Jude

Me and good haven’t been in the same room for a year

If everyone could stop dying for at least two months I’d really appreciate it

How can we proscribe Yvette Cooper

screenshot of draft text that reads: “We are told Keir Starmer is a PM who genuinely cares about violence against women and girls, but we are asked to ignore that many survivors of VAW develop lifelong PTSD and crippling anxiety, two conditions that would be excluded from state support and discounted as a disability under the current proposed changes.”

Friends fear she’s loading the gun to shoot at this govt again

Jude Wanga | The centre shrinks Peter Mandelson is a case study for the way the Westminster ecosystem protects its own until it is forced, by leakage...

‘Peter Mandelson is a case study for the way the Westminster ecosystem protects its own.

Protecting the system, and the powerful men who feel entitled to benefit from it, matters more than protecting the people it harms.’

@judeinlondon.com on the blog.

www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/fe...

Every time!!!

England's richest areas have too many branches of Oliver Bonas. They are suffering too

I’ve never been so disgusted by a person as I am with Shabana Mahmood. This is McSweeney & Starmer’s legacy - ceding to the racist rhetoric of the far right in a complete abandonment of the Geneva Convention

I really want to understand why Americans think the past participle of shake is shooken and the only answer I’m coming up with is “elvis”

Everyone knows about that one they just overlook it because it’s easier to hate Madonna

Screenshot from link text reads: “His reputation as a skilled campaign strategist was further cemented in Barking and Dagenham, where the far-right, anti-immigrant British National Party was gaining support and hoping to win its first parliamentary seat 2010. McSweeney played a key role in the fight to defeat the BNP in the area, with a campaign which focused on local issues.”

And I played a “key role” in the 2012 Olympics because I was living in London.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Impressed you stayed awake to watch

I personally love how they’re going out of their way to prove the premise of my article for LRB correct

Thank you!

It’s wild that they’re saying they’re banning them from using them at the same time as reaffirming the only way they’re allowed to use them in the first place (and not saying if this will extend to non migrants as part of their war on the disabled)

Just pitched an article about how exactly this kind of government short term calculations are leading to increased numbers of long term sick disability claimants, who the govt then punishes with cruel and punitive disability reforms

Imagine if the US and Britain had real opposition parties. Imagine being as clear eyed as @judeinlondon.com

Jude Wanga | The centre shrinks Peter Mandelson is a case study for the way the Westminster ecosystem protects its own until it is forced, by leakage...

‘Much of our politics now consists of performance rather than governance. The calculations are short-term by design: win the week, dominate the clip, neutralise the headline. The long-term consequences are outsourced to society to endure.’

@judeinlondon.com on the blog
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/fe...

Just to say, that the Dark Place (Twitter) has overtaken Bluesky for sharing this article.

I wouldn’t have it personally I would definitely RT and share this.

It’s not a competition…but it is.

Jude Wanga | The centre shrinks Peter Mandelson is a case study for the way the Westminster ecosystem protects its own until it is forced, by leakage...

‘Pollsters measure anxieties, newspapers amplify them and politicians recycle them as if prejudice were a natural resource to be responsibly extracted.’

@judeinlondon.com on the state we’re in, from the blog.

www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/fe...

Thanks for sharing!

Furious clarity from Jude Wanga www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/fe...

Jude Wanga | The centre shrinks Peter Mandelson is a case study for the way the Westminster ecosystem protects its own until it is forced, by leakage...

‘This is the deeper problem with centrism: it wants the prestige of professing values without the cost of acting on them. It’s allergic to taking moral risks.’

@judeinlondon.com on the state we’re in, from the blog.

www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/fe...

I wrote about how all our politicians and media are incompetent.

I guess that means I’m officially back in the writing game

Missed the opportunity to say “that’s the sound of the police”

Have they given routes to permanent settlement yet?

Thank you 😘

Hi stranger

You’ll love my latest piece then bsky.app/profile/jude...

Thanks so much!