Dinner with Peter Mandelson open.substack.com/pub/suzannem...

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre.... nuanced well argued @pollytoynbee.bsky.social But I would hope the great majority of Labour MPs, members, voters and potential voters want to put up the strongest contender, setting aside factionalisms of small difference in the face of a grave national threat”

"If the Lords block this, it should be their last gasp." - @pollytoynbee.bsky.social @theguardian.com #AssistedDying

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@pollytoynbee.bsky.social in @theguardian.com exposes deliberate filibustering of the assisted dying Bill by a small group of long-opposed Peers. She captures growing frustration at, and rising pressure, on hardline opponents to allow the Bill to move forward. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

'There is no sign yet of either happening. It’s said that Starmer worries about two religious figures in his cabinet who are outspoken opponents, but Wes Streeting and Shabana Mahmood have had their shout and would hardly resign over this.' @pollytoynbee.bsky.social

Trump has crossed all lines: it is time to cut off his global credit card

@pollytoynbee.bsky.social you are right to point to good experiences with the NHS. I am certainly enjoying excellent treatment. The more important point you make is that waiting lists are falling fastest in areas of greatest need. This needs to be trumpeted. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This is an important cause - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/fa...

It's true that Labour hasn't done nearly enough to publisise the good thing its done 2025, so @pollytoynbee.bsky.social has written this to help!

@pollytoynbee.bsky.social I don’t think I have ever felt more passionately about a government succeeding. Your piece made me quite emotional. @teamlabouruk.bsky.social is doing so much good where it matters. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A friend keeps a similar ‘the good things the govt is doing and no one seems to know’ list. A real boost to see this by @pollytoynbee.bsky.social - we really need Labour to be able to communicate this vision clearly too instead of wooing Reform voters!

BREAKING: Labour's landmark Employment Rights Bill has PASSED both Houses of Parliament. Its new rights will be transformational. This is a massive step forward in delivering Labour's New Deal for Working People - passed by a Labour Government, delivered with the labour movement. Let's celebrate 🎉

Lines are open 📞 Phone in to our 2025 telethon and speak to your favourite journalists from the Guardian on 0203 353 4368. We'll be accepting donations by credit or debit card. You can also support the 2025 charity appeal at theguardian.com/charityappeal25bsk

"With the US threatening to support ‘patriotic’ parties here, we need better defences" @pollytoynbee.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... More wise words from @pollytoynbee.bsky.social on #brexit harms

Quite the correction by the Telegraph. The publication in question is @freemovement.bsky.social

@pollytoynbee.bsky.social I do so hope that Labour MPs read your article. I quote ‘it should make the most of power, ignore unpopularity and fearlessly do what it knows must be done.’ I was why I voted for them. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Timely warning from @pollytoynbee.bsky.social The hard right is out to destroy the BBC (for both commercial & ideological reasons) just as Trump’s Maga are doing in the USA. They want to replace facts with propaganda. Dangerous times. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The BBC's senior leadership resigning en masse over one dodgy edit in one programme, simply because the right wing press demands it, tells you everything you need to know about where the power really lies in that relationship

One nice detail that can easily be lost in this graph - even right wingers trust the BBC more than the right wing tabloids

“The Guardian asked Farage if he still adheres to his lifelong support for Proportional Representation. Silence. It’s become clear he has changed his mind, now that our wildly distorting First Past the Post system is his only path to power.” ✒️ @pollytoynbee.bsky.social

only in the small print of this article do they make clear that the pensioners paying an extra £2,500 of tax would have to have “earnings over £125,140” I know many pensioners are asset rich but how many have income at that level?

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Wise words from @pollytoynbee.bsky.social here Note also #brexit has taken away £110bn of spending @uklabour.bsky.social please note

🗣@otsfestival.bsky.social is just around the corner! Grab your tickets to @martinplaut.bsky.social's event: Unbroken Chains: A 5,000-Year History of African Enslavement. ‘An eye-opening revelation and a transfixing read.’ @pollytoynbee.bsky.social 🗓12th October ⏰2 pm GMT 🎟️ tinyurl.com/4xbeayve

And that's a wrap! You can watch back our event - Snakes and ladders: The shifting sands of wealth in Britain - with @pollytoynbee.bsky.social Professor Mike Savage @mollybroome.bsky.social & Lord Willetts here www.resolutionfoundation.org/events/snake...

Some very kind words in @pollytoynbee.bsky.social's latest column about Full Fact, "the exceptionally valuable UK factchecker whose word is a gold standard for honesty" - she highlights the financial challenges we and other fact checkers are currently facing www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Kinnock is one of the finest proponents of progressive thought in this country and the best prime minister we never had.

🎤 💬 Tonight's annual Jeremy Tunstall Lecture with @pollytoynbee.bsky.social and David Walker at @citystgeorges.

@pollytoynbee.bsky.social makes the clear social democratic case for taxation. Which Cabinet minister will be bold enough to follow? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Finding today harder than yesterday. As so many British Jews have said, the attack wasn't a surprise. But the instant protests, plus the stream of "takes" explaining why Israel is actually to blame and it's fine to target a Synagogue if it has "Zionist" ties... That's harder. Maybe time to log off

@pollytoynbee.bsky.social : The core argument against leaving the #ECHR is not that it would harm trade, or hinder the fight against crime, but that it would place the UK outside the family of civilised nations that respect the rule of law & uphold human rights. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Councillors keep winning with less than a third of the vote – what can England and Wales learn from Scotland? electoral-reform.org.uk/councillors-... Electoral Reform Society – ERS

Worth coming back to this @pollytoynbee.bsky.social piece. “ID cards are a social democratic cause, because they help define security not only as border controls for who comes in, but as the right for everyone here to share in our mutual social security.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

One of the most important things to do in the face of Christian nationalism (as with any ethnic nationalism) is to name it. Then civil society and politicians start to have the tools to understand it and take it on. Bravo to @pollytoynbee.bsky.social 👏 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Writing in the Guardian, @pollytoynbee.bsky.social calls out dangerous supremacism: “On the Robinson march in London, the great wooden crosses looked like armaments… The marchers’ “Christ is King” flags declared a radicalised ethno-supremacism.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Labour’s refusal to implement Jenkins was in retrospect one of its greatest mistake. I’m sure @pollytoynbee.bsky.social was aghast, but I wonder who else was? I suppose it’s still on the shelf and could be put to a referendum or put in a manifesto very quickly.

From religious state schools, to the legalisation of assisted dying, @pollytoynbee.bsky.social guarantees to address some of the hard hitting questions of today. Join Polly and @andrewcopson.bsky.social 14 August, 12:15-13:15 @standcomedyclub.bsky.social #edfringe www.edfringe.com/tickets/what...

Not long to go now! We're at @edfringe.bsky.social 12-15 August for 'Conversations with the godless', featuring @pollytoynbee.bsky.social, @petertatchell.bsky.social, and Robin Ince – hosted by @andrewcopson.bsky.social. We hope to see you there! #edfringe www.edfringe.com/tickets

Starmer's EU ententes with Macron and Merz bring us closer - but the ever -wise and elegant writer GartonAsh explains why we must go faster: start with the customs union. We pay towards our common defence with no seat at the EU table www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...