This is more than just a story about local corruption in Croydon
It highlights just how easy it was to rig the system that was used to select many Labour candidates for the 2024 election
In Croydon they got caught but, given all the complaints about Anonyvoter, did some get away with it elsewhere?
Emily Thornberry has since told Radio 4:
"It shows an arrogance amongst some people at No.10 where they just feel they can do what they want.
"To use the Foreign Office for sort of vanity projects in this way is unforgiveable."
The world watched as Israel razed Gaza to the ground.
Now, the world is watching as Israel razes Lebanon to the ground.
War crimes beget war crimes — and the failure to bring Israel to justice for genocide has emboldened it to destroy human life with total impunity.
Very frank interview @emilythornberry.bsky.social on Andrew Marr show.
Speaking in the Commons in the debate on Mandelson, @johnmcdonnellmp.bsky.social has just called for an independent inquiry into Labour Together over hiring lobbyists to investigate and smear journalists
Here's the original story we published in Feb democracyforsale.substack.com/p/exclusive-...
A special mention to poor David Olusoga out here trying to summarise the bloodbath of the British Empire with a diplomacy you can only dream of. Or as he puts it, the journey many nations took to independence was “fraught” and there was “some violence”. Give that man a knighthood!
I’ve signed this calling for the full Mandelson files, including vetting documents, to be published. Parliament and the public need the full facts, not partial disclosure.
Sign here:
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pu...
Two ways you can tackle the housing crisis:
1) Build council housing
2) Rent controls
Join the demo on Saturday
Labour won't meet its housebuilding target (or anywhere near it) by leaving it to the market
You also can't solve the housing crisis by leaving it to the market.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Online Book Club | Stepping Stones
Fri, 24 April at 1pm: www.nli.ie/exhibitions-events/onlin...
Join us for our monthly online book club, as we come together to discuss #SteppingStones: Interviews with #SeamusHeaney, in honour of what would have been his 87th bday.
Mathias Corvinus Collegium -which Orban used to fund Christian Right across Europe - has endowment worth *1% of Hungary’s GDP*
This money has gone to Matt Goodwin, Frank Furedi, a Roger Scruton foundation run by Michael Gove + James Orr
Magyar needs 2/3rd of seats to unpick this. Be huge if he can
Odd how the minor administrative errors always seem to produce the same results.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
At the Irish Writers Centre today: so good.
All my thanks to @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social & @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social & Leontia Flynn for a terrific conversation; and to @eatthestorms.com & @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social for the invitation.
So enjoyed saying a few words to launch Jan Carson's fabulous new novel Few and Far Between at Books Upstairs in Dublin tonight. A full house - and many friends - and such positivity.
Congratulations, Jan.
@jancarsonwrites.bsky.social
@booksupstairs.bsky.social
Hard for Trump to get out of a war that is making so much money for Putin.
Did BBC radio 4 #Today programme really just do a whole package about drilling in the N Sea without once even mentioning #climate change? And not having anyone challenging the one-sided claims of former BP boss? So irresponsible #bbcr4today
The stress of simply getting off a tube train when the staff member with the mini ramp doesn’t appear as the doors open shared by @annalandre.com.
And it’s very obvious that those of us not using wheelchairs can be rather more helpful or at least understanding if we spot this happening.
Hegseth tweets "STONE AGE"
The Iranian Embassy replies -
Stone Age?
"When you were still in caves searching for fire, we were inscribing human rights on the Cyrus Cylinder.We endured the storm of Alexander &the Mongol invasions & remained- Iran is not just a country it is a civilization"
#illegalwar
Just what we don't need. Already, our rivers are overloaded with both human and livestock waste, leading in many cases to #rivercide. Now the government, responding as always to lobbyists, wants to make it worse. Then it wonders why it loses public support. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Lord Rothermere, proud owner of the Mail, usefully signals the limits of his patriotism by living, as I understand it, as a tax exile, so that he pays the least possible tax towards the common good in the UK. So his tabloid trashing us in the face of the Trumpian man-baby feels entirely on message.
Daily Mail front page attacking Keir Starmer for Donald Trump’s disgusting behaviour…
This is an extraordinary front page for a British newspaper to run. Donald Trump’s delinquency, derangement & imperilling of international security is somehow a stick with which to beat our own Prime Minister, who has negotiated the current horror show rather well. It is actually sickening.
Not feeling much excitement about #Artemis. I imagine that the benefits of any discoveries and advances made will be hoarded and not shared to help humanity.
Bees sleep between five and eight hours a day. They enjoy company and even hold each other's feet.
We said that we cannot let #Lebanon fail. Now is a real test of that promise.
My asks of the Security Council, directly from Beirut. 👇
This government can't be trusted to end the housing crisis because its ministers are bought and paid for by the developers, landlords and corporate interests who profit from it.
🔴 Out tomorrow, 'Fenian', our album title track
🎥 Premiere 10am
⚫️ Note: album release date moved to May 1st
The US bombed a primary school in Iran, killing 168 girls.
Why is nobody talking about this anymore?
These abominable war crimes should not be forgotten — and nor should the lives, hopes and dreams of human beings who were slaughtered with impunity.
Spain has closed its airspace to US planes involved in attacks on Iran.
Meanwhile, the UK is letting US bombers land, refuel and re-arm.
Complicity is always a choice — and our government has chosen to drag Britain into an illegal war.
UK Labour Party @labouruk.bsky.social disgracefully continues to support this genocidal Israeli government.
