Taking some risks with communications in the coming months, is the only way Labour will cut through the noise, grab attention and start to regain momentum. Starmer has nothing to lose by doing so. There is a lot we can learn from Trump. peterhyman21.substack.com/p/trump-the-te…

Black History Month begins today. We honour the rich heritage, personal stories, and lasting contributions of our Black West Ham community ⚒

EXCL w/caroline wheeler The China spy case collapsed days after Jonathan Powell — PM’s national security adviser — chaired a secret meeting in Whitehall where he told officials the government’s evidence would stop well short of branding Beijing an “enemy” thetimes.com/article/b3fd36…

Absolutely right David Smith. The captain of the ship needs to know regularly where it lies on the map but does not need to change course every time there is a reading.

Congratulations to Unmesh Desai AM a tireless campaigner , Community Activist, Anti Fascist and a loyal , solid ,longstanding GMB London Region member ✊🏻 And now, A Freeman of The City 🌹

EXCLUSIVE 🚨: Newcastle United midfielder Joe Willock, 26, had to be rescued from York Maze after a distress call to emergency services was made at around 5pm on Tuesday. He had been lost in the UK's largest maze for approximately six hours.

Who benefits from the abolition of stamp duty land tax? The first answer: people buying very expensive homes. Average saving for someone buying a £10m+ home is £1.7m. Average saving for someone buying a £250k-£500k home is £5k.

On Wednesday we release the GMB Members’ Staff full report into the vast pay gaps between MPs’ staff doing the same roles. theguardian.com/inequality/202…

What a privilege to be with so many great activists and colleagues, at the campaign launch from our GMB Members’ Staff Branch Members and Reps Tackling Inequality at the Heart of British Democracy #MembersFirst

Leading the BBC's 6 o'clock news. Shame they're not big enough to credit the Sun though. Lots of reportage about how this "emerged" tonight, as if it came drifting out of the sky rather than the hard work of our journalists...

Change.

Good to be on Sky News. The #MPR is worth reading for individual #MPC views and scenarios. But we do need to move away from focussing on small increments in #bankrate and state the monetary strategy in our problematic economy. Romesh Vaitilingam CamEcon Gareth Barlow Ed Conway

The problem here is that the "soft left" is so ill-defined, lacking in left and right boundaries, and constantly hijacked by careerists who see it as branding that might win them internal elections, that no one can ever actually tell who is really soft left, whatever that means,

👏Baroness Campbell was told she was delusional because she said she was a member of the Lords. Why? Because she had a disability. This does not inspire faith in the medical profession to make capacity decisions about assisted suicide.

Wise words “My name’s Frank. I’m 64, a retired electrician. Forty-two years I spent running wires through houses, fixing breakers, making sure people had light in their kitchens and heat in their winters. Never once did anyone ask me where I went to college. Mostly, they just

A grave mistake. The two embassies are not an equal trade. It underestimates Britain's importance to China in its core objective to drive a wedge between US and Europe. And overestimates our capacity for diplomatic influence in Beijing. There's a reason Xi fought tooth and nail.

As the England cricket team were so good at throwing away the game with utterly self-inflicted recklessness, maybe they’d like to form a left-wing party

This thread is must read. The conclusion is simultaneously eye- popping and utterly predictable. The ‘peace plan’ for Ukraine delivered by the White House seems to have been translated from Russian into English. In other words it’s the Kremlin plan that Trump seems to be passing

It is shocking to see how easily a great power like the US is being played by a corrupt autocrat like Putin, with his third rate economy and army. Trump, and Witkoff especially, have no idea how to handle Russia. Their incompetence is undermining Europe’s security and integrity.