What a horrifying, heartbreaking murderous attack outside a Manchester synagogue on Yom Kippur. We must not let extremists turn communities against each other in Britain. www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

Kind, gentle, thoughtful, wry and now gone too soon. Everybody who met Sean O’Sullivan absolutely loved the bloke. RIP.

Starmer going Willy Wonka with ill-judged "golden ticket" talk only fuels myths about red carpet treatment for refugees when the reality is grim, frightening hostels and hotels. The PM's blurred the Labour red line he momentarily drew with Reform racism.

“Reform's hypocrisy over Labour rhetoric.” - Spectator. Farage, Tice and Yusuf are killing political satire and they’ll probably complain about my use of the k-word. BTW Lucy “set fire” Connolly is feted by Reform. www.spectator.co.uk/article/refo...

Playing good cop to Andy Burnham's bad cop. The @newstatesman.bsky.social column this week is from Labour's conference. www.newstatesman.com/politics/com...

Madness. Labour should cancel this ridiculous cancellation. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

I, of course, couldn't possibly comment 😄

Starmer must do more than wrapping himself in Union Jack www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Look who is in a rare copy of Labour’s conference guide that survived pulping.

Rotherham's vibrant, diverse and hopeful Unity boxing gym is an inspiring antidote to hate-filled politicians preaching division. What a wonderful "Island of Strangers" short film 👏 youtu.be/mHbN_rBIymo?...

Operation Save Bridget in the battle for Labour. This week’s @newstatesman.bsky.social column. www.newstatesman.com/politics/com...

Quack doctor Trump’s madness and a Reform MP’s dog bit ⁦‪@toryboypierce‬⁩ The dog’s doing well. Must’ve had an anti-tetanus. This week’s ⁦‪Pierce vs Maguire ‬⁩podcast. linktr.ee/piercevsmagu...

The UK finally joins most of the rest of the world in recognisning Palestine www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

TV sleuth and presenter John “Stapes” Stapleton was a cut above. RIP. www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/k...

Gerrin England’s rugby union women with that great win against France and now a World Cup final against Canada

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New podcast. Liar, sexual predator and an enemy or the UK, dangerous Trump didn’t deserve - and wasn’t worth - the red carpet treatment. The latest episode of Pierce vs Maguire. linktr.ee/piercevsmagu...

New podcast. Liar, sexual predator and an enemy or the UK, dangerous Trump didn’t deserve - and wasn’t worth - the red carpet treatment. The latest episode of Pierce vs Maguire. linktr.ee/piercevsmagu...

Lady luck deserts Starmer, Rayner's pulped and why one Tory thinks Reform is the best ever laxative. This week's @newstatesman.com column. www.newstatesman.com/politics/com...

Malicious communications? Malicious arrests more like. These Trump visit four arrests are authoritarian. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

"Rather than getting despondent – which is easy, at the moment – we’ve got to mobilise, we’ve got to get active.” The wonderful @hopenothate.org.uk's inspiring @nicklowles.bsky.social on how to beat the Hard and Far Right. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Huge admiration and respect for Hillsborough families who fought so long and hard to change the law. And Starmer can be proud, whatever his other problems, that he is the PM delivering the change.

UK state pension poised to rise 4.7% next April in line with average earnings under the triple lock from £230.25 per week to £241.05 per week. Unless CPI inflation, currently 3.8%, soars above that. Which is unlikely.

MP Nigel Farage, ex-Tory MP MP Richard Tice, ex-Tory MP 30p Lee, ex-Tory MP Sarah Pochin, ex-Tory and now MP Danny Kruger, ex-Tory Anybody else detecting a political pattern in the Hard Right Reform UK Conservative Party?

Denouncing British Far Right violent thugs while gushing over poison-spewing American guest - and their hero - Donald Trump is Keir Starmer sending mixed messages. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Taxi for Mandy. And let’s not forget what US Far Right extremist Charlie Kirk really was. This week’s Pierce vs Maguire wherever you get your podcasts. linktr.ee/piercevsmagu...

Starmer’s sacked Mandelson. Why did he ever appoint him?

US Far Right Trump champion Charlie Kirk, shot dead tonight, opposed gun control. America needs to disarm Americans.

Rachel Reeves achieves rhe impossible - my @newstatesman.com column www.newstatesman.com/politics/com...

Good Starmer retort that a Tory leadership contest has been going on for months after Badenoch's dig that Labour was holding a deputy leadership contest

"I have confidence in him." Hardly a ringing endorsement of Mandelson from Starmer.

Boris Johnson's Premiership was a tip fire. Will Lewis's reputation would never recover if his advice was followed. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Peter Mandelson will be finished IF he lobbied for or was a guest of Jeffrey Epstein AFTER the US paedophile's conviction. www.thesun.co.uk/news/3664234...

Why do taxpayers gift dishonest, sleazy Boris Johnson £115,000 a year to make a dodgy fortune? Scrap the ex-PM's allowance. Immediately. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

How Brexit is driving Channel small boats and that means Farage helped create the problem www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Keir Starmer needs trade unions and their links to working people more than ever. Today’s ⁦‪Daily Mirror‬⁩ column. www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

How to raise precious extra resources by taxing fairly the highest earners and richer who could afford to pay a bit more. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Lou Haigh stands and she may well be Labour’s Deputy Leader to rescue the party and government.

Dom Starmer exploiting Rayner quitting to trigger his own Godfather-style massacre.

Nadine Dorries jumping aboard the Farage bandwagon shows Britain has two Conservative parties. The first is the one by that name, which she left. The second is the Reform UK Conservative party she joined, a Hard Right party led and stuffed with ex-Cons.

Dead duck or lame duck? Angela Rayner’s teary downfall is discussed in the first episode of the new Pierce vs Maguire weekly political podcast. You can listen and follow here linktr.ee/piercevsmagu...

Is Angela Rayner a dead duck or a lame duck? The first episode of the Pierce vs Maguire new weekly podcast series is here. Enjoy! open.spotify.com/episode/3zN7...

The political podcast you were waiting for is on its way. Not long now…

When you're delighted to have sold out. Apologies to the disappointed unable to buy tickets.

Rayner’s woes were already testing cabinet colleagues My @newstatesman.com column www.newstatesman.com/politics/com...

If you're on Tyneside or fancy a trip to North East England then the engaging and compelling Alan Johnson is in conversation with yours truly 6pm Thursday, 25 September. Tickets here: theworduk.org/whats-on/kev...

Long championed a max 10:1 pay ratio in companies and organisations so thrilled to see ⁦‪the High Pay Centre‬⁩ and ⁦‪Equality Trust fighting the good fight. highpaycentre.org/high-pay-cen...

Raising the colours for prejudice, not pride. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The rich case for a British wealth tax. "A 2% wealth tax on assets over £10 million is moderate, reasonable and much needed. Imagine you have £11 million. A wealth tax would require you to pay 2% on that 11th million - so £20,000..." www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...?