RIP Albini youtube.com/watch?v=HuO3ww…

Natalie Elphicke, who has just been welcomed to the Labour Party by Sir Keir Starmer, cruelly and publicly tormented the victims of her sex offender ex-husband Charlie.

She claimed ***after his conviction*** that he had merely been punished for being 'attractive and attracted'…

this is also Europe.

Who could have predicted such a thing ..?
inews.co.uk/opinion/keir-s…

🌹NEW: Kate Osamor Member of Parliament for Edmonton has regained the The Labour Party whip after apologising again for her comments over Gaza.

She said: “I will continue to reach out to Jewish stakeholders and the community.'

labourlist.org/2024/05/kate-o…

'Since this war was won in advance, we will never know what it would have been like had it existed... But this is not a war.... [a]ny more than the transmission by CNN of real time information is sufficient to authenticate a war.' Jean Baudrillard, The Gulf War Did Not Take Place

So Natalie Elphicke is a Labour MP and Diane Abbott isn't. That's a clear message to antiracists.

Tory legacy of war on the poor.

4.3m children in poverty.

Malnutrition, scurry return. 11 year olds sectioned for mental health problems.

Infant mortality rate double that of Japan, Finland, Slovenia, Sweden.

5 year olds 7cm shorter than Europeans.
leftfootforward.org/2024/05/heres-…

‘Drake and Kendrick aren’t just fighting each other; they are at war for command of a faceless social media army that begs for escalation and will shrug and say, I didn’t expect it to go like that, if something really stupid happened.’ pitchfork.com/thepitch/drake…

This morning, Oxford students set up the Oxford Action for Palestine solidarity encampment. Over 60 faculty and staff members have signed a letter in support. You can sign too, here: …fordgazastaffsolidarity.wordpress.com

‘On US campuses, I heard young people burdened with an impossible moral load – the feeling that, as students in the universities of Israel’s most powerful ally, the responsibility for forcing a reassessment of the nation’s stance on Gaza rested on them.’ theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Aditya Chakrabortty And, actually, older progressive voters as well. The Green party are the closest to my values and demands.

Today a Palestinian MA student from the destroyed Al Azhar University successfully defended his MA thesis in a tent in Rafah. The student now plans to do a PhD in Education.

Warns from this weekend’s results of ‘the loss of two interlinked parts of Labour’s core vote: younger progressive voters and Muslim voters’.

Old but relevant article by Aditya Chakrabortty 'Britain now has a generation of expensively educated graduates – without the graduate work for them to do' theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Look, Labour are in this position because of consistent briefing from a 'senior source' against their own policies, this is exactly what happened with the green investment pledge, too. People are justified in being skeptical of Labour's prevaricating.

Is Economics Education Fit for the 21st Century?

More than 15 yrs after the 2007/8 GFC, Rethinking Economics England & Wales - the student movement that swept the UK (and many parts of the world) calling for a drastic overhaul of the econ curriculum - reports its findings.

rethinkeconomics.org/2024/05/01/is-…

Oh goodness. RIP MC Conrad, probably the best to pick up a mic in drum and bass.
theguardian.com/music/2024/apr…