Alan White

How The Greens Won The Gorton And Denton By-Election The Green Party's historic by-election victory in Gorton and Denton sent shockwaves across British politics. Campaign insiders tell PoliticsHome ho...

Tom Scotson @tomscotson.bsky.social has been miles ahead of most of the lobby on what’s happening on the ground in Gorton and Denton throughout the campaign: here’s how the Greens won www.politicshome.com/news/article...

three possible AI-driven paths: - tech singularity end of scarcity, ai boosted growth, or complete human extinction

Referring everyone who asks me who’s going to win in Gorton and Denton to this chart

Pleased to be invited to speak on BBC news yesterday about the government‘s SEND reforms and how they’re landing with MPs

Coverage from the day linked below www.politicshome.com/news/article...

The Professor Will See You Now: Recycling Lessons in political science. This week: recycling

It's @philipjcowley.bsky.social on Potemkin consultations, with a piece that, having just chaired a news meeting, I wonder could be applied rather more widely than local government www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...

an amazing album

PM Set To Ask Independent Adviser To Investigate Minister Over Think Tank Allegations Keir Starmer is looking at asking his independent ethics adviser to investigate whether minister Josh Simons breached the ministerial code over his...

🚨https://www.politicshome.com/news/article/starmer-mulls-asking-independent-ethics-adviser-to-investigate-josh-simons

How Strong Is Support For The Greens? Zack Polanski's leadership of the Greens has generated significant interest in the party. Nearly half of people are considering supporting them at ...

Our Sunday read from @adampayne26.bsky.social is a really good look at how popular the greens truly are right now www.politicshome.com/news/article...

Parliament is about to make a grave mistake over its own restoration No one disputes that the Palace of Westminster needs serious work. It faces fire risks, crumbling systems and decades of underinvestment.

Jesse Norman on Parliaments restoration www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...

Casework Crisis: Increase In Constituency Caseload Takes Its Toll The inexorable growth in casework is stopping MPs from fulfilling their other roles. Alice Lilly sifts through the inbox looking for what might be ...

The workload facing MPs and their staff is growing, in ways that aren't visible to the public: casework and the inbox.

For @thehousemag.bsky.social, I delved into what the workload looks like, why it's growing, and what this means for how MPs can balance the different aspects of their role

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...

Over 50 Academics Warn That Voting System Is Not Fit For Multi-Party Politics

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In short no, but it’s something I’m working on….

Labour Still Hopes Burnham Could Deliver The Party A By-Election Win Labour is increasingly confident that it could win the Gorton and Denton by-election – and it is relying on Andy Burnham to help hold the seat, des...

Labour is still relying on Andy Burnham to help them win in Gorton and Denton, despite blocking him as a candidate www.politicshome.com/news/article...

Countdown: Can Labour Meet Its 2030 Clean Power Mission? The success of the latest wind power auction has put Ed Miliband within sight of realising the goal of decarbonising the UK’s electricity network b...

Well, now all the fuss has died down we can all relax and enjoy @adambell.bsky.social on Labour's 2030 clean power mission www.politicshome.com/news/article...

A fascinating "why format matters" example here. Making this the text of your post would be standard government minister boilerplate.

Posting it as a screenshot in the official font makes it look like you've been asked to carry the portrait of Lenin at the May Day Parade.

Sacking Morgan McSweeney won’t be enough to ease this sense of decline It was never meant to end this way!

Baz on fire: www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...

BREAKING: McSweeney’s think tank paid PR firm to investigate journalists Labour Together put private investigators onto journalists writing about its funding. Starmer's right-hand man knew.

🔴 BREAKING: Labour Together paid controversial PR firm £30k to investigate journalists who were digging into how its undeclared funding

Reporters from Sunday Times, Guardian and other outlets targetted

*And* Morgan McSweeney knew about it

Full story:
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/exclusive-...

Mandelson helped sever New Labour from its roots – moral decay was the result It’s hard to recall now the wave of optimism that swept through the country in 1997 when Labour defeated the discredited Tory government.

Mandelson helped sever New Labour from its roots – moral decay was the result
✍️ Jon Trickett
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The Professor Will See You Now: Newbies In an occasional series, Professor Philip Cowley offers a political science lesson for The House’s readers. This week: newbies

As discussed here....

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“Prime Minister it transpires The Prince of Darkness may have done some quite bad things I’m afraid.”

“Christ, didn’t see that coming. Well we shall simply have to get ahead of this story and tell the Commons that The Prince of Darkness lied to us and we are very, very cross about it.”

On the toilet eating a burger while ketamined up to the gills

"No I think it's FINE on balance, we should just get the Prince of Darkness to do that job, I can't think the risk profile is too bad. Yeah. Let's get the Prince of Darkness to do it. Great. Trebles all round."

Blackwood breaks silence on Mandelson 'pressure' - Journalism News from HoldtheFrontPage Hartlepool Mail editor Harry Blackwood has broken his silence over claims that the MP Peter Mandelson tried to get him sacked. Harry is currently on sic

If only there had been signs www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/2007/news/bl...

Just a quick note to @greenparty.org.uk and @greenpartyhan.bsky.social - I was not consulted on being quoted on your leaflets and I have not endorsed your campaign (or any campaign in this seat). I think this note, like the bar chart next to it, is misleading and out of context.

"In retrospect Prime Minister, was his nickname of The Prince of Darkness not a tiny bit of a red flag?"

Epstein goes ham on Peter saying he never gets anything from him for all the help he has given

No defence of him AT ALL but when you consider this comes *after* he’s allegedly sent him financially sensitive info this is an incredible illustration of how thoroughly played Mandelson was

Meet Hereditary Peer Lord Hampton – The Only Serving Teacher In Parliament Lord Hampton, believed to be the only serving teacher in Parliament, tells Matilda Martin of a life divided between the work bench and the crossben...

This is great: Meet Hereditary Peer Lord Hampton – The Only Serving Teacher In Parliament www.politicshome.com/news/article...

Another banger

That is why I have left

Heartbreaking to have pretty much left Twitter and subsequently learn a new centrist party has been launched

Andy Burnham Blocked By Labour From Running In By-Election Andy Burnham has been blocked from running as the Labour candidate in a parliamentary by-election, after a core group on the party’s ruling nationa...

🧐 “In line with the plan of Starmer allies, which was revealed by PoliticsHome on Thursday, the vote went against Burnham and he was blocked from running.” www.politicshome.com/news/article...