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Host, Westminster Insider, POLITICO Europe
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Janine Gibson
2 days ago
Sleigh bells ring are you listening? In Hyde Park, coke is glistening A typical sight, a massive fist fight Brawling in the Winter Wonderland
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Rachel Cunliffe
10 days ago
Some thoughts on Bondi Beach, the sliding doors surreality of knowing my sister could have been there, and how it feels to be lighting candles tonight to celebrate our resilience
www.newstatesman.com/world/2025/1...
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The Bondi Beach shooting was an attack on Jews
This Chanukah, I finally understand the meaning of resilience
https://www.newstatesman.com/world/2025/12/this-chanukah-more-than-ever-i-will-try-to-be-resilient
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Guardian US
13 days ago
Meta has removed or restricted dozens of accounts belonging to abortion access providers, queer groups and reproductive health organizations in the past weeks in what campaigners call one of the “biggest waves of censorship” on its platforms in years.
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🎙️ NEW ep 🎙️ political lying: when is a lie a lie? I was fascinated by just how stark the difference was between the interpretations of Rachel Reeves’ pre-Bridget pitch rolling, so have done an episode on how political lies really work
www.politico.eu/podcast/west...
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Spin, half-truth or deceit? How political lies really work
Surfball was supposed to be the sport of the next generation – but it instead it was a fiction created by Peter Mandelson. Lying in politics is nothing new, but after the budget, Rachel Reeves̵…
https://www.politico.eu/podcast/westminster-insider/spin-half-truth-or-deceit-how-political-lies-really-work/
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GuyM
12 days ago
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/w...
An excellent take from
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on the Westminster habit of lies, spin and half-truths as illustrated by Rachel Reeves in the run up to the budget.
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Spin, half-truth or deceit? How political lies really work
Podcast Episode · Westminster Insider · 12/12/2025 · 45m
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/westminster-insider/id1544479523?i=1000740939376
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Rachel Cunliffe
21 days ago
On jury trials, it's important to remember how we got to the point where victims and defendants are waiting years for their cases to be heard. As to what to do now we're here, Labour has a choice. It’s not about Magna Carta, it's about money – and trade-offs.
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
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Limiting jury trials is a political choice
Successive Tory governments chose to defund the justice system to the point of collapse. Now Labour must deal with the consequences
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-politics/2025/12/limiting-jury-trials-is-a-political-choice
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Karl Mathiesen
about 1 month ago
Stardust. The Israeli-U.S. company with a strange and totally real plan to block out the sun and reverse global warming. Reporting this story involved a complete relearning of what I thought I knew about the climate future. w/@corbinhiar.bsky.social
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The Strange and Totally Real Plan to Blot Out the Sun and Reverse Global Warming
A 25-person startup is developing technology to block the sun and turn down the planet’s thermostat. The stakes are huge — and the company and its critics say regulations need to catch up.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/11/21/stardust-geoengineering-janos-pasztor-regulations-00646414
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John Oxley
about 1 month ago
Why do Irish dancers only move their legs? Because their arms have been decommissioned pursuant to the Good Friday Agreement.
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Janine Gibson
about 1 month ago
All the news is people shouting about a budget which has been going on for approximately 45 years and still hasn’t been delivered
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🎙️NEW🎙️How to raise taxes — and get away with it w/ Jeremy Hunt
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James Nation
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about 1 month ago
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Fantastic from
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& Patrick Baker with the accompanying Westminster Insider episode
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about 1 month ago
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Robert Hutton
about 1 month ago
Glad that someone has finally taken responsibility for the appalling assault on democracy that was the Jan. 6 insurrection. Slightly confused that it's the Director-General of the BBC, but what do I know?
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Shabana Mahmood looking to Denmark for solutions on migration is v interesting. Crucially, Denmark *is* a signatory to the ECHR (the thing everyone says the UK must leave in order to deport migrants). One key diff (along with re-unification rules) the v low level of appeals
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John Oxley
about 2 months ago
"My colleague is not racist, they are insane" is a curious defence.
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Zack Polanski will be (hypno) dancing around the kitchen with numbers like this
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about 2 months ago
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Gabriel Milland
about 2 months ago
"The book contains no interviews with Jewish members." Gobsmacking.
