Anthony Barnett

PS: You may have read this story already. The BBC ran a version of it yesterday

We shared our FOI docs with their reporter and press office.
Their response? To publish the story - our story - without even notifying us.

A £6bn public broadcaster selling out a tiny investigative newsletter. Nice. 😔

Harold Wilson, asked why he was for keeping Labour's Clause 4 that called for nationalisation of the means of production replied he was against removing the first verses of Genesis. From memory, don't have the actual quote)(

Please do

Really pleased to read such generous and thoughtful engagement with my work here from @anthonybarnett.bsky.social

Compulsory voting alone won’t fix the UK's broken politics Simply insisting people vote in elections run by a system they rightly distrust will not improve British politics

For @dmk1793.bsky.social with respect www.opendemocracy.net/en/compulsor...

Sunday death toll reaches 22, including 16 aid seekers <article data-history-node-id="426674" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/sunday-death-toll-reaches-22-including-16-aid-seekers" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/sunday-death-toll-reaches-22-including-16-aid-seekers" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Sunday death toll reaches 22, including 16 aid seekers</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>At least 22 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza on Sunday so far, Al Jazeera is reporting, citing medical sources.</p> <p>Of that figure, 16 were killed while seeking aid.</p> </div> </div> </article>

Sunday death toll reaches 22, including 16 aid seekers - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/sunday-death-toll-reaches-22-including-16-aid-seekers

Sunder is right. X should be shut down until it moderates extreme content in line with existing UK law.

David Marquand’s Intellectual and Political Legacy David Marquand, who died in April 2024, was a prominent figure in late 20th century British politics. This collection is devoted to analysing, criticising and celebrating his political and academic co...

David Marquand’s Intellectual & Political Legacy

SI edited by @pjsloman.bsky.social Colin Crouch & Ben Jackson with @emilyrobinson.bsky.social Will Hutton @npjgarland.bsky.social @anthonybarnett.bsky.social
Hilary Wainwright Andrew Gamble Jean Seaton & +

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The moment I knew Remain campaign was in a bad way when I was invited to a “get out the youth vote” meeting in Downing Street with tech bros/yoof media. Cameron walked in to ask ideas and an older person started shouting in a very posh voice… “GRIME ARTISTES! DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY GRIME ARTISTES?”

The latest @bylinetimes.bsky.social has arrived. There’s never been a better time to subscribe!

Or the Invasion of Iraq

Open Access for a brief month! Read it, download it, share it off-line, evade the charges that imprison an assessment of the history of the currents of the left, without which we will be sunk beneath the waves of the Right.

Essential @politicalquarterly.bsky.social collection in honour of the great
David Marquand one of the finest British political thinkers of the late 20th century.

Chartbook 400: Murder not crisis - Why Israel's starvation of Gaza is exceptional in a global context. For many months, it has been beyond reasonable doubt that the Israeli government, the Israeli military, sections of Israeli politics and society as well as their aiders and abetters abroad, have been ...

Thank you for this @adamtooze.bsky.social adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-.... Gaza is the scene of mass murder not a 'crisis'.

This is exactly it.
Let's stop arguing, and all do what we think will get us most leverage.
We need a diverse progressive movement working together. That's the only thing that stopped fascism last time around.

Byline Podcast: Nazir Afzal: Grooming Gangs and The Problem With Men Adrian Goldberg hears from Nazir Afzal, former Chief Crown Prosecutor for North West England who bought the Rochdale grooming gang to justice.In this shorty but powerful interview, recorded at the ...

"It's not a cultural issue, it's a gender issue. Men, unfortunately, abuse women and girls..."

@nazirafzal.bsky.social who bought Rochdale groomers to justice talks to @goldbergradio.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social

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A 'good constituency MP'? how ‘hard working local politicians’ are facilitating a genocide I ran into my MP today...

I wrote this up - how “hard working local MPs” are facilitating a genocide:

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What does the new left party think about the British state? Are Sultana and Corbyn ready to eradicate their Labourist roots?

What does the new Left party think of the British state? open.substack.com/pub/abolishw...

Earnest post, but: a thing I like here is it’s okay to have moments of happiness in public without being broadly scolded, and I believe that sustaining this kind of humanity will be very important as we resist fascism.

We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive

I'm having a copy sent to @adamtooze.bsky.social

Death toll in Gaza climbs to 17 since dawn <article data-history-node-id="426040" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/death-toll-gaza-climbs-17-dawn" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/death-toll-gaza-climbs-17-dawn" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Death toll in Gaza climbs to 17 since dawn</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p style="margin-bottom:11px">The number of people killed in Gaza since the morning has risen to 17, according to medical sources.</p> <p>The figure includes three people who were killed by Israeli air strikes in Deir al-Balah, and another five of the same family who were killed in an attack on al-Mawasi in southern Gaza.</p> </div> </div> </article>

Death toll in Gaza climbs to 17 since dawn - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/death-toll-gaza-climbs-17-dawn

Holy cow. This is VERY well done.

This is what Team Fight looks like.

Congratulations!

Rachel Reeves’ Mansion House speech offered nothing for most people 'The state needs to be hands-on, and not leave it all to the pirates of City of London'

Just think about this.

World GDP is around $105trn.

Bets or derivatives on that $667trn, produce nothing, adds no value. It is one financial gambler against another. For every winner there is equivalent loser.

UK govt deregulating finance, wants to grow it, thinks this will rejuvenate economy.

Strong evidence for a captured apex court. Compiled by the excellent Adam Bonica.

Andy Burnham: These Dangerous, Alienating Times Call for Radical Change of Our Politics From imposter syndrome and proportional representation, to fixing the fundamentals and the 'incestuous' Westminster media-political class – Labour’s Greater Manchester Mayor believes the right can be ...

Important interview by @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social what h this space! bylinetimes.com/2025/07/19/a...

An extraordinary reproduction of Ravenna mosaics, tessera for tessera, just opened at the Italian Cultural Institute

Land, labour and materials that will be deployed to create environmentally ruinous, car-dependent and vastly expensive sprawl could be redirected towards high quality public housing and resilient infrastructure. Zombie Thatcherism is not inevitable: we can make different choices.

Thanks

Ahead of the Government’s so-called “reset” review of the water sector lands on Monday, I’ve noticed a growing effort to pin the blame on the regulator, Ofwat.

That’s a deep misdiagnosis of the problem. Here’s why. 🧵