Just Ryan Bridge from Raise the Colours at the Conservative Party Immigration policy launch while on multiple bails in multiple English counties including for wounding "Thank you to the Home Shadow Secretary, Chris Phelps for inviting myself and Siobhan down today" www.facebook.com/reel/1184777...

A big idea for Euro 2028?

John Drury@profjohndrury.bsky.social · 3w ago

The collective joy of the big screen - the World Cup and beyond www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The collective joy of the big screen - the World Cup and beyond www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A big screen in every postcode? How World Cup fan zones could inspire Andy Burnham | Dan Hancox

Watching Colombia v Switzerland outdoors with a throng of fans showed me how to improve British spirits, says Dan Hancox, a writer and editor covering music, politics and cities

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Britain's new political spectrum: Binmenites vs Binfaceites (cf @danhancox.bsky.social for clarification www.theguardian.com/news/2022/no... )

‘Who remembers proper binmen?’ The nostalgia memes that help explain Britain today

The long read: Idealising the past is nothing new, but there is something peculiarly revealing about the way a certain generation of Facebook users look back fondly on tougher times

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New @cursedobjectsuk.bsky.social: on a feverish moment in modern British politics... CLEGGMANIA. The pea is so big today cursedobjects.podbean.com/e/cleggmania/

Charlotte Lydia Riley@lottelydia.bsky.social · last mo.

@kasiatee.bsky.social @danhancox.bsky.social BIG PEA

My @theguardian.com piece on what the UK can learn from Mamdani about how to frame wealth taxes: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Mamdani’s pied-à-terre tax isn’t far off Labour’s housing policy. Not that you’ll ever hear Starmer say it | Anna Minton

The UK has its own progressive second home and ‘mansion’ taxes. So why isn’t the PM shouting it from the rooftops, asks Anna Minton, a reader in architecture at the University of East London

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'We are clamping down on the harm caused by social media. 'Read all about it on the Nazi pogrom deepfake abuse website'

Who remembers proper banks?

Jim Waterson@jim.londoncentric.media · 2mo ago

On the day where we're banning socials for U16s, is there a proper analysis of this new type of boomer slop overrunning Facebook? It seems to be done for creator payments now which, when combined with cheap AI image generation, is like an insane fever dream compared to the cheap memes of the 2010s.

At least when the Southampton coaching staff did spying they didn't report their findings to the deep state. Reminder to journalists covering Labour that this is who you're talking about - this news only broke two months ago ffs! www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Labour minister Josh Simons resigns after falsely linking journalists to ‘pro-Kremlin’ network

Makerfield MP had been under pressure concerning thinktank’s commissioning of PR firm to investigate reporters

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Next Tuesday I’ll be talking to @danhancox.bsky.social at @housmansbookshop.bsky.social about THE ASSET CLASS - if you’re in London, do come along! housmans.com/event/book-l...

BOOK LAUNCH: THE ASSET CLASS: HETTIE O’BRIEN IN CONVERSATION WITH DAN HANCOX

‘PART WAKE-UP CALL, PART FINANCIAL THRILLER’ (SHAMI CHAKRABARTI) The Asset Class is an equal parts thrilling and enraging work of vital financial journalism, lifting the lid on the rele…

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Excellent piece by @danhancox.bsky.social on how Kanye West, openly racist,sexist, anti-semitic,homophobic for years & making money off his hate, should NOT be playing prestige gigs in London or anywhere—but the greed of promoters like Live Nation made this happen www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Wireless festival’s backing for Kanye West is all about money. Don’t pretend it’s about the art | Dan Hancox

The event has signed up Ye, who has a penchant for antisemitic and sexist outbursts, to be its headline act. It’s not even as if his music is any good any more, says Dan Hancox, a freelance writer foc...

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Pedro Sánchez’s lone stance against Trump may look risky but the truth is he is a sound strategist at home and abroad. Few other centre-left leaders have shown his instinct for seizing political moments in recent decades. My opinion piece in The Guardian today: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Pedro Sánchez’s lone stance against Trump may look risky, but it is cannily pragmatic | Eoghan Gilmartin

The Spanish PM’s defiant foreign policy line may seem outspoken. The truth is that he is a sound strategist at home and abroad, says journalist Eoghan Gilmartin

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Væry excited tø reåd this!

