Solomon Hughes

Journalist, Private Eye magazine. Also available @solomonhughes.bsky.social

[Solomon Hughes @SolHughesWriter]

@discostuart_ Surely Momentum would have backed Andy Burnham in a by election in 2018 as well - they would hardly have said "Burnham must not win this by election" ?

[The Fraud @StarmertheFraud]

In 2024 Wes Streeting said that South Africa's ICJ case was a "distraction."

[Flying_Rodent @flying_rodent]

I’m just as afraid of the NHS being a hate factory as I was of the National Trust being a Trojan horse of Woke, or the RNLI being treasonous migrant lovers, or the Proms banning Rule Britannia to pander to The Blacks. These things are all the same thing. https://t.co/645HRMKnK5

[Solomon Hughes @SolHughesWriter]

@b_ertie This is true ( and tbh its a sign of how hollowed out Labour is in terms of membership that they are trying to substitute MP's as footsoldiers) - but it shows what goes on inside the "won't support Burnham" MP;s minds

[Solomon Hughes @SolHughesWriter]

A significant slice of Centrist Labour would rather lose to Reform than see even the 'Soft Left' win Labour Leadership

[PoliticsHome @politicshome]

Some Labour MPs who oppose replacing Keir Starmer are refusing to campaign for Andy Burnham in Makerfield

"People feel like they are being asked to take part in an act of self-harm and so aren’t happy about campaigning," one told PolHome

Party chair Anna Turley has asked all Labour MPs to canvass in the by-election twice during the campaign, plus polling day on 18 June

However, multiple Starmer loyalists plan to defy that instruction, with some saying they will stay away altogether, @harriet_symonds reports exclusively https://t.co/wxDz9lkjGs

[Solomon Hughes @SolHughesWriter]

@heather_c_c Yes she is - and I should have credited the image tbh

[Hasanabi productions (meme account) @HasanabiProd]

Last year Hasan Piker spoke at The Oxford Union and highlighted the rise of antisemitism, fascism and the dangerous conflation between criticism of Israel and all Jewish people.

He was invited to speak again but pro-Israel groups successfully persuaded the UK Gov to ban him from entering the country.

[Solomon Hughes @SolHughesWriter]

@jtwhitenoise Specifically on this demonstration, rather than the wider question of how to respond to the Police bad response with Henry Nowak, it was called by Tommy Robinson and was overwhelmingly made up of people who respond to his messages rather than the broader public

[Solomon Hughes @SolHughesWriter]

Many papers are picking up this Mandelson/McFadden exchange and acting as if Mandelson and his friends are the good guys https://t.co/XWmo8pFNkY

[Solomon Hughes @SolHughesWriter]

Minister Pat McFadden agreed with his friend ,disgusting billionaire-pervert-adjacent Peter Mandelson, that the rich shouldn't pay more tax to help the poor. This somehow proves Mandelson/McFadden are right: All newspapers inc. the Guardian https://t.co/q0IJiOiCFy...

[Solomon Hughes @SolHughesWriter]

@crhealy72 Same story here, and many other papers https://t.co/XWmo8pFNkY

[Solomon Hughes @SolHughesWriter]

Minister Pat McFadden agreed with his friend ,disgusting billionaire-pervert-adjacent Peter Mandelson, that the rich shouldn't pay more tax to help the poor. This somehow proves Mandelson/McFadden are right: All newspapers inc. the Guardian https://t.co/q0IJiOiCFy...

[Solomon Hughes @SolHughesWriter]

@patrickkmaguire Only if you think Liam Byrne was asking advice from a disgraced friend of the super rich who would hang about with sex criminals if it got him access to mansions and contacts, surely?

[Solomon Hughes @SolHughesWriter]

Pat McFadden and Peter Mandelson plotting FOR banks, AGAINST Angela Rayner ("agent of destabilisation") , Ed Miliband, Gordon Brown (Because Brown was calling for a big increase in social welfare support to get folk through the cost of living crisis) from latest files

[A whiff of grapeshot @paulewart23]

The Briefcase is dead!
Long live the Briefcase!

[Ian Sinclair @IanJSinclair]

.@SolHughesWriter is always worth reading - his latest on whether Andy Burnham will bend to or resist Reform https://t.co/L3SBsxSYpr

[Solomon Hughes @SolHughesWriter]

Even when Tories are out of power, we see their education policy in the private Regent College, which employs + funds so many Tory MPs: It's too-few lecturers, underfunded libraries + staff trying to get student grades up with Essay Mills and AI cheating https://t.co/oKarTzXdOQ

[Solomon Hughes @SolHughesWriter]

@theNewsfox Idk just because its vicious and may fail doesn't mean its driven by donations, or is irrational- see eg the Vietnam War , or indeed Reagan/Thatcher during the bloody , but dying days of Apartheid .

[Solomon Hughes @SolHughesWriter]

(1)Cenk shouldn't be banned for criticising US Israel policy, but he's wrong that "Israel controls the US govt through donations to Congress" : The US backs Israel for "imperial" reasons , to have a loyal , aggressive military ally in the Middle East. Donations are secondary..

[Cenk Uygur @cenkuygur]

The British government is saying they're banning me because I am "a serious risk to the public order" due to my criticism of Israel.

They say that my charge that Israel controls the American government through donations to 94% of Congress, while factual, is antisemitic nonetheless. Don't know if facts will soon be banned in Britain.

I didn't get banned for criticizing the UK, but for criticizing Israel. They broke the irony record by saying it was because I said Israel might control other governments. I wonder if they're going to ban themselves.

Think about it - if I had said that the Israeli government controls the British government so thoroughly that they'll ban someone from coming to the UK just for criticizing Israel, they would have said that was an antisemitic statement. This is absolutely Kafkaesque.

[Solomon Hughes @SolHughesWriter]

(2) its like UK backing for apartheid South Africa - the SA regime spent money/time cultivating UK politicians (+on attacking UK critics of Apartheid). It mattered. But the UK truly supported the Apartheid regime as a loyal, aggressive enemy of anti-imperialist African nations

[Dimi Reider | dimireider.substack.com @reider]

Much like the crushing of student protests under Biden, the Starmer government is creating the mechanisms, precedent and, worst of all, legitimacy for the authoritarian Reform government they keep warning us about. They're paving the way.