Morgan Jones
@morganj0nes.bsky.social
the labour party's 2nd most important irish morgan?
I've written a book about the anti-brexit movement that will come out at some point and i co-edit @renewaljournal.bsky.social.
email me @ [email protected]
I've written a book about the anti-brexit movement that will come out at some point and i co-edit @renewaljournal.bsky.social.
email me @ [email protected]
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Morgan Jones
@morganj0nes.bsky.social
· Nov 1
No Second Chances
Between 2016 and 2019, a unique coalition assembled within British politics. Combining Corbynite campaigners and Conservative Cabinet ministers, celebrities and grassroots activists, seasoned politica...
www.bitebackpublishing.com
Some professional news: I am writing a book on the 2nd referendum campaign, which you can now pre-order here:
www.bitebackpublishing.com/books/no-sec...
www.bitebackpublishing.com/books/no-sec...
bloodshot eyes, hoarse voice: by why did initial efforts to stop Britain leaving fail? you can find out more in my book which is available to pre order www.bitebackpublishing.com/books/no-sec...
November 25, 2025 at 9:06 PM
bloodshot eyes, hoarse voice: by why did initial efforts to stop Britain leaving fail? you can find out more in my book which is available to pre order www.bitebackpublishing.com/books/no-sec...
tired but forcedly cheery voice: and you know where you can read more about how the pro-europeans self sabotaged ?
Zarah Sultana’s strong bid to claim the Conquest’s Second Law trophy from “British pro-Europeans, 2017-9” is getting out of control.
BREAKING | Another MP quits crisis stricken Your Party in blow for Corbyn and Sultana
November 21, 2025 at 6:42 PM
tired but forcedly cheery voice: and you know where you can read more about how the pro-europeans self sabotaged ?
But how did the political case against going through with Brexit fail? Remember a little thing called the "2nd referendum"?
My book on all of this is out at the start of next year: www.bitebackpublishing.com/books/no-sec...
My book on all of this is out at the start of next year: www.bitebackpublishing.com/books/no-sec...
November 21, 2025 at 11:14 AM
But how did the political case against going through with Brexit fail? Remember a little thing called the "2nd referendum"?
My book on all of this is out at the start of next year: www.bitebackpublishing.com/books/no-sec...
My book on all of this is out at the start of next year: www.bitebackpublishing.com/books/no-sec...
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The Labour right is composed of two tendencies that are really quite distinct – and the liberal tendency increasingly feels marginalised within this government (as @morganj0nes.bsky.social and @stephenkb.bsky.social have reported)
November 20, 2025 at 1:40 PM
The Labour right is composed of two tendencies that are really quite distinct – and the liberal tendency increasingly feels marginalised within this government (as @morganj0nes.bsky.social and @stephenkb.bsky.social have reported)
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The UK isn’t a “soft touch” on asylum.
UK asylum seeker benefits are similar to European neighbours
No right to work before 12 months (it’s 6 months in France, Spain, Belgium, Netherlands)
UK settlement after 5 years (it’s 3 or 4 in Germany)
Let’s cut out the alarmist rhetoric.
UK asylum seeker benefits are similar to European neighbours
No right to work before 12 months (it’s 6 months in France, Spain, Belgium, Netherlands)
UK settlement after 5 years (it’s 3 or 4 in Germany)
Let’s cut out the alarmist rhetoric.
November 19, 2025 at 11:52 AM
The UK isn’t a “soft touch” on asylum.
UK asylum seeker benefits are similar to European neighbours
No right to work before 12 months (it’s 6 months in France, Spain, Belgium, Netherlands)
UK settlement after 5 years (it’s 3 or 4 in Germany)
Let’s cut out the alarmist rhetoric.
UK asylum seeker benefits are similar to European neighbours
No right to work before 12 months (it’s 6 months in France, Spain, Belgium, Netherlands)
UK settlement after 5 years (it’s 3 or 4 in Germany)
Let’s cut out the alarmist rhetoric.
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The use of AI for things like theoretical "public art" is so interesting, because it shows that there are a lot of people that don't understand what art is for, or indeed the concept of the beautiful. AI cannot produce art because it has no consciouness, no soul, so it can't produce the beautiful.
This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu
November 18, 2025 at 2:16 PM
The use of AI for things like theoretical "public art" is so interesting, because it shows that there are a lot of people that don't understand what art is for, or indeed the concept of the beautiful. AI cannot produce art because it has no consciouness, no soul, so it can't produce the beautiful.
