(1)Some men will do anything to avoid talking about T̶H̶E̶I̶R̶ ̶F̶E̶E̶L̶I̶N̶G̶S̶ redistribution:ex-Starmer Speechwriter Phil Collins rightly notes Keir's govt has no cause cos post-financial crash there is no easy "surplus" to distribute. But instead of saying Labour must tax-the-rich and redistribute..

There's an additional problem for Labour's Left that the most Left Wing cabinet minister, Ed Miliband, is running 'Green' stuff -Drax, Carbon Capture & Storage, SMR mini nukes, Great British Energy, Hydrogen,which are often largely bullshit corporate subsidy & cons www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

(1)Renewal, the Journal of key Soft Left group Compass is pushing an article by Paul Mason saying Shabana Mahmood's ugly immigration bill and Starmer's "Island of Strangers" speech are really good- Mason often writes bizarre stuff, but it is more bizarre for Compass to promote this.

(1)Morgan McSweeney founded the Center For Countering Digital Hate (CCDH),an AstroTurf org which he used for a fake attack on left wing website The Canary. Now Trump is deporting CCDH boss Imran Ahmed, because they criticised Elon Musk,will McSweeney & Starmer stand up for their ally against Trump?

(1)Lewis Goodall is one of the sharpest, so him on why Starmer is hated(New Statesman)truly shows the limits of professional-politics-understandersders.He says Starmer was "well qualified", but plainly his failure shows he wasn't: Empty admin experience isn't a 'qualification '

(1)When pundits talk about "competence" , its mostly to avoid talking about politics : Starmer, once lauded by pundits for "competence" makes this clear : He isn't just stiff , awkward and weird because pundits judged badly , its because his politics are stiff, awkward and weird

New Statesman interview readying Streeting's leadership campaign . Key themes -Labour's problem is all about "communicating" (it isn't, its about them doing v little reform) - Streeting wants to embrace Labour's left ( he doesn't).Streeting will be "liberal" on migration unlike Starmer (doubt that)

Shabana Mahmood is wrong - Another cowardly attack on immigrants does not hide the incompetence of the Starmer government. Me, for the @newstatesman1913.bsky.social www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

They are quite literally cheering Shabana Mahmood and anyone who tells you different is lying to you

Robert Jenrick's campaign against working class migrants is funded by rich migrants- Migrant-owned & run finance firm Attestor funds Jenrick morningstaronline.co.uk/article/migr...

Labour Together faces revived accusations that it used unreported donor cash to help make Keir Starmer leader, and its busy Liverpool conference schedule shows how reliant the centrist group now is on sponsorship from banks, corporations and lobbyists. Full story in the new Private Eye, out now.

Cabinet reshuffle latest

Peter Mandelson still holds millions of pounds worth of shares in Global Counsel - the lobbying company he founded which represents firms including Palantir - months after Mandelson became UK Ambassador to Washington inews.co.uk/news/politic...

Boston Consulting Group are backing away from their role creating the militarised, privatised "Gaza Humanitarian Foundation" (GHF) . But the CIA agent running the mercenary firm created to guard GHF was ...a Boston Consulting adviser www.middleeasteye.net/news/ex-cia-...

Keir Starmer has a new fave Defence & Tech firm, with Team Starmer showing lots of love to Anduril : Like Palantir, Anduril are named after a Lord of The Rings object, and their chief attraction to Starmer seems to be their boss is close to Trump. In current @PrivateEyeNews

The Government Watchdog supposed to guard against anti-Terrorism laws being too repressive announced he wants to "save democracy from itself" with Cold War style "anti subversion " laws, at a right wing Think Tank funded by arms firms , in current @PrivateEyeNews

The Police should only allow Kneecap to perform in public if the band agree to have their vocals dubbed by Stephen Rea www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...

🔴 Big exclusive leading Hyphen this morning – data from 119 councils shows half didn't greenlight a SINGLE social rent home in Labour's first six months. Some of these councils have waiting lists for social housing well over 10k. Full story here 👇 hyphenonline.com/2025/05/19/h...

