Now we can breathe for a moment… The decimation of youth services across the country was one of the most damaging legacies of post-2010 austerity. We saw its consequences every day in London. Great to see this investment from @london.gov.uk

This is the ultimate test for a constitutional order. Either constitutional mechanisms are used to check and balance this, and remove him from office, or they are not. For there can be no greater test for any constitution.

A truly terrible social policy, finally consigned to history. Proof of the power of social security to lift huge numbers of people out of poverty. A wonderful day for our whole society!

That UK government ever considers asserting its contractual rights against a major supplier is rare and welcome. And here, this is especially welcome. This will not be easy but it can be done, but it is good it is being seriously considered at all. www.ft.com/content/2d2b...

It is absolutely stupid that a major focus of policy response to the Iran War is on the planned 1p rise in fuel duty in September (watching Trevor Phillips interview Bridget Phillipson). Of no help now to anyone to abandon it. Shows how trivial our political debate has become.

The Renters’ Rights Act coming into force in May will ban no fault eviction and make it possible to challenge unfair rent rises. The Mayor of @london.gov.uk is setting up a £400k Renters’ Rights Enforcement Fund for renters rights groups and for training for borough enforcement officers.

Everything from Camden Market to the Admiral Duncan pub and central London Harry Potter stores are owned by shell companies in tax havens. For years, they hid the identities of their real owners. Today, @andrewkersley.bsky.social pulls back the curtain.

This has been the story almost without interruption since we started getting regional povery stats about thirty years ago. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Wind & solar are currently producing 65% of Britain's electricity. Meanwhile, renewables now offer 30,000 more UK jobs than oil and gas. Meanwhile, we're in a climate emergency. Meanwhile, we're in a fossil fuel supply crisis. Meanwhile, the Tories and Reform want to scrap Net Zero. grid.iamkate.com

Hard agree with @stephenkb.bsky.social. Society needs volunteers, many of them retirees. Housing insecurity and high housing costs undermine that capacity. The impact of generation(s) rent on civic society is generally under-explored and under-appreciated.

We are very sorry to be saying goodbye to the fantastic @bentwomeyuk.bsky.social, but I have no doubt the world will hear a great deal more of him in future. And now we at @generationrent.bsky.social have a big job to fill…

If the govt is to survive this, it's gonna need to socialise the term "Trumpflation", like the TUC has begun to do

Spot on that the battle for the right is not Tories vs Reform but liberalism vs grim authoritarianism.

Nick Timothy's comments stoke division when we need togetherness. Trafalgar Square hosts events celebrating a wide range of faiths and cultures (and many events that relate to none) including a Passion play over the Easter Weekend. To single out the Open Iftar is telling.

The President of the USA is now openly threatening Iran with being the target of one of the greatest crimes in world history. Trump is saying he will destroy the basis of life for more than 90 million people. He should be removed from office for this.

Keir Starmer is right to stand up to Donald Trump over Iran. While the brutal Iranian regime should rightly be condemned and international pressure applied, this war is not the right course of action.

The greatest orator of our times

He's obviously right. The Tory position on this is nuts. Why on earth would you want to tie yourself to a President who is clearly not capable of rational decision making and has no idea what he's doing? It's already not a popular conflict + it's only going to get less popular if it drags on.

Sobering to think that we would have joined a reckless war in the middle east over the weekend had Badenoch or Farage been PM. And we would be refusing to embrace an energy transition away from reliance on a deeply unstable region. Starmer's sobriety definitely an asset in the last few days.

And we were out right across Westminster again today. A marvellous group of people - councillors and supporters - working their socks off for their local communities.

Its genuinely mad that we are, arguably, the most successful multicultural state on earth and instead of celebrating that we... ...keep trying to copy nations who have very evidently done worse at it than us

The fate of the Iranian people has never been of great concern to American administrations, and this one is no exception www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Straight talking from @sadiqkhanlondon.bsky.social on the lessons we need to learn www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

This is a bruising result. Despite an excellent candidate, and a strong campaign, we’ve lost one of our safest seats. Our coalition has fragmented. There has been much focus on voters tempted by Reform. But we’ve lost more to the left, both in this byelection, the last one, and nationally.

