A socialist politician travels by train from the North to become Prime Minister ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgI9...
As Starmer turned from the podium announcing his departure I suspect he knows he's been the chief architect of his downfall
Labour is in the last-chance saloon and a heavy burden falls on Andy Burnham to reunite Labour and improve people’s lives
My @theipaper.com column
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We are witnessing the slow death of the prestige career | Alice Lassman
I just downloaded the new @mainstreamlabour.bsky.social paper by Mathew Lawrence and Alex Williams - The Productive State: A Framework for Manchesterism.
Read it here: actionnetwork.org/forms/the-pr...
Harry Potter shops raided after London Centric investigation…. HMRC officials seize till receipts… ministers treating now central London gift shops as a tax enforcement issue…. www.londoncentric.media/p/harry-pott...
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I’m sorry the government is losing John Healey, but I don’t understand why the government made a fetish of a single figure for military spending rather than aiming for, say, better defence & better defence spending)ie less waste).
On intercity ( that ages me! ) train , headphones on, settling in to listen to the new @ianmooreauthor.bsky.social
NEW: John Healey quits over defence funding. Devastating letter for the government and Keir Starmer: “You have been unable and the Treasury has been unwilling to commit the resources the nation needs to defend the country at this time of rising threats.”
Saw Archers Live in manchester last night. Was fabulous fun and @angelabarnes.bsky.social was the perfect host. James Cartwright who plays Harrison was in audience. He also played Theo in Corrie but would nt tell me who the murderer was.