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John Denham (@jydenham) Nations cannot be cohesive if democracy cannot change things

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What an outrageous, gratuitous and vile slur on Zalensky in Trump's recent 'Truth Social' message: "Joe Biden spent all of his time, and our Country’s money, GIVING everything to P.T. Barnum (Zelenskyy!) of Ukraine". truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...

The Representation of the People Bill: contours of the debates to come The government’s long-awaited proposals for electoral reforms, published last month, will receive their first scrutiny in the House of Commons next Monday. Ahead of that debate, Alan Renwick analys…

As Alan Renwick notes in this article, there are still some important omissions in the government's Elections Bill, as well as some significant gains. Well worth a read: constitution-unit.com/2026/02/26/t...

Pitch perfect 👌

Hope this series does for water what the Post Office drama did for Horizon victims.

The scandal of privatised water is even bigger because it affects everyone.

The common theme is clear: powerful corporate entities are exploiting us all.

Time to bring water back into public ownership.

Israel shuts Al-Aqsa Mosque and bans Ramadan prayer for third consecutive day Palestinians warn ‘unjustified’ move is part of Israeli strategy to exploit tensions and consolidate control over Al-Aqsa Mosque

Israel shuts Al-Aqsa Mosque and bans Ramadan prayer for third consecutive day - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/strikes-pummel-iran-israel-shuts-al-aqsa-mosque-during-ramadan

David Cameron, 2011: “I am not a naive neocon who thinks you can drop democracy out of an aeroplane at ten thousand feet.”
Kemi Badenoch, 2026: “The only reason not to back this war without caveat is if you’re looking to get support from the Mozzies!”

Which is a good reason to support @bylinetimes.bsky.social

Unspeakable: How Epstein Helped Turn a Russian Podesta Hack into the Pizzagate Paedophile Conspiracy The fifth generation warfare theory of General Mike Flynn was tested out by his son and a close associate of Peter Thiel

5/ By @peterjukes.bsky.social
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Totally agree. Feels like something the Electoral Commission needs to look at (and this is where the stripping of the EC of its independence really matters. The Tories really politicised the EC in very damaging ways)

Paul Conroy — a brilliant photojournalist who documented wars & human chaos for decades — has passed away. He was injured in the same attack in Homs that killed Marie Colvin & he just carried on travelling to conflict zones.

May he rest in peace.

Wife of Starmer’s comms chief had direct knowledge of Labour Together’s investigation into journalists Tory and SNP chiefs call for Labour minister Simons to ‘come clean’ as we reveal new details of PR firm’s campaign to discredit journalists

Wow. Josh Simons has resigned as govt minister

Follows weeks of reporting by Democracy for Sale and others about how he paid PR firm to smear journalists investigating Labour Together

Huge thanks to all our supporters. Couldn’t have done it without you
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Very clear that for Starmer, 'sectarian voting' is when British Muslims don't vote Labour, and for many others, it is just when British Muslims vote.

James Butler | Just Voting The Green Party’s Hannah Spencer has won the Gorton and Denton by-election with 41 per cent of the vote. Progressive...

Cool and clear from @piercepenniless.bsky.social

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Labour MP Clive Lewis doesn’t hold back on the Gorton and Denton result in this interview with ITV

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Struck by how Hannah Spencer's brilliant victory speech is a broadside against neoliberal meritocracy – like so many other (esp. female working-class) voices right now. This is exactly what Bev Skeggs & I discuss in our new article, 'Social Mobility is a Joke':
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Nothing to see here: Ex-Amazon UK boss to lead competition watchdog Experts described the decision to appoint Doug Gurr as the head of the CMA as “very positive” if you are Big Tech

Nothing to see here: Ex-Amazon UK boss to lead competition watchdog

Stunning and historic result in the Gordon and Denton parliamentary by-election in the UK.

The anti-genocide Green Party led by Zack Polanski has won the seat from Keir Starmer's governing Labour Party.

Nigel Farage's Reform UK and its odious candidate Matt Goodwin beaten.

People don’t vote for candidates they fear will ruin their lives and indeed, they will actively try to stop those candidates getting elected, film at 11.

That's more than they ever managed to do about his links to sanctioned oligarch Oleg Deripaska

How to stop Big Money buying British politics - Tax Justice UK The Elections Bill is our chance to stop our democracy being bought by the billionaires, and corporations dominating political funding.

A few billionaires, corporations & opaque networks now dominate UK political funding.

Unless the new Elections Bill is strengthened, our democracy will remain at risk of corruption by the super rich.

Read more & take action:
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Ah, but the schoolboy thrill and skill of jumping on and off a moving platform and the never to be forgotten moments when your legs got it wrong and you nearly went crashing to the road, the joy of it in retrospect

After 17 years at the New Statesman, I leave with a renewed faith in the power of ideas March 2009, the month I joined the New Statesman as a 22-year-old, was a different political time: a Labour chancellor raised taxes on the rich, the

It seems @georgeeaton.bsky.social is leaving the Staggers. Time then to salute his interview with Scruton, which was more right than wrong! www.newstatesman.com/comment/2026...

I get @bylinetimes.bsky.social delivered every month: every month it delivers. Calling out the void where #Labour should be, or the darkness & depravity of the #Epstein Classes. @labourlewis.bsky.social has written another fine piece, pointing to the umbilical links between privilege & conciliation.

Bogdanor probably should read our book The Good Politician about the decline of political trust in Britain. It's ridiculous to argue this started in 2008. www.cambridge.org/core/books/g...

Matt Goodwin is wrong to say you have to be white to be English: but we need to think more seriously about what stories national identity should tell.
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Classic bully-boy ploy to make yourself out as a victim - from the master manipulator!

One year and one week ago Matt Goodwin and George Monbiot were on #BBCQT. Matt Goodwin was being a Putin apologist and George Monbiot handed him his arse on a plate

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This day started as the day of remembrance for me.

Remembering those who died during this damned war. My friends and people I knew are among them.

I often think about them and will never forget them.

The faces of murdered and tortured Ukrainians whom I didn't personally know but wrote about