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recent bookmarks from petejGreens examining how party decides policy as membership triples under Zack Polanski | Green party | The Guardian2026-06-28T09:47:00+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jun/28/greens-examining-how-party-decides-policy-as-membership-triples-under-zack-polanski
petejUK politics GreenParty PolanskiZack democracy membership participation policy voting decisionMaking BurnhamAndy leadership LabourPartyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:185cbce384a6/The Green party is split between two factions – but there is a strategy that could bring them together | Joe Todd | The Guardian2026-05-18T10:42:55+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/may/18/green-party-factions-politics-zack-polanski-cost-of-living-price-controls
petejUK politics GreenParty factionalism PolanskiZack policy strategy radicalism attention hyperpolitics caution SpencerHannah Parliament alcohol MamdaniZohran MPs wages tax oil energy popularityhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:85fbf401e103/‘We need to think much bigger’: trade minister calls for greater ambition in UK-EU reset | Trade policy | The Guardian2026-03-20T15:49:11+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/mar/20/trade-minister-chris-bryant-uk-eu-reset-ambition
petejUK EU politics trade policy BryantChris SefcovicMaroshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:63785c7cc7a5/Starmer has no coherent social mobility plan, says top government adviser | Social mobility | The Guardian2025-12-22T08:05:46+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/dec/21/keir-starmer-lacks-coherent-social-mobility-plan-says-advisory-body-chair
petejUK politics government policy socialMobility StarmerKeir LabourParty SMC FrancisAlun poverty livingStandards MilburnAlanhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:4d93f6ac27cd/Pedro Sánchez: Europe’s response to war in Gaza has been a failure | Pedro Sánchez | The Guardian2025-09-03T14:46:28+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/03/sanchez-europes-response-to-war-in-gaza-has-been-a-failure
petejSpain politics SanchezPedro PSOE MiddleEast Israel Palestine Gaza war policy genocide Europe failure EU USA TrumpDonald defence spending NATO migration openness climateChangehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:4a028df68de8/Israel’s attack on hospital in Gaza may constitute a war crime on many fronts | Israel-Gaza war | The Guardian2025-08-26T14:01:23+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/25/israel-attack-gaza-hospital-may-constitute-war-on-many-fronts
petejMiddleEast Israel Palestine Gaza war NasserHospital airstrikes warCrimes IDF journalists hospitals deaths military policyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:add5b8f550af/Seven of Labour’s newest MPs look back on a ‘relentless’ first year | Labour | The Guardian2025-07-04T09:15:48+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jul/03/seven-of-labours-newest-mps-look-back-on-a-relentless-first-year
petejUK politics LabourParty government Starmerism policyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:851994a7504c/Poorly led, strategically inept and shorn of democracy. Now I truly fear for this Labour government | John McDonnell | The Guardian2025-07-03T11:27:55+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/02/labour-government-welfare-bill-democracy-party-election-john-mcdonnell
petejUK politics LabourParty StarmerKeir leadership welfare benefits cuts concessions disability Treasury polls policy democracy centralisation dissent control dctagged dc:creator=McDonnellJohnhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:1556db4fb536/The insidious doublespeak of Trump’s freedom of ‘choice’ | Donald Trump | The Guardian2025-06-16T19:18:06+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/may/11/trump-choice-freedom-restrictions
petejUSA politics TrumpDonald Trumpism freedomOfChoice authoritarianism consumerism capitalism history shopping choice liberty individualism democracy deregulation environment safety tariffs protectionism policy diversity climateChange Palestine ICE residency visas travel abortion votinghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:7db0a637add9/Foreign Office staff told to consider resigning after challenging UK policy on Gaza | Civil service | The Guardian2025-06-10T09:53:38+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jun/10/foreign-office-staff-told-to-consider-resigning-after-challenging-uk-policy-on-gaza
petejUK ForeignOffice CivilService MiddleEast Israel Gaza war armsTrade weapons warCrimes F-35 aircraft employment resignation RobbinsOliver DyerNick politics policyhttps://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:dd049f120700/Labour claims to be defending Britain from new threats, but its warfare state is steeped in old thinking | David Edgerton | The Guardian2025-06-04T10:12:13+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/04/labour-strategic-defence-review-uk-dividend
