Gerry Mitchell

The Green Party backing public ownership 👇
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82% want publicly owned water 💧
71% want publicly owned energy 💡
66% want publicly owned buses 🚌
87% want a publicly owned NHS 🏥
76% want publicly owned rail 🚄
75% want a publicly owned Royal Mail 📮

Kathy (@parislychee) This is absolutely legendary! ❤️🔥 This Swiss commentator has balls of steel. While the Israeli bobsleigh team was racing, he kept reminding viewers of the war crimes the pilot has openly supported.

If only @stefanrenner.bsky.social would give our Prime Minister, his Cabinet, the royals and much of the legacy media a lesson in moral integrity and courage in public life. @novaramedia.com

Over 50 Academics Warn That Voting System Is Not Fit For Multi-Party Politics Dozens of academics have written to the government to warn that the current voting system risks producing distorted results on an 'unprecedented' s...

🚨BREAKING NEWS 🚨

50 leading academics, former senior public officials and politics, law and policy experts warn about the risks of First Past the Post.

Letter in @politicshome.bsky.social today 👇

Inclusion bases: a new label, a big ambition, same unanswered questions - Special Needs Jungle More government announcements—this time changing units and resourced provision to “Inclusion Bases”: new label, same unanswered questions

Inclusion isn’t a room …

Excellent as ever from @spcialndsjungle.bsky.social

We live in one of the most unequal societies in the developed world.

Counting votes fairly would change that.

🙏 Lesley, Ashley, Helgi — especially @misterapb.bsky.social — and @mvmnorthwestsurrey.bsky.social members for presenting our card to @monicaharding.bsky.social

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The “overdiagnosis” debate also distracts from a harder reality in SEND:

the children, young people, carers and families who most need SEND provision are often the least likely to get it.

I’ve written about this — drawing on research and lived experience — here: www.linkedin.com/posts/gerry-...

BEST OF BYLINES: The voice of the nation – who speaks for Britain? The wrong people are telling the story of Britain, and the story they tell is exhausted

BEST OF BYLINES: The voice of the nation – who speaks for Britain?
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What Would Democracy in Britain Look Like Without Fear?
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#Venezuela #Greenland

Will the UK government acknowledge the idea of "the West" as a geopolitical entity with shared values, principles and interests is dead?

No

Poorest have got poorer under Labour while richest are better off Prime minister Keir Starmer pledges to ‘wage all out war’ on the high cost of living

Shocking but unsurprising: "Amount poorest households have left over after bills & essential spending has fallen by 2.1% since Labour came to power. The most affluent households have seen their discretionary incomes rise by 10.3%"

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What Betty says. 💪

"You shouldn't be getting a medal for being robbed by your own government."

Betty Brown 92, the oldest surviving victim of the Post Office Scam was outraged about being in the New Year Honours List.

We want compensation and prison sentences not worthless medals.

‘Borrowed time’: crop pests and food losses supercharged by climate crisis Heating means pests breeding and spreading faster, warn scientists, with simplified current food system already vulnerable

In the #ClimateEmergency, #FoodSecurity is an issue we need to be taking a LOT more seriously

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Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.

Lush's soap most of the money from which goes to funding Medical Services for Palestinians in Gaza.

Let everybody know.

A real Good Samaritan One act of kindness that befell Leeds writer Bernard Hare in 1982 changed him profoundly. Here he tells his story.

i post this story every christmas, and will keep doing so until it stops making me cry

merry christmas xx

The voice of the nation – who speaks for Britain? The wrong people are telling the story of Britain, and the story they tell is exhausted

The voice of the nation – who speaks for Britain?

The wrong people are telling the story of Britain, and the story they tell is exhausted | Gerry Mitchell
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Thanks @gerrymitchell.bsky.social for asking why our national story is formed and told by elites and what alternatives might look like?
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The voice of the nation – who speaks for Britain? The wrong people are telling the story of Britain, and the story they tell is exhausted

I explore this argument in full here:
kentandsurreybylines.co.uk/politics/democracy/the-voice-of-the-nation-who-speaks-for-britain/

That’s why sortition matters — bringing together citizens, selected by lottery, to deliberate on major issues. Not a technocratic fix, but a redistribution of narrative power, where legitimacy grows from collective authorship rather than being spoken for.

As @policypress.bsky.social #UncomfortablyOff shows, the top 10% don’t just earn more — they shape what counts as “normal”, “fair”, or “squeezed”. Fear of downward mobility drives a cautious, defensive politics that manages decline rather than imagines change.

They still rely on the moral story of meritocracy: work hard, be sensible, and stability follows. But that story has broken. Employment no longer guarantees security, public services have eroded, and inequality now flows far more from wealth than wages.

That gap shows up in how political research is read. A recent Guardian article about the views of a focus group of relatively well-off voters described feeling squeezed — and their voices still shape the national story because they mirror the people already overrepresented in politics and media.

Listening to @rogerhallam.com and Ash Sarkar @novaramedia.com sharpened something I’ve been thinking about for a while. Britain’s democratic problem starts before the ballot box — its in our failure to update the story of who counts, who contributes, or who gets to speak. @zackpolanski.bsky.social

georgemonbiot.bsky.social knows that journalism “speaks with the voice of power” which is why bylinestimes.bsky.social matters.

In my latest piece, I ask: if even high earners feel cut off from politics, whose voices are treated as speaking for Britain?

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Keir Starmer will be remembered as a disastrous, despised prime minister who facilitated genocide.

That is it.

And one day he will be made to answer for his role in drowning Gaza in oceans of blood.

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Shameful

👏 @mlorimer.bsky.social reminding politicians that they still have agency: “get to the [voters] who don’t ..have a problem with migrants .. but who are worried about public services ..You’re going to solve that by putting more money into public services rather than by trying to stop the boats.”