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“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.” ✒️
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It’s the Nigel Farage chameleon show – flashy, ever-changing pledges, but only one real policy: xenophobia | Polly Toynbee
The Reform leader’s speech was full of contradictions and damaging cuts. But if he makes it to No 10, Labour will be to blame, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/03/nigel-farage-chameleon-xenophobia-reform
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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?
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The right wants to destroy our fragile faith in the NHS – don’t let that happen | Polly Toynbee
The service is a symbol of our shared values as a nation. No wonder divisive forces in politics and the press are working to undermine it, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/07/nhs-right-faith-service-nation-politics-press?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Wise words from
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here Note also
#brexit
has taken away £110bn of spending
@uklabour.bsky.social
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What kind of country puts its pensioners ahead of children in poverty? | Polly Toynbee
As long as a third of children are living below the poverty line, the government cannot justify keeping the pensions triple lock, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/24/children-pensioners-poverty-line-pensions-triple-lock?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Ed Miliband’s new green jobs will bring Britain hope. I dare Reform to denounce them | Polly Toynbee
While Nigel Farage promotes retro plans to reopen coalmines, will he really tell thousands of clean energy workers to leave their well-paid, local jobs, asks Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/21/ed-miliband-new-green-jobs-britain-hope-reform?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Ed Miliband’s new green jobs will bring Britain hope. I dare Reform to denounce them | Polly Toynbee
While Nigel Farage promotes retro plans to reopen coalmines, will he really tell thousands of clean energy workers to leave their well-paid, local jobs, asks Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/21/ed-miliband-new-green-jobs-britain-hope-reform?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
17 days ago
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Hurst Publishers
about 1 month ago
🗣@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 🎟️
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Resolution Foundation
about 1 month ago
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...
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Snakes and ladders • Resolution Foundation
The story of wealth across Britain has, until recently, been a straightforward one – decades of rising prices, benefiting those lucky enough to own assets. But that story has been upended in the past ...
https://www.resolutionfoundation.org/events/snakes-and-ladders/
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Steve Nowottny
22 days ago
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
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Ian Dunt
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Kinnock is one of the finest proponents of progressive thought in this country and the best prime minister we never had.
add a skeleton here at some point
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🎤 💬 Tonight's annual Jeremy Tunstall Lecture with
@pollytoynbee.bsky.social
and David Walker at @citystgeorges.
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Jeremy Tunstall Lecture: In Conversation with Polly Toynbee and David Walker | City St George's, University of London
We are delighted to welcome Polly Toynbee and David Walker to give this year’s Jeremy Tunstall Lecture in memory of Professor Jeremy Tunstall.
https://buff.ly/mJ0mNfb
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Jon Bloomfield
25 days ago
@pollytoynbee.bsky.social
makes the clear social democratic case for taxation. Which Cabinet minister will be bold enough to follow?
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Rachel Reeves, just tell voters why taxes must go up – and then do it | Polly Toynbee
The Thatcherite notion of tax as wicked must be challenged in the upcoming budget. Target unearned wealth; explain that tax creates a decent society, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/14/rachel-reeves-tax-voters-wealth-society?CMP=share_btn_url
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Rachel Cunliffe
about 1 month ago
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
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Douwe Korff
about 1 month ago
@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.
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If you liked Brexit, you’re going to love what the Conservatives want next | Polly Toynbee
Leaving the ECHR could mean higher food prices and an even bigger blow to trade. The Tories’ new proposals will end the party for good, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/03/brexit-conservatives-european-convention-human-rights-echr?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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I’ve seen despair at the Labour conference, but Starmer’s battle for Britain’s soul is one he can still win | Polly Toynbee
The government’s fall in popularity has affected party morale, but there are signs that taking the fight to Farage can provide a much-needed spark, asks Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/29/labour-starmer-reeves-conference-farage-reform?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
about 1 month ago
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Councillors keep winning with less than a third of the vote – what can England and Wales learn from Scotland?
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Councillors keep winning with less than a third of the vote – what can England and Wales learn from Scotland?
Each week, usually on a Thursday, a number of local council by-elections take place around Britain. As with UK parliamentary by-elections, these take place when a representative either r
https://electoral-reform.org.uk/councillors-keep-winning-with-less-than-a-third-of-the-vote-what-can-england-and-wales-learn-from-scotland/
about 1 month ago
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Alan Wager
about 1 month ago
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.”
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Digital ID cards would be good for Britain – and a secret weapon for Labour against Reform | Polly Toynbee
The BritCard project would cut down on bureaucracy, help guard our borders and prove Labour has pride in British identity, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/09/britain-digital-id-cards-labour-reform-borders-identity
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Andrew Copson
about 2 months ago
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
👏
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The hard right are claiming the cross – and true Christians should not allow it | Polly Toynbee
British church leaders have finally spoken out about the dangerous rise of Christian nationalism. But their message was far too timid, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/23/far-right-christian-nationalism-racism-church-uk?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Alice Roberts
about 2 months ago
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.”
