Reposted by @suerubenstein.bsky.socialJonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 08/09/2026The Chief Rabbi speaks for Netanyahu, Ben-Gvir and their apologists in this country. Ed Miliband speaks for me and many other British Jews. 27809209
suerubenstein.bsky.social @suerubenstein.bsky.social · 07/09/2026rnli.org/support-us/g...rnli.orgDonate to the RNLI and help save lives at seaYour donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here. 000
suerubenstein.bsky.social @suerubenstein.bsky.social · 17/08/2026The new Prime Minister is writing a "10-year plan" for the UK. The arts & culture MUST be part of it. I've signed @campaignforthearts.org's petition urging @andyburnham.bsky.social to revitalise the arts – to revitalise the whole nation 🌱 Join me: www.campaignforthearts.org/petitions/10-year-plan/campaignforthearts.orgPrime Minister – put the arts in your 10-year plan for the UK | Campaign for the ArtsSign our petition urging the UK Government to build a country where the arts are available from childhood, accessible to all and thriving everywhere. 020
Reposted by @suerubenstein.bsky.socialStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Just finished Madeleine Thien’s “The Book of Records”. Absolutely brilliant work. A fantastic novelist who is really worth your time (though I think this one, in which she writes genre for the first time time, will be more divisive among her fans!) 3211
Reposted by @suerubenstein.bsky.socialThe Future Governance Forum (FGF) @futuregovforum.bsky.social · 04/08/2026How could Andy Burnham do immigration differently? FGF’s @bethgardiner-smith.bsky.social sets out how Burnham can improve things in a @politicshome.bsky.social article, read Beth’s ideas for transforming the state to renew the nation 🔽 @siennarodgers.bsky.social www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...politicshome.comHow Andy Burnham could do immigration differentlyAndy Burnham arrived in Downing Street with a promise to do politics differently. 046
Reposted by @suerubenstein.bsky.socialDavid Oliver @mancunianmedic.bsky.social · 29/07/2026I don't think that is an "easy answer" - it it too simplistic there are bigger questions - 1 e..g social care is currently based on eligibility criteria with high thresholds and so heavily rationed and limited to people with high levels of need. Very different from universal NHS 4155
suerubenstein.bsky.social @suerubenstein.bsky.social · 28/07/2026I have no expertise in social care funding but I have joined battle with the system on behalf of someone I love & I despair at a press corps determined to suffocate the debate by making option generation & appraisal politically impossible. Yes you Times journalists with your ‘death tax’ headlines 001
Reposted by @suerubenstein.bsky.socialVictoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 27/07/2026I wrote this 👇 open.substack.com/pub/vicderby... 461136233
Reposted by @suerubenstein.bsky.socialDan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 27/07/2026I have a modest proposal for a new tax. It involves a deck of cards and a monkey throwing darts. Here are the rules: 41885385
Reposted by @suerubenstein.bsky.socialChris Kendall @ottocr.at · 07/07/2026If you read one thing today, this week, this year, read this. ht @samueljohnson.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy thegrimhistorian.substack.com/p/has-americ...thegrimhistorian.substack.comHas America Crossed the Asshole Threshold?Civilizations can carry a surprising number of parasites and live. But there’s a line — Rome crossed it, the Gilded Age toed it, and for the first time in history, we can measure it. 106950
Reposted by @suerubenstein.bsky.socialSarah Owen MP @sarahowen.org.uk · 01/07/2026Ben Cullen, a leading figure of the "Raise the Colours" campaign, will stand trial for three separate charges regarding a total of 78 indecent images of children. I have only seen this covered in local newspapers, so far. Grim as it is, it needs wider coverage www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2624087... 861309894
Reposted by @suerubenstein.bsky.socialCaitlin Moran @mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Am racking my brain to think of ways we can all keep the pressure and heat on this story. Meta & Mark Zuckerberg - one of the richest men in the world - are putting unfathomable legal and financial pressure on whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams. Pretty sure most people are on her side - not their's 19354138
