A tale of Two Deprivations - my piece on fascinating analysis of the local election results that finds two very different Broken Britains.
With thanks to Chris Clarke, and Citizens Advice:
Brilliant reporting of an appalling system by @anooshc.bsky.social
Emily Lawford
Will Dunn
For This England, I joined the Rejoin Ramblers on their long walk to Brussels
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As every party has a tricky coalition to hold together, the great @emilylawford.bsky.social finds the same at Tommy Robinson's demo - a confused and chaotic union of self-styled christians and EDL-styled cokeheads:
The British Jews of Golders Green – whose grandparents sought sanctuary in Britain from the Nazis, whose parents sought sanctuary in suburbia further up the Northern Line – no longer seem to find sanctuary in mainstream British political life.
Sadiq Khan tells @anooshc.bsky.social what Starmer and Reeves get wrong about Britain
Emily Lawford
Anoosh Chakelian
Follow my colleague @meganekenyon.bsky.social for live updates on this weekend's festival of recrimination and backstabbing
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Brilliant, moving column by @rmcunliffe.bsky.social
www.newstatesman.com/politics/soc...
This is a very interesting and poignant piece. To me in touches on something interesting : the left are often chastised as being too puritanical and therefore inaccessible compared to the right. Which might be true, but it means the latter ends up becoming increasingly incoherent and manic
Rejoiners trek to Brussels in search of redemption
As every party has a tricky coalition to hold together, the great @emilylawford.bsky.social finds the same at Tommy Robinson's demo - a confused and chaotic union of self-styled christians and EDL-styled cokeheads:
In the mad world of the British far right, faith and thuggery jostle for attention
Britain's Jews are only asking one question now. Where next?
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- Even Andy Burnham - who has repeatedly criticised this system - has stopped short of calling for bringing it under public control.
- He's said he hasn't "proposed directly that local authorities should take control" and will only call for "reform of these Home Office contracts".
Everything is broken. Nothing changes. Voters are mad as hell
“Every time I hear the Chancellor speak, it’s doom and gloom for the last two years. People didn’t vote for a Labour government for more doom and gloom.”
Sadiq Khan says Starmer talking about ten years in office is "just not realistic"
Anoosh Chakelian
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The London mayor on Labour’s “catastrophic” results in the capital, and the Chancellor’s “doom and gloom” putting off investors
