Julie Wrigley

Attending the book launch of "Killing Corbynism: Zionism's War on Socialism" by @RGordon_Nesbitt. If you think our democracy is important, this is a must-read text.

The German military is conducting recruitment outreach at gaming events like Gamescom, focusing on younger demographics to meet troop recruitment targets.

#OtD 23 Apr 1914 Robert Tressell's classic working-class novel, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, was first published. A house painter by trade, Tressell used his book to explain capitalism through the experiences of its working-class characters stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9528/r…

A country that has been bombed by America knows what America is. A country that has been sanctioned into poverty by America knows what America is. A country whose elected government was overthrown by American intelligence knows what America is. Only American citizens, sitting inside the country that did all of this, remain genuinely uncertain about what America is. This is not a coincidence. This is the one information environment on earth that was designed, resourced, and sustained specifically to prevent that knowledge from becoming normal. Hollywood. Textbooks. The nightly news. The "national interest" frame that converts every act of imperial violence into a defensive response to external threat. The most sophisticated propaganda operation in history was never aimed at the enemy. It was aimed at home.

Margaret Hodge, who was given a peerage by Keir Starmer, says there's nothing wrong with cronyism. Hodge is currently the governments official anti corruption champion.

Yesterday, another Labour whistleblower confirmed that Mandelson, alongside McSweeney, helped vet Labour candidates. Before the 2024 general election, local candidates were systematically dumped in favour of Mandelson-McSweeney picks with no apparent connection to the area.

BREAKING: Over 1,000 musicians & cultural workers call on artists, broadcasters & fans to boycott Eurovision until genocidal Israel is banned Signatories include Macklemore, Peter Gabriel, Brian Eno, Massive Attack, Primal Scream, Kneecap, Idles, Paloma Faith, Charlotte Church…

Keir Starmer—man with no ideals fails to live up to them socialistworker.co.uk/sw-view/keir-s…

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This is the groundbreaking new book from @peterkennardx He made the images against the Vietnam war in 1968, when he was just 18, and they stayed in a drawer for 60 years I can’t even place the images within a genre. Giacometti’s etchings - or Francis Bacon, maybe Incredible

Israel now occupies more of Lebanon than Russia occupies in Ukraine.

'I take my hat off to you Sir' words and drawing by @Banksy printed on the flyleaf of 'Stop' the new book by Peter Kennard published by @Museumsetc. For details of the book and to order online direct from publisher address below. museumsetc.com/products/peter…

Over the years, Gil Duran's research has been essential for my own investigations into deregulated free zones, and Big Tech's plans to anchor digital deregulation within them. That X has suspended his account comes as no surprise to me. Since Brexit, the Tories and Labour colluded on the nationwide rollout of 12 freeports, 74 SEZs. Under Keir Starmer's government, Labour continued the Tories policy by merging these zones into Industrial Strategy Zones. This merger was a rebranding exercise to cover Labour's complicity with the Tories, and also to confuse the public by muddying the waters around free zones. In January 2025, Starmer introduced AI Growth Zones into the mix, which have received over 200 bids on sites to date. My conversations with Gil formed an exchange of US and UK perspectives on free zones, charter cities, and the oligarchical capture of the commons we both refer to as corporate fascism. Corporate sovereignty is replacing collective sovereignty, while simultaneously, corporate governance is replacing democratic governance. This is all very real, and there is nowhere near enough MSM or alternative news outlet exposure of the corporate fascist takeover of our democracies by a bunch of twisted, lunatic libertarians.

🚨 @johnmcdonnellMP nails it ✅ “When he sought to realise his ambition to become leader of the Labour Party with a very little base within the party, he became dependent on MacSweeney and Mandelson and Labour Together to organise, fund his election. “And that when he became PM, the reward for MacSweeney was control of No 10, and for Mandelson, the highest diplomatic office. “And the message, the unspoken message to civil servants was, "What Mandelson wants, Mandelson gets."

The media sold Keir Starmer as 'forensic, decent & capable' PM He was NEVER any of those, as we made clear yrs ago: "Starmer is a LIAR in charge of a brutal, authoritarian, inhuman political machine, but you simply wouldn't know about that if you read or watched British media"

With yet more evidence emerging about the SNP's conspiracy against the "mighty oak" Alex Salmond, we are reposting George Galloway's tribute to Alex after his death two years ago. #NoVotesSNP #VoteWorkers "Alex Salmond was a friend of mine. We were exactly the same age. We entered the houses of parliament on the very same day almost 40 years ago. Alex Salmond was the man who did more than anybody else to bring Scotland closer than it has ever been to the break-up of the British state. One of the last things that Alex Salmond tweeted was the eerie comparison between the unequivocal 'I will stand with Israel' coming from Keir Starmer and the equally Messianic, unequivocal commitment given by Tony Blair, the former Labour Prime Minister to George W. Bush that "whatever happens, we will be with you" in the illegal invasion of Iraq which turned into such a cataclysmic failure. Alex Salmond was a man of many parts widely read, erudite in the extreme, articulate, but above all, brave. He did not go with the tide. He was not a weather vane. He stood up for what he believed in always. Even in private conversations that I had with him so many times, in London especially, he never once sought to elide the fundamental difference between us. That didn't mean we couldn't be friends. We were across the political aisle from him but we respected him, admired him, admired the way he would disrupt the most august parliamentary occasions like the budget when no one else would have thought to do so and if they had would not have had the courage to do so. Alex Salmond was effectively crucified by his own party members. His successor, Nicola Sturgeon and the gangrenous crew around her conspired to set up Alex Salmond on fake sex charges of which he was acquitted by a majority female jury in front of a woman judge in the high court in Edinburgh, but the SNP never forgave him. Although they issued condolences on the night of his demise, they had already excised him five years before from all and any mention from the website of the SNP. The SNP killed Alex Salmond. They contributed mightily to his death. If not for them, he might well still be alive. Indeed, if they had gotten their way, he would have died in prison a 70-year old man. But they failed in that and Alex was on his way to a kind of resurrection. His party, Alba, was beginning to pick up in the polls, and as can be seen from the entire Scottish media, which participated in the crucifixion of Alex Salmond. No one can deny now that he is dead that he was a major and mighty figure. A mighty oak has fallen. We shall not see the likes of him again in Scottish politics." George Galloway Leader of the Workers Party October 2024

2/ For those interested, here’s a short Substack piece (5 min read) that describes what a DSM diagnosis is and isn’t. (Based on a teaching conversation with a PGY-4 psychiatry resident.) substack.com/home/post/p-16…

Hard to know what to believe in relation to the Mandelson revelations tonight. But one aspect being ignored is that Starmer must not have asked to personally see the results of the Developed Vetting that Mandelson is said to have failed - SIX MONTHS after the scandal first broke. To repeat: if Starmer is genuinely just finding out now, it means he had never, not once, asked to see the actual vetting report himself, about a scandal bringing down his government - for SIX MONTHS. He's been repeatedly blindsided, on his version, about information he could have asked for and seen at any time. Information most people would want to see, even out of sheer self-preservation, to make sure no more skeletons were due to come out. Is he simply the most incurious person in the world? How was he ever DPP?

Either knowingly or unknowingly @Keir_Starmer LIED to PARLIAMENT about the odious Mandelson LYING to PARLIAMENT is a resigning matter

£64bn is the cost of UK capitulation to pharmaceutical companies. Secret deal commits the NHS to pay higher price for new and existing drugs No debate in parliament. Govt can tax the rich, cut other services, let people die, start manufacturing drugs. thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026-0…