Ryan Barnett
@ryanbarnett92.bsky.social
Trade union economist currently focusing on healthcare
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Robert Jenrick's speech, now entering its 53rd hour
January 15, 2026 at 4:53 PM
Robert Jenrick's speech, now entering its 53rd hour
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Replacing an opportunist ethnonationalist bigot with a conviction one. Is that an upgrade?
NEW: Kemi Badenoch confirms that Nick Timothy -Theresa May's former chief of staff at No 10 - will be the new shadow justice secretary.
January 15, 2026 at 4:28 PM
Replacing an opportunist ethnonationalist bigot with a conviction one. Is that an upgrade?
Great to see someone senior in the Labour party finally speak about the potential negatives of AI on the economy and employment for once.
www.ft.com/content/6f92...
www.ft.com/content/6f92...
Sadiq Khan to warn AI could cause ‘mass unemployment’ in London
Mayor concerned that capital will be at ‘sharpest edge of change’ given dependence on white-collar jobs
www.ft.com
January 15, 2026 at 9:04 AM
Great to see someone senior in the Labour party finally speak about the potential negatives of AI on the economy and employment for once.
www.ft.com/content/6f92...
www.ft.com/content/6f92...
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I predict the next few days in Britain are going to be dithering on Britain joining this, then inevitably we'll join late in a way that will make no one happy.
France says will take part in European military mission to Greenland
January 14, 2026 at 7:39 PM
I predict the next few days in Britain are going to be dithering on Britain joining this, then inevitably we'll join late in a way that will make no one happy.
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Maybe Morgan McSweeney, Luke Akehurst and other factional, Blue Labour strategic geniuses are seeing things we can't, but being destroyed by parties on the centre-left in Wales and Scotland does not scream go Reform light to win to me.
January 13, 2026 at 8:04 PM
Maybe Morgan McSweeney, Luke Akehurst and other factional, Blue Labour strategic geniuses are seeing things we can't, but being destroyed by parties on the centre-left in Wales and Scotland does not scream go Reform light to win to me.
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Plaid Cymru and the Greens are surging in Wales, according to this latest poll.
Where’s the media narrative around this? Where are the stories saying Farage is failing? When will Labour try to regain ground by appealing to Plaid & Green voters, not just copy Reform?
www.itv.com/news/wales/2...
Where’s the media narrative around this? Where are the stories saying Farage is failing? When will Labour try to regain ground by appealing to Plaid & Green voters, not just copy Reform?
www.itv.com/news/wales/2...
January 13, 2026 at 7:57 PM
Plaid Cymru and the Greens are surging in Wales, according to this latest poll.
Where’s the media narrative around this? Where are the stories saying Farage is failing? When will Labour try to regain ground by appealing to Plaid & Green voters, not just copy Reform?
www.itv.com/news/wales/2...
Where’s the media narrative around this? Where are the stories saying Farage is failing? When will Labour try to regain ground by appealing to Plaid & Green voters, not just copy Reform?
www.itv.com/news/wales/2...
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Guys, is it a healthy sign when central bankers are writing statements that sound like they come from Zarah Sultana?
Full solidarity, brothers!
Full solidarity, brothers!
The world's central bankers are rallying around Jay Powell
January 13, 2026 at 10:32 AM
Guys, is it a healthy sign when central bankers are writing statements that sound like they come from Zarah Sultana?
Full solidarity, brothers!
Full solidarity, brothers!
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Only steering towards the iceberg can save the Titanic
Only Reform voters can save Labour
By Luke Akehurst
By Luke Akehurst
Only Reform voters can save Labour
A progressive coalition simply doesn't have the vote share
www.newstatesman.com
January 9, 2026 at 3:53 PM
Only steering towards the iceberg can save the Titanic
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Total and utter and unmitigated bollocks. Luke and his destructively factional, entirely deluded mates are steering Labour to electoral wipe out and the country towards the catastrophe of nationalist right-wing government. This is exactly like Brexit: a car crash happening in slow motion.
Only Reform voters can save Labour
By Luke Akehurst
By Luke Akehurst
Only Reform voters can save Labour
A progressive coalition simply doesn't have the vote share
www.newstatesman.com
January 9, 2026 at 1:59 PM
Total and utter and unmitigated bollocks. Luke and his destructively factional, entirely deluded mates are steering Labour to electoral wipe out and the country towards the catastrophe of nationalist right-wing government. This is exactly like Brexit: a car crash happening in slow motion.