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Labour peer Lord Dubs: "To use children as a weapon, as the home secretary is doing, is I think a shabby thing. I’m lost for words, frankly."
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/labour...
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/labour...
Labour Peer Who Fled The Nazis Condemns His Party's Immigration Crackdown
Lord Dubs said he was "lost for words".
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Labour peer Lord Dubs: "To use children as a weapon, as the home secretary is doing, is I think a shabby thing. I’m lost for words, frankly."
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/labour...
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/labour...
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I wrote about the lessons the Danish social democrats want to offer Labour last month, and noted a distinct uptick in Denmark Chat at conference. As I discuss in the piece, I am more convinced by the arguments for Spain-as-model.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/oc...
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/oc...
November 8, 2025 at 3:45 PM
I wrote about the lessons the Danish social democrats want to offer Labour last month, and noted a distinct uptick in Denmark Chat at conference. As I discuss in the piece, I am more convinced by the arguments for Spain-as-model.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/oc...
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/oc...
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There is no evidence that stripping refugees' rights one by one will have any impact on people crossing the channel.
Taking jewellery from refugees is akin to painting over murals for refugee children.
These repugnant ‘deterrents’ did not work for the Tories, and they won't work for us.
Taking jewellery from refugees is akin to painting over murals for refugee children.
These repugnant ‘deterrents’ did not work for the Tories, and they won't work for us.
November 17, 2025 at 11:02 AM
There is no evidence that stripping refugees' rights one by one will have any impact on people crossing the channel.
Taking jewellery from refugees is akin to painting over murals for refugee children.
These repugnant ‘deterrents’ did not work for the Tories, and they won't work for us.
Taking jewellery from refugees is akin to painting over murals for refugee children.
These repugnant ‘deterrents’ did not work for the Tories, and they won't work for us.
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Poykee gets it 💬 #TaxTheSuperRich 🐕
Thanks for having us yesterday West Mids, we're off to Newport and Stroud today for day 6 of the tour!
Thanks for having us yesterday West Mids, we're off to Newport and Stroud today for day 6 of the tour!
November 17, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Poykee gets it 💬 #TaxTheSuperRich 🐕
Thanks for having us yesterday West Mids, we're off to Newport and Stroud today for day 6 of the tour!
Thanks for having us yesterday West Mids, we're off to Newport and Stroud today for day 6 of the tour!
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The Prime Minister said in September that we are at a fork in the road. These asylum proposals suggest we have taken the wrong turning.
The idea that recognised refugees need to be deported is wrong.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
The idea that recognised refugees need to be deported is wrong.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Asylum system in UK ‘out of control’ and dividing country, home secretary says
Shabana Mahmood to unveil new proposals modelled on Denmark’s controversial system
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 5:45 PM
The Prime Minister said in September that we are at a fork in the road. These asylum proposals suggest we have taken the wrong turning.
The idea that recognised refugees need to be deported is wrong.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
The idea that recognised refugees need to be deported is wrong.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Came across this from just before the election last year. Such a footnote but also as I read it back one that illustrates so many of the problems that were to come.
www.cityam.com/natalie-elph...
www.cityam.com/natalie-elph...
Natalie Elphicke wasn't worth it
Keir Starmer will regret alienating Labour Party members and women's rights campaigners by welcoming in the tainted Natalie Elphicke
www.cityam.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Came across this from just before the election last year. Such a footnote but also as I read it back one that illustrates so many of the problems that were to come.
www.cityam.com/natalie-elph...
www.cityam.com/natalie-elph...
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A new Director General, a new Charter... a new model of ownership?
It's all change at the BBC, but the change to a mutual model is well overdue.
We think the BBC should be owned by you, the public.
It's all change at the BBC, but the change to a mutual model is well overdue.
We think the BBC should be owned by you, the public.
November 10, 2025 at 10:32 AM
A new Director General, a new Charter... a new model of ownership?
It's all change at the BBC, but the change to a mutual model is well overdue.
We think the BBC should be owned by you, the public.
It's all change at the BBC, but the change to a mutual model is well overdue.
We think the BBC should be owned by you, the public.
