#Burnham hires #JoshSimon's Commons office staff
The #NewStatesman's #AilbheRea is no leftie. But I rate her highly for her contacts in the #LabourParty, and her deep thinking on the dynamics of the PLP. So her report on the office staff is very credible. https://youtu.be/Q9XBmQZ8MMg
It's also appalling. Andy Burnham should be keeping well clear of the people recuited by Josh Simon, whose #LabourTogether record sound like criminality.
The #NewStatesman magazine has for ~30 years been firmly #Blairite. But it's still useful for observers of that tribe.
A few weeks ago, NS editor Tom McTague joined the #Starmer-must-go camp. Now the NS podcast team tiptoes reverentially sround Andy #Burnham in #Makerfield. https://youtu.be/F9mJJslST9k
Like polite agnostics in a church, they don't quite accept Burnham as the messiah, but they don't reject him. They carefully avoid offence to his disciples. Bets are hedged.
New polling of Greater Manchester residents, exclusive to the #NewStatesman, shows widespread public opposition to Labour’s #NationalExecutiveCommittee decision to prevent the region’s mayor from standing!
#AndyBurnham #KeirStarmer #GortonAndDentonByElection #UKLabour
No surprise that the #UK Information Commissioner’s Office (#ICO) sees possible criminal fraud in #ZarahSultana's launch of a #YourParty membership system.
But why has #ICO not directly notified the police? There is great #popcorn potential in #Corbyn having to give evidence against the renegade #Sultana. But crime on this scale should be investigated regardless of internal politics. #ukpol
Report from #TheNewStatesman https://archive.is/hnASe / #NewStatesman https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-politics/2026/01/your-party-advised-to-refer-unauthorised-membership-launch-to-police
The grotesquely belated UK royal defenestration of #exPrince Andrew is too little too late. Even the soggy Starmerite #NewStatesman is now calling for an end to the monarchy.
But not yet. The NS is passive, and wants #PrinceWilliam to voluntarily quit when his father dies. #GoodLuckWithThat 🙄
Mike Small says it's time for the #ScottishIndependence movement to put a #ScottishRepublic at the centre of the campaign for an independent #Scotland👍 #NoKings
https://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/10/30/the-crisis-of-the-british-monarchy/
#AndrewMarr has abandoned #KeirStarmer, but not his misreading. "Starmer, I insist, is a decent man with strong public values." https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-politics/2025/10/i-thought-labour-would-fix-everything-i-was-wrong
#Starmer is just a frontman for #MorganMcSweeney, whose goal is only to destroy the left. Starmer lied his way to #LabourParty leader, purged the left, but brought no vision, won #GE24 only by a quirk of #FPTP, and smashes liberties.
As political editor of The #NewStatesman, Marr has projected onto Starmer talents which nobody else sees.
I used to be a fan of the #OhGodWhatNow, #PoliticsJoe and the #NewStatesman podcasts. But it has been fucking WILD how out of touch they are when it comes to Israel/Palestine.
So called progressives parroting hasbara like they work for Shin Bet.
I noticed it months ago but at this point it’s basically inexcusable. Unsubscribing from that shit ASAP.
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