Writer. THIS ONE SKY DAY/POPISHO. Unashamed maximalist. Goldsmiths, Edge Hill, Ondjaate & Women’s Prize noms. Winner: 2021 Manchester Prize. Agent: NiKi Chang
London via Jamaica
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WRITERS: Your ideas may be fab. You’ve read the books & done the courses on character & plot. But you don’t know how to edit your sentences. Come learn how, with editor & novelist Leone Ross at the LINE EDIT BOOT CAMP in October. One weekend, online.
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The darling of the British right wing press, Thomas Markle, appears to be a nonce. Meghan cut off contact with him and did not want him to be near the kids. She got berated in the press by our right wing columnists for doing what was right. Let's list all those columnists below:
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OPEN LETTER: Sally Rooney is a writer, not a terrorist. Her books must be available to the public. Their withdrawal from sale, on the basis of ill-conceived and draconian anti terror legislation, is an affront to basic principles of free speech and expression so long taken for granted in this country. We categorically reject censorship - whether direct or indirect - and urge the government to change course, amending the legislation which has led us to this point of repressive absurdity.
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This latest article from Thomas Pikkety, the renowned French economist and leading authority on wealth inequality, should be essential reading here in the UK.
His argument is simple.
France has never been wealthier. Yet education funding per student has fallen by 20% since 2017, public services are struggling, and inequality is deeply embedded in the system.
Sound familiar?
The problem isn't that our countries have run out of wealth. It's how that wealth is distributed, who controls it, and the political choices made to protect it.
For decades, we've been told that austerity, declining public services and falling living standards are unavoidable consequences of economic crises, yet those same decades have seen extraordinary concentrations of private wealth.
Socialise the costs. Privatise the gains.
This is the reality we all need to wake up to.
These aren't inevitable economic outcomes. They're the consequences of political choices, made over time, that have prioritised the accumulation of private wealth over the needs of society.
And as public anger grows, we're seeing a deeply concerning response: The rise of the far right, directing that anger towards immigrants, disabled people, those claiming welfare and other vulnerable groups, rather than towards the economic structures responsible for the inequalities people are rightly furious about.
As @NaomiAKlein describes fascism, "it's capitalism's most ferocious threat response. A way of directing public anger downwards at the vulnerable, rather than upwards at the system."
Fascism doesn't challenge the status quo. It protects it by giving people someone else to blame.
The fundamental question isn't whether our societies can afford something better. It's why, when we've never been wealthier, we're repeatedly told we must accept less.
We need to fundamentally rethink an economy built around extraction, exploitation and wealth concentration, and start building one that delivers equitable, sustainable prosperity for everyone.
And with the UK Budget next week, this should be a serious warning to @UKLabour.
If the Budget fails to acknowledge this fundamental reality, and instead offers another round of "difficult decisions" that protect concentrated wealth while asking ordinary people to shoulder the burden, then @andyburnham really hasn't understood what's happening across Europe.
What's unfolding in France isn't an isolated protest. It's a warning of what happens when people stop accepting that a society growing ever wealthier somehow can't afford to give them a better life.
This isn't something politicians can keep kicking down the road.
The warning signs are everywhere. The question now is whether those in power are prepared to confront the causes, or continue defending the very system that's driving the anger.
@ZackPolanski @jeremycorbyn @KemiBadenoch @Nigel_Farage
High schoolers, students: the twilight of macronism
Hundreds of thousands of young people work hard to earn their high school diplomas, but there is nothing planned to welcome them into higher education
thomaspiketty.wordpress.com/…
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Short thread on Jason Arday & Cambridge: where things are: (1/n)
about ten days ago, 45 senior staff sent a letter to the Chancellor, reminding the University that a thorough review had been promised, and was nowhere in sight. The Afzal review was on one specific matter alone
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ITV undercover caught Reform
councillors saying:
• “If she was my daughter it would still be bath night on a Thursday… I’ll wash you properly this time”
• “If she’d given me a hug I’d have fucking fingered her”
• “Cut the cunt’s head off” ( Referring to King Charles while calling him a Muslim)
• “Drag them out of their homes, stick them on planes and fuck them off to Pakistan”
• “No more than 1% of the British population can be non-white”
• Black kids = “fucking animals”
• Used the slur “Paki” throughout
• “I’ll take them out… you’ve got to kill or you’re going to be killed… these fuckers have come to rape and pillage and fucking kill us”
• Train young men in “insurgency tactics” to go street-by-street, house-by-house
• “I didn’t realise curry was an exchange that you could then rape all our kids”
• Suggested burying pork chops to stop a mosque
• “They should all be shot against the wall”
Alan Feeney, Chris Whelan, Dean Miller, Raymond Dunning and Jamie Campbell should never get to work in the political field again.
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Caroline Lucas has called for Green Party member Lubna Speitan—who has had 56 relatives killed in Gaza genocide—to be suspended
Speitan’s crime? Naming the ideology which killed her family
Lucas is getting loads of airtime because she is doing the establishment’s work for them. Extremely ugly spectacle
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Monday morning deserves a brutal wake up call today.
Because, forgive me- I couldn't sleep all night WONDERING why a black man was crucified to death for allegedly copying some work and a former girlfriend of Michael Gove (they broke up weeks ago reportedly) and Oxford University professor..has been GRACED with what looks like a partial media blackout for being charged with possessing INDECENT IMAGES of kids.
Why aren't you all having a frenzy over this? Pray tell...I'm waiting with coffee in hand.
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Tom Watson, the owner of a recruitment firm, has been accused of being at the centre of a “doxxing” campaign against the @RNLI, anti-racism activists, and business executives who recruit black, Asian and minority ethnic workers.