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This term is so social media-brained. Coined by people who can't imagine themselves without an audience, or that anyone could genuinely want to pass time in any other form than Stare at Phone
November 10, 2025 at 11:34 AM
This term is so social media-brained. Coined by people who can't imagine themselves without an audience, or that anyone could genuinely want to pass time in any other form than Stare at Phone
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'we have created a youth wing and put Matt Goodwin in charge' is an idea so mesmerisingly bad that it approaches the level of art
November 10, 2025 at 11:46 AM
'we have created a youth wing and put Matt Goodwin in charge' is an idea so mesmerisingly bad that it approaches the level of art
Delighted to publish Colm and Patrick's eminently sensible pre-budget intervention:
Breaking the tax pledge is the right call...and politically sulphurous. Reeves must argue, far more forcefully, that taxes are *the* essential downpayment we all pay for a fairer society.
Patrick Diamond and I wrote for @renewaljournal.bsky.social. Key points in 🧵 👇
renewal.org.uk/blog/if-labo...
Patrick Diamond and I wrote for @renewaljournal.bsky.social. Key points in 🧵 👇
renewal.org.uk/blog/if-labo...
If Labour want a fairer society, they must argue for it
Labour must make the political argument: taxes are the critical downpayment we all pay to live in a fairer society.
It now seems all but certain that direct taxes will rise in the forthcoming Budget...
renewal.org.uk
November 10, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Delighted to publish Colm and Patrick's eminently sensible pre-budget intervention:
went to see the new frankenstein. think we should view it as a direct woke grok/ musk allegory only instead of killing townspeople grok is being made to say there’s a white genocide. incel frankenstein won’t break his spirit though
November 9, 2025 at 11:47 PM
went to see the new frankenstein. think we should view it as a direct woke grok/ musk allegory only instead of killing townspeople grok is being made to say there’s a white genocide. incel frankenstein won’t break his spirit though
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Open the schools
Can Zohran Mamdani's largely educated, middle-income support base be explained - or even justified - from a Marxist perspective?
@dmk1793.bsky.social presents five (5) conflicting ways in which it can:
@dmk1793.bsky.social presents five (5) conflicting ways in which it can:
Is DSA the class party of the PMC?
Five Marxist perspectives on Zohran Mamdani’s electoral coalition
renewal.org.uk
November 8, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Open the schools
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Very good report on Global Progress and Morgan is spot on about the Spanish approach.
I wrote about the lessons the Danish social democrats want to offer Labour last month, and noted a distinct uptick in Denmark Chat at conference. As I discuss in the piece, I am more convinced by the arguments for Spain-as-model.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/oc...
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/oc...
November 8, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Very good report on Global Progress and Morgan is spot on about the Spanish approach.
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Denmark is the new Australia.
I wrote about the lessons the Danish social democrats want to offer Labour last month, and noted a distinct uptick in Denmark Chat at conference. As I discuss in the piece, I am more convinced by the arguments for Spain-as-model.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/oc...
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/oc...
November 8, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Denmark is the new Australia.
I wrote about the lessons the Danish social democrats want to offer Labour last month, and noted a distinct uptick in Denmark Chat at conference. As I discuss in the piece, I am more convinced by the arguments for Spain-as-model.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/oc...
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/oc...
November 8, 2025 at 3:45 PM
I wrote about the lessons the Danish social democrats want to offer Labour last month, and noted a distinct uptick in Denmark Chat at conference. As I discuss in the piece, I am more convinced by the arguments for Spain-as-model.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/oc...
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/oc...
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The idea of UK learning from Denmark on immigration and asylum is primarily rhetorical: pick fights with the left about how tough we are willing to sound.
The integration context is very different. The broader immigration context is very different.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
The integration context is very different. The broader immigration context is very different.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
UK to announce plans to emulate stringent Danish immigration system
Proposals draw scorn from some Labour MPs who say it is a ‘dangerous path’ to take, while others want the government to go further
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 12:57 PM
The idea of UK learning from Denmark on immigration and asylum is primarily rhetorical: pick fights with the left about how tough we are willing to sound.
The integration context is very different. The broader immigration context is very different.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
The integration context is very different. The broader immigration context is very different.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Can Zohran Mamdani's largely educated, middle-income support base be explained - or even justified - from a Marxist perspective?
@dmk1793.bsky.social presents five (5) conflicting ways in which it can:
@dmk1793.bsky.social presents five (5) conflicting ways in which it can:
Is DSA the class party of the PMC?
Five Marxist perspectives on Zohran Mamdani’s electoral coalition
renewal.org.uk
November 7, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Can Zohran Mamdani's largely educated, middle-income support base be explained - or even justified - from a Marxist perspective?
@dmk1793.bsky.social presents five (5) conflicting ways in which it can:
@dmk1793.bsky.social presents five (5) conflicting ways in which it can: