Great read on the 2016 referendum, its aftermath and where it all went wrong.
06.03.2026 17:02
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Great read on the 2016 referendum, its aftermath and where it all went wrong.
Free to read on Substack: my, let’s say still quite furious, review of @morganj0nes.bsky.social’s book on the People’s Vote campaign.
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Just wanted you guys to see “Riding in a golf cart fatly”
Great pithy summary of my book here from Aveek !
This will be brilliant
honestly yes now that I have one im tempted by a butter dish, maybe some of the green pattern one. eBay such a dangerous place
"all but 4"
heading towards what @boosterhooch.bsky.social has long predicted to be my final form: one of those people who gets profiled in the guardian for pretending to live in the 1970s
before lent i became briefly addicted to ebay and bought a hornsea teaset for £30 before making myself swear off the site til Easter. good overall though
I didn't realise that, I'm not sure Rob did either. I'll go away and have a think.
What's the book like? Do you want to come to a whole event on it? I think this review by @rostaylor.bsky.social should give you an excellent idea of the answers!
www.thenewworld.co.uk/ros-taylor-o...
It’s personal: I reviewed @morganj0nes.bsky.social’s book about the failed campaign for a second referendum for @thenewworldmag.bsky.social.
www.thenewworld.co.uk/ros-taylor-o...
Really delighted to be having this event at QMUL with such an excellent panel!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/no-second-...
Why did the People's Vote campaign fail? Could Brexit have been stopped? What lessons can be learned?
Join us on 19 March to launch @morganj0nes.bsky.social's new book: "No Second Chances: The Inside Story of the Campaign for a Second Referendum".
All welcome!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/no-second-...
this is soooo nice !!
David's piece is brilliant in highlighting the stakes involved in the "deliverism" debate - the potential implications for policymaking and democratic accountability are pretty profound (and this often seems underappreciated)
What is "deliverism"? Is it dead? And what would its death mean for progressive politics?
This essay (kindly published by @samfr.bsky.social) is my attempt to trace five years of trans-Atlantic debates, to set out what I see as the stakes, and to analyse where these arguments have now gotten to:
I can imagine !
Nice to be reviewed in ConHome (where, and I had never noticed this before, it is absolutely feral below the line. Interesting stuff!)
conservativehome.com/2026/02/27/h...
Every time the sun comes out, I sit in it and smile and then I think of this @morganj0nes.bsky.social tweet. It's a big leaf day.
you don’t hear about the softlord anymore. But the big leaf ? Eternal seemingly
genuinely my most enduring work
This policy will cause immense harm, making it harder for refugees to integrate into our communities and find work, as they will be living under constant threat of removal.
Anyone can see how destabilising and deeply counterproductive this decision is. [2/2]
I am appalled that the government has scrapped permanent refugee status for those seeking safety in the UK.
From today, refugees entering the country will face reviews every 30 months and be forced to return if their country is deemed “safe”. [1/2]
yes this one!
apropos of little but: there was a really good article from a few years ago about how old Simpsons was a common language and actually I increasingly find drill tweets playing this kind of role as well
I wrote this in May 2024. All of this has been very predictable for a very long time.
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Femi, mate, buy some bednets. You'd save more lives in expectation, and the risk of assassination is negligible
(From @morganj0nes.bsky.social book on the anti-Brexit campaigns)
"I had bullets through my door and I was attacked in the street, but broadly it was great"
MPs are another species