This endless conflation of skin colour with culture. This abject refusal to acknowledge that the last fifty years has occurred. This intimation that anyone born in this country but with the wrong ethnicity is diluting it. Dismal.
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Listening on the radio, so can't see but has #Burnham quoted those hospital stats from memory given he is speaking without notes? If so impressive (albeit I've no idea if they're right 😅) he'd do well in a Dragon's Den pitch! #socialcare
I’m with my family in France and as people know I have a disabled son who needs 24/7 care, so I can’t be back in Westminster tomorrow - but I look forward to meeting Andy Burnham over Zoom. I’m hopeful this call may prove to be the first step towards fixing our broken care service.
If the King in the North really wants to go full tilt at moving the centre of government operations, may I present the ideal seat for Parliament in the North?
The Telegraph calls for an insurance-based social care system, where people ‘would be encouraged to pay into a fund that would cover their own care in old age, should they need it.’ How that works in a country where millions are already undersaving for retirement is unclear.
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EXC - The £5m gift to Nigel Farage by a cryptocurrency billionaire was reported to the National Crime Agency by bankers who were concerned it may have been laundered money, the Guardian can reveal. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Revealed: Farage’s £5m gift reported to UK crime agency over money laundering concerns
Exclusive: Latest Guardian revelation about gift from cryptocurrency tycoon comes as Reform UK leader forces byelection
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He cannot possibly call himself the most assaulted politician when 2 MPs have been murdered in the last 10 years.
Farage resigns his seat in Clacton forcing a by election which he ... er plans to stand in. Huge performative cost to the taxpayers to feather his ego. I hope it backfires spectacularly
The funny option would be if none of the main parties stood candidates, saying, 'We'll make the effort when we have the by-election after the suspension.'
Definitely worth a read after the exhausting rollercoaster of last week. Cathartic analysis from @iandunt.bsky.social #politics #burnham #labour open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...
There is a light that never goes out
It's been a week of chaos, but there is now a pathway to change. And with change, there's hope.
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Strange world where a Bulgarian Olivia Rodrigo lookalike singing nonsense saves us from literally weeks of discourse.
This from Marina Hyde just sums everything up perfectly 👌🏼🫠 #labour #burnham #politics #farage www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Starmer, Burnham, Farage Polanski: they make a week in politics feel like an eternity in Hades | Marina Hyde
It’s your life in their hands, but what kind of life is that? No wonder a wearied, confused public has mobilised into tribes – or just tuned out, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
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Angela Rayner was dragged through every front page for weeks... HMRC's verdict: NOT deliberate. NOT even careless. Farage pockets £5 million and chooses not to declare it So where's the wall-to-wall coverage? Tell me this isn't a rigged game.
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Leeds United will play Premier League football next season. Like it was ever in doubt. #lufc
No10’s account is incredible. I held Developed Vetting for nearly ten years and spent three years at the heart of the Cabinet Office. I have never heard of a Developed Vetting denial being overruled. Here’s why…🧵 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Revealed: Mandelson failed vetting but Foreign Office overruled decision
Guardian investigation uncovers decision by UK security officials to deny clearance before Mandelson took up role as US ambassador
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Govt line today is that they can’t believe how bad their own vetting process is, a vetting process they themselves repeatedly pointed to during the Mandelson affair, a process they’re now saying they were ignorant about. That they didn’t understand it, nor sought to. Suboptimal
one immediate dramatic consequence of the Hungarian result: Magyar has promised to repair relations with the EU and unblock a €90bn EU loan for Ukraine
It's not just that Orbán losing inspires hope in other competitive-autocratic countries ruled by right-wing nationalist authoritarians. It's that his loss materially changes things in those other countries, because he's been operating as a headquarters and funding source...
Many things to say about the demise of Orbanism but the scale of his defeat is impressive. This is surely also a rejection of Trump & Vance. The threatened new era of official US interference in European domestic politics has got off to a satisfyingly calamitous start
Even if Magyar is no liberal, this is why it is still a huge defeat for illiberalism. For it shows that a powerful illiberal political machine and methodology can be defeated.
Adam Schwarz@adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 4mo agoOrbán's electoral crushing is a far greater achievement than most people outside Hungary realise. He systemically consolidated power for 16 years, fixed the electoral map, abused govt power for political purposes & censored media. The hurdles that Hungarians overcame for this moment were immense.
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New Iran thread. Starting with a Lest We Forget: Hillary Clinton, 9 years ago: “This is not someone who should ever have the nuclear codes – because it’s not hard to imagine Donald Trump leading us into a war just because somebody got under his very thin skin.”