This tweet has been doing the rounds on Twitter now that Nathan Gill has pleaded guilty. If only someone had tried to investigate UKIP & Russian interference 🧐 There’s another timeline where the Guardian supported me, doubled down on the investigation & I look 5 years younger ..

Government’s ‘Pride in Place’ programme is a welcome boost for our struggling high streets says Usdaw #SaveOurShops www.usdaw.org.uk/latest-news/...

Useful reminder from Peter Kellner on the problems we refuse to acknowledge are getting better, and the politics of hopelessness that this breeds open.substack.com/pub/kellnerp...

Switching 2p from National Insurance to Income Tax could raise £6 billion, while protecting workers’ pay packets. This would mean that landlords pay a similar rate of tax on their rental income as their tenants do on their employment income. Learn more ⤵️ buff.ly/uLWun7f

(There's a certain grim humour in waiting to see whether Kemi Badenoch will agree that indeed she should actually be deported, failing as ever to understand that some of the racial politics of the further right are a direct response to her own position as Conservative leader)

I read the news today Oh boy

Nations aren’t discovered, they’re created. What should nation-building look like in the 21st century?

BTW, congratulations to Newham Conservatives in finally getting someone elected to the council. Yes, he had to stand for another party to do it, but he’s one of your own.

Non-zero chance that Your Party never polls above Change UK

“This isn’t the America I know” Black People:

Responding to @labourlewis.bsky.social @compassoffice.bsky.social Robin Cook memorial lecture, I thought this from Cook's 2003 diary was remarkably relevant to today

No mincing of words in this @ecfr.eu policy brief on the China-Russia relationship ecfr.eu/publication/...