Thank God, we need more pressure from Labour MPs like Charlotte and @louisehaighmp.bsky.social to get the Government off of that vile cesspit.
There is, to my mind, no justification for the continued use by the UK Government of X as a platform for official comms. There hasn't been for some time, in fact, but if the latest developments around AI-generated image abuse and CSAM don't change the policy I really don't know what will.
NEW: People are using Elon Musk's chatbot, Grok, to alter images to depict real women being sexually abused, humiliated, hurt, and even killed.
futurism.com/future-socie...
futurism.com/future-socie...
January 9, 2026 at 12:23 PM
Thank God, we need more pressure from Labour MPs like Charlotte and @louisehaighmp.bsky.social to get the Government off of that vile cesspit.
Yes Lou Haigh!
I call on my party and my government to remove themselves entirely from X and communicate with the public where they actually participate online and can be protected from such illegality.
January 8, 2026 at 1:56 PM
Yes Lou Haigh!
Sorry, what?
This man's opinions should no longer be deemed newsworthy.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
This man's opinions should no longer be deemed newsworthy.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Mandelson accuses European leaders of ‘histrionic’ reaction to Trump’s Greenland stance
Article by former British ambassador to US is likely to be seen as criticism of Keir Starmer
www.theguardian.com
January 8, 2026 at 9:28 AM
Sorry, what?
This man's opinions should no longer be deemed newsworthy.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
This man's opinions should no longer be deemed newsworthy.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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NEW: Commons women & equalities committee says it will stop using X. Chair Sarah Owen says given preventing violence against women and girls is among its key areas, “X is not an appropriate platform to be using for our communications”. Ministers next?
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Commons women and equalities committee to stop using X amid AI-altered images row
Exclusive: Move follows outcry over use of Grok to digitally remove clothing from images of women and children
www.theguardian.com
January 7, 2026 at 4:02 PM
NEW: Commons women & equalities committee says it will stop using X. Chair Sarah Owen says given preventing violence against women and girls is among its key areas, “X is not an appropriate platform to be using for our communications”. Ministers next?
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Glad someone is finally asking. Now they need to push him to actually answer
If you missed this question to Nigel Farage from The Critic's Rob Hutton – and it was over an hour into the press conference – then it was a particularly good one. The answer was... vague.
January 7, 2026 at 12:19 PM
Glad someone is finally asking. Now they need to push him to actually answer
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Marking done, time to start thinking about public opinion and elections again. And I think we might need a new word beyond fragmentation for what is going on here in the 25-49 age group
January 6, 2026 at 3:21 PM
Marking done, time to start thinking about public opinion and elections again. And I think we might need a new word beyond fragmentation for what is going on here in the 25-49 age group
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🚨 We’re hiring! 🚨
LCEF is looking for a Programme Manager to help shape and grow our climate and energy programme, supporting our mission to raise environmental ambition across the labour movement.
🔗 Full job description and details on how to apply:
www.w4mpjobs.org/JobDetails.a...
LCEF is looking for a Programme Manager to help shape and grow our climate and energy programme, supporting our mission to raise environmental ambition across the labour movement.
🔗 Full job description and details on how to apply:
www.w4mpjobs.org/JobDetails.a...
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January 5, 2026 at 12:27 PM
🚨 We’re hiring! 🚨
LCEF is looking for a Programme Manager to help shape and grow our climate and energy programme, supporting our mission to raise environmental ambition across the labour movement.
🔗 Full job description and details on how to apply:
www.w4mpjobs.org/JobDetails.a...
LCEF is looking for a Programme Manager to help shape and grow our climate and energy programme, supporting our mission to raise environmental ambition across the labour movement.
🔗 Full job description and details on how to apply:
www.w4mpjobs.org/JobDetails.a...
It's been 4/5 hours. We can all see the predicament the UK is in, a bit stuck between the EU and US etc etc.
However Starmer is supposedly Mr international law, stand up for something.
However Starmer is supposedly Mr international law, stand up for something.
