Ryan MacMullen
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Does feel like a confidence issue for Starmer with how many labour MPs have come out already against this policy publicly.
Imagine many more in private- did someone ask if they could do the welfare bill but on 5x speed?
Imagine many more in private- did someone ask if they could do the welfare bill but on 5x speed?
November 17, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Does feel like a confidence issue for Starmer with how many labour MPs have come out already against this policy publicly.
Imagine many more in private- did someone ask if they could do the welfare bill but on 5x speed?
Imagine many more in private- did someone ask if they could do the welfare bill but on 5x speed?
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Great interview with Russell Tovey - and really delighted to say welcome to @greenparty.org.uk
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
Russell Tovey on pride, sexual power and politics: ‘The Green party slogan – make hope normal again – is what we need’
One of the most prolific and popular actors of his generation, he reflects on therapy, homophobia, why he suspects now is the worst time in history for trans people, and his secret life as a geek
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Great interview with Russell Tovey - and really delighted to say welcome to @greenparty.org.uk
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
The type of policy detail and thinking that is galaxies away from what this government could dream of being able to perform.
New essay out today by me and @acjsissons.bsky.social - ‘Getting Britain out of the hole: a plan for the economy’. You can read the whole thing here getting-out-of-the-hole.uk
A chart mega-thread follows 🧵
A chart mega-thread follows 🧵
Getting Britain out of the hole
A plan for the UK economy
getting-out-of-the-hole.uk
November 17, 2025 at 9:15 AM
The type of policy detail and thinking that is galaxies away from what this government could dream of being able to perform.
This is it. Changes to ILR and these proposals, it’s all trying to create a story for 2028/29.
In the interests of accountability:
These proposals are trying to set up claiming credit for the likely fall in net migration. This misunderstands the media environment and voting patterns; it will help Farage while losing votes for Labour. They are also morally objectionable and costly. (1/2)
These proposals are trying to set up claiming credit for the likely fall in net migration. This misunderstands the media environment and voting patterns; it will help Farage while losing votes for Labour. They are also morally objectionable and costly. (1/2)
November 17, 2025 at 9:08 AM
This is it. Changes to ILR and these proposals, it’s all trying to create a story for 2028/29.
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Six weeks since the PM said Britain faced a choice between decency or division and our bad, obviously, for not understanding that he was in fact Team Division
November 17, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Six weeks since the PM said Britain faced a choice between decency or division and our bad, obviously, for not understanding that he was in fact Team Division
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If this 2025 policy was likely have major impacts on journeys, the boats would already have stopped in 2022-2023-2024 when it and a tougher policy were tried
November 17, 2025 at 8:09 AM
If this 2025 policy was likely have major impacts on journeys, the boats would already have stopped in 2022-2023-2024 when it and a tougher policy were tried
The Prime Minister said in September that we are at a fork in the road. These asylum proposals suggest we have taken the wrong turning.
The idea that recognised refugees need to be deported is wrong.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
The idea that recognised refugees need to be deported is wrong.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Asylum system in UK ‘out of control’ and dividing country, home secretary says
Shabana Mahmood to unveil new proposals modelled on Denmark’s controversial system
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Today is not the day to argue "oh so you want Reform to win then" as an argument for Labour's indefensible and inhumane anti-asylum policies. At least be honest and own that you're defending racist policies promoted with genuinely far right talking points. Don't try and pretend this is "progressive"
November 16, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Today is not the day to argue "oh so you want Reform to win then" as an argument for Labour's indefensible and inhumane anti-asylum policies. At least be honest and own that you're defending racist policies promoted with genuinely far right talking points. Don't try and pretend this is "progressive"
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I despair to see the Labour Party die before my eyes. I am Irish, but am of the European social democratic family. I have always felt a close bond with UK Labour. Now, it is diving down reactionary racist rabbit holes, betraying ts basic values of social solidarity. If this is Labour, let it die.
Labour, you must be SO pleased with yourself.
You have the Yaxley-Lennon Endorsement.
@imogenwalker.bsky.social @darrenpjones.bsky.social @torstenbell.bsky.social
You have the Yaxley-Lennon Endorsement.
@imogenwalker.bsky.social @darrenpjones.bsky.social @torstenbell.bsky.social
November 16, 2025 at 11:26 AM
I despair to see the Labour Party die before my eyes. I am Irish, but am of the European social democratic family. I have always felt a close bond with UK Labour. Now, it is diving down reactionary racist rabbit holes, betraying ts basic values of social solidarity. If this is Labour, let it die.
The idea that the government can keep having weeks like this and last until May is extraordinarily hopeful.
November 16, 2025 at 8:32 AM
The idea that the government can keep having weeks like this and last until May is extraordinarily hopeful.
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A year and a half after far right riots stoked by anti-immigration rhetoric, the government has moved from "process cases quickly" to "refugees will never obtain permanent status" and the opposition is arguing for mass deportations, despite immigration figures collapsing in the same time.
November 15, 2025 at 5:05 PM
A year and a half after far right riots stoked by anti-immigration rhetoric, the government has moved from "process cases quickly" to "refugees will never obtain permanent status" and the opposition is arguing for mass deportations, despite immigration figures collapsing in the same time.
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One thing I will say is that this immigration-bashing "strategy" is now indelibly Starmer's. It is Starmerism. Cooper was inertia personified but Mahmood is Starmer's key departmental promotion, brought in to do just this
And given that Starmer looks doomed, what future does this strategy have?
And given that Starmer looks doomed, what future does this strategy have?
The government just keeps doubling down on the strategy that’s taken it to genuinely historical unpopularity ever harder.
The horse will be flogged until it sprints.