"Labour needs to rethink its major settlement reforms" "Applying these retrospectively to people already here will create an enormous constituency of grievance that would wreck any attempt to rebalance Labour’s voice on immigration" www.thenewworld.co.uk/sunder-katwa...

'Because council tax is included in rent you can't register to vote' (which is nonsense) actually means 'please don't tell the council or HMRC that the property is let out'. Basically a confession that the landlord is iffy, in the Rightmove listing!

Extraordinary that anyone would think this could possibly be acceptable!

I love it when a plan comes together. The new Queens Park canalside is such an improvement and will only look lovelier when the new planting starts to flower. youtu.be/Yh7FCf4x-bc?...

This Labour government succeeded where the Tories failed – legislating to abolish Section 21 ‘no fault’ evictions and transform private renting. Now Reform want to repeal our Renters’ Rights Act and deny tenants the security, rights and protections they’ve secured. Disgraceful.

This is a serious and worrying failure by media - Reform need to be pressed on the core legal and moral issues at stake here

Councils in London are desperate for properties - legal duty on homelessness has remained with them despite funding cuts + kneecapping of Local Authority house building programmes. Consequently, the lack of social housing, & temp. accommodation combine to make this sort of move highly profitable.

Lovely to see Grand Junction, at Mary Mags in Westbourne, on this list- alongside all the youth and community hubs now supported by Westminster Council. We can’t let all this community investment be taken away again as it was after 2010

Jesse Jackson came to speak to students at St George’s in Maida Vale- a school which had then been in the shadow of the murder of head teacher Philip Lawrence. I had the wonderful privilege of introducing him. One London school, but he still gave it his all. Legend.

We hear way too much about angry Britain, blue-red Britain. What about the Britain of Save the Children, Oxfam, the RSPCA, the RNLI, popular environmentalism, the Britain of London's absolute triumph since its 80s nadir, its civic universities, the Britain of volunteering, giving, hoping?

London threat level latest…. Would be funny if it weren’t for the fact that this concerted undermining of London has a serious agenda

In a crowded field, this stands out as one of the most short-sighted at almost every level. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Essential reading

Well done to Sky for correcting this bit of ignorance. As shown extensively in the Epstein files there's plenty of proof that being rich doesn't mean you have any great insights into the world.

Bizarre and disturbing in equal measure. London’s far from perfect- great cities never are- but this is ground we absolutely must not concede

Children need their families. Refugee children are no different. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The Boss has spoken.

Those below the poverty line are, increasingly, well below it New @statspeter.bsky.social @katieschmuecker.bsky.social @jrf-uk.bsky.social study www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Excellent news. As is the continued commitment to end new leasehold flats. www.theguardian.com/money/2026/j...

This is the memes-to-murder pipeline in action. A far-right influencer reignited a years-long scandal over welfare fraud, which led to Tim Walz to abandon a third term and to Trump to send in ICE. It all stems from that. The stuff happening online has consequences. And it’s getting worse, fast.

Youth unemployment is down to imagined mental ill health apparently. Alternative thesis: it's largely down to what is happening in the labour market with entry level job openings massively falling. It's a demand rather than supply issue. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

We are Christopher Isherwood, watching the increasingly alarming scenes in the Berlin street below from our apartment window above.

Shares in Iceland fall on news of Trump invasion threat.

Surprise, surprise. Yusuf talking nonsense. Here's the graph with pensions stripped out. The complete opposite of what he claims. Keep numbers away from Yusuf as you would fire from a toddler.

This will get massively overshadowed today and as ever the devil is in the detail, but is should be one of the best things Labour has done. It has the potential to improve the lives and finances of millions of people. www.businessgreen.com/news/4524489...