Reposted by Mark DaviesKen Penton @kenpenton.bsky.social · 25/11/2025‘Tough talk, cruel policy — and it still won’t stop the boats’ labourlist.org/2025/11/toug... – via LabourList Very good piece from @markdavies67.bsky.social Good policy is good politics. This fails that test.labourlist.org'Tough talk, cruel policy — and it still won’t stop the boats' - LabourListThe politics of Mahmood's proposals are terrible: it won’t stop the boats, it won’t satisfy Reform-curious voters and it will anger Labour supporters. 121
Reposted by Mark DaviesNo Sacred Cows @nosacredcows.media · 07/11/2025On our latest episode @tonelangengen.bsky.social joins the herd to lay out how progressives must face the reality that people won’t back Net Zero unless it means cheaper energy and credible growth. Out now wherever you get your pods, and in links below. nocows.substack.com/p/lets-level...nocows.substack.comLet's level on Net ZeroTone Langengen lays out how progressives must face the reality that people won’t back net zero unless it means cheaper energy and credible growth. 032
Mark Davies @markdavies67.bsky.social · 07/11/2025open.substack.com/pub/markdavi...open.substack.comNo honour, no decencyThere are times when I truly hate football. 182
Mark Davies @markdavies67.bsky.social · 11/10/2025@unionchapeluk.bsky.social do you have set times for Robert Forster please? 030
Mark Davies @markdavies67.bsky.social · 11/10/2025Do have a listen to the second episode of our new podcast No Sacred Cows, an attempt to tackle some of the most pressing political issues facing the UK and US - and let me know what you think! 021
Reposted by Mark DaviesNo Sacred Cows @nosacredcows.media · 11/10/2025🚨NEW EPISODE - We've turned our attention to immigration - an issue some dare not speak of, or perhaps now you cannot talk about enough. @FrankSharry joins the herd to talk about whether the centre-left needs to ditch its timidity and worry. Listen now. open.spotify.com/episode/7r4z... 032
Mark Davies @markdavies67.bsky.social · 01/10/2025One of my sacred cows is party conference, in current form. Does nothing at all to help further policy, gives media a stage around which to build endless plots and subplots, gives opponents or would-be rivals a massive platform, costs a fortune, cuts public off from politicians…. 000
Mark Davies @markdavies67.bsky.social · 01/10/2025Some thoughts on Labour conference open.substack.com/pub/markdavi...open.substack.comA few thoughts on Labour conferenceI attended my first Labour conference in 1993. 010
Reposted by Mark DaviesNo Sacred Cows @nosacredcows.media · 29/09/2025We're the cows! Peter Hyman joins Ed, Charlotte, Anna and Lanae in our first podcast episode to lay out how the left itself is a sacred cow that needs to be slayed with its arrogance, complacency, and superiority all being sent to the slaughter house. nocows.substack.com/p/wearethecowsnocows.substack.comWe're the cowsListen now | Peter Hyman, a former adviser to Tony Blair and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, joins the herd to make the case that the left isn't always right about everything. 122
Mark Davies @markdavies67.bsky.social · 26/08/2025So proud of my son Alec, who is walking 89km to every football ground in London today. Started at 3am at Bromley. Expects to finish about 9pm. Has so far raised £1k for @myelomauk.bsky.social www.justgiving.com/page/thefoot... 060
Mark Davies @markdavies67.bsky.social · 15/07/2025The quiet closure of the ARAP scheme on July 1 is deeply counter-productive. It will lead to an increase in Afghans trying to come to UK via small boat. 010
Mark Davies @markdavies67.bsky.social · 11/07/2025Indeed approval rates for asylum are around 90pc for people from some of the main countries of origin - Eritrea, Afghanistan, Iran etc. 000
Mark Davies @markdavies67.bsky.social · 13/06/2025Great if depressing piece! Console yourself: I will be 72 by the time the first passengers clamber on board an HS2 at Old Oak Common! 020
Mark Davies @markdavies67.bsky.social · 12/06/2025I couldn’t find it on the BBC site, though fortunately Dua Lipa’s engagement is covered. 0210
Mark Davies @markdavies67.bsky.social · 04/06/2025Probably the right decision but sad that it didn’t work out in the end. There were moments when things looked very promising - just not enough of them. #utb #boro 060
Mark Davies @markdavies67.bsky.social · 24/05/2025I can’t think of a single redeeming feature about this season. Utterly miserable in every way. At least we didn’t get relegated I suppose. 230
Mark Davies @markdavies67.bsky.social · 21/05/2025It’s also very MAGA “end of Western civilisation” etc… 000
Mark Davies @markdavies67.bsky.social · 21/05/2025The levels of exaggeration and unhinged hyperbole *just this week* - “police state”, “gimp” etc.. - from people like this guy and Boris Johnson suggest a heightening of right-wing Trumpification of political narratives. 140
Mark Davies @markdavies67.bsky.social · 19/05/2025Maybe, but if so it didn’t work, and was never going to work. 000
Mark Davies @markdavies67.bsky.social · 12/05/2025Would this increase in migration include 200k Ukrainians and around 150k people from Hong Kong? 120
Mark Davies @markdavies67.bsky.social · 12/05/2025We heard a lot of quotes from Macbeth over dinner last night! 110
Mark Davies @markdavies67.bsky.social · 12/05/2025You could do the same at other embassies in those areas where most people seeking asylum come from. 100
Mark Davies @markdavies67.bsky.social · 30/04/2025Great day in the sun! Wilf Mannion on the pitch! 030
Mark Davies @markdavies67.bsky.social · 21/04/2025If we’d not thrown away leads v Sheff Wed twice we’d be solidly in play offs. 010
Mark Davies @markdavies67.bsky.social · 21/04/2025We’ve squandered so many points this season. If we’d hung on to leads in both games v Sheff Wed alone we’d be solidly in the play offs. So frustrating. #boro 070
Mark Davies @markdavies67.bsky.social · 12/04/2025I heard on one of the podcasts that she was seeing Trump to talk about a Michigan issue and didn’t realise she was going to get ambushed. 1160
Mark Davies @markdavies67.bsky.social · 12/04/2025My timeline is all either #boro misery or the descent of the US into a rogue nation. Happy days. 040
Reposted by Mark DaviesDaniel Gray @danielgraywriter.bsky.social · 10/04/2025Out today! Travelogue from Stornoway to South Wales via Scarborough, Sunderland and some places that don't begin with 's'. Social history from murals to Marx via the banning of leaping on Sundays. Guaranteed to leave the Last of the Summer Wine theme tune as your earworm. 343
Mark Davies @markdavies67.bsky.social · 07/04/2025One of the boys plays in my son’s football team, lovely lad 050
Reposted by Mark DaviesEd Conway @edconway.bsky.social · 27/03/2025🚨 The Chinese owners of British Steel say they are now considering shutting their blast furnaces and end steelmaking at Scunthorpe in early June - only a few months away. It would mean an end of virgin steelmaking in the country that invented it during the industrial revolution 85832
Mark Davies @markdavies67.bsky.social · 26/03/2025But, but, but … the White House says it’s all a hoax? 040
Mark Davies @markdavies67.bsky.social · 26/03/2025This is really important. 53 people said to have died as a result of this attack. 0280
Mark Davies @markdavies67.bsky.social · 26/03/2025It’s incredibly difficult to work out isn’t it? 010
Mark Davies @markdavies67.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Goldberg says he has met Walz so one of them isn’t telling the truth. 211