Reposted by @suerubenstein.bsky.socialLuke Piper @lukepiper.bsky.social · 27/06/2026I've met many people who can't afford to get ILR now nevermind on the other side of these proposals. I don't think many know - especially the all knowing 'comments' section of the Times - that it costs close to £3500 per person to get ILR. 55718
Reposted by @suerubenstein.bsky.socialAdam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 27/06/2026I thoroughly recommend supporting Our Second Home — an outstanding organisation doing pioneering work to support young refugees in the UK. More donations = more camp places for vulnerable young people. Every £ donated this week will be DOUBLED by PostcodeSociety. donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...donate.biggive.orgOur Second Home - the UK's refugee youth movement – Big GiveOSH supports young people with refugee backgrounds to build communities, become leaders, and flourish into adulthood in the place they … 13418
Reposted by @suerubenstein.bsky.socialChristabel Cooper @christabelcoops.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Extraordinary credit to Sadiq Khan for pushing through this deeply controversial policy. This is what can happen when politicians are prepared to stick to their principles. 20985269
Reposted by @suerubenstein.bsky.socialAlan Rusbridger @arusbridger.bsky.social · 20/06/2026When is a riot not a riot? When is the grandson of Jewish emigres who fled Hitler someone to be “extremely wary” of? When @GBNEWS is involved. app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/73892/...app.prospectmagazine.co.ukThe GB News obsession with immigration even extends to antisemitic tropes, and no one is stopping itOne presenter invited her followers to be wary of the grandchild of Jewish émigrés 912347
Reposted by @suerubenstein.bsky.socialDorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Of course one should think about addressing the root causes of broader unrest in the UK but right now the government needs a very different plan to deal with the pogroms and the race-war crew. You don't stop that lot by regenerating the high street 41254
Reposted by @suerubenstein.bsky.socialDorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 10/06/2026If I were Andy Burnham, watching Starmer's hopelessly impotent response to the national emergency caused by fascist agitators at home and abroad, I would see both an opportunity and a necessity to do things very differently 1939393
Reposted by @suerubenstein.bsky.socialSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 10/06/2026This is no more about the details of immigration policy than the progroms my great great grandparents fled were about Jews committing crimes. It's straightforward racist violence and it needs the strongest possible response. 241852398
Reposted by @suerubenstein.bsky.socialSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Everyone on X and elsewhere who called for a violent response should be charged with incitement. Everyone involved in the pogrom should be locked up with exemplary sentences. Govt should make it clear that will be the response in future anywhere else. Enough. 10556071590
Reposted by @suerubenstein.bsky.socialJames Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 02/06/2026Enjoyed writing this for @iandunt.bsky.social excellent substack. Labour does have a genuinely inspiring vision and impressive track record. It's called net zero and if the government talked about it more it might start to improve its fortunes. iandunt.substack.com/p/guest-post...iandunt.substack.comGuest Post: Labour's Net Zero triumphIn the face of frenzied right-wing attacks, this government has successfully executed one of the most ambitious climate change projects in the world. It's time to give credit where it's due. 1122185
suerubenstein.bsky.social @suerubenstein.bsky.social · 10/05/2026Antidote to general misery. Thousands of people of all ages are currently walking through my local woods in support of North London Hospice. A man (in his later years) resplendent in full superman costume shepherding the walkers & almost tearful with pride. £90K raised. Let’s just be this country. 010
Reposted by @suerubenstein.bsky.socialNa'amod @naamoduk.bsky.social · 12/04/2026Over 1,000 Jews in the UK have called on our institutions to name Israeli apartheid for what it is and take a stand against its injustices. Join them and add your name to the open letter. forms.gle/JDHQorh6Ypg5... 27754
