🚨Exclusive: Half of voters who backed Labour at the last general election have deserted the party, according to internal polling shared with Labour MPs www.politicshome.com/news/article...

Wake up babe, new Ansell just dropped benansell.substack.com/p/labour-at-...

Here's a piece from us about a much meatier and - in the long-term - likely more consequential Labour split than the recent flash of No10 nonsense www.politicshome.com/news/article...

Labour MPs Say No 10 Briefing Has Increased Wes Streeting’s Chances Of Becoming PM www.politicshome.com/news/article...

EXC: The Conservatives have introduced an optional streamlined selection process for local election candidates, as they struggle to find people to stand for election

One good thing about US journalism is the widely held belief that media correspondents should have complete freedom to report on their own institutions The BBC is liveblogging the Panorama fiasco, yet I can see few of the details on the staff all-hands reported here... deadline.com/2025/11/bbc-...

This is very good from @cjayanetti.bsky.social and the quotes from the Reform spokesperson actually made me smirk.

Scoop from @cjayanetti.bsky.social - Reform-led council is planning to double council tax on second homes six months after Nigel Farage denounced such policies as “madness” www.politicshome.com/news/article...

I will say that giving an interview saying "we definitely fucked up" is an interesting approach to receiving a letter before action

And / or a window

hang on how big were the mosquitos

Michael Prescott's report makes vital points about the importance of being accurate, and also how difficult that is. For instance, he describes himself as having been Political Editor of the Sunday Times for 10 years, which is not what the Guardian reported when he left the job.

Lovers of BBC procedure will no doubt have enjoyed the BBC chair telling BBC News it's possible that Trump will sue the BBC at 12.52pm, and for BBC News to then report it has learned Trump has threatened legal action at 13.28 pm.

Anyway, here’s our piece from June about the charter renewal www.politicshome.com/news/article...

As far as the political class is concerned, the BBC has always been Batman at the end of the Dark Knight. “We’ll hunt him. Because he can take it.” Everyone thinks it’s biased according to their prejudices. Every government can show they’re intervening to fix this. And that works for all.

Oates really is the Devon Malcolm of posters. Wildly erratic but catch her on the wrong day and you might suddenly find she’s taken 9-57

Bob. Mortimer. First name on the team sheet

Fond memories of fawning newspaper profiles a few years ago about “the footballer who reads Nietzsche”

Here’s a great analysis of the council tax conundrum by @cjayanetti.bsky.social www.politicshome.com/news/article...

This new decision to stage The Running Man once a week in real life rather than commissioning any good TV shows seems questionable

More Your Party drama www.politicshome.com/news/article...

In important news from history today, it is (although I’m sure you don’t need me to tell you) the joyful 10th birthday of this unimprovable tweet

An interview with Defence Committee chair Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi: the UK is ‘not in a state of readiness’ for war www.politicshome.com/news/article...

Reform has lost over 5% of councillors it had elected six months ago A @matildamartin.bsky.social deep dive into the councils won by Farage's party in May found what a local government expert called "unusual" levels of churn Exclusions, suspensions and resignations have taken place nationwide

Absolutely wild story this www.bbc.com/news/article...

Westminster’s response to Musk era Twitter has been to oblige the cops to release ethnicities and watch conspiracy theories pile up regardless www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Reform UK has lost more than 5 per cent of the councillors it had elected six months ago: analysis by @matildamartin.bsky.social www.politicshome.com/news/article...

The afterword of Le Carre’s The Russia House has an excellent anecdote about his visit to Russia

This is terribly sad www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

I think I can hear @benansell.bsky.social exploding from here

Thought the Times had been hoaxed. Turns out to be so much better than that

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I'm almost certain this is also a Viz Profanisaurus entry

David Lammy: key Labour centrist dad www.politicshome.com/news/article...

How To Avoid Concreting Cowpats (And Other AI BS) www.politicshome.com/news/article...

It really feels like we've taken some significant backwards steps when it comes to social media companies' commitment to hosing the truth online

[email protected] was victim of an AI replica announcing his “defection” from the Conservative Party to Reform. He writes for us on the law's inability to protect him www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...

A succession of badly drawn-up outsourcing contracts? If only someone had written a book on this unusual phenomenon www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Important story from @cjayanetti.bsky.social - Rise In SEND Requests As Parents Fear Upcoming Reforms www.politicshome.com/news/article...

Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales Warns Of "Political Showdown" With UK Government Over Online Safety Act www.politicshome.com/news/article...

I do think this sort of open, gutter racism becoming normal enough that they feel comfortable saying it on TV is probably the most damning indictment of the last 5 years.

Exclusive: Lord Hermer is a defendant in a civil suit he drafted and represented until weeks before the 2024 election, which implicates the previous Labour government in complicity in torture www.politicshome.com/news/article...

Quite the story: www.politicshome.com/news/article...

Massively underrated element to the spy case is I think the fact they weren’t confident these people even counted as spies, which is very indicative of how info gathering works these days www.thetimes.com/article/bfb2...

We've published a really interesting piece from a head of maths on the use of AI in the classroom www.politicshome.com/news/article...

Baroness Kidron: “We are racing headlong into an AI-driven future without basic safeguards in place” www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...

The single justice procedure remains insane www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/m...

Damian Green on why we should scrap the triple lock www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...

The Daily Star's livestream of the Liz Truss lettuce has been acquired by the British Film Institute's National Archive for a collection of significant pieces of online video. The BFI's curator said it was "a seminal moment in British political history" www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-...

A long-awaited definition is expected to refer to “anti-Muslim hostility” as the government prepares to move away from the term Islamophobia, PolHome understands Sources stress that any new definition, which could come as soon as in the next few weeks, must focus on protecting people, not religion