David Soward

Attitudes in 2026 to free movement, to secure single market membership General public: 48-30 support (+18) Labour: 67-20 support (+47) LibDems: 65-21 support (+44) Green 64-20 support (+44) Conservatives 47-40 support (+7) (!) Reform: 39-46 opposed (-7) @britishfuture.bsky.social June 2026

Anyone going on BBC this month should order one of these beforehand and let them sweat www.poppyshop.org.uk/products/pri...

Protestors Criticized For Looting Businesses Without Forming Private Equity Firm First https://theonion.com/protestors-criticized-for-looting-businesses-without-fo-1843735351/

Someone joked on WhatsApp about Trump appointing Liz Truss as his new Press Sec and, for just a flash, just a millisecond, I actually believed it. Because that is the timeline we are living.

The ultimate banter outcome: Clacton goes 52:48 in favour of Rejoin.

Yes, if they were only 'settling', it would be bad enough: these are thugs

Washington Post reveals all the major donors to President Trump’s White House ballroom project, including previously undisclosed contributors who have benefited from regulatory decisions, government contracts and, in one case, a pardon for a family member. wapo.st/4yiUDPx

Hard to adjudicate between experts, but others will, and the FT article makes informative reading. The whole thing is frustratingly technical for the average voter, but the failures of privatised monopolies in vital industries is pretty clear.

Trump and Musk going all out to protect Putin

I'm gobsmacked by ministers' failure to defend Burnham's claim about Russian interference in Brexit (and Tories' claim that he has no proof of it) when there were well-documented troll farms, funded by Russia, spewing out aggressive pro-Brexit attacks on social media at the time

The PM should release the full facts that were uncovered in the UK report on Russian interference… www.csis.org/blogs/brexit...

The euro has an 83% approval rates in the countries that use it and former eurozone crises countries are growing faster than Britain with falling debt and lower borrowing costs. So why is the euro question considered so toxic to the UK Rejoin debate? My latest

A feature, not a bug. www.theguardian.com/politics/201...

A shadowy network of hedgehogs and owls, operating at the highest levels of the British establishment.

I'm sorry if this is obvious but the Tory proposal to exempt family homes completely from IHT will lead to 1] pensioners buying the biggest houses they possibly can 2] pensioners refusing to downsize which can only be bad news for younger families trying to buy family homes

The right-wing papers seem happy to overlook that Badenoch has united her party by losing the right, purging the left and embracing Trussonomics and the myth of self-funding tax cuts, leaving the party at least four points down in the polls on the last election. What a splendid achievement!

What with this and funding a genocide in Sudan I’m beginning to think the UAE might be quite bad.

"The one thing your viewers can know for sure is that we believe in controlling spending and reducing taxes, not increasing taxes," says Conservative Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp, whose own government raised taxes to their highest level in more than 70 years, just two years ago.

The conundrum they're trying to solve: Without Trump you won't get past the primaries. With Trump you might not get past voters. Their solution is trying to shift attention away from Trump - the world's most accomplished limelight hog and history's attention-thirstiest slut. Good luck with that. 😬

In the last decade, the IDF prosecuted one (1) soldier for unlawfully killing a Palestinian in the occupied territories. Elor Azaria served 9 months in prison. Today Israel's president, Yitzhak Herzog, pardoned him and expunged his criminal record. A clear message of 100% impunity.

The story of Jason Arday is the story of James Orr. Of the ideology which has found a foothold in Cambridge University, fostering the sorts of ideas that formed the undercurrents – sometimes explicit; sometimes unconscious – against Arday. I returned to my alma mater for an in-depth exploration 👇

Brexit 🙄🙄😢

Anyone thinking Ukraine should ‘concede terrirory for peace’ should look at what happens to Ukrainians in occupied territories One of the worst humanitarian crisis is unfolding in Oleshky today. Mass starvation and murder by drones. That’s what happens. @ZarinaZabrisky reports

Any movement here?

And reappointed O'Grady in 2023!

"The Republicans hate him. If you talk to them privately, they all hate him, and they want him out - but they're afraid of him." Anthony Scaramucci, former White House Communications Director, on President Trump's popularity in his party. #Newsnight

Britain is just looking on as a handful of tax hating billionaires buy our political future.

Back in July, I mentioned Ben Delo’s support for Reform and the very real concerns I have about his involvement in British politics given his conviction for failing to maintain anti-money laundering controls - a conviction which Trump then pardoned him for

The Times has run a story this morning about how ‘polite’ the masked men in Dover were to three white ladies on a train. Propaganda in its clumsiest form.

Donald Münchausen.

I hope Mirvis will be removed from the Thought for the Day slot on BBC Today. He's outrageously and unashamedly political.

I will take seriously those complaining about "from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free" chants when they care to mention that a Jewish state "From the River to the Sea" is official policy of the Israeli government, implemented and consolidated for 59 years now with bulldozers and soldiers.

Sorry, this is dumb/ahistorical. UK sanctions against South Africa 1985/86 were also largely "symbolic". But Thatcher had to be dragged kicking and screaming, and the apartheid regime devoted huge resources to stopping them - just as the Israeli govt is now. Symbols *really* matter here..

Great speech, heartfelt and just. And a crying shame that the Opposition benches facing him are empty!

BBC R4Today is really the pits now: giving Huckabee the prime 8.10 slot!

What terrifies me is if turns out that James Orr is a creepy bagman for a deeply corrupt & criminal organisation. Imagine the backlash against honest & law-abiding Professors of Divinity at Cambridge University.

Curiously, the French translation of the Reform ‘agreement’ doesn’t say that France will take back small boat migrants intercepted in British waters.

Last year my dog had a lump on his side. I had legitimate concerns. The vet confirmed it was benign and harmless. I no longer had legitimate concerns. Immigration is benign and harmless. How hard was that?

Two tier policing. Arrest retired folk peacefully protesting genocide in Gaza. Allow right wing thugs to block streets and ports. I know which group presents the real threat to democracy and the so-called “British way of life”, which these vigilante bullies preposterously claim to be defending.

Scenes like this did a lot of damage to Mosley and the BUF in the 1930s. Though that relied on Conservative papers reporting them.

An even more interesting question for @cam.ac.uk following #c4news expose of Reform, and James Orr's special role in it.

"champions of free speech" latest

This. Is. Not. Journalism. - It's letting Farage shine. I genuinely do not understand why the BBC does not seem to be able to competently challenge Reform and Farage.

Burnham right to blame Brexit for low growth but he’ll need to break from Starmer’s red lines. Current EU reset will boost GDP by 0.5% at best, compared to 3% for single market membership and 5% for Rejoin. www.arguably.uk/p/we-cant-af...

Hope he's on an IPP sentence. But maybe working for today's Times is as bad as imprisonment