Angus Satow

socialist // in & against comms // sometime writer //

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[Angus Satow @AngusSatow]

What's going on with Labour's Parliamentary Selections?

A 🧵 on Starmer's purge and the implications for Britain's democracy...
https://t.co/M0bX6VquTK

[Jean-Luc Mélenchon @JLMelenchon]

Un jeune homme est mort il y a deux jours suite à une agression homophobe. Il passait dans la rue à Metz dans la nuit. Une bande l'a agressé avec des injures homophobes. Il a fait un trauma crânien et il est mort de ses blessures.

À l'inverse de Deranque, il n'était pas néonazi. Les grandes consciences médiatiques restent concentrées sur les lendemains de foot. Le jeune homme assassiné par des brutes aura-t-il droit à une minute de silence à l’Assemblée ?

[Léo Mouren @leomouren]

Annie Ernaux (prix Nobel de littérature) et Eric Vuillard (prix Goncourt) prendront la parole lors du premier meeting de campagne de Jean-Luc Mélenchon, dimanche à Saint-Denis
"On est dans cette idée d'une campagne instructive, avec de l'éducation populaire", dit-on à LFI #AFP

[Angus Satow @AngusSatow]

New Reform party political broadcast doesn't hold back

[Zohran Kwame Mamdani @ZohranKMamdani]

COME ON

[The Athletic | Football @TheAthleticFC]

“My relationship with my club began the same way it does for most football fans: before I was old enough to understand what I was getting myself into. When I was nine, my uncle introduced me to a team with a cannon on its shirt, a grizzled captain named Tony Adams, and players like Nwankwo Kanu who had been born in Africa but now lived somewhere else, just like me. Arsenal felt familiar before I even understood why.

“And then there was the manager, a man who I initially thought had been named after the club and then believed that somehow the club must have been named after him. Arsene Wenger may have struggled with his raincoat, but rarely with his orchestra. The football his teams played sang.

“But what was once the nostalgia of the past has become the beauty of the present.

“We won. We are champions of England. And we are just one game away from being crowned champions of Europe too.”

@ZohranKMamdani, mayor of New York City, writes for The Athletic on what Arsenal means to him.

FREE READ 🔗 https://t.co/ge64qWmVuz

[lan Byrne MP @IanByrneMP]

This really is tone deaf stuff from Blair.

The extreme, neoliberal, centre is what’s led to a cost of living crisis, food banks and wider decline in our country, and why people across this country are rejecting it outright.

It’s his brand of politics that’s led us to an utterly broken country.

It’s crystal clear Tony Blair does not care about the lives of working class people.*

And, this intervention definitely does not speak on their behalf

He speaks for the billionaire class, vested interests and the status quo with the aim of protecting their wealth and power, much like his great friend Peter Mandelson.

His institute are bankrolled by big tech and corporate interests, not the 99% struggling through austerity, insecurity and inequality.

They don’t represent ordinary communities nor possess the answers to the problems facing the country in 2026.

Time to bow out Tony you have done enough damage.

[Despotic Inroad @DespoticInroad]

Some people on the Left, for many years: The last half century of economic liberalisation, privatisation, outsourcing etc. has left Britain over-financialised, regionally imbalanced, exposed to global shocks, with reduced state capacity & with a labour market defined by precarity + low productivity. We should reverse this by strengthening collective bargaining, and via big public investment in infrastructure, critical industries, and by reversing the denationalisation of national assets/natural monopolies that are currently structured to benefit rentier capital.

Sensibles: LITERALLY NOBODY HAS A DIAGNOSIS OF OUR PROBLEMS. LITERALLY NOBODY IS OFFERING ANY ANALYSIS. LITERALLY NOBODY HAS A CLUE WHY NOTHING WORKS AND WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT. BUT WOW TONY BLAIR SAID AI IS BIG AND LOW GROWTH IS A PROBLEM AND WE SHOULD GO BACK TO THE 1990S, EXCEPT WITH MORE ORACLE SOFTWARE PLZ.

[Ben Sixsmith @BDSixsmith]

Tony Blair: Wow, get a load of AI. We should probably cut welfare somewhat. Also, we should be involved in the Iran War for some reason.

Broadsheet columnist: Say what you like about the man, but the sophistication of his analysis is unparalleled.

[Diane Abbott @HackneyAbbott]

Blair has no coherent plan for the country. His policy framework is support every US war, cut welfare and pensions, deregulate and privatise, continue anti-migrant policies.
A hopeless, failed project.

Labour has no coherent plan for country, says Blair
https://t.co/eHMuyhUvgj

[Angus Satow @AngusSatow]

Tony Blair has condemned someone else's "almost infinite capacity for self-delusion"

[Pippa Crerar @PippaCrerar]

NEW: Tony Blair has accused Keir Starmer, Andy Burnham and Wes Streeting of putting Labour’s future at risk by abandoning the centre ground.

In highly unusual intervention for a past PM, he warns the party’s “almost infinite capacity for self-delusion” means it is likely to lose the next election.

In a scathing 5,700-word attack, Blair argued for government to crack down on welfare spending, abandon restrictions on oil & gas and smooth relations with Donald Trump 👇

https://t.co/L0DPIzLS67

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

LIFT IT UP ©️

[Angus Satow @AngusSatow]

At the last National Policy Forum before GE24, Left delegates proposed committing Labour to reverse Tory cuts to SureStart. Starmer's cabinet rejected the policy.

Wes and his right-wing friends didn't care about SureStart then.

It's all a game to these ghouls.

[Lizzy Buchan @LizzyBuchan]

EXCL: Wes Streeting pledges to bring back Sure Start as he eyes Labour leadership

In an in-depth interview, Streeting lifts the lid on Brexit, Reform and what he said to Keir Starmer in their 16-minute showdown
https://t.co/qNjRCqzpxp

[Zohran Kwame Mamdani @ZohranKMamdani]

we both up now

[Angus Satow @AngusSatow]

It's an absurd & contradictory mess, but then again this was never about anything logical.

It was about driving trans people out of public life.

The EHRC is a toxic bonfire. Along with the Labour Government and the right-wing press, they are an active force for bigotry.

[Geri Scott @Geri_E_L_Scott]

So... The Times obtained a version of the original EHRC guidance submitted to the govt last year (that story from Nov here: https://t.co/AzjyOJj0SB) and it's interesting to compare and contrast with the final version published today.

I've been deep into the docs and here is what I've spotted, although I'm sure I've missed some...

[Angus Satow @AngusSatow]

In Britain the Equality & Human Rights Commission attacks equality & human rights

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

I have tabled an EDM to congratulate Arsenal for winning the Premier League after 22 years.

Big thank you to all the staff behind the scenes: cleaners, coaches, caterers and all the faces we don’t know or see. The Premier League belongs to you all!

https://t.co/qY0DFdnZlK

[Angus Satow @AngusSatow]

This tracks. I was at the Emirates on Tuesday night and there were so many chants backing Keir Starmer. I'm sure if he'd been there he'd have been carried aloft by adoring fans.

[lee harpin @lmharpin]

Bumped into some senior Labour MPs at an event tonight. Speak of a PM that is “bullish” and “determined to carry on serving his country.” One adds “the football result last night hasn’t done him any harm either,”

[🐇 @AFCBani]

Excuse me @ZohranKMamdani, I know you're busy running an entire city sir, but the Arsenal nation is waiting for your tweet sir

[Dr. Abdul El-Sayed @AbdulElSayed]

COYG!

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Incredible scenes outside the Emirates. A moment I will never forget.

Arsenal - Premier League Champions!
#COYG