petejUK politics history defence review military spending foreignPolicy nationalism nostalgia welfareState policy dctagged dc:creator=EdgertonDavidhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:7cdbf0b2ffa3/No 10 delays child poverty strategy with tens of thousands more facing hardship | Poverty | The Guardian2025-05-24T09:29:37+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/may/23/no-10-delays-child-poverty-plan-despite-tens-of-thousands-more-hardship
petejUK government LabourParty policy children poverty welfare benefits UniversalCredit cap KendallLiz PhillipsonBridget StarmerKeir McSweeneyMorgan ReevesRachelhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:f4a3a3e12194/The white rural reckoning2025-05-21T08:27:26+00:00
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-white-rural-reckoning-waldman-schaller
petejUSA politics TrumpDonald Trumpism policy rural farming tariffs trade uncertainty DOGE cuts USAID deportation migrants labour coal mining health safety schools poverty childcare healthcare hospitals Medicaid subsidies NPR environment conservationhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:f2a48071ab9c/Keir Starmer is caught in yet another trap of his own making | Rafael Behr | The Guardian2025-05-14T18:36:57+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/14/keir-starmer-immigration-trap-of-his-own-making
petejUK politics StarmerKeir LabourParty government policy strategy purpose welfare benefits cuts immigration migration visas recruitment socialCare care healthcare dctagged dc:creator=BehrRafaelhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:a69e82da8d26/Reform Rising: On the Labour Collapse in Durham2025-05-03T11:02:34+00:00
https://tribunemag.co.uk/2025/05/reform-rising
petejUK politics localGovernment election North-East Durham RedWall deindustrialisation LabourParty ReformUK immigration DurhamCountyCouncil policy populism dctagged dc:creator=NivenAlexhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:04617a809005/Tariffs fallout: The US will struggle to take on Asia over chips - BBC News2025-04-18T16:03:20+00:00
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd9ljwgg9y0o
petejUSA China trade tariffs tradeWar technology semiconductors manufacturing Taiwan Japan SouthKorea Vietnam subsidies policy TSMC Samsung skills immigration visas India Apple exemptions CookTim Nvidia licensing exports protectionism collaborationhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:c3ff20291d5e/Hundreds of asylum seekers to be removed from hotels in England | Immigration and asylum | The Guardian2025-04-11T08:55:14+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/apr/11/hundreds-of-asylum-seekers-to-be-removed-from-hotels-in-england
petejUK England asylum refugees accommodation hotels Datchet farRight harassment costs government policyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:b70fc6b78eb2/Chartbook 361 Flooding the zone: The first 54 days of the second Trump administration and the end of the world as (we thought) we knew it.2025-03-16T10:14:04+00:00
https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-361-flooding-the-zone-the
petejUSA politics economics TrumpDonald Trumpism policy PettisMichael nationalism BannonStephen libertarianism MuskElon RepublicanParty ButlerJudith irrationality transgression freedom professional-managerialClass DOGE universities threats fear uncertainty opposition dctagged dc:creator=ToozeAdamhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:9edd463d7e46/Trump's mixed messaging over Ukraine hints at 'madman theory' approach - BBC News2025-02-16T09:49:55+00:00
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crr0gkn1qlzo
petejUSA politics foreignPolicy Ukraine Russia war TrumpDonald HegsethPete RubioMarco negotiations PutinVladimir ZelenskiyVolodymyr NATO membership uncertainty policyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:0e3ebfe6298a/Labour’s plan for ‘growth’ won’t take off, but it will leave ordinary people behind | Aditya Chakrabortty | The Guardian2025-01-29T20:52:32+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/29/labour-rachel-reeves-growth-trickle-down-economics
petejUK politics policy LabourParty ReevesRachel growth infrastructure construction deregulation CMA Amazon Heathrow airport expansion mortgages debt North-SouthDivide artificialIntelligence trickle-down costOfLiving utilities housing transport dctagged dc:creator=ChakraborttyAditya aviation air travel non-domhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:3790ca4f6aaf/Home truths: the only thing Labour is building is a bigger, more dysfunctional housing market | George Monbiot | The Guardian2025-01-26T20:16:50+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/26/labour-building-housing-market-private-developers
