Our latest. 18 of Tuchel's 23 outfield players have at least one parent born outside of England. What a riposte to Farage, Jenrick, Lam and the Tory press.

Burnham on "grip" on immigration: rightly notes hotels terrible inheritance & asylum dispersal not done fairly or with communities. These points are compatible with sensible pragmatic approaches to fuse control with contribution & compassion & cohesion www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...

Three goals of such exceptional quality for Villa. Chapeau.

More George Graham than Arsene Wenger but we're champions again. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Zohran Mamdani has fully balanced New York City’s $12 billion deficit — an uncomfortable reminder to the political establishment that governments can, in fact, function when taxpayer money isn’t funneled toward lobbyists wealthy benefactors

Glasman, Rutherford, McSweeney, Mahmood, Hinder: the 'heroes of Blue Labour. And their response: go still more Danish.

Every cloud has a silver lining ... heat pump edition.

@bylinetimes.bsky.social theatre event on David Edgar’s play Destiny where we meet up with Neil Kinnock, who happily buys a copy of our Little Black Book of the Populist Right. @bylinebooks.bsky.social

Very clear and principled.

The appeal of Blue Labour politics.

A good Saturday morning read. @jdportes.bsky.social incisively exposing the dangerous rhetoric of those claiming the UK is on the verge of 'civil war.'

"Framing the situation as one of impending civil war... distracts from underlying issues, while contributing to a more polarised and less constructive political environment." @jdportes.bsky.social sets out why claims about UK 'civil war' are both wrong and harmful. ukandeu.ac.uk/civil-war-in...

Precisely. Ask Robbins who he told. Odds on it was McSweeney.

Immigration enriches our society and benefits our economy. Changing settlement rules will have financial consequences for us all - this video explains why and how. If truth matters to you when it comes to immigration pass it on. All data quoted in this video from Migration Advisory Committee.

The significance of Orban' defeat. @jdportes.bsky.social, @sundersays.bsky.social, @lewisgoodall.com, @compassoffice.bsky.social, @samfr.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/bylineti...

Very informative.

Perceptive.

Starkey has genuine expertise in this period of history, but to claim that the laws did not persecute Catholics is beyond revisionism and into the realms of invention.

Important source of opposition to both Trump and his chief ideologue.

This is the way Bruce Springsteen opened the E-Street Band tour in Minneapolis last night..... one of three times he took time to talk to the crowd about what's happening in our country. @brucespringsteen #Minneapolis #Minnesota

Bruce Springsteen gave a rousing five-minute sermon about the “corruption in the White House,” calling out Attorney General Pam Bondi by name and ultimately imploring, “Let’s fight for the America we love. Are you with us?” The crowd of nearly 20,000 exploded.

“Tacking so hard right that you begin to sound like Mr Farage on things like immigration is a dead end." Labour MP @liambyrnemp.bsky.social with advice for his own party... @goldbergradio.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/0Y1b...

Superb. Really engaging discussion on the populist right and how to challenge them, with @goldbergradio.bsky.social probing intelligently and @davidedgar1.bsky.social and @liambyrnemp.bsky.social responding thoughtfully.

This is the key point. The HO proposals *only* make sense in the terms @joshglancy.bsky.social is arguing for them if they result in mass expulsions of hundreds of thousands of people who came here legally and abided by the rules. Why not simply say that?

An energy revolution is in the wind, writes Will Hutton Labour’s plans for cheap renewable power will transform British lives as dramatically as the NHS once did https://bit.ly/4dhOyME

subscribe.bylinetimes.com/product/popu... Hot off the press. 2nd edition of our Little Black Book telling all you want to know about Trump, Farage and the gurus of the p populist right. A @bylinetimes.bsky.social production from Byline Books.

So much for 'left' interventionism. Farage's Reform becoming a 'Thatcherite party with a Powellite face.'

scoop: Nigel Farage has abandoned plans for a Reform UK government to part-nationalise Britain’s utilities as the party adjusts to the country’s stretched public finances, although it is still considering using “strategic stakes” to fix broken markets www.ft.com/content/be4b...

open.substack.com/pub/bylineti... After fall of McSweeney and Mandelson our latest on prospects for a social democratic revival. Are the ideas and forces there to do it?

Denmark's experiment with nativist social democracy results in worst electoral performance since 1903. Labour's similar experiment - modelled on the Danes - will too unless it changes course drastically. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

As I wrote for @bylinetimes.bsky.social last week bylinetimes.com/2026/03/19/t...

observer.co.uk/news/interna.... The Labour u-turn, the press keeps quiet about.

Do they think people have literally no memory of past events at all?

McSweeney lives.

Telling poll of which partners Germans trust - France as always on top, with the UK now as joint E3 partner a close second. Trump's USA is just 3 points above Russia.

America's Next Top Mullah

Your 3-minute guide to today’s asylum policy changes

Crystal clear from @clivelewis.bsky.social.

Extraordinary passionate statement from Vincent Kompany in support of Vinicius Jr. And he breaks the managers' omerta by saying Mourinho has made a mistake and bringing up Eusebio is ridiculous.

Telling it like it is. Can Labour ministers do the same?

So when will the UK government stop prevaricating and join?

Canada is now the first non-European country to be granted a membership in SAFE. This is a gamechanger program that means Canada can rearm our Canadian Armed Forces members more effectively and scale up our defence industries with more contracts overseas.

As Nigel Farage makes Robert Jenrick his Shadow Chancellor, here's a quick reminder of the sort of man Reform wants to put in charge of the nation's finances

Employment rates for non-EU born are now *above* those for the UK born. Gap used be nearly 10 percentage points. A tribute to the success of UK immigration/immigrants and labour market integration, especially in recent years. Something government should celebrate..

Available on @agendapublica.es in English here: agendapublica.es/noticia/2069...

Trump’s endless, opaque bombing obliterates all hope of a free Somalia Over the past 13 months, the US has carried out 157 airstrikes, drone strikes and ground raids in the east African country, writes Steve Bloomfield https://bit.ly/4cuVXYg

@sundersays.bsky.social on the ball as ever.

The Epstein Files tell a horrific and heavy story of abuse and corruption. But power protects itself through the expectation that we will feel paralysed by the sense of powerlessness. Their release is a seminal moment. That's why our new Byline Times print edition delves into the deeper story 👇

As the Gorton by-election approaches read our 'deep dive' into the ever more extreme politics of Reform’s Matt Goodwin. @bylinetimes.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2026/02/09/w...