🔴 14 Government Reforms the Media Has Largely Ignored Over Recent Weeks
You probably won’t have read much about these announcements. Some of that is understandable. But not all of it.
bylinetimes.com/2026/04/10/1...
Loads of stuff going on in the UK Democracy Bulletin this month: ukdemocracynetwork.medium.com/uk-democracy.... A personal fave — someone looking at the elections to the board of (the 16m-member-strong!) Nationwide building society: james4nationwide.co.uk
Remember to be wary, as today is the only day of the year that incorrect or misleading information is posted on the internet.
“An offence to speak out against a genocidal state that we are aiding and abetting. When people speak out against it they get labelled as terrorists”.
“That’s the British state. That’s the situation we’re in.”
The first of eighteen arrests today outside New Scotland Yard.
🚨Gov announces a moratorium on crypto donations and donation caps on overseas voters
These are two positive steps for our democracy.
But as Steve Goodrich highlights, "big money from a UK-based mega-donor poses the same risk to the integrity of our politics as from one based overseas".
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Good to see campaigns for compulsory voting catch on globally
Three excellent things have just happened:
1) the Rycroft Review of pol finance has been published
2) govt is implementing key changes with immediate effect
3) those changes got cross-party support in the Commons.
Careful scrutiny of the detail will now be essential.
www.gov.uk/government/p...
What is Emmanuel Grégoire, the new Paris mayor, planning for the city over his new term in office?
—60,000 new social housing units
—15 express bus routes
—Completion of city's full bike network
—Transformation of ring highway into a boulevard
—1000 new pedestrian streets
—300 new hectares of parks
who could have predicted this
The Government must immediately ban political donations made through cryptocurrency until firm rules can be developed, to keep UK politics safe from illicit finance, cross-party Committee finds
committees.parliament.uk/committee/11...
VICTORY! Government to open up the Land Registry - bringing to an end a thousand years of secrecy shrouding who owns England.
I’ve been campaigning for this for ten years: the new Land Use Framework, published later today, makes it government policy. 1/
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Very belatedly, I've made my 2025 annual donation(s!). I blog about it mostly to keep me accountable, but also to see if you might be tempted to join me... joe-mitchell.com/2026/03/13/w...
Never realised why lots of newspapers were called the Post… great piece: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
It's time for a UK local news fund. Happy to have played a small part in this superb report on what the UK's fund should learn from successful such funds around the world: www.publicinterestnews.org.uk/blog/whats-t...
MASHED POTATO!
Disagree Ed. Maybe need to adjust your sett
I'd missed this from last year, but it's great — the economic case for compulsory voting: samf.substack.com/p/is-low-tur...
@electheruk.bsky.social Hiya! Do you have any resources on how to be a useful ally? How to best ask someone to stand for example? Or do I just send them your way!?
The workload facing MPs and their staff is growing, in ways that aren't visible to the public: casework and the inbox.
For @thehousemag.bsky.social, I delved into what the workload looks like, why it's growing, and what this means for how MPs can balance the different aspects of their role
Want to do something about corruption in politics, while making it harder for corrupt criminals to launder their stolen wealth? I have great news:
📢 We're hiring! 🎉
@transparencyuk.bsky.social is looking for a new Advocacy Officer to join our team. Apply now www.transparency.org.uk/who-we-are/w...
If the disease is susceptibility to wealth and power perhaps the treatment is limits on wealth and power. Or are we going to carry on being intensely relaxed about all this?
I think I might take one of these "under 20 minutes" AI skills courses the UK Govt. seems very keen on everyone doing and live-post it here... Maybe we can all learn something together! The press release sends me to aiskillshub.org.uk/aiskillsboost/ - let's go and see!
"The next time you go to Las Vegas, you’ll notice that there are no 13-year-olds in the casinos. The reason is not because a series of longitudinal studies proved to the satisfaction of the gaming industry that gambling causes anxiety and depression." www.platformer.news/social-media...
The @nationaltrust.org.uk has received the biggest cash donation in its 131-year history as philanthropist Humphrey Battcock has pledged £10m in unrestricted funding to the charity
Leaky Pipes: better election donation data Online launch 15 Jan, 12-1pm. Image: water spilling from a leaky hose pipe attached to a freestanding tap.
Join us as we launch our latest report, identifying the points where crucial data on election donations gets lost in the system.
This is a free, online event, part of our WhoFundsThem project looking into money in politics. Reserve your spot: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mysociety-... #democracy #anticor
Enjoyed the unexpected plug for wolves too.
I love that “family” is the unit of measurement given here, as though we all gather around the small screen to read the Twitters of an evening
