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But Badenoch et al said we should be at the front in the war on Iran. Does the Telegraph think they got something wrong? 🤡
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While people feel the foundations of their lives are shaking, this deep crisis will continue | Clive Lewis The partisan debate since the Gorton and Denton byelection risks blinding us to the truth. People are rejecting wholesale the way our politics has developed, says Labour MP Clive Lewis

Legitimacy “will be rebuilt only through a visible rebalancing of power away from concentrated wealth back towards democratic control”

@labourlewis.bsky.social on the wider crisis in 🇬🇧 politics

#LVIPolitics #GortonandDenton #KeirStarmer #r4today #Labour

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Liberals should be less shy about saying what they stand for Failure to defend their ideology has created an intellectual vacuum on the American left

@jemima.bsky.social says liberals should be bolder in defending their ideas

Freedom of speech, religion & thought; autonomy of the individual; protection of the rights of minorities make our societies possible

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#r4today #skynews #UVIPolitics #liberalism

‘A very dangerous person’: alarm as Pete Hegseth revels in carnage of Iran war Critics say brash, bombastic Fox News host out of his depth to guide US military through murky new Middle East conflict

"Hegseth’s puerile displays on TV are aimed at sating Trump’s desire for a warmonger worthy of the manosphere"

David Smith in @us.theguardian.com on Pete Hegseth & the Iran V USA war

#Hegseth #Trump #IranIsraelUSWar #r4today #UVIPolitics

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“ Keir Starmer’s U-turns are becoming much more decisive and authoritative”

“HMS Dragon: A replacement bus service is in operation”

Matt continues 🥊& 😂😂commentary on 🇬🇧 place in 🇺🇸 🇮🇷 #IranIsraelUSWar

#Trump #IranWar #IranvsIsrael #KeirStarmer #HMSDragon #r4today #skynews

The Times has finally figured out why men die younger than women - it’s the nagging apparently! 😂😂🤦‍♂️👷‍♂️

#r4today #skynews

Suddenly the party of free speech, er, doesn’t want free speech🤦‍♂️🤔

#ReformUK #NigelFarage #r4today #SkyNews #LVIPolitics #SeneddElections #Election2026

“Is it really necessary to panic by petrol? We have an electric car!”

#IranWar #Trump #r4today #skynews

Labour is stubborn in defeat because it knows this: we face the belated end of the political 20th century | John Harris In Gorton and Denton, I heard again and again that people wanted seismic political change – Labour and the Tories are no longer part of that conversation, says Guardian columnist John Harris

@johnharris1969.bsky.social wonders at #KeirStarmer's peevish #GortonAndDenton response: lauding #ReformUK supporters as 'hero voters' yet slamming Greens as extremists

Tension btw Westminster & real world cannot be sustained much longer

#LVIPolitics #r4today

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Libby Purves worries the Green manifesto lacks coherence or seriousness

Well, maybe

That’s the flaw (or joy) in populism: simple slogans for complex problems, not coherent detail

Please make the same criticism of Reform!!

#GreenParty #HannahSpencer #ReformUK #LVIPolitics #r4today

But what’s next?

Peter Brookes asks the key Q about Trump & Netanyahu’s attack on Iran & the death of Khamenei

Do they, or Iranians, have an answer?

#EpicFury #Khamenei #Trump #IranWar #r4today #skynews

It was a wonderful evening and a really good launch event for this year’s Festival, thank you Tim.

Wonderful to welcome @timminshall.bsky.social to St Peters York to launch York Literature Festival 2026

A fascinating evening explaining how “Your Life Is Manufactured” discussing big Q well beyond engineering, inc geo politics, the environment & our human nature as consumers!

#YLF #StPetersYork

President Trump as well as Israel also now saying Khamenei is dead

#Trump #Khamenei #Khameneidead #Iran #IranWar

Almost as bad as the Teach First message: teach as a sort of gap year, then get a proper job! #education #teacher

Also "turn to teaching", kind of denigrates the value and importance of teachers and their dedication to the profession.

