Peter Mitchell
@_bezpilotnik
'Imperial Nostalgia: How the British Conquered Themselves' (MUP, 2021) | Critical Wor Tree Studies | writing various places
As a longtime humanitarian who has battled famines and hunger crises, I fear that starvation in Gaza has now passed the tipping point and we are going to see mass-scale starvation mortality. A thread on famine momentum, famine response, and what it means for Gaza today.
Doctors and health officials report wave of hunger deaths in Gaza on.ft.com/46iUoK6
In the absence of any spine in taking on Israeli Gaza atrocities in most of our media, it is left to @PrivateEyeNews to reveal this sort of information that would once have received in depth coverage @BBCPanorama & Sunday Times Insight. Even now when the true scale of the Gaza…
he should ask them "do you condemn the American government for kidnapping me"
Mahmoud Khalil Repeatedly Refuses to Condemn Hamas on CNN mediaite.com/media/tv/mahmo…
For my job I occasionally get to listen to the inside of a tree, an experience which I can heartily recommend: nhsn.org.uk/natures-cure-a…
Grateful Jacobin published a brief excerpt from the intro of my book, Citizens of the Whole World. There are a lot of ways to read the cultural history of the American Jewish left, and one I would discourage would be, "see there are some good Jews out there" 1/5 🧵
In the last year and a half, thousands of left-wing American Jews have protested Israel’s crimes against Palestinians. They are taking part in a long tradition of anti-Zionist Jewish radicalism in the United States. jacobin.com/2025/07/baltha…
Recommend we sign this petition so Sellafield workers are cleaning those radioactive undies for a bit more than minimum wage 👍 megaphone.org.uk/petitions/supp…
Agnes should have been 38 today and without her it's very hard to believe joy is coming, but I will keep thinking it is because she would have done. Have a fag and a glass of fizz and tell your best friends not just how much you love them but why you do.
“listen I love you joy is coming”
If you want more of this sort of thing, and a Green Party that takes the fight to the media, government and Reform, then you've got A WEEK to join @TheGreenParty and VOTE for @ZackPolanski!
For an awful lot of politicians and pundits, the story about fixing our railways starts and stops with one word: NATIONALISATION. But this slogan alone is doomed to fail us all. Watch me explain why for @GreensOrganise: #NotJustNationalisation
You go home with someone and they've got these on the wall, wyd


I've joined the Green Party precisely because it's (a) less wrong than everyone else about most of the defining moral questions of our time, especially the ones with existential stakes, and (b) able to attract serious people like Gareth who know how shit works and aren't cowards
For an awful lot of politicians and pundits, the story about fixing our railways starts and stops with one word: NATIONALISATION. But this slogan alone is doomed to fail us all. Watch me explain why for @GreensOrganise: #NotJustNationalisation