Morgan Jones

Is "deliverism" dead? Lawrence gave his first take on Iran at the weekend and will return to it later this week.

What is "deliverism"? Is it dead? And what would its death mean for progressive politics?

This essay (kindly published by @samfr.bsky.social) is my attempt to trace five years of trans-Atlantic debates, to set out what I see as the stakes, and to analyse where these arguments have now gotten to:

I can imagine !

How distraught Remainers threw away the possibility of a second EU Referendum | Conservative Home This new account gives us Brexit from the losing side.

Nice to be reviewed in ConHome (where, and I had never noticed this before, it is absolutely feral below the line. Interesting stuff!)

conservativehome.com/2026/02/27/h...

Every time the sun comes out, I sit in it and smile and then I think of this @morganj0nes.bsky.social tweet. It's a big leaf day.

you don’t hear about the softlord anymore. But the big leaf ? Eternal seemingly

genuinely my most enduring work

This policy will cause immense harm, making it harder for refugees to integrate into our communities and find work, as they will be living under constant threat of removal.

Anyone can see how destabilising and deeply counterproductive this decision is. [2/2]

I am appalled that the government has scrapped permanent refugee status for those seeking safety in the UK.

From today, refugees entering the country will face reviews every 30 months and be forced to return if their country is deemed “safe”. [1/2]

yes this one!

apropos of little but: there was a really good article from a few years ago about how old Simpsons was a common language and actually I increasingly find drill tweets playing this kind of role as well

I wrote this in May 2024. All of this has been very predictable for a very long time.

www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Femi, mate, buy some bednets. You'd save more lives in expectation, and the risk of assassination is negligible

(From @morganj0nes.bsky.social book on the anti-Brexit campaigns)

"I had bullets through my door and I was attacked in the street, but broadly it was great"

MPs are another species

as you say:
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Featuring me, questioning whether the Queen really was signalling pro-EU sentiments via the medium of headwear:

as I breeze past the christian nationalism... I take time to admire the 13 men on one cover : )

far from the main issue but admirable gender balance on show here

my god has forsaken me

maybe i should worship the sun

“the sun delusion”….
Not likely mate have you felt the first sunny day of spring ???

imagine being a Neolithic pagan worshiping the sun. spring would hit so hard you’d be feral with delight and also ideologically vindicated

Enduring relevance you say ?

Reform don't want to regulate your landlord.

They don't want to regulate your employer.

But they do want to regulate your sex life.

a year is a long time in politics

the tourettes at the BAFTAs thing, with its lack of clear baddie and its need for sympathy for all and a bit of saneness and restraint, is perfectly designed to send a specific type of (usually american) ultra liberal mental

James Butler · ‘Need a lord on the board?’: Mandelson and the Lobbyists Why​ did a man whose political expertise was acquired in the departed era of broadcast television maintain such...

I wrote on the fall of Peter Mandelson for the next issue of the @lrb.co.uk

Online early now:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

watched and enjoyed shattered glass. hard to escape the feeling that these days he'd just pivot to substack, maybe convert to catholicism, come up shining 18 months later

Discernible among my friends and colleagues who remain heavy X users: affects both their sense of issue salience and the intellectual framework (i.e., usually race and migration) through which to understand them. Many think themselves exempt through critical thinking skills. You are what you eat!