My scoop from earlier today. Your Party has been advised by the Information Commissioner’s Office to refer its unauthorised membership launch on 18 September to the police @newstatesman1913.bsky.social

SCOOP: Your Party advised to refer unauthorised membership launch to police. @newstatesman1913.bsky.social www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...

SCOOP: Zarah Sultana’s unauthorised launch of a Your Party membership portal should be referred to the police, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has advised. Belter from @meganekenyon.bsky.social www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

The Muppets Christmas Carol is the best Dickens adaptation 🌲 @meganekenyon.bsky.social

Is Your Party doomed to petty squabbling forever? Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana must decide whether to build a mass movement or a smaller, more radical force 🖊️ @meganekenyon.bsky.social

Inside the battle to lead Your Party The rivalry between Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana has devolved into factionalism and feuding 🖊️ @meganekenyon.bsky.social

Great interview with Jeremy Corbyn by the brilliant @meganekenyon.bsky.social - who knows all there is to know about the alternative left in Britain:

If you want the inside track on what’s been going on with Your Party, there is no one better than @meganekenyon.bsky.social And as their inaugural conference looms this weekend, here she is getting to the bottom of what Jeremy Corbyn thinks about it all www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

EXC🚨: Jeremy Corbyn apologises to those who are disappointed with the launch of Your Party. In an interview with @newstatesman1913.bsky.social, Corbyn said: "I’m sorry if you are at all disappointed.. any misdemeanours on my part, of course, I apologise. But I want to make things work.”

Exclusive: Ex Labour MP to defect to the Green Party Lloyd Russell-Moyle will announce his defection tomorrow @meganekenyon.bsky.social

Starmer doesn't understand Green voters. A wealth tax would be a better way to woo Green voters than a trip to Cop30. 🖊️ @meganekenyon.bsky.social

Ed Miliband: “pessimism never won a single fucking victory” The Energy Secretary used Labour conference to argue for net zero’s future – and his own 🖊️ @meganekenyon.bsky.social

Is the government about to lift the two-child benefit cap? Pre-conference pressure means the policy could be abolished next week. But why has it taken so long? 🖊️ @meganekenyon.bsky.social

Labour votes to recognise the war in Gaza as a genocide At Labour Party conference, members voted to accept the findings of a recent UN report 🖊️ @meganekenyon.bsky.social

My feature in this week's agenda-setting New Statesman about the growing threat to Labour from the left. Pick up a copy at Labour Conference this weekend!

Labour vs the left While Keir Starmer focuses on the threat of Reform and the populist right, is his real problem a resurgent progressive politics? 🖊️ @meganekenyon.bsky.social

Where is Zarah Sultana? The Your Party co-founder has been conspicuously absent from Jeremy Corbyn’s membership portal launch earlier today. What does this mean for the future of this nascent left-wing movement? My analysis for the New Statesman.

Dale Vince: “I’m the original eco-populist” 🗣️ @meganekenyon.bsky.social speaks to Dale Vince about the need for climate change firebrands

The UK recognises a Palestinian state Keir Starmer’s announcement follows Israel’s failure to take “substantive steps” to end the war in Gaza. @meganekenyon.bsky.social

Can Zarah Sultana and Jeremy Corbyn ever reconcile? Despite “diplomatic efforts” to bring the two sides together, their split appears to have deepened. My analysis for @newstatesman.com

Can Zarah Sultana and Jeremy Corbyn ever reconcile? As one side instructs defamation lawyers, the other asserts that a new party is still on the cards. 🖊️ @meganekenyon.bsky.social

What's going on with Your Party? @meganekenyon.bsky.social joins me on today's @newstatesman.com podcast to explain, as does Ethan Croft, making his NS debut as we try to untangle the split between Zarah Sultana and Jeremy Corbyn www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTn4...

Exclusive: What Roger Hallam learned in prison The eco-radical speaks exclusively to the New Statesman. 🗣️ @meganekenyon.bsky.social

Good piece by @meganekenyon.bsky.social. It's cool to say you're proud to be English - the Lionesses are reaching a different demographic to other sports/teams - and it's a counter to the right's ethnonationalism. www.newstatesman.com/culture/spor...

"This is the England Gareth Southgate wanted... That it has arrived via the success of a Dutch-led (the Lionesses’ head coach is former Netherland’s player Sarina Wiegman) women’s team is perhaps the way it had to happen." Love this by @meganekenyon.bsky.social www.newstatesman.com/culture/spor...