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Jessica Elgot
about 2 months ago
Powell’s election is a sign of the disillusionment of Labour members - but there is a much much bigger and more worrying sign. Turn out was just 16%
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I didn’t know how badly I needed to see the post-shear glow
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2 months ago
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Jessica Elgot
2 months ago
Not really the main point for these witnesses statements but this is unbelievably low grade stuff to be passing on. Tugendhat did not in fact get a cabinet job and Jeremy Hunt endorsed Rishi Sunak. Did the Chinese realise how crap all this intelligence was?
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Politico
2 months ago
EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat. Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇
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‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/14/private-chat-among-young-gop-club-members-00592146
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A level students currently don’t know how to read long books
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Stephen Bush
2 months ago
It is autumn 2023: an embattled prime minister, a year into his tenure, who wants to change the UK’s China policy is struggling with the fallout of an alleged spying case It is autumn 2025: you’ll never guess what has happened now! Today’s newsletter:
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Westminster’s Sinoscepticism complicates Keir Starmer’s China ambitions
Row over alleged spying case will hinder Labour’s attempts to rebuild ties with Beijing
https://www.ft.com/content/e270b37f-b7d3-44b6-8c31-969ad6be2667
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Currently, the Green Party has roughly only 20,000 fewer members than the Conservatives
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2 months ago
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ChatGPT tells man to be intereted in women’s interests and he gets more dates 🙃
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"How"
2 months ago
Timeline cleanse!
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perfect autumn sky 🍁
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Matthew Holehouse
3 months ago
Been to Manchester central complex many times for conferences and rarely has the main hall been so light on outside exhibitors. Lots of padding with empty stands put up by central party
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🎙️NEW ep 🎙️ Postcard from Liverpool: is Starmerism is already over? w/ Deputy PM David Lammy Lucy Powell
@alistrathern.bsky.social
@stephenkb.bsky.social
@peterhyman.bsky.social
@morganwild.bsky.social
@noahkeate.bsky.social
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www.politico.eu/podcast/west...
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Postcard from Liverpool: is Starmerism over already?
Host Sascha O’Sullivan goes behind-the-scenes of Labour Party conference in Liverpool, talking to senior politicians and advisors as she tries to hunt for Keir Starmer’s ideology – once…
https://www.politico.eu/podcast/westminster-insider/postcard-from-liverpool-is-starmerism-over-already/
3 months ago
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Kevin Schofield
3 months ago
Not the greatest backdrop to a make-or-break party conference ...
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/tory-c...
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Tory Civil War Erupts As Theresa May Slams Badenoch's Plan To Scrap Net Zero Target
The former prime minister joined other senior Conservatives in condemning the party leader.
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/tory-civil-war-erupts-as-theresa-may-slams-badenochs-plan-to-scrap-net-zero-target_uk_68de7f36e4b0c450ba655b4e
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Sara Gibbs
3 months ago
You don’t actually have to both sides this. The Jewish community in the UK is not the Israeli government. You can just condemn the murder of two British Jews killed in their place of worship and you don’t have to say a single other thing.
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A small reminder of where original story of swans/migrants came from… a 2003 story later corrected to admit there was no evidence
www.theguardian.com/media/2003/d...
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No PCC probe into 'swan eating' story
4.15pm: The Press Complaints Commission has been branded 'disgraceful' after deciding not to force the Sun to apologise for claiming asylum seekers had poached and eaten swans. Ciar Byrne reports.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2003/dec/10/sun.pressandpublishing?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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James Heale
3 months ago
Liz Truss is now dunking on Andy Burnham
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Conor Sewell
3 months ago
My favourite variant of this is when you add in queerness: “He spend 50 years living in a remote hut with his close friend, where they preserved and catalogued the most extensive collection of ferns ever assembled in Britain”
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Stephen Bush
3 months ago
It just straightforwardly *insane* how much political chatter in the United Kingdom is about the next general election, an event that is a long way in the future, and how basically none of it is about 'uh, this policy agenda doesn't look adequate to the scale of the inherited problem'.
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Duncan Weldon
3 months ago
Retrospectively removing indefinite leave to remain would be immoral and economically damaging. It would tear families apart. Attacking it as ‘potentially illegal’ is completely beside the point. Argue with the (awful) idea. Don’t try ’well, actually you can’t do that’.
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Farage claims he can save *£230bn* by excluding foreign nationals from welfare bill Did Dr Evil come up with this number
3 months ago
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🎙️ NEW ep🎙️ Who’s actually in control of the Channel crossings— and can Shabana Mahmood get a grip of it?