The horse will be flogged until it sprints.
the video goes on and on about illegal immigration and yet the new proposal will target legal migration by confirmed refugees
November 15, 2025 at 11:03 AM
One thing I will say is that this immigration-bashing "strategy" is now indelibly Starmer's. It is Starmerism. Cooper was inertia personified but Mahmood is Starmer's key departmental promotion, brought in to do just this
And given that Starmer looks doomed, what future does this strategy have?
And given that Starmer looks doomed, what future does this strategy have?
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“We’re not like Liz Truss”
“We’re not like Liz Truss”
“We’re not like Liz Truss”
“We’re not like Liz Truss”
“OK, we are like Liz Truss.”
“We’re not like Liz Truss”
“We’re not like Liz Truss”
“We’re not like Liz Truss”
“OK, we are like Liz Truss.”
November 14, 2025 at 8:21 AM
“We’re not like Liz Truss”
“We’re not like Liz Truss”
“We’re not like Liz Truss”
“We’re not like Liz Truss”
“OK, we are like Liz Truss.”
“We’re not like Liz Truss”
“We’re not like Liz Truss”
“We’re not like Liz Truss”
“OK, we are like Liz Truss.”
There are very few set piece events where Starmer and Reeves have the chance to reset their story between now and May, and they have just blown up the biggest one.
November 14, 2025 at 8:21 AM
There are very few set piece events where Starmer and Reeves have the chance to reset their story between now and May, and they have just blown up the biggest one.
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Here's an extraordinarily cynical take: did the government talk up the likelihood of a manifesto-breaking income tax rise in the knowledge that it would push down gilt yields in the window the OBR will use for its forecasts? Rowing back now pushes up yields but too late to enter the forecast on 26th
And there we go 10y opened up 11 basis points erasing 1/3 of the rally since October.
39 minutes until the bond markets make reeves reconsider I reckon.
November 14, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Here's an extraordinarily cynical take: did the government talk up the likelihood of a manifesto-breaking income tax rise in the knowledge that it would push down gilt yields in the window the OBR will use for its forecasts? Rowing back now pushes up yields but too late to enter the forecast on 26th
I’m sure there will be studies that identify problems, but I can’t recall a drug that has had such widely documented positive effects (this, diabetes, obesity, substance misuse).
Wegovy and Ozempic tied to dramatically lower cancer deaths
GLP-1 drugs such as Ozempic and Wegovy may extend the lives of colon cancer patients, according to a major UC San Diego study. Patients on the medications had less than half the mortality rate of non-...
www.sciencedaily.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:03 PM
I’m sure there will be studies that identify problems, but I can’t recall a drug that has had such widely documented positive effects (this, diabetes, obesity, substance misuse).
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For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files:
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Epstein Document Search
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November 13, 2025 at 1:12 AM
For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files:
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
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“The first is the size of the boost to growth that either joining the EU's customs union or single market would give. This is likely to be bigger than anything else this government could do to increase living standards.”
“The first is the size of the boost to growth that either joining the EU's customs union or single market would give. This is likely to be bigger than anything else this government could do to increase living standards.”
Y'days post: Labour’s Brexit stance is as untenable as their tax pledge mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/11/labo...
Brexit was one of the many manifestations of growing support for right wing populism, and Labour's view is that they must above all else not upset socially conservative Labour voters.
Brexit was one of the many manifestations of growing support for right wing populism, and Labour's view is that they must above all else not upset socially conservative Labour voters.
Labour’s Brexit stance is as untenable as their tax pledge
In my last post about the prospect of Labour breaking its tax pledge, I did something I don’t often do, which is indulge in some ‘I told y...
mainlymacro.blogspot.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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“The first is the size of the boost to growth that either joining the EU's customs union or single market would give. This is likely to be bigger than anything else this government could do to increase living standards.”
“The first is the size of the boost to growth that either joining the EU's customs union or single market would give. This is likely to be bigger than anything else this government could do to increase living standards.”
Nights like tonight, I wonder whether the Brexit years would have been different if we’d had Bluesky.
November 11, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Nights like tonight, I wonder whether the Brexit years would have been different if we’d had Bluesky.
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Brexit reduced the UK’s GDP by between 6% and 8%. That is MASSIVE. #ProjectFear #wetoldyouso
www.nber.org/papers/w3445...
www.nber.org/papers/w3445...
November 10, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Brexit reduced the UK’s GDP by between 6% and 8%. That is MASSIVE. #ProjectFear #wetoldyouso
www.nber.org/papers/w3445...
www.nber.org/papers/w3445...
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So he’s saying all the tariff money we took in is gone and we won’t be able to pay it back. There was always a possibility he could lose this lawsuit and have to refund the tariff money. We didn’t prepare for that possibility? He’s running the govt like he ran his casinos.
November 11, 2025 at 11:38 AM
So he’s saying all the tariff money we took in is gone and we won’t be able to pay it back. There was always a possibility he could lose this lawsuit and have to refund the tariff money. We didn’t prepare for that possibility? He’s running the govt like he ran his casinos.
I would be very unsurprised if the coming Labour leadership contest didn’t have a ‘stand up to Trump’ dimension. The corollary is a different position regarding EU/Europe.
November 11, 2025 at 10:15 AM
I would be very unsurprised if the coming Labour leadership contest didn’t have a ‘stand up to Trump’ dimension. The corollary is a different position regarding EU/Europe.
This is fascinating and should be blindingly obvious to any person who has watched the BBC over the last 15 years.
The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think.
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
The truth about impartiality at the BBC
And the hysteria of the current "crisis"
open.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:42 AM
This is fascinating and should be blindingly obvious to any person who has watched the BBC over the last 15 years.
We’re at the ‘maths to 18’ stage, except this time with music.
November 6, 2025 at 9:40 AM
We’re at the ‘maths to 18’ stage, except this time with music.