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The armchair critics, dug into their opposing positions, seize on any individual incident to support their sweeping conclusions about the motivations and performance of 140,000 officers. So are the police now “woke”, or racist? It is hard to keep up as the pendulum wildly swings.
"Watching the body-worn camera footage as a former officer, I cannot understand why the officers were not quicker in treating this as a medical emergency, but the ensuing public debate has been woefully ill-informed." writes @Jonathan_Hinder
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"Watching the body-worn camera footage as a former officer, I cannot understand why the officers were not quicker in treating this as a medical emergency, but the ensuing public debate has been woefully ill-informed." writes @Jonathan_Hinder
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The long shadow of Tony Blair has once again cast itself over the Labour party.
Jonathan Rutherford writes the definitive response.
"What Labour politicians called progress, was experienced by many as the destruction of their way of life and of their country."
🔥New FotL issue with intro from Tobias Phibbs on Arsenal, and response to Blair by Jonathan Rutherford🔥
Includes:
@TomMcTague on 1840s
@DantonsHead and @MarkMcvitie on 🇬🇧's economic future
@jamesbreckwoldt on Manchester
Sam Kriss on AI writing
@skulthorp on the English
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What unites Blue Labour and the soft left?
What unites the old right and the Socialist Campaign Group?
I've written for @NewStatesman on how reindustrialisation can unite Labour - and what that means for 'Manchesterism'.
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@DespoticInroad@martha_dacombe@dai_alectic@Jackpeacock21 And finally, Jason Cowley writes the PM's political obituary: "Increasingly when he speaks nothing occurs to me. He repeats his key words – change, renewal, working people, hardworking people – but you have the sense that no one is listening. There is only the echo of the void."
Dispatches from a discontented country.
First up, @_SiobhanCT on the two faces of Margate.
"Someone tried to open a jazz bar opposite Elsewhere a few years ago. It closed within a year. You can’t put a jazz bar in a Shoe Zone, we said. Now they’ve put the Greens in Margate."
Last week, the country expressed itself at the ballot box. While Westminster once again obsesses about Westminster, we are publishing dispatches from across the country - from Margate to Liverpool, South Wales to Newcastle, Bromley to Blackburn.
Read below.
Last week, the country expressed itself at the ballot box. While Westminster once again obsesses about Westminster, we are publishing dispatches from across the country - from Margate to Liverpool, South Wales to Newcastle, Bromley to Blackburn.
Read below.
2K Followers 964 FollowingWriter at TLDR News ✍️ covering UK, EU & global politics | words in @guardian, @ft, @HUCKmagazine, @djmag, @LondonersNews • 🇲🇳🇬🇧
9K Followers 1K FollowingWriter. 'The Progress Trap' (2025) https://t.co/O8msNTYAk9 and The Tribe: the liberal-left and system of diversity (2018) https://t.co/t6erbtL3Sk
7K Followers 4K FollowingPodcasting and writing about post-war British politics. Search 'Since Attlee & Churchill' wherever you get your podcasts. Ramsden Fellow at @mileendinst.
1K Followers 2K FollowingEconomist. Author at Future North - link below. Devolution Policy, @thinklabour. Posts about policy, politics and the Pennines (and beyond).
11K Followers 7K FollowingChief leader writer @guardian. Trustee @gdn_foundation. RT not an endorsement. Also @stillwatersrandeep.bsky Public Key: https://t.co/KXsvl52nH6…
2K Followers 6K FollowingMarxist. Interested in Kautskyism before he became a renegade, Eurocommunism before it liquidated, and a democratic anti-monopoly alliance before it is too late
66K Followers 6K FollowingDirector of Education @nmmarking, an ed tech start-up. Author of 7 Myths about Education, Making Good Progress & Teachers vs Tech. West Ham & cricket fan.
391 Followers 3K FollowingLego inspired Neyland Cricket Club nutjob. Husband to a wonderful wife, father to 2 fantastic kids, has a cat called Felix Legion.
38K Followers 2K FollowingI came alone, and I go as a stranger. author of short fiction, articles and MANCHUKUO 1987, a novel. links to all of that below. not actually japanese
22K Followers 4K FollowingAssistant Professor, Spelman College. Author of The Political Right and Equality and The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism. @edgelordpod.
60K Followers 3K Following🌹 Labour MP for Earley and Woodley, covering Shinfield & Whitley | 📈 Member @CommonsTreasury | Please email if you'd like a reply: [email protected]
2K Followers 964 FollowingWriter at TLDR News ✍️ covering UK, EU & global politics | words in @guardian, @ft, @HUCKmagazine, @djmag, @LondonersNews • 🇲🇳🇬🇧
5K Followers 82 FollowingThe Ministry of Detail // Fixing the small stuff
Quibble is a non-profit campaign to fix overlooked public interest and consumer issues
3K Followers 2K FollowingGeorgina Capel Associates Ltd is one of the UK's leading literary & broadcast agencies. We represent a wide variety of high profile & up-and-coming authors.
32K Followers 1K FollowingNew book: Not So Black and White (Hurst). “Unsettles the pieties of contemporary race-talk” - Paul Gilroy. “A magical accomplishment” - Remi Adekoya.
7K Followers 166 FollowingWork on geotectonics + emerging tech + China. Ian Dunross disciple. Care deeply about Britain’s place in the world. Great Man Theory maximalist.
1.1M Followers 510 FollowingWe are the lead UK government department for immigration & passports, crime & policing, homeland security and protecting vulnerable people.
9K Followers 4K FollowingFounder & Director @cmmonwealth / Planet on Fire out now / Owning the Future w/@adribuller out Aug ‘22 https://t.co/3JVyf8M09x…
24K Followers 7K FollowingAssistant Professor in the College of Social Studies at Wesleyan University; Running interview series @thenation; Views are my own—RTs ≠ endorsements
68K Followers 803 FollowingSenior Economist, Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (@wiiw_ac_at); macro, economic policy, public finance, political economy, meta-science.
6K Followers 182 FollowingHouse Magazine of the British New Right
Editors: @NigelForrester9, @HeracleanVision, @FrancisGaultier, @ScottGoetz_
Pitch: [email protected]
31K Followers 6K FollowingHousing & society correspondent @theipaper Orwell Prize finalist 2023, 24 & 25. Author of TENANTS & We Were Promised The Moon. Please send me your stories!
32K Followers 2K FollowingColumnist at The Times
Newsletter: Cultural Capital
Book: The New Dark Ages: The End of Reading and the Dawn of a Post-Literate Society.
797 Followers 804 FollowingLooking for a path out of modernity | Obsessed with 20th century | My wife approves of my politics but only some of my jokes | Teaches @ShalemCollege
8K Followers 7K FollowingHousing campaigner and founder of @FreeLeasehlders. Fighting property cartels for the people. Leaseholder with a story? [email protected]