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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 1d

Snap Caerphilly by-election analysis: Tactical voting can stop Reform. But Labour have to give tactical progressive voters reason enough to do that. It's not enough to just be a bit less dreadful. iandunt.substack.com/p/today-it-r...

Today, it rains only on you

No, you're not depressed. You're just British.

iandunt.substack.com

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 1d

The toxic Blue Labour cult that have convinced themselves from a distance that they understand the distant working classes are hammering their own party (and are oddly closely related to the 1980s Bennite faction that thought similar, and had a similar effect)

Zoë Grünewald @zoegrunewald.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote for @theipaper.com about the Caerphilly by election and why Reform is no longer Starmer's only problem

inews.co.uk/opinion/refo...

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Ed Larrissy @edlarrissy.bsky.social · 1d

Iris Murdoch’s poems on bisexuality to be published – read one exclusively here
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

Iris Murdoch’s poems on bisexuality to be published – read one exclusively here

Drawn mostly from notebooks discovered in the attic of the late novelist and philosopher’s Oxford home, a new collection spans 60 years and touches on deeply personal themes

www.theguardian.com

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Gary Sheffield @profgsheffield.bsky.social · 5d

Just listened to Chris Mason on Radio 4 defending BBC's excessive coverage of Farage & Reform. I was outraged by his response to legitimate criticism. I no longer trust the BBC's political coverage (actually I haven't for some time, but the BBC's behaviour has grown even worse of late).

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 1d

"Amazing result for Plaid Cymru, so here's a guest from Reform anyway..."

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Will Jennings 🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 1d

This from Mason suggesting Reform 'barely existed a few years back' really is just wrong. Reform are the clear successors to Nigel Farage's UKIP - who won over 12% in a general election a decade ago.

Chris Mason: Extraordinary Caerphilly by-election humbles Westminster's big beasts

Plaid Cymru win 47% of the vote in a record turnout, while Labour and the Tories manage just 13% between them.

www.bbc.co.uk

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 1d

Too much snap by-election analysis "Labour needs to start delivering"... no.

Governments are always "delivering". The problem is how they choose what to deliver, and what stories they tell around those priorities. And that's simply a mess right now.

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 1d

One point I've not seen flagged in the discussion around Apple not including chargers in the box for the EU is that it's very useful for the company to ship different SKUs to the US and EU given Trump's tariffs, if you need to quietly raise prices for Americans

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Peter Morley ♿️ @petermorley.bsky.social · 3d

🔥🔥In 1987, Ronald Reagan made a televised speech defending the principles of free trade, SLAMMING tariffs as misguided policies driving up prices & HURTING American businesses, workers, & consumers. Canada REMINDS the U.S. of this in this SCATHING commercial! BRAVO Canada!👏👏
youtu.be/hN_CVvzExpM?...

Ontario launches $75 million ad campaign using the words of Ronald Reagan to argue against tariffs.

YouTube video by Toronto Sun

youtu.be

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 1d

The bleakly funny thing about this story is that visibly *this morning* the Conservative leadership had not absorbed just how crackers the policy they had signed up to was.

Thomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 1d

Lol, well yes.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 1d

If it's mandatory for work, it's de-facto mandatory share.google/ulfGaMN5b9Jt...

Digital ID to be voluntary... unless you want a job (or benefits)

Keir Starmer has relaunched the controversial policy, stressing its use for every day life

share.google

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Ed Larrissy @edlarrissy.bsky.social · 1d

"This is insane. Turnout 50%. Up on 41% in 21. Young Plaid organiser telling me of all the texts and DMs from apolitical friends that they’re turning out to stop Reform."
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Caerphilly byelection result live: Plaid Cymru beats challenge from Reform UK to win pivotal Welsh parliament vote

Party that wants Wales to become independent seizes constituency from Labour and resists a fierce challenge from Reform UK

www.theguardian.com

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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 1d

⚡️ BREAKING: Lithuania says Russian warplanes violated its airspace.

