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As always the lesson is that a culture of bullying persists in Parliament, committed by politicians you like as well as ones you don’t. Allegations shouldn’t be thrown around for political advantage because they easily rebound. I hope the ICGS does its job and the facts help change the culture.

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Seeing Blair, Brown and Starmer at Prescott’s funeral made me realise this is the first time there have been three Labour Prime Ministers alive at the same time. Which is striking given that there are three Conservative Prime Ministers alive from the last parliament.

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submitted 150 days ago • 14 comments

Concerning if this leads to more people drinking in their offices instead- less oversight and fewer people keeping an eye on bad behaviour

submitted 153 days ago • 0 comments

RIP Jimmy Carter

submitted 172 days ago • 0 comments

Hey, that headline looks good for a modern, popularist royal reads article oh he's being forced to by legislation and has actually been fighting this all the way

submitted 180 days ago • 2 comments

New polling for @38degrees.bsky.social highlights how unpopular foreign interference is from billionaires like Musk. The government is on strong ground to take action to protect our democracy. This is a fight they should take on. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

submitted 179 days ago • 0 comments

I don’t recall Alberto Costa discussing this with parliamentary staff trade unions before speaking out on it. The fact that bullying has led to MPs losing their seats is a great strength of the ICGS system, not one to be watered down.

submitted 183 days ago • 0 comments

Probably not shocking that I loved this book as a child!

submitted 184 days ago • 0 comments

I increasingly think that tech companies, specifically, should be subject to a punitive carbon tax. If you want to build inaccurate plagiarism machines, fine, but you should be strongly discouraged from warming the planet as a result. No one needs this extra fossil fuel use

submitted 190 days ago • 7 comments

This chart, from the latest Compass report, purports to show that there is an almost neverending progressive majority in the UK... by treating the Lib Dems as progressives during the time when they were part of a coalition with the Conservatives which implemented austerity.

submitted 192 days ago • 9 comments

For the first time on this platform I’m going to marvel that every MP’s office is daily sent the propaganda of a major world power. No letters page, just boosterism and undermining rivals!

submitted 193 days ago • 0 comments

A shame Sarah Olney’s 10 minute rule bill passed first reading. But next month’s debate will be able to point out First Past The Post has given British voters maximum power to hold politicians to account (100s of incumbents defeated this year) and a stable government unlike most of Europe under PR.

submitted 198 days ago • 0 comments

Sign a proper petition this evening, not one of those comedy Musk ones... Ban Driven Grouse Shooting! It destroys ecosystems, is ridden with criminality, causes flooding, concentrates land with a tiny minority of bloodthirsty maniacs, and after all that, is a shit excuse for a sport anyway. 👇

submitted 199 days ago • 16 comments

Few safe seats under First Past The Post

submitted 205 days ago • 0 comments

Further listening to staff trade unions and cracking down on bullying and controlling behaviour comes ahead of changing the paintings for me…

submitted 206 days ago • 0 comments

If Musk is going to start paying undue and unwanted attention to our parliamentary instruments, I look forward to his lobbying on more important matters, like the next time Jim Shannon tables a tribute to Dolly Parton edm.parliament.uk/early-day-mo...

submitted 207 days ago • 1 comment

Do you like the REBRANDING of the LONDON OVERGROUND? Do you like WOMEN? Then please read this delightful guest post in which @isabelleroughol.com offers a women’s history guided tour along the newly renamed Suffragette line

submitted 209 days ago • 8 comments

Yes please #EverythingLouderThanEverythingElse

submitted 209 days ago • 1 comment

How is this worthy of being a push notification from The Times, let alone one with an ‘alert’ noise? We should be able to opt out of partisan columnist nonsense- they are exploiting their direct access to our phones.

submitted 209 days ago • 1 comment

How much did Lord Liverpool look like Monty Python’s Graham Chapman? “He’s not a reactionary nineteenth century Prime Minister. He’s a very naughty boy!”

submitted 209 days ago • 0 comments

RIP John Prescott There’s no better time to enjoy the heavyweight clash between him and William Hague at PMQs- one of the most entertaining sessions I’ve ever seen youtu.be/cDZiIIhnJdY?...

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🚨 LAUNCHING TODAY 🚨 Nearly two years ago, @tortoisemedia.bsky.social unveiled the Westminster Accounts, a free tool designed to give people greater understanding of the money that flows through parliament. Now, with Peer Review, we take on another arcane part of our system - the House of Lords

submitted 212 days ago • 31 comments

PR elevates representation over accountability. There is no lower threshold to remove unwanted MPs than First Past The Post, as we saw in this year’s general election: the system works!

submitted 214 days ago • 1 comment

Incredible, how casually Kuenssberg skates over the fact she got the facts flat-out wrong in her framing of the opening question, in order to make a hostile editorial point. Just presses on, as if a minister having to put her right on basic inaccuracies is an ordinary part of any BBC interview.