Happy partially muscled skeleton screaming before vanishing day to all those who celebrate.

You can catch up now on the essays we've published so far - there are some must-read pieces by the likes of @jamestplunkett.bsky.social @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social @npjgarland.bsky.social - but there's more to come next week! www.powertochange.org.uk/celebrating-...

On Tuesday we launch 'From the ground up: Community business and Britain's next decade' - an essay collection to celebrate 10 yrs of @powertochange.org.uk and look ahead into the future of our communities. Delighted we'll be joined by this excellent panel of guests to share their 2035 vision 👇

Happy 80th birthday to Mr. Neil Young.

I tried to cover a lot of ground here. A few points developing the argument, regarding current government's "Pride in Place" etc: basically I like this stuff, but worry a bit about lack of realism about what they might achieve in isolation.

Great to have Nick writing for us, and putting recent (v positive) announcements in historical context. And, ultimately, calling for a more expansive communitarianism with a clearer view of political economy - something I hope we @powertochange.org.uk and others can do in the months to come.

Good realistic essay by @npjgarland.bsky.social for @powertochange.org.uk. Key bit for me is communities policy being tied into a broader political economy.

I tried to cover a lot of ground here. A few points developing the argument, regarding current government's "Pride in Place" etc: basically I like this stuff, but worry a bit about lack of realism about what they might achieve in isolation.

For @powertochange.org.uk I suggested some "lessons from history" on community and public policy, from the late 1960s through to the current government's "Pride in Place". www.powertochange.org.uk/evidence-and...

Tory policy is to revoke permanent residence (ILR) for everybody who does not earn £38k - deporting most nurses who have ILR This is put in the video as "who is unlikely to contribute more than they cost" NB: video does not say EU settled status is exempt No govt since Idi Amin has done this

This is not normal discourse. It is not just a bit of fun for a Sunday paper interview. It is beyond the realms of the concept of decency shared across the political spectrum until last year.

Apropos of nothing, I really do think UK journalists and politicians need some reminding that mass deportation of LEGAL immigrants, particularly those with permanent status, is far more extreme than even Trump's America and would basically place Britain completely on its own among democracies.

Jenrick casting 1980s British football hooliganism as something that was easily dealt with by police and not an era defining issue which we're still living with the consequences of today... He's genuinely the most unserious person in British politics rn

A piece which misses the rather important point that Labour in 2025 faces a very different electoral challenge (i.e. a massively fragmented party system) to the Democrats in 2024. www.ft.com/content/a14b...

Matty Y doing a bit of UK politics analysis

Enjoying the strength of reaction to a historian of socialist political thought observing that a political leader doesn't care about the history of socialist political thought as much as they should

Delighted to see my article exploring how Britons planned for retirement in the mid-to-late 20th century out in the world! It tries to capture the mixed feelings prompted by ageing & retirement whilst connecting those themes to wider histories of social democracy, selfhood & financialisation.

Good morning, somehow this has only just come up on my instagram but it’s well worth 30 seconds of your time.

When people ask me what I think about using AI in writing I’m going to send them this screenshot

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

Some thought-provoking reflections here

Right, that's it. I'm founding a new populist party of the centre called Go Outside!

An admirably clear statement from Board of Deputies of British Jews and Jewish Leadership Council

It was inevitable that far-right agitators like Goodwin would try to exploit the Manchester atrocity in this despicable way. I really hope that people will instead recall Tony Walsh's spine-tingling reading of 'This is the Place' after the Manchester Arena bombing: www.youtube.com/watch?v=josa...

Truly awful news coming out of Manchester. My thoughts are with the friends and family of those affected, and the wider Jewish community. Yom Kippur should be a time of peace and reflection, but instead they have been the victim of hate and violence.

This is really horrendous, not least coming today. Despicable. Thinking of people across Crumpsall, Sedgley and Prestwich. It's an attack on the whole community. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cx...

Quite funny to have a writer apparently well-versed in the history of early C20 socialist print culture taking aim at the "lanyard class" who "know what IPPR stands for". Self-hatred really isn't a useful guide to political strategy. unherd.com/2025/10/brit...

