That's unbelievable

Should be essential reading for Labour MPs to understand their constituencies as they are, not some expression of a Glasman fever dream

I'm incredibly angry I needed to write a piece about the bizarre stupidity of the Hatzola ambulance ‘false flag’ conspiracy theories, but apparently this is the world we're living in now. Please read & share (including with idiots you see parroting this stuff) www.jewishnews.co.uk/bizarre-stup...

I move between feeling sick at just how open so many people now are in their antisemitism and relief that people I admire are waking up to just how bad things are on what could loosely be called their 'side'. Twitter has more open Nazis. This site has more antisemites with 'be kind' in their bios.

The Jewish News, which I am proud to work for as Deputy Editor, has published an editorial on this week's Iftar prayers in Trafalgar Square www.jewishnews.co.uk/voice-of-the...

Every day a new low is reached. No, Jonathan, a Gails is not a provocation. No, Janice, “MENAPT” immigrants are not inherently inferior. No, Kemi…honestly where does one even start with this?!

Seconded. Great for getting to prototype or creating small stuff that automates personal work (often that's all that's needed) BUT every addition (e.g. put a filter in here or change flow there) adds complexity, builds tech debt. Comes a point, as our lead eng says, cough and it will fall over

That new (old) Squeeze album is damn fine

Part of the rationale for such a crazy Tory line (beyond Kemi believing it) is that they're petrified of more MPs defecting so they're going hard on their far right creds. Which then perpetuates the Mini-Me Reform act making it much harder to eat into Reform's vote...or hold on to their MPs

A senior Danish guy in the Social Democrats said to me that Denmark does not think of itself as a multicultural country whereas Britain does, which makes our situation very different.

"It’s close in Denton and Gorton, but Labour’s still in the game" Really good dispatch from the front by Kev Meagher (he spent, several hours canvassing yesterday). TL;DR It's there to be won labour-uncut.co.uk/2026/02/23/i...

"It’s close in Denton and Gorton, but Labour’s still in the game" Really good dispatch from the front by Kev Meagher (he spent, several hours canvassing yesterday). TL;DR It's there to be won labour-uncut.co.uk/2026/02/23/i...

This is so sad. For those that know him, Tim Carter's illness has returned and he's very ill. If you venture over to the other place, his family are reading out messages to him x.com/forwardnotba...

I wondered about this. Greens will obvs have known who 5 Pillars are. Why do it now, having not done it earlier in the campaign? Maybe because pull in Gorton for Muslim vote isn't what they want, so guard rails down

5 Pillars are absolutely rancid, and you have to assume that the very online people around @zackpolanski.bsky.social knew who they were when arranging this. Polanski himself is usually quick to react to any badmouthing on here, but not this time, so what of it?

"5 Pillars" runs a Podcast called "Blood Brothers", which has hosted some of Britain's most notorious neo-Nazis & far right activists, like Nick Griffin (BNP), Mark Collett (Patriotic Alternative) & Jayda Fransen (ex-Britain First), to rant about Jews. Now the Greens are cosying up to them.

Lot of truth to this

Finally. When someone says something obviously racist they are called out as a racist without any tortured both-sidesing or legitimate-concerning. Good job @annaturley.bsky.social

Could Starmer be entering his Theoden phase. Wormtongue booted, cobwebs cleared away, ride out to meet the enemy? I know, unlikely, but you can hope

This guy can get in the bin

I'd endorse this. Was talking to some Portfolio Managers yesterday and this is very much consensus. Paradox is, to rapidly shift these priors, someone like Rayner (applies equally to Burnham) might have to be even more orthodox in short term

For the life of me I cannot understand why Starmer didn't try do a Major-Heseltine deal with Rayner months ago (obvs would have involved actually including her in decisions and listening to her) Has been his best path for stable govt since last Autumn at least. Prob too late now (1/2)

Just stupid from every possible perspective: policy wise and politically. The proposals appear designed to be watered down - but even then I am unsure they get through a hostile PLP. So you're likely to get at least 2 sets of u-turn headlines, entirely undercutting the political point

I’ve written this lengthy FT analysis overnight about the multiple multi-thousand pound Epstein payments to Mandelson’s husband these particular paragraphs are worth reading slowly www.ft.com/content/608a...

This is such an interesting piece viewed from a UK Labour perspective. Such familiar narrative beats as the left divides and sub-divides, but with unfamiliar names and locations. Is there a comparable US reference point to the People's Front of Judea?

New Swingometer! The Gorton and Denton By-election: A tale of Two Manchesters open.substack.com/pub/swingome...

