Congratulations to Zohran Mamdani on such a clear win in New York. His victory shows that boldness and a story of economic change in the interests of the many not the few, defeats the politics of division and despair. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Punishing people doesn’t get people into work. We get people into work by creating good jobs.

A film you’ve seen more than seven times with a gif

Absolutely bang on from Peter here The rapid descent of political discourse in the UK away from the mainstream values of the British people is sickening For Reform’s leadership to tolerate this from their MPs speaks volumes

Support for LGBT people is fundamental to my British values When a ReformUK MP compares that to backing Hamas, it needs calling out

Great to have @metromayorsteve.bsky.social's support at my Lucy Listen’s event in Liverpool today. Members want us to do better and they want the Deputy to be their voice, all the time, and to help us turn things around. That’s what I’ll do.

Oh Nigel 🙄 Normally I’m an advocate for heavily reframing arguments to take them away from Reform’s insidiously poisonous propaganda traps, but here I’m just all “huh, wtf??” Also is “God help us” a knock-off attempt at a “Thank you for your attention to this matter” trademark sign-off? Sad.

The Bishop of Birmingham has written to the Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick about his comments about Handsworth

Right back at ya @roswynnejones.bsky.social What a lovely piece! The truth is Ros spends every day campaigning against injustice, championing real heros, giving voice to the voiceless & tackling division wherever she sees it. Honoured to call you my friend. t.co/evjo1M8QMw

Meanwhile Nigel Farage: - has talked about taking up a rifle/knife - courted Elon Musk who is calling for violence on our streets - lionised someone who admitted to inciting racial hatred and violence - refused to condemn violent riots last summer

This is a total lie repeatedly unchallenged on media The only reference to “arms” in the PM’s speech? “the wind fARMs of South Wales.”

Yes it’s rancid, yes the idea of Kemi having teams of armed anonymous goons carrying out her will is 1/2 terrifying 1/2 satirical, and yes there is 0% chance of her ever making it happen, but… who looks at the whole history of authoritarian misadventure and thinks this won’t lead to total disaster?

Sorry? The only person tone deaf here is Cole This isn’t political reporting, it’s just a calous slur It may come as a surprise to Cole but the British public can see the horror in Manchester and the horror in Gaza and still see the humane path through both of them Hamish is one of the best of us

It is a joint statement from the Board of Deputies and the JLC. Its sad something like this needed to be said on the first Sabbath after Thursday but many people from every faith & none will be glad to see the clarity with which this longstanding position has been reiterated, and so can amplify it

What an admirably clear statement from the Jewish Leadership Council, especially when all of those involved must surely have been dealing with so many other urgent challenges in safety, security and grief + shock today before having this further divisive and distracting intervention to address too.

Yes it’s rancid, yes the idea of Kemi having teams of armed anonymous goons carrying out her will is 1/2 terrifying 1/2 satirical, and yes there is 0% chance of her ever making it happen, but… who looks at the whole history of authoritarian misadventure and thinks this won’t lead to total disaster?

All this is why I am very happy to co-sign this letter organised by Luke, a great champion for net-zero and fighting climate change. An important reminder that support for tackling the climate emergency remains strong inside Parliament and with the British public. bsky.app/profile/luke...

All that’s before the terrifying threats of sea level rise + drought that this idiotic Tory/Reform alignment brings to Sittingbourne, Sheppey & lots of the rest of the country, especially across the Thames in Essex which both Kemi & Nigel are supposed to represent Massive harm to our constituents

We’ve got jobs in: ☀️Onshore wind + solar power ♻️Recycling 1/3 of UK’s card & paper + 1/4 of its electronics ♻️Turning old plasterboard into new ♻️Organic waste recycling supporting food production 🔌2 waste to power plants 🛳️Low carbon concrete imported in Sheerness 🔋Plans for hydrogen & battery storage

It isn’t only climate Businesses in Sittingbourne are investing in net-zero because over the medium to long term it boosts: ⬆️ Efficiency ⬆️ Productivity ⬆️ Market share ⬆️ Profitability ⬆️ Higher skill, better paid local jobs Team Badenoch & Farage put all that at risk www.kemsleycluster.co.uk/p/1

It isn’t only climate Businesses in Sittingbourne are investing in net-zero because over the medium to long term it boosts: ⬆️ Efficiency ⬆️ Productivity ⬆️ Market share ⬆️ Profitability ⬆️ Higher skill, better paid local jobs Team Badenoch & Farage put all that at risk www.kemsleycluster.co.uk/p/1

Very clear thread from Phil As someone who had to PPE-up to care for Covid patients during the pandemic, I’m still incandescent at the risks people like Mone put my friends and colleagues through She’s guilty and now must pay Her tawdry distraction attempts only seal people’s judgement of her tbh

Also wtf is it with the right at the moment that every time they are called out on their policies or actions, their response is to cry about how unfair it is that someone else dare criticise them the same way they criticise others? Mone now, Farage yesterday. Their playbook is dismally clichéd

