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Emma Burnell
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· Jul 25
Emma Burnell announced as new LabourList Editor - LabourList
LabourList is delighted to announce that Emma Burnell has been appointed as the new Editor of the leading media and events platform for all things Labour.
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I am deeply honoured and incredibly excited to be announced as the new Editor of @labourlist.bsky.social.
I have been a reader, contributor and fan of the site since it started. It's a vital place to discuss, explore and examine all things Labour.
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I have been a reader, contributor and fan of the site since it started. It's a vital place to discuss, explore and examine all things Labour.
labourlist.org/2025/07/new-...
November 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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🌹 📣 GOOD NEWS! It's your weekly round up of Labour's legislative achievements!
Delivering in Government: your weekly round up of good news Labour stories – LabourList
The drama in Westminster this week has been difficult to escape. But beneath the noise, the machinery of government trundles on, and there are plenty…
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November 14, 2025 at 10:59 AM
🌹 📣 GOOD NEWS! It's your weekly round up of Labour's legislative achievements!
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🎶 “O come all ye Labour faithful… to the LabourList pub quiz” 🎶
Celebrate the season with a night of Labour trivia, festive cheer, and friendly competition.
🎟️ Tickets on sale now! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1921363292...
Celebrate the season with a night of Labour trivia, festive cheer, and friendly competition.
🎟️ Tickets on sale now! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1921363292...
LabourList Christmas Pub Quiz
It’s time to sleigh the Labour trivia season! Join LabourList for an evening of festive fun and political puzzlers.
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November 12, 2025 at 5:02 PM
🎶 “O come all ye Labour faithful… to the LabourList pub quiz” 🎶
Celebrate the season with a night of Labour trivia, festive cheer, and friendly competition.
🎟️ Tickets on sale now! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1921363292...
Celebrate the season with a night of Labour trivia, festive cheer, and friendly competition.
🎟️ Tickets on sale now! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1921363292...
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Our Editor @emmaburnell.bsky.social on the extraordinary mess of the last 24 hours.
Briefing Encounters – LabourList
This is an adapted version of my analysis from the LabourList email this morning. To receive our email every weekday morning please subscribe here. Last…
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November 12, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Our Editor @emmaburnell.bsky.social on the extraordinary mess of the last 24 hours.
Along with a million other questions I’m asking this morning I am wondering how Kemi Badenoch will manage to miss this open goal at PMQs. It won’t be easy, but if anyone can do it, she can do it.
November 12, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Along with a million other questions I’m asking this morning I am wondering how Kemi Badenoch will manage to miss this open goal at PMQs. It won’t be easy, but if anyone can do it, she can do it.
Can’t believe it’s been nine years since he died. So incredibly grateful I got to see him live.
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November 11, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Can’t believe it’s been nine years since he died. So incredibly grateful I got to see him live.
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Everyone is a little bit right... and a little bit wrong. Our editor @emmaburnell.bsky.social on what the BBC crisis teaches us about the political moment we're in.
‘The BBC crisis and our half-right, half-wrong politics’ – LabourList
The BBC is in crisis - again. This is not a piece reporting on what has happened. You can't move for those today. Here's the…
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November 10, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Everyone is a little bit right... and a little bit wrong. Our editor @emmaburnell.bsky.social on what the BBC crisis teaches us about the political moment we're in.
The BBC story is one of the clearest examples I have ever seen of the fact that several - even superficially contradictory - things can be true at once.
The response to the BBC story is one if the clearest examples of how bad at understanding that we all are.
The response to the BBC story is one if the clearest examples of how bad at understanding that we all are.
November 9, 2025 at 9:14 PM
The BBC story is one of the clearest examples I have ever seen of the fact that several - even superficially contradictory - things can be true at once.
The response to the BBC story is one if the clearest examples of how bad at understanding that we all are.
The response to the BBC story is one if the clearest examples of how bad at understanding that we all are.
Really pleased with this new weekly column. We don’t pull our punches at LabourList when we think Labour get thinks wrong. We shouldn’t hold back about what they get right too.
🌹 Here are seven exciting breakthroughs and announcements the government made this week that you can use - whether you're on the doorstep, sparring on Twitter or debating in the pub
Delivering in Government: your weekly round up of good news Labour stories – LabourList
It was a busy week for the Labour government. While the papers were awash with Budget speculation, there was plenty of tangible progress towards renewing…
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November 7, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Really pleased with this new weekly column. We don’t pull our punches at LabourList when we think Labour get thinks wrong. We shouldn’t hold back about what they get right too.
Paul McCartney, Emma Thompson, David Morrissey, Alison Moyet, Hugh Laurie, Mark Charnock, someone I’ve never heard of from YouTube, Judi Dench, Greg Rutherford, Billie Piper.
Sarah Lancashire, Bob Mortimer, Bradley Walsh, Ruth Jones, Thomas Turgoose, Lily Allen
Stab at a series 2 #celebritytraitors line up: Krishnan Guru Murthy / Marian Keyes / Charlie Higson / James Blunt / Jill Scott / CMAT / Stacey Solomon (2/2)
Actually, swap Blunt for Neil Tennant
Actually, swap Blunt for Neil Tennant
November 6, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Paul McCartney, Emma Thompson, David Morrissey, Alison Moyet, Hugh Laurie, Mark Charnock, someone I’ve never heard of from YouTube, Judi Dench, Greg Rutherford, Billie Piper.
