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WorldbyStorm - 10:31 Tue Jun 23, 2026 Very conveniently, for anyone asking that question, we have two useful bits of information. First up there’s this from Wiki: Labour: 30%, Tory 20%, Reform 27%, LD 11%, Green 7%, SNP 3% Others 3% This was taken by More in Common between 15-19 May. Event may overtake that. But feed those figures into the model … Continue reading "What sort of impact would a Burnham leadership have on the Labour Party’s fortunes?"
WorldbyStorm - 10:19 Tue Jun 23, 2026 Listening to Alastair Campbell’s podcast thoughts on the departure of Starmer and presumed arrival of Burnham, in passing he made a point that it the lack of mainstream media coverage of the attacks on Muslims in Edinburgh was disgusting. He also noted a double standard in respect to the coverage of the attacks on Jewish … Continue reading "Two-tier reporting"
WorldbyStorm - 08:37 Tue Jun 23, 2026 Reading Jonathan Freedland in the Guardian about the end of the Starmer era (is a six- or seven-year period long enough to describe as an era?) last night I was surprised by this. Historians will puzzle over this one. Of the six prime ministers that have led Britain over the last decade, with a seventh … Continue reading "Why Starmer had to go and should never have been elected leader"
WorldbyStorm - 09:52 Mon Jun 22, 2026 A bit bemused at how quickly this has all gone. But then one looks at the polling on Starmer and how he is so profoundly unpopular and the sense that it cannot be changed. He seems to get that too:
WorldbyStorm - 09:45 Mon Jun 22, 2026 Looks like grassroots campaigning on the issue of the Triple Lock may be paying off: Taoiseach Micheál Martin’s desire to change the Triple Lock, and no longer require UN approval before sending more than 12 troops abroad, is facing a backbench pushback. The Fianna Fáil parliamentary party will discuss the issue this week after several … Continue reading "Triple Lock and Fianna Fáil"
irishonlineleftarchive - 07:45 Mon Jun 22, 2026 To download the above please click on the following links: Please click here to go the Left Archive. Many thanks to the person who scanned and forwarded this document to the Archive. As noted previously O’Donnell, born in 1893 and died in 1986, was one of the pivotal radical figures in Irish history, a republican, … Continue reading "Left Archive: The Way Forward for Socialist Republicans in Ireland, Peadar O’Donnell Socialist Republican Forum, March 2023" |