Iggy Wood
@iggywood.bsky.social
Head of editorial at the Fabian Society | socialist | UTA 💙🤍 | Views my own
Proud of this pamphlet - our dysfunctional media is at the heart of so many UK policy failures from austerity to Palestine. As @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social puts it: "all too often, journalism in Britain operates as an extension of power rather than a check on it"
🚨New Pamphlet🚨
How do we improve standards in our media ecosystem?
In this new pamphlet, edited by @iggywood.bsky.social, journalists & policy experts assess the media landscape, setting out recommendations for government to protect press freedoms at home and abroad.
How do we improve standards in our media ecosystem?
In this new pamphlet, edited by @iggywood.bsky.social, journalists & policy experts assess the media landscape, setting out recommendations for government to protect press freedoms at home and abroad.
July 25, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Proud of this pamphlet - our dysfunctional media is at the heart of so many UK policy failures from austerity to Palestine. As @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social puts it: "all too often, journalism in Britain operates as an extension of power rather than a check on it"
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Men are extremely keen to explain to me that Britain *needs* a domestic steel production plant and doesn't necessarily *need* universities. Okay. Steel contributed about £1.7bn to the UK economy in 2024. Universities contributed more than £200bn.
May 29, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Men are extremely keen to explain to me that Britain *needs* a domestic steel production plant and doesn't necessarily *need* universities. Okay. Steel contributed about £1.7bn to the UK economy in 2024. Universities contributed more than £200bn.
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"Overall, there is strong evidence that accommodating far-right positions is not a vote winner."
Despite heavy losses in the 2025 snap election, a rightward shift on migration would be disastrous for the SPD, argues
@matthiasdilling.bsky.social
fabians.org.uk/wrong-turn/
Despite heavy losses in the 2025 snap election, a rightward shift on migration would be disastrous for the SPD, argues
@matthiasdilling.bsky.social
fabians.org.uk/wrong-turn/
Wrong turn | Fabian Society
Fabian Society
fabians.org.uk
May 12, 2025 at 1:07 PM
"Overall, there is strong evidence that accommodating far-right positions is not a vote winner."
Despite heavy losses in the 2025 snap election, a rightward shift on migration would be disastrous for the SPD, argues
@matthiasdilling.bsky.social
fabians.org.uk/wrong-turn/
Despite heavy losses in the 2025 snap election, a rightward shift on migration would be disastrous for the SPD, argues
@matthiasdilling.bsky.social
fabians.org.uk/wrong-turn/
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"I’m absolutely convinced that wealth inequality is the rocket fuel for populism, and you can see around the world voters who have had a really challenging time"
I sat down with
@iggywood.bsky.social to talk populism, Reform and wealth inequality.
fabians.org.uk/absolutely-p...
I sat down with
@iggywood.bsky.social to talk populism, Reform and wealth inequality.
fabians.org.uk/absolutely-p...
Absolutely positive | Fabian Society
Fabian Society
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May 8, 2025 at 10:43 AM
"I’m absolutely convinced that wealth inequality is the rocket fuel for populism, and you can see around the world voters who have had a really challenging time"
I sat down with
@iggywood.bsky.social to talk populism, Reform and wealth inequality.
fabians.org.uk/absolutely-p...
I sat down with
@iggywood.bsky.social to talk populism, Reform and wealth inequality.
fabians.org.uk/absolutely-p...
Before the local elections, @liambyrnemp.bsky.social warned me about the threat posed by Reform. Even more impressively, he briefly gave me some hope...
“I’m absolutely convinced that wealth inequality is the rocket fuel for populism, and you can see around the world voters who have had a really challenging time"
@iggywood.bsky.social speaks to @liambyrnemp.bsky.social
fabians.org.uk/absolutely-p...
@iggywood.bsky.social speaks to @liambyrnemp.bsky.social
fabians.org.uk/absolutely-p...
Absolutely positive | Fabian Society
Fabian Society
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May 7, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Before the local elections, @liambyrnemp.bsky.social warned me about the threat posed by Reform. Even more impressively, he briefly gave me some hope...
Being seen as the nasty party is never good. Being seen as the nasty-but-self-righteous party is significantly worse
March 26, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Being seen as the nasty party is never good. Being seen as the nasty-but-self-righteous party is significantly worse
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Some disabled people could lose £10k a year in benefits by end of decade under Labour’s reforms. The planned cuts will deliver a series of “painful income shocks”, with families facing losing multiple entitlements at once
Me & @patrickjbutler.bsky.social report www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
Me & @patrickjbutler.bsky.social report www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
Some disabled people could lose £10k a year in benefits by end of decade
Experts say planned cuts will deliver series of ‘painful income shocks’ for many
www.theguardian.com
March 20, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Some disabled people could lose £10k a year in benefits by end of decade under Labour’s reforms. The planned cuts will deliver a series of “painful income shocks”, with families facing losing multiple entitlements at once
Me & @patrickjbutler.bsky.social report www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
Me & @patrickjbutler.bsky.social report www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
Even better, we could get the entire population of the UK out of here in just a few months
"In principle two million illegals could be deported in just three days" (method: Heathrow runway capacity).