Hettie O’Brien@hettieobrien.bsky.social · 5mo ago

sincerely regretting each of the Danish words I chose to include in this book

"Davos hand warmer" sounds like a Private Eye euphemism for a bribe but no a real thing

Another new @cursedobjectsuk.bsky.social episode, with a very special guest on a very timely subject: Davos, its weird global elites and weirder freebies cursedobjects.podbean.com/e/davos-hand...

Best of the pods on this so far 🫡 @piercepenniless.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/399w...

On Politics: Mandelson and the Private Life of Power

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And to come at it from a "wider culture" angle, to supplement the (terrible) data, as @jonathanliew.bsky.social has covered, "Keir Starmer is a wanker" was effectively a national meme before the Epstein files were released! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Jessica Elgot@jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 6mo ago

It is cope to believe this is all confected. My whole job is talking to MPs and ministers, I talk to a dozen different ones every day, I spend the week in Parliament in the same corridors, same coffee queues. Sometimes even I have been taken aback by the strength of feeling about the need for change

Story quickly becomes a lot less weird if you are even vaguely aware of Labour Together

Jim Pickard@pickardje.bsky.social · 6mo ago

this is such a weird story: An influential Labour-aligned think-tank previously run by Morgan McSweeney, now Sir Keir Starmer’s chief of staff, paid a public affairs company to identify the source of leaks to journalists about the group’s funding. www.ft.com/content/dca0...

Thought I'd finally read Doppelganger by Naomi Klein and, well, quite

It is a constant source of derangement to me that I spent my entire 20s lamenting New Labour's reactionary degradation of Labour history, only to realise now how much more progressive they were than Starmer's administration. A brilliant piece by Alan here

Alan Beattie@alanbeattie.bsky.social · 6mo ago

My Trade Secrets today, in which it's fair to say I go off on one. The Labour party is famously "a moral crusade or it is nothing". On aid, immigration and trade they're going for the latter option, with betrayals of principle both repugnant and pointless. 1/n

This mendacious drivel should be a resigning issue, for both the author and anyone who thought it was right to publish it

Yesterday I happened to be listening to Tony Benn's diaries from the 2000s, when his son Hilary became an MP. Seeing his name on this proud Labour announcement... ugh

Not Anyone You Know@slowcrush.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Once again tapping my sign: ICE exist in the UK 🚨 They have had arrest powers since 2000. This government - not a hypothetical future one - is working harder than ever before to raid homes and businesses.

New Substack from me - on "the battle for the soul of this country", fascism and UK rap's Flag Play danhancox.substack.com/p/i-think-i-...

i think i would die if i had to leave this country

uk rap v the ravey right on rainy fascism island

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New Substack from me - on "the battle for the soul of this country", fascism and UK rap's Flag Play danhancox.substack.com/p/i-think-i-...

i think i would die if i had to leave this country

uk rap v the ravey right on rainy fascism island

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New genre of Binmenism (cf @danhancox.bsky.social ) slop has dropped: nostalgia for watching tv in the nineties

Christmas haul at FRBH Towers with @liaminscoejones.bsky.social @danhancox.bsky.social and this hot new band Finitribe

50 years since the death of Francisco Franco, @danhancox.bsky.social reports how the families of the many victims are still seeking justice. https://bit.ly/4pcV0ad

The families of Franco’s victims still seeking justice 50 years after his death | The Observer

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Really good article about a history I knew very little about. But that’s not just me being ignorant. As Dan put it (in DMs), ‘The Pact of Forgetting is a thing with capital letters and its own Wikipedia page.’ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pact_of...

“Franco died not in a ditch but in bed, as a victor, and he left behind this legacy: that justice would not to be served, that the amnesty law would be signed, that everyone would be pardoned and that his successors would sign up to a pact of silence – of forgetting.” — Andrés Rebolledo Barreno

Happy to report @danhancox.bsky.social is back on his bullshit (complimentary) observer.co.uk/style/featur...

The families of Franco’s victims still seeking justice 50 years after his death | The Observer

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