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In case you missed it: Macmillan Cancer Support sacks a quarter of staff and scraps hardship scheme for financially struggling patients as it battles financial pressures theguardian.com/society/2025/f…… By Andy Gregory and me

“Call it Thatcher’s hangover. Public money was spent on building those homes; public money was lost through giving them away cheap; & public money is now funnelled in housing benefit to the landlords who let them out.” - Aditya Chakrabortty theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

right wing "style" accounts on here never say anything substantive about style. they just photos like this and write "the subtle touch of silk. the strength of man. classic architecture. deport immigrants."

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Do #lettingagents accept #tenants who claim #benefits? Do they hell. Here are some recordings with agents who make that clear whovotedforthis.buzzsprout.com/2414550/episod… Chaminda Jayanetti Aditya Chakrabortty Shelter #housing #Homeless #nodss #universalcredit #rentersrights

Are we a 'high welfare' country where we pay people too much not to work, meaning the government could save billions by slashing welfare, no harm done? Erm - not exactly. This chart compares us with other countries. Of 34 advanced economies, we're 3rd from the bottom.

Benefits cuts now? What’s the point of a Labour MP who votes for something so cruel, tin-eared and short-sighted? theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

📢New Joseph Rowntree Foundation analysis There is no way to cut £5bn from PIP without affecting people with problems feeding and clothing themselves or getting around everyday A govt that vowed to end the 'moral scar' of foodbank use shouldn't leave disabled people at greater risk of needing one

"A Labour government, really?": my Guardian analysis on yesterday's disability benefit cuts announcement theguardian.com/society/2025/m…

If anything, the rise of Independent candidates is a response to pre-existing sectarian voting which benefited Labour. Labour approached minority communities through so-called 'community leaders' who could deliver a bloc vote through family networks. x.com/Taj_Ali1/statu…

'Even now, a Middle East policy specialist told me, Britain’s Labour government is still treating this apocalyptic war as “a minor little conflict in which the odd person gets killed”.' A powerful piece that does not succumb to despair, by rachel shabi

Aditya Chakrabortty rachel shabi Here’s Rachel Shabi on the Labour Left Podcast talking about her excellent new book. youtu.be/GAJ9KMnxKGQ?si…

It’s now confirmed that Toby Carvery did indeed fell the Whitewebbs Oak, on the same day that evidence is emerging the tree may have been 500 years old. The lame excuse they gave that the tree was “dead” is not only false (ecologists have found green buds on the felled branches)

'When the white working class started peeling off from New Labour, Peter Mandelson declared they had nowhere else to go. Except now they do. They can choose Reform, while brown working-class voters can plump for Independents or Greens.' Aditya Chakrabortty theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

We gave evidence at the Work and Pensions Select Committee today, alongside DPAC, Scope and Rethink Mental Illness. We spoke about the punitive nature of the benefits system, and how proposed cuts will only ever make that worse. 'These cuts are going to lead to deaths'

Good chart Luke Tryl . Flow of 2024 non voters to Reform is significant. ‘Non voters’ in eastern England, had big impact on Brexit referendum. ‘The thing about non voters is they don’t vote’ is the most wrong and strategically inept phrase in UK politics.

Mr Beast "reflects a world in which people are isolated subjects of vast economic mechanisms. Competing for deliverance from their personal financial torments." theguardian.com/news/2025/jun/… Mark O’Connell on how dopamine became the sigh of the oppressed creature.

A terrific piece - the point about nostalgia is spot on.