Guy Dampier of the Prosperity Institute has produced perhaps the maddest sentence yet to appear in any British AfD/MAGA Trumpian piece about "remigration" the Telegraph has yet published
Guy Dampier of the Prosperity Institute has produced perhaps the maddest sentence yet to appear in any British AfD/MAGA Trumpian piece about "remigration" the Telegraph has yet published
March 20, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Even better, we could get the entire population of the UK out of here in just a few months
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Israel has broken the ceasefire, killing 400 Palestinians in Gaza and injuring over 500.
The death toll and humanitarian catastrophe is worsening by the hour.
The UK must finally demand accountability for Israel's war crimes, strengthen sanctions and ban all arms sales.
The death toll and humanitarian catastrophe is worsening by the hour.
The UK must finally demand accountability for Israel's war crimes, strengthen sanctions and ban all arms sales.
March 18, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Israel has broken the ceasefire, killing 400 Palestinians in Gaza and injuring over 500.
The death toll and humanitarian catastrophe is worsening by the hour.
The UK must finally demand accountability for Israel's war crimes, strengthen sanctions and ban all arms sales.
The death toll and humanitarian catastrophe is worsening by the hour.
The UK must finally demand accountability for Israel's war crimes, strengthen sanctions and ban all arms sales.
Cautiously optimistic about this, but only if it creates space in the narrative/finances to hire more managers at the NHS trust level
Keir Starmer abolishes health service’s executive body NHS England
Keir Starmer abolishes health service’s executive body NHS England
Prime minister brings health service back under ‘democratic control’ of ministers
* UK politics live – latest updates
Keir Starmer has brought the health service back under the control of ministers by abolishing NHS England.
The prime minister said…
www.theguardian.com
March 13, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Cautiously optimistic about this, but only if it creates space in the narrative/finances to hire more managers at the NHS trust level
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turns out when you legitimate a taste for bigotry people gravitate to the parties that serve it as an entree rather than as a garnish
"To the contrary, voters are on average more likely to defect to the radical right when mainstream parties adopt anti-immigration positions, a pattern that has been particularly pronounced for established RRPs."
March 11, 2025 at 11:53 PM
turns out when you legitimate a taste for bigotry people gravitate to the parties that serve it as an entree rather than as a garnish
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Love the moral clarity of @morganj0nes.bsky.social and @dmk1793.bsky.social’s forensic analysis of Maurice Glasman’s siding with the far-right: “we have to understand he left our [social democratic] house and crossed the street to build a new one with our enemies”. renewal.org.uk/2025/02/16/t...
February 16, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Love the moral clarity of @morganj0nes.bsky.social and @dmk1793.bsky.social’s forensic analysis of Maurice Glasman’s siding with the far-right: “we have to understand he left our [social democratic] house and crossed the street to build a new one with our enemies”. renewal.org.uk/2025/02/16/t...
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Labour should be using the need to increase defence spending as a off-ramp for their promises on tax, not letting their defence policy (like everything else) be constrained by their promises on tax.
Starmer summons UK defence chiefs in tussle over spending
Trump is pushing European governments to commit much higher funding to armed forces
www.ft.com
February 12, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Labour should be using the need to increase defence spending as a off-ramp for their promises on tax, not letting their defence policy (like everything else) be constrained by their promises on tax.
So much of the Labour right's worldview is still either a restatement of or a response to the consensus created by Cameron and Osborne in the 2010s. I really think that side of the party stagnated intellectually during the Corbyn years
Some people on sickness and disability benefits ‘taking the mickey’, says Liz Kendall – UK politics live
Some people on sickness and disability benefits ‘taking the mickey’, says Liz Kendall – UK politics live
The work and pensions secretary said those who think they were unable to work probably could with the right support
Good morning. Keir Starmer is chairing an extended meeting of cabinet today. There will be a normal cabinet meeting, and then a political…
www.theguardian.com
February 7, 2025 at 11:27 AM
So much of the Labour right's worldview is still either a restatement of or a response to the consensus created by Cameron and Osborne in the 2010s. I really think that side of the party stagnated intellectually during the Corbyn years
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Labour rebels won’t be allowed back in the party because of poor behaviour when they *check notes* spoke out against war crimes and benefit cuts. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
February 6, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Labour rebels won’t be allowed back in the party because of poor behaviour when they *check notes* spoke out against war crimes and benefit cuts. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Somewhere between 5,500 and 8,750 babies will die of AIDS because of Trump's heinous pausing of PEPFAR, estimates @lgilbert.co
Utterly sickening.
www.laurenpolicy.com/p/pepfar?r=2...
