Disgraceful. Labour’s great nature sellout is the worst attack on England’s ecosystems I’ve seen in my lifetime | George Monbiot | The Guardian theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Vote for Tom Marsh-Pritchard on May 1st youtu.be/Wyifn8cwlJQ?si… via YouTube

Polls are now open for the Lancashire County Council Elections 2025. Vote Our West Lancs ! #puttingresidentsfirstandforemost 🦉🗳️✅

Polls are now open for the Lancashire County Council Elections 2025. Vote Our West Lancs ! #puttingresidentsfirstandforemost 🦉🗳️✅

‘Imminent’ and ‘shortly’ should be words banned from by-election coverage. #RuncornByElection

#LancsCCElections result: Gordon Paul Johnson, the Our West Lancashire candidate, has been elected as county councillor for Ormskirk with 1585 votes. For full results, visit: www2.apps.lancashire.gov.uk/w/webpage/all-…

🚨🚨Save the date!! Next LHG event on eve of 17 June in parliament: "Lessons from history: Labour's industrial strategy"

🚩My new podcast, Leading Labour - coming to all streaming platforms on 8 July! ☄️ Featuring insights from 80 insiders - including Neil Kinnock, David Blunkett, and Alan Johnson. Join us for the launch at the Institute of Historical Research: bit.ly/3YJrBd9

Half term events this Thursday 29th May in #Skelmersdale

17 June next event 🚨🚨Eventbrite live below

Starmer Year One conference at Anglia Ruskin University was quite a triumph. Great speakers. Excellent discussion. Aim to trun this into a book. Watch this space.

Fascinating historical insight on Labour's industrial strategy last night. Huge thanks to stellar panel (r-l) Dan Corry, Nick Matthews, Nick Comfort, Laurence Turner MP, Kitty Ussher, LHG Chair Greg Rosen. Huge thanks to Laurence Turner for chairing brilliance & host Dianne Hayter

A Sea of Maiden fans at the London Stadium last night. What a homecoming for the Irons! 👏👏👏

Ahead of a BIG weekend in Manchester … ☀️ … we will set out later today our new ambitions for GM for the next decade and beyond …👇🏻 … look out for some small, medium and large sized announcements from 5pm. 👀

Ask Lancashire County Council to stop the wall-to-wall 425 houses on Glenburn Field and provide some community sports facilities instead as part of a mixed development. Sign the petition today ourwestlancashire.com/glenburn_petit…

#ICYMI on #TrunkNation: Eddie Trunk spoke with Nicko McBrain about his status with Iron Maiden, the progress he's making on his book, his relationship with new touring drummer Simon Dawson and so much more! Go check out the full interview NOW on the @siriusxm app!

'Play Pinball Wizard!!!' 🤣🤣🤣

Full Details of Reshuffle:

Why did the car industry fail in Britain but succeed in Germany? New research shows even the best industrial policies fail if they go against the grain of institutions and cannot build on existing strengths. ✍️ Angela Garcia Calvo & Bob Hancké LSE European Institute blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/202…

1978 Labour Conference. The decision is made to ban smoking - to the annoyance of Tony Benn and Ian Mikardo. Benn would later take what he called a “libertarian” stand against smoking bans, often peeling down “no smoking” stickers in train carriages and getting his pipe out.