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The latest figures show that just 20 per cent say they would be delighted (7 per cent) or pleased (13 per cent) by a Sunak/Conservative victory, while 57 per cent would be disappointed (25 per cent) or dismayed (32 per cent)....

I assume most people here already are registered but just in case: here’s the link.

In short, they’re sticking with the New Deal for Workers, the unions won, it’s great stuff.

I think this is true....

There’s going to be an Urgent Question on the prisons crisis after PMQs today, so I thought I’d share this for some helpful background info.

Thought this was quite good on getting people to defect and not just because it makes an identical point to one I made around here the other day:...

Looks like he’s going to jump before he’s pushed.

I thought it was worth sharing this critique of the Rwanda policy from a Conservative point of view....

Let’s say you have multi-member constituencies. You hold an election with an outcome that looks roughly like this:...

I’m considering starting a co-operatively owned website for writers to share their work without any gatekeepers, and with any profits generated going to the writers....

Follow-up question: was it controversial at the time?

There’s been a lot of nonsense in the press about this speech so I thought I’d post the actual text, so that people can make their own minds up....

“You’ll get bored of seeing me in the first 100 days of a future Labour government,” Rayner says. “I’m committed to ensuring I get our housing [policies] and New Deal for Working People over the line very quickly. That sets out a framework which includes repealing some of the Tories’ anti-trade union legislation.”

Ugo Monye’s run down of Ireland’s defensive stats:...

A source with knowledge of the security arrangements said that as well as currently facing threats of violence from the extreme far right, Khan also faces threats from Islamist extremists....

Labour has claimed a “culture of inertia and stasis” has blocked renewable energy projects under the Conservatives and says the party will overturn a de facto onshore wind ban “at the stroke of a pen” if it wins the general election....

Lynch says that his ‘number one priority’ is getting the Tories out and that, realistically, that means putting Starmer in:...

I was thinking about how the American and French Revolutions are sometimes seen, especially by Marxists, as more ‘successful’ versions of the English Civil War and the Commonwealth....

A paper summarising ‘car-related harm including crashes, pollution, land use, and injustices’....