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The General & the Journalist: ‘War with Russia in three years’, defence minister and ex-marine Two years ago, Al Carns was a colonel in the Royal Marines and, though he can never confirm or deny it, had also commanded the Special Boat Service. He pivoted to politics when he realised that th...

This is a must listen podcast - interview with Al Carns, Labour MP and Armed Forces Minister (and strongly tipped to be a/the future Labour leader/PM)
(reposts are not agreement or endorsements but for important information purposes)
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The Last Empire: Why the Trump-Netanyahu War Signals the Fall of a Civilisation America is waging wars of expansion across two continents at the precise moment its energy foundations are giving way. The war on Iran is a stress test of a late-stage empire — and every indicator say...

NEW: The Fall of the American Empire. Traces the pattern from Rome's collapse through the 'adaptive cycle' to show that America is doing exactly what dying empires always do: expanding outward at maximum aggression as their material foundations give way.
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It’s time to end Britain’s first-past-the-post election lottery The Gorton and Denton by-election confirmed just how capricious our electoral system has become

💥 Professor Vernon Bogdanor writes for @financialtimes.com:

"An electoral system should do two things: ensure that the majority rules and that significant minorities are adequately represented.

First Past the Post achieves neither."

Turns out lawlessness is not a winning strategy. See you at Nuremberg 2.0

Polling from More in Common shows that Greens and Reform win a higher share of voters who struggle to make ends meet, while Labour and the Conservatives win those who are most financially comfortable

Reform UK and the Greens are hoovering up financially insecure voters. My piece this week looks at the return of Britain's class politics (with a twist) www.economist.com/britain/2026...

Zack Polanski gets under the skin of exactly the right people The Green leader has yet to advance workable, deeply thought through solutions to Britain’s biggest problems—but nor has Reform

Zack Polanski supporters are not deranged or stupid, they are relieved at a leader who is finally upbeat and hopeful, writes Alan Rusbridger

Greens overtake Labour in sensational poll The Greens have polled higher than Labour in the latest poll by YouGov, which puts them only two points off Reform UK and five ahead of the governing party.

For what it's worth, a new YouGov poll puts the Greens in 2nd place, 5 points ahead of Labour & 2 points behind Reform. And I the Greens surprise win in Gorton & Plaid's recent win show that support for Greens is underestimated & support for Reform is exaggerated.

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Green Party Surpasses Labour in Poll, Intensifying Pressure on Keir Starmer # Nightmare for Keir Starmer as Greens Overtake Labour in Bombshell Poll. Sir Keir Starmer faces a troubling development as the Green Party has surged ahead of Labour in a recent poll.

Green Party Surpasses Labour in Poll, Intensifying Pressure on Keir Starmer

🗳️ BREAKING | Greens surge to 2nd (YouGov)

➡️ Ref: 23% (-1)
🟢 Grn: 21% (+4)
🔵 Con: 16% (-2)
🔴 Lab: 16% (-2)
🟠 Lib: 14% (=)

Poll: @YouGov, 1-2 Mar (+/- vs 23 Feb)

🚨 BREAKING: The Green Party of England and Wales has hit 200,000 members! 📈💚

Voting Intention, sourced from LordAPolls between nineteen February and twenty-three February, displays a bar chart of five political parties and their respective support levels. Reform UK is in the lead at twenty-two percent, which is a decrease of three percentage points since nineteen February. The Conservative Party follows at twenty percent, showing a decrease of one percentage point. The Green Party stands at nineteen percent, representing an increase of one percentage point. The Labour Party is at seventeen percent, reflecting a decrease of one percentage point. Finally, the Liberal Democrats are at eleven percent with no change in their standing since the previous poll.

🚨 The Green Party are just THREE points behind Reform UK, approaching first place in the polls. 📈

HOPE IS HERE 200K GREEN PARTY MEMBERS Green Party Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE169GQ

🚨 BREAKING 🚨 The Green Party has over 200,000 members.

More members, more councillors, more MPs.

The Green Party just keep growing.

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Hope won 💚

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Sunday School: One thing after another Podcast Episode · Quiet Riot · 1 March · 1h 1m

“I am one of the last holdouts when it comes to insisting on giving the government credit when it does things well… But I just thought Starmer's reaction the next morning was catastrophic. If I had scripted it to go worse, it couldn't.” @sturdyalex.bsky.social 👏

As journalists working today many of us are taught to recognise disinformation when we see it and fight back against it.

Unfortunately there are some who willingly seek it out and put it on their front pages. A disgrace to the profession.

Our thoughts about the Daily Mail.

The real lesson to take from Gorton and Denton is for the future of UK democracy | Institute for Government Westminster is dangerously underprepared for a multi-party future.

👀 “leadership would mean recognising this byelection as a warning – an urgent signal of the need to prepare UK democracy for a multi-party future”

🚨 "First-past-the-post is creaking at the seams"

@drhannahwhite.bsky.social on Gorton & Denton
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‼️ BREAKING: Greens WIN Gorton and Denton by-election in a landslide victory

🟢 Grn: 41% (+27)
➡️ Ref: 29% (+15)
🔴 Lab: 25% (-25)
🔵 Con: 2% (-6)
🟠 Lib: 2% (-2)

Green GAIN from Labour (+/- vs GE2024)

‼️First-ever Green win in an MP by-election

Well well, who knew?
Appealing to togetherness rather than prejudice actually works in this country…

Charlie Stayt, "A lot of people think those leaflets are the nasty side of politics"

Zack Polanski, "Genocide is quite nasty"

we've now caught up with Labour voting intention

we're chasing Reform but we need to keep going

now is a good time to start having awkward political conversations with people. i know its awkward but its less awkward than Reform winning a general election cos we were all too awkward to say somethin

its spectacular seeing Zack on the interview circuit this morning, getting more TV coverage than ever because of today's breakthrough election

he's putting away every nonsense question the presenters give him. they keep thinking theyre gonna catch him out + seem visibly startled that it doesnt work

i really expected to wake up to the same old election morning blues. so refreshing for hope to be normal again

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Adam hills, josh widdicome and Alex Brooker. Jason manford, Lou Sanders, Bella hull and Zack Polanski. The last leg.

Imagine your party has won a historic byelection.

You've had election day, a loads of interviews, held a press conference with your new MP and welcomed lots of new members.

Sleep? Nah. It's time for The Last Leg!

#isitok

The Gorton & Denton result is a huge win for progressives.

But for the sake of securing a progressive majority in 2029, we must heed its wider lessons too.

As Neal Lawson argues: in a broken two-party system, First Past the Post risks splitting the progressive vote and letting Reform in.

The current argument of the British right is that Muslims turned out in "blocs" with "family voting" to cast their ballots for a party led by a gay Jewish man, and this shows that multiculturalism has failed, voting is "sectarian" and we are in a crisis.

Hmmmmmm.

Biggest learning to take away from the by-election by far.

The reaction from our volunteers in Manchester! 💚

It is time to join our movement of hope 👉 join.greenparty.org.uk/

Gorton and Denton twenty twenty-six by-election result. The headline states that the Greens win the first by-election in the party's history. The percentage share of the vote for each party is as follows: Green Party, forty-one percent; Reform UK, twenty-nine percent; Labour Party, twenty-six percent; Conservative Party, two percent; Liberal Democrats, two percent; and Others, one percent.

🚨 The Greens WIN their first by-election in history 💚

Hope is here. It's all of us. Enjoy your Friday 🎉