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Aletha Adu

@alethaadu.bsky.social

I write about politics for the Guardian. Also gym rat, musician and amateur yogi

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Stephen Bush@stephenkb.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Every crime in which an ethnic or cultural minority is the perpetrator used to justify repression or worse of minorities. Every crime in which a minority is the victim used to argue for the idea that ethnic diversity is inherently unstable and should be reduced or eradicated.

Owen Winter@owenwntr.bsky.social · 3mo ago

In his white lives matter address, Nigel Farage calls George Floyd a career criminal and says "the rights and privileges of white people matter less than those of ethnic minorities" in Britain

Jessica Elgot@jessicaelgot.bsky.social · last yr.

EXCLUSIVE - Today the Guardian is publishing the Boris Files A trove of leaked data from the office of Boris Johnson. It reveals how Johnson is using the relationships forged in the UK’s highest elected office to facilitate his personal enrichment. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

What are the Boris Files and what do they reveal about former PM’s conduct?

Leaked material from Johnson’s private office raises serious questions relating to his time in No 10 and since he resigned

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Peter Walker@peterwalker99.bsky.social · last yr.

I joined Zack Polanski for a walkabout around Clacton, where he talked to Nigel Farage supporters and said other parties must do more to battle the prospect of a “far right-adjacent” Reform government. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

‘We have to tell an alternative story’: Green leader Polanski chats to Nigel Farage’s constituents

Visit to Clacton-on-Sea part of social media strategy that Zack Polanski feels can rebut Reform’s rhetoric

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Aletha Adu@alethaadu.bsky.social · last yr.

Excl: Labour figures from the left & centre including Andy Burnham are launching Mainstream, a new soft-left network designed to change Labour’s direction & will inevitably influence the deputy leadership contest www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Labour insiders form new centre-left network in bid to change party’s direction

Exclusive: Andy Burnham-backed Mainstream group will inevitably influence looming deputy leadership contest

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Aletha Adu@alethaadu.bsky.social · last yr.

In Louise Haigh’s first interview since being effectively sacked as transport sec, she tells me Starmer must avoid a “simplistic and naive” response by lurching to the right after Reform UK’s success in the locals… 👇🏾 Very pleased she spoke with me www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Labour must avoid ‘naive’ lurch to right after Reform success, Haigh warns

Exclusive: former transport minister criticises party’s direction and calls on Starmer to focus on issues like taxation and welfare reform

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Jessica Elgot@jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 2y ago

NEW - No10 told there could be ministerial and other resignations over the welfare cuts as MPs pressure government to drop any PIP freeze. Comes after cabinet ministers voiced their own fears earlier this week. Huge pressure coming from PLP. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

MPs tell No 10: frontbenchers could quit over disability benefits plan

Labour MPs suggest backlash means PM cannot push ahead with freeze on some personal independence payments

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Chris Stokel-Walker@stokel.bsky.social · 2y ago

🚨 @newscientist.com SCOOP: I've exclusively obtained Peter Kyle's interactions with ChatGPT using FOI laws - in what I believe may be a world-first transparency release. The chatbot said "Lack of Government or Institutional Support" slowed UK AI adoption www.newscientist.com/article/2472...

Revealed: How the UK tech secretary uses ChatGPT for policy advice

New Scientist has used freedom of information laws to obtain the ChatGPT records of Peter Kyle, the UK's technology secretary, in what is believed to be a world-first use of such legislation

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Aletha Adu@alethaadu.bsky.social · 2y ago

Labour MP Kim Johnson calls for a public inquiry into historic scandal which saw black children incorrectly labelled “educationally subnormal” & sent to schools for physically & mentally disabled pupils www.theguardian.com/education/20...

MP calls for inquiry into labelling of black pupils as ‘educationally subnormal’

Kim Johnson tells parliament lessons must be learnt from poor treatment of children at institutions in 1960s and 70s

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Aletha Adu@alethaadu.bsky.social · 2y ago

Ever since ministers began to put the “moral case” for cutting spending on UK benefits, emotions have been running high among Labour MPs. The argument – that Labour is “the party of work” – has left some furious, & others angry at those who are furious. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

‘There is no moral case’: Labour divided over prospect of benefit cuts

Some feel the party is moving away from the working class, but others argue ministers must show new Labour voters the system can work

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Pippa Crerar@pippacrerar.bsky.social · 2y ago

EXCL: Keir Starmer faces biggest rebellion yet over welfare cuts with dozens of angry Labour MPs threatening to vote against freezing disability benefits. Many concerned that Rachel Reeves could go further than former Tory chancellor George Osborne who, despite deep benefit cuts, kept PIP rising.

Kiran Stacey@kiranstacey.bsky.social · 2y ago

EXC: Ministers discussing a range of options for changing (but not removing) the 2-child-benefit cap. Exempting parents of under-5s, exempting parents in work, higher child benefit payments, all in play. Story with @alethaadu.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Parents of under-fives may be exempted from UK’s two-child benefit limit

Exclusive: Ministers considering options to bring down child poverty without removing rule entirely

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