petejUK housing construction government LabourParty policy prices affordability demand financialisation investment wealth poverty inequality redistribution under-occupancy tax councilTax rents rentControl mortgages dctagged dc:creator=MonbiotGeorgehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:04f975b550ad/‘Mainlined into UK’s veins’: Labour announces huge public rollout of AI | Politics | The Guardian2025-01-13T11:29:00+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jan/12/mainlined-into-uks-veins-labour-announces-huge-public-rollout-of-ai
petejUK government technology informationTechnology artificialIntelligence investment computing StarmerKeir policy innovation regulation business nuclearPower energy UKAEA Culham KylePeter CliffordMatt MilibandEdhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:c647b9e9a5d2/Starmer’s team hope policy blitz will prove that Labour can deliver change | Keir Starmer | The Guardian2025-01-03T22:11:35+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jan/03/starmer-team-hope-policy-blitz-will-prove-that-labour-can-deliver-change
petejUK politics StarmerKeir LabourParty policy government NHS healthcare hospitals waitingLists crime MuskElon RobinsonTommy localGovernment councils electionhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:485531e6cec9/Why are so many people in Britain off sick? The answer is far more complex than you think | Gaby Hinsliff | The Guardian2024-09-27T12:42:46+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/sep/27/britain-sick-answer-benefits-crackdown
petejUK health sickness unemployment poverty disability welfare benefits LabourParty StarmerKeir NHS healthcare housing policy dctagged dc:creator=HinsliffGabyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:02bd3a42ee8f/Labour, beware: Britain’s housing crisis is driving voters towards populism | John Harris | The Guardian2024-09-24T11:25:36+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/sep/22/labour-conference-liverpool-housing-crisis
petejUK politics policy government housing StarmerKeir LabourParty construction affordability socialHousing councilHousing housingAssociations councils shortage rightToBuy RaynerAngela renting rents dctagged dc:creator=HarrisJohnhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:9e960aa0e34b/Lammy urges ‘guts’ in ongoing US talks over Ukraine using missiles in Russia | Ukraine | The Guardian2024-09-24T07:51:22+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/22/lammy-urges-fortitude-over-ukraine-using-storm-shadow-missiles-in-russia
petejUK politics LammyDavid Ukraine Russia war missiles restrictions range StormShadow USA BidenJoe LabourParty conference ZelenskiyVolodymyr ATACMS military policyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:483deec36eab/UK election: Labour and Tory defence strategies merge | openDemocracy2024-09-20T16:21:26+00:00
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/general-election-labour-tories-defence-strategy/
petejUK politics defence policy military security armsTrade LabourParty ToryPartyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:3654db9f1d4f/What would a sensible security policy look like for the UK? | openDemocracy2024-09-20T16:19:02+00:00
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/sensible-defence-offering-uk-labour-conservatives-climate-crisis-security/
petejUK politics defence policy Trident nuclearWeapons costs publicSpending climateChange inequality povertyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:509c672d8c0e/Grenfell is simply explained: firms chased profits, ministers sat on their hands, innocents paid with their lives | Peter Apps | The Guardian2024-09-06T07:28:54+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/sep/04/grenfell-is-simply-explained-firms-chased-profits-ministers-sat-on-their-hands-innocents-paid-with-their-lives
petejGrenfellTower fire inquiry report Moore-BickMartin politics deregulation regulation dishonesty safety construction cladding testing LakanalHouse housing government PicklesEric CameronDavid policy Arconic Celotex Kingspan business BBA certification standards BRE socialHousing KCTMO accountabilityhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:a02c1b06c208/I heard years of Grenfell testimony. Here's why the disaster could have been prevented - BBC News2024-09-03T06:10:30+00:00
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62305qx946o
