Labour cabinet ministers and Labour MPs are anonymously briefing that pensioners will die if the government attack on the winter fuel payment goes through. So there we have it. They can't pretend they don't know. The government intends to knowingly kill pensioners.

The Health Secretary boasting that he's got people like Alan Milburn on his side. Alan Milburn, a cheerleader for private healthcare who's personally made a fortune from the private health sector #trevorphillips

The grift of being permanently offended, while mocking others for being offended, is coming to an end. A vibe shift is happening.

I explained my position on Winter Fuel Allowance on LBC this morning. I remain in hope Ministers will come forward with an alternative to protect my constituents, who will suffer badly from this change of policy. If not I can’t in all conscience do anything else but vote against.

"We send our solidarity to the Palestinian people in the face of this horrifying onslaught" The President of the TUC Matt Wrack at #TUC24

Missed my train home (on purpose) as I couldn't bring myself to leave before the vote on Gaza, and gosh am I glad I stayed! The Green Party 🇯🇴 recognises the Israeli regime as aparteid 🇯🇴 recognises Israel's genocide 🇯🇴 affirms support of the BDS movement

The The Green Party is the first mainstream British party to declare Israel’s onslaught against Palestine to be genocide.

In memory of Bernie Sander’s birthday today do you remember this lmfao

The government says they have no choice but to cut winter fuel allowance. That is a lie. They could bring in wealth taxes as a start. Instead, they are choosing to push more pensioners into poverty. Defend the principle of universalism — no cuts to welfare!

After being hounded by the The Jewish Chronicle, her home raided & notebooks with "foreign writing" seized, Amira Abdelhamid has been vindicated. It's not too late to apologise to her, University of Portsmouth: middleeasteye.net/news/uk-drops-…

Personally I hope Labour does withdraw the whip from MPs opposed to driving pensioners into hardship. It’s very important that illusions in Starmer, and who he is, are shattered. Principled MPs who have no future in Labour need to put their time into building something else.

The final in the fake Archie covers series, for now at least, R.E.M.'s It’s the End of the World as We Know It (and I Feel Fine).

The Hessen State Antisemitism Commissioner holds up an award that shows Israel as controlling Gaza, the West Bank and the internationally recognised as Syrian Golan Heights

I will not be abstaining on austerity but voting against tomorrow’s motion to means-test Winter Fuel Payments. We deserve better than Tory austerity versus Labour austerity. Me in the The Standard: standard.co.uk/comment/zarah-…

A bunch of bovine careerists. Useless

I found this a useful interview for several reasons. One being that ‘the liberal world order is coming to an end’ effectively means ‘western sanctions don’t work anymore’. From someone in elite Washington circles that’s major. Full interview is here: youtu.be/A6im9OukNqo?si…

I simply asked if the government has assessed how many people would be forced into fuel poverty by its policy to cut Winter Fuel Allowance. “Labour refuses to publish impact assessment of winter fuel payment cuts” | The Independent independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…

Fellow thinkers of Nick would have absolutely cheered on disdain for democratic scrutiny by Streeting — as long as it was his leftwing party critics losing out. It’s hilarious nobody thought the Labour Right’s stitch-up modus operandi wouldn’t transfer from party to government

Some will find themselves absent on constituency business. Again the need for Labour Right MPs to advertise their slippery lack of principle to the nearest available journalist tells you all you need to know about the entitlement of this political tendency