Keir Starmer opens door to UK visit by Xi Jinping. No use whinging, wining and bitching at Starmer for this. We deal with worst regimes who aren’t even the most powerful nations on earth. We need China because we are getting more irrelevant and considerably poorer. #pragmatism

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Dramatic fall in knife crime as Labour policing chief hails 'real results' Data shows a 23% drop in knife homicides in England and Wales in 2025, with overall knife crime falling by 9%. Policing minister Sarah Jones said a policing shake-up will help drive down knife crime further. #UKNews

Racster Dingwall sentenced today for trying to kill a legally-protected hen harrier. Dingwall, the twin brother of Molly Dingwall who is general manager of the Jockeys Club, was caught by covert filming carried out by the RSPB. www.northyorkshire.police.uk/news/north-y... Image: BBC news.

Success for Labour all down to the right backing from the Labour Manchester Mayor, then.

“Labour never helped me become Manchester Mayor” That statement alone should see him left forever outside of Parliament. It’s egotistical pathetic ness

This has to be essential reading for anyone who cares about both justice and tackling crime in this country. It details exactly how the Tories left the prison estate at close to full capacity after 14 year of failing to plan sufficient spaces. 1/2 www.gov.uk/government/n...

Is it just 'a deep disconnect' or something sinister?

Virtually every ‘journalist’, every radio presenter and every TV commentator is negative to Starmer and his government. And yet there are lists of good things they’re introducing as long as your arm. It’s a little bit sinister don’t you think? bylinetimes.com/2026/01/29/k...

Burnham! Shut up and get back to work!

If only I knew/had the power to get this out there to the hard of understanding.

🔴Keir Starmer’s Labour Government Is Much Better Than the Media Admits There is a deep disconnect between the Government’s actions to improve the country and its standing in the polls, argues @prfchrispainter.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2026/01/29/k...

Peter Cook on “those wonderful Berlin cabarets which did so much to stop the rise of Hitler and prevent the outbreak of the Second World War,” notwithstanding, fascists hate artists because empathy highlights their hatefulness & renders them ridiculous.

More and more Americans are voicing their outrage at the tactics being deployed by federal agents in Minnesota. But it’s important to understand the broader implications of what this administration is doing, and the threat it poses to the basic freedoms of every American.

A retired Minneapolis couple who had guns pointed at them by ICE in a church parking lot. "They were obviously not trained at all. I've known many police officers in my life. These people were right off the streets." "They had the professional demeanor of criminals." ht: @paulgraham.bsky.social

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Self-proclaimed ‘man of the people’ Farage hosted a private lunch event in Dubai on Tuesday with the backing of an Indian billionaire — not to be confused with the Iranian billionaire he’s been advising for years who paid for his ‘jaunt’ for ‘globalists’ to the WEF in Davos, as he once described it.

This is worth reading !

Sorry, but Andy who?

Really no need to say anything other than this.

No response yet from Reform pundit and activist Tim Montgomerie about his party's selection in Gorton and Denton

BBCR4 Today: Chris Mason peeved because he isn't in his words in 'the posh bit' of the plane carrying the PM. There was absolutely no need to mention that in reporting the PM's visit to China with a group of business people.

DAILY TELEGRAPH scraping the barrel with 'Starmer led ‘witch-hunt’ against Iraq veterans' This harks back to 2007 and Downing St. states that Starmer was merely a legal adviser to the Court and not an advocate for either side. The right wing press in this country is sickening.

This parade of senior ex-Tory ministers brazenly telling us ‘Britain is Broken’ is ridiculous. Super piece here by @bearlypolitics.co.uk… open.substack.com/pub/iratusur...

Today we released irrefutable proof of illegal hunting by the Dartmoor Hunt - in a compilation of three shocking videos filmed by Plymouth &West Devon Sabs, @devoncountysabs.bsky.social & a member of the public. Read the account here: www.huntsabs.org.uk/dartmoor-hun... youtu.be/qeyWBhCKLBQ?...