He is alleged to be behind an @X account calling itself “Big Time Charlie”, which was deactivated shortly after he was named by the campaign group Hope Not Hate.
The account had almost 50,000 followers and has frequently praised the dangerously irresponsible bigoted hard-right MP Rupert Lowe. It also claimed to have donated £2,500 to Lowe’s Restore Britain party and joined its “Cromwell Club” for those activists who pay a certain level of donation.
The account had become increasingly prominent in recent weeks as RNLI staff found themselves being harassed and attacked online as far-right activists targeted them over their involvement in rescuing people trying to cross the Channel in small boats.
The account, which has a history of racist comments, appears to have been using AI to scrape data from LinkedIn and other sites to build a so-called 'Traitorbase'.
The Big Time Charlie account was removed almost immediately after Hope Not Hate alleged that Watson was behind it, and after the Guardian approached him for comment.
theguardian.com/uk-news/2026…
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Seven women tell the Guardian their abusive ex-partners are behind the far-right street patrols. 'Protecting women' from the men who've hurt them. 🧵
Not forgetting 4 in 10 people arrested in the 2024 riots had domestic abuse records.
Given the abuse and death threats I get - none of this surprises me.
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Some things the British media and political class have reacted hysterically to during Israel's genocide:
- The Maccabi Tel Aviv fan ban
- Bob Vylan
- Gary Lineker
- The Green Party motion
Something they have not reacted hysterically to:
- The genocide
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Palantir is monitoring MPs who dare to criticise them 👁️
MP Clive Lewis just received a creepy letter from Tom Watson specifically referencing his 130+ anti-Palantir remarks
If Palantir is so trustworthy, why are they intimidating those who criticise them?
thenerve.news/p/clive-lewis-…
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The front page of @ScotNational tomorrow is what every UK newspaper front page should look like.
But, as throughout the entirety of the genocide, it stands alone with a moral backbone, not afraid to tell the truth about the horrors the rest of the press whitewash.
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In 2024, a drunk 20-year-old woman said she turned up to a party at a college fraternity house called Chi Phi at Cornell University in New York State, USA.
Shortly afterwards, two male students living at the Chi Phi frat house drugged the woman with ketamine, then raped her. The men then posted on a Chi Phi message board there was “free pussy” available nearby, whereupon five other men turned up to rape her, and allegedly continued to do so for more than SEVEN HOURS.
And despite the rapey “free pussy” message on the chat board, not a single man among the presumably dozens or hundreds of men who received or saw it came to investigate, rescue the woman, or alert authorities to the potential crime.
Soon afterwards the woman reported the crime, yet neither university’s police department or the state of New York seriously investigated the incident, or charged the men. Two men were expelled from campus, but the other five were merely required to WRITE ESSAYS explaining their transgression.
And all the men involved have now gone on with their lives and careers, even though the woman herself was forced to leave university and has apparently (and understandably) been unable to move on with her life. So now, she’s instigated a civil case against the university and the men involved.
If you think the above story is too unbelievable to be real, unfortunately you’d be dead fucking wrong:
people.com/cornell-student-a…
Just writing those paragraphs above makes us want to vomit, scream for days, or burn the whole fucking world down, witches. Or all three. Yet as always, there is so, so little women can do in the face of such outrageous and unforgivable violence and harm.
The world is a dangerous and violent place for women, as we all know. Yet it’s hard even for witches who understand the depravity and lack of accountability involved in this (alleged) crime and its aftermath.
The one thing we CAN do is ensure exposure of these men spreads as far and wide as possible. That’s why we want all witches to read the names in the pic of the men accused of these crimes, and for those who can do so to contact their employers and other organisations and demand they face serious scrutiny and potential redress. Yes, we know this event took place in the USA so isn’t really within the remit of most witches who are Australian. However, we do have international witches following our accounts, plus we believe it sends an even stronger message to those who seem to have helped these men get away with gang rape to know the outrage and demands for justice are coming from the entire planet, not just from people inside the US.
Below are some of the social media messaging details and email addresses of some of those involved. Please get in touch with some of them if you can. And note the details here are as yet unconfirmed: we do believe they’re correct as they’ve been posted multiple times by different people working independently, but are not 100% verified. However, these are the details we currently have:
- Matthew Ingalls: works for the DataAnnotation corporation, and Matthew’s Dad is also a professor at the American University of Dubai (Matthew also apparently goes by the name Umar Ingalls). (Email [email protected]; Twitter @Data_Annotation; @AUDubai).
- Winston Lee: is now a soldier in the Republic of South Korea Army (Twitter @ROK_Army).
- Gillio Lopes: now works for the Vdrio corporation (co-founder Gillio Lopez, [email protected]; company CEO [email protected]).
- Diego Sarabia: now works for the Wells Fargo corporation (Twitter @WellsFargo).
- Scott Norris: now works for the Glenfarne Group corporation (website glenfarnegroup.com)
- Scott Kretzschmar: still attends Cornell University (Twitter @cornell).
- Johnathan Newell: also thought to be still a student at Cornell.
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The man who sent “free p*ssy” to the group chat was on a pre-med track. He was going to be a doctor when he sees half the human race as glorified fleshlights.
And if that single fact doesn’t highlight for you how violence against women becomes a systemic societal issue, I don’t know what to tell you.
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These privileged frat bros gang graped a girl and invited others to join in.
The story was buried, only two were expelled (Cornell suspensions are for genocide protestors) and we are only hearing about it now because the victim is suing.
Cornell protected them, the police protected them, the system protected them.
This the Epstein class. This is how it’s bred.
