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10. There’s much more, but I’ll leave it there, in the hope that maybe you can begin to understand that Starmer’s detractors aren’t just the bitter, never-satisfied cynics and saboteurs of your imagination, but might actually have a point. Thank you.
February 10, 2026 at 7:39 AM
10. There’s much more, but I’ll leave it there, in the hope that maybe you can begin to understand that Starmer’s detractors aren’t just the bitter, never-satisfied cynics and saboteurs of your imagination, but might actually have a point. Thank you.
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9. B. Does it give business lobbyists what they want? To just as great an extent as the Tories, this government has allowed corporate lobbyists to shape its agenda and shut down competing options. When you see the whole picture, it’s breath-taking. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Warning! The rightwing junktanks behind the Tories’ worst disasters still have the keys to No 10 | George Monbiot
Who is running the government’s ‘growth school’ for civil servants? The answer surpassed my worst fears, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
February 10, 2026 at 7:38 AM
9. B. Does it give business lobbyists what they want? To just as great an extent as the Tories, this government has allowed corporate lobbyists to shape its agenda and shut down competing options. When you see the whole picture, it’s breath-taking. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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8. Perhaps above all, it’s the way policy is decided. There seem to be two main determinants.
A. Will this stick it to the Labour left? The whole country must suffer for Starmer’s factional war. Good, progressive policies are blocked or delayed because they would look like a concession.
A. Will this stick it to the Labour left? The whole country must suffer for Starmer’s factional war. Good, progressive policies are blocked or delayed because they would look like a concession.
February 10, 2026 at 7:36 AM
8. Perhaps above all, it’s the way policy is decided. There seem to be two main determinants.
A. Will this stick it to the Labour left? The whole country must suffer for Starmer’s factional war. Good, progressive policies are blocked or delayed because they would look like a concession.
A. Will this stick it to the Labour left? The whole country must suffer for Starmer’s factional war. Good, progressive policies are blocked or delayed because they would look like a concession.
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7. The failure to change our disastrous electoral system, which might gift the UK to Reform on a small share of the vote, can, I feel, be understood as a matter of putting party over country and faction over party.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
If Reform ever wins power in Westminster, it will be because of Labour’s cowardice | George Monbiot
Starmer could improve our unfair electoral system to stop the hard right, but he won’t. All the party has left are threats about ‘splitting the vote’, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
February 10, 2026 at 7:35 AM
7. The failure to change our disastrous electoral system, which might gift the UK to Reform on a small share of the vote, can, I feel, be understood as a matter of putting party over country and faction over party.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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6. Its misallocation of resources on climate has also been deeply shocking. It is sluicing public money into Carbon Capture and Storage not because it works (it doesn’t) but because it’s a finacial lifeline for the fossil fuel industry.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Labour’s carbon-capture scheme will be Starmer’s white elephant: a terrible mistake costing billions | George Monbiot
The supposedly green project – brainchild of the previous Tory government – will increase emissions, not reduce them, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
February 10, 2026 at 7:34 AM
6. Its misallocation of resources on climate has also been deeply shocking. It is sluicing public money into Carbon Capture and Storage not because it works (it doesn’t) but because it’s a finacial lifeline for the fossil fuel industry.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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5. For me, a massive frustration has been the government’s war on nature: falsely pitching wildlife against human welfare, tearing down essential protections for the tiny scraps of ecosystem that remain here.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Wage war on nature to build new homes: that’s Labour’s offer, but it’s a con trick | George Monbiot
The government’s new planning bill is tearing down environmental protections to benefit developers. This nation of nature lovers won’t stand for it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
February 10, 2026 at 7:34 AM
5. For me, a massive frustration has been the government’s war on nature: falsely pitching wildlife against human welfare, tearing down essential protections for the tiny scraps of ecosystem that remain here.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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4. Its repeated assaults on benefits - first resisting, beyond all reason, its backbenchers’ demands to end the Tories' vicious two-child benefit cap, before finally relenting, then seeking to throw people with disabilities into the ditch - has been grim beyond belief.
February 10, 2026 at 7:33 AM
4. Its repeated assaults on benefits - first resisting, beyond all reason, its backbenchers’ demands to end the Tories' vicious two-child benefit cap, before finally relenting, then seeking to throw people with disabilities into the ditch - has been grim beyond belief.