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The hard right are claiming the cross – and true Christians should not allow it | Polly Toynbee
British church leaders have finally spoken out about the dangerous rise of Christian nationalism. But their message was far too timid, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/23/far-right-christian-nationalism-racism-church-uk?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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“Ignorance is Strength”. Was Orwell’s Big Brother right?
Yes – for populists. Parties like Reform rely on voters overstating the scale of today’s problems
https://open.substack.com/pub/kellnerp/p/ignorance-is-strength-was-orwells?r=ewml2&utm_medium=ios
about 2 months ago
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about 2 months ago
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.
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Humanists UK
3 months ago
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...
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I changed my mind on banning the bomb, but the threat of nuclear war is growing – and so is complacency | Polly Toynbee
Though the weapons I campaigned against remain terrifying, I doubt we can disarm unilaterally. That should be the stuff of vital debate: right now, it isn’t, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/07/banning-the-bomb-nuclear-war-weapons-disarm?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
3 months ago
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I changed my mind on banning the bomb, but the threat of nuclear war is growing – and so is complacency | Polly Toynbee
Though the weapons I campaigned against remain terrifying, I doubt we can disarm unilaterally. That should be the stuff of vital debate: right now, it isn’t, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/07/banning-the-bomb-nuclear-war-weapons-disarm?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
3 months ago
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PR is no longer unthinkable
Turkeys don’t vote for Christmas, but if and when Labour members pick the next PM, electoral reform could become unavoidable
https://share.google/sKUrjG0cJS46e1Tpn
3 months ago
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Humanists UK
3 months ago
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
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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
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Britain is great at muddling through. But imagine if its leaders knew where they were heading | Timothy Garton Ash
Starmer’s successful ‘reset’ with Europe highlights an underlying incoherence. The only rational long-term strategy is to rejoin the EU, says Guardian columnist Timothy Garton Ash
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/19/uk-european-union-reset-rejoin
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Here's the best thing in Labour's first year: today's new figures show the number of children accessing funded early education and childcare rose by 33% in a year to 1.7m
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Here's the best thing in Labour's first year: today's new figures show the number of children accessing funded early education and childcare rose by 33% in a year to 1.7m
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I'm speaking at the
@edfringe.bsky.social
on Thursday 14 August for the 'Conversations with the Godless' series with
@humanists.uk
's chief exec @andrewcopson.bsky.social. At
@standcomedyclub.bsky.social
from 12:15pm. Do join us if you're there!
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Babes in arms policy: Babies are not allowed in the venue
https://www.edfringe.com/tickets/whats-on/conversations-with-the-godless-polly-toynbee
4 months ago
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Sue Hoyle
4 months ago
Another excellent piece by
@pollytoynbee.bsky.social
- explaining why Capitalism doesn’t drive progressive change
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To all who think capitalism can drive progressive change, it won’t – and here’s the shocking proof | Polly Toynbee
Asset manager Aberdeen’s surprise cut to funding research into inequality has left those that used its grants for good work reeling, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/01/capitalism-drive-progressive-change-aberdeen-inequality?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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I'm speaking at the
@edfringe.bsky.social
on Thursday 14 August for the 'Conversations with the Godless' series with
@humanists.uk
's chief exec @andrewcopson.bsky.social. At
@standcomedyclub.bsky.social
from 12:15pm. Do join us if you're there!
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Babes in arms policy: Babies are not allowed in the venue
https://www.edfringe.com/tickets/whats-on/conversations-with-the-godless-polly-toynbee
4 months ago
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High Pay Centre
5 months ago
"It’s been 6 years since revealing these pay ratios became mandatory...but high hopes have been dashed...exposing gigantic inequality has not shamed boardrooms into reconsidering their values on pay."
@pollytoynbee.bsky.social
on our latest research
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Britain has a messy relationship with money - no wonder we’re so divided over doctors’ pay | Polly Toynbee
Of course public sector jobs should be properly compensated. But in a society where pay has stagnated, support for more strikes is waning, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/24/britain-money-doctors-pay
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Humanists UK
5 months ago
'The assisted dying bill’s final Commons vote today is no abstract debate about slippery slopes or what God wants: to do nothing is to inflict torture on many.'
@pollytoynbee.bsky.social
's message to MPs voting today – an historic day for UK politics.
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I hope this is the last piece I ever have to write in defence of assisted dying | Polly Toynbee
Today’s vote is on a knife edge. MPs must take their chance to drive forward personal freedoms – and add to Labour’s legacy, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/20/support-assisted-dying-todays-vote-mps-labour?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Every European politician asks : “How can UK Control migration when you don’t know who’s in country and you don’t use ID cards to access jobs, health care etc?”
