Alan White

Reform's Cost-Cutting Unit Struggles With The Reality Of Local Pressures After more than 100 days in office, those in charge of Reform-led councils are facing a political reality check in the form of soaring social care ...

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Darren Grimes says reform will cut waste in Durham

Darren grimes bemoans rising care costs

How it started etc

BBC Apologises For Airing Fake Claim About Digital ID Scheme The BBC has apologised for airing a false claim about Tony Blair's son's company being awarded a government contract to produce the new mandatory d...

BBC Apologises For Airing Fake Claim About Digital ID Scheme www.politicshome.com/news/article...

oh wow. this finally happened to me. a piece I wrote lifted wholesale by the Daily Mail, lightly rewritten and without any links back to my original piece of writing.

most amazingly, a weird use of the word 'pacing' suggests to me that they did it with ChatGPT.

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UK Faces Diplomatic Battle Over £5.5bn Bitcoin Claim Chancellor Rachel Reeves faces a diplomatic tightrope as the government looks to claim £5.5billion worth of Bitcoin while also looking to maintain ...

Interesting diplomatic situation unfolding after a recent court case involving a huge haul of Bitcoin www.politicshome.com/news/article...

Kemi Badenoch: “I'm Not Somebody Who Peaks On Day One” Can she turn her party’s fortunes around? Kemi Badenoch talks to Sienna Rodgers about being ‘proved right’ on culture wars, hits back at the briefi...

We have interviewed Kemi Badenoch www.politicshome.com/news/article...

Labour Struggles To Persuade Activists To Knock On Doors A disconnect between the Labour government and party members is causing a fall in the number of activists willing to campaign, organisers have warn...

Labour Struggles To Persuade Activists To Knock On Doors

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London Councils Face Losing Half Their Share Of Children's Services Funding Some of London’s poorest areas could see their share of funding for children’s services halved under Labour’s plans to reform local government gran...

Scoop from @cjayanetti.bsky.social - Some of London’s poorest areas could see their share of funding for children’s services halved in under local govt grant reform plans www.politicshome.com/news/article...

Election voters by party, and their jobs, showing Reform and Labour voters are miles apart

Up to date chart of voters by party, and their jobs

A fascinating pair of charts from @benansell.bsky.social that Labour strategists would do well to heed: benansell.substack.com/p/british-po...

Keir Starmer's First General Secretary On What Labour Must Do Next David Evans was instrumental in turning Labour into an election-winning machine. He tells Francis Elliott about soothing Angela Rayner's rows with ...

A fascinating interview with David Evans by @franciselliott.bsky.social that gets to the core of modern Labour’s intellectual roots www.politicshome.com/news/article...

Seems ok to me!

Housing Minister Can't Guarantee New Towns Affordable Homes Target Will Be Met Housing minister Matthew Pennycook has refused to guarantee that the government will hit its affordable homes target in the New Towns programme.

Matthew Pennycook can't guarantee to @noahvickers.bsky.social that the government will hit its affordable homes target in the New Towns programme... www.politicshome.com/news/article...

SEND Reforms At Risk Of Further Delay As Government Tries To Avoid Backlash There is growing concern that long-awaited reforms to the special education needs and disabilities system risk further delay, PoliticsHome understa...

Not the kind of story Labour wants to drop during conference, from @matildamartin.bsky.social www.politicshome.com/news/article...

Nick Thomas-Symonds: “The Prime Minister Makes His Own Decisions, Always” EU minister Nick Thomas-Symonds shows Sophie Church how close the UK is to a youth mobility scheme, and how far the Prime Minister is from danger. ...

An interview with Nick Thomas-Symonds by @sophiealichurch.bsky.social in which he warns the EU not to negotiate an unworkable fee for UK participation in its €150bn defence fund www.politicshome.com/news/article...

