“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...

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

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

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! www.edfringe.com/tickets/what...

Another excellent piece by @pollytoynbee.bsky.social - explaining why Capitalism doesn’t drive progressive change www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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! www.edfringe.com/tickets/what...

"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...

'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. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... reform-borders-identity

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! www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsUP...

“Cheaper food, passport e-gates, youth exchanges – we are finally on a path to repair the colossal damage Brexit has done” @pollytoynbee.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... 👌 ( It’s already happened @pollytoynbee.bsky.social . People have left and joined Lib Dems and Greens)

"...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...

TANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank

The lesson for Labour? Until it can improve local lives and stop fearing Farage, more losses are coming

“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” @pollytoynbee.bsky.social

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. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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...