So glad that we’re introducing a ban on depictions of strangulation in online pornography. Almost 40% of young women report being strangled during sex. An act that can cause serious injury or death should not be ‘the norm’ and platforms shouldn’t profit from it www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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I've written about why Labour needs to update its understanding of the UK's political landscape – and get that there are many, many other places for voters to go, and some of them are preferable to others. www.newstatesman.com/politics/lab...

LONDON (AP) — Buckingham Palace says King Charles III will strip Prince Andrew of remaining titles including “Andrew”, curse him to wander the Earth as “the nameless one”

Increasingly convinced that we are living through the decline of mass literacy and cringe as it is, we all need to get into publicly celebrating reading books as much as possible.

> trying to find news about Sudan > go to BBC News homepage: nothing > click through to "World": still nothing > click through to "Africa": "Fear of mass killing as thousands trapped in besieged Sudan city" is the FIFTH story, just below "Migrant sex offender deported from UK after mistaken release"

Reform say they stand up for the working class - but they never have. They’ve voted to block the Employment Rights Bill again and again. It’s Labour on the side of workers: creating jobs, ending zero-hours contracts, and protecting workers from unfair dismissal from day one.

CHOTINER: So you asked for a Birkin bag? KOKO: Yes. Possession Bag. CHOTINER: And you had the funds to acquire this? KOKO: No, Professor Purchase Koko Gorilla CHOTINER: That doesn't sound like the funds were justifiable. KOKO: Hostility Interviewer

Sudan’s humanitarian crisis is the largest in the world. And now more disturbing news is coming from El Fasher of civilians under attack. Civilians must be protected and the fighting must stop.

Delighted for Kevin and Nadia !

"social democrats must talk less about patriotism in the abstract, and more about what that patriotism must stand for in practice" Our co-editor Jack Jeffrey has written for the "Future of the Left" substack about the need give left-wing patriotism real substance:

"It’s hard to picture Powell as the smiler with the knife" Renewal co-editor Morgan Jones (@morganj0nes.bsky.social) has written for the Guardian about Lucy Powell's victory in Labour's deputy leadership election, and what it means for the future of the party

are we going to reduce this poor man to a mere five-bedroom house

To browse Leyland is to gaze into the dark heart of Britain.

Keir Starmer won’t be surprised Lucy Powell is his new deputy leader – but he should be very worried | Morgan Jones

If you want to know which way the wind is blowing in Labour at any given moment, Wes Streeting’s statements tend to be a good indicator- but this is also testament to the “liberal Blairite” resurgence reported on by @morganj0nes.bsky.social: www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

I wrote about the completely predictable and ultimately quite dull deputy leadership race: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! In today’s episode David & @dmk1793.bsky.social try to answer some of the hundreds of questions, comments and suggestions we have had about this series. How do we know if democracy is broken? Have we ever had a real democracy anyway? Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com

Exclusive: The Attorney General is a defendant in a torture claim from a Libyan military commander and sanctioned ‘terrorist’ that he represented until weeks before the 2024 election www.politicshome.com/news/article...

gonna smash a mirror and observe my reflection in the shards of glass as a hackneyed but undeniably potent visual metaphor for the multifaceted nature of personality if nobody minds

was the victim of a compromising data leak (friend saw the absolute shite I'd been listening to when queuing music on my phone) last week, been building systemic resilience by only listening to mica levi this week

I tried to cover a lot of ground here. A few points developing the argument, regarding current government's "Pride in Place" etc: basically I like this stuff, but worry a bit about lack of realism about what they might achieve in isolation.

That’s it. That’s enough now. Shut the internet down. There is not enough grass in the world to touch to heal this harpers.org/archive/2025...

A really interesting conversation about posting and politics with politics poster Will Stancil:

Katie Lam’s comments stink of desperation. This crass racism used to mean she’d be kicked out of the Tories but not now. The Conservative Party seem to be falling all over themselves to chase the tail of Tommy - two names - Robinson. It’s becoming like the BNP in a twin set & pearls.

