“Yet this is the problem. Debate and intellectual discourse no longer define this Labour Party.” Bingo - this is why @hannahmerich.bsky.social and I argue that our next deputy leader needs to change that in @labourlist.bsky.social: labourlist.org/2025/09/labo...

Plato said it best: “Either philosophers must become rulers, or the people who are now rulers become real, true philosophers” The Labour Party needs a deputy leader who will articulate a Labour philosophy and vision, to give this government a compelling narrative and vision for Britain:

I realise the audience for this would just be "me, and also maybe other foreigners" but I would love to read something on why Brits, who are happy to live in a country where their every movement outside is filmed by CCTV, hate the idea of having ID cards, something plenty of countries happily have

I'll have more to say on Reform's proposals to scrap ILR at some point but for now I'll just note this - anyone telling you this is a popular idea doesn't know the polling. Overwhelming majority of public back giving people who work and pay taxes most or all rights after 5 years or less

There’s a big list of requirements for @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social and @lucympowell.bsky.social as Labour’s deputy leadership candidates! @hannahmerich.bsky.social & I argue that central among them is giving this Labour govt a compelling story & vision, drawing on our rich history of ideas:

There’s a big list of requirements for @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social and @lucympowell.bsky.social as Labour’s deputy leadership candidates! @hannahmerich.bsky.social & I argue that central among them is giving this Labour govt a compelling story & vision, drawing on our rich history of ideas:

Really enjoyed this evening’s @renewaljournal.bsky.social lecture from Anneliese Dodds. She’s right that delivery in government is necessary but not sufficient. Labour must protect democracy and be a voice for humans in the age of AI. #Labour #AI #democracy

“Men who look upon themselves born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent; selected from the rest of mankind their minds are early poisoned by importance; ...and when they succeed to the government are frequently the most ignorant and unfit of any throughout the dominions.” — Thomas Paine

It's maddening to me how much Covid is at the root of so many of today's crises and we just...don't talk about it? Take the spike in children needing SEND provision. Did anything huge and traumatic happen recently that might have affected thousands of kids? No? Must be parents making it up

If MPs aren't 100% convinced that safeguards for vulnerable people are watertight, their obligation is to vote against the #TerminallyIllAdults Bill today. #AssistedDying

just saw a headline about "Britain's most woke roundabout" and I think I'm done

Please can we go back to those days?

Farage has made at least nine trips abroad, including eight to the US, since last year’s general election, with many of them either funded by donors or undertaken for paid employment such as speeches.

Just realised the 2015 UK general election was *10* years ago this week. Wild that we dodged the bullet of chaos with @edmilibandmp.bsky.social and enjoyed a decade of uninterrupted stability and growth.

If you’re curious about why this is, I wrote about it for @theprogressivemag.bsky.social: progressive.org/latest/insid...

Not sure it’s the time to start impersonating someone, but I guess if it’s going well…

Exercise can counter side-effects of cancer treatment, biggest review of its kind shows

Happy Easter to all who are celebrating today. This season of renewal invites us all to believe in the triumph of light over darkness, life over death, love over hate.

Another annual myth, just like the ‘Winterval’ one that’s been circulating since I was a kid

💯 this!!!

Not just for this administration, but for the next. If you're a Trump supporter or Republican, do you really want the next Democratic administration to defy court orders whenever they feel like it?

👨‍⚕️🏥 ❤️‍🩹 This Labour Government is fixing our NHS ❤️‍🩹🏥🧑‍⚕️

Wild that Londoners have collectively accepted that being served a glass of soda water with a teaspoonful of aperol and a thimbleful of prosecco should cost £12. All served by someone whose entire body language tells us they loathe every part of our being.

Kurt Vonnegut man

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what a visual

For Americans who didn’t get the joy of living through the Truss/Kwarteng budget, this is the point where the government starts to call the stock market left-wing and/or woke.

Some very bad news: New modelling predicts up to 10 million additional HIV infections following aid cuts www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

Wouldn’t that technically mean he’s pro Trump, as he hates people who are anti-Trump? #PedanticPoint

Kemi Badenoch, who just declared Net Zero is "impossible" to reach, received donations from funders of a Tufton Street climate science denial group that campaigns against the target One donor, who chairs 'Net Zero Watch' hosted her campaign HQ in his home bylinetimes.com/2025/03/18/k...

Who seriously believes these people will ever hold a real election ever again? www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/u...

the sound of all my English professors crying out at once

No exodus to state sector after VAT added to private school fees, say English councils Most say they have seen no impact on applications for year 7 places, despite warnings from those against policy www.theguardian.com/education/20...

All this Reform drama and not a single 'Lowe Will Tear Them Apart' headline We used to have a newspaper industry in this country #smdh

This is all we had and, you know what? We were happy weren’t we

Over the past decade I’ve found Prof @brianklaas.bsky.social to be the most compelling, articulate voice on the dangers Trump poses to American democracy. This is well worth a read - especially as his stark warnings are followed by solutions.

Fabulous example for teaching about question wording and priming/framing effects in a couple of weeks time.

“if we concede the principle that people who want to take their own lives should be helped through that crisis and out the other side, then conceding that ground is a huge step.”

Have written about JD Vance’s Munich speech. In what may prove to be the biggest week for European security since 1991, it’s time Europe listened to what Trump and his Vice President are telling us. open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...

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A Canadian friend has painted a bleak picture of #AssistedDying ( #MAiD ). Otherwise compassionate people saying older relatives have an obligation to die. Well people in the early stages of cancer choosing to die within a week. "It's quicker/easier to get assisted dying than an MRI scan here".

@jonnelledge.bsky.social just wanted to let you know I bought my partner A History of the World in 47 Borders for Christmas, and he’s really enjoying it. He’s a geography nerd (studied it at uni) and is teaching me facts from it as I’m terrible at geography! Thank you.

I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world. Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO

Despite all the attention on #Heathrow, this feels like an important, repeatedly neglected area for growth.

Since announcing my diagnosis of metastatic breast cancer a few weeks ago I’ve become increasingly aware of how misunderstood the condition is. So I want to debunk a few misconceptions: 1/7 (short posts!)

With Elon Musk being exposed as a fraud in yet another area—this time by trying to fool gamers into thinking he’s some world-leading player when he just paid someone to play—it’s time to again post this, so you can understand Musk: “The Myth of the Secret Genius.” www.forkingpaths.co/p/the-myth-o...

I agree - but it always astonishes me how binary this debate ends up being. You can get the benefits of socialisation/in person collaboration in 2-3 days a week, while still having 2-3 days for focused, quiet work without the exhaustion of a long commute and face to face interaction all day.