Punchy but necessary intervention from @sundersays.bsky.social in @renewaljournal.bsky.social, responding the anonymous memo circulating amongst Labour MPs: renewal.org.uk/blog/false-p...

NEW - Keir Starmer says that Reform UK's policy to abolish indefinite leave to remain is " a racist policy. I do think it is immoral.”

Good to see this announced today. Positive combination of more powers and more local control, without competitive bidding. Short-term challenge is to make a tangible and visible difference in these places. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Area based interventions are a good and very mainstream part of a government’s policy toolkit, so it’s pretty fatuous to criticise this on the grounds that ‘other policies have existed before’ or ‘this doesn’t fix all the big structural challenges facing advanced economies’.

It was a very great pleasure to appear on one of my favourite podcasts, and to talk with David Runciman about the Past, Present, and Future (!) of electoral reform & proportional representation

It didn't work out for me in the race to be deputy leader, but given events today, am sharing this again. We in Labour are uniquely placed to bring our diverse country together against the forces of hate. When we stand up for each other, we all win. labourlist.org/2025/09/alis...

This is the Powellite argument about the near impossibility of integration [bar "a very small minority"] for people with black or brown skin born in this country to parents from the Commonwealth, described as 'prescient in some regards' by the interviewer of Jenrick in the Spectator

Ben Obese-Jecty is the only Conservative MP and frankly one of the vanishingly small number of MPs, full stop, to react to this stuff in a normal way.

Jerry Adler died last Saturday. The intent was only to have him for one episode of THE GOOD WIFE, but he was so funny in a diner scene, yelling “I said ice cream, you stupid bitch” we had him back for six years of Good Wife and three years of Good Fight. One of our favorite collaborators.

Utter garbage. She was a prisoner, nothing political about it. Reasonable people can disagree on any given sentence but the facts are clear: - she incited serious violence - PM did exactly nothing - she went to jail because of what SHE did: committing a crime + pleading guilty

Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick says it was great to be with peaceful, patriotic protestors The Conservative frontbencher attended as did Reform councillors. Far right activists also attended and spoke

I finally got round to reading all of this excellently researched article yesterday. The screenshots are of the section which was of particular interest to me. I (perhaps unsurprisingly) find myself taking Crosland's side here!

Good to hear quite a mature and sensitive discussion of the impact of Jota’s death on Liverpool’s players here. open.spotify.com/episode/3kYF...

Remarkable this. The Conservative party and ConservativeHome letting people who left for Reform back in when they complain that Ant Middleton, of “no-one whose grandparents were immigrants should hold high office” fame was not allowed to become Reform’s mayoral candidate.

'Just 40,900 students entered to take history, compared with 41,900 taking economics and 43,000 for physics. Maths remains the most popular A-level with 105,000 entries this year, up by more than 4% compared with 2024.' Both 'Just' and 'career-related' doing heavy lifting here. 1/2

Don't think I'm being overly precious to say not enough made of the booing of the minute's silence for Jota. TNT coverage seemed desperate to move on and be able to talk about how wonderful and deserving the Palace fans were. Yes, I know, a minority etc.

Many people in Britain sense the relationship between them and others has changed. Populists speak directly to this, but progressives can too My piece in today's FT on.ft.com/4or0GxW

sorry, I cannot let it lie: I do believe this is one of the worst articles I have read for a while. I don't know how The Times allowed it through. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/... Set aside the quite dreadful use of "rearranging the deckchairs", appalling cliche that no editor should allow 1/

Essential @politicalquarterly.bsky.social collection in honour of the great David Marquand one of the finest British political thinkers of the late 20th century.

I have some good news for election nerds - "The British General Election of 2024" will be out this autumn, and if you're quick you can grab a 25% pre-order discount from Waterstone's by ordering your copy by 31st July, just enter code SUMMER25 www.waterstones.com/book/the-bri...

A remarkably eminent line up + me