@zoecrowther.bsky.social
• political reporter @politicshome.bsky.social • “internet shepherd” of Bluesky • covering the politics behind social media, tech & health IG: http://instagram.com/zoe.crowther/ • X: @zoenora6 📍 London via Notts, Newcastle & Bristol
🚨 OUT NOW 🚨 Can ministers prevent an energy bill crisis?
⚡ MP @billesterson.bsky.social, @pjtheeconomist.bsky.social, @smfthinktank.bsky.social's Niamh O Regan and Dr Simon Cran-McGreehin join @alaintolhurst.bsky.social to discuss the impact of the Middle East conflict on the UK
🎧: pod.fo/e/3a7fb5
🚨 Niche news that only Bluesky users will care about
@politicshome.bsky.social journalists can now link to our Bluesky accounts on our website!
Really really excellent evisceration of IPSA's recent "bad behaviour" by my brilliant colleague @jensym.bsky.social in @thehousemag.bsky.social staff newsletter today.
MP staff morale and confidence in IPSA is extreeeemely low at the moment.
Youtube is expanding its likeness detection tech to journalists, govt officials and political candidates, allowing them to identify AI deepfakes of themselves and request removal blog.youtube/news-and-eve...
NEW: My interview with Green leader Zack Polanski
• He's been speaking to a “handful” of Labour MPs about defecting to the Greens
• Explains why he criticised Corbyn for Labour antisemitism but doesn't now
• His plans to run for Parliament
& lots more 👇
www.politicshome.com/news/article...
most definitely
get inundated with IWD marketing emails every year and it is so annoying
I feel SO EMPOWERED getting emails like this, thank you Boots! 💋
Exactly what International Women's Day was meant for 💝
Twenty years on, the Iraq War still looms large in the minds of Labour MPs
🔎 @zoecrowther.bsky.social and @tomscotson.bsky.social explore how the 2003 invasion of Iraq and its aftermath are shaping Britain’s response to the Iran conflict
🚨 OUT NOW 🚨 What did we learn from the Spring Statement?
📈 Labour MP @lukemurphy.bsky.social, Resolution Foundation's @jamessmithrf.bsky.social and the IFS's @nickridpath.bsky.social join @alaintolhurst.bsky.social to discuss the state of the economy
🎧 Listen now: pod.fo/e/39ea85
Keir Starmer has announced that he is sending four additional Typhoon jets to “maintain the shield” over the Brits in the Middle East
The PM said over 4k people had made it back to the UK from impacted countries, adding that the operation was "many times bigger than the evacuation from Afghanistan"
Reform UK and the Greens are hoovering up financially insecure voters. My piece this week looks at the return of Britain's class politics (with a twist) www.economist.com/britain/2026...
❌ Parliamentary staff have overwhelmingly rejected a pay offer that falls below the increase awarded to MPs, according to a @unitetheunion.bsky.social survey seen by @politicshome.bsky.social
91.5% rejected the offer, while only 4.6% said they would accept it
@zoecrowther.bsky.social reports
One parliamentary staffer called IPSA “a bunch of useless bean-counting morons”
One parliamentary staffer called IPSA “a bunch of useless bean-counting morons”
There's fury among parliamentary staff after being given a smaller pay rise than MPs
IPSA said the move reflects growing demands on MPs, like "higher levels of complex casework, and abuse & intimidation"
However, staff say it's "mind-blowingly tone deaf" and fails to appreciate pressures they face
Well thank you for your meme service if it was! And ah yes it was the top story last night but has changed now
Hilarious that I got sent this meme by someone on Bluesky, forwarded it to some ministers, and now it’s in The Times
Don’t let anyone tell you Bluesky doesn’t have influence ✌️
Reference to the meme is in this Times story
www.thetimes.com/article/c6e1...
Sorry I can’t remember who originally commented on my post with this meme, but if it was you please show yourself
Hilarious that I got sent this meme by someone on Bluesky, forwarded it to some ministers, and now it’s in The Times
Don’t let anyone tell you Bluesky doesn’t have influence ✌️
I’m afraid this letter shows why so many Labour MPs think Starmer needs to go. His political antenna is non-existent. If you have just been humbled in a by-election it might not be the best idea to slag off the choices of the voters who deserted you in their droves.
I’ll be on BBC Radio Wales at 5:30pm to discuss the Gorton and Denton by-election result 📻
Keir Starmer has written to all Labour MPs attacking the Green Party for embracing "divisive" and "sectarian" politics
I'm picking up concern among Labour MPs about how this letter will come across to people who have voted/are tempted to vote Green, as it could risk further alienating these voters
This is not a reasoned political response. Labour has spent two years making all the voting groups who backed the Greens feel unwelcome and unheard, and now attacks them for daring to back someone else. They believe Labour isn’t listening and Starmer seems determined to prove them right
A damning indictment of the fact Starmer doesn't read my columns.
Read in full Starmer's letter to Labour MPs after their bruising by-election defeat
Obtained by PolHome, it says Polanski's party embraced the "sectarian" politics of George Galloway to win
It also sought to assure Labour MPs that the Greens won't be able to replicate their success at the next GE
Not sure a 27.5% swing can really be described as 'pushing them over the line', however it's attributed
‘Coalition of socially Conservative working class voters and with middle class social liberals cannot survive an election campaign’. What does Keir Starmer think the Labour coalition is, or has ever been?
