Westminster Voting Intention: LAB: 30% (+1) RFM: 24% (+1) CON: 19% (=) LDM: 9% (=) GRN: 8% (-1) SNP: 2% (-1) RES: 2% (-1) Via @survation.bsky.social, 2-5 Oct. Changes w/ 29 Sep.

On this day 3 years ago, Hamas committed a crime against humanity, massacred 1,209 Jewish people and kidnapped another 251. Netanyahu’s government’s retaliation was a further crime against humanity and 75,000 have perished.

There are few places where Labour works with the Greens. But there are a few local authorities where the Lib Dems have put minority Green administrations into office like Southwark, Lambeth and Haringey. They need to think hard about what they're doing.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 5d ago

Labour figures rule out working with Greens after ‘Zionism is racism’ vote

Labour figures rule out working with Greens after ‘Zionism is racism’ vote

Labour figures rule out working with Greens after ‘Zionism is racism’ vote

Minister says they could not see parties cooperating, while official says coalition should be formally ruled out Senior Labour party figures said it is very unlikely their party would cooperate with the Greens in the future after they adopted a policy treating Zionism as a form of racism. One Labour minister said they could not foresee how the two parties could work together, while a government official said Labour should formally rule out a future coalition or other arrangement. Continue reading...

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This is pretty sickening. Green Party calls Zionism “racism” and repudiates any 2 state outcome meaning the elimination of Israel. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Green party votes to adopt policy that equates Zionism with racism

Motion calling for single Palestinian state, which is opposed by most Green MPs and expected to be challenged, passes by 1,022 votes to 813

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Polanski is still stuck in student politics mode. The Government isn’t “going after pensioners”. Burnham just announced the best possible outcome for older people: a care system that doesn’t strip pensioners of everything they have. Oh yes, and also took State pension out of taxation.

Zack Polanski@zackpolanski.bsky.social · 2w ago

Why is the Government going after pensioners? It's time to tax the rich

I look forward to reading Piddington’s plans for a health service, social care, police and schools. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Piddington in Oxfordshire votes to leave UK over asylum plans

Piddington residents vote over proposals to house up to 1,256 male asylum seekers nearby.

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Fair point that no "kill switch" actually exists because AI isn't like an old IBM PC with a big red power button www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

We must heed warnings of AI tech developers, says UK government minister

Louise Haigh is set to address growing concerns over AI safety on Tuesday in comments at the TUC Congress.

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In football news, Tottenham Hotspur squeezed a point today. Their first point of the season. Placed 17th in the table. N17th as we say in N1, N5 and most elsewhere in North London.

The Green Party has banned UK Friends of Standing Together from attending their conference. Standing Together (Omdim Beyachad) is a Jewish-Palestinian group that calls for the creation of a Palestinian state, organises Gaza aid convoys and organises to protect West Bank Palestinians from attacks.

Live facial recognition technology deployed today by the Met at Highbury Corner with a small team of police officers present. Suddenly there’s almost no self entitled people ploughing through the area on cycles and e-bikes.

I remember Alex Cox from university. He was pretty cool. He directed Repo Man. Totally cool. Then he did Moviedrome TV series. Also cool. Now he's an old fella. But then so am I. Cox is a pretty cool old fella, mind.

Criterion Channel@criterionchannl.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Alex Cox on THE PRISONER and the Genius of Patrick McGoohan 📺 Watch all 17 episodes of the landmark 1960s television series! This is the first in Criterion’s new YouTube series of 5 introductions to THE PRISONER by Cox, writer, director and author of I AM (NOT) A NUMBER: DECODING THE PRISONER (2018)

The BBC's online explainer of the Greater Manchester by-election describes the area as the "ceremonial county". Wrong. It's the former Metropolitan County established 1972 Local Government Act, abolished 1986 by Thatcher, recreated as as a Combined Authority in 2011.

Our latest voting intention sees cross over. Labour move ahead by 4. Their first lead since March 2025 & highest share since Nov 24 🌹 LAB 28% (+4)
⏩ REF 24% (-2)
🌳 CON 22% (nc)
🔶 LIB DEM 12% (+1)
🟢 GREEN 8% (-3)
🟡 SNP 2% (nc) N = 2061| Dates 24-27/7| Change w 22/7

My message to the former Ministers: politics is politics. Please do not feel sorry for yourselves. You are still MPs, after all. Step-up and support the new Government. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Was Keir Starmer’s leaving party the boozy birth of a new Labour force?

A £10,000 bar tab was drunk, there was a ‘lot of anger’, and now ex-ministers are thinking how to cooperate in future

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A very good appointment.