All these people avoiding m-dashes because “AI uses them” simply means that there’s more for me!

Labour position is still unclear after this statement. I think they oppose any retrospective loss of ILR but you have to infer that. They say "the right to stay should not be automatic" (meaning those who have not got ILR yet). Prime Minister, Home Sec and Downing St contradictory statements in Sept

Really interesting interview with my former Reform councillor who defected to UKIP. Stuff on why she defected not so fleshed out, but comments on Christianity in politics I think very revealing. www.kentonline.co.uk/kent/news/kc...

same age as marge

‘What Lasse Ryberg and Diego Rubio have in common, which the Labour leadership lacks, is confidence. They appear to believe that their idea of the world is good, popular and effective.’ @morganj0nes.bsky.social at Global Progress Action in London, from the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/oc...

Regret to inform you this story is absolutely immaculate. And I’m not just talking about the shell company puns

Great summation by @morganj0nes.bsky.social of the vibes at last month's Global Progressive Jamboree: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/oc...

‘There is a broadly positive lesson to take from the “global” sweep of Global Progress Action, which is that to be callow and unconfident in power (and even out of it) is not the rule for the centre left.’ @morganj0nes.bsky.social on the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/oc...

As I discuss in the piece, some of the most interesting exchanges of the day were Spanish and Danish delegates clashing over the merits of their respective (very much contrasting) migration strategies.

Last month I went to Global Progress Action, where I found the global centre left less moribund than its UK equivalent, and wrote about it for @lrb.co.uk. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/oc...

The chair of our Editorial Board, @profafinlayson.bsky.social, was interviewed by @piercepenniless.bsky.social for the LRB podcast about his work on the nature of Online Politics

British Museum discourse has moved from “how dare you, this thing a soldier put in his knapsack and then sold half for the precious metals is wholly legit” to “everything in it was stolen from an incredibly racist imagined version of Africa”.

he is just so charming, i am so charmed

My new polling company, Made Up Just Now, cleverly uses cookies to show you whatever result gives you the biggest dopamine injection.

I'd also recommend reading the conversation with him we published in the latest edition of @renewaljournal.bsky.social - covering the dynamics of Online Right subcultures, and what the left still needs to learn about the nature of the internet: renewal.org.uk/articles/the...

Alan is so brilliant and always worth reading and listening to on this stuff

The RCN and other health unions are right to speak out today. Attacks on nursing staff and other health workers in Gaza and beyond are indefensible. These are war crimes, plain and simple. The UK must back ICC prosecutions and stand firm in defence of international law.

Elon Musk's key ventures: SpaceX xAI Model X YaXley-Lennon

A few years I ago I wrote this article, which is less a celebration (headline, didn't write, etc) than a general look at why Labour is quite so interrelated. Anyway, everyone being related to everyone is going strong: www.newstatesman.com/comment/2023...

If you wondered why Nigel Farage turned up in US Congress in September speaking about "freedom of speech", this story has the answer His appearance was orchestrated by a powerful American anti-abortion group that is trying to increase its influence in the UK by influencing the free speech debate

A delightful but poignant find in a second-hand copy of Ulysses that bought this weekend. I doubt that someone today would think that they could ‘make their life useful again’ after a divorce by getting more involved in politics.

I can't believe cola bottles guy was milkshake ducked.

this tipped me off to londoncentric.media and, boy, their stuff is really good even if you don't particularly care for London. Why? Because it's laser-focused on *the money* - who is getting paid and how for various aspects, especially the shady ones, of urban life.

In piece for @renewaljournal.bsky.social, I suggest Labour conference saw the emergence of two distinct approaches to practicing politics in a broken public sphere: - YIMBYs and Growth Groupers pursue disruption - "progressive communitarians" seek re-connection

What did we learn at Labour conference? Four members of the Renewal editorial team offer their reflections: - @morganj0nes.bsky.social on Starmer vs Burnham - @dmk1793.bsky.social on the Mair-ian void - @parth0.bsky.social on Labour's nationalism - @ben-glover.bsky.social on 'Big tent Starmerism'