The Mick Whelan Interview: Strikes, Starmer And 'The Lunatic In The White House' Mick Whelan, outgoing general secretary of Aslef and chair of Labour Unions, talks to Sienna Rodgers about the state of the Labour Party, its futur...

Fun interview with Mick Whelan by @siennarodgers.bsky.social www.politicshome.com/news/article...

Putin isn’t backing down. Instead, he’s launched multiple drone strikes in EU territory this past month. Meanwhile, the US is checked out. Putin is testing the waters, and finding them amenable.

How Much Longer Can Starmer Survive? Enemies Are Circling His Last Defence Can Keir Starmer and Morgan McSweeney survive much longer? Increasingly, Labour insiders from across the party think not. Sienna Rodgers reports

How much longer can Starmer survive? www.politicshome.com/news/article...

Andy Burnham Casts A Shadow Over Labour Party Conference The figure of Andy Burnham is looming large over Liverpool as Labour MPs prepare to gather in Merseyside this weekend for their annual party confer...

Some great quotes here on Burnham’s manoeuvring www.politicshome.com/news/article...

Andy Burnham Seen As Better Prime Minister Than Other Potential Labour Leadership Candidates Andy Burnham leads the pack of potential future replacements for Prime Minister Keir Starmer in new Savanta polling of British voters about leaders...

Andy Burnham Seen As Better Prime Minister Than Other Potential Labour Leadership Candidates
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Lib Dems Rebrand To Bolder 'Liberal Orange' As The Party Begins To Get More Ambitious With a new 'Liberal Orange' brand and a pledge that their ambition has “no ceiling”, the Liberal Democrats are scaling up their hopes for the next ...

Here’s where the Lib Dems are at right now www.politicshome.com/news/article...

SEND Help: How children with special educational needs are being failed Education, Health and Care Plans (EHCPs) could face the axe under imminent education reforms. Parents are anxious – but they have not stopped hundr...

Education, Health and Care Plans (EHCPs) could face the axe under imminent education reforms.

Life Is A Cabaret: Liberal Democrat MP Paul Kohler In His Underground Burlesque Bar Liberal Democrat MP Paul Kohler meets Sophie Church and Sienna Rodgers in his Covent Garden cabaret bar, where they talk about running a business, ...

We went and interviewed a Lib Dem in his underground burlesque bar [rejected Vice headlines] www.politicshome.com/news/article...

Favourite tv sitcoms of gen z millennials gen x and boomers

Every time I look at this image I get annoyed for a different reason, it’s remarkable

Fuck this

The dawn of the post-literate society And the end of civilisation

A great piece from James Marriott. FWIW I am working on a laptop, I didn't read this on my phone... open.substack.com/pub/jmarriot...

Trump Spends Entire U.K. Trip Trying To Figure Out Where He Knows Prince Andrew From theonion.com/trump-spends...

Extremist Groups Hated Charlie Kirk. They’re Using His Death to Radicalize Others The Oath Keepers are apparently restarting, and extremist groups like the Proud Boys are calling for “state violence” in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s death.

As, no doubt, are bad actors working for foreign states. www.wired.com/story/extrem...

The professor will see you now: tribalism Lessons in political science. This week: blocs

Another @philipjcowley.bsky.social banger: “One electoral change has been unrelenting: the growing – in fact accelerating – refusal of the electorate to cast a ballot for either of the two governing parties.” www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...

Senior Labour MPs Demand Crackdown on X After Elon Musk’s ‘Dangerous’ Rally Comments Senior Labour MPs are urging the government to take urgent action against hate speech, misinformation and violent rhetoric on Elon Musk’s X platfor...

Labour MPs versus the everything app www.politicshome.com/news/article...

Jam and Jerusalem: Inside the Lib Dems' media strategy While MPs have voiced concerns over their party’s strategy, the Lib Dem media team tell Sophie Church they are sticking with the programme. Illustr...

Characteristically interesting @sophiealichurch.bsky.social piece about the Lib Dems' media strategy. www.politicshome.com/news/article...