'Labour's problem isn't the Green Party - it's complacency' - LabourList The Gorton and Denton result is not a crisis. It is a warning. Progressive voters cannot be taken for granted. The Greens are not the enemy. Complacency is.

labourlist.org/2026/03/gort...

Yes, but we wait until 2028 to come up with (another) plan...

📜 The House of Commons just debated the Representation of the People Bill

💥 Great to see more Labour MPs joining the call for a National Commission on Electoral Reform

📺 @patrickhurley.bsky.social @catsmithmp.bsky.social @chriscurtis94.bsky.social & @jamesnaish.bsky.social

🌹 #Labour4PR

DAD’S THE WORD: The Byline Times’ Josiah Mortimer has returned to work after three months of shared parental leave, and he’s calling on more dads to utilize the scheme

Thanks Politico for the shout out this morning. Now back at the @bylinetimes.bsky.social desk.

(DM me or comment if you have any questions about shared parental leave and I'll do my best to answer)

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Could we have a by-election in Makerfield?

Memorial to 72 victims of Grenfell fire to be funded by new legislation Housing secretary says bill will give spending authority needed to build and maintain ‘dignified memorial’

Memorial to 72 victims of the 2017 Grenfell fire to be funded by new legislation.

Govts and industry still pushing deregulation and lower planning standards.

Still no prosecution of corporations, execs and advisers who made millions from knowingly using faulty building products.

What Spain's migration decision means for the UK

Dr Allan Njanji, a refugee advocate with experience of the asylum system, writes about what the UK could learn from Spain's decision to grant legal status to half a million migrants.

How can people be expected to vote tactically in such a contest? This poll can't tell us who is in front due to 3 leading parties being within the margin of error. The voting system we have is increasingly challenged by how voters are dividing into small groups across multiple parties.

#FPTP has become a danger.

The Last Post for #FPTP

NB Most old thinking in politics no longer applies.

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Wishing all of our staff, students, alumni and community a very happy new year of the horse! 🐎✨

#UniversityOfBath

The kind of thing Mandelson would say.

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

Walthamstow please stop and look - Mohammad Jaeem went missing after school today locally. He left his phone at home - his parents and police are trying to search for him. contact police or call:

07475718981
07534712242

Last seen Hale End Road/Macdonald Road, after school. Please share.

Thank you for your work @bbcstever.bsky.social

Ok, let’s do this🙄

We’ll start with an explainer covering:

🕒What is a 15-minute city
🏫What on Earth is going on with Oxford
👽Where the conspiracy theories have come from

And then we’ll look at the Telegraph article

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"1 in 5 pupils are getting a SEND diagnosis..the vast majority then trip into the benefit system because they get child disability allowance allowance.'

This is completely false from Milburn. He's supposed to be reviewing this issue and he's just making things up. Inexcusable.

www.joxleywrites.jmoxley.co.uk/p/airport-bo...
Great piece on “airport book brain” - the tendency of politicians to swallow simplistic solutions. Latest example the Jonathan Haidt book shaping policy on teens and social media

The Carney doctrine Open comment thread on the PM's Davos speech

Mark Carney's speech really is terrific: full text is here and very much worth your time.

As Trump menaces Greenland, this much is clear: the free world needs a new plan – and inspired leadership | Gordon Brown The idea that the liberal rules-based order can survive his presidency now seems complacent. This is a historic moment – and a time to act, says former UK prime minister Gordon Brown

As Trump menaces Greenland, this much is clear: the free world needs a new plan – and inspired leadership | Gordon Brown

The righteously outspoken Minneapolis Mayor who is standing up to Trump’s ICE thugs needs waaaay more followers.
Please follow Mayor Frey.
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Read here: rachelshabi.substack.com/p/maccabi-te...

The utterly shameless & widely covered "report" out today, claiming net zero will "cost" £9tn is based on:

* Assuming free fossil-fuel energy, free petrol cars, free gas boilers, free gas power plants etc

AND

* Including climate damages in the "cost" of net zero

I kid you not, it is that stupid

a decade is a long time in politics

Why would you be engaging with this?

I'm working to follow more MPs on Bluesky. The more of us who do, the more they may be encouraged over.