Utterly sickening.
www.laurenpolicy.com/p/pepfar?r=2...
January 28, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Somewhere between 5,500 and 8,750 babies will die of AIDS because of Trump's heinous pausing of PEPFAR, estimates @lgilbert.co
Utterly sickening.
www.laurenpolicy.com/p/pepfar?r=2...
Utterly sickening.
www.laurenpolicy.com/p/pepfar?r=2...
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leaving the cruelty aside for just a minute it's absolutely humiliating to imagine being my age or older and getting excited because you think you've been given permission to say a bad word. what are you gonna do next, ride your tricycle past the end of the block
I guess I'm too woke because I find the proliferation of this really off-putting and gross. The fact that it's now reached the "enlightened centrists" class is depressing.
January 28, 2025 at 5:33 AM
leaving the cruelty aside for just a minute it's absolutely humiliating to imagine being my age or older and getting excited because you think you've been given permission to say a bad word. what are you gonna do next, ride your tricycle past the end of the block
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“In order for my company HumanBurger to finally become profitable we may need to put an end to most civil rights and renegotiate a few basic rules of human civilization, but I personally think it would be worth it.”
January 26, 2025 at 12:10 AM
“In order for my company HumanBurger to finally become profitable we may need to put an end to most civil rights and renegotiate a few basic rules of human civilization, but I personally think it would be worth it.”
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The government makes farmers pay a tax (a "levy", but same difference) which is handed to a QUANGO that then tries to persuade people to eat meat/dairy, and criticise people who suggest we should eat less.
www.smf.co.uk/commentary_p...
www.smf.co.uk/commentary_p...
Why is there a £40 million quango to persuade people to eat meat and dairy? - Social Market Foundation.
Despite being set up to improve farming, the AHDB increasingly maintains the reputation of the industries and marketing their products.
www.smf.co.uk
January 22, 2025 at 10:13 AM
The government makes farmers pay a tax (a "levy", but same difference) which is handed to a QUANGO that then tries to persuade people to eat meat/dairy, and criticise people who suggest we should eat less.
www.smf.co.uk/commentary_p...
www.smf.co.uk/commentary_p...
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Elon Musk, Henry Ford.
Two men who made billions making cars.
Two men who preach about free markets but rely on huge government support.
Two men who went to war with their unions.
Two men who idolize the Nazis.
These are the leaders of 'free market' capitalism.
Two men who made billions making cars.
Two men who preach about free markets but rely on huge government support.
Two men who went to war with their unions.
Two men who idolize the Nazis.
These are the leaders of 'free market' capitalism.
January 21, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Elon Musk, Henry Ford.
Two men who made billions making cars.
Two men who preach about free markets but rely on huge government support.
Two men who went to war with their unions.
Two men who idolize the Nazis.
These are the leaders of 'free market' capitalism.
Two men who made billions making cars.
Two men who preach about free markets but rely on huge government support.
Two men who went to war with their unions.
Two men who idolize the Nazis.
These are the leaders of 'free market' capitalism.
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I share the huge relief about the ceasefire and hostage deal, but it is sickening that it took 15 months.
The brutality that Palestinians have suffered, and the failure of the international community to stop Israel's genocide far sooner, will shame us forever. 1/2
The brutality that Palestinians have suffered, and the failure of the international community to stop Israel's genocide far sooner, will shame us forever. 1/2
January 15, 2025 at 7:26 PM
I share the huge relief about the ceasefire and hostage deal, but it is sickening that it took 15 months.
The brutality that Palestinians have suffered, and the failure of the international community to stop Israel's genocide far sooner, will shame us forever. 1/2
The brutality that Palestinians have suffered, and the failure of the international community to stop Israel's genocide far sooner, will shame us forever. 1/2
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There was an alternative to landing on the graveyard of incumbent governments in the wake of inflation. Mexico and Spain have demonstrated to the world how stabilizing the prices of essentials can pay back - economically and politically.
My first @foreignaffairs.bsky.social
My first @foreignaffairs.bsky.social
January 15, 2025 at 1:04 PM
There was an alternative to landing on the graveyard of incumbent governments in the wake of inflation. Mexico and Spain have demonstrated to the world how stabilizing the prices of essentials can pay back - economically and politically.
My first @foreignaffairs.bsky.social
My first @foreignaffairs.bsky.social
The simplest explanation for why a ceasefire appears imminent - the incoming administration actually wants one, whereas Biden was happy to let the genocidal killing continue - is the correct one. Israel's dependence on the US is difficult to overstate; Biden just chose not to exercise this leverage
January 15, 2025 at 1:18 PM
The simplest explanation for why a ceasefire appears imminent - the incoming administration actually wants one, whereas Biden was happy to let the genocidal killing continue - is the correct one. Israel's dependence on the US is difficult to overstate; Biden just chose not to exercise this leverage