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Eunice Goes @eunicegoes.bsky.social · 2h

@nesrinemalik.bsky.social is very right: ‘the secure future of those in Gaza, and Palestine in general, is not something that can be delivered by the thieves-turned-protectors’.
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While the perpetrators of Gaza’s genocide pose as its saviours, survivors return home – to a wasteland | Nesrine Malik

Western leaders attending the Sharm el-Sheikh summit have enabled and sponsored this slaughter. They are in no position to build a Palestinian future, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

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Eunice Goes @eunicegoes.bsky.social · 1d

Brexit fanatics are stupid, delusional (they think the world owes them a favour) and exhausting. In exchange for having to put with them I hope they face hordes of aggressive border agents and crazy paper work whenever they try to set foot in the EU.

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Eunice Goes @eunicegoes.bsky.social · 1d

Beautiful Autumn colours and light in Hampstead Heath.

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Eunice Goes @eunicegoes.bsky.social · 1d

Fantastic interview with Neil Kinnock. Interesting, human, insightful with some truly poignant and moving moments. It was a real conversation and so much the better for it. More of this @lewisgoodall.com, please!
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Neil Kinnock on the speech that changed the Labour Party

Podcast Episode · The News Agents · 10/10/2025 · 56m

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 3d

Things I don't even have to unpack for you. Has there ever been renaming by threat before? Could the roads be renamed Partisan Threat Way? Font of Innumerable Death Threats Way? My Way or the Highway?

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Eunice Goes @eunicegoes.bsky.social · 4d

Quite telling (of the media’s anti-workers’s rights attitudes) discussion on Badenoch’s proposal to ban doctors from striking. Instead of questioning the MP on the anti-democratic nature of the proposal the journalist asks ‘why not ban tube workers from striking?’
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Kemi Badenoch abolishes Stamp Duty. Is it enough to save her job?

Podcast Episode · The News Agents · 08/10/2025 · 42m

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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 5d

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Martin D.B. Brown @martindbbrown.bsky.social · 5d

Across the Kemiverse...

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Eunice Goes @eunicegoes.bsky.social · 5d

Jenrick is unhinged: making libellous comments about Lord Hermer.

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Eunice Goes @eunicegoes.bsky.social · 6d

@adamtooze.bsky.social in the FT today: ‘a democracy dogged by fear of bond market vigilantes is unhealthy’.
Instead the government should recognise that Britain is in a period of historic transition which requires new approaches.

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Eunice Goes @eunicegoes.bsky.social · 6d

Mel-ei Stride should do his homework before comparing himself to Milei. Given the reputation of the Tories for breaking the economy, it’s not wise to compare yourself to a president who’s begging for an IMF loan. www.politico.eu/newsletter/l...

They call him Britain Mel-ei

Presented by Lloyds Banking Group By SAM BLEWETT with MARTIN ALFONSIN LARSEN PRESENTED BY Send tips here | Subscribe for free | Listen to Playbook and view in your browser Good Monday morning. This…

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Eunice Goes @eunicegoes.bsky.social · 6d

Jenrick is now whistling into really unsavoury territory. This should be a red line issue for any respectable politician.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Robert Jenrick complained of ‘not seeing another white face’ in Birmingham neighbourhood

Shadow justice secretary criticised for suggesting he could tell how integrated Handsworth was based on short visit

www.theguardian.com

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Eunice Goes @eunicegoes.bsky.social · 6d

Enjoy it! It’s quite an original story. The beginning is hard but persevere.

Eunice Goes @eunicegoes.bsky.social · 6d

I did! It’s wonderful, isn’t it? Her side of the story is also very good.

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Eunice Goes @eunicegoes.bsky.social · 6d

It’s no surprise that the Conservative Party is in regicide mood. 👇🏼
Badenoch has no class and is politically inept. Surely somebody as ambitious as she is must know that charm and good social skills go along way in politics (at least to keep the troops on your side).

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 6d

A work of art

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Eunice Goes @eunicegoes.bsky.social · 7d

Brilliant exhibition of Lee Miller’s photos at Tate Britain. These are some of the photos she took of London during the Blitz and that’s her war reporter’s uniform.

Eunice Goes @eunicegoes.bsky.social · 9d

Apparently, there’s a new Machiavelli. European leaders can’t stop reading Giuliano da Empoli.
www.politico.eu/article/giul...

Europe’s political class can’t stop reading Giuliano da Empoli

An Italian-Swiss writer specializing in top-level power games and autocrats is now essential reading for Europe’s political elite, particularly Emmanuel Macron.

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Eunice Goes @eunicegoes.bsky.social · 10d

While Blue Labour learns bad lessons from Danish social democrats on migration, Jimena Valdez draws our attention to the achievements and challenges of Pedro Sánchez's Spain. It's an important reminder that there are always alternatives to nasty politics.
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Lessons for economic growth from Pedro Sánchez’s Spain

In a recent issue of Renewal David Cesar Heymann wrote about one of the most successful social democratic governments in Europe: that of Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE) leader Pedro Sánchez (2...

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Eunice Goes @eunicegoes.bsky.social · 10d

Really interesting piece by @morganj0nes.bsky.social on how the Labour right is fracturing.
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

The Labour right is fracturing

The party’s right wing won the peace after the Corbyn wars. But do they know what they want now?

www.newstatesman.com

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Eunice Goes @eunicegoes.bsky.social · 11d

I meant Labour voters

Eunice Goes @eunicegoes.bsky.social · 11d

The problem with the strategy of expecting Labou and all decent voters to accept things they don’t like is that we’ve been doing this since 2020. There’s a moment where you can no longer bite your lips. Seeing a Labour gov trying to outbid Reform is no reward www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Starmer to end asylum ‘golden ticket’ of resettlement and family reunion rights

People granted asylum will have to earn right to invite family in plan charities call ‘straight from populist playbook’

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Eunice Goes @eunicegoes.bsky.social · 11d

The last election showed that Britain has a 5 party system, and this guy talks of the ‘median voter’??? Please, go and read Anthony Downs on median voter strategies in multiparty systems and learn a few important things about voting behaviour.

The New Statesman @handle.invalid · 11d

Crying racism only hurts Labour

Activists like it, but the median voter will feel attacked.

📊 @bwalker.uk

Crying racism only hurts Labour

Activists like it, but the median voter will feel attacked.

www.newstatesman.com

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Eunice Goes @eunicegoes.bsky.social · 12d

These 👇🏼 are really good news!

Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 12d

Some good news.

London is meeting legal limits for toxic NO2 pollution for the first time – almost 200 years earlier than predicted – following the Mayor’s "world leading air pollution policies," City Hall announces.

The Ultra Low Emissions Zone - and similar policies - really do work.

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Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 12d

Some good news.

London is meeting legal limits for toxic NO2 pollution for the first time – almost 200 years earlier than predicted – following the Mayor’s "world leading air pollution policies," City Hall announces.

The Ultra Low Emissions Zone - and similar policies - really do work.

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Eunice Goes @eunicegoes.bsky.social · 12d

I agree. Even the red background helps. No Union Jack on your TV screen (the flag can be seen in landscape view but it’s not in your face).

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