petejGrenfellTower fire inquiry construction refurbishment deregulation regulation Thatcherism safety guidance cladding materials GarnockCourt LakanalHouse MartinBrian Arconic DaffarnEd RBKC KCTMO Exova Rydon LFB policy evacuation housing government failure businesshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:914280186005/Labour is right about LTNs – the Tories need to learn the same lesson | Andrew Gilligan | The Guardian2024-08-24T07:36:35+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/bike-blog/article/2024/aug/23/labour-is-right-about-ltns-the-tories-need-to-learn-the-same-lesson
petejUK politics LabourParty government transport LTN cars roads regulation HaighLouise HarperMark cycling fitness policy dctagged dc:ceator=GilliganAndrewhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:1e7b5ce6a470/Quick, tangible change will see off the hard right – these are the things Labour must do now | John McDonnell | The Guardian2024-07-17T06:23:25+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/16/quick-change-labour-hard-right-nigel-farage-john-mcdonnell
petejUK politics government policy LabourParty livingStandards poverty childBenefit cap benefits pay wages tradeUnions publicServices investment publicSpending tax CapitalGainsTax dctagged dc:creator=McDonnellJohnhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:4cbb5ed4295b/First Covid inquiry report to set out ‘appalling failures’ during pandemic | Covid inquiry | The Guardian2024-07-14T11:45:39+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/jul/14/first-covid-inquiry-report-to-set-out-appalling-failures-during-pandemic
petejUK coronavirus health epidemic pandemic inquiry HallettHeather healthcare planning PPE preparedness government austerity policy report failurehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:f4111d9598c4/He won the votes, now Starmer just needs to win over the people | Jonathan Freedland | The Guardian2024-07-06T09:21:09+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jul/05/he-won-the-votes-now-keir-starmer-just-needs-to-win-over-the-people-labour
petejUK politics generalElection ge2024 LabourParty StarmerKeir voting fragmentation FPTP LiberalDemocratParty ReformUK GreenParty government Cabinet policy dctagged dc:creator=FreedlandJonathanhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:a0e9d816b5cb/Labour’s housing policies have already been tried – and have failed. Here is the radical solution | Richard Sennett | The Guardian2024-07-04T08:44:47+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/03/labour-housing-policies-tried-failed-radical-solution
petejUK politics housing policy LabourParty brownfield high-rise newTowns urban cities planning LaBorda Barcelona renting landlords regulation dctagged dc:creator=SennettRichard rentControlhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:230b947fe82c/How the Tory war on immigration backfired | Immigration and asylum | The Guardian2024-07-01T13:15:44+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-interactive/2024/jul/01/how-the-tory-war-on-immigration-backfired
petejUK politics immigration migration migrants asylum refugees EnglishChannel boats ToryParty SunakRishi visas employment students Ukraine HongKong MayTheresa hostileEnvironment CameronDavid policy rhetoric EU freedomOfMovement France borders policing HomeOffice processing IllegalMigrationAct Rwanda deportation failurehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:926df874e38a/Labour is telling Britain it is now a conservative party – and we should believe it | David Edgerton | The Guardian2024-06-28T14:37:07+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jun/28/keir-starmer-labour-britain-conservative-party
petejUK politics generalElection ge2024 LabourParty StarmerKeir policy change welfare intervention tax publicSpending publicServices wealth growth redistribution Israel business Starmerism socialDemocracy inequality capitalism NewLabour Blairism conservatism dctagged dc:creator=EdgertonDavidhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:2afa1ae2d475/Is Keir Starmer really a ‘political robot’? If he is, he’s one that’s been programmed to win | Jonathan Freedland | The Guardian2024-06-16T08:24:37+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jun/14/keir-starmer-campaign-caution-labour
petejUK politics generalElection ge2024 StarmerKeir LabourParty caution discipline policy YouGov ReformUK tacticalVoting LiberalDemocratParty dctagged dc:creator=FreedlandJonathanhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:6fbcd0a2f17d/UK voters against national service and split on pledges not to raise tax, poll shows | General election 2024 | The Guardian2024-06-09T16:58:13+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jun/09/yougov-poll-policies-national-service-tax-sewage-voting-age
petejUK politics generalElection ge2024 policy NationalService universities pensions incomeTax thresholds tax pollution sewage freeSchoolMealshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:9dc1e36617e0/Iran attack shows Israeli deterrence policy ‘shattered’, Netanyahu critics say | Israel | The Guardian2024-04-15T17:19:56+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/15/iran-attack-shows-israeli-deterrence-policy-shattered-netanyahu-critics