100%. I'm totally bemused by talk that this has made Andy Burnham stronger. It's where vibes collides with actual politics. He's been the main character for the past few days, and months, (vibes) but is definitively not going to be an MP when only MPs can challenge Starmer (actual politics)

Quick reax piece on Burnham block. The 8-1 vote suggests his team hadn't prepared properly. Despite Starmer, there 4 extra votes he could reasonably have expected to win, which would have changed the result. That he didn't get any tells its own tale labour-uncut.co.uk/2026/01/25/t...

Quick reax piece on Burnham block. The 8-1 vote suggests his team hadn't prepared properly. Despite Starmer, there 4 extra votes he could reasonably have expected to win, which would have changed the result. That he didn't get any tells its own tale labour-uncut.co.uk/2026/01/25/t...

Paul and Mrs Weller must have had an unusually continental lifestyle for England in 1977 if it was midnight and he was only then bringing the food home. What time would they finish eating, 2am? Also, who brings a takeaway curry home on the tube? Pick one up after you get off.

Decent people know you don’t count white faces and pretend it tells you something about integration

I see a transmission belt for this. Jason posts a few times. Holyrood candidate(s) see it and say they want to do this. Media write up as a policy commitment. Trump goes ballistic. Starmer says he'll block the windfarms if we get tariff relief. Trump does the deal. Jason's bluesky posts save UK £bns

For all the eye-rolling, I think it's worth Starmer trying to set out why an esoteric dispute matters at a practical household level. The audience here is the British public, via news clips and packages, and the most likely impact of the chaos for normal people will be economic

Beautiful obit for Sir Patrick Duffy, former Labour defence minister, who has died aged 105. Remembered the General strike (grandmother in Ireland during the famine) WW2 hero and published his last book in 2024 (!) labour-uncut.co.uk/2026/01/03/s...

Beautiful obit for Sir Patrick Duffy, former Labour defence minister, who has died aged 105. Remembered the General strike (grandmother in Ireland during the famine) WW2 hero and published his last book in 2024 (!) labour-uncut.co.uk/2026/01/03/s...

Shouting 'stakeholder state'/'blob' is the biggest tell for a lack of imjudgement. Judgement is what's needed to know when to say yes or no to groups. Endless consultation & engagement is a function of lack of judgement. Note: judgement is different to ideology, it's effective programme management

From the 2025 Labour Uncut awards, Labour frontbencher of the year annaturley.bsky.social . In a thin year for Lab, she's hugely boosted Lab's attack effectiveness with rapid response & max impact lines within the params of what's possible given the issues at No.10 labour-uncut.co.uk/2025/12/31/t...

Let's be honest. London sticking two fingers up to the MAGA and ethno-nationalists is a good start to 2026.

Lots to weigh in this mess, this is the best articulation of a reasoned position (aka I 100% agree)

Ridiculous that these posts weren't found earlier. Feels an FCDO screw up given recent Tory govts were similarly vocal about this guy's release. If nothing forthcoming from him that genuinely demonstrates he's changed his views then no basis for him to be in the UK

This was the year that sensible people realised that genAI was a useful but incremental technology. Not transformative, not existential, just useful when deployed right. Certainly not worth surrendering your national sovereignty over..... www.reuters.com/business/bus...

The big, big self-delusion at the heart of almost everything Labour is doing wrong is that through some old-time Labour economics you can avoid having an electoral coalition that looks a lot like 'Labour in 2024, Australian Labor in 2025, the Canadian Liberals in 2025' or indeed 'Harris in 2024'.

On annual crimbo crawl with mates round pubs in middle of London. This one the same as long as can remember, an eternal 70s time capsule. How many places now have these cigs machines? And decos from older relatives Christmas box? Full marks.

We’re now up to 22 ex-Tory MPs joining reform. It’s not subtle - every day clearer this is just a rebranding of the nutty fringe of the Conservative Party offering to rerun the Truss/Johnson omnishambles

👀 Zarah Sultana voted with the Tories in *every* vote on the Employment Rights Bill last night 👀 Including - voting to KEEP strike ballot thresholds - voting to KEEP the Tories’ 2016 changes to political fund ballots

This is such a good piece

On a purely factual point, Trevor Phillips’s column in the Times misrepresents our reporting in casting doubts on claims that there were more boys called Patel than Smith at Dulwich in 1980 (we did not report 1976 as the year it occurred). 1980 roll shows 13 Patels and 12 Smiths.

This is proper Truss LA LA LA from Polanski. I don't think he understands that the state is borrowing from the market. He believes evil billionaires have conned simpleton politicians into giving them cash and he can just stop it with his 'new paradigm'

Orwell diagnosed this problem generations ago