I really need to go to bed but I am so full of post-Traitors adrenaline.
November 6, 2025 at 10:15 PM
I really need to go to bed but I am so full of post-Traitors adrenaline.
God I wish everyone I’ve screwed over had been as nice about it as Nick & David.
November 6, 2025 at 10:10 PM
God I wish everyone I’ve screwed over had been as nice about it as Nick & David.
Nick! Nick, Nick, Nick! You’re breaking my heart!
November 6, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Nick! Nick, Nick, Nick! You’re breaking my heart!
Oh David….
David David David…
David David David…
November 6, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Oh David….
David David David…
David David David…
Screaming “Nick get it right for Gods sake” is triggering me!
November 6, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Screaming “Nick get it right for Gods sake” is triggering me!
OMG Nick is ADORABLE!
November 6, 2025 at 9:36 PM
OMG Nick is ADORABLE!
Excited for the finale.
Sad it’s the end.
Want Nick & David to win.
Think Cat will win (and probably deserves to)
Sad it’s the end.
Want Nick & David to win.
Think Cat will win (and probably deserves to)
November 6, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Excited for the finale.
Sad it’s the end.
Want Nick & David to win.
Think Cat will win (and probably deserves to)
Sad it’s the end.
Want Nick & David to win.
Think Cat will win (and probably deserves to)
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Early Bird Tickets are selling fast for LabourList's Christmas Pub Quiz 🔥 Get yours now or risk missing out on the Labour event of the season!🌹🎅
We'll be joined by special guest @allymcgovern.bsky.social, with more fabulous Labour figures to be announced!
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We'll be joined by special guest @allymcgovern.bsky.social, with more fabulous Labour figures to be announced!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1921363292...
LabourList Christmas Pub Quiz
It’s time to sleigh the Labour trivia season! Join LabourList for an evening of festive fun and political puzzlers.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 4, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Early Bird Tickets are selling fast for LabourList's Christmas Pub Quiz 🔥 Get yours now or risk missing out on the Labour event of the season!🌹🎅
We'll be joined by special guest @allymcgovern.bsky.social, with more fabulous Labour figures to be announced!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1921363292...
We'll be joined by special guest @allymcgovern.bsky.social, with more fabulous Labour figures to be announced!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1921363292...
Why on God's Earth was there never a second series of You, Me and the Apocalypse?
And why can't I watch S2 & S3 of Lovesick?
So over the modern world.
And why can't I watch S2 & S3 of Lovesick?
So over the modern world.
November 2, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Why on God's Earth was there never a second series of You, Me and the Apocalypse?
And why can't I watch S2 & S3 of Lovesick?
So over the modern world.
And why can't I watch S2 & S3 of Lovesick?
So over the modern world.
Is he just called symbol now?
October 30, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Is he just called symbol now?
RIP to Prunella Scales. Sybill Fawlty was one of the greatest comic creations. There's no Basil without Sybil.
But I will probably remember her most fondly as Martin's Mum in Cabin Pressure.
But I will probably remember her most fondly as Martin's Mum in Cabin Pressure.
October 29, 2025 at 7:29 AM
RIP to Prunella Scales. Sybill Fawlty was one of the greatest comic creations. There's no Basil without Sybil.
But I will probably remember her most fondly as Martin's Mum in Cabin Pressure.
But I will probably remember her most fondly as Martin's Mum in Cabin Pressure.
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“Harvey’s beautiful prose explores the personal side of professional politics and the flawed people who pursue it.”
- Emma Burnell, political journalist and playwright
- Emma Burnell, political journalist and playwright
October 24, 2025 at 2:24 PM
“Harvey’s beautiful prose explores the personal side of professional politics and the flawed people who pursue it.”
- Emma Burnell, political journalist and playwright
- Emma Burnell, political journalist and playwright
I'm so excited about this new series of interviews. And what a great way to start. Dr Buthelezi is interesting and inspiring. Though he's wrong about Marmite!
WATCH NOW: In this exciting new LabourList strand our international columnist Muddassar Ahmed interviews Dr Mbongiseni Buthelezi, chief executive of the Nelson Mandela Foundation about the worldwide populist challenge to progressive politics and what it means for Labour.
WATCH NOW: LabourList interview with Dr Mbongiseni Buthelezi, Chief Executive of the Nelson Mandela Foundation. – LabourList
https://youtu.be/2Gk2cUAxHII LabourList international columnist Muddassar Ahmed interviews Dr Mbongiseni Buthelezi, chief executive of the Nelson Mandela Foundation. This is the first in a series…
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October 26, 2025 at 12:36 PM
I'm so excited about this new series of interviews. And what a great way to start. Dr Buthelezi is interesting and inspiring. Though he's wrong about Marmite!
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Labour has a new deputy leader, but what does the result mean for Powell, the Party and the PM? Our editor @emmaburnell.bsky.social with a 'must read' analysis of the result.
Labour has a new deputy leader, but what does the result mean for Powell, the Party and the PM? – LabourList
The results are in. Congratulations to Lucy Powell on winning the role of Deputy Leader of the Labour Party. And commiserations to Bridget Powell. The…
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October 25, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Labour has a new deputy leader, but what does the result mean for Powell, the Party and the PM? Our editor @emmaburnell.bsky.social with a 'must read' analysis of the result.