Neil Howard

Reader @UniofBath studying #UBI & social change. Lead at Trustee @BasicIncomeOrg. Dad. Organiser. Candidate for @TheGreenParty in Widcombe

[Neil Howard @NeilPHoward]

🚨 This week, the UN Special Rapporteur on Poverty and Human Rights, @srpoverty, presented a hugely important report to the @UN on the role of economic insecurity in giving rise to far right populists like @reformparty_uk and @TRobinsonNewEra. 1/🧵

[Neil Howard @NeilPHoward]

@HadleyFreeman Really poor form here, Hadley, when you are often so on the money. This is about tracking and investigating folks who may well have committed war crimes. How can you oppose that?

[Neil Howard @NeilPHoward]

Well said @ZackPolanski. Being Jewish and serving in an army committing war crimes are NOT the same thing.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

We're going to have to repeat a lot that many Jewish people don't support Israel's genocide.

Criticism of the Israeli Government and their war crimes has nothing to do with who is or isn't Jewish.

To conflate them like this is both harmful and antisemitic.

[Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani]

Green politics and love of your country, in action.

I’ve known @paulpowlesland for 15 years. I’ve never met someone with so much energy, enthusiasm and pragmatic idealism.

[Neil Howard @NeilPHoward]

@simon_schama @JacobSteinberg You surely aren’t serious? Boycotts were hugely effective during South African apartheid. Comparisons with Rwanda or Cambodia are also meaningless - when has Ireland ever played either? And the entire world - millions of Jews included - watches Israel’s actions horrified. Be real

[Neil Howard @NeilPHoward]

I see this year on year with my students at @UniofBath . More and more anxiety, less and less hope. This requires collective organisation; we need to be politicising the young to resist. And we need structural change. Capitalism isn’t just going to fix itself for us!

[NEF @NEF]

The Milburn review published today is warning of a 'lost generation' of young people not in work or education. But crucially it identifies that this is a systemic problem, not an issue of individual responsibility. George Bangham responds.

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

So you know what @bbcquestiontime did with Farage? They’re now doing it with AI.

This ‘expert’ panel on AI is a disgrace: not one critical voice.

Gilbert works for Tony Blair to promote AI. Jones is govt chief AI booster (& Blair flunky). Riparbelli is industry. Gawdat is ex industry. And for ‘balance’? A Tory MP.
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[Neil Howard @NeilPHoward]

@justdavenow89 😂🤣

[Neil Howard @NeilPHoward]

And predictably no @TheGreenParty representation!

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

Oracle’s £250m gift to the Tony Blair Institute appears to buy you an entire Question Time episode.

[Neil Howard @NeilPHoward]

@williamnhutton This is who he’s in the pocket of

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Tony Blair thinks the answer to this country’s problems is AI, welfare cuts and endless spending on war.

Who benefits? Arms companies and tech billionaires.

Once again, Blair is wrong. The answer is a redistribution of wealth and power and the relentless search for peace.

[Neil Howard @NeilPHoward]

This! Well said @yanisvaroufakis

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

Tony Blair is the living embodiment of what happens when political office becomes a down payment on future plunder. Ejected in 2007 by his own MPs as a massive liability, he bequeathed Britain a wild casino economy primed for the 2008 crash. And when the British economy crashed and burned, Mr Blair kept quiet while honing his skills at securing power by other means.

His first job, after his ejection from 10 Downing Street, was as the West’s Middle East envoy, with a supposed emphasis on Gaza. It took six painful years for Mr Blair’s tenure to prove a failure so profound it amounted to active complicity in Israel’s ethnic cleansing, in Palestinian erasure, and in paving the ground for the ongoing genocide.

Soon after, the Chilcot Inquiry demolished Blair’s Iraq lies, exposing him as a liar, a chancer and a war criminal responsible for countless corpses of Iraqis, but also of British soldiers.

Then came Blair’s real innovation: the financialisation of the ex-premiership itself. The Tony Blair Institute, fuelled by £130 million from Oracle's Larry Ellison—coincidentally, the largest individual donor to the Friends of the IDF—became a shadow state, brokering governance contracts for autocrats and companies like Palantir that weaponise AI to produce mega-death abroad and full-on surveillance of Western populations.

Now, in May 2026, this corporate fixer issues a 5700 word tantrum demanding that Labour embrace Trump even more than Starmer already has, denounce what is left of Labour’s betrayed Green New Deal, and trash the remnants of workers' rights. This is not the wisdom of an aging statesman. It is the frantic squirming of a man fearing his grip on oligarchic power might soon wane and whose entire post-10 Downing Street existence depends on preventing the many from ever reclaiming what the few have plundered.

https://t.co/1Onlpx9Nkh

[Neil Howard @NeilPHoward]

Front page of today’s @FT - Farage and donors being hosted by a group of aristos getting close to the party. Proper 1920s Italy vibes. And why we need @ZackPolanski and @TheGreenParty more than ever.

[Neil Howard @NeilPHoward]

@CabbieGinger One of the all time best things I’ve ever enjoyed watching (50 times) 😂❤️

[HandofArsenal @HandofArsenal]

Greatest picture I have laid eyes on

[Scott Willis 🏆 @scottjwillis]

Arsenal end up winning the Premier League by 7 points and do so with the best goal difference. 2nd most goals scored and comfortably fewest allowed.

[Neil Howard @NeilPHoward]

@davidyelland Extraordinary you can say this as a fan of Manchester City 😂😭

[Neil Howard @NeilPHoward]

@shivmalik @drgerke1 No

[Spencer Morgan @spencermorgan93]

London right now is how the wizarding world must have been when Voldemort fell

[James Meadway @meadwaj]

Nationalise Morrisons, use it as the foundation for a new, publicly-owned grocery store selling high quality, affordable food. National-level version of the Mamdani plan in New York.

Need to think big in a world with repeated, major shocks to essential supply systems.

[MB🇩🇿🇵🇸 @ClockEndd6]

That nod you give to a stranger when you're both in Arsenal shirt been sensational the past 2 days