petejIsrael politics MiddleEast Iran attack LapidYair military policy NetanyahuBenjamin retaliation escalation USA BidenJoe defence security deterrencehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:62d750f0cd2b/Abolishing non-dom tax status would be humiliation for Tories, says Phillipson | Budget 2024 (spring) | The Guardian2024-03-03T14:21:41+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/mar/03/abolishing-non-dom-tax-status-would-be-humiliation-for-tories-says-phillipson
petejUK politics HuntJeremy ToryParty budget budget2024 tax non-dom PhillipsonBridget LabourParty policy SunakRishi MurtyAkshata oil gas windfallTax CivilService jobs cutshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:f7684687ebfb/The Tories have made immigration a toxic subject. Here are three ways Labour can restore some humanity | Zoe Gardner | The Guardian2024-02-22T08:24:37+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/22/tories-immigration-labour-asylum-migrant-humanity
petejUK politics immigration migration migrants asylum refugees LabourParty policy compassion safety routes borders France work labour exploitation pay wages visas employers status rights dctagged dc:creator=GardnerZoehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:d0875b84da44/Scuttling his flagship green policy, Sir Keir Starmer has imperilled his credibility | Andrew Rawnsley | The Guardian2024-02-11T10:04:38+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/11/scuttling-his-flagship-green-policy-sir-keir-starmer-has-imperilled-his-credibility
petejUK politics LabourParty StarmerKeir Starmerism environment climateChange spending investment targets credibility trust policy generalElection ge2024 McSweeneyMorgan caution conservatism ReevesRachel McFaddenPat MilibandEd leadership dctagged dc:creator=RawnsleyAndrewhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:d4569dbcf4f3/‘The mother of all U-turns’: after Labour’s £28bn green policy climbdown, what’s left? | Labour | The Guardian2024-02-11T10:01:08+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/feb/11/labour-u-turn-28bn-green-policy-spending-pledge-keir-starmer-rachel-reeves
petejUK politics LabourParty StarmerKeir Starmerism environment climateChange investment spending conservatism caution ReevesRachel MilibandEd netZero targets policy SimonsJosh LabourTogether LawsonNeal Compass GardinerBarry publicSpending publicServices leadership decisionMakinghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:386e5cf335ef/UK closer to large-scale conflict than in many years, intelligence official says | Defence policy | The Guardian2024-02-08T07:57:16+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/feb/08/uk-closer-to-large-scale-conflict-than-in-many-years-intelligence-official-says
petejUK military defence MiddleEast Russia Ukraine war China Taiwan Yemen Iran Syria Iraq CameronDavid ShappsGrant policy riskhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:ed9dcdce9051/Fears are rising of ‘regional escalation’ in the Middle East. But that wider war is already here | Nesrine Malik | The Guardian2024-01-12T21:12:52+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/jan/08/israel-gaza-middle-east-escalation
petejMiddleEast USA Israel politics policy Palestine Gaza war Lebanon Yemen RedSea Iran Houthis Hezbollah shipping trade disruption IslamicState instability terrorism dctagged dc:creator=MalikNesrinehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:1b43ac986719/Old-fashioned capitalism can’t help Britain’s lost workers get back in a job | Phillip Inman | The Guardian2023-12-20T07:44:48+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/dec/16/old-fashioned-capitalism-cant-help-britains-lost-workers-get-back-in-a-job
petejUK economy work labour employment disability sickness coercion StrideMel vacancies BankOfEngland interestRates sanctions GDP growth stagnation contraction KingStephenD ReevesRachel investment health wellbeing apprenticeships housing socialHousing homeOwnership policy capitalism dctagged dc:creator=InmanPhilliphttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:0eecc883fcb6/Migration is dominating Sunak’s premiership – but the pressure on Starmer may be even greater | Martin Kettle | The Guardian2023-12-16T13:54:02+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/dec/14/migration-rishi-sunak-keir-starmer-labour-tory
