Morgan Jones
@morganj0nes.bsky.social
the labour party's 2nd most important irish morgan?
I've written a book about the anti-brexit movement that will come out at some point and i co-edit @renewaljournal.bsky.social.
email me @ morgane.h.jones@gmail.com
I've written a book about the anti-brexit movement that will come out at some point and i co-edit @renewaljournal.bsky.social.
email me @ morgane.h.jones@gmail.com
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Morgan Jones
@morganj0nes.bsky.social
· Nov 1
No Second Chances
Between 2016 and 2019, a unique coalition assembled within British politics. Combining Corbynite campaigners and Conservative Cabinet ministers, celebrities and grassroots activists, seasoned politica...
www.bitebackpublishing.com
Some professional news: I am writing a book on the 2nd referendum campaign, which you can now pre-order here:
www.bitebackpublishing.com/books/no-sec...
www.bitebackpublishing.com/books/no-sec...
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Came across this from just before the election last year. Such a footnote but also as I read it back one that illustrates so many of the problems that were to come.
www.cityam.com/natalie-elph...
www.cityam.com/natalie-elph...
Natalie Elphicke wasn't worth it
Keir Starmer will regret alienating Labour Party members and women's rights campaigners by welcoming in the tainted Natalie Elphicke
www.cityam.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Came across this from just before the election last year. Such a footnote but also as I read it back one that illustrates so many of the problems that were to come.
www.cityam.com/natalie-elph...
www.cityam.com/natalie-elph...
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A new Director General, a new Charter... a new model of ownership?
It's all change at the BBC, but the change to a mutual model is well overdue.
We think the BBC should be owned by you, the public.
It's all change at the BBC, but the change to a mutual model is well overdue.
We think the BBC should be owned by you, the public.
November 10, 2025 at 10:32 AM
A new Director General, a new Charter... a new model of ownership?
It's all change at the BBC, but the change to a mutual model is well overdue.
We think the BBC should be owned by you, the public.
It's all change at the BBC, but the change to a mutual model is well overdue.
We think the BBC should be owned by you, the public.
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This term is so social media-brained. Coined by people who can't imagine themselves without an audience, or that anyone could genuinely want to pass time in any other form than Stare at Phone
November 10, 2025 at 11:34 AM
This term is so social media-brained. Coined by people who can't imagine themselves without an audience, or that anyone could genuinely want to pass time in any other form than Stare at Phone
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'we have created a youth wing and put Matt Goodwin in charge' is an idea so mesmerisingly bad that it approaches the level of art
November 10, 2025 at 11:46 AM
'we have created a youth wing and put Matt Goodwin in charge' is an idea so mesmerisingly bad that it approaches the level of art
Delighted to publish Colm and Patrick's eminently sensible pre-budget intervention:
Breaking the tax pledge is the right call...and politically sulphurous. Reeves must argue, far more forcefully, that taxes are *the* essential downpayment we all pay for a fairer society.
Patrick Diamond and I wrote for @renewaljournal.bsky.social. Key points in 🧵 👇
renewal.org.uk/blog/if-labo...
Patrick Diamond and I wrote for @renewaljournal.bsky.social. Key points in 🧵 👇
renewal.org.uk/blog/if-labo...
If Labour want a fairer society, they must argue for it
Labour must make the political argument: taxes are the critical downpayment we all pay to live in a fairer society.
It now seems all but certain that direct taxes will rise in the forthcoming Budget...
renewal.org.uk
November 10, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Delighted to publish Colm and Patrick's eminently sensible pre-budget intervention:
went to see the new frankenstein. think we should view it as a direct woke grok/ musk allegory only instead of killing townspeople grok is being made to say there’s a white genocide. incel frankenstein won’t break his spirit though
November 9, 2025 at 11:47 PM
went to see the new frankenstein. think we should view it as a direct woke grok/ musk allegory only instead of killing townspeople grok is being made to say there’s a white genocide. incel frankenstein won’t break his spirit though
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Open the schools
Can Zohran Mamdani's largely educated, middle-income support base be explained - or even justified - from a Marxist perspective?
@dmk1793.bsky.social presents five (5) conflicting ways in which it can:
@dmk1793.bsky.social presents five (5) conflicting ways in which it can:
Is DSA the class party of the PMC?
Five Marxist perspectives on Zohran Mamdani’s electoral coalition
renewal.org.uk
November 8, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Open the schools
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Very good report on Global Progress and Morgan is spot on about the Spanish approach.