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3. Then there’s the government’s parroting of Reform UK lines on immigration and small boats, despite all the evidence showing that when centrists ape the extreme right they simply empower it. It even went so far as to mimic Reform’s branding: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Labour launches ads in Reform-style branding to boast about deportations
Exclusive: Some MPs and activists upset at tone of party’s Facebook campaign aimed at countering Farage
www.theguardian.com
February 10, 2026 at 7:32 AM
3. Then there’s the government’s parroting of Reform UK lines on immigration and small boats, despite all the evidence showing that when centrists ape the extreme right they simply empower it. It even went so far as to mimic Reform’s branding: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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2. Linked to its alignment with the Netanyahu government is the Labour government’s assaults on the right to protest at home. Assaults that would have stopped the Labour movement in its tracks:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Here’s what you need to know about Starmer’s illiberal protest curbs: they would have killed the Labour party at birth | George Monbiot
The rights we enjoy in the UK, and the movement the PM purports to lead, were built on protest. Those rights are in dire peril, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
February 10, 2026 at 7:31 AM
2. Linked to its alignment with the Netanyahu government is the Labour government’s assaults on the right to protest at home. Assaults that would have stopped the Labour movement in its tracks:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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1. Many here seem bemused by the anger and disappointment this government attracts. Please bear with me while I try to explain it.
Let’s begin with Gaza. Starmer’s complicity is one of the major reasons so many people are disillusioned.
rethinkingsecurityorguk.wpcomstaging.com/2025/10/07/i...
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Let’s begin with Gaza. Starmer’s complicity is one of the major reasons so many people are disillusioned.
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Is our Government Complicit in Genocide?
The Genocide Convention imposes obligations on states and individuals not just to punish the crime of genocide but to actively prevent it. Two years into the war in Gaza and over 20 months since th…
rethinkingsecurityorguk.wpcomstaging.com
February 10, 2026 at 7:31 AM
1. Many here seem bemused by the anger and disappointment this government attracts. Please bear with me while I try to explain it.
Let’s begin with Gaza. Starmer’s complicity is one of the major reasons so many people are disillusioned.
rethinkingsecurityorguk.wpcomstaging.com/2025/10/07/i...
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Let’s begin with Gaza. Starmer’s complicity is one of the major reasons so many people are disillusioned.
rethinkingsecurityorguk.wpcomstaging.com/2025/10/07/i...
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HAMISH HAWK
LIFE IN A SCOTCH SITTING-ROOM
This feels like the most ‘Hamish Hawk’ Hamish Hawk LP. Like the man himself it is articulate, charming & most of all FUNNY
You’ll never look at a glass of lemonade & plate of pie & chips in the same way again
I have 30 copies
£24.99. Signed
LIFE IN A SCOTCH SITTING-ROOM
This feels like the most ‘Hamish Hawk’ Hamish Hawk LP. Like the man himself it is articulate, charming & most of all FUNNY
You’ll never look at a glass of lemonade & plate of pie & chips in the same way again
I have 30 copies
£24.99. Signed
February 9, 2026 at 6:00 PM
HAMISH HAWK
LIFE IN A SCOTCH SITTING-ROOM
This feels like the most ‘Hamish Hawk’ Hamish Hawk LP. Like the man himself it is articulate, charming & most of all FUNNY
You’ll never look at a glass of lemonade & plate of pie & chips in the same way again
I have 30 copies
£24.99. Signed
LIFE IN A SCOTCH SITTING-ROOM
This feels like the most ‘Hamish Hawk’ Hamish Hawk LP. Like the man himself it is articulate, charming & most of all FUNNY
You’ll never look at a glass of lemonade & plate of pie & chips in the same way again
I have 30 copies
£24.99. Signed
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“A political think tank hiring a PR firm to investigate journalists” democracyforsale.substack.com/p/exclusive-...
BREAKING: McSweeney’s think tank paid PR firm to investigate journalists
Labour Together put private investigators onto journalists writing about its funding. Starmer's right-hand man knew.
democracyforsale.substack.com
February 8, 2026 at 10:12 AM
“A political think tank hiring a PR firm to investigate journalists” democracyforsale.substack.com/p/exclusive-...
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ONE LIST TO RULE THEM ALL
RECORD STORE DAY 2026
SAT APRIL 18 8AM - 8PM
Get your requests in to Mark ASAP!