petejUK politics immigration migration migrants asylum refugees Rwanda ToryParty SunakRishi factionalism CashBill cruelty economy contraction LabourParty StarmerKeir policy CooperYvette KinnockStephen borders security enforcement EnglishChannel boats populism TheRight dctagged dc:creator=KettleMartinhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:8ba668f8c065/Billionaires are out of touch and much too powerful. The planet is in trouble | Rebecca Solnit | The Guardian2023-12-01T10:51:29+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/nov/20/billionaires-great-carbon-divide-planet-climate-crisis
petejenvironment climateChange wealth power emissions fossilFuels inequality politics MuskElon Twitter socialMedia GatesBill policy energy renewables technoUtopianism dctagged dc:creator=SolnitRebeccahttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:7936776e2b1f/Bus services cut by more than 80% in parts of England and Wales since 2008, finds study | Transport | The Guardian2023-11-28T11:55:51+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/nov/28/bus-services-cut-by-more-than-80-perent-in-parts-of-england-and-wales-since-2008-finds-study
petejUK publicTransport buses cuts policyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:8548d21a375c/Suella Braverman accuses Rishi Sunak of betrayal in scathing resignation letter - BBC News2023-11-14T18:20:24+00:00
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-67420331
petejUK politics ToryParty BravermanSuella SunakRishi letter policy immigration EnglishChannel boats Brexit schools transgender Rwanda deportation migration asylumhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:d43889a8cd5d/‘A betrayal of our agreement’: Suella Braverman’s letter to Rishi Sunak in full | Suella Braverman | The Guardian2023-11-14T18:18:50+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/nov/14/suella-braverman-resignation-letter-in-full
petejUK politics ToryParty BravermanSuella SunakRishi letter policy immigration EnglishChannel boats Brexit schools transgender Rwanda deportation migration asylumhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:c4a2ca21d41f/Rishi Sunak made secret promises to win my backing, says Suella Braverman | Suella Braverman | The Guardian2023-11-14T18:16:45+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/nov/14/rishi-sunak-made-secret-promises-to-win-my-backing-says-suella-braverman
petejUK politics ToryParty BravermanSuella SunakRishi letter policy immigration EnglishChannel boats Brexit schools transgender Rwanda deportation migration asylumhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:ff3baa723ae6/Rishi Sunak to ‘double down’ on anti-green policies in king’s speech | Rishi Sunak | The Guardian2023-10-28T17:00:02+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/oct/28/rishi-sunak-to-double-down-on-anti-green-policies-in-kings-speech
petejUK politics ToryParty SunakRishi government environment policy oil gas fossilFuels cars localGovernment speedLimits emissions ULEZ cultureWar energy prices costOfLivinghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:a1577ebb97d7/The week the world tried to stop Gaza spinning out of control | Israel-Hamas war | The Guardian2023-10-22T07:43:51+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/22/the-week-the-world-tried-to-stop-gaza-spinning-out-of-control
petejMiddleEast Israel Palestine Gaza Hamas war politics diplomacy airstrikes invasion military USA Yemen Houthis missiles Iran Hezbollah escalation oil prices BidenJoe Russia China BlinkenAntony policy language hostages Qatar Egypt Rafah aidhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:602781e9f247/UK government keeping files on teaching assistants and librarians’ internet activity | Education policy | The Guardian2023-10-21T12:35:39+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/oct/21/uk-government-keeping-files-on-teaching-assistants-and-librarians-internet-activity
petejUK government education schools teaching teachers monitoring DfE socialMedia policy criticismhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:aafe59dd1c74/Britain’s Housing Crisis: What Went Wrong? review – the most nakedly furious documentary of the year | Television & radio | The Guardian2023-10-18T08:08:03+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/oct/17/britains-housing-crisis-what-went-wrong-review-the-most-nakedly-furious-documentary-of-the-year
petejUK BBC television documentary housing government socialHousing rightToBuy homeOwnership prices assets rentiers landlords rents renting quantitativeEasing GoveMichael policy construction business land leasehold regeneration affordabilityhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:e4e99ee10b1b/‘No one knows what we stand for’: Tory MPs in despair ahead of Sunak’s crucial conference | Conservative conference | The Guardian2023-10-01T10:07:27+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/oct/01/tory-mps-rishi-sunak-conservative-conference
