Analysis
Scrapping the Vagrancy Act
June 13th: The criminalisation of homelessness and poverty is not truly ending—only being reshaped ~ Tony ~ On 10 June 2025 the Government confirmed it will repeal the Vagrancy Act 1824 by Spring 2026 (you just can’t rush these things), and whilst the news was widely and justifiably welcomed by homelessness charities, we should sound a note
Notes from the US: Reaction and Resistance
June 13th: As action erupts against ICE raids, the MAGA cult moves on with its legislative onslaught ~ Louis Further ~ What you see in reporting on protests against arbitrary and sadistic raids on non-White families—first in Los Angeles and increasingly in other cities across the US—is by and large what you get on the ground.
Anarchist Review: LA crackdown, Aid flotilla hijacking and Train sabotage in Russia
June 12th: There’s cause for optimism in a greater public awareness of how media manipulates reality – but social media is far more insidious …
Anarchist News Review: Budgets, Palestine organising and Reform Doge’ing repsonsibility
June 5th: Andy Meinke joins us for the weekly waffle, looking this week at Labour’s thrashing about as it tries to simultaneously backtrack on wildly unpopular cuts, puff up its capital and defence spending credentials, and maintain an air of parsimonious penny pinching.
Wildfires will begin: An interview with Toby Shone
June 1st: The former political prisoner talks about his anarchism, the 325 project and resisting the physical and mental jails that surround us all.
Labour’s housing solution is doomed to fail
May 26th: Obsessing about how many homes are being built is a similar mindset to GDP-gazing – it fails to understand the true nature of the problem
Anarchist News Review: Labour U-turns, wild camping and the PKK’s end
May 22nd: Under intense public pressure the government appears to be rolling back at least one of its unpopular policies in the form of the winter fuel tax, and in a victory for grassroots efforts David Lammy has (belatedly) realised supporting genocide might be bad for his legacy.
Notes from the US: Fervent embrace of dogma
May 14th: We can now see clearly how Trump/MAGA/Musk’s implementation of Project 2025 can legitimately be called fascist ~ Louis Further ~ With the usual caveat that the very word ‘fascism’ should not be used loosely (you are invited to look at Notes From the US from November 2021 and almost two years later for discussions of
Beyond binaries: Gender, law and the reproduction of power
May 13th: As the state doubles down on binary gender, trans resistance challenges the machinery of control from below ~ Blade Runner ~ On 16 April 2025, the UK Supreme Court ruled that the term “woman” in the Equality Act 2010 refers exclusively to so-called “biological sex”.
Labour’s sweet little lies
May 12th: From destroying the environment to betraying the disabled, the government is running the same play—will people fall for it?
