom: "Do you know how much his supporters lost on that memecoin? It's down 98%. They lost $3.8 billion. His supporters. And he took home over $600 million. That says everything you need to know about the president of the United States, Donald Trump, about who this man is."

Impeach the maniac. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...