A Su-30 fighter jet and an Il-78 refueling plane flew approximately 700 meters into Lithuanian airspace, remaining there for about 18 seconds, according to the Baltic country's military.

BREAKING: Lithuania says Russian warplanes violated its airspace

A Su-30 fighter jet and an Il-78 refueling plane flew approximately 700 meters into Lithuanian airspace, remaining there for about 18 seconds, according to the Baltic country's military.

kyivindependent.com

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Katie Harbath @katieharbath.bsky.social · 1d

Picture of the East Wing demolition of the White House taken on my flight out of DCA.

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 1d

I obtained video of two FBI agents visiting an anti-ICE protester not charged with any crime.

While the media continue to mock Trump's war on "Antifa" as legally impossible, the FBI is quietly implementing it with investigations like these:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/video-fbi-...

VIDEO: FBI Agents Visit Anti-ICE Protester

“Your name was brought up.”

www.kenklippenstein.com

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The i Paper @theipaper.com · 1d

Stephen Miller is Trump’s Rottweiler. Now he wants to dismantle the Democrats trib.al/DTGdEsH

Stephen Miller is Trump's Rottweiler. Now he wants to dismantle the Democrats

The deputy chief of staff's power at the White House appears to know no bounds, and his voice is one of the most influential in the President’s ear

inews.co.uk

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 1d

BREAKING: Israeli forces have carried out massive bombing operations southeast of Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic report from the ground.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/oiwpck

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 1d

JUST IN: The ENTIRE East Wing of the White House has officially been DEMOLISHED, per AP.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 2d

Chatting Trump, Musk and the radicalisation of the right with @mollyjongfast.bsky.social

open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

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Ed Larrissy @edlarrissy.bsky.social · 2d

"Europe’s public services, industrial innovation and AI ambitions are increasingly built on a digital backbone it does not own, regulate or even fully understand. In that respect, this week’s outage is no technical blip. It is a warning shot."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Guardian view on the cloud crash: an outage that showed who really runs the internet | Editorial

Editorial: A failure at Amazon’s server centre paralysed global services for 15 hours. It was not just a glitch but a stark reminder of our digital dependency and fragility

www.theguardian.com

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Will Jennings 🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 3d

Most of Westminster is still on X.

Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 3d

This is a "recommended" tweet pushed to a (very much not-Nazi) contact's iPhone lockscreen last week.

Who knows how many millions it was pushed to by Musk's platform, including in this case, in the UK?

It's now been deleted, but only after getting thousands of RTs.

Red Pill Media tweet: "Yes, I like Hitler. No, I don't believe in the Holocaust narrative"

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 2d

The Conservative immigration proposals cannot be allowed to stand without a profound and widespread statement of moral condemnation inews.co.uk/opinion/tori...

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Henry Dyer @direthoughts.com · 4d

where's the bit where they say it's bad, instead of just repeating what the policy is?

Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 4d

Labour spokesman

“The Tories want to retrospectively change the rules to deport people who have been in this country and contributed to our society for decades. They would separate British children from their parents and expel doctors and nurses who have been serving patients in the NHS for years."

Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 4d

Worth saying that despite asking for more than 12 hours we’ve had nothing back from Labour on this

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Tomas Hirst @tomashirstecon.bsky.social · 4d

They had a full day to craft this statement and they still couldn’t bring themselves to say “this is unconscionable and we would never change the rules on people in this way” without adding the rider “as long as they deserve it”. Who is this even for?

Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 4d

“We welcome those who come to this country, legally, and give more than they take. We believe the right to stay here must not be automatic, but that those who play their part should be able to earn that right."

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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 4d

Worth saying that despite asking for more than 12 hours we’ve had nothing back from Labour on this

Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 4d

A Conservative MP tipped as a future party leader has been condemned for saying large numbers of legally settled families must be deported, in order to ensure the UK is mostly “culturally coherent”.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Tory MP criticised after demanding legally settled families be deported

Katie Lam said move would make UK ‘culturally coherent’ and that a large number of people ‘need to go home’

www.theguardian.com

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