Michael Goodier

Brexit, oil and bombs: The words that have defined UK elections since 1945 Guardian analysis of messaging in post-war Tory and Labour manifestos reveals shifting political focus

This was it - (if I'm honest one they put out cause I'd put in too much effort to not) www.theguardian.com/politics/art...

One of the most interesting things I found from researching a piece I did during the last election is manifestos used to be a lot shorter but also hold a lot more substance. I think they're at this point becoming a formality despite the constitutional benefits to putting actual policy in there

End of an era! Best of luck for wherever you are going next

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How rightwing rhetoric has risen sharply in the UK parliament – an exclusive visual analysis In the past five years, MPs’ attitudes in the House of Commons towards immigration have swung harder to the right than at almost any other time in the last century

Finally, it's out! We proved how rhetoric has become more hostile towards immigration in the UK, with @porcelinad.bsky.social @michaelsavage.bsky.social Garry Blight and the amazing Guardian data science team

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Minister under investigation over targeting of reporters makes late donation declaration Josh Simons failed to declare gifts from Labour donor within the stipulated 28 days of receiving them

NEW: Josh Simons, under investigation over his role in allegedly smearing journalists who had written about late donations to the thinktank he led, has made a late declaration of personal donations.

£2,500 donation from Trevor Chinn (who gave sums to Labour Together) declared a month late.

Could go either way but worth noting I think that the -25% target is compared to 2019 levels, and we'd already fallen 10% between then and FYE2024 according to Defra Family Food Survey (mainly cost of living I imagine)

Who's the billionaire behind London’s biggest mass eviction? He's the London philanthropist who says he's committed to solving homelessness. So why is Asif Aziz's Criterion Capital rushing to make hundreds of Londoners homeless in the coming weeks?

London’s “worst mass eviction in recent history” is underway; hundreds of households across London told to get out of their homes this week by the same landlord, ahead of the renters rights act. The landlord? Billionaire Asif Aziz’s Criterion Capital. www.londoncentric.media/p/asif-aziz-...

Labour minister falsely linked journalists to ‘pro-Kremlin’ network in emails to GCHQ Exclusive: Josh Simons pressed intelligence officials to investigate reporters, in emails described as ‘McCarthyite smear’

Exclusive: Josh Simons claimed to be “surprised” and “furious” at a PR agency’s work to investigate journalists on his behalf. He had been personally involved in naming them to British intelligence officials and falsely linking them to pro-Russian propaganda. w/ @dansabbagh.bsky.social

Is there anyone in the intelligence venn diagram of coca cola recipe and secret herbs and spices recipe as I have heard these are both secrets that mean knowledge keepers may not fly together

Labour 2024

“I’ve reviewed over 50 sticky toffee puddings” is an incredibly powerful way to begin a video

The truth about immigrants and sex crime Corrosive innuendo about asylum seekers is helping no one

My column in this week's @newstatesman1913.bsky.social, on bad data used in bad faith.

FOI-ing the stats myself, I didn't find a great deal of difference in sex offending rates: 5 per 10,000 Afghan men, 7 per 10,000 UK men:

Minister commissioned investigation of journalists looking into Labour thinktank Exclusive: Material gathered was personally given to Josh Simons when director of pro-Starmer thinktank, say sources

This is outrageous and the minister involved ought to resign. je suis @direthoughts.com

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Labour minister was provided with intelligence files on journalists Exclusive: Material gathered was personally given to Josh Simons when chair of pro-Starmer thinktank, say sources

Exclusive: Cabinet Office minister Josh Simons was provided with intelligence files gathered on journalists (including me) who had reported on Labour Together, the thinktank he chaired at the time (before he became an MP), sources say.

Know more about this story? Contact me, Signal: henrydyer.01

Peter Mandelson resigns from Lords after Epstein email leak scandal Former minister apparently shared confidential government emails with child sex offender and financier Peter Mandelson has resigned from the House of Lords after a series of scandalous emails came to light that linked him to the child sex offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein, including ones that apparently leaked confidential UK government communications. The move was announced by the speaker of the House of Lords. Continue reading...

Peter Mandelson resigns from Lords after Epstein email leak scandal

I have a mini deep fryer and have used it for falafel and arancini and tempura. I think it's safer than an old school chip pan because it controls the oil temp so doesn't overheat. Mainly stays in the cupboard though but if i'm cooking something fancy for people it might get used

The hidden cost of "deplaytion" Ban social media for kids all you like – but don't ignore their crap playgrounds

"Tick-box" playgrounds, rising numbers of "no ball games" signs, play curfews...

My column in this week's @newstatesman1913.bsky.social on "deplaytion" - inspired by the Chernobyl-like property developer-run playground on my street:

I feel your pain

Doom loop of decline: how struggling high streets fuel far-right sympathies in UK Retail accounts for 5% of the UK economy – but its visibility gives it an outsize influence on public perception

‘It’s soul destroying watching your local area turning to shit’

Doom loop of decline: how struggling high streets fuel far-right sympathies in UK - my analysis for the series -

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I wonder where it's all coming from?

couldn't have done it without it!

‘You’d be ashamed to bring someone here’: The struggling billionaire-owned high street that shows Reform’s road to No 10 Newton Aycliffe was meant to be a model town for a fairer postwar Britain. But unaffordable rents on a high street amounting to 0.12% of its property tycoon owner’s holdings have made it a symbol of d...

Britain's high streets will be one of the key electoral battlegrounds for months and years to come. Reform UK are making big advances in towns suffering the greatest high street decline.

Big piece from one multibillionaire-owned town centre in County Durham:

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‘You’d be ashamed to bring someone here’: The struggling billionaire-owned high street that shows Reform’s road to No 10 Newton Aycliffe was meant to be a model town for a fairer postwar Britain. But unaffordable rents on a high street amounting to 0.12% of its property tycoon owner’s holdings have made it a symbol of d...

Then Josh has done a read with a great visual element from Anna zooming in on Newton Aycliffe - where the majority of the town centre is owned by one holding company:

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Labour risks election wipeout unless it improves Britain’s high streets, study finds Decay of town centres a top issue among voters especially Reform UK supporters and is fuelling resentment against Westminster

That's alongside a piece with @joshhalliday.bsky.social, which combines our analysis of changing high streets with recent @drjennings.bsky.social polling data on people's perception of their local area, and what it might mean for politics

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How has your local high street changed since 2019? Check your postcode The makeup of Great Britain’s high streets has changed dramatically. See what the data says about where you live

New with @ajwl.bsky.social - how does your high street compare to the rest of the country and how has it changed since 2019?

Oh no three people have just seperately got on the overground sat near me and started playing tiktoks I thought I'd escaped honestly shoot me

Just got off a coach from Manchester where several people sitting in all directions from me were playing tiktoks and TV shows etc out loud for the duration. Feel like my brain has been dipped in acid