Let me use this period of social isolation (whether gov policy or self-imposed) to tell you all about my long-fought campaign for #radicalhygge Capitalism - and neoliberalism all the more so - thrives on isolating us from one another while maintaining us alive and capable of providing our labour power.

Just popped in my larger local supermarket and realised how people are totally un- or ill-prepared for self-isolation (or the zombie apocalypse).
HERE IS WHY: Things totally sold out included:
- toilet paper
- any kind of dry pasta
- cooking sauces
- canned goods

Of which the only genuinely useful thing would be the canned goods.

If you need to stay home for a long period you will need to keep hydrated, healthily fed and entertained

WHY I AM OPENLY SUPPORTING LABOUR AT #GE2019:
As a journalist I often get told I shouldn’t make my political opinion public. “Journalists should be impartial”, they say. To have a political opinion is, they think, an obstacle to my objectivity. This is why they’re wrong: Journalism is - or should be - a public service. You are responsible for informing your fellow citizens and society at large.

That means you must tell the FACTS, not that you should silence your opinion, or indeed offer a counterpoint to every voice you broadcast.

Tonight I’m at @LIVREpt closing rally. This ecosocialist, pro-EU party is the first in Portuguese history to be lead by a black woman, Joacine Katar Moreira, a historian and academic from Lisbon #Legislativas2019 According to @LIVREpt number 1 in Porto, Jorge Pinto, their #legislativas2019 campaign was done on €10,000 alone. Before the posters below showed up, white sheets of paper with the words “Being Livre (free) means...” were plastered around Porto and passers by could fill them in

Portugal’s most watched tv channel (TVI) invited the former leader of the Portuguese fascist party National Front and founder of the new far-right “movement” New Social Order, Mário Machado, onto one of its most watched day talk shows on Thursday. To add insult to injury, this convicted criminal was there to discuss the “need to have a new Salazar” in Portugal. As if fascism were now a rational option out of the political deck.