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An excerpt from a debate on postmodernism featuring Gayatri Spivak, 1984

A snapshot of collapse and total disintegration. I just hope we see MASSIVE CHANGES on November 29, and that the people defending this mess finally wake up instead of coming out with excuses like “without Pedro, we're nothing”, “it was lawfare”, “it was the media campaign”, and so on. NO. TOTAL RENEWAL. Honestly, it's staggering that these people fail to understand that massive corruption scandals, three years without a budget or major legislation, two railway accidents, a housing crisis... all of these things cost votes. And the people who have lost cannot be the ones leading the recovery.

Proud to announce that students in England will be able to study Ukrainian at GCSE. It’s a chance for pupils to explore Ukraine’s rich culture and history and, for the Ukrainian community to remain connected to their heritage. This is another step in our enduring support for Ukraine as part of the 100 Year Partnership 🇺🇦🇬🇧

THIS IS A COMEBACK

How about apologising for your family's role in communism - the most evil ideology on the planet?

She got absolutely everything she wanted from that interview. It's naive in the extreme to believe that Kuensberg & the BBC are engaged in a disinterested exercise in discovering the truth. They are constructing a truth that sustains the status quo. Stategically, the Greens should be using high-profile interviews like this to disrupt, expose, question and unsettle the status quo; to express and highlight the multiple contradictions of our absurd moment. This interview did the opposite, casting rupture as "divisive" and anathema to "core" Green values, and giving the manufacturers of the status quo tools to undermine a new politics. Ramsay was either foolish or disingenuous if he believed it was a neutral forum to begin a discussion, as his answers gave them everything they needed to shout about entryism, Polanksi's "divisive politics", hard-left scaremongering and the threat of a future leadership challenge. He either knew what he was doing or he is a staggering naif. Either way, unless his intention is to beat down the membership through media pressure, this intervention will do nothing to help the Party navigate a tough moment, and only helps those forces that want to put the Greens back in their box. It means the Greens are having an internal fight online today instead of preparing to raise hell about Mahmood's new immigration plans today. My sense, btw, is that those who are sympathetic to Polanski should politely acknowledge Ramsay's concerns and move on. There's no need to rise to provocation..This isn't the Labour Party. There isn't a bureaucracy and nevertheless structure that means he can do anything more than carp. It will only help the right wing media if people call for him to be expelled or worse, as they will report on the cruel violence of the Green hard-left.

The Green Party is at a crossroads. We need to build consensus and focus outward. We’ll deliver the changes our society needs now and for the future only if the British public comes with us. That’s the Green Party I want to see.

Having now listened to the Adrian Ramsey interview, the main I took from it was what a crashingly bad interviewer Laura Kuenssberg is - unable to ask an interesting question or get anything g worthwhile out of her guest because she is too busy pursuing her own agenda.

Picked up this 1960s Soviet biography of Gramsci. It notes that he loved panettone and, even more tenderly, his mother, but regretfully had to leave her for the struggle (implying that he never left the panettone)

Breaking news: Alphabet shares tumbled 13% on Thursday after the Google owner revealed that 'AI mode' searches were threatening profits at its core advertising business. ft.trib.al/Qu1i9dx

Telling that even Ukraine’s endorsement isn’t enough for some to make a European call to Putin acceptable. You have to wonder what would make it acceptable.