The idea that "the median voter will feel attacked" by challenging Reform over racism is certainly not shown by the data in this piece. It shows they may be indifferent. (It may mean a different important swing voter, who isn't the median voter)

Very clear thread from Phil As someone who had to PPE-up to care for Covid patients during the pandemic, I’m still incandescent at the risks people like Mone put my friends and colleagues through She’s guilty and now must pay Her tawdry distraction attempts only seal people’s judgement of her tbh

🧵on Michelle Mone and Covid contracts 1/ Former Tory peer Michelle Mone has called today’s ruling that PPE Medpro must give the taxpayer back £122m for supplying dodgy PPE an ‘establishment cover-up’. Utter nonsense. Let’s ignore the rhetoric & look at the facts 👇

This is your vote, your choice. You the members choose your Deputy Leader. Having this conversation is not dissent, but an important conversation about how we can be better. I will be your strong independent voice.

We won’t forget the Tory Covid scandals. We are getting taxpayers’ money back. We are putting it where it belongs: in our schools, our NHS and our communities. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cy...

Here I am in 2020 in the flimsiest, most pitful PPE - like so many other NHS staff, some of whom died from the Covid they caught in their hospitals. Tory peer Michelle Mone - who today lost her legal case & must repay the govt £122m - dares to claim she’s been ‘scapegoated’. What, Michelle? 🧵

Trigger warning: if you actually care about those affected by baby loss you don't start hassling them in the street about it. Anti abortion campaign groups have reached a new low - whether you are supportive or not of legal abortion access this kind of behaviour has no place in democracy.

Hmmm. From a Trek fan perspective, I don’t know if I’m happy the arguments over the date of the Eugenics Wars have finally been settled or existentially terrified

Pleasure to do this great panel hosted by @thefabians.bsky.social along w Nicola Rayner (@rcn.org.uk) and @kevinmckenna.co.uk We covered workforce planning (lacking), AI in healthcare (unready) and how to get from here to the 10 Year Health Plan’s end points (unclear but may be for us to determine)

Thanks @kevinmckenna.co.uk for showing your support for physios at #Lab25 today

Great to welcome @kevinmckenna.co.uk to our #Lab25 stand today, to talk #ElectricityPricing and #HeatPumps. Kevin did very well on our quiz, scoring a fantastic 575. Thank you for playing, Kevin, and fantastic to talk to you about #HeatPump uptake in your constituency.

💰 Sheppey’s getting £20 million in funding from the government and YOU get a say in how it’s spent! 🗣 Have your say now – take my quick survey: forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/respon...

Massive thanks to Alex and Beccy for coordinating this Online gambling can be life-limiting or even life-ending This needs to be treated as a public health issue, not a business one Industries that externalise their negative health and social impacts onto the public purse need to step up and pay

Any journalist quoting this absurd, invented £234 billion number cited by Farage/Reform should make absolutely clear that it has been withdrawn by *its own authors* (the Centre for Policy Studies) after they admitted it contained several major errors (1/3)

Disability Labour members vote to nominate @lucympowell.bsky.social for the Labour Party Deputy Leadership Election The result of our member ballot- Lucy Powell - 60.1% Bridget Phillipson - 22.8%   No nomination should be made - 17.1%

I’m standing to be a full-time Deputy Leader of the Labour Party so I can focus on bridging our membership, communities and leadership. More and more people are supporting my hopeful vision for change. Join my campaign here actionnetwork.org/forms/volunt...

Labour is at its best when we are clear about whose side we are on, and in whose interests we serve, when our values shine through. I want us to be clear that our objective is to lift children out of poverty and that will mean we need to lift the 2 child benefit cap www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

There is a serious failure in UK govt, politics & media to take sufficiently seriously what Musk said & meant with "fight back or die" = Violence (interethnic civil war) is inevitable so pre-emptive violence - vs migrants, minorities & political opponents - is necessary to avoid existential erasure

Yes thousands turned out - which is far more than I’d like - but that is dwarfed by the millions that understand real patriotism means loving your country as it actually is, not hating its diversity or trying to exploit its challenges. That’s what our flags actually represent

It melts my head that X is still used for official Government communications, and, catching up on today's news and the fact we have a foreign billionaire inciting violence on our streets, it's clearer than ever that this should end. I raised this in Parliament last week 👇

There is enough evidence of enablement of hate crimes to warrant a full Ofcom investigation into how it is using financial incentives to promote hate, harassment and real-world violence. The first responsibility of the State is to protect its people, and in 2025 that includes online.

Let’s cut through the bullshit pretence around free speech. At best that is motivated reasoning, at worst it is hate-mongers using liberalism they despise as cover while laughing at our free society.

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

Foreign billionaires don’t get to incite violence against Britain. We cannot stay silent. 1/5 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

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