Dr Stefan Lawrence

Can’t help some people!

I’m what’s next week’s set of values though? Seems nationalism is now flavour of the month - what will it be next? Place your bets now folks!

With respect if the Lib Dems can’t cut through in this political climate, then they never will. The fluidity of their values over the last 20 years or so mean many voters don’t understand who they’re voting for. Nice enough people, but absolutely no unifying principles as far as I can see.

Join the revolution my friend. Have a great day.

At this juncture, what is even the point of the Lib Dems?

British.

Get him in by any means possible not just into Parliament but into number 10

It is quite incredible that Starmer has gone from a massive majority to managing to unite all sides of the political spectrum against him. It really is quite an achievement alienating everyone.

Voting Reform? I get it. But You Deserve Better. In a terraced house on a cobbled street on the outskirts of Sheffield, I want to tell you about the story of a woman – let’s call her Sandra – who I met on a tram and who is plann…

I wrote a reflection after meeting Sandra - a woman from Sheffield - on a tram, about why she's voting Reform, Nigel Farage and why (we) the left has failed her.

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I agree. We need to get better on the left at the nuance on the immigration question, not because I naturally sympathise with intolerance but if we don’t then we push more people to Reform.

Voting Reform? I get it. But You Deserve Better. In a terraced house on a cobbled street on the outskirts of Sheffield, I want to tell you about the story of a woman – let’s call her Sandra – who I met on a tram and who is plann…

I wrote a reflection after meeting Sandra - a woman from Sheffield - on a tram, about why she's voting Reform and why (we) the left has failed her.

🔗 stefanlawrence.wordpress.com/2025/09/21/v...

Voting Reform? I get it. But You Deserve Better. In a terraced house on a cobbled street on the outskirts of Sheffield, I want to tell you about the story of a woman – let’s call her Sandra – who I met on a tram and who is plann…

I wrote a reflection after meeting Sandra —
a woman from Sheffield - on a tram, about why she's voting Reform and why we (the left) has failed her.

🔗 stefanlawrence.wordpress.com/2025/09/21/v...

Voting Reform? I get it. But You Deserve Better. In a terraced house on a cobbled street on the outskirts of Sheffield, I want to tell you about the story of a woman – let’s call her Sandra – who I met on a tram and who is plann…

I wrote a reflection after meeting Sandra —
a woman from Sheffield - on a tram, about why she's voting Reform and why the left has failed her.

🔗 stefanlawrence.wordpress.com/2025/09/21/v...

Voting Reform? I get it. But You Deserve Better. In a terraced house on a cobbled street on the outskirts of Sheffield, I want to tell you about the story of a woman – let’s call her Sandra – who I met on a tram and who is plann…

I wrote a reflection after meeting Sandra —
a woman from Sheffield - on a tram, about why she's voting Reform and why the left has failed her.

🔗 stefanlawrence.wordpress.com/2025/09/21/v...

Voting Reform? I get it. But You Deserve Better. In a terraced house on a cobbled street on the outskirts of Sheffield, I want to tell you about the story of a woman – let’s call her Sandra – who I met on a tram and who is plann…

I wrote a reflection after meeting Sandra —
a woman from Sheffield - I met on a tram, about why she's voting Reform and why the left has failed her.

🔗 stefanlawrence.wordpress.com/2025/09/21/v...

North Walsall is completely lost.

“… a minority with entrenched beliefs is surfing wider social discontent and importing older styles of football fandom to make itself louder.”

Some of my reflections on the weekend:

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The British right once championed law, order, and civility—but now cheers for criminal damage, vigilante violence, and racist misinformation. Twitter, supercharged by Elon Musk, is fuelling this shift—amplifying hate, glorifying weaponised children, and spreading far-right narratives at scale.

England has rarely needed to wave flags — its power was historically inferred. The current flood of St George’s Crosses signals less national pride than cultural insecurity: a performative attempt to reassert symbolic ownership and redraw boundaries of belonging.

Research shows owners consistently recruit in their own likeness — homophily is the norm. The difference is when white owners appoint white managers, it passes without comment.

And in doing so you’ve lost the room. Courting the right on this, who’ll never vote for you, means you’ve lost the left and much of the liberal centre.

Heard on very good authority that that’s exactly what’s happened at Staffs.

Since Labour took office, the podcast has lost its edge. The party’s failings are plain, yet the critique remains muted. Rory Stewart likening Jeremy Corbyn to a left-wing Farage was a particularly poor judgement. The liberal centre feels spent — and perhaps this podcast will be too soon.

The many issues with the current Labour government laid out clearly by @graceblakeley.substack.com

Leyla Hamed: A mother was stopped at the entrance to Bramley-Moore stadium and told she had to cover her Palestine football kit if she wanted to take her kids in. This is what football is teaching our kids these days: solidarity with genocide victims is not okay. Care to comment, @Everton?

That Everton has a policy to prohibit the wearing of Palestine football jerseys—a nation that participates in FIFA events under its own flag—is the most blatant example of discrimination possible, not to mention complicity in genocide.

“people are fundamentally egalitarian but are led to collapses by enriched, status-obsessed elites”

This government is absolutely tone deaf.

It's really not that deep. The reason for the rebellion in the Party is quite simply because Starmer is pulling Labour too far to the right. MPs will have been getting pelters from their constituents. The progressives have had enough. Govern as Labour or this is sure to be a one term government.