"If people become insecure, we find they’re three times more likely to desert Labour than if they become more concerned about immigration. Around one-third of Britons felt economically insecure as of April 2025. Focusing on immigration is a ‘red herring’ when financial security is so foundational" Jane Green #Labour #UKPolitics Economic Insecurity is foundational for Labour’s electoral losses, and key to any potential recovery - Nuffield Politics Research Centre
Nuffield Politics Research Centre
Economic Insecurity is foundational for Labour’s electoral losses, and key to any potential recovery - Nuffield Politics Research Centre
"..an average tent-pole show (a high-budget feature that is expected to be a success) produces around 2,840 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO₂e) during production. That’s roughly the annual absorption of more than 3,000 acres of forest, and the equivalent of 11 one-way trips to the Moon" #ClimateEmergency #TheTraitors #RealityTV The hidden carbon cost of reality TV shows like The Traitors
The Conversation
The hidden carbon cost of reality TV shows like The Traitors
Reality TV isn’t the villain of the climate story – but it is a powerful amplifier of taste.
"Over the past couple of weeks, Shabana Mahmood has launched not only her new asylum crackdown policy, but also her “story”. The two are inseparable.. And it silences criticism of the crackdown. Sold as an origin story from within an immigrant & racialised experience, the purpose is to imbue her politics with sacred authenticity – the credibility of the first person. It is clever and effective. It is cynical & disgraceful" Nesrine Malik #Asylum #Immigration #UKPolitics
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Shabana Mahmood is an avatar of open Britain – that’s what makes her fable about immigration so seductive | Nesrine Malik
‘She is the daughter of immigrants,’ supporters of her cruel asylum policies say. ‘How can she be wrong?’ Let me put them straight, says Gu...
"Research by social scientists overwhelmingly shows that adopting far-right positions leads neither to electoral success for centrist parties nor to electoral defeat for far-right parties. But this has not stopped centre-left advisers, politicians and strategists" #Denmark #Immigration #UKPolitics The ‘Danish model’ is the darling of centre-left parties like Labour. The problem is, it doesn’t even work in Denmark | Cas Mudde | The Guardian
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The ‘Danish model’ is the darling of centre-left parties like Labour. The problem is, it doesn’t even work in Denmark | Cas Mudde
This week’s local elections are the latest reminder that when social democrats move rightwards, they’re making a mistake, says academic and aut...
"People in countries like the UK don’t understand how refugees make decisions because our experiences are so different from theirs. A friend & I decided to risk escaping because we couldn’t face any more torture & beatings. We knew we might be killed but decided to take the risk. I didn’t have any good options.” #Asylumseekers #UKPolitics The life and limbo of a UK asylum seeker: one man’s harrowing 17-year wait for leave to remain | Immigration and asylum | The Guardian
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The life and limbo of a UK asylum seeker: one man’s harrowing 17-year wait for leave to remain
Ussu fled imprisonment and torture, only to find himself treated like a liar and outcast in the UK. Here’s how he survived homelessness and horri...
"Larry Summers policy advice back in 2000 laid the ground for the hungry years of 2005–8 and the cost-of-living crisis of 2022–4. Today we are still enduring the economic, social and political consequences of those crises - and of the changes made to the regulation of financial speculators in 2000. And Larry Summers is still a tenured professor of economics at Harvard University" #GlobalHunger #USPolitics #Economics Larry Summers and the Hunger Games - by Ann Pettifor
Larry Summers and the Hunger Games
Who remembers the food shock of 2005-2008? Just another global policy disaster from then Treasury Secretary Summers.