Category error to call today's economy neoliberal. It is more like globalised corporatism in which the largest players work with and against national governments for the most advantageous conditions. www.ft.com/content/b41a...

There is a more positive spin on this, which is that she will be constrained by No.10's approach. Starmer's administration wanted to punch liberals in the face each day. That's not Burnham's sensibility at all. But no two ways around it. It's a terrible, terrible decision.

I mean, Mahmood is literally the last person I'd have kept in their role

A real shame, this. One of the best ministerial appointments of recent times:

This is very disappointing. Such an important and undervalued brief which was for years held by a succession of uninterested itinerants. A prisons minister who genuinely cared and who was starting to see results.

It’s 25 years since we lost Douglas Adams. I am happy to have been able to get a reference to him into this piece in the FT about why the humanities are essential www.ft.com/content/fbde...

Spot the bird: expert level. Can you spot this yellowhammer chick nesting in the grass? Thank you for supporting nature’s recovery by staying on marked paths and keeping dogs on short leads, to avoid disturbing hidden nests and chicks.

This is very good, and extremely challenging for those of us who support it.

“We need an Ozempic for cars. They are growing at a phenomenal rate, wreaking havoc on roads, squeezing out smaller vehicles and endangering pedestrians. Like ever-hungry teenagers, cars in Europe are growing on average a centimetre wider every year.” Don’t repeat North America’s mistake, Europe.

A review of 'Eat the Planet Well' | James Joughin

Worth taking the time to read from Henry Fudge open.substack.com/pub/henryfud...

Wonderful piece on the widespread failure to teach the British enough about Empire by a proper specialist in the subject, the great Alan Lester @aljhlester. Full of interesting background about Gove and his extremist paymaster, Paul Marshall that I didn't know alanlester.co.uk/blog/teachin...

Israel must release pediatrician Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, who has been held without charge for 18 months and now faces an imminent threat to his life from torture. Israel must end the targeting of health workers and the inhumane treatment of Palestinians in arbitrary detention.

So apparently “anti-establishment” politics now means defending the right of wealthy aristocratic families to make huge undeclared political donations, while “the establishment” is anyone who asks questions about this

Again, I beg MPs and the government to actually look at the policy they may or may not be implementing and think through both the human consequences and their willingness to have 1/6 of all care staff be deported.

Calling a by-election over the sovereign right of every MP to take secret gifts from a convicted criminal. What a time to be alive.

A video of a ‘migrant’ on a small boat has been altered using AI to make it appear as if he’s waving a machete. The fake video has been shared thousands of times online, including by the leader of the London Assembly Conservatives, Susan Hall.

Trans people deserve dignity and respect. I've written to the Women and Equalities Minister, urging her to listen to calls from myself & other MPs to disapprove the draft EHRC Code. Read my letter below 👇

Thanks @mitchellsquid.bsky.social for the reposts. Much appreciated 🤩

‘Polarization’ has become the master concept for diagnosing our current democratic crisis. But this is not polarization. It is the radicalization of the political right. By misdiagnosing it, we risk becoming complicit in the crisis. 🧵 Just out in Perspectives on Politics doi.org/10.1017/S153...

Farage is doing what fascists do. Claiming the "will of the people" or "his people" is more important than the law.

ON THE BLOG: Andy Burnham’s Number 10 should have fewer special advisers Robert Hazell argues that to avoid the turmoil of his predecessor Burnham should aim to have fewer, more heavyweight Special Advisers, working more closely with the Number 10 civil servants.

The treatment of this woman is absolutely outrageous and one of the most egregious corporate violations of free speech I've seen. I have just bought the book as a fuck you to Facebook. It's available here uk.bookshop.org/p/books/care...

Foreign correspondents are in the frame, too … Let us hope reason prevails within government today, or failing that in Parliament tomorrow. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

This is performative cruelty. Asylum seeking people are not allowed to work - fix that first. People with refugee status are allowed to work, and therefore pay tax into the system that once supported them. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

📢NEW RESOURCE: A new web resource and accompanying report to explore the vulnerabilities to political interference of 33 key UK scientific public bodies & 11 scientific advisory committees! unchecked.uk/public_body_... 1/7

Thorough and forensic legal assessment of the EHRC guidance by Melanie Field, former EHRC chief strategy and policy officer. A really vital article www.linkedin.com/pulse/has-eq...

