An amazing result; for Labour to gain the seat with the largest Jewish population, just four years after it was crushed, having lost the trust of most Jews thanks to antisemitism. So chuffed for my friend and Jewish Labour Movement vice-chair Sarah Sackman KC MP. She will be a brilliant MP.

Michelle Donelan gone: anyone working at a university will be celebrating that one.

Liz Truss is out!!!

Can I say how lovely it is to come on X and just see so much positivity and joy? Long may it continue!

Huge congratulations to Diane Abbott MP, who takes up the mantle as Mother of the House – the longest-standing woman MP. Diane is a trailblazer, first elected in 1987, and we look forward to working with her in her new position.

Live from Downing Street: Watch my first speech as Prime Minister x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Now record 264 women MPs! Chance to work cross party on women’s priorities.Fawcett Society will convene meeting for all women MPs enabling them to embark on process of setting up powerful Women’s Caucus. *Childcare, *violence against women, *equal pay. Now is the time for change!

This is so personal for me -It’s taken 14 years to see another Muslim woman take a seat at that Cabinet table- I’ve waited to see this moment and we got the best ❤️ So proud to see Shabana Mahmood MP become the first BAME Lord Chancellor and Justice Secretary Huge role - brilliant

Congratulations to Rachel Reeves, the UK's first woman Chancellor 👏 “To every young girl and woman reading this, let today show that there should be no limits on your ambitions.” We look forward to supporting her and seeing the positive impact she will make in this role 💪

Take it in. The first female chancellor. The first housing secretary who's actually lived in social housing. The first education secretary who was on free school meals. An energy secretary who actually believes in aggressively fighting climate change. Not a bad afternoon.

We are delighted to announnce the Call for Contributions for the Indigenous Nineteenth Century Book being put together with Victorian Diversities Deadline on August 30th

Everyone's timeline needs a cleanse and it doesn't get cleansier than Snoop Dogg dancing for a horse at the Olympics:

A thread - Now is the time to please check in on your Black, Brown and minority friends, family, neighbours and colleagues. In many parts of the country, they don’t feel safe.🧵

Amazing reporting from Tom Witherow: he tracked down the person who started the rumours that started these riots. She's a mother of three in her fifties who lives in a £1.5m house in Cheshire: thetimes.com/uk/crime/artic…

One of the first political events I went to was the counter-demo to a far right rally against the ‘Jewification’ of Golders Green and Finchley, back in 2015 Ten years on, it’s coming from the far left too The appearance has changed but the essence remains the same

Considered not going with the 8-year-old to Arsenal but it became one of the safest and joyous spaces for Black/brown people in London this evening. We fight racism by protest and policy, but we also need the everyday communal spaces of integration, racial difference and unity.

When I say Walthamstow is the house of love believe me the first time. Thank you to all who have kept our community safe this evening including police and public services and to every one of you who has shown solidarity in many ways to reveal who we are - honoured to be our MP.

Gaza protesters were disrupting Kamala Harris’s speech. Kamala: “You know what? If you want Donald Trump to win, then say that. Otherwise I’M SPEAKING” See, it’s very easy for politicians to stare these people down x.com/AdamJSmithGA/s…

This is a very powerful and important piece about the connections between misogyny and far right activism- when we look beyond stopping the violence of this week this analysis needs to be part of the national conversation as to how we defeat this hatred 👇theconversation.com/the-hypermascu…

VPR’s special issue “Race and Transnationalism” is hot off the press! Read guest editors Lars Atkin and Matt Poland’s introduction, “On Not Mastering Race and Transnationalism in Victorian Periodicals Studies,” here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/… Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (RSVP)