Reposted by @suerubenstein.bsky.socialThe Guardian @theguardian.com · 02/04/2026Israel’s death penalty law marks a new phase in its dehumanisation of Palestinians | Yuli Novaktheguardian.comIsrael’s death penalty law marks a new phase in its dehumanisation of Palestinians | Yuli NovakA government that openly embraces violence against Palestinians has now enshrined into law a policy of lethal force, says B’Tselem’s executive director, Yuli Novak 1315975
Reposted by @suerubenstein.bsky.socialJanine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 21/02/2026This felt urgent and it is as powerful and galvanising as maddening and incredible. How did we get here? Why has big tech turned against women by author and campaigner Laura Bates as.ft.com/r/9a009af2-d...as.ft.comHow tech turned against women[FREE TO READ] As AI-generated sexualised images proliferate and app-facilitated abuse spreads, we are sleepwalking into a new age of gender inequality. It is time to regulate properly 612069
suerubenstein.bsky.social @suerubenstein.bsky.social · 13/02/2026What a remarkable woman! A study in integrity and moral clarity and … I want to say courage but it feels like perhaps words like ‘brave/courageous’ just piles pressure onto survivors of abuse. Anyway she is exactly right. 020
Reposted by @suerubenstein.bsky.socialOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 02/02/2026Why isn't this a major news story? 11520971092
Reposted by @suerubenstein.bsky.socialColin Yeo @colinyeo.bsky.social · 02/02/2026If civil servants and ministers spent as much time using the powers they already have rather than dreaming up new ones then they wouldn't be in the mess they are in today. Discuss. 1161
Reposted by @suerubenstein.bsky.socialLiam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 24/01/2026Worth remembering when looking at the horrific scenes in the US right now that both Reform and the Tories have pledged to bring in ICE-style organisations to the UK if they win power 9631671492
Reposted by @suerubenstein.bsky.socialSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 18/01/2026New post just out: "Power to the People" Today we have a guest post from @jamestplunkett.bsky.social on how Labour can counter the "Britain is Broken" narrative by investing in civic life and giving people more control over their community. (Free to read) open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/p...open.substack.comPower to the PeopleHow Labour can restore civic life and counter the "Britain is broken" narrative 1919659
Reposted by @suerubenstein.bsky.socialSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 10/01/2026I think it's very important that Rupert Lowe's "Million Nonce March" gets widespread media coverage. Critical to amplify diverse voices. 31781231
Reposted by @suerubenstein.bsky.socialOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 08/01/2026As reported by @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...theguardian.comFormer minister says government should quit X over child sexual abuse imagery – UK politics liveLouise Haigh says use of Elon Musk’s social media platform ‘unconscionable’ amid proliferation of abuse imagery 518447
suerubenstein.bsky.social @suerubenstein.bsky.social · 30/11/2025I notice that this thoughtfully argued, nuanced piece has generated snarky SM posts extracting single sentences. I thought the whole article was really worth reading. www.ft.com/content/96aa...ft.comLiberalism can win back the working class. Here’s howNobel-winning economist Daron Acemoglu on Zohran Mamdani’s rise, the problem with cultural politics — and the case for pro-worker AI 000
Reposted by @suerubenstein.bsky.socialTony Vaughan KC MP @tonyvaughanmp.bsky.social · 22/11/2025I believe the majority of my constituents in #Folkestone #Hythe & #RomneyMarsh agree we should grant asylum to those fleeing war and persecution – provided the system is fair and managed. I spoke to one constituent, Janice, this week, who thinks that... 1/2 www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...theguardian.com‘It’s wrong’: the Labour MP speaking out against the party’s asylum policyAs a well-informed MP on the frontline of the debate, Tony Vaughan’s views are particularly unwelcome to government 38121
Reposted by @suerubenstein.bsky.socialProf Naomi Fulop @profnaomifulop.bsky.social · 17/11/2025My Dad escaped the Nazis in 1939 on the Kindertransport. He went to night school then University, trained as a physicist. Married my mum, brought up 3 kids, all work in public sector. Under these proposed rules, he would have been deported. 100% 'performatively cruel' @stellacreasy.bsky.social 312164