🎙️A new podcast from Dementia Researcher welcomes Dr Lesley Williamson and team to discuss their Marie Curie and Alzheimer's Society funded project. The research aims to explore and improve ways in which homecare workers care and support people living with dementia at end of life. Find out more 👇

Meanwhile, in the US. It just takes your breath away. *50 years* in prison for protesting. Don't imagine for one moment that we are immune to this. Already, the legislative framework is in place in the UK to enable such convictions - before we get a Trumplike PM. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Unregulated AI deployment risks significant job losses, increasing poverty while boosting corporate profits. It may also enable criminal activity through security breaches and scams, as its unchecked advancement overlooks serious societal consequences.

As Britain swelters through another heatwave, few people will have heard that ministers have quietly dropped plans for solar carports. Cars cooler in summer. Shelter from the rain in winter. Clean electricity all year round. A missed opportunity? @eastangliabylines.co.uk

Brilliant analysis on how adherence to what I've argued ought to be called Pollingism (i.e. survey issue preference and repeat back what's "popular" and eschew what isn't) felled Starmer in UK. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNFi...

Congratulations to @bevcraig.bsky.social who will be a fantastic Mayor of Greater Manchester. I’ve seen first hand how she’s transformed outcomes for children and people across the city region. She’s a change maker and a leader and I look forward to hitting the campaign trail with her soon

A video of a plane being shot down has been shared with claims it shows Iranian fighter jets attempting to enter Israeli airspace. But this clip isn’t real. It’s actually from the video game War Thunder.

The rise of larger vehicles like SUVs and pickup trucks, with their taller hoods and larger blind zones, has contributed to a 75% increase in pedestrian and cyclist deaths since 2009. Until we design better streets and ban these vehicles, people outside these vehicles will keep dying.

The attacks in Edinburgh, in which an armed bare-chested white man terrorised Muslims, leaving five people injured, don't feature on a single newspaper front page this morning. Two tier journalism

"The world is not going to be saved by big SUVs that are electric,” says Renault’s chief design officer" - looks like we've fixed things in less than 24 hours 😉 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

🚨 New research by us! 📣 Most British drivers don't know how dangerous SUVs are to other road users, but adding information to SUV marketing materials seems to do almost nothing to change people's plans to buy SUVs Here's a 🧵 on why harder action is going to be needed 1/10

Love that 20k people signed this on day 1 Why? Because we’re DONE Tech companies profit from hate & disinformation every day & face zero legal liability because they’re classed as “platforms” not publishers An insane loophole that needs closing NOW PLS SIGN you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

So much important history we weren’t taught in school.

My Keynote speech for the British Palestine Project PALESTINE'S PLACE IN HISTORY youtu.be/62sN7LTuONA?...

Always fascinating and important to contemplate that the entirety of human history is fundamentally a story of migration and amalgamation. We are all literally related, & any 'scientific' basis for racism is nonsense. A good Rutherfordian ending to our Saturday sessions. @adamrutherford.bsky.social

Referee Omar Artan being banned from entering a World Cup country is a stain on this tournament. Freedom of movement was the lowest bar and still it failed. Column. ⬇️ inews.co.uk/sport/omar-a...

@clairehanna.bsky.social : "Last week, in a very high profile case, the murder of Natalie McNally, the judge.. talked about a frenzied knife attack, he talked about wounds so bad the cause of death was unable to to be determined. There were no riots over the perpetrator of that brutal crime"

Neighbourhood health will only succeed if rehabilitation is built in from the start. That is the message we took to #NHSConfedExpo as we launched our new report ‘5 Principles for neighbourhood health’, putting our message directly in front of senior NHS leaders. #RightToRehab

This has nothing to do with stopping crime. It is to do with a global far-right movement, coordinated on X, organised by some of the most powerful men in the world from Silicon Valley to the White House inews.co.uk/opinion/fara...

Everyone on X and elsewhere who called for a violent response should be charged with incitement. Everyone involved in the pogrom should be locked up with exemplary sentences. Govt should make it clear that will be the response in future anywhere else. Enough.

Musk continues to stoke race wars in the U.K. using his platform to do so. It’s feeble how little power we are exercising against X.

There has been an appalling rise in violent settler attacks on Palestinians; and settlement expansion, designed to prevent a two-state solution ever happening. It is time for stronger action. (2/2)