I wrote about the lessons the Danish social democrats want to offer Labour last month, and noted a distinct uptick in Denmark Chat at conference. As I discuss in the piece, I am more convinced by the arguments for Spain-as-model.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/oc...
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/oc...
November 8, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Very good report on Global Progress and Morgan is spot on about the Spanish approach.
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Denmark is the new Australia.
I wrote about the lessons the Danish social democrats want to offer Labour last month, and noted a distinct uptick in Denmark Chat at conference. As I discuss in the piece, I am more convinced by the arguments for Spain-as-model.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/oc...
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/oc...
November 8, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Denmark is the new Australia.
I wrote about the lessons the Danish social democrats want to offer Labour last month, and noted a distinct uptick in Denmark Chat at conference. As I discuss in the piece, I am more convinced by the arguments for Spain-as-model.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/oc...
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/oc...
November 8, 2025 at 3:45 PM
I wrote about the lessons the Danish social democrats want to offer Labour last month, and noted a distinct uptick in Denmark Chat at conference. As I discuss in the piece, I am more convinced by the arguments for Spain-as-model.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/oc...
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/oc...
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The idea of UK learning from Denmark on immigration and asylum is primarily rhetorical: pick fights with the left about how tough we are willing to sound.
The integration context is very different. The broader immigration context is very different.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
The integration context is very different. The broader immigration context is very different.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
UK to announce plans to emulate stringent Danish immigration system
Proposals draw scorn from some Labour MPs who say it is a ‘dangerous path’ to take, while others want the government to go further
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 12:57 PM
The idea of UK learning from Denmark on immigration and asylum is primarily rhetorical: pick fights with the left about how tough we are willing to sound.
The integration context is very different. The broader immigration context is very different.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
The integration context is very different. The broader immigration context is very different.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Can Zohran Mamdani's largely educated, middle-income support base be explained - or even justified - from a Marxist perspective?
@dmk1793.bsky.social presents five (5) conflicting ways in which it can:
@dmk1793.bsky.social presents five (5) conflicting ways in which it can:
Is DSA the class party of the PMC?
Five Marxist perspectives on Zohran Mamdani’s electoral coalition
renewal.org.uk
November 7, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Can Zohran Mamdani's largely educated, middle-income support base be explained - or even justified - from a Marxist perspective?
@dmk1793.bsky.social presents five (5) conflicting ways in which it can:
@dmk1793.bsky.social presents five (5) conflicting ways in which it can:
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I've now written up this take for @renewaljournal.bsky.social - along with four (4) other competing Marxist explanations of Zohran's PMC-led historic bloc
November 7, 2025 at 3:26 PM
I've now written up this take for @renewaljournal.bsky.social - along with four (4) other competing Marxist explanations of Zohran's PMC-led historic bloc
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ChatGPT again not huge on facts
November 7, 2025 at 12:17 PM
ChatGPT again not huge on facts
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So glad that we’re introducing a ban on depictions of strangulation in online pornography.
Almost 40% of young women report being strangled during sex. An act that can cause serious injury or death should not be ‘the norm’ and platforms shouldn’t profit from it
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Almost 40% of young women report being strangled during sex. An act that can cause serious injury or death should not be ‘the norm’ and platforms shouldn’t profit from it
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Pornography depicting strangulation to become criminal offence in the UK
Legal requirement to be placed on tech platforms to prevent users from seeing such ‘choking’ material
www.theguardian.com
November 4, 2025 at 1:25 PM
So glad that we’re introducing a ban on depictions of strangulation in online pornography.
Almost 40% of young women report being strangled during sex. An act that can cause serious injury or death should not be ‘the norm’ and platforms shouldn’t profit from it
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Almost 40% of young women report being strangled during sex. An act that can cause serious injury or death should not be ‘the norm’ and platforms shouldn’t profit from it
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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I've written about why Labour needs to update its understanding of the UK's political landscape – and get that there are many, many other places for voters to go, and some of them are preferable to others.
www.newstatesman.com/politics/lab...
www.newstatesman.com/politics/lab...
Arrogance is the Labour party's fatal flaw
With the far right rising, Labour can't afford to put Zack Polanski in the same camp as Nigel Farage
www.newstatesman.com
November 3, 2025 at 9:41 AM
I've written about why Labour needs to update its understanding of the UK's political landscape – and get that there are many, many other places for voters to go, and some of them are preferable to others.
www.newstatesman.com/politics/lab...
www.newstatesman.com/politics/lab...
