Precisely. Ask Robbins who he told. Odds on it was McSweeney.

Immigration enriches our society and benefits our economy. Changing settlement rules will have financial consequences for us all - this video explains why and how. If truth matters to you when it comes to immigration pass it on.

All data quoted in this video from Migration Advisory Committee.

Has the Forward March of Populism Been Halted? The victory of Péter Magyar over Viktor Orbán in Hungary's election has profound significance, not just for Hungarians but for the rest of the world too, argue Jon Bloomfield and David Edgar

The significance of Orban' defeat. @jdportes.bsky.social, @sundersays.bsky.social, @lewisgoodall.com, @compassoffice.bsky.social, @samfr.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/bylineti...

Very informative.

Perceptive.

Starkey has genuine expertise in this period of history, but to claim that the laws did not persecute Catholics is beyond revisionism and into the realms of invention.

Important source of opposition to both Trump and his chief ideologue.

This is the way Bruce Springsteen opened the E-Street Band tour in Minneapolis last night..... one of three times he took time to talk to the crowd about what's happening in our country.
@brucespringsteen
#Minneapolis #Minnesota

Review: Bruce Springsteen roars for democracy in powerful Minneapolis concert The Boss saluted the strength and hope generated by Minnesotans this winter.

Bruce Springsteen gave a rousing five-minute sermon about the “corruption in the White House,” calling out Attorney General Pam Bondi by name and ultimately imploring, “Let’s fight for the America we love. Are you with us?”

The crowd of nearly 20,000 exploded.

GB News, Matt Goodwin and the rise of the Populist Right

“Tacking so hard right that you begin to sound like Mr Farage on things like immigration is a dead end."

Labour MP @liambyrnemp.bsky.social with advice for his own party...

@goldbergradio.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social

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Superb. Really engaging discussion on the populist right and how to challenge them, with @goldbergradio.bsky.social probing intelligently and @davidedgar1.bsky.social and @liambyrnemp.bsky.social responding thoughtfully.

This is the key point.

The HO proposals *only* make sense in the terms @joshglancy.bsky.social is arguing for them if they result in mass expulsions of hundreds of thousands of people who came here legally and abided by the rules.

Why not simply say that?

An energy revolution is in the wind | The Observer Labour’s plans for cheap renewable power will transform British lives as dramatically as the NHS once did

An energy revolution is in the wind, writes Will Hutton

Labour’s plans for cheap renewable power will transform British lives as dramatically as the NHS once did
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The Little Black Book of the Populist Right: updated edition – Byline Times A year on from Donald Trump’s second inauguration, the Populist Right is no longer a looming threat but an entrenched force reshaping politics across Europe and North America. From Farage and Le Pen t...

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Hot off the press. 2nd edition of our Little Black Book telling all you want to know about Trump, Farage and the gurus of the p populist right. A @bylinetimes.bsky.social production from Byline Books.

So much for 'left' interventionism. Farage's Reform becoming a 'Thatcherite party with a Powellite face.'

Farage’s Reform UK drops pledge to nationalise water and energy companies Rightwing populist party is shifting back to ‘small state’ economic policies

scoop:

Nigel Farage has abandoned plans for a Reform UK government to part-nationalise Britain’s utilities as the party adjusts to the country’s stretched public finances, although it is still considering using “strategic stakes” to fix broken markets

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An Ideological Vacuum: Why Labour Is at Greater Risk of Losing Voters to Progressive Parties Than to Reform UK Jon Bloomfield and David Edgar survey what the fall of Mandelson and McSweeney will mean for Starmer's Government, and ask: is a Labour revival possible?

open.substack.com/pub/bylineti... After fall of McSweeney and Mandelson our latest on prospects for a social democratic revival. Are the ideas and forces there to do it?

Danish premier’s party suffers its worst election result since 1903 But Mette Frederiksen may still secure a third term in office because her rightwing rival fared even worse

Denmark's experiment with nativist social democracy results in worst electoral performance since 1903.

Labour's similar experiment - modelled on the Danes - will too unless it changes course drastically.

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The UK Could Be Quietly Heading for a Solar Power Revolution As fossil fuel prices soar due to Trump's Iran war, the UK Government's plans for 'energy independence' could transform how British households power their homes, reports Josiah Mortimer

As I wrote for @bylinetimes.bsky.social last week
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Of all Starmer’s U-turns, the cruel cut to vital aidis th... Reneging on yet another manifesto pledge, the government will allocate much of its aid budget to defence. The move reflects changing consensus in Whitehall

observer.co.uk/news/interna.... The Labour u-turn, the press keeps quiet about.

Do they think people have literally no memory of past events at all?

McSweeney lives.

Telling poll of which partners Germans trust - France as always on top, with the UK now as joint E3 partner a close second.

Trump's USA is just 3 points above Russia.

America's Next Top Mullah

Your 3-minute guide to today’s asylum policy changes

Crystal clear from
@clivelewis.bsky.social.

Extraordinary passionate statement from Vincent Kompany in support of Vinicius Jr. And he breaks the managers' omerta by saying Mourinho has made a mistake and bringing up Eusebio is ridiculous.

Telling it like it is. Can Labour ministers do the same?

So when will the UK government stop prevaricating and join?