@pollytoynbee.bsky.social
discusses here why digi ID is a progressive concept
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Digital ID cards would be good for Britain – and a secret weapon for Labour against Reform | Polly Toynbee
The BritCard project would cut down on bureaucracy, help guard our borders and prove Labour has pride in British identity, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/09/britain-digital-id-cards-labour-reform-borders-identity
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Digital ID cards would be good for Britain – and a secret weapon for Labour against Reform | Polly Toynbee
The BritCard project would cut down on bureaucracy, help guard our borders and prove Labour has pride in British identity, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/09/britain-digital-id-cards-labour-reform-borders-identity?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Digital ID cards would be good for Britain – and a secret weapon for Labour against Reform | Polly Toynbee
The BritCard project would cut down on bureaucracy, help guard our borders and prove Labour has pride in British identity, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/09/britain-digital-id-cards-labour-reform-borders-identity?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
5 months ago
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Meritocracy, inheritocracy and my memoir "An Uneasy Inheritance: my family and other radicals." - Dr Eliza Filby talks to me about worsening unfairness: choose your parents well!
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Inheritocracy: Is Meritocracy a Myth? | Dr. Eliza Filby & Polly Toynbee
YouTube video by Eliza Filby
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsUPu0_62so
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Rachel Reeves must think big to fund Labour’s ‘battle-ready’ Britain. Tweaks and tinkering won’t do | Polly Toynbee
The whole tax and spending ship is an unseaworthy rustbucket. This spending review is a chance to fix it, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/03/rachel-reeves-think-big-labour-battle-ready-britain-defence-fund
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Rachel Reeves must think big to fund Labour’s ‘battle-ready’ Britain. Tweaks and tinkering won’t do | Polly Toynbee
The whole tax and spending ship is an unseaworthy rustbucket. This spending review is a chance to fix it, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/03/rachel-reeves-think-big-labour-battle-ready-britain-defence-fund
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Rachel Reeves must think big to fund Labour’s ‘battle-ready’ Britain. Tweaks and tinkering won’t do | Polly Toynbee
The whole tax and spending ship is an unseaworthy rustbucket. This spending review is a chance to fix it, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/03/rachel-reeves-think-big-labour-battle-ready-britain-defence-fund?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
5 months ago
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Political Quarterly on Substack
Would parties choosing candidates from their membership by lottery help tackle political careerism? By Keith Dowding, William Bosworth and Adriano Giuliani.
https://substack.com/@politicalquarterly/note/c-121476639?r=ewml2
5 months ago
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Graham Simpson
6 months ago
“Cheaper food, passport e-gates, youth exchanges – we are finally on a path to repair the colossal damage Brexit has done”
@pollytoynbee.bsky.social
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This new EU deal is great for Britain. Now, Labour, focus on the future, not on Farage | Polly Toynbee
We are finally on a path to repair the colossal damage Brexit has done, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/19/new-eu-deal-labour-farage-brexit?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Claire #FBPE ☘️ 🍉 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🐝 🦮🇮🇪🇧🇪 💙💚
6 months ago
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
👌 ( It’s already happened
@pollytoynbee.bsky.social
. People have left and joined Lib Dems and Greens)
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It’s the great immigration experiment. But will Starmer test Labour to destruction? | Polly Toynbee
There’s more to this policy than merely chasing Nigel Farage. But it risks driving voters towards the Lib Dems and Greens, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/12/immigration-experiment-labour-keir-starmer-nigel-farage?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Persuasion UK
6 months ago
"...this is the time for outright confrontation with the dark forces of the right, reaffirming social democratic and liberal progressive optimism."
@pollytoynbee.bsky.social
uses our research to show that progressive policies can save Labour's voter coalition
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The lesson for Labour? Until it can improve local lives and stop fearing Farage, more losses are coming | Polly Toynbee
Rapid, highly visible action in communities and a forthright attack on the new right – that is what’s needed now, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/06/labour-local-communities-nigel-farage
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Led By Donkeys
6 months ago
TANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
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Graham Simpson
6 months ago
“Analysis by Persuasion UK finds 123 seats vulnerable to Reform switchers, but 250 Labour seats at risk from flight to progressive parties. While 11% of Labour voters are “Reform-curious”, 29% would consider voting Green and 41% would consider supporting the Lib Dems”
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Is the BBC reading this? Take note. They may not recognise their gut fear of the right when they ban Evan Davis' mild podcast on heat pumps but swamp the airwaves with rightists from mystery-funded thinktanks, contrary to their own guidelines. Bravo Monbiot.
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The BBC is utterly beholden to the right. Why else would it fear a podcast about heat pumps? | George Monbiot
The broadcaster behaves like Starmer’s government: suppress the left, cave to your critics, and undermine your own survival, writes Guardian columnist George Monbiot
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/01/consistently-appeasing-platforming-right-bbc-undermines-own-survival
6 months ago
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Henry Mance
7 months ago
During St. Clair's pregnancy, Musk suggested they bring in other women to have even more of their children faster. "To reach legion-level before the apocalypse," he said to St. Clair in a text message viewed by The Wall Street Journal, "we will need to use surrogates."
www.wsj.com/politics/elo...
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The Tactics Elon Musk Uses to Manage His ‘Legion’ of Babies—and Their Mothers
The world’s richest man juggles more than a dozen children and ‘harem drama’ along with running his companies and advising Trump. He recently took a paternity test in a battle with one woman over mone...
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elon-musk-children-mothers-ashley-st-clair-grimes-dc7ba05c?mod=hp_lead_pos7
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