Just a few more facts needed. Any minute now we’ll have enough facts.
January 3, 2026 at 6:18 PM
It's been 4/5 hours. We can all see the predicament the UK is in, a bit stuck between the EU and US etc etc.
However Starmer is supposedly Mr international law, stand up for something.
However Starmer is supposedly Mr international law, stand up for something.
Much more apt that whatever Ovenden is saying about 'stakeholders'.
If Labour doesn't recognise the fault line running through the country we risk sleepwalking into a government shaped by resentment, division and authoritarian instinct.
Read my article for @newstatesman1913.bsky.social
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
Read my article for @newstatesman1913.bsky.social
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
Labour needs to wake up
Reform’s rise is a warning, not a surprise
www.newstatesman.com
January 2, 2026 at 11:41 AM
Much more apt that whatever Ovenden is saying about 'stakeholders'.
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It is a little known fact that they prerecord the Jools Holland Hootenanny - all the people on screen are faking it being New Year for tv.
For eg, last year’s was prerecorded June 15th, 1535, during the Siege of Munster, look carefully and you can see John of Leiden mingling with the audience.
For eg, last year’s was prerecorded June 15th, 1535, during the Siege of Munster, look carefully and you can see John of Leiden mingling with the audience.
December 31, 2025 at 4:52 PM
It is a little known fact that they prerecord the Jools Holland Hootenanny - all the people on screen are faking it being New Year for tv.
For eg, last year’s was prerecorded June 15th, 1535, during the Siege of Munster, look carefully and you can see John of Leiden mingling with the audience.
For eg, last year’s was prerecorded June 15th, 1535, during the Siege of Munster, look carefully and you can see John of Leiden mingling with the audience.
Our next Chancellor?
Britain’s welfare system is unsustainable.
Today in the New Statesman I argue for a reset built on dignity, work & structural reform on housing and health policy.
The Treasury & OBR must start modelling savings over longer horizons.
Today in the New Statesman I argue for a reset built on dignity, work & structural reform on housing and health policy.
The Treasury & OBR must start modelling savings over longer horizons.
December 30, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Our next Chancellor?
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Many people in Britain sense the relationship between them and others has changed. Populists speak directly to this, but progressives can too
My piece in today's FT on.ft.com/4or0GxW
My piece in today's FT on.ft.com/4or0GxW
The UK needs a national identity based on commonality
Labour must contest the right’s attempt to connect the grievances of ‘white British’ people to those who are not white
on.ft.com
August 5, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Many people in Britain sense the relationship between them and others has changed. Populists speak directly to this, but progressives can too
My piece in today's FT on.ft.com/4or0GxW
My piece in today's FT on.ft.com/4or0GxW
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can't they even give this woke nonsense a rest at Christmas? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
Pope Leo calls for kindness to strangers and the poor in Christmas message
Refusing to help those in need is tantamount to rejecting God himself, says pontiff during Christmas Eve mass
www.theguardian.com
December 25, 2025 at 8:32 AM
can't they even give this woke nonsense a rest at Christmas? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
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Immigration salience has less to do with aggregate Immigration numbers than
- visibility of boats & asylum > visas
- general vibes about integration
- elite cues from media & political discourse in shaping public perceptions
This is more true when immigration is falling then when it is rising
- visibility of boats & asylum > visas
- general vibes about integration
- elite cues from media & political discourse in shaping public perceptions
This is more true when immigration is falling then when it is rising
December 21, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Immigration salience has less to do with aggregate Immigration numbers than
- visibility of boats & asylum > visas
- general vibes about integration
- elite cues from media & political discourse in shaping public perceptions
This is more true when immigration is falling then when it is rising
- visibility of boats & asylum > visas
- general vibes about integration
- elite cues from media & political discourse in shaping public perceptions
This is more true when immigration is falling then when it is rising
Strong answer
And I see why it suits print journalists to keep the system as it is. Of course these things should be televised and made open. These same arguments about “infotainment” were made about televising the Commons. They were wrong then and they’re wrong now.
December 19, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Strong answer
Whatever you think about ZP, the Greens etc you have to applaud the come approach here
Why Rory Stewart might need to self reflect...
December 17, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Whatever you think about ZP, the Greens etc you have to applaud the come approach here