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LONDON (AP) — Buckingham Palace says King Charles III will strip Prince Andrew of remaining titles including “Andrew”, curse him to wander the Earth as “the nameless one”
October 30, 2025 at 8:01 PM
LONDON (AP) — Buckingham Palace says King Charles III will strip Prince Andrew of remaining titles including “Andrew”, curse him to wander the Earth as “the nameless one”
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Increasingly convinced that we are living through the decline of mass literacy and cringe as it is, we all need to get into publicly celebrating reading books as much as possible.
October 30, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Increasingly convinced that we are living through the decline of mass literacy and cringe as it is, we all need to get into publicly celebrating reading books as much as possible.
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> trying to find news about Sudan
> go to BBC News homepage: nothing
> click through to "World": still nothing
> click through to "Africa": "Fear of mass killing as thousands trapped in besieged Sudan city" is the FIFTH story, just below "Migrant sex offender deported from UK after mistaken release"
> go to BBC News homepage: nothing
> click through to "World": still nothing
> click through to "Africa": "Fear of mass killing as thousands trapped in besieged Sudan city" is the FIFTH story, just below "Migrant sex offender deported from UK after mistaken release"
October 29, 2025 at 11:12 AM
> trying to find news about Sudan
> go to BBC News homepage: nothing
> click through to "World": still nothing
> click through to "Africa": "Fear of mass killing as thousands trapped in besieged Sudan city" is the FIFTH story, just below "Migrant sex offender deported from UK after mistaken release"
> go to BBC News homepage: nothing
> click through to "World": still nothing
> click through to "Africa": "Fear of mass killing as thousands trapped in besieged Sudan city" is the FIFTH story, just below "Migrant sex offender deported from UK after mistaken release"
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Reform say they stand up for the working class - but they never have.
They’ve voted to block the Employment Rights Bill again and again.
It’s Labour on the side of workers: creating jobs, ending zero-hours contracts, and protecting workers from unfair dismissal from day one.
They’ve voted to block the Employment Rights Bill again and again.
It’s Labour on the side of workers: creating jobs, ending zero-hours contracts, and protecting workers from unfair dismissal from day one.
October 29, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Reform say they stand up for the working class - but they never have.
They’ve voted to block the Employment Rights Bill again and again.
It’s Labour on the side of workers: creating jobs, ending zero-hours contracts, and protecting workers from unfair dismissal from day one.
They’ve voted to block the Employment Rights Bill again and again.
It’s Labour on the side of workers: creating jobs, ending zero-hours contracts, and protecting workers from unfair dismissal from day one.
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CHOTINER: So you asked for a Birkin bag?
KOKO: Yes. Possession Bag.
CHOTINER: And you had the funds to acquire this?
KOKO: No, Professor Purchase Koko Gorilla
CHOTINER: That doesn't sound like the funds were justifiable.
KOKO: Hostility Interviewer
KOKO: Yes. Possession Bag.
CHOTINER: And you had the funds to acquire this?
KOKO: No, Professor Purchase Koko Gorilla
CHOTINER: That doesn't sound like the funds were justifiable.
KOKO: Hostility Interviewer
October 28, 2025 at 4:09 PM
CHOTINER: So you asked for a Birkin bag?
KOKO: Yes. Possession Bag.
CHOTINER: And you had the funds to acquire this?
KOKO: No, Professor Purchase Koko Gorilla
CHOTINER: That doesn't sound like the funds were justifiable.
KOKO: Hostility Interviewer
KOKO: Yes. Possession Bag.
CHOTINER: And you had the funds to acquire this?
KOKO: No, Professor Purchase Koko Gorilla
CHOTINER: That doesn't sound like the funds were justifiable.
KOKO: Hostility Interviewer
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Sudan’s humanitarian crisis is the largest in the world.
And now more disturbing news is coming from El Fasher of civilians under attack.
Civilians must be protected and the fighting must stop.
And now more disturbing news is coming from El Fasher of civilians under attack.
Civilians must be protected and the fighting must stop.
October 28, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Sudan’s humanitarian crisis is the largest in the world.
And now more disturbing news is coming from El Fasher of civilians under attack.
Civilians must be protected and the fighting must stop.
And now more disturbing news is coming from El Fasher of civilians under attack.
Civilians must be protected and the fighting must stop.