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The answer to your question is simple. There is no entryism in the Labour Party by anyone funded by a foreign government. In the 1950s there was a suspicion that the USSR was funding Labour MPs. But nothing since then.

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Equally worrying is why so many broadcast media are giving her a free pass when ordinarily they would tear apart the sheer superficiality of these ‘defences plans’ which are just gimmick ideas.

On this day 3 years ago, Hamas committed a crime against humanity, massacred 1,209 Jewish people and kidnapped another 251. Netanyahu’s government’s retaliation was a further crime against humanity and 75,000 have perished.

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The post election analysis shows this isn’t the case. In deep blue Tory areas yes but not in the places where the Green Party one control of Councils.

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Paul Convery @paulconvery.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Your reply is a non sequitur. Thanks for your time though.

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There are few places where Labour works with the Greens. But there are a few local authorities where the Lib Dems have put minority Green administrations into office like Southwark, Lambeth and Haringey. They need to think hard about what they're doing.

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Paul Convery @paulconvery.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Caselaw says decisions under royal prerogative are subject to legal challenge in the same was as decisions under statute power. That seems pretty reasonable. Leave aside that Ranger's behaviour was unacceptable, he does have a right to challenge the forfeiture of an honour granted under prerogative.

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Paul Convery @paulconvery.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

No, it is not the “message” here.

Paul Convery @paulconvery.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The CPS guidance says: “Criminal immunity is only afforded to the Service Staff at foreign diplomatic or foreign London-based consular missions in respect of the acts performed in the course of their duties. However, such staff are not inviolable.”

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Paul Convery @paulconvery.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Diplomatic immunity isn’t granted in perpetuity. Nor is it absolute.

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Paul Convery @paulconvery.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Polanski is still stuck in student politics mode. The Government isn’t “going after pensioners”. Burnham just announced the best possible outcome for older people: a care system that doesn’t strip pensioners of everything they have. Oh yes, and also took State pension out of taxation.

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Paul Convery @paulconvery.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

he said “electoral reform” not “proportional representation.” The latter is one type of the former.But not necessarily the same.

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Paul Convery @paulconvery.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Trump is a halfwit. The 1951 Greenland Defence Agreement allows the US military to operate in Greenland with Danish consent and within a NATO framework. He's just claimed credit for a deal that is just the 1951 agreement.

avalon.law.yale.edu

Avalon Project - Defense of Greenland: Agreement Between the United States and the Kingdom of Denmark, April 27, 1951

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Paul Convery @paulconvery.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The Farage crew didn't actually receive the £500,000 but they did conspire to receive an illegal donation. Conspiracy to commit a crime is itself a crime.

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Paul Convery @paulconvery.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

In football news, Tottenham Hotspur squeezed a point today. Their first point of the season. Placed 17th in the table. N17th as we say in N1, N5 and most elsewhere in North London.

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Paul Convery @paulconvery.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

They're a bit like that even in deepest urban places, there's always some reason (usually a tree or two) to oppose new social housing.

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Paul Convery @paulconvery.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

.. and the USA is not capable of changing its Constitution to reflect the realpolitics of the country 250 years later.

Paul Convery @paulconvery.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

There is a logic. But it's stuck in the realpolitics of the late 18th century.

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Paul Convery @paulconvery.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Yes we do. But there's not that many. My street has BT poles, BT ducts and G Network ducts. The poles are served by underground cables. So the last 20 metres is wires in the air. And that's not so viable for fibre.

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Paul Convery @paulconvery.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Also a reminder that one of BT's biggest assets is the vast network of underground ducts through which that copper used to run. Much of it is now housing fibre but BT has discovered its ducts are very valuable especially when compared with how much it's cost firms like G Network to dig up roads.

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Paul Convery @paulconvery.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The Green Party has banned UK Friends of Standing Together from attending their conference. Standing Together (Omdim Beyachad) is a Jewish-Palestinian group that calls for the creation of a Palestinian state, organises Gaza aid convoys and organises to protect West Bank Palestinians from attacks.

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Paul Convery @paulconvery.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Live facial recognition technology deployed today by the Met at Highbury Corner with a small team of police officers present. Suddenly there’s almost no self entitled people ploughing through the area on cycles and e-bikes.

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Paul Convery @paulconvery.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

So £15,000 each. That’s expensive even for business class at a peak time. They probably booked late.

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Paul Convery @paulconvery.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Ryanair doesn’t fly to Boston. So, no.

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Paul Convery @paulconvery.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I do appreciate you experienced this up close with Robin and other Ministers. But these are different times. And a bit of advance planning could have got get cheaper tickets. In my own much more modest role, when I travel officially, I get the lowest ticket price and go economy / standard class.

Paul Convery @paulconvery.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Airlines certainly spiked their prices during the World Cup. But tickets for less than £45,000 could have been purchased.

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Paul Convery @paulconvery.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

None of the pro- Farage vox poppers quoted in this piece live anywhere near Clacton. One is from Wales, the other from Gloucestershire. Sloppy journalism.

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Paul Convery @paulconvery.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

After all, the supplementary vote system used to elect the big city mayors seems to work OK. The main perversity in multi party FPTP elections is 3 or 4 way contests where a candidate can win with barely a third or quarter of votes.

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Paul Convery @paulconvery.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Much of the electoral reform debate now seems to be STV, AMS or other systems designed to achieve proportional perfection. AV-type options seems considered dead seemingly because the referendum over a decade ago was lost. Yet it seems a reasonable way to keep constituencies but avoid worst of FPTP.

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Paul Convery @paulconvery.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

To be fair to Finchley (and to LB Barnet) it stopped being deepest permanent Thatcher-ville some years ago! Sarah Sackman has been Finchley's Labour MP since 2024. Before that Rudi Vis was Labour MP 1997 to 2010.

Paul Convery @paulconvery.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Not "British" exactly. In Scotland no-one uses the word soccer. Except some folk who went to private schools.

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Paul Convery @paulconvery.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Yes they’re held in the City Centre but I mean where the local protesters seem to live.

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Paul Convery @paulconvery.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Those protests seem to be centred around areas like Knowle West which is quite a physically insular place economically damaged when the Hartcliffe factories closed.

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I remember Alex Cox from university. He was pretty cool. He directed Repo Man. Totally cool. Then he did Moviedrome TV series. Also cool. Now he's an old fella. But then so am I. Cox is a pretty cool old fella, mind.

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I think you're revealing self importance.

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The BBC's online explainer of the Greater Manchester by-election describes the area as the "ceremonial county". Wrong. It's the former Metropolitan County established 1972 Local Government Act, abolished 1986 by Thatcher, recreated as as a Combined Authority in 2011.

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