Reposted by @brian-tutt.bsky.socialPeter Whitewood @pwhitewood.bsky.social · 7hA shadowy network of hedgehogs and owls, operating at the highest levels of the British establishment. 4529482
brian-tutt.bsky.social @brian-tutt.bsky.social · 8hHere, belatedly, is Peter Cook’s parody of the 1987 Jeffrey Archer trial summing up - inspired by his similar Thorpe trial tour de force , but still top class Cook. #PrivateEye #JeffreyArcher 000
Reposted by @brian-tutt.bsky.socialCat Neilan @catneilan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026"Turncoat" Robert Jenrick appears (at least) six times in the Tory tapestry. Bearing in mind he's not the only defector, that's quite a hit rate... 118112
Reposted by @brian-tutt.bsky.socialChris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Brexit revisited. New, unscheduled, post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog on why Burnham's conference speech was a significant development in the Brexit saga, the questions and concerns it raises, and why it might come to be seen as a historic moment: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2026/09/brex... 612768
Reposted by @brian-tutt.bsky.socialOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Suspect this one will age like Surströmming, wrapped in a loaded nappy in a compost portaloo on the third day at a festival. In a gastroenteritis outbreak. In a heatwave. 96812134
Reposted by @brian-tutt.bsky.socialRob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Burnham really is going all in on social care here. Powerful uncompromising rhetoric and, it seems, radical reforms. An area where the status quo is terrible yet efforts to change it have fallen apart before. 3609
brian-tutt.bsky.social @brian-tutt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026static.klipy.comAppalled Shocked: What appalling cynicism.ALT: Appalled Shocked: What appalling cynicism. 010
Reposted by @brian-tutt.bsky.socialJosiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I've been to a lot of party conferences. Burnham's speech was the best I've heard in a long time. It was emotive but with major policy announcements and a clear diagnosis of how he thinks the country has taken the wrong path. "Public control" is how he thinks it can be put right. 1122124
Reposted by @brian-tutt.bsky.socialChris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Important development in clearly stating Brexit was harmful & reset isn't a solution. But (unlike ER commission) no obvious process for how "we can find consensus". And on what? The options (again)? Or which to pursue? Still, definitely pitchrolling for something beyond 'make Brexit work'. 811837
Reposted by @brian-tutt.bsky.socialThomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Burnham under pressure to reverse speech style from the British lectern-making industry 1153
Reposted by @brian-tutt.bsky.socialJames Ball @jamesrball.com · 29/09/2026"By embracing electoral reform, tackling the triple lock, and reopening the question of Brexit, Andy Burnham has embraced Labour’s new core vote – younger, economically insecure, liberal Brits, instead of holding on to an imagined voter of a bygone era."thenewworld.co.ukVigour, passion, purpose: Why Andy Burnham’s bold speech will be talked about for many years to comeOn social care, PR, Brexit, water, housing and more, the PM signalled seismic change and a willingness to tackle the toughest issues 818039
Reposted by @brian-tutt.bsky.socialJohn Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026My fourth consecutive bedtime reading a book called Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site and I think I'm just about ready to come out against child literacy. I'm going to become the reverse Dolly Parton and devote my fortune to taking books away from children. 201137
Reposted by @brian-tutt.bsky.socialIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Burnham speech: An astonishing moment of radicalism and commitment iandunt.substack.com/p/burnham-sp...iandunt.substack.comBurnham speech: An astonishing moment of radicalism and commitmentIt’s easy to be cynical, but it would be false. Something extraordinary is happening here. 54905252
Reposted by @brian-tutt.bsky.socialJohn Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 29/09/2026Damn, if only there were some sort of well-known historical comparison to make for this. 1425364
Reposted by @brian-tutt.bsky.socialGeorge Peretz KC @georgeperetzkc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Thoughts on the structure and purpose of the National Commission on Electoral Reform here. georgeperetzkc.substack.com/p/towards-el...georgeperetzkc.substack.comTowards Electoral ReformElectoral reform now has the Prime Minister on its side: but how is it to be delivered? 081
Reposted by @brian-tutt.bsky.socialAdam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Andy Burnham: "We will not give Britain the clear path we need into the rest of this century until we decide on a long-term relationship with what is still our largest market. I cannot say to you truthfully that where we are is good enough. Brexit has done more harm than good." 1012330
Reposted by @brian-tutt.bsky.socialFrances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Anyone who has waded through the social care system for themselves or a loved one will know how meaningful this speech is. It will be a huge challenge - and undoubtedly not be perfect - but the pay-off could be genuinely lifechanging for so many. 710121
Reposted by @brian-tutt.bsky.socialIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Yeah. So that was the best conference I have ever seen. I never dreamed I would see a prime minister with the bravery to do what he just did. 4169661
Reposted by @brian-tutt.bsky.socialJames Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The thing most people don't realise is that this is actually for everyone elses benefit. Because Yorkshire is the best place on earth and we just want to share that with you. We're generous like that. 14422
Reposted by @brian-tutt.bsky.socialRoland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Farage posted this at 12.38 today. It has been hopelessly overtaken by events and shown to be entirely wrong (British nationals involved and they've been released on bail - not very terrorist-like). And if you believe anything Trump says, you are a credulous moron. 103564200