#r4today

Peter Brookes on Keir Starmer’s reaction as Gorton & Denton goes Green 😂😂

#GortonAndDenton #HannahSpencer #r4today #LVIPolitics #MattGoodwin #GreenParty #KeirStarmer #Labour #skynews #GortonandDentonByElection

“Working hard used to get you a house, a nice life. What does working hard get you now?”

@frasernellson.bsky.social on the power of #HannahSpencer asking the big Q & winning the #GortonandDentonByElection

#r4today #KeirStarmer #NigelFarage #LVIPolitics

Wish 📰 would stop printing Teach Now press releases⬇️, implying a trickle of older entrants (cushioned by decades of 💰salaries) will solve teaching’s recruitment & retention crisis

Cover the burnout, pay cuts & workload crises driving career teachers out! #r4today @danielkebedeneu.bsky.social

Graceless & mistaken of Reform to blame the 4000 #GortonAndDenton loss on sectarianism - but it plays to their ➗populism so 🤷

But if Labour comfort themselves their loss is mainly down to Muslim 🗳️it’ll slow the changes they need to make

#HannahSpencer #r4today #LVIPolitics

Israel launches attack on Iran as explosions heard in Tehran Blasts heard in capital as Israel declares state of emergency in anticipation of retaliatory missile strikes

An imperial President at war

It’s started: the US & Israel attack Iran

The goal: end the nuclear programme once & for all AND regime change?

#Iran #IranRevoIution2026 #Trump #r4today #UVIPolitics

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Yes, that was my experience growing up as one of four children in a pleasant market town, one parent in a professional middle class job and the other at home. They weren't burdened by impossible housing costs or debt either.

“Working hard used to get you a house, a nice life. What does working hard get you now?”

The killer Q from  Hannah Spencer which will resonate with everyone under 40 & chill the blood of Keir Starmer & Kemi Badenoch

The Q for #GE2029

#GortonAndDenton #HannahSpencer #r4today #LVIPolitics

Greens🥇win first ever HoC by-election comfortably, 47% of the vote, 4000 majority, defeating Reform🥈& pushing Labour into🥉

Keir Starmer threatened by insurgents on left & right

#GortonAndDenton #HannahSpencer #r4today #LVIPolitics

note how the Tories and Libs Dems weren’t even on the pitch in Gorton

Caerphilly, Gorton & Denton: both by elections saw the anti-Reform vote combine to win

What does this mean for #ReformUK & tactical voting #GE2029?

Worrying for Labour & Conservatives that it’s Plaid & Greens who are the beneficiaries

#GortonAndDenton #r4today #LVIPolitics

She doesn’t like any of them?

Which is odd as there’s quite a range - 11 candidates I think!

“Can I order off menu?”

Matt on today’s Gorton & Denton by-election 😮🤦‍♂️😂😂

#GortonandDentonByElection #HannahSpencer #MattGoodwin #AngelikiStogia #r4today #ReformUK #GreenParty #Labour

Why the longest-ever State of the Union address was the most inconsequential Amid Trump’s lies and xenophobic rants, people struggling to pay bills and make ends meet are unlikely to be moved

@us.theguardian.com's David Smith on Trump's #SOTU2026: the protests, the poison, the alt reality & why despite being the longest it was one of the most inconsequential

#Trump #StateOfTheUnion #SOTU #r4today #UVIPolitics

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Labour’s Send reforms get this right: disabled children in mainstream schools is transformative for everyone | Frances Ryan It doesn’t fit neatly on a Treasury spreadsheet, but there is huge value in disabled and non-disabled pupils learning together, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

"The private sector is making tidy profits from taxpayers without improving outcomes for already disadvantaged disabled children"

Powerful piece by @francesryan.bsky.social on Labour's SEND reforms

#r4today #SEND #education #Labour

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