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Important context when assessing the independence of an “internal investigation”Reform’s investigation was led by Adam Richardson. He is a former UKIP member, European election candidate and Party Secretary, who acted for Nigel Farage in an IPSO complaint as far back as 2015.

This is a positive development, full stop. Anti-racism norms matter, elite cues on anti-racism norms matter, a broad political consensus on anti-racism norms matter so a strong signal from the leader of a party which has been blurring red lines lately is good news.

HMRC opened probe into Man City’s tax affairs in 2018 ft.trib.al/j8RrZng

Labour at 30% in our latest poll, the highest we've seen since December 2024. A six-point lead over Reform and the third lead outside the margin of error since Andy Burnham became PM. The Budget later this month is clearly the next test.

"There is no political figure in Britain that gets a better press than Kemi Badenoch right now. "The Tory press are manifesting a Tory recovery. They're desperate for it to happen," says @lewis_goodall. Is a Badenoch bounce real, or has the right wing media made it all up?

The meaning of the phrase Jews Don’t Count is often misunderstood. It means: as a vulnerable minority. A minority that has suffered, like all minorities, extreme violence and discrimination. The assumption remains, despite history, that Jews are too powerful really to be seen in that way. Drawing attention to Jewish suffering is seen as only another example of their power, of Jews' ability to highlight their own suffering at the expense of others. Jews are not granted specificity in suffering: it must always be compared to the suffering of others, and found wanting. And if you want to see that in action, have a look at some of the responses on here - or no doubt, below this message - to the various attempts to commemorate one acute example of Jewish suffering, that took place three years ago today.

I’m shocked, shocked.

To be clear, we're going straight back to Brexit chaos if the Conservatives or Reform are in power, because of their commitment to withdraw from the ECHR, which would almost certainly mean parts of the TCA suspended and huge US diplomatic pressure. ft.com/content/f923e23b-423a…

Key BBC appointment. Three tests: Trust depends on news judgment ie what is important, not what will go viral. Recruiting and retaining talent, the lifeblood of all news organisations. Restoring morale and arresting dangerous narrative of BBC decline. Good luck @racheljupp

Brendan O'Neill sums it up

A key point which few have noticed yet... Tory voters have already shifted a lot. Polling shows they back Burnham's pledge to consider closer relations. And a third back joining again. This is a major problem for Badenoch's supposed "recapture the centre" strategy.

BREAKING: Labour has recorded highest level of support since January 2025 in wake of Andy Burnham’s first conference speech as prime minister, a YouGov poll has found It now has a five point lead over Reform UK. It suggests that Burnham is successfully squeezing voters on the left, with support for both Lib Dems and Greens down compared to before he took power Labour 27 (+3) Reform 22 (-3) Conservative 20 (+1) Lib Dem 11 (-1) Green 11 (n/c)

🚨 This is the statistic Britain should be talking about 👏 @dsmitheconomics Real GDP per head has risen just 9% in 18 years. In the previous 18 years, it rose 43%. Brexit did not cause the whole of Britain’s growth problem 👉 the financial crisis came first. But we responded with damaging austerity and then chose to erect new barriers with our largest neighbouring market precisely when our economy could least afford another structural shock. Now we are paying the price for years of weak investment, weak productivity and strategic complacency. You don’t fix a growth crisis with austerity and by making trade harder.

The Tory Bayeux Tapestry is very funny and a great skewering of most of the main characters, apart from Angela Rayner who looks absolutely iconic in every image

Well, they aren’t. They are four points below 2024 in the polls and their record in local and devolved elections this year was dire.

It will never stop amazing me that people who consider themselves pro refugee, pro immigrant and general Pro Good Guys Of the Left sneeringly describe the half-dead Holocaust survivors who went to Israel after having been so failed by Europe as “settler colonialists”

On 4 October 1936, thousands stood together to stop British fascists marching through London’s Jewish East End.   Jewish residents, communists, trade unionists and anti-fascists blocked streets and built barricades. The march was called off. It became known as The Battle of Cable Street.

RT @b_judah: The public are way ahead of the political class on this question. Only 2.7% think a Brexit was a great success and only 9.9% t…

RT @MayorofLondon: 90 years ago today, Oswald Mosley and his Blackshirts attempted to march through and intimidate a predominantly Jewish a…