Paul Ewart

To understand those who have overseen our politics in recent decades, you need to grasp the smug, technocratic ethos informed by reading a few pop science books, stand-up, new atheism & music journalism.
They thought they were the smartest guys in the room. They still do.
Most of them are on here.

The Great Moving Far Right Show.

You do have to wonder what goes on in Polly's head.

Expert Taskforce recommends locations for new towns The New Towns Taskforce has recommended locations for the next generation of new towns.

Lmao, one of the government's loudly hailed "new towns" schemes is literally just "more of Milton Keynes". Not more towns like Milton Keynes, it's just urban sprawl around actual Milton Keynes.

Building More Won't Fix the Housing Crisis Housing has become a financial asset that generates vast gains for the wealthy.

"Ending the housing crisis requires attacking one of the foundations of neoliberal capitalism: the idea that we are all little, budding capitalists just waiting for the opportunity to invest in financial markets."

graceblakeley.substack.com/p/building-m...

Genius.

And she thought she was so good at this.
I guess having more smoke pumped up her arse than a papal conclave can do that.

Vapid by Her Own Empty Standards What was the point of Rachel Reeves's speech? Okay, it's Labour Party conference so it's expected that the chancellor/shadow chancellor shou...

"Farage must have spent the day pinching himself."

YouTube video by The New Statesman Andy Burnham begins leadership challenge to Keir Starmer | UK Politics | The New Statesman

Lots of beating around the bush to avoid the elephant in the room here: Burnham's a wool.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsWS...

Cooper "This intolerable suffering must end.. the Israeli govt must end the moral obscenity of this campaign"

So you'll stop all arms exports to Israel? No
So you'll impose sanctions? No
So you'll end all military ties? No

So just empty words from a govt complicit in genocide

Burial's last interview A little exclusive, because why not

Last week I published the full transcript from Burial's last ever interview on my Substack. The conversation took place the month before Untrue came out in October 2007, in my living room in Tooting. Suffice it to say people have gone a bit nuts over it 💗 danhancox.substack.com/p/burials-la...

YouTube video by The New Statesman Andy Burnham begins leadership challenge to Keir Starmer | UK Politics | The New Statesman

So Corbynism is back, but we must call it Burnhamism or Manchesterism.
Fascinating insight into the editorial position of the NS team:
The 70s are good again, and New Labour were idiots.
Who knew?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsWS...

at any given moment starmer has like 3 different positions put forth in articles and commentary, or lisa nandy is on TV being wrong about NI numbers, and his home secretary is saying something else *again* this very morning. I dunno man it kinda feels like they're lying to everyone, all the time

If you wanted to create the conditions for the exact dangerous behaviour these same people shrieked about for a decade now, this is what you'd do.

I cannot underline hard enough how awesomely corrupt it looks, that the SNP were d3str0yed over that, while this fucking idiot took huge bungs from Israel partisans to wreck his own party and then create a government that would assist in the genocide of the Palestinians. It is unbelievably bad!

The brief summary of the “coppers storming Nicola Sturgeon’s house” stuff is that the police were told the SNP had spent donations they were given for a second referendum on day-to-day party maintenance. I’m not even sure that is a crime. Now, look at what these clowns have done.

Alan Johnson says we should back Starmer and he cites how loyal he was in 2009. As opposed to 2016, eh Alan?

If the government wants economic growth it must bring essential industries into public ownership Successive governments clobber households and small businesses by hiking interest rates to manage inflation, but don’t inconvenience corporations.

UK median wage for an employee is £30,816.

A single person needs to earn £30,500 a year to reach a minimum acceptable standard of living.

A couple with 2 children needs £74,000 a year between them.

Can't rebuild economy based on low wages and poverty.

The entirety of the PM’s published comments—no specifics on policy or political framework, no real condemnation of racist mobs (because his party has been overtly appealing to them these past few months), repetitive, insipid, focused on headlines and party politics, vamping to fill space.

The usual

This is nothing? Like I'm sorry but he said stuff like this after the riots and then he went right back to saying "yeah they've got a point though, too many foreigners innit?" I know people really want to believe he isn't awful but come on now.

Shabana Mahmood vows law reforms to prove migrants 'contribute' to UK society The home secretary signalled in her first major interview since taking over the reins that she believed migration "has been too high".

This idea migrants have to “earn” the right to be treated with some degree of fairness and dignity has been an obsession of the Labour right for ages, but never implemented bc no-one can decide what “contributing to society” amounts to or how you assess it - link to thread about this in next post >

A @labourlist.bsky.social poll of Labour Party members shows 53% want a new leader, 64% think Keir Starmer is doing badly and 65% say the party is heading in the wrong direction.

Informative. Could we have had these insights *before* TBI and its billionaire friends were quietly put in charge of huge chunks of government policy?

There's a good reason why Blue Labour, the self-styled socially conservative but economically radical outfit never has anything to say about latter.

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

A heartbreaking work of staggering genius.

Highlights include Neal Lawson being duped by Morgan McSweeney following conversations about Gramsci in the countryside, and Mo Glassman as Starmer's last backer.

www.politicshome.com/news/article...

Long 90s klaxon.

Will never understand how Finns manage to fit a whole bear into such a small tin.

Jack White.

EXPOSED: The Scandal That Could Bring Down Keir Starmer's Government This is BIG

It's not clear how you can continue to be Chief of Staff in 10 Downing Street if, as alleged by Paul Holden in his new book, you deliberately hide details of £730,000 of political donations from the Electoral Commission ...
www.doubledown.news/watch/2025/s...

I note e.g. the Guardian was *roaring with terror* about clandestine subversion of the political process, at the same time as their journos were attending secret squillionaire-funded briefings for destructive all-channels political wrecking disguised as “shocking revelations” by “whistle-blowers”.