Fascinating @matildamartin.bsky.social read: Could Andy Burnham Be About To Reform The Student Loan System? www.politicshome.com/news/article...

It begins www.politicshome.com/news/article...

Well now. www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...

Sometimes you get the timing of a reporting trip just right... www.politicshome.com/news/article...

A great piece from us on young people's despair over AI and whether govt is doing enough to help www.politicshome.com/news/article...

Another brilliant post. I’m a fully paid up member of the Dillow fan club

A great piece by Noah Vickers on Reform's plans to get rid of the Equality Act, a move that it seems could have rather amusing unintended consequences for them www.politicshome.com/news/article...

"There is obviously a particular irony that groups producing anti-Muslim content are run by Muslims themselves, but we are seeing these groups being run globally." www.politicshome.com/news/article...

Exc: A senior Lib Dem has told @matildamartin.bsky.social that they and colleagues are "astonished" & "pissed off" after it emerged that Lord Rennard had the whip restored by the party amid an investigation into claims he sexually harassed female members "I'm incandescent that we have done this"

The inside story of how Reform lost Makerfield www.politicshome.com/news/article...

What a piece

Fell down an online rabbit hole and learned about a man who in 1983 decided to create a scale to rate the pain of insect stings, I’m dying at how committed to this project he got

These heatwaves show leadership cannot mean stepping back from climate action - important piece from @alistrathern.bsky.social www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...

There was a remarkably large contingent of freaks like Christopher Booker telling us this wasn’t a thing to sweat when I was growing up. Don’t seem to hear so many of them now

An interesting and thoughtful piece from George Eustice on what Labour should do on Brexit www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...

Sheer PTSD prevented me from doing very well on this www.politicshome.com/news/article...

Politics eh, bloody hell www.politicshome.com/news/article...

CB's (excellent) quote makes the Times diary, almost 120 years after his death. He'd appreciate the irony: the Times was very bitchy about him; it once described him as a 'warming-pan', from which neither light nor heat can be expected. "Nevertheless, a 'warming-pan' has its uses".

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Lib Dem deep dive with @zoecrowther.bsky.social 💥strategy "rethink" underway at top of the party 💥acceptance among senior Lib Dems that it is time to look at changing the approach 💥party undergoing policy overhaul- key areas of discussion include the economy, welfare, and a bolder stance on the EU

A great piece from Lord Cryer on Makerfield's historical antecedent www.politicshome.com/news/article...

NEW: Elon Musk’s xAI is trying to force four people suing it over sexual deepfake images created with Grok to drop their public anonymity. The company asked a judge to overturn a ruling allowing the use of pseudonyms. One person was allegedly depicted as a child in the images, the lawsuit says

😮 www.politicshome.com/news/article...

Here’s our story about the failure of the Soft Power Council, from last week’s House magazine. www.politicshome.com/news/article...

Fascinating piece

Excellent piece: Seven PMs in ten years? How British politics got into this mess www.thetimes.com/article/d140...

There were people getting annoyed last week because we'd reported *the Health Secretary had resigned*. We didn't make 100 MPs come out against the PM; the local election results did. Bored of criticism of political journalists for reporting that politics is happening.

There is a case that everything that's happened this week in Westminster is, to be frank, displacement activity. www.politicshome.com/news/article...

Hmmmm but then he's not an MP sooooo

Our team just remembered we don't have a health secretary. Hope no10 haven't forgotten too.

I think Andy Burnham should lobby the General Synod to pass a Measure appointing him as Archbishop of Canterbury and then become PM from the Lords Spiritual.

This feature has some horror lines in it www.politicshome.com/news/article...

Significant Burnham story from @siennarodgers.bsky.social and @tomscotson.bsky.social www.politicshome.com/news/article...

There is a lot going on at the moment, but away from the psychodrama we've just published this interview with Rishi Sunak on AI. It's very good. www.politicshome.com/news/article...

A very good take imo

The Reform Wave Reaches Kemi Badenoch's Backyard www.politicshome.com/news/article...

Labour can't afford to ignore Andy Burnham www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...

"The largest rise revealed in the data is at Staffordshire County Council, where there has been a 1,300 per cent increase in the number of complaints since Reform UK won control at the 2025 local elections a year ago." www.politicshome.com/news/article...

Why Hannah Spencer should come with me to Strangers’ for a drink www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...

ooft. www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...

“A woman in Richmond upon Thames can expect roughly 70 healthy years. In Hartlepool, she might be fortunate to reach 51.” www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...

A really striking and I hope inspirational weekend read from @zoecrowther.bsky.social - meet two of the new generation of mayors trying to encourage the young to engage with politics www.politicshome.com/news/article...

might be single greatest act of trolling in British journalism www.theguardian.com/stage/ng-int...

Student loans: "a retrospectively rewritten graduate tax that punishes aspiration, entrenches inequality, and falls hardest on women at every stage of their working lives." www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...

Current status of the Strait of Hormuz dispute

Not everything online is bad blockclubchicago.org/2026/04/10/f...

Another very wise piece

Today we reveal students could take legal action after over a dozen universities wrongly classified their courses as being eligible for maintenance loans, leading to thousands being told they owed money www.politicshome.com/news/article...

An important report from Justine Smith on the 13-fold increase in the use of court orders that deny children freedom to move and associate in the last seven years www.politicshome.com/news/article...

Big story from us: Over A Dozen Universities Wrongly Spent £190m Of Taxpayers' Money On Student Loans www.politicshome.com/news/article...