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Aug 14, 2019 • 3 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
Back in March I was told by a source that Len McCluskey was mulling backing May's deal in order to give cover to wavering Labour MPs to do the same. I reported it and McCluskey angrily denied it. Don't think my source was wrong.

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Mar 10
With every passing day, the decision of Starmer and his cabinet a) not to join the Iranian war b) to delay access to bases looks wiser and wiser. Trump’s press conference last night shows he has no real idea what the objectives are and its duration is arbitrary. And if it does endure the economic consequences may prove ruinous, something he would have had to own if he had backed the effort.
The truth is for all of the bluster and fury of a fair bit of the press, politically Starmer ended up in precisely the right place. Domestically he indicated to a highly sceptical public he was firmly against. At the same time, the UK gave the US enough not to destroy relations. Through luck and/or judgment, a crisis so far managed well.
Wrote about this at the end of last week.
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Jan 20
Trump currently engaged in a very long stream of consciousness at the White House podium, marking the anniversary of his inauguration.
"We've got plenty of time"
The founding fathers got lots of stuff wrong in the constitution. But a minimum age for president, rather than a maximum, is right up there.
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Nov 5, 2025
In a year of disaster, last night was finally a very good night for Democrats

-sweeping the board in Virginia and New Jersey (two states where they went seriously backwards in 24)
-near supermajority in Virginia General Assembly
-Mamdani win
-California redistricting win

Foreshadows potential blue wave in midterms
Mamdani will get all the attention (he’s an extraordinary and charismatic candidate) but the VA/NJ results probably more significNt for the dynamics of US politics over next year

Shows once again that in off presidential years Dem base is now more committed than GOP’s. There has been much pessimism for Democrats about even taking back the House. With the California redistricting win and clear signs of Trump backlash, Dems will find fundraising and candidate recruitment easier.
Newsom emerges a big winner. He gambled on a redistricting strategy, showed some fight and won. The party will remember and be grateful. The prospect of a Dem House and even competitive Senate election will anger and incentivise Trump to play dirtier in run up to midterms. He’s been used to complete power in his second term and will abhor the idea of a Dem Congress coming after him again. Who knows what he’ll try and pull off to keep voters away from polling stations.
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Sep 26, 2025
Anyone covering/interested in digital ID would be well advised to look for insight on it anywhere but X. Yet another example of where this site/online right opinion is fevered/way off the beat with the public.

Guess who need digital/reliable ID most? Those in poverty.
Right now we have the absurdity of compulsory ID for voting without a hassle free ID system. Madness and unfair to those least likely to have passports/driving licences etc- again, poorer people, younger people etc.
I’m well aware of how hopeless government IT systems/data protection can be. Earlier in the year I helped uncover one of the biggest data loss scandals in UK govt history. But the digital economy/world is a fact, and govts have to respond. Right now it’s a wild west, with the population left to fend for themselves, usually handing vast amounts of data over to unknowable massive Silicon Valley companies. At least the UK govt and what they do with our data is accountable to us, as citizens.
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Aug 29, 2025
Polling from @Moreincommon_ on Lucy Connolly

More than half think her sentence was too lenient or about right. Only a third that it was too harsh.

Only 18% think politicians should associate themselves her, while 51% think they should actively distance themselves from her.
Turns out the preoccupations of the online right don’t mirror the way population thinks at large- who knew!
Conservative voters are more than twice as likely to say politicians should create distance between themselves and Connolly (48 per cent), than associate themselves with her (22 per cent).
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Aug 21, 2025
Globally, we're moving back towards an aristocracy of wealth, more akin to the 19th century than the 20th.

Anyone who cares about social justice, about moving away from higher and higher levels of taxation on work, should be very concerned. Time to do something about it.
Some uncomfortable facts

-The top 10% of UK households hold 57% of all wealth, while the bottom 50% own less than 5%.

-The top 1% alone controls 23% of wealth

-Inheritances are soaring: projected to double from £100bn a year (2020) to £200bn by 2040

-Half of all wealth in the UK is now inherited rather than earned, up from about 25% in the 1970s.

-Children of the wealthiest 20% are seven times more likely to remain in the top 20% as adults than children from the poorest fifth

Meanwhile working people are paying higher and higher taxes on their labour. We need to shift towards taxation on inherited wealth and a reduction in taxes on work and consumption. Both for moral and economic reasons. Let's allow people to keep more on what they do NOT what they inherit.
Lots of people accusing me of being communist. No- it's a liberal argument. On this I'll defer to John Stuart Mill, who wrote this in 1848 and would be dismissed as a "commie wanker" today:

"The principle of inheritance… is chiefly grounded on the duty of parents to provide for their children. But that duty has certain limits; and when these are exceeded, the right ceases. Beyond a certain point, to permit the transmission of enormous fortunes is nothing less than to establish a monopoly of wealth, and is wholly opposed to the spirit of a free and equal society.”

I'm being intentionally provocative when I propose a 100% rate. But I certainly think the rate should be much higher than it is today. It has been before in British history (go back to the 1920s) and in other societies- see Japan, S Korea.
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