Reposted by @suerubenstein.bsky.socialStella Creasy MP @stellacreasy.bsky.social · 17/11/2025Plans to leave refugees in a state of perpetual uncertainty about where and if they can rebuild their lives are not just performative cruelty, they are counterproductive to integration and the economy. It doesn’t have to be like this - 1/2 651129276
Reposted by @suerubenstein.bsky.socialDr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 15/11/2025Someone should ask Starmer and Mahmood whether they think the Kindertransport, for example, should have been a return ticket. Whether Alf Dubs, rather than becoming a Labour MP and now Lord, ought to have been sent back with his family to Czechoslovakia once it was liberated from German rule. 17614241
Reposted by @suerubenstein.bsky.socialDr Farbod @emergencybod.medsky.social · 15/11/2025I came to this country as a child refugee. No English, no certainty, no idea what my life could become. Britain gave me refuge. Not on a timer, not with conditions attached, but with a chance to grow roots. A thread 🧵 1/8 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukUK set to limit refugees to temporary staysShabana Mahmood is expected to say the era of permanent protection for refugees is over, in major changes to the UK's asylum and immigration system. 461488675
Reposted by @suerubenstein.bsky.socialRob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 19/10/2025This, this, this. If journalists don’t scrutinize this and explain it properly now then they have failed on their duty and will bear a share of the blame if such policies are enacted (most of the public oppose them and don’t I think realise what is being proposed yet). 10586209
Reposted by @suerubenstein.bsky.socialSofie Jenkinson @sofiejenkinson.bsky.social · 06/10/2025As I was speaking on panels at Labour conference last week I began to describe the Britain I know exists and love. In the end I gave it a name: Mr Blobby Patriotism And I’ve written about it for @renewaljournal.bsky.social here bsky.app/profile/rene... 43512
Reposted by @suerubenstein.bsky.socialDr Tess Machling @tessmachling.bsky.social · 06/10/2025Meanwhile, in 'ya don't f*king say' land, Reform discover that governing ain't quite so easy... ' "Everyone thought we'd come in and there were going to be these huge costs we could cut away but there just aren't," said a third senior Reform cabinet member in Kent. ' 66916
Reposted by @suerubenstein.bsky.socialSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 01/10/2025Both my grandfathers fought in the war and my grandmothers served too. Their parents would all have been deported under Reform's policies. 1227449
Reposted by @suerubenstein.bsky.socialAlex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 30/09/2025It's not about "considering them". They are in gov't. It's about finding the best way of engaging them and changing their mind. 2212
Reposted by @suerubenstein.bsky.socialAlex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 30/09/2025Many of us worked our butts off to change minds and shift policy within Labour, knowing that when the shift finally came, hecklers would still heckle "too late". Moral superiority resides in the object-ing, not the object-ion. But I will still take modest real victories over grand fictional ones. 1839333
Reposted by @suerubenstein.bsky.socialPeter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 25/09/2025“Labour must grab the microphone from Reform UK and stand up for true British values” @lucympowell.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comLabour must grab the microphone from Reform UK and stand up for true British values | Lucy PowellIf elected deputy Labour leader, I would take the fight to Nigel Farage and show him for what he really is, says Labour MP Lucy Powell 2826655
Reposted by @suerubenstein.bsky.socialAlex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 17/09/2025I wrote something about feeling like a guest in a country that is my home. bestforbritain.substack.com/p/my-place-o...bestforbritain.substack.comMy place or yours? - Flags and the far right from someone who looks different to youBy Alex Andreou 121945339
Reposted by @suerubenstein.bsky.socialNaomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 15/09/2025“Awareness, solidarity, and practical investment are key to countering misinformation and building communities that are fair and safe for everyone.” Bravo Ayesha. This is a full myth bust on asylum hotels 👇 open.substack.com/pub/bestforb...open.substack.comWhat’s really happening with asylum seeker hotels?By Ayesha Chaudhry 25423
Reposted by @suerubenstein.bsky.socialZack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 14/09/2025We all need to be having these conversations. 631471518