David Gooda

Really worth noting that even in Red Wall constituencies which backed Leave, most *Labour* voters back rejoining the EU. Over 90% of Labour considerers back rejoin - opposition to EU membership is mainly coming from non-Labour voters in these seats. Was on Times Radio yesterday making this point.

Amazing how many Labour MPs do not understand this quite basic point.

Three of the 5 splits in the Burnham cabinet identified by the FT political correspondents are to do with climate policy Rosebank, the electric vehicle mandate, Heathrow airport expansion all pitch traditional industry models against the reality of climate breakdown www.ft.com/content/b04b...

The Red Wall is a myth, a spook story that British politicians must worship at the altar of: do what I tell you or the Red Wall will get you. It is made up. It has long since lost contact with its original definition. It encourages people to confuse places and people. It is past its sell by date.

“The case for Rejoin must be a case for Europe as our home: a continent…prepared to take on and defeat Russian imperialism, an economic union which can shelter countries from the storm of a global trade war” A team we want to belong to. Because it strengthens us all. www.arguably.uk/p/europe-is-...

The correct legal approach to this seems to be that when platforms start favouring some content over other, they don‘t deserve immunity for third party content on the basis that they are just platforms. They should become liable. finance.yahoo.com/media-advert...

University of Nottingham, right now, is cutting 560 jobs. Do we need to rebrand universities as very large, very clean, land-based oil rigs to get government support?

And that plan has to be sustainable in the long term, which means getting us off the energy roller coaster. Swapping oil and gas for electricity should be a top national priority, for the economy, not just the climate

On the populist craft of fanning flames and posing as a firefighter www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

And Burnham's critique of this argument is actually correct. When you pull back the state you end up with an *abundance* of what the market wants to supply (gas power, high value property, nuclear waste) and a *scarcity* of what you need (affordable housing, clean power, a decent environment).

Musk is a traitor. Nobody should be using his website.

We are watching a piece of shit US president sell out Ukraine to Russia in real time. This is a moment of shame for America and the world. Stand with Ukraine

More Kremlin propaganda from Tavarish Trump: Russia may have lost more ground than it gained this year due to Operation Vivaldi and other Ukrainian advances, and fascist Russia had to bring in North Korean troops it help it retake its own territory in Kursk Oblast.

One of the most important CiF posts so far. We all need to play our part in resisting the chaos of radical right governments.

Absolutely not. Humans evolved to live on Earth and there’s no other place that has the right amount of everything we need, like climate, liquid water, mix of oxygen and non-toxic gases in the atmosphere, magnetic field, gravity, puppies, kittens, etc.

Hear, hear. Slava Ukraini!

Invasion, mass murder, rape, kidnapping of children - all fine

Do you get it now, finally. Trump doesnt give a damn about human life, be it American or Ukrainian. He is fine with Russia slaughtering defenseless civilians. This is your America, MAGA.

Smashing the army of fascist Russia, an enemy of the US? Nothing? Supplying invaluable HUMINT on Russia to the US? Nothing? Sharing drone tech and battle expertise? Nothing? Defending the free world from aggressive fascist Russian imperialism? Nothing?

‘Last night of the pogroms’

Elon Musk's radicalisation machine is the main reason why civil war talk is a thing in Britain. Without it, Lowe would be a nonentity: there's no organic demand for Restore's fascism; It's been manufactured, and now "what needs to happen will be incredibly painful" is in the high single digits.

This right here is the power of Elon Musk to completely warp politics without *giving a penny* as a political donation Without X, Lowe would be a no hoper independent MP Instead he’s spreading ethnic cleansing chat to normies. Wild

Oil is the cause, the effect, the weapon, and the vulnerability in our world’s myriad wars billmckibben.substack.com/p/are-the-pe...

New analysis by thinktank E3G suggests that the £15bn warm homes plan - currently under threat - would slash £1bn a year from UK household energy bills, concentrated on those on low incomes, provide a £1.6bn yearly boost to the economy, and create 50,000 new jobs, vs Rosebank's projected 1,100 jobs.

A billionaire-controlled media is no freer than a government-controlled media.

It doesn't seem to occur to the Daily Mail that quite a few immigrants from that generation also fought in the Second World War

The United States is actively helping Putin murder civilians in Ukraine. Trump is doing everything he can to force Ukraine to surrender to his friend and ally Putin so they can be subjugated by the Russians again.

Thank you Ian. You never get time to say everything you intended to. I should have noted that what Trump considers pressure tactics, like suspending intel on Russian missile launches or messing with Starlink, is costing lives of civilians in Ukraine. That won’t be forgotten.

We still have many friends in the US, but we shd certainly reduce our dependency. Trump has been elected twice: that's a warning that despite the intelligence & military ties we have, we shdn't rely on the US govt doing the right thing in future. We & the rest of NATO & Ukraine are in the same boat.

How many times does somebody need to tell you who they are? Musk has repeatedly sought to stir civil unrest in the UK, there is not any ambiguity.

Racism as an idea... kinda dumb Racism as a feasible functional praxis? a disaster

A memo from senior insurance-industry officials warning that insurance modelers are being pressured to downplay climate in their models & that many insurers are already planning their exist from key markets. An explosive fuckup on the scale of the mortgage crisis is building.

A fellow member of the #HouseofLords expressed astonishment that I don't use so-called AI for research or speeches. I am astonished anyone does www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Honestly, the way Jeremy Hunt is treated as voice of reason on the economy bewilders me. It's like having Boris Johnson on to discuss how best to abide by public health rules.

It drives me absolutely mad that Hunt has never been forced to account for this. Interviewers never say "But isn't this your fault?" (It is.)

If Putin stops fighting, the war ends. If Zelensky stops fighting then his country will be occupied, leaders murdered, language banned, businesses stolen, children kidnapped. That's what happens in Russian-occupied Ukraine.

It's amazing how Hunt keeps popping up on the media as the wise old greybeard of the Exchequer, and is absolutely never questioned on his own disastrous - and highly partisan - choices in that job.

Dodging bold decisions in the budget will create more political and economic pain later for the Labour government. My latest for @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/9f37...

War as an election strategy should lead to life imprisonment without hope of release.

#gaiety

Today's lesson for Europe: if your national security relies on US oligarchs' tech, they'll cut you off when you most need it.

And this isn't just an issue because it's robbing the Exchequer, it's also an issue because it makes it harder for small businesses which are abiding by the law and paying their tax, which are precisely the companies that would be likely to grow into medium businesses if the system worked properly.

This is the big risk to Burnham and Healey’s probable “do nothing much and hope it gets better” budget strategy. Substantial chance that things have deteriorated further by the time we reach the spending review.

Was that the same security services you dumped to visit ‘ex’ KGB colonel Alexander Lebedev and party in Umbria just after the Novichok Salisbury attack? Or the same security services whose advice you defied to put his son Evgeny in the House of Lords? Those security services?

Trump has just extended two wars in exchange for a meaningless appeal to his vanity from Putin. snyder.substack.com/p/war-throug...

Labour is no longer a working class party: its vote share is highest among the professional and managerial class. It does sometimes feel like it wants to return to being a working class party entirely by alienating its new base. Adapt with the times? Never!

But I really don't know what's complicated about "the enemy that we are arming against is completely reliant on us continuing to burn fossil fuels". Quite apart from everything else.

Correct. Baffled as to why AB hasn't prioritised a reversal of this eye-wateringly stupid policy.