Wow! Labour MP Clive Lewis is on 🔥 Epic rant criticising Labour's cuts to welfare If you watch one thing, watch this

I will not be voting for cuts to poorest people on welfare benefits. The Chancellor has other options. Picking on disabled people is not the right thing to do

This is Labour’s poll tax. Its tuition fees. It is - as Iraq was for Blair - the moral stain that will mark Starmer’s government and the party for years to come. Severely disabled people are going to be starved, isolated and degraded. No Labour MP who backs this will be forgiven.

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"On every door it was the same story — winter fuel and PIP." The view of a Labour campaigner in Runcorn

I'm not seeing people blaming Corbyn for Labour losing Runcorn. Have I missed it?

Labour's disastrous plight is very easy to understand. The people who run the party were good at one thing: smashing the left. Destroying, not building, is their skill. They have no vision for the country. They're in power because the Tories imploded, and no other reason.

Labour losing one of its safest seats shows what happens when a government cuts disability benefits and winter fuel payments, keeps the two-child benefit cap, and panders to anti-migrant rhetoric: Reform wins and always will. This isn’t the change people voted for and it shows.

Many calling for a return to 'Labour values'today. But it isn't moral principles that matter; what matter are material interests. We need a leadership that isn't aligned with landlords and banks.

Welcome to the parachuting in Luke Akehurst effect.

Understandably a lot of people are worried seeing Reform’s results, but as I learnt from running as an Independent, not all those voting for them buy into the anti-immigration narrative. I had people switch from Reform to me (!) because their main motivation was voting against

The key to defeating Reform is not adopting their positions on immigration, but offering progressive economic policies that will make lives easier, and doing this in a way that is *authentic* i.e. from people that actually understand the communities they seek to represent

This is great analysis from John McDonnell. Of course we all know Starmer won't change course. Sooner or later the unions are going to have accept that they either pull the plug on Starmer and McSweeney or look forward to 5 years of Reform in government. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Here's me and @profAfinlayson talking on a podcast. Come for the analysis of the UK local government election results; stay for the 300-year history of liberalism and its current, possibly terminal, crisis. culturepowerpolitics.org/2025/05/13/the…. You can listen online or subscribe.

Upcoming seminar ⬇️ Prof Jo Littler (Professor of Cultural, Media and Social Analysis Goldsmiths, University of London) will outline The Care Manifesto (co-written with members of the Care Collective) & explore corporate carewashing. 📅 4pm, 15 May In-person & online More: talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/eb86f…

"An island of strangers?" Immigrants are the ones keeping the NHS and care homes going. They wipe your arses, test your prostate & do your pap smears. They're not strangers. They know more about you than they'd like to." This & more on this week's pod. shows.acast.com/over-the-top-u…

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Interesting graphic in today’s Observer.

The Amiel & Melburn Annual lecture is happening this Wednesday! A stellar lineup discussing how the Left can resist the Rise of the Radical Right, hosted at Birkbeck, University of London Some free tickets still available 👇bbk.ac.uk/events/event/5…