petejUK politics ToryParty SunakRishi policy conference factionalism cultureWar youth netZero humanRights inheritanceTax levellingUp HS2 JohnsonBoris growth TrussLiz BadenochKemi GaukeDavid Manchester Birmingham rail train transport infrastructurehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:956a3218ca33/Revealed: UK government keeping files on education critics’ social media activity | Department for Education | The Guardian2023-09-30T17:28:27+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/sep/30/revealed-uk-government-keeping-files-on-education-critics-social-media-activity
petejUK education DfE dissent socialMedia monitoring surveillance policy criticism SwailesRuth BradburyAaron academics expertshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:1dee300fc8f2/Senior Tories warn: if we can’t offer policies to win over young, we’re ‘sunk’ | Young people | The Guardian2023-09-17T07:41:34+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/sep/17/senior-tories-warn-rishi-sunak-young-people-under-40s-net-zero-renters
petejUK politics ToryParty SunakRishi youth generalElection ge2024 policy netZero renting TugendhatTom ToryReformGroup HammondStephen inequality AaronsSiobhan childcarehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:54a05c2edb7e/Sunak and Johnson Covid-19 inquiry appearances delayed ‘to avoid party conference season’ | Covid inquiry | The Guardian2023-09-17T07:36:47+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/sep/17/sunak-and-johnson-covid-19-inquiry-appearances-delayed-to-avoid-party-conference-season
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https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/sep/10/uk-bosses-flocking-to-labour-conference-business-turns-against-tories
petejUK politics LabourParty conference Liverpool business sponsorship policy environment Brexit BidenJoe InflationReductionAct grants MilibandEd ReynoldsJonathanhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:95d311d1e749/How Labour succumbed to big business and ditched its progressive plans | openDemocracy2023-09-09T17:11:38+00:00
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/labour-party-big-business-keir-starmer-lobbying-donations-ditch-progressive-policies/
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https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/sep/06/no-10-had-head-in-sand-mentality-at-start-of-covid-crisis-says-ex-minister
petejUK politics coronavirus health epidemic pandemic policy government failure BethellJames Brexithttps://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:70c050ef0eb6/Ulez reveals a systemic problem with how UK government works – or rather, doesn’t | Martin Kettle | The Guardian2023-08-31T19:31:46+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/31/ulez-uk-government-clean-air-nhs-citizens-assemblies
petejUK politics ULEZ London byelection Uxbridge KhanSadiq ToryParty SunakRishi LabourParty StarmerKeir environment air pollution netZero emissions NHS socialCare populism socialMedia democracy Ireland citizensAssembly abortion drugs dctagged dc:creator=KettleMartin government policyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:86680d260b0c/Keir Starmer’s recipe for power is missing some ingredients – confidence and hope | Andrew Rawnsley | The Guardian2023-08-20T12:12:18+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/20/haunted-by-defeats-keir-starmer-playing-it-safe-but-optimism-missing
petejUK politics StarmerKeir LabourParty leadership opposition generalElection ge2024 caution pessimism Uxbridge byelection ULEZ policy Starmerism EU singleMarket customsUnion asylum refugees barges dctagged dc:creator=RawnsleyAndrew tacticshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:bfe0e2271dcd/The truth about heat pumps and the power needed to run them - BBC News2023-08-01T06:13:15+00:00
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-66359093
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/25/labour-urged-to-work-with-tories-to-counter-ignorant-climate-policy-attacks
petejUK politics environment climateChange policy ToryParty LabourParty GummerJohn ShappsGrant BravermanSuella cultureWar NorthSea oil fossilFuels SkidmoreChris netZerohttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:fa0acf50e16f/Keir Starmer won't commit to more money for public services - BBC News2023-07-16T11:22:20+00:00
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-66215122
petejUK politics policy LabourParty StarmerKeir Starmerism economy publicSpending publicServices growth centrism caution generalElection ge2024https://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:e7ecd56eb362/Keir Starmer: ‘We can’t win power by spending. We need to reform and create wealth’ | Keir Starmer | The Guardian2023-07-16T07:49:16+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jul/15/keir-starmer-we-cant-spend-our-way-back-to-power
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