From the Guardian: Reform Voters like nationalisation, interventionist left economics, taxing corporations- so why don't Labour try win Reform voters with this stuff, that Labour members, voters also like ? Instead of trying to copy Reform ? It's a headscratcher

I know hacks lose their minds 15 seconds into every a focus group & decide it’s revealing Real People’s True Thoughts, but LOL mate you’re literally quoting a man demanding a coup to “make everyone conform” here

Defence Secretary John Healey said he was boosting British firms with his extra Defence spending- while announcing a £30m drone contract with a US firm , named after a Lord of The Rings sword, run by a Trump supporting Tech Bro - in current @privateeyenews.bsky.social

(1) Saw Torsten Bell on TV claiming Labour's PIP "Reforms" are in Labour's Manifesto. They are not, there is no mention of cutting PIP, or any mention of PIP at all in the manifesto . Instead, there is this sentence. Were disabled people's "views and voices" consulted by Reeves ?

Priti Patel put secret "suggestions " to Anti-Terrorism officials after she met Israeli arms firm Elbit to discuss protests against the firm. Now Anti -Terrorism laws are being used against the protestors (even after Patel has gone) novaramedia.com/2025/03/19/r...

This week's column is on how clinging on and hoping for a Labour surge either in terms of popularity or well formulated policy is now for the birds www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Britain's new , powerful anti-abortion campaign group has an all-male board, most of whom live abroad, and depends overwhelmingly on US funding - no wonder US Vice President JD Vance boosted their activities morningstaronline.co.uk/article/who-...

Starmer is about to announce cuts in disability benefits nobody in Labour, outside a small core of right wingers, want. Well, how did we get here ? Here is one answer, from Patrick Maguire's book "Get In" - Starmerism and Labour Together are just a "Lie" to catch the gullible

(1)Peter Mandelson's whole career has been sucking up to US Presidents, no matter how rotten, and Russian Oligarchs, so his demand Zelensky give "unequivocal backing" to Trump and "ceasefire" is no surprise morningstaronline.co.uk/article/mand...

Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood pushing Benefit Cuts today by saying "This is the Labour Party, the Clue is in the name" - she is using a Rachel Reeves line from 2014 -In 2021 Reeves got upset when many reminded her. She said it was careless and wrong messaging , but here were are full circle

(1)BBC News said Dodds implies Starmer was "dishonest" on aid cuts-well dishonesty is written into the Starmer project: In 2017, as Corbyn adsressed Glastonbury Crowds, Morgan McSweeney planned new group "Labour Together" with MPs Steve Reed, Lisa Nandy and funder Trevor Chinn..

This Guardian piece on possible strikes over wages claims pay strikes "crippled the economy " under the Conservatives. It's a weird and totally untrue claim - it reads like somebody has been briefing the Guardian with mad anti-strike propaganda and they just wrote it down

(1) Good work from The Observer here : US Vice President JD Vance attempts to push anti-abortion activism in the UK is backed up by US anti abortion group the "Alliance for Defending Freedom" , who are increasing activity in the UK www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

Keir Starmer says he wants to be a "Bridge between Trump and the EU" : a bridge , something you walk over , is Starmer asking Trump to walk all over him ?

Starmer trying to summon up courage to overrule Rachel Reeves - on what? 2-child benefit cap? Winter Fuel Allowance ? Taxing the rich ? No : more bombs and bullets. A country with hungry children and warships isn't strong, it's puffed up (like Starmer)

(1)Yes Trump will 'sell out' Ukraine because that's what the US does to allies. But that doesn't mean there is a 'good' war to be won: Nato are only supporting Ukraine enough for a long slow defeat, so a Land-For-Peace deal is the best option....