A very warm welcome to Bluesky, Downing Street

UK Prime Minister Updates@downingstreet.bsky.social · 3mo ago

A very warm welcome to Downing Street, Prime Minister Andy Burnham.

Over 80% of Islington Pension Fund's members who responded to a formal consultation have backed the Council's divestment and ethical investment strategy: www.islington.media/news/eight-i...

Eight in ten respondents back pension fund divestment proposals | Islington Council News

At least 80% of respondents agreed with proposals outlined in a consultation on ending pension fund investments in companies linked to conflict, genocide, and other human rights abuses.

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An historic message just arrived. I am hopeful. Change coming.

Many congratulations to @cathyashley.bsky.social joining Labour Lords, a well deserved appointment.

Islington Council steps-in to safeguard adventure playgrounds Islington Council has confirmed that 4 adventure playgrounds at risk of closure will now be managed directly by the Council without any break in services. These are Crumbles Castle (Bingfield Park in Cally), Lumpy Hill (Market Road),…

Islington Council steps-in to safeguard adventure playgrounds

Islington Council has confirmed that 4 adventure playgrounds at risk of closure will now be managed directly by the Council without any break in services. These are Crumbles Castle (Bingfield Park in Cally), Lumpy Hill (Market Road), Martin Luther King (at Paradise Park) and Timbuktu (on Grenville Road, N19). The adventure playground staff teams' jobs will all be protected in the transfer to the Council's management. See Islington Council's statement here. The Council has also offered alternative nursery places to all the families that are affected by the closure of Paradise Park nursery.

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Millions of people worldwide are horrified by human rights abuses in many countries. One of the less well known is Morocco's illegal occupation of Western Sahara. Yet the economic use of Western Sahara - by international companies and now Hollywood - is widespread.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 3mo ago

Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey used occupied land as a film set. That feels like a betrayal | Mohamed Sleiman Labat

Last night, Green aligned campaigners stabbed an effigy of Andy Burnham outside Hackney Town Hall. Green councillors were there. Green Party spokesperson stated: "There is no collective responsibility for each attendee to account for the actions of other attendees." www.thetimes.com/article/90b8...

Green councillors at rally where protesters stabbed Andy Burnham effigy

A protest outside Hackney Town Hall in east London called on the Green-run council to refuse to implement guidance on single-sex spaces

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This is a shakedown. Organised crime knows all about this kind of move. That’sxwhy Trump knows. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cw...

Trump reinstates Iran port blockade and imposes 20% charge on cargo passing through Hormuz

Trump says the US will become the "guardian" of the Strait of Hormuz and will charge ships for using it. Iran earlier warned the US not to "interfere" in the strait's "management".

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Clear evidence of ultra right wing academic entryism bylinetimes.com/2026/07/09/p...

Palantir Co-Founder Peter Thiel and Reform UK's Cambridge University Recruitment Pipeline Project Revealed

The world-renowned academic institution has nothing to say in response to a six-month investigation by Byline Times raising serious concerns about the safeguarding of students and foreign influence at...

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Green Party loses by-election in Lambeth.

Election Maps UK@electionmaps.uk · 3mo ago

Streatham St Leonard's (Lambeth) Council By-Election Result: 🔶 LDM: 41.7% (+26.4) 🌍 GRN: 35.0% (-12.5) 🌹 LAB: 15.1% (-7.8) 🌳 CON: 4.3% (-3.1) ➡️ RFM: 2.6% (-4.2) ✝️ CPA: 1.3% (New) Liberal Democrat GAIN from Green. Changes w/ 2026.

Labour regains Regents Park in Camden by-election.

Election Maps UK@electionmaps.uk · 3mo ago

Regents Park (Camden) Council By-Election Result: 🌹 LAB: 32.4% (-0.4) 🌍 GRN: 27.2% (-11.1) 🙋 Ind: 22.9% (New) 🌳 CON: 7.7% (-1.5) ➡️ RFM: 6.9% (-5.0) 🔶 LDM: 2.9% (-3.5) No NHP (-1.5) as previous. Labour GAIN from Green. Changes w/ 2026.

Now Farage wants to “buy” a by-election

Cannot deny that, in the face of blatant interference and rule-rigging by FIFA, Belgium has had the last word by giving Team Trump a thorough beating.

Rattled. Can’t take a bit of scrutiny. Like all cowards and chancers he turns bully when caught out.

Politics UK@politicsuk.com · 3mo ago

🚨 WATCH: Nigel Farage threatens a Sky News journalist who asks about his undeclared gifts from convicted criminal George Cottrell "You harass my family anymore, there will be serious consequences"