Gabriel Milland
@gabrielmilland.bsky.social
Research and policy for the bravest people in England and Wales. Former senior UK government comms official and adviser. Happiest in a focus group. Once a journalist. Further back, a historian. Halberdier. Bristol City FC.
So the multi-leader thing means that senior apparatchiks from the sectarian left can entrench themselves at the top table, right?
I give it six months until one or more groupuscule decides it has more to gain from leaving than staying and the whole thing splits properly.
I give it six months until one or more groupuscule decides it has more to gain from leaving than staying and the whole thing splits properly.
November 30, 2025 at 11:19 AM
So the multi-leader thing means that senior apparatchiks from the sectarian left can entrench themselves at the top table, right?
I give it six months until one or more groupuscule decides it has more to gain from leaving than staying and the whole thing splits properly.
I give it six months until one or more groupuscule decides it has more to gain from leaving than staying and the whole thing splits properly.
There has been a reason that much of the Far Left spent nearly a century desperately resisting being kicked out of Labour.
A Your Party insider tells PolHome: "The entire thing makes an excellent case for left Labourism and highlights the positive side of the constraints imposed by a) the whip, b) the ability to face outwards always, rather than fight to the death with your ostensible comrades."
Chaos has engulfed the first 24 hours of the inaugural 'Your Party' conference in Liverpool, with Zarah Sultana boycotting the first day of the event, Jeremy Corbyn facing "witch-hunt" allegations, and an entryism row
@siennarodgers.bsky.social & @tomscotson.bsky.social report from Merseyside
@siennarodgers.bsky.social & @tomscotson.bsky.social report from Merseyside
November 30, 2025 at 11:05 AM
There has been a reason that much of the Far Left spent nearly a century desperately resisting being kicked out of Labour.
The accursed ratio - LOLs edition.
November 30, 2025 at 10:57 AM
The accursed ratio - LOLs edition.
Deciding that you are a working class party is another kick in the teeth for the SWP given the number of renegade aristos among its senior cadres.
Your Party members vote to call itself a working class, socialist party (by a large majority)
November 30, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Deciding that you are a working class party is another kick in the teeth for the SWP given the number of renegade aristos among its senior cadres.
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Bradley, more than Hegseth, just shot straight to the top of the list of people most likely to be prosecuted. Not because a future Dem administration will necessarily have strong political will for prosecutions. Because the military itself will be chomping at the bit to nail his ass to the wall.
Hegseth's not the only war criminal here. "The [USSOCOM] commander overseeing the operation from Fort Bragg in North Carolina, Adm. Frank M. 'Mitch' Bradley, told people on the secure conference call that the survivors were still legitimate targets... He ordered the second strike."
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 29, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Bradley, more than Hegseth, just shot straight to the top of the list of people most likely to be prosecuted. Not because a future Dem administration will necessarily have strong political will for prosecutions. Because the military itself will be chomping at the bit to nail his ass to the wall.
Niche objection to the SWP, perhaps.
November 29, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Niche objection to the SWP, perhaps.
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Hamas ✅
Hezbollah ✅
Zarah Sultana ❌
Hezbollah ✅
Zarah Sultana ❌
Jeremy Corbyn declines to call Zarah Sultana a friend as Your Party holds first conference
Jeremy Corbyn declines to call Zarah Sultana a friend as Your Party holds first conference
Jeremy Corbyn has declined to say his Your Party co-founder Zarah Sultana is a friend as supporters of the new grouping gather in Liverpool.
news.sky.com
November 29, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Hamas ✅
Hezbollah ✅
Zarah Sultana ❌
Hezbollah ✅
Zarah Sultana ❌
Every case study like this should be balanced by one such as a 15-year-old with suicidal ideation unable to receive any help because CAMHS has been cut to virtual non-existence.
Huge respect to the papers for finding both an 88 year old worried about the tax bill on her 6 bedroom Kensington house and a 20 year old fretting about only being able to save £12k a year tax free.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.
November 29, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Every case study like this should be balanced by one such as a 15-year-old with suicidal ideation unable to receive any help because CAMHS has been cut to virtual non-existence.
Your Party or Our Party? More like His Party or Her Party. Amirite, readers?!
November 29, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Your Party or Our Party? More like His Party or Her Party. Amirite, readers?!
nb - this includes the SWP itself.
