Angus Satow
@AngusSatow
Eco.socialist // in & against comms // sometime writer // EN / FR / DE
What's going on with Labour's Parliamentary Selections? A 🧵 on Starmer's purge and the implications for Britain's democracy... telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/…
Does Keir Starmer hate women, fun, or both? My money's on both
🚨 NEW: Keir Starmer has ruled out a Bank Holiday if the Lionesses win the Euros on Sunday
As ever, media reaction & smears are driven from the top down. See also: transphobia at the Guardian, where ordinary staff overwhelmingly support trans rights.
Seems like there's a split between staff and management at the BBC. BBC chair Samir Shah said Vylan's chant expressed "unconscionable antisemitic views". This story calls it an "anti-Israeli military chant", and doesn't even mention the (bogus) accusations of antisemitism.
Yes, and the verdict on both occasions was more votes than Starmer and his racist gangsters could manage with the whole establishment behind them
International journalists have been refused independent access into Gaza for last 21 months. There are Palestinian journalists inside Gaza who’ve been working in extreme conditions and many of them and their families have been killed by Israeli forces
Didn’t you say journalists weren’t allowed into Gaza ? 🤷🏼♂️
Steve Reed is right. We should focus on facts. So let's start with eight claims made to @krishgm 1. The £100bn figure. This makes no sense and is not credibly evidenced. The true and fair value in law is close to zero. Legal expert @ewan_mg unpacks common-wealth.org/perspectives/h…
“I'm not going to focus on ideology." It would cost £100bn to nationalise water companies and the government would have to take that money from the NHS and education, Environment Secretary Steve Reed tells @krishgm
Morgan McSweeney: The Voter Is Never Wrong Also Morgan McSweeney: we must defend water privatisation to our dying breath
“Between 1968 and 2024, not a single Labour MP had the whip withdrawn for voting against their own party. In the past year alone, that number has risen to eleven.” I wrote about how Starmer’s collapsing popularity is fuelling his intolerance of dissent. tribunemag.co.uk/2025/07/the-la…