People are missing the rather amusing detail that when Starmer resigns, Larry, the "Chief Mouser," will have served under EIGHT different prime ministers in fifteen years.
I used to be a people pleaser and then I realized I never got anything I actually wanted and that my relationships were based on mutual unspoken resentment. So I pivoted to a life of asking for what I want and being seen as an often disagreeable and difficult woman. Much better
Real poets use quasi-mystical totally unfalsifiable beliefs alloyed with deep study of the histories of various poetries & poetic lineages. Free yourselves from trauma mediocrity NOW
In his book, The Great Transformation, Karl Polanyi describes perfectly how “free markets” are products of state intervention:
“The road to the free market was opened and kept open by an enormous increase in continuous, centrally organised and controlled interventionism.”
A masterful piece here by @KaiHeron et al, with critiques of several dominant green narratives: capitalist ecomodernism, left ecomodernism, anti-extractivism, post-development, and anti-modernity.
Toward a communist ecology. Must-reading for 2026.
https://t.co/F4cwyZdpAm
a lot of people who are into theory are actually just really into a specific set of words that give them a dopamine hit when they are arranged into a sentence
The attempts by Western institutions to normalise Israel since the ceasefire are disgusting and absurd.
First, Israel has not stopped killing Palestinians, and by all accounts is eager to do more of it.
Second, you do not normalise with a state for stopping a genocide. You isolate them until the genocidal government has been dismantled, the perpetrators have been arrested and prosecuted, and reparations have been made.
They want us to let bygones be bygones, sweep the pesky genocide under the rug. We will never accept this.