This is crazy, unwarranted, they should not be punishing dual nationals! (Also, unclear if it applies to Irish citizens without current British passport (such as me, I havent bothered renewing my British one as for the moment the Irish one seemed more useful)?) www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

@hsj.co.uk how do I resubscribe as an individual freelance journalist, please? (Quite urgent, so I tried calling the sales line but no answer!)

Wes Streeting exploiting gaping holes in our transparency regime to pursue back channels with tech lobbyists, is it? www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Romeo's behaviour during Brexit, when it appeared she was made Trade perm sec based on her eagerness to signal alignment with Boris et al, also ought to be disqualifying in my view.

It's quite extraordinary that they thought any of these people would do a better job than Karen Pierce, who did not need to be replaced! It wasn't like there was a vacancy that had to be filled.

The ruling from the High Court slams as inappropriate, Cooper’s justification of proscription on the basis it made it operationally more easier to police PA. I suspect Cooper’s prime mistake was (reportedly) using this incredibly flimsy briefing from Luke Akehurst‘a old crew.

*whisper it* Maybe Yvette Cooper shouldn’t have listened to Luke Akehurst’s old crew after all bsky.app/profile/caro...

'Mr Goodwin also appeared to agree with the host’s claim that universities have become hotbeds of “politically correct authoritarianism” because they are full of “childless women”.'

Green grafter vs Reform grifter Nicely done

Something's going on in Gorton

“Only the highest quality candidates” has turned into a desperate scramble for *anyone* willing to stand for Labour, even in historically safe council seats, according to a leaked report www.lbc.co.uk/article/labo...

Remember how I spent the last ten years saying the problem is the Thatcherite consensus going kaboom forever in 2008, and the entire political/media class hunkering down in a defensive circle around its flaming corpse, all guns pointed outwards? The editor of the New Statesman seems to agree.

McSweeney: keen on paedophiles’ pals Glasman: wants Farage for US ambassador Nandy: cant call out Ratcliffe’s racism, says he makes good points Mahmood: wasting public £ so she can keep arresting pensioners with placards Can we just agree Blue Labour is morally bankrupt & put it out of its misery?

So what happened to all that evidence Yvette Cooper couldn't talk about yet?

Now would be a really good time for the “real Keir” that some are claiming exists, to stand up and say yes we’ve had quite enough of this authoritarian Blue Labour tripe, thanks Shabana you can pipe down now, no we won’t be appealing.

Excellent column on the Epstein class, vibe shifts, and how Americans across the spectrum are no longer relaxed about people being obscenely rich www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/o...

How much of our ££ are this government going to waste appealing, so they can carry on labelling pensioners with placards, “terrorists”? For shame. This government needs a total reset. The enemy is not ordinary citizens with placards. It is people so rich they think normal rules don’t apply to them.

The banning of PA would have set a terrible precedent that would absolutely have been used in future against other protest groups, violent or not. It's a huge win for UK society that that banning has been judged unlawful.

This whole thing hasn't been about whether you support Palestine Action, or agree with them. It's been about whether the government should have the power to ban any expressions of support for a group involved in sabotage and civil disobedience, but not a campaign of mass violence.

High Court’s judgment finding the proscription of Palestine Action was an unjustified interference with rights to freedom of association and assembly under arts 10/11 ECHR, and inconsistent with the Home Secretary’s own policy. www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/u...

A court has ruled that the government's authoritarian ban on Palestine Action was unlawful. Time to stop criminalising the people protesting a genocide - and start ending the UK's complicity.

Massive vindication for Palestine Action and for all of us who pointed to this huge government overreach. Those held for many months without bail must be released today. Time for a total reset away from this authoritarian bullsh*t www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live...

YES!!!!!

I thought the mooted new Cabinet Secretary’s name rang a bell, here she is easing Mosley & Palantir into the top echelons of government/NHS @coricrider.com @goodlawproject.org @justtreatment.org @zackpolanski.bsky.social @adrianramsay.bsky.social @johnmcdonnellmp.bsky.social @eddavey.libdems.org.uk

Wow…. this report of how Palantir *lapped up* the fascist family history when it made Louis Mosley its UK VP is… quite something

an awful lot of fuss about the likely new cabinet secretary’s taste in shoes and so on, seems to me this is more relevant 👇

The Antonia Romeo who did more than most to saddle us with Palantir? That Antonia Romeo?

Just going to leave this here

Do please respond to this consultation and push back on the government's sickening proposals to fuck up the security of our colleagues, neighbours carers and friends. Closes tonight. www.gov.uk/government/c...

Important thread on the new cancer strategy 👇

I think the tragedy of Lisa Nandy is that she isnt interested in anything but politics (not a good look for a culture media & sport secretary), & she also isn’t good at politics. She got somewhere by being the only woman in the whole of Blue Labour but now there’s Mahmood bsky.app/profile/did:...

Lisa Nandy really is pretty hopeless

Lisa Nandy really is pretty hopeless

And all credit to him for doing exactly that. Absolutely right. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Where they are allowed to, immigrants generally work hard and pay their taxes. Tax-dodging Jim Ratcliffe, by contrast, used a charity to "fund a £16m luxury clubhouse for an exclusive French Alps club [25k joining fee, annual subs 6k] where he and his daughter have skied for years."

135k views later, the challenge that the journalists are spreading false claims gets a footnoted tweet saying the numbers are wrong.

Will Downing Street call this out, and show that McSweeney’s departure has actually made a difference, or will they just carry on cowering in the face of racism and let other people carry the consequences?

the citizens of Birmingham have had to pay a heavy price, ultimately to pay for a “botched IT project”, which is another way of saying “a project to buy some massive amount of shit IT off of Blair‘s mate Larry Ellison, which spiralled to 10 times the initial cost“ www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Rip them up and start again

@georgemonbiot.bsky.social absolutely on the nose as usual about Mandelson, and about Gordon Brown, who seems to have conveniently forgotten that a Mandelson did precisely the job Brown brought him into do www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

it really boils down to who do you hate more, rich sex abusers or the left, and I’m afraid that from Thatcher to Starmer we’ve been run by people for whom the answer to that question is “the left”

We heard this point made powerfully at our recent holocaust memorial event

why are there so many Matts though

it really boils down to who do you hate more, rich sex abusers or the left, and I’m afraid that from Thatcher to Starmer we’ve been run by people for whom the answer to that question is “the left”

These people are not very subtle

a reminder that Tim Allan, who quit Starmer's Downing St today, previously spun for....not only Kazakhstan and Qatar but also Vladimir Putin’s government www.ft.com/content/a0a8...

I mean, in the general scheme of things…

So Glasman is allowed to parade all over the weekend chat shows, Trevor Phillips etc, boasting ”I told you so” re Mandelson - yet no-one asks him about sleazing up to Bannon, or the fact that his answer was *Lord Farage as US ambassador*? Man is an embarassing crank, & still far too close to power.

He’s right of course that the tax will be on wealth, represented by assets here that will be taxed on whoever’s hands they are in.

Much the same as with Karen Pierce and the US ambo appointment, Starmer actually had someone who could have been director of comms, Steph Driver, who gave years of hard work and professionalism in opposition but then got a succession of people promoted over her for no apparent reason