Owen Bell

@BOSLabour.

[Luciana Berger @lucianaberger]

Just woke up to find @KemiBadenoch is allowing this guy as a Tory candidate.

He was convicted for racial harassment for 5 specific blogs. But that wasn’t all - he’d published *reams* of deeply racist, misoginistic and pornographic material about me.

https://t.co/RDeBKzNRqn

[lee harpin @lmharpin]

In response to Tory Party selection of Joshua Bonehill-Paine @BoardofDeputies vice president Karen Newman said: “It beggars belief that any party would select as a candidate a multiply convicted felon and the founder of a far-right group called National British Resistance. We have contacted the Conservative Party to set out our concerns and call on them to rescind his selection and review their vetting processes.”

[Owen Bell @Owen_Bell96]

@OzKaterji He’s an academic who has his Narrative, be it American decline, China’s ascendancy or Israel’s isolation, and then demands that all the facts fit the Narrative. No exploration of counter arguments at all.

[Owen Bell @Owen_Bell96]

@b0n0myt1res It’s because Ed Davey doesn’t need to be especially popular nationwide. He’s more popular than Badenoch or Farage in the seats the Lib Dems want to keep and potentially win at the next election, and that’s all that matters for them.

[Owen Bell @Owen_Bell96]

@steamedhamms My Conservative parents refuse to vote tactically. They see Farage as a demagogue like Trump and not a real conservative. It’s the principle for them, and they live in what is now a Labour-Reform marginal.

[Owen Bell @Owen_Bell96]

@lewis_goodall I think the Conservatives’ performance has become very geographically concentrated. In the more well off Home Counties and outer London boroughs, they are still competitive. But in most of the North, Midlands, Wales and Scotland, as well as most big cities, they are dead.

[Brendan May @bmay]

The Telegraph on climate: a brief history.
1. Climate change doesn’t exist
2. It might exist but isn’t man made
3. It might be, but it’s woke to say so
4. It’s real, and now too late, so everyone should love it.

No mention of the cost of it, or insurance implications. Thick.

[Owen Bell @Owen_Bell96]

@StefanFSchubert Housing and pensions also central to the wealth inequality debate. Most wealth is in housing or pensions, but we wouldn't regard someone owning a decent value home or having a comfortable pension as a bad thing.

[Ben Lucas @benlucas94]

Beyond belief that @HackneyGreens’ consultation over their performative move to de-twin with Haifa ends on (yes, you read it right) 7th October - three years since the horrific Hamas terrorist attacks.

I’ll be raising a formal complaint on this shocking, insensitive move.

[Will Hutton @williamnhutton]

There are areas in national life which are so fundamental they demand cross-party support. Climate change is one. Another brave Telegraph writer calls out Badenoch’s dangerous stance. Badenoch must pull back from the brink before she destroys the Tories https://t.co/OimbaJDMEn

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

I will instruct our intelligence to share with our partners the information we have regarding Russia’s new assistance to the Iranian regime. Since the beginning of July, we have recorded active Russian satellite surveillance of the Gulf states and U.S. military facilities located there. These images subsequently appear in Iran. At the same time, there is a clear correlation between Russia’s satellite imagery of these sites and Iranian strikes – both before the attacks, in preparation for them, and afterward, to assess the damage inflicted.

On July 19 and 20 alone, four air bases fell within the area of interest of Russian satellites – two in Bahrain, one in Jordan, and one in Kuwait. The purpose is clear. None of us in the world should turn a blind eye to one very simple fact: evil always seeks ways to make things worse and spread further. Russia must be stopped. This war must be stopped. Pressure on the aggressor must work.

From the evening address. (3/3)

[Owen Bell @Owen_Bell96]

@sjsuth I was a semi Starmerite but any objective observer must conclude that Burnham simply has better political instincts and an understanding of what is electable. Of course long term, good optics are no substitute for policy delivery, but they are a
pre condition for reelection.

[Owen Bell @Owen_Bell96]

@CllrDavison I'm still a bit sceptical of the Burnham project but this is yet another example of his opponents demonstrating such a poor understanding of politics and public opinion.

[Owen Bell @Owen_Bell96]

@danhind Yes I suspect so, but getting the number of nominations required would have been an uphill task for them.

[Owen Bell @Owen_Bell96]

@AmitSegal The reality for Israel is that normalisation is not the priority for Saudi Arabia or America at the moment. But a post election Israeli government could make progress on normalisation through internal policy changes that the Saudis would like.

[Owen Bell @Owen_Bell96]

@ElectionMapsUK @DeltapollUK This is the real danger for the Conservatives. Labour drawing level with Reform puts far more pressure on Badenoch than the prior scenario where Conservatives and Labour are level and both behind Reform, especially if this is still the case by next year's local elections.

[Arash Azizi آرش عزیزی @arash_tehran]

There exists an entire class of analysts who want to tell you that the Islamic Republic's decades-long policy of 'Death to America' & 'Death to Israel' has nothing to do with the fact that it is now at war with America and Israel.

It won't pass the most basic common sense test.

[Owen Bell @Owen_Bell96]

@griffitha Manchesterism is more about improving the productivity of cities and towns outside London and the south east so they pay more tax. Which is also what the Conservative levelling up project was about, even if it didn’t work.

[Dr. Zarqa د. زرقاء @DrZarqa3]

I find it fascinating that Iran is losing its global narrative sympathy as it continues its uncompromising tit-for-tat strategy and still thinks its approach is working.