In the entire history of human organization, the number of collective enterprises which have been improved by allowing SWP members in is quite literally zero
November 29, 2025 at 8:30 AM
nb - this includes the SWP itself.
“They [the public] think we’re all a bunch of nutters, to be honest,” one said.
November 29, 2025 at 7:53 AM
“They [the public] think we’re all a bunch of nutters, to be honest,” one said.
Best left to the logicians to work out how something can be either Your Party or Our Party while still being the same party.
November 28, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Best left to the logicians to work out how something can be either Your Party or Our Party while still being the same party.
Nice without the seppoes, innit?
November 27, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Nice without the seppoes, innit?
I'm going with either the Ark of the Covenant or a Betamax VCR.
November 27, 2025 at 11:57 AM
I'm going with either the Ark of the Covenant or a Betamax VCR.
Just need the PM to do the Jet2 holiday thing now.
If you want some good news this morning, I showed my three boys the PM doing the six/seven thing and now they have all stopped doing it.
November 27, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Just need the PM to do the Jet2 holiday thing now.
A brief note on polling on tax. It can be really good. But it's actually the issue which is hardest to get right. There's no issue where Tony Blair's description of the difference between a three-second conversation, a 30-second conversation and a three-minute conversation is starker.
November 27, 2025 at 9:50 AM
A brief note on polling on tax. It can be really good. But it's actually the issue which is hardest to get right. There's no issue where Tony Blair's description of the difference between a three-second conversation, a 30-second conversation and a three-minute conversation is starker.
An essential read. First on the big point - that Reform voters are often outliers. But also on Don't Knows.
Finally got round to giving @benansell.bsky.social's latest. It's also one of his very best - especially if you want to understand the extent to which Reform voters (often talked of as 'the people' and, apparently therefore, representative of all UK voters) are real outliers, culturally-speaking.
Odd Ones Out
Mapping Britain's social values and the marginalisation of the 'anti-woke'
benansell.substack.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:42 AM
An essential read. First on the big point - that Reform voters are often outliers. But also on Don't Knows.
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Thinking of the lady I overheard on a train out of Waterloo circa 2009, who said on the phone ‘I’m just coming in to Clappy J-J’. A phrase that at once altered my personal London psychogeography, and will be bouncing around my head forever
November 27, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Thinking of the lady I overheard on a train out of Waterloo circa 2009, who said on the phone ‘I’m just coming in to Clappy J-J’. A phrase that at once altered my personal London psychogeography, and will be bouncing around my head forever
Cover me. I'm going in.
November 26, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Cover me. I'm going in.
No. The more traditional variant.
The very rarely-seen "reverse Spursy"?
November 26, 2025 at 9:32 PM
No. The more traditional variant.
The very rarely-seen "reverse Spursy"?
November 26, 2025 at 9:11 PM
The very rarely-seen "reverse Spursy"?
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If you're wondering how relations are between the govt and the OBR after this morning's budget leak, a govt source has just sent this out about the EV tax.
November 26, 2025 at 4:43 PM
If you're wondering how relations are between the govt and the OBR after this morning's budget leak, a govt source has just sent this out about the EV tax.
Whitehall an odd mix of farmers, nutters, FBPE types and baffled Bayern Munich fans killing time before the game tonight.
November 26, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Whitehall an odd mix of farmers, nutters, FBPE types and baffled Bayern Munich fans killing time before the game tonight.
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BREAKING
The Defense Department says it may recall Senator Mark Kelly, a retired Navy Captain and astronaut, and refer him to court martial proceedings for appearing in a video where he urged service members not to follow unlawful orders.
The Defense Department says it may recall Senator Mark Kelly, a retired Navy Captain and astronaut, and refer him to court martial proceedings for appearing in a video where he urged service members not to follow unlawful orders.
November 24, 2025 at 5:34 PM
BREAKING
The Defense Department says it may recall Senator Mark Kelly, a retired Navy Captain and astronaut, and refer him to court martial proceedings for appearing in a video where he urged service members not to follow unlawful orders.
The Defense Department says it may recall Senator Mark Kelly, a retired Navy Captain and astronaut, and refer him to court martial proceedings for appearing in a video where he urged service members not to follow unlawful orders.