I hear this is also going to feature a secret third Curtice

Need to think about change as well as level for turnout in 2024 but I was really struck by the pattern by party competition in this table from @commonslibrary.bsky.social

jd vance would happily end american democracy if it allowed him to climb just one additional rung on the ladder www.politico.com/news/2024/09...

Vance would have asked for new electors instead of certifying 2020 election results

Trump’s current running mate said Pence “could have done more.”

Assembling a collection of mid-century novels with notably sexist cover-endorsements

Paul Nowak not holding back on Farage this morning, calling him a "private school educated, private equity loving, NHS privatising, Putin apologist fraud": labourlist.org/2024/09/tuc-...

TUC Congress 2024: Paul Nowak – Farage is a “Putin apologist fraud” – LabourList

Paul Nowak described Reform UK leader Nigel Farage as a “Putin apologist fraud” at his address at the annual meeting of the Trade Union Congress…

i love tuc

What motions passed on the first day of TUC Congress and what do they mean unions will be pushing for? Calls for – above inflation pay rises in the NHS – Dramatic improvements in collective bargaining – a national minimum wage to end in-work poverty labourlist.org/2024/09/tuc-...

TUC Congress 2024: Delegates approve calls for collective bargaining across the economy – LabourList

Delegates at the TUC Congress have called for radical improvements to collective bargaining, a national minimum wage that ends in-work poverty and an above-inflation pay…

TUC general secretary Paul Nowak will address congress tomorrow. Here's a preview of what will be in his speech – covering riots, bad bosses, and his commitment to working with Labour: labourlist.org/2024/09/nowa...

Nowak: Keir Starmer has “interests of working people at heart” – LabourList

Addressing the annual meeting of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) in Brighton tomorrow, Paul Nowak will say that Keir Starmer's government has the "interests of…

Don't mourn - organise! This week's piece on a puzzle of British politics: why are Remainers - a tribe that is still large and committed - so ineffective at bending government policy? www.economist.com/britain/2024...

For years now, Sebastian Ben Daniel has examined numerous cases of IDF killing of Palestinians in the West Bank and how they were "investigated" by police in a manner designed to clear the killers. Read this piece from two years ago. www.972mag.com/shireen-bull...

An Israeli bullet killed Shireen. Denial is the army's time-tested strategy - +972 Magazine

Israel's attempts to deny responsibility for Abu Akleh's death is part of its long-standing policy of obfuscating investigations into Palestinian killings.