'The narrative that has been pushed is not accurate'

Former Met Police Chief Superintendent Dal Babu spoke to #BBCBreakfast about how police treated antisemitism campaigner Gideon Falter during a pro-Palestinian demonstration in London

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I hope everyone under 30 will show their disgust at this blank refusal by both major parties to give our youth the joy of mobility in Europe. Craven surrender to a minority of ageing Europhobes.Sunak rejects offer of youth mobility scheme between EU and UK theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

'Incorrect' is when you misspell someone's name.

What Julia means is that on this particular occasion her attempt to use a horrible incident thousands of miles away about which she (and us) knew nothing in order to stir up racism, hatred and division backfired.

Enough of this folly. Time to go back to post-war social-democratic mixed economy consensus. Private sector for making consumer goods, clothing, cars, electronics, soda, mayonnaise. Public sector for public services, utilities, railways etc.

Yes, the arms that the West sold to Israel were used by Israel to launch an attack on an Iranian consulate in Syria which prompted a retaliatory attack from Iran on Israel which has brought the entire region to the precipice of all-out war.

So, yeah, stop selling arms to Israel.

Why is making UK homes more efficient so difficult? ft.com/content/818942… via @ft For more on this read onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

'If Labour is serious about its climate commitments it will have to re-engage with its Green Deal agenda once in office.' Fred Steward and I set out a new transition politics. Derk Loorbach Ed Miliband Caroline Lucas @frankgeels Claire Spencer 🐙 Compass

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Great review of Jane Woddis' book on role of arts practitioners. One for David Edgar Dan Rebellato Writers Guild Foundation @woddisreviews

Fatih Birol at the International Energy Agency reminding us that the clean energy transition is progressing, even if not fast enough. ft.com/content/9ea056… via @ft

2022: a left-wing government sweep to power in Portugal, promising change.

To placate the right, they plan to mimic austerity for their first 2 years.

18 months in, the right sieze power in an early election.

A cautionary tale for UK Labour?

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There is no good reason why aid cannot reach Gaza by land today. The Israeli authorities have the ability to create conditions for safe and effective distribution of aid, but they are not doing so.

Why no place for Ben White, who has been outstanding this season? theguardian.com/football/2024/…

So when are they going to pay up for the mess they made of Birmingham's finances? How come they are getting off scot-free? ft.com/content/e4156a… via Financial Times

Without a radical programme and deep alliances, ⁦⁦The Labour Party⁩ fate could follow progressives in Portugal. Not just losing to the Right but letting in the Populist Right ⁦Compass⁩ theguardian.com/world/2024/mar…

Key insights into BCC's finances. Not all speakers it seems. theconversation.com/how-birmingham… via The Conversation

Superb piece by Andrew Rawnsley pointing the finger at the extremists within Tory ranks.

There was something very odd in the PM’s speech last night - something which infuses RE in the primary school curriculum too: the idea that everyone in this country is religious in one way or another, when we know from polls that over half the population is not religious. 1/7

Supported by Bannon then and Nick Griffin now. The far Right loves dangerous demagogues. Oppose the Israeli government's war on Palestine without succumbing to Galloway's populism.

My review of Zsuzsanna Szelenyi's insightful and important study of Viktor Orban and his increasingly influential ism is published in the latest LRB. Delighted to be sharing with Nicholas Spice on Coetzee, Richard Evans on Germany and Suzannah Clapp on Posy Simmonds.

These were my comments about Lee Anderson on Politics Live this lunchtime. Let’s just say I didn’t sit on the fence. “Is he Islamophobic? If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it’s probably a duck.”