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megan kenyon
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political correspondent @ new statesman 🦦🌿
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The New Statesman @handle.invalid · 10d
Ed Miliband: “pessimism never won a single fucking victory”

The Energy Secretary used Labour conference to argue for net zero’s future – and his own

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Ed Miliband: “pessimism never won a single fucking victory”
The Energy Secretary used Labour conference to argue for net zero’s future – and his own
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Is the government about to lift the two-child benefit cap?

Pre-conference pressure means the policy could be abolished next week. But why has it taken so long?

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Is the government about to lift the two-child benefit cap?
Pre-conference pressure means the policy could be abolished next week. But why has it taken so long?
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The New Statesman @handle.invalid · 12d
Labour votes to recognise the war in Gaza as a genocide

At Labour Party conference, members voted to accept the findings of a recent UN report

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Labour votes to recognise the war in Gaza as a genocide
At Labour Party conference, members voted to accept the findings of a recent UN report
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megan kenyon @meganekenyon.bsky.social · 16d
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Labour vs the left
Is Keir Starmer’s real problem a resurgent progressive politics?
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megan kenyon @meganekenyon.bsky.social · 16d
My feature in this week's agenda-setting
New Statesman about the growing threat to Labour from the left. Pick up a copy at Labour Conference this weekend!
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The New Statesman @handle.invalid · 16d
Labour vs the left

While Keir Starmer focuses on the threat of Reform and the populist right, is his real problem a resurgent progressive politics?

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Labour vs the left
While Keir Starmer focuses on the threat of Reform and the populist right, is his real problem a resurgent progressive politics?
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megan kenyon @meganekenyon.bsky.social · 17d
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Where is Zarah Sultana?
The Your Party co-founder is conspicuously absent from Jeremy Corbyn’s membership portal launch.
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megan kenyon @meganekenyon.bsky.social · 17d
Where is Zarah Sultana? The Your Party co-founder has been conspicuously absent from Jeremy Corbyn’s membership portal launch earlier today. What does this mean for the future of this nascent left-wing movement?

My analysis for the New Statesman.
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The New Statesman @handle.invalid · 18d
Dale Vince: “I’m the original eco-populist”

🗣️ @meganekenyon.bsky.social speaks to Dale Vince about the need for climate change firebrands
Dale Vince: “I’m the original eco-populist”
The activist on the need for climate change firebrands.
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The New Statesman @handle.invalid · 20d
The UK recognises a Palestinian state

Keir Starmer’s announcement follows Israel’s failure to take “substantive steps” to end the war in Gaza. @meganekenyon.bsky.social
The UK recognises a Palestinian state
Keir Starmer’s announcement follows Israel’s failure to take “substantive steps” to end the war in Gaza
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megan kenyon @meganekenyon.bsky.social · 21d
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Can Zarah Sultana and Jeremy Corbyn ever reconcile?
As one side instructs defamation lawyers, the other asserts that a new party is still on the cards.
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megan kenyon @meganekenyon.bsky.social · 21d
Can Zarah Sultana and Jeremy Corbyn ever reconcile?

Despite “diplomatic efforts” to bring the two sides together, their split appears to have deepened. My analysis for @newstatesman.com
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The New Statesman @handle.invalid · 21d
Can Zarah Sultana and Jeremy Corbyn ever reconcile?

As one side instructs defamation lawyers, the other asserts that a new party is still on the cards.

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Can Zarah Sultana and Jeremy Corbyn ever reconcile?
As one side instructs defamation lawyers, the other asserts that a new party is still on the cards.
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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 23d
What's going on with Your Party?

@meganekenyon.bsky.social joins me on today's @newstatesman.com podcast to explain, as does Ethan Croft, making his NS debut as we try to untangle the split between Zarah Sultana and Jeremy Corbyn

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Has Your Party split before it started? | UK Politics | The New Statesman
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The New Statesman @handle.invalid · Aug 21
Exclusive: What Roger Hallam learned in prison

The eco-radical speaks exclusively to the New Statesman.

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What Roger Hallam learned in prison
The eco-radical speaks exclusively to the New Statesman.
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Josh Westerling @joshwesterling.bsky.social · Jul 28
Good piece by @meganekenyon.bsky.social. It's cool to say you're proud to be English - the Lionesses are reaching a different demographic to other sports/teams - and it's a counter to the right's ethnonationalism. www.newstatesman.com/culture/spor...
The Lionesses make it cool to be English
Chloe Kelly's comments mark a turning point in conversations about national identity.
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megan kenyon @meganekenyon.bsky.social · Jul 28
Thanks Rachel!!
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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · Jul 28
"This is the England Gareth Southgate wanted... That it has arrived via the success of a Dutch-led (the Lionesses’ head coach is former Netherland’s player Sarina Wiegman) women’s team is perhaps the way it had to happen."

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The Lionesses make it cool to be English
Chloe Kelly's comments mark a turning point in conversations about national identity.
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megan kenyon @meganekenyon.bsky.social · Jun 22
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The British left will not follow Trump into war
Should Keir Starmer back these strikes, he risks splitting his entire political movement.
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megan kenyon @meganekenyon.bsky.social · Jun 22
My piece @newstatesman.com on the British-left's attitudes to the Israel-Iran conflict following last night's events. The left certainly will not back the UK following Trump into this war, making any further alignment with the US politically dangerous for Starmer.
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megan kenyon @meganekenyon.bsky.social · Jun 16
I wrote about the two amendments being brought to the Crime and Policing bill which could decriminalise abortion and why - even though this *must* happen - it is better to handle this precious and sensitive issue with care. For @newstatesman.com

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Abortion is returning to British politics
Parliament will vote tomorrow on a bill that could break the consensus on feminism’s great achievement.
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megan kenyon @meganekenyon.bsky.social · Jun 11
Angela Rayner is the real winner of the spending review.

My piece for @newstatesman.com

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Angela Rayner is the real winner of the spending review
Is the government scared of the housing secretary?
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Richard Martin @mimosacymru.bsky.social · Jun 10
“If voting took place today, Wales would probably have its first Plaid Cymru first minister. Where did it all go wrong for Labour?”
- @meganekenyon.bsky.social on #Senedd26 in #Cymru #Wales
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Labour is losing Wales
The country that voted for Keir Hardie is turning against the party of Keir Starmer.
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megan kenyon @meganekenyon.bsky.social · Jun 10
Thanks Nick!!!
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megan kenyon @meganekenyon.bsky.social · Jun 5
Link here!

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Mike Berners-Lee: “Being a billionaire can make people go nuts”
The environmentalist on the politics of climate in an age of deceit.
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