Chris Giles Also at chrisgiles7.bsky.social

Left politics. Pro EU.

[Annette Dittert  @annettedittert]

It’s over.
I very much doubt that Burnham will be a better PM than Starmer, but as things stand this is the only way forward now.
We’re living in a time where brand and vibes are more important than policy.

[Ruth Deyermond @ruth_deyermond]

Bill Clinton's March 1997 evaluation of the US was generous, as you'd expect of a US president, but his prediction that the world of now would be shaped by how Russia and China defined the idea of their own greatness was absolutely right:

[Briefcase Michael @BriefcaseMike]

Was Justin Webb so gentle with Dicky the Twicer because he didn't want to kick Reform when they were down or because many of their views, for example on trans people, aren't a million miles from his own?
(Rhetorical question). #r4today

[Narinder Kaur @narindertweets]

Nick Ferrari starts his show by saying "where did it all go wrong for Starmer?"

Not where did it go wrong for Reform or Nigel Farage but Starmer!

Labour won.

Ferrari sounds like he's going to cry.

[Luke Tryl @LukeTryl]

Nearly a 10,000 majority that’s a seismic result for Labour, if the proof of concept was winning on hostile turf Burnham has done it, uniting the left vote and holding Reform to under 3 pts higher than at the General Election.

[Zoe Gardner @ZoeJardiniere]

As is becoming the norm, where the anti-racist, anti-far right vote has a clear place to go to keep Reform out they get trounced.

There is a majority for progressive politics in this country & it’s about time we had a proportional voting system to take away the guesswork!

[Supertanskiii @supertanskiii]

“You only care about violence against women and girls when it’s committed by a brown person”

I’m living for Thangam Debbonaire losing her shit after being incessantly interrupted by Sarah Pochin and then utterly bodying her.

No notes.

[Luke Tryl @LukeTryl]

Think this is unarguably Reform’s worst night since General Election.
1) Barely any increase in their vote share in Makerfield. 20pt Labour win in a seat that was one of their best second places in 2024.
2) Tories show proof of life and even momentum in battle for the right with Aberdeen South win
3) Restore Britain take 7%, replicated elsewhere in fragmented politics Reform’s path to govt becomes very very hard.

[Matthew Sweet @DrMatthewSweet]

Amazing it takes the Polish foreign minister on @BBCr4today to point out the gravity of a Russian sponsored firebomb attack on the PM’s home.

[Dr Nafeez Ahmed @NafeezAhmed]

1/ EXCLUSIVE: A Reform UK donor who owns 55 Tufton Street - home of Britain's dark-money Brexit lobby - is bankrolling a network pushing the forced removal of millions of ethnic-minority Britons. Its own architects call it a "right-wing arms race." 🧵https://t.co/NFggacts4G

[Phillips P. OBrien @PhillipsPOBrien]

Trump in a nutshell, cheap, nasty bling

[ALASTAIR CAMPBELL @campbellclaret]

If the press and telly ignore this one as much as they have tried to ignore so many of his other scandals we will know for sure we live in a two tier media country

[Tom Jamieson @jamiesont]

The sheer contempt Farage holds Reform voters in is quite something to behold

He'll have been in a private member's club with his billionare pals

[Will Hutton @williamnhutton]

The public love the BBC and don’t object to the cheap licence fee. Who’d have thought it? https://t.co/X5oh7cxWET

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

This is so embarrassing

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Incredible. Trump reflexively praises war criminal dictator Putin the way his sycophants flatter him during cabinet meetings.

[Luke Tryl @LukeTryl]

The misinformation about Andy Burnham’s wife benefitting from EV deals has come up unprompted consistently focus groups we’ve run in Makerfield, seemingly largely from Facebook: some believe it others don’t, but no doubt this stuff has a real impact

[Matthew Sweet @DrMatthewSweet]

Something dystopian about the US correspondent of a UK TV channel falling for a story as obviously fake as this. It wouldn't happen anywhere but @GBNEWS. @beverleyturner peddling falsehoods. Again. A glimpse, perhaps, of a post-public broadcasting landscape where lies flourish.

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

This is AFD’s Maximilian Krah who met Labour’s Lord Glasman last week with Oleh Voloshyn - the Kremlin agent who bribed Nathan Gill - & his wife Nadia Sass.

Cd a lobby journalist pls ask @keirstarmer about UK govt’s refusal to investigate Russian interference in UK politics?

[Deborah Meaden 🇺🇦 @DeborahMeaden]

You have to ask yourself why MSM isn’t reporting this… indeed imply the opposite. … I don’t like being played…