Reposted by @brian-tutt.bsky.socialLegal C @legalclaret.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I will go out on a legal limb here, but I suspect the three vans were not “packed with explosives” as some have suggested. No doubt we will find out more soon. 14616
Reposted by @brian-tutt.bsky.socialRyan @ryanwright.bsky.social · 28/09/2026This is how I remember the order of Henry VIII’s wives. 263952743
brian-tutt.bsky.social @brian-tutt.bsky.social · 28/09/2026If only the then Prime Minister had taken it seriously… 000
Reposted by @brian-tutt.bsky.socialStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026It will never not be wild to me that the Russians attacked Keir Starmer's home, successfully spread falsehoods about Starmer's love life, and this didn't changed British politics and British political elite behaviour *at all*. 471186353
Reposted by @brian-tutt.bsky.socialAnti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 28/09/2026"If your "patriotism" relies on foreign dictators using deepfakes to influence British voters, you aren't a patriot, you're an asset." via Stop Brexit & Restore Hope 16465198
Reposted by @brian-tutt.bsky.socialJim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 28/09/2026Releasing the five people arrested by the airbase on bail after 24 hours is so weird, would be fantastic if it turns out they were just up to no good on an unrelated minor jape and accidentally created an international security story. 9066574
Reposted by @brian-tutt.bsky.socialRoland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026'Which taxes do you want to raise instead?' should be the default question to anyone who calls for reductions in immigration. 14433153
Reposted by @brian-tutt.bsky.socialWill Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I'm increasingly disillusioned with the (policy) ideas ecosystem in the UK - it seems like underlying (social) scientific research is less and less influential and there's increasing dominance of PR and pseudo-research. 2423034
Reposted by @brian-tutt.bsky.socialChris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 26/09/2026In case you missed it 👇 14215
Reposted by @brian-tutt.bsky.socialChris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 11/09/2026A picture of post-Brexit Britain. New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog on a fortnight of ugly political scenes, why a government-led counter-narrative on asylum is needed, and why these domestic political events are a national security issue: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2026/09/a-pi... 7211105
Reposted by @brian-tutt.bsky.socialSunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Harborne has given Reform £36 million to match Delo's £36 million. The Telegraph describes it as a "show of force" from Reform's donors. The two men's £72 million is greater than all of the spending by all political parties on the 2024 GE www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...telegraph.co.uk 51330202
Reposted by @brian-tutt.bsky.socialRuss Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 12/09/2026£72 million from 2 individuals - both of whom have faced questions about money laundering, both of whom live/d overseas to avoid tax - is not compatible with democracy. I don't care if it's Reform, Labour or whoever. We can't function like this. Not for long. So how do we fix it? My plan: 551289422
Reposted by @brian-tutt.bsky.socialAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Reform UK's record-breaking donor was accused of running “in effect a money laundering platform”. Prosecutors accused Delo of being the “leader of a criminal enterprise” who knew that his Bitmex platform had become a “magnet for money laundering and criminal activity”.adambienkov.co.ukReform UK Is Now a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of the Corrupt Crypto IndustryAs criminal investigations into Reform’s funding continue, much of the British press continues to give a free pass to Nigel Farage’s shady funders 861368637
Reposted by @brian-tutt.bsky.socialWill Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Politicians on the centre-left and centre-right simply don't seem to understand they are in an existential battle for the future of British democracy. 601451378
Reposted by @brian-tutt.bsky.socialMike D London @mikedlondon.bsky.social · 12/09/2026So Refuk have now had 2 donations of £36m All because they want crypto deregulation / low taxes and are happy to see us all stripped of our rights, foreigners to be targeted for deportation, disabled people to be financially penalised and for the nation to be divided, as long as they end up richer. 36433196
Reposted by @brian-tutt.bsky.socialPeter Whitewood @pwhitewood.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Britain in 2026theguardian.comProtesters outside Portsmouth hotel mistake Pakistan U19 cricket team for asylum seekersA group of masked agitators gathered outside a four-star hotel in Portsmouth after reports a group of asylum seekers had been taken there, when it was in fact Pakistan’s under-19 cricket team on a tou... 231
Reposted by @brian-tutt.bsky.socialPeter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 09/09/2026When will a senior Labour figure announce that the thugs who dress up in black with the sole intention of intimidating dark skinned people that their concerns aren't remotely legitimate? 1116731
Reposted by @brian-tutt.bsky.socialMike D London @mikedlondon.bsky.social · 09/09/2026At this early stage in the investigation, there is no suggestion of any right-doing... 44011
Reposted by @brian-tutt.bsky.socialOli @oliaworth96.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Nigel Farage’s Argos basket right now… 0182
brian-tutt.bsky.social @brian-tutt.bsky.social · 03/09/2026It’s not for nothing that he’s been nicknamed “Sermon Goering”… 040
Reposted by @brian-tutt.bsky.socialDaniel Moser @dmoser.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport. 164115623175
Reposted by @brian-tutt.bsky.socialSimon Pegg @simonpegg.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Kensington and Chelsea about to experience a severe supply shortage of San Pellegrino. 1935196