Really excellent and insightful piece about the reasons behind the recent split in and from the Labour group on Nottingham Council. There's going to be much more of this and in may become terminal for Labour if things don't change fast

My latest column for @insidecroydon.bsky.social on some new recruits in the fight for fair funding for Croydon ... insidecroydon.com/2025/11/06/n...

Now even Mayor Perry agrees we need to Fund Croydon Fairly insidecroydon.com/2025/11/06/n... #Croydon #CroydonInCrisis @fisherandrew79.bsky.social @christianwolmar.bsky.social

There's a case for raising income tax to fund public services, but there's a much stronger case to tackle the cost of living crisis by clamping down on profiteering.

"being English requires Anglo-Saxon lineage" Angles - a Germanic tribe Saxons - i.e. from Saxony, in Germany Sorry to those with Celtic, Nordic, or Norman lineage ... you're not English either!

There's a case for raising income tax to fund public services, but there's a much stronger case to tackle the cost of living crisis by clamping down on profiteering.

"We are not a “high-tax country” – quite the opposite. The problem is the cost of living. Our energy, transport and housing is expensive by international standards" My column for @theipaper.com drawing on @resfoundation.bsky.social & @unitetheunion.bsky.social research inews.co.uk/opinion/rach...

"We are not a “high-tax country” – quite the opposite. The problem is the cost of living. Our energy, transport and housing is expensive by international standards" My column for @theipaper.com drawing on @resfoundation.bsky.social & @unitetheunion.bsky.social research inews.co.uk/opinion/rach...

Pleasure to speak to Mark Steel on his podcast 'What the F*** is Going On?' Listen to part 1 here: open.spotify.com/episode/65Gz...

We'd all like to think we'd act like this in a moment of crisis, but Samir Zitouni did - and he's a hero www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

“In Israel, Leaking Evidence of Rape Is a Bigger Scandal Than Raping a Palestinian” According to Israel and its supporters, the scandal is not the vile sexual assault depicted in a leaked video last year – it’s that someone released the tape, writes Minnah Arshad for Zeteo:

Nigel Farage, whose party recently put a teenager with zero work experience of any kind, in charge of running an entire county, is currently giving a speech railing against "unqualified" politicians being put in charge of Government departments

How MP Reed used antisemitism to discredit Labour rivals insidecroydon.com/2025/10/27/h... #Croydon #TheFraud @labour-hub.bsky.social @labourlist.bsky.social @left-foot-forward.bsky.social

Coming up for our paying subscribers - our latest @fisherandrew79.bsky.social interview, with Paul Holden, the author of the investigative book The Fraud. To sign up for subscribers access, click here: www.patreon.com/insidecroydon. To get a 20% discount: www.patreon.com/posts/subscr... #Croydon

Water bills in England rose by an average of 26% this year. More rewards for failure for the privatised water industry. Bring water into public ownership @weownit.org.uk www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

PCS is looking for a Press Officer to manage and develop our media profile. We're looking for an experienced journalist or press officer with articulate and persuasive writing skills to be the first point of contact representing PCS in the media. Closing date 3 November. www.pcs.org.uk/work-pcs

Imagine the reaction if the bodies of returned Israeli hostages were handcuffed, blindfolded & showed signs of torture. It would be on the front page, leading every news bulletin, & the govt would be condemning the murderous brutality of Hamas But Palestinian bodies? Nothing

Will be on Sky News #PoliticsHub from 7pm, discussing the big stories of the day. Tune in if you can ...

"In the 1980s and 1990s, UK governments ceded control of large parts of their power, privatising energy, water, transport, housing and more. We transferred power from the UK ballot box to boardrooms, not to Brussels." My new column in @theipaper.com inews.co.uk/opinion/what...

'Britain's economic woes have much deeper roots than politicians want to admit' My latest column for @theipaper.com on blaming Brexit, and what it really means to 'Take back control' ... inews.co.uk/opinion/what...

'Britain's economic woes have much deeper roots than politicians want to admit' My latest column for @theipaper.com on blaming Brexit, and what it really means to 'Take back control' ... inews.co.uk/opinion/what...

A shadow of Theresa May hangs over the current Tory minister, in a party that is a shadow of its former self ... When do you want hit net zero by? "We think decarbonisation is not a bad thing" - what a hopeless position.

Sky News is platforming a guy who says he's from a Jewish Aston Villa supporters group, but it turns out that the guy a) isn't Jewish, b) the group doesn't exist, and c) he works for the right wing Henry Jackson Society, whose website says he 'specialises in disinformation'. Well, quite.

But keeps the title Prince and will still live on the Royal Estate at Windsor. Oh the punishment! Pure spin from Buckingham Palace

This is good news. But it's a battle not the war. Now let's hope the appeal wins and this ridiculous abuse of the law ends. Whatever you think of Palestine Action as a group, they are not terrorists. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Will be on @lbc.co.uk shortly with @iaindale.bsky.social discussing Labour's Brexit strategy and the economy Tune in if you can ...