Today the Government published the bill to make commonhold the default for new builds, make transferring to commonhold from leasehold ownership easier and cap ground rents. For leaseholders in Walthamstow who have been exploited for too long this is welcome news.

They say Starmer is boring. I don’t see that. He stood up to Musk. Right result He stood up to Trump. A better result He stood up to Burnham. Right result. He’s a man of courage and integrity. Exactly the qualities I’ve wanted in a PM for the last 14 years.

🚨Just announced🚨 A support package to help British pubs 🍺 Rachel Reeves said - “British pubs are at the heart of our communities. Today we’re backing them with a 15% cut to new business rates bills, a two-year freeze, and a new High Streets Strategy.”

What more demonstrates intent than hiding the evidence and robbing the camera which your crime was filmed on? On Saturday the South Dorset Hunt killed this fox and then robbed the camera. Police were called and retrieved the Sab’s property containing the footage of the kill.

*Not so fun fact. Matt Goodwin was my dissertation supervisor. Only briefly mind. I swapped after he said that my idea - a study and survey on the politics of the homeless (less than 1% vote) - was of "no academic interest". I got a 1st 🎓

Labour’s problem is the mainstream media and clickbait shit like this. Reform UK Party Ltd wouldn’t be polling anywhere near where they are if it wasn’t for them, and so Burnham’s shenanigans probably wouldn’t have happened.

ICYM🚨 Labour are capping ground rents at £250 a year. This will mean big savings for over 5 million leaseholders. Promise made, promise delivered ✅

There is no point trying to expose the truth about Reform via legacy media. Bullying allegations, antisemitism, Russian interference, appalling local council performances and links to anti abortion groups have all been massively downplayed. The only thing we can do is tell as many ppl as we can.

"It is slightly baffling that he went ahead with the application..." Baroness Harman, former Labour Party deputy leader, on Andy Burnham's "divisive move... which has certainly undermined the government." #Newsnight

And yet no mention of this on BBC News website

🚨 BREAKING: The Government will announce a cap on ground rents paid to freeholders before the markets open tomorrow morning Ground rents are yearly payments leaseholders make to freeholders just for owning the land their home is built on

If you want to know what actual political academics think of Matt Goodwin you can read quite a lot of their thoughts in this profile of him I wrote in 2024 (free with registration) www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-m...

I can't imagine President Macron doing anything other than giggle at this. Chapeaux !!

Oh just BRILLIANT!!! 👏👏👏

@lucympowell.bsky.social No mention yet on BBC News website <img src="https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:rdmgjiubbtgllggiroibbq4e/bafkreicgf2iq2poohljqcizzqssgsps4luin2jdgrcc345djbngeap6ofu@jpeg"/>

Here’s six things Labour’s Plan for Change has delivered in Scotland last week: ⚖️Labour is strengthening protections for victims by guaranteeing free access to sentencing transcripts for all. 🧵

Trump is loathed in Britain, yet Reform are ahead in the polls. There can be no clearer proof of a radical disconnect in the knowledge & understanding of the public. Not to be reductive but, above all else, this is the media's doing. People in the UK need to be made to see that Reform is MAGA-UK.

Some of what the Govt has achieved in the last week that the media may have forgotten to tell you about:

I’ve noticed a real change in my replies. Even on James OBrien this morning. There’s a hell of a lot of support for Starmer and Labour. The callers changed James’s mind. And he went against Polly Toynbee’s out of kilter article yesterday. The mood is changing.

An academic just like Cambridge educated Andy Burnham.

An academic just like Cambridge educated Andy Burnham.

oh no not gavin williamson, the most beloved tory mp since er suella braverman, seriously is Kemi paying Farage for this service

It’s taken 400 years for a political party to make serious changes to Leasehold ownership. That Party is Labour under Keir Starmer. It affects 4m+ home owners. This is not a tiny thing. History below. Expect the freeholders to be going ape around about now!!!

Amazed that Lucy Powell MP is actually posting one of the many positive achievemments of Keir Starmer's government.