@jamescleverlymp.bsky.social
Andrew Harding Ex Home Office DG Glyn Williams Hannah Guerin
@nicolakellywrites.bsky.social
Joe Middleton KC & more
www.politico.eu/podcast/west...
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Inside the fight to stop migrants crossing the Channel
Just this week, Shabana Mahmood, the Home Secretary, has made a fresh effort to remove migrants arriving from the English Channel with the Government’s one-in-one-out agreement with France. S…
https://www.politico.eu/podcast/westminster-insider/inside-the-fight-to-stop-migrants-crossing-the-channel/
3 months ago
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Nicola Kelly
3 months ago
🎧 I'm on this week's 'Westminster Insider'
@politico.eu
@politico.com
talking about the mess the Home Office has made of the asylum system, alongside none other than... James Cleverly.
www.politico.eu/podcast/west...
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Inside the fight to stop migrants crossing the Channel
Just this week, Shabana Mahmood, the Home Secretary, has made a fresh effort to remove migrants arriving from the English Channel with the Government’s one-in-one-out agreement with France. S…
https://www.politico.eu/podcast/westminster-insider/inside-the-fight-to-stop-migrants-crossing-the-channel/
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Rachel Cunliffe
3 months ago
What's going on with Your Party?
@meganekenyon.bsky.social
joins me on today's
@newstatesman.com
podcast to explain, as does Ethan Croft, making his NS debut as we try to untangle the split between Zarah Sultana and Jeremy Corbyn
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTn4...
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Has Your Party split before it started? | UK Politics | The New Statesman
YouTube video by The New Statesman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTn4p2Tu-tQ
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Actually quite a beautiful moment of Donald Trump saying he “doesn’t know” Peter Mandelson
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🎙️NEW ep 🎙️Can Britain have a proper Green Party? How the party had changed from early days of campaigns on camels & dog poo💩 🌳 & Zack Polanski’s efforts to make his party serious
@zackpolanski.bsky.social
@elliechowns.bsky.social
Natalie Bennett Jonathon Porritt
www.politico.eu/podcast/west...
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Can Britain have a proper Green Party?
Zack Polanski, the self-confessed eco-populist, won the leadership of the Green Party in a landslide this week. So Westminster Insider Host Sascha O’Sullivan finds out why the Green Party hav…
https://www.politico.eu/podcast/westminster-insider/can-britain-have-a-proper-green-party/
4 months ago
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The Steadfast Tindale Soldier 💂
4 months ago
I don’t think any of us expected him to say that.
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Former deputy labour leader Tom Watson calls for… deputy leader post to be abolished
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4 months ago
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Jack Pannell
4 months ago
With Rayner stepping down we have hit 10 minister's who have oficially resigned from this government. Make sure you are following
@paddy-mcalary.bsky.social
@timdurrant.bsky.social
@rebeccamckee.bsky.social
meganbryer.bsky.social
for what Starmer will do next with his minsiterial team.
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Tim Durrant
4 months ago
From no reshuffle to a No10 reshuffle to losing the DPM and a potential cabinet reshuffle - what a first week back
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4 months ago
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🎙️NEW ep 🎙️Can Britain have a proper Green Party? How the party had changed from early days of campaigns on camels & dog poo💩 🌳 & Zack Polanski’s efforts to make his party serious
@zackpolanski.bsky.social
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Natalie Bennett Jonathon Porritt
www.politico.eu/podcast/west...
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Can Britain have a proper Green Party?
Zack Polanski, the self-confessed eco-populist, won the leadership of the Green Party in a landslide this week. So Westminster Insider Host Sascha O’Sullivan finds out why the Green Party hav…
https://www.politico.eu/podcast/westminster-insider/can-britain-have-a-proper-green-party/
4 months ago
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Tim Durrant
4 months ago
Just had to correct this live on the radio too... clearly someone at the BBC has got their briefing note wrong!
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Oh sure, get three men to write about a woman going through a traumatic birth and what she did with the compensation as though she is stealing from her own child. That seems totally normal and fine
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POLITICO Europe
4 months ago
Musicians can sometimes be the government's most vocal critics. Who could forget Stormzy calling out Theresa May over Grenfell or Elton John calling Keir Starmer’s government “absolute losers”? On Westminster Insider, host
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digs deeper:
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Commons people: when politics and music collide
Podcast Episode · Westminster Insider · 08/22/2025 · 42m
https://ow.ly/nN3P50WK1FH
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