Exactement! Before I saw your reply, I was about to write:
This is precidely the Macron strategy. Look how well that's working out!

“The real owners can be seen in the ‘Who Owns Britain?’ report by think tank Common Wealth ... asset managers and private equity own Britain.”

Our new project — Who Owns Britain? — in @leninology.bsky.social’s new piece for @jacobinmag.bsky.social 🔗👇

jacobin.com/2025/09/brit...

I'm just seeing your reply: I agree completely. Much more is needed, but at least this initiative seemed headed in the right direction. Alas, whatever it's benefits seem likely to be drowned in Starmer's and Labour right's desperate desire to out-Farage "Reform".

Want to better understand the current political conjuncture in Britain (& beyond) & what "fascism" might have to do it & w/anti-migrant wave? @trillingual.bsky.social is BRILLIANT at pulling the pieces together while making the most of @leninology.bsky.social's writing. www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...

Absolutely - perhaps (hopefully?) too late to save Starmer, but a project a renewed Labour party would be wise to pursue.

As TV dramas go, "The Hack" is brilliant. Watch it.

It's fun - and a crucial reminder of the dangerous nexus between media giants, police & politicians that has distorted British politics.

The UK needs strong press reform: time to sign Hugh Grant's and other victim's new petition 38d.gs/bgit

Such great work from @bigbrotherwatch.bsky.social
challenging the need for, and revealing the dangers of, a #DigitalID for the #Britain. What a juicy target for hackers!

If you care about your rights, watch this video and sign the petition - #JustSayNotoDigitalID

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvJV...

Please sign the urgent petition to Keir Starmer - don't offer Donald Trump more giveaways to US Big Tech companies: www.foxglove.org.uk/campaigns/ke...

Funding cuts have hit the UN hard, and its wider membership faces tough choices about how to manage the fallout.

From Gaza to Sudan to Ukraine, @crisisgroup.org lays out 🔟 challenges for the UN General Assembly to grapple with.

www.crisisgroup.org/visual-expla...

Deliberate genocide by starvation - a crime against humanity by the state of Israel. Western countries are entirely culpable through inaction and their support for Israel.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

YES

"As much as we are struggling, seeing people who have never been politically active before attending their first protest, meeting others & being part of a mass movement makes me feel that I have never been freer than I am in prison right now." #Filton24 #Gaza

tribunemag.co.uk/2025/08/an-a...

🔴Where Is the Political Leadership Against This Violent Far-Right Movement Terrorising Britain?

The silence of senior mainstream politicians and media organisations against the rise of a new well-organised far-right movement on Britain’s streets is a disgrace, argues @adambienkov.bsky.social

⏰ ONE MONTH TO GO! ⏰

The stakes couldn’t be clearer:
🥵 we’re coming out of the 4th heatwave of the summer
🔥 a record amount of land has been burnt by wildfires already this year
🤑 and CEOs of the most polluting industries in the UK are getting richer

Excellent from @trillingual.bsky.social on roots of bad idea of housing asylum seekers in hotels. A question: What about govt paying people to offer places in their homes? The money would go to the people, not hotel chains & could help build trust. Crazy idea?

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

84% of Labour Party members want the government to end the two-child benefit limit.

In a country as wealthy as the UK, allowing child poverty to deepen is a political choice. Labour must choose differently.

@compassoffice.bsky.social polling & motion in LabourList: labourlist.org/2025/08/end-...

Respect to #MyleneVialard, indigenous communities, protestors, lawyers and supporters who took risks to say NO to the fossil fuel criminals & their state agents backing #Line3

#ClimateEmergency
#ProtestIsADemocraticRight

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The Bubble Nebula, in the constellation of Cassiopeia. The bubble itself is a shell of material cast off by the intense winds of the bright star SAO 20575 inside. The radiation also illuminates a vast cloud which surrounds the region, causing it to glow the characteristic red of ionized hydrogen. 🔭

Good news alert

In 2024, renewables supplied more than half of the UK's electricity for the first time over a year, reaching a record share of 50.4%

Renewables and nuclear combined hit a new high of 64.7%

assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6889ec...

Let's say it again, "the economy" is entirely dependent on the environment.

No economy on a dead planet, no #PublicHealth on #biodiversity-depleted islands

www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...