Tony Blair is wrong about net zero, former energy minister Miatta Fahnbulleh has told PolHome Fahnbulleh, who is helping Andy Burnham develop his policy platform, said the green transition represented a "massive" economic opportunity for the UK: "Why the hell would we not want a piece of that?"

If I were the government, I simply would not be directing eyeballs and the political conversation to a website run by a guy who has explicitly said he opposes the PM and is visibly fighting an information war against me.

This is a mad letter from someone who I am not alone in thinking should not be a Labour MP due to his previous conduct. The dignified thing to say would be nothing.

Five Children and It (it is a phone)

he’s getting his five a day

mark greif called he wants his sex children back

For info on Net Zero and Labour's coalition see @persuasionuk.bsky.social's work here: "Provided noticeable cost & inconvenience to consumers is avoided at a policy level, unambiguously pro-Net Zero signalling is more or less all upside within the Labour coalition... persuasionuk.org/research/ref...

I'm hearing reports that when the Labour Party plays silly games, it wins silly prizes, more on this as it comes in,

Call me Ishmael. Some years ago—never mind how long precisely—having little to no money in my crypto x FTX wallet, and nothing particular to interest me on twitch, I thought I would discord surf a little and see the wavy part of the chat.

You’ve made it look fucking cool mind

Troubling to me, a very committedly lapsed Catholic who has been asking people to respect my anti AI religious beliefs for a good year now. I didn’t mean Catholicism I just meant my belief about it being satanic

There is some decent stuff here but 'people are leaving Labour for the Greens because they want ID cards' is a level of self-delusion well beyond that which Blair accuses everyone else institute.global/insights/pol...

Otherwise, the article was perfect

Wikipedia is so fucking good. I can idly look something up after seeing a post and get a full, accessibly (but well!) written page on it with added Turner facts and illustrations.

I hadn’t read this before but it’s very good and sums up a lots of what I think.

Some of these are fixed now. Next, they should start selling Lays Oregano crisps and beer in smaller glasses that have been pre-chilled in the fridge

in the park on a sunny day. man nearby reading the Wikipedia page for “lido” aloud to his friend. impeccable summer vibes

say what you will about climate change it's very good for drying your clothes quickly outside so who is to say if it is bad or not

Sign up to the @opendemocracy.net newsletter for more book reviews from me (and other team members) on a Saturday morning. As well as Morgan's fantastic book, I have reviewed London Falling, Indignity by @leaypi.bsky.social, The Lack of Light... www.opendemocracy.net

Really pleased to have had a very nice review of my book (by @sianushka.bsky.social!) in the openDemocacy newsletter a few weeks ago.

When I reported on the 15 Minute Cities protests in Oxford I was struck by the way lots of people I spoke to described themselves as a car driver in a way that really felt like an underrecognised form of identity politics. Having said that OH MY GOD

you do just love to see it

I do understand why the strong Monk performance is eye catching and therefore written about but ultimately the story here is a declining FF/FG and an ascendant left and that’s good

🔵 DUBLIN CENTRAL FULL TALLY Ennis (SD) 19.68% Boylan (SF) 17.72% Horner (Grn) 11.48% Hutch (Ind) 11.46% McAdam (FG) 10.61% Steenson (Ind) 9.51% O Ceannabhain (PBPS) 6.73% O'Dea (Lab) 5.75% Stephens (FF) 4.16% Smyth (Aon) 2.02% bit.ly/DublinCentra...

I wrote something short on the recent UK elections, I hope it’s of interest and potentially even some use jacobin.com/2026/05/uk-e...

incredible signing !

one must imagine breakfast roll man happy with his breakfast roll

His greatest crime? Using AI.

“This is a place where every day you wake up, you could experience everything from a plane crashing into our Trade Center to a person who is celebrating a new business that’s open, or falling into an underground vault of rats”

NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! David gets 5 perspectives on the deeper causes behind the current crisis: historians @robertsaunders.bsky.social, Anthony Seldon and @dmk1793.bsky.social, @drhannahwhite.bsky.social from the IfG and political scientist @robfordmancs.bsky.social. Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com

"One of the saddest graphs that faces this government is that all of the things people hate they know a lot about, and all of the things they like they haven't heard of." Our director @steveakehurst.bsky.social at Progress conference this afternoon talking about Labour's renters' rights offer:

I will say, when your leader was a Liberal Democrat until comparatively recently, this isn't a very convincing line

Important data from @persuasionuk.bsky.social showing how Labour's vote fragmented in the England local elections last week. Of those who voted Labour in 2024: 🟦5% voted Reform 🟨10% voted Lib Dem 🟩22% voted Green persuasionuk.org/research/may...

🚨 New pod: Starmer on the brink 🚨 I was joined by Labour MP @joshfg.bsky.social and @steveakehurst.bsky.social from @persuasionuk.bsky.social as well as top colleague @siennarodgers.bsky.social and Ryan Wain from the TBI to look at how Labour got here, how it might recover, and with who as PM

Not voting should be illegal, and we should bring back shame in public life

i'll always remember where i was when i heard that Wes Streeting had resigned as health secretary in order to challenge Keir Starmer for the leadership: i was at home, checking the news to see if Wes Streeting had resigned as health secretary in order to challenge Keir Starmer for the leadership

I hate those 'One chart that tells you all you need to know' things - and that's definitely not what Steve 'chartsRus' Akehurst is doing in this typically brilliant thread and in his equally brilliant (and IIRC free!) susbstack. But, err, if there's one chart that tells you all you need to know....

As others (@owenwntr.bsky.social, MiC etc) have noted, social attitudes cut by financial security is quite a neat prism. Financially insecure social liberals going Green, financially insecure conservatives Reform. Lab & LD left with financially secure liberals. Con higher with secure cons.

On a long train ride so look forward to spending it reading over Steve's eighty graphs (HT @morganj0nes.bsky.social)

NEW: What exactly happened in the local and devolved elections in England, Scotland and Wales last week? @persuasionuk.bsky.social has some new polling out today which offers a first glimpse. Thread here on top line findings from each nation. 🧵

the fabians really must be secret masters of it all, this could hardly get any more gradual

Dying at this graphic Nic Dakin MP's team have generated to commemorate him being the ceremonial hostage at today's King's Speech.

Millionaires are five times more concerned about doctors leaving the UK than they are about other millionaires emigrating 💸 Our poll also found millionaires are proud to live in the UK, and they're willing to pay more tax to invest in our country and its young people.

The cost of living crisis and our low growth are two symptoms of the same problem: an economic structure that hasn’t been working for a long time. We need to take on the root causes of those costs.

Slightly underrated dynamic here: a lot of Labour members have an instinctive loyalty to the leader. There is a really good chance Starmer wins a leadership contest against Streeting very comfortably (and frankly against anyone, Burnham excepted probably)

I’m personally quite sceptical of cost of living framing - but this is the best elucidation of the case, and the policy program, you will read in a UK context.

“The question is not simply what the optimal fiscal framework looks like, but how reform can be sequenced in a context of elevated borrowing costs and heightened market sensitivity”. V interesting, lots to agree with. renewal.org.uk/articles/a-n...