#Starmer

Commons debate of the Brexit deal kicks off in a bit and lasts until 2:30pm, when it goes off to the Lords. You can follow here. https://www.parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/72f1ffe9-c018-4739-9834-cb9bbf56968c I'm going to
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This Finkelstein article gets at a kind of broke/woke/bespoke thing which I think is very important to our political culture but which I can't express pithily (at least not yet).So
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@MPeakeOfficial uses a modern version of blood libel to slander Israel, as being responsible for the death of George Floyd for training police in counter terrorism. Ironically @amnestyintl put out
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Yesterday, on a day when a government minister was under intense pressure, the lab party decided to sacrifice that for a swing at the left. This, for any of you
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A little thread on the Marcus Rashford / school meals u-turn and what it tells us about what’s in the minds of Number 10.Even by their standards this was a
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Walking in the woods near London last weekend, I discovered two more homeless camps hidden within the trees. That night, temperatures dropped to -6°C, today there's 3 inches of snow
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Over the 1990s and 2000s we got used to a politics that was pure "form", devoid of content. Politics was more like a members' club- fine if you were keen
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Russia Report. Why did UK ignored growing threat?I still cannot get over that MI5 gave the ISC just six lines of text on the Brexit referendum, instead referring MPs to
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Thinking a lot this morning about Dutch attitudes to government failure today (given the news that having made bold pledges about delivering covid vaccines, preparations for actually doing this are
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Ian Austin received a life peerage from Boris Johnson's Honours list in 2020, along with other prominent Corbyn critics Frank Field and John Woodcock, as well as Labour Leave-associated figures
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It's clearer than ever that Vote Leave Ltd was a bait and switch operation to preserve Tory incumbency. Now they're safe from the insurgency on the right they Tories are
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Exit poll386 Tory191 LabourTory majority of 81So fuck it, I'm gonna risk this rant... it's been brewing for a while... Fuck off, Jeremy Corbyn, you hopeless old tatterdemalion, and take
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Woah. Genuinely surprised to see this - guessing Keir Starmer was waiting for an opportunity like this to show he is genuinely different to his predecessor and zero tolerance to
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Thread: My Mum the Brexit voter. My mum is a working class single single mum of mixed race children.We grew up in a council house on a horrid estateThough she
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I’m going to have to do a rambling thread on Trump and his unwillingness to accept he’s lost the election. Only because it reminds me so much of what happened
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Lord Ashcroft's report on Labour, based on a poll of 10,000 and 18 focus groups in seats Labour lost. Nothing in these two paragraphs is unexpected, but it's great that
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