Unemployment has risen to 1,737,000. That's up 64,000 in the last 3 months and up 230,000 in the last year On the wider measure of underemployment, there are now over 5 million underemployed - up by nearly 500,000 on a year ago. There are now 6.9 people seeking work for every vacancy

The Fraud: how Reed's Labour spied on Croydon councillors insidecroydon.com/2025/10/13/t... #Croydon #TheFraud @left-foot-forward.bsky.social @labourlist.bsky.social

My review of The Fraud, Paul Holden's explosive new book "Holden’s book shows the contempt with which senior Labour figures around Keir Starmer hold not just the left, but also truth, decency and the law." insidecroydon.com/2025/10/12/w...

My review of The Fraud, Paul Holden's explosive new book "Holden’s book shows the contempt with which senior Labour figures around Keir Starmer hold not just the left, but also truth, decency and the law." insidecroydon.com/2025/10/12/w...

Coming up on Inside Croydon: exclusive coverage of The Fraud, the book that has shaken Downing Street. Don't miss our book review by former Labour insider @fisherandrew79.bsky.social, plus an extract from the book on how the party spied on its councillors in Croydon. #Croydon #TheFraud #Journalism

The testimony of Dr Nick Maynard is chilling ... bsky.app/profile/zete...

Asking people to pay for goods would kill the shoplifting industry ...

Will be on Sky News #PoliticsHub from 7pm discussing the big political stories of the day. Tune in if you can ...

Me for @theipaper.com on the importation of an alien culture to Britain: Trumpism inews.co.uk/opinion/robe...

You have heard it from @kemibadenochmp.bsky.social at #CPC25. If elected, Conservatives will: ✅ attack your employment rights ✅ cut public sector jobs ✅ cut social security The Conservatives: a threat to your living standards.

"We are an incredibly successful multicultural society that has integrated and welcomed people from diverse backgrounds "What we should fear is the importation of the Trumpian politics of fear and division. That, Mr Jenrick, is distinctly unBritish" Me for @theipaper.com inews.co.uk/opinion/robe...

"We are an incredibly successful multicultural society that has integrated and welcomed people from diverse backgrounds "What we should fear is the importation of the Trumpian politics of fear and division. That, Mr Jenrick, is distinctly unBritish" Me for @theipaper.com inews.co.uk/opinion/robe...

Me for @theipaper.com on the importation of an alien culture to Britain: Trumpism inews.co.uk/opinion/robe...

No wonder Mordaunt lost her seat at the last election. 1) Lies that teachers and social workers need to be a member of a union to work (the 'closed shop' ended c.40 years ago!) 2) Then says those unions are openly anti-semitic (by which I suspect she means back the rights of Palestinians)

"Milei is amazing. It's Thatcherism on steroids. Cutting and slashing. That's leadership" - Nigel Farage Milei would be the "template" for my government - Kemi Badenoch

Being pro-Palestinian is not being anti-Jewish. Just as being pro-Jewish is not being anti-Palestinian. Irresponsible language and framing from the Home Secretary. It is perfectly right that people both protest the Gaza genocide and mourn the Manchester attack.

Being pro-Palestinian is not being anti-Jewish. Just as being pro-Jewish is not being anti-Palestinian. Irresponsible language and framing from the Home Secretary. It is perfectly right that people both protest the Gaza genocide and mourn the Manchester attack.

My family came here 50 years ago. They've worked, paid taxes, raised families, been good citizens. My many colleagues and friends who were either born elsewhere, or their parents were, the same. It's so offensive to be told you're here on sufferance.

My #Lab25 conference diary for @insidecroydon.com... insidecroydon.com/2025/10/01/m...

My #Lab25 conference diary for @insidecroydon.com... insidecroydon.com/2025/10/01/m...

Bringing back maintenance grants for working class students is a good policy But to announce it with no detail of eligibility thresholds, the level of the grant, or even implementation date is poor And levying foreign students while reducing numbers sounds risky www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Burnham’s diagnosis is that the policy agenda is missing because of “a climate of fear within our party and [because of] the way the party is being run” That message strikes a chord with Labour MPs and members alike My latest column for @theipaper.com #Lab25 inews.co.uk/opinion/andy...

Burnham’s diagnosis is that the policy agenda is missing because of “a climate of fear within our party and [because of] the way the party is being run” That message strikes a chord with Labour MPs and members alike My latest column for @theipaper.com #Lab25 inews.co.uk/opinion/andy...

Why double time to qualify for ILR from five to ten years? Just makes people put their lives on hold for longer - and will discourage skilled people from putting down roots. Can't see how that's good for integration or for the economy ...