Balloons, bunting, beers and the biggest party in Bruntsfield
recordstoreday.co.uk/rsd-list
@recordstoredayuk.bsky.social
RECORD STORE DAY 2026
SAT APRIL 18 8AM - 8PM
Get your requests in to Mark ASAP!
Balloons, bunting, beers and the biggest party in Bruntsfield
recordstoreday.co.uk/rsd-list
@recordstoredayuk.bsky.social
February 5, 2026 at 5:57 PM
ONE LIST TO RULE THEM ALL
RECORD STORE DAY 2026
SAT APRIL 18 8AM - 8PM
Get your requests in to Mark ASAP!
Balloons, bunting, beers and the biggest party in Bruntsfield
recordstoreday.co.uk/rsd-list
@recordstoredayuk.bsky.social
RECORD STORE DAY 2026
SAT APRIL 18 8AM - 8PM
Get your requests in to Mark ASAP!
Balloons, bunting, beers and the biggest party in Bruntsfield
recordstoreday.co.uk/rsd-list
@recordstoredayuk.bsky.social
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Palestine Action are found not guilty for the offence that our government claimed as grounds for proscribing them.
February 4, 2026 at 2:25 PM
Palestine Action are found not guilty for the offence that our government claimed as grounds for proscribing them.
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The House of Lords puts cronies, donors and disgraced politicians like Lord Mandelson in positions of immense power over our country for life.
Unelected and unaccountable. Abolish this relic.
Unelected and unaccountable. Abolish this relic.
February 3, 2026 at 1:01 PM
The House of Lords puts cronies, donors and disgraced politicians like Lord Mandelson in positions of immense power over our country for life.
Unelected and unaccountable. Abolish this relic.
Unelected and unaccountable. Abolish this relic.
If Marquess was on an Aprillia nobody would be talking about the last few percent the bike is missing
January 29, 2026 at 6:10 PM
If Marquess was on an Aprillia nobody would be talking about the last few percent the bike is missing
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I'm writing about the Palestine Action hunger strikers at the moment, any of whom could die at any moment, and the astonishing media and government silence surrounding them. The Establishment seems to have become even crueller than when Thatcher was PM.
January 5, 2026 at 12:27 PM
I'm writing about the Palestine Action hunger strikers at the moment, any of whom could die at any moment, and the astonishing media and government silence surrounding them. The Establishment seems to have become even crueller than when Thatcher was PM.
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The story of Farage and Putin, told by British-Ukrainian soldier Shaun Pinner on a destroyed apartment block in Kyiv.
December 19, 2025 at 4:54 PM
The story of Farage and Putin, told by British-Ukrainian soldier Shaun Pinner on a destroyed apartment block in Kyiv.
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The British state has used every method they can to isolate and break the spirits of the 8 prisoners who stand with Palestine.
They are now close to dying & the British state doesn't care.
Irish people know hunger strikes. We know British oppression.
We know colonialism.
Stand up, take Action 🇵🇸
They are now close to dying & the British state doesn't care.
Irish people know hunger strikes. We know British oppression.
We know colonialism.
Stand up, take Action 🇵🇸
December 18, 2025 at 8:01 PM
The British state has used every method they can to isolate and break the spirits of the 8 prisoners who stand with Palestine.
They are now close to dying & the British state doesn't care.
Irish people know hunger strikes. We know British oppression.
We know colonialism.
Stand up, take Action 🇵🇸
They are now close to dying & the British state doesn't care.
Irish people know hunger strikes. We know British oppression.
We know colonialism.
Stand up, take Action 🇵🇸
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The Ministry of Justice is still refusing to meet with the lawyers or families of hunger strikers being held on remand.
This is a shambolic dereliction of duty.
I have written to David Lammy, again, imploring him to do the right thing before it is too late.
This is a shambolic dereliction of duty.
I have written to David Lammy, again, imploring him to do the right thing before it is too late.
December 17, 2025 at 3:56 PM
The Ministry of Justice is still refusing to meet with the lawyers or families of hunger strikers being held on remand.
This is a shambolic dereliction of duty.
I have written to David Lammy, again, imploring him to do the right thing before it is too late.
This is a shambolic dereliction of duty.
I have written to David Lammy, again, imploring him to do the right thing before it is too late.
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