My piece @newstatesman.com on the British-left's attitudes to the Israel-Iran conflict following last night's events. The left certainly will not back the UK following Trump into this war, making any further alignment with the US politically dangerous for Starmer.

I wrote about the two amendments being brought to the Crime and Policing bill which could decriminalise abortion and why - even though this *must* happen - it is better to handle this precious and sensitive issue with care. For @newstatesman.com www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...

Angela Rayner is the real winner of the spending review. My piece for @newstatesman.com www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...

“If voting took place today, Wales would probably have its first Plaid Cymru first minister. Where did it all go wrong for Labour?” - @meganekenyon.bsky.social on #Senedd26 in #Cymru #Wales www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

“We need to completely reset the idea that it’s OK to be dishonest in public life.” For this week's edition of @newstatesman.com I interviewed @mikebernerslee.bsky.social about his fiery new book, A Climate of Truth.

The Energy Secretary wants to future-proof Net Zero from the threat of Reform. 🖊️ @meganekenyon.bsky.social: Ed Miliband's plan to marginalise Nigel Farage

Reform’s “British DOGE” when they finish up looking at Kent Council:

Nominations for the The Green Party leadership election open today - read my piece on why a victory for @zackpolanski.bsky.social won’t just be significant for the Green party — it could cause trouble for Labour too.

Zack Polanski threatens to upend the project, can he succeed? 🌲 @meganekenyon.bsky.social on the Green Party's internal war

Speaking at today’s Compass conference at the Ministry of Sound, Andy Burnham calls on the govt to “think again” on disability benefits cuts - “please don’t make those cuts”

For last week's edition @newstatesman.com guest edited by Gordon Brown, I interviewed Ian Byrne the MP for Liverpool West Derby and co-founder of Fans Supporting Foodbanks. We discussed tackling poverty, Hillsborough, and why hunger is "a political choice". www.newstatesman.com/spotlight/po...

The government look set to u-turn on the 2-child benefit cap: in July, the party suspended the whip from 7 MPs, 3 of whom remain independent. Two questions remain, however: will Starmer’s Labour readmit the remaining rebels? And how likely are they to say yes to coming back? @newstatesman.com 👇

The government look set to u-turn on the 2-child benefit cap: in July, the party suspended the whip from 7 MPs, 3 of whom remain independent. Two questions remain, however: will Starmer’s Labour readmit the remaining rebels? And how likely are they to say yes to coming back? @newstatesman.com 👇

Could a new green Labour faction cause trouble for Ed Miliband? My piece for @newstatesman.com www.newstatesman.com/spotlight/su...

Does Labour seriously want to "castrate the paedos"??? @newstatesman.com (Definitely not a piece I expected to write when I woke up this morning !) www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

Privately, however, the party’s backbenches are, as one MP put it to me “almost universally pissed off”. 🖊️ @meganekenyon.bsky.social: Starmer faces his unhappy backbenchers

Starmer faced his back-benchers at tonight’s tense meeting of the PLP - and promised to take on Reform directly. Insiders described the mood among MPs as “very subdued”. @newstatesman.com www.newstatesman.com/politics/the...

It's George Osborne's world, we're all just living in it... A brilliant cover story from Will in this week's New Statesman.

Joshua Reynold's beloved painting contains the hidden story of my socialite ancestor, whose life spanned England, France and America. 🖼️ @meganekenyon.bsky.social: Portrait of an 18th-century It girl

Joanna Bennett Lloyd, painted here by Sir Joshua Reynolds in 1776, was an 18th century “it-girl”, whose life spanned England, France and America. She is also my great-great-great-great-great grandmother. I wrote about her for @newstatesman.com

Thought this was a good and illuminating interview with Zack Polanski by @meganekenyon.bsky.social. This paragraph in particular raised my eyebrows…!

Zack Polanski announced his intention to run to be leader of the Green party this week, on a platform of “eco-populism”. If elected, Polanski hopes to pose a new challenge to the government from the left. I spoke to him for @newstatesman.com👇(link in next post!)

Reform took control of 10 councils last week and Nigel Farage has big plans for local government 'DOGE'. But as I have reported previously, the sector has long been periled by financial challenges - Reform may find there is simply no money left. My piece for @newstatesman.com 👇

The party will soon discover councils have almost no money left. 📫 Today’s Morning Call, with @meganekenyon.bsky.social: Reform faces an uphill battle in power

Reform took control of 10 councils last week and Nigel Farage has big plans for local government 'DOGE'. But as I have reported previously, the sector has long been periled by financial challenges - Reform may find there is simply no money left. My piece for @newstatesman.com 👇