Gerry Hassan

Those fearless advocates of free speech & vanguard warriors against cancel-culture: @spikedonline have blocked me. Goodbye to the tiresome & cliche ridden reactionary drivel from the likes of Brendan O'Neill & others. https://t.co/PdHMEuXtzR

Tories like Robert Jenrick really think we are all fools. The sky high levels of rent in London & elsewhere are NOTHING to do with immigration. Thatcher sold off two million council homes at bargain basement prices. And greedy landlords like Jenrick own multiple properties. https://t.co/aLqs9Reycu

Time is running out for Kemi Badenoch: "Kemi’s polling is in Liz Truss territory", says a shadow minister. "There is now no precedent for it." A senior Tory concludes: "She seems to be auditioning to be a Spectator columnist" telling this to @spectator https://t.co/dBlOJy2jnH

The Reaganite-Trump-Trussonomic-Faragist line that "tax cuts will pay for themselves" is a straight out lie. The evidence in the US is that Reagan, Bush II & Trump massively increased the US deficit with unfunded tax cuts. HT @JustinWolfers https://t.co/a9R7QTBFn3

Kemi Badenoch taking the right's cultural wars too far. Or maybe the end days of her leadership call for desperate action. Note: this is a real image taken today at an army barracks in Essex. https://t.co/ezybOncIcJ

It is official. The meaning of the English language has been devalued & debased. "Terror offence."

The Blair-Brown constitutional reforms clearly weakened & limited the power of the ancien regime & absolutism. But they did not kill it off completely or make a new settlement. Hence the attempt at retrenchment & reasserting the political centre & a new absolutism across the UK.

Both sides of the Tweed @Dr_W_E_Bulmer

I often agree with my Tory friends that the Blair-Brown reforms were the beginning of the end. The difference is that they think these reforms were the beginning of the end because they went too far, whereas I think the fatal problem is that they did not go nearly far enough.

Maybe the UK mainstream media can now challenge the outright lies & disinformation of Israeli state apologists when they deny the killing sprees of the IDF. https://t.co/HW7iACQeEL

Another new low for the Republican Party. A House of Rep Congressman calls on a political opponent to be denaturalised & deported from the US (after he won a Mayoral primary). @RepOgles: in the racist, xenophobic, demonising gutter with the rest of his party. https://t.co/pu0QK0jmXB

Keir Starmer admits he got it wrong on the "island of strangers" comment. This is to be welcomed. He admits that as PM he gave a speech he had barely read due to the arson attack. There is a real human dimension here; question is do people want that from leaders?

Patrick Maguire @patrickkmaguire

In a long, reflective interview with @TomBaldwin66 on his first year in office, Keir Starmer says of his "island of strangers" line on immigration: "I deeply regret using it." Adds he hadn't read the speech properly as it came only hours after an arson attack on his family home. https://t.co/8cR5p39sgp

The real meaning of Taking Back Control. An unreformed, undemocratic, rotten political centre attempting to reassert unchecked parliamentary sovereignty & absolutism over the UK.

Tom James @TACJ

The Cominic Dummings idea of doubling down on the Crown, centralising power, abolishing judicial review, and abolishing the permanent civil service will just make things worse.

A Labour love-in. Ed Balls interviews his former Labour ministerial colleague, Douglas Alexander. #GMB reducing itself to a Labour equivalent of GB News.

Good Morning Britain @GMB

'The government said these welfare reforms would lead to a rise in poverty,' says @edballs. He questions Trade Minister Douglas Alexander as Sir Keir Starmer faces political backlash over his welfare reforms. https://t.co/63HzR0AcBf

RT @GerryHassan: #BBC Question Time coming from St. Andrews tonight. Five person panel including Thomas Kerr, Reform councillor for Glasgow…

Tony Blair hitting the nail on the head with Brexit. Brexit is the core problem with Brexit.

Farrukh @implausibleblog

Tony Blair basically saying, 'None of the Prime Ministers who have tried to make Brexit succeed have succeeded in making it succeed" Concluding that, 'Brexit is not likely to succeed' https://t.co/k891AqlU97

Pensioners are not paid "benefits". They are not paid welfare or social security. They are paid a pension. If the UK is ever to repair its broken social contract we need to get language correct. And not describe everything in the language of the anti-state right-wing.

Sarah Vine comes over completely self-obsessed & lacking thought for others & the consequences of her actions. Brexit for her seems all about herself: her & Michael Gove; Michael, her, David & Samantha Cameron. And I have sadly read her book; thats the impression of the book.

Channel 4 News @Channel4News

'If Brexit hadn't happened, I think we probably wouldn't have divorced.' Columnist Sarah Vine talks to @krishgm on the latest episode of The Fourcast about how politics and the Brexit vote 'derailed her life' and her marriage to Michael Gove. https://t.co/MN8MNu15lx

Labour isn't Working. Resolution Foundation predictions for this UK Parliament show a minuscule rise in living standards overall, wider inequality & the poor taking the biggest hit. If this is the case: what is the point of this Labour Government? #c4News https://t.co/2reib0Y3bp