watching kimmel tomorrow

I think this analysis is correct but more importantly it uses a Night of the Demon analogy for a leadership challenge. It's in the trees! It's coming!

I wrote about the noticeable Vibe Shift around Keir Starmer's viability as PM: www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

Oh, RIP to a real one www.parallelparliament.co.uk/APPG/pitcair...

Fun fact: some years ago I tried to interview Fabian Hamilton, then the only Labour member of the APPG for the Pitcairn Islands, about why he was the only Labour member of the APPG for the Pitcairn Islands. He said no.

[the party is completely imploding before even launching] uh guys can you use alt-text pls

My view on the Sultana/ Corbyn party has always been basically: if they can be minimally organised they can win 20 seats at the next election. Seems like they cannot be minimally organised.

and why not? why shouldn't I join the co-operative party?

As ever, Nick Lowles is spot on. When it comes to taking on the far right, progressives haven’t got a moment to waste in building a vision of togetherness we can unite the country behind. Plenty to reflect on from his Guardian interview 👉 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

This will be our Glonzo

James discusses Starmer’s predicament on his new podcast ‘On Politics’, out now. He’s joined by former Labour MP and minister Chris Mullin, 𝘎𝘶𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘪𝘢𝘯 columnist Andy Beckett and journalist Morgan Jones (@morganj0nes.bsky.social). 🎧 Listen on Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/o...

you are like a little baby

"He started to seek out different perspectives. There were the works of Graham Hancock, who claims the archaeological establishment is hiding the fact that ultra-intelligent aliens built the pyramids." Pseudoarchaeology has a powerful reciprocal role within conspiracism, distrust, etc. whereby 1/

Really enjoyed listening to @annieknk.bsky.social's QAA episode about Graham Hancock a few months ago. Have no idea how the Labour Party should respond to this. Anyway,

Sacha's interviews highlight the danger of assuming Reform voters with left-coded economic views can be easily won back to Labour. If someone thinks your party is part of a globalist WEF conspiracy to hide the truth about the pyramids, "renationalised railways" won't get them to vote for you...

So much talk about Reform voters, but I'm yet to read much about their lives beyond tropes and excuses ('legitimate concerns'). I've been back in the midlands to interview people and learn more. Here's my piece on them and Reform's attempts to present itself as a community-minded, pro-worker party:

Really cool to be on the first episode of this new series, talking about the (unfortunately, sad) state of the Labour government:

Wrote about the implosion of 'phase two' Starmer's government: the Mandelson affair (volume 3), the cratering numbers, the changing political system, the spectre of Farage and the resurgent right. @lrb.co.uk www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/se...

Thrilled with this v kind review of my book - many thanks to Joanna Cohen, not least for this: "this is a gripping story, packed full of characters who themselves seem almost fictional." Particularly chuffed this is in an edition about how to face down toxic right-populism. Looking fwd to reading.

The Labour MP for East Thanet, Polly Billington MP, has written to the Reform Leader of Kent County Council to express her concern about Reform in Kent’s "continued endorsement of anti-science organisations and conspiracy theories" in a new motion on climate change (🧵)

A joint statement from Dr Peter Prinsley MP and Dr Simon Opher MP:

In London, hate will never win.

renewal.org.uk/articles/soc... my essay on Labour strategy in the face of Reform threat ... free to read 👇🏽 ( but subscribe if you can)

Really proud to have been involved in this fantastic issue, ft. essays on (amongst other topics) Reform's electorate, the asset economy, pub-based nationalism, conspiracism, Croydon-based fascism, community ownership, social democratic futurism, and second-wave feminism

FREE TO READ: sociologist @sachahilhorst.bsky.social uses first-hand ethnographic interviews to examine the fissures within Reform UK's post-industrial electorate, and analyses how the party's rhetoric obscures its real relationship to the asset economy renewal.org.uk/articles/ref...

NEW ISSUE: Renewal Vol. 33 No. 2 Published amidst far-right mobilisation and a Reform surge, the new issue of Renewal (guest co-edited by @sachahilhorst.bsky.social) features activists, journalists, and academics analysing the radical right threat and debating how social democrats can respond

Trump’s 2nd term has left many clinging to the status quo on climate multilateralism. We argue for more. Proud to publish w/ @americanprogress.bsky.social 's Ryan Mulholland & @mwilli.bsky.social on how global trade policy can back workers, industries & the planet. 🔗 renewal.org.uk/blog/a-multi...

NEW on Renewal Online: Megan Corton Scott of @lcefuk.bsky.social and Mike Williams and Ryan Mulholland of @americanprogress.bsky.social argue that multilateral trade policy is an essential tool in the fight against climate change renewal.org.uk/blog/a-multi...

imagine getting qt dunked by ed davey. unrecoverable. you’re furious and he is serenely going down a log flume in bognor regis.

I join the now abundant discourse about Abundance. A good book but more importantly a bellwether book for the orientation of the center-left. But like many, they hope we can engineer a way around politics and put things back in the hands of competent technocrats...I am not so sure...

Labour MPs today call for new legislation to extend a right of responsible access to more English landscapes, and for the right to swim and wild camp to be enshrined in law @righttoroam.bsky.social inputted to this new report from the APPG for access to nature: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘I was there. I kept the receipts. I remember how normalized the sexual exploitation of teenage girls and even tweens by adult men was, how it showed up in movies, in the tales of rock stars and “baby groupies”’ Powerful piece from @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

i made too big and hearty a soup and it’s keeping too well and ill be stuck eating it forever

2:25 am: just served 26 years in jail 3:03 am: going back for more jail

“mostly adults” This is quite the piece www.thetimes.com/article/330c...

Every individual, every organisation and public body committed to peaceful politics in the UK needs to stop posting on it. You know the mantra: The best time to do that was months ago, the second best time is now.

Given the context and the crowd, despite Musk’s weasel words, this was a call for violence against the British state, from a foreign national who controls a major propaganda engine, and has engineered it to monetise hate

Over the Sea to Skye on Last Night of the Proms! I presume a Jacobite coup is underway

Starmer as it happens hasn't made a public speech outside chamber since mid-July. Hard to think of a PM who has made so little use of the normative power of his office. Unlike eg Cameron who really did think No 10 had the capacity and obligation to attempt to frame debate on all manner of issues

i work really hard actually guys : (

Absolutely !!!insane!!! to me that the UK government, lobby and newspapers litigate at length every minor infraction by the BBC, rival newspapers, or what some random columnist has posted. But all of them just carry on not even commenting about this media owner. He’s not hiding, he’s telling you!

As this article we published yesterday discusses, "man who spent 26 years in prison saying someone should kill the prime minister" is the core demographic of asylum hotel protests and Tommy Robinson gatherings, not Concerned Local Families. renewal.org.uk/blog/screami...

I literally said words to the effect of “this is all very ‘rejection’” when reflecting on It All

There’s a real pathos here

Really pleased to have published this incisive first-hand account of the class dynamics of asylum hotel protests: renewal.org.uk/blog/screami...

Given the deputy leadership race, I've been revisiting Bridget Phillipson's post 2019 election piece for @renewaljournal.bsky.social, which I've always thought was an usually interesting and perceptive bit of writing from an MP: www.bridgetphillipson.com/articles/202...

i am willing to make a truly controversial statement : I believe crazy mad, for me to be an era definingly brilliant album, but despite all the praise it's getting I just think euro country isn't on the same level