(3) The Labour Right group around Andrew Gwynne and Oliver Ryan were often not keen on Angela Rayner or even Starmer- using ugly snob descriptions of Rayner. From https://buff.ly/4hCvBmU

(2)The Labour Right WhatsApp group around MPs Andrew Gwynne and Oliver Ryan consistently attacked Left MPs using racist, sexist and bigoted tones - mocking disabilities. There is a real sickness in some parts of Labour (the FT tried pretending Gwynne was 'Corbynite' !)

(1)The Labour Right WhatsApp group around MPs Andrew Gwynne + Oliver Ryan tried to sabotage a Rebecca Long Bailey campaign meeting in the Labour Leadership election. This kind of dirty tricks on opponents meetings is actually how Richard Nixon started on to Watergate

Devil's Dictionary : Tedious : Adj 'Completely right when I was wrong. Makes me look like a dick' *Tediously this social media rando was completely correct about Starmer , when people like me who are paid for knowing about politics talked rubbish*

1/ I was actually in a Left Wing WhatsApp group "exposed" by media: They found no vile sexist Angela Rayner 'jokes' or anti Diane Abbott racism: They just found left wing journalists wanting to talk to Team Corbyn. So not all political WhatsApp is vile... www.buzzfeed.com/markdistefan...

Wes Streeting's new NHS adviser Camilla Cavendish said the NHS was “a bloated state” , arguing “the writing is on the wall: a tax-funded free healthcare system is looking ever less sustainable ", called for more NHS "market reforms "(2nd story)

New "transparency" documents show loads of Ministers SpAds got free Taylor Swift tickets too, with lobbyists and the Editor of the Sun schmoozing Govt advisers, as Taylor Swift tickets became The Top Lobbying Currency morningstaronline.co.uk/article/they...

"Can't we shut down the cult of Thatcher" asks Polly Toynbee. Well loads of grassroots Labour members and voters backed a genuine break with Thatcher, but Toynbee said stick with centrists like Starmer, who keeps the Thatcher cult going. A real break takes courage Toynbee lacks

Business Sec Jonathan Reynolds before the election (2023 Industrial Strategy) - says Tories rely on deregulation and it doesn't deliver Growth vs Keir Starmer's first phone call with Trump : "We are deregulating to boost growth"

Is govt subsidising Carbon Capture + Storage (CCS) a big public sector rip off ? One bad sign is CCS top lobbyist also helps run a "disastrous for taxpayers" scandal outsourcing deal that leaves military families in poorly insulated damp mouldy houses morningstaronline.co.uk/article/baro...

The Department of Health (DHSC) accidentally sent Private Eye magazine the list of issues new DHSC director Alan Milburn is supposed not to discuss, including 'nutrition'+ 'obesity' (cos he works for Mars Bars) or private hospital owner Bridgepoint Capital or consultants PwC (see current issue)

When people talk about the "White Working Class", they are not talking Class Politics, they are talking Identity Politics- because "White Working Class" is an Identity, not a Class

(1)Tim Shipman'srevelation that the Press exposed Boris Johnson over "partygate" because, er, Dominic Cummings WhatsApped his pals in the Press with the story made me chuckle because it also reminded me of how allergic the media where to any trace of "Corbynism" www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Leave aside all the kids the IDF are killing- does this look like a hostage rescue? The hostages held here sit under the same roofs, eat the same bread. Netenyahu doesn't want the hostages back, nor does any govt -like ours - arming srael:The claimed 'moral' case for war is dust

(1)While Alison Pearson's tweet was IMHO prejudiced, racist even, it was out-of-order for the Cops to visit her home. But how any journalist can get upset about Pearson while just ignoring an anti-terror police raid on journalist Asa Winstanley's home,siezing his laptop....

Everyone has shopworkers in their novels, apart from the British fiction scene. O'Donoghue's "The Rachel Incident ", Waldman's "Help Wanted ", Murata's "Convenience Store Woman" ( with thoughts on UK vs Irish vs US fiction scenes) morningstaronline.co.uk/article/shop-f…