Joseph Erber
@joseph-t-erber.bsky.social
Londoner now living in Brighton.
Musician.
Crazy cat man.
Politics geek and semi-active Labour Party member (social democrat/democratic socialist 🌹)
https://erbalremedies.substack.com/?utm_campaign=email-home&r=2g1wya
Musician.
Crazy cat man.
Politics geek and semi-active Labour Party member (social democrat/democratic socialist 🌹)
https://erbalremedies.substack.com/?utm_campaign=email-home&r=2g1wya
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But he was SO FUNNY on Have I Got News For You.
November 20, 2025 at 9:09 PM
But he was SO FUNNY on Have I Got News For You.
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The moderate left needs to challenge this kind of nonsense. NATO is a diminished alliance that is finding its feet at a critical moment – pushing back against an actual imperialist power.
October 28, 2025 at 4:20 PM
The moderate left needs to challenge this kind of nonsense. NATO is a diminished alliance that is finding its feet at a critical moment – pushing back against an actual imperialist power.
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"For the government it’s quite mad to keep using X. It’s active participation in its own destruction and against its own interests. I cannot fathom the logic of doing it. It would be like a Reform government communicating entirely through the Guardian comments section." 👏 @samfr.bsky.social
October 27, 2025 at 6:37 PM
"For the government it’s quite mad to keep using X. It’s active participation in its own destruction and against its own interests. I cannot fathom the logic of doing it. It would be like a Reform government communicating entirely through the Guardian comments section." 👏 @samfr.bsky.social
Interesting that the Lib Dems have quietly changed their official colours from golden yellow to bold orange - they've had signage with this colour for a few years now so that's the way they were going. But I wonder, is it an embrace of 'orange book liberalism' (surely that's out of fashion)?
October 27, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Interesting that the Lib Dems have quietly changed their official colours from golden yellow to bold orange - they've had signage with this colour for a few years now so that's the way they were going. But I wonder, is it an embrace of 'orange book liberalism' (surely that's out of fashion)?
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Downtown in tourist-crazy Sóller ('SOL-ya') where the tram squeezes between the cafe tables - close enough that you could reach out and deftly grab someone's empanada. If you were that way inclined.
October 14, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Downtown in tourist-crazy Sóller ('SOL-ya') where the tram squeezes between the cafe tables - close enough that you could reach out and deftly grab someone's empanada. If you were that way inclined.
Just voted for Bridget Phillipson in the Lab dep leader contest. Whilst I have issues with the drift at the top of gov, she is her own woman and simply comes across better and has been the lightening rod for some of the most notable achievements like Sure Start v2 & breakfast clubs..
October 9, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Just voted for Bridget Phillipson in the Lab dep leader contest. Whilst I have issues with the drift at the top of gov, she is her own woman and simply comes across better and has been the lightening rod for some of the most notable achievements like Sure Start v2 & breakfast clubs..
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In an attempt to show Gary Neville how wrong he was to suggest that middle aged white men are putting flags up to make a point, some middle aged white men have put flags up outside his hotel to make a point.
October 8, 2025 at 5:56 PM
In an attempt to show Gary Neville how wrong he was to suggest that middle aged white men are putting flags up to make a point, some middle aged white men have put flags up outside his hotel to make a point.
Badenoch can promise a cut to stamp duty, but it doesn't really do anything about the affordability of the homes themselves to many..We all hate paying stamp duty but for all the attacks on state spending by Labour (and indeed Reform's golf club Corbynomics) where is the money coming from?
October 8, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Badenoch can promise a cut to stamp duty, but it doesn't really do anything about the affordability of the homes themselves to many..We all hate paying stamp duty but for all the attacks on state spending by Labour (and indeed Reform's golf club Corbynomics) where is the money coming from?
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Thoughts I typed out yesterday about Zack Polanski's impressive leadership victory.
Thoughts on Zack Polanski's storming victory.
And what it means for Labour, the new left party, and the landscape of English politics.
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September 4, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Thoughts I typed out yesterday about Zack Polanski's impressive leadership victory.
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Cultural Snobbery and Double Standards?
Musings on Rayner, second homes, and culture
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August 28, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Hi followers! I have just started a Substack, revisiting an urge to write and explore ideas, particularly around politics and music. It's free for now so please feel free to visit, subscribe and get involved in the comments!
Flag wars
A product of Brittle Britain
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August 26, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Hi followers! I have just started a Substack, revisiting an urge to write and explore ideas, particularly around politics and music. It's free for now so please feel free to visit, subscribe and get involved in the comments!
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The question should be whether they are decent landlords or not. Renting out a property does not amount to a conflict of interest anymore than owning a house, a car, or a bike. Perhaps some now expect MPs to renounce all worldly goods, like monks?
Four Labour cabinet ministers earn rental income, analysis finds
Housing campaigners say government look like hypocrites, with Rachel Reeves among those renting out properties
www.theguardian.com
August 8, 2025 at 11:22 PM
The question should be whether they are decent landlords or not. Renting out a property does not amount to a conflict of interest anymore than owning a house, a car, or a bike. Perhaps some now expect MPs to renounce all worldly goods, like monks?
I mean..it is the natural reaction if you’ve lost the whip. But I’m sorry, those two, just like McSweeney (who is way too RW), do not believe in building a wide enough voting coalition, it’s the unthinking politics of marches and speeches vs the long slog of legislation. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Zarah Sultana says she is quitting Labour to start party with Jeremy Corbyn
Former Labour leader Corbyn has not yet confirmed his involvement to the BBC.
www.bbc.com
July 3, 2025 at 9:12 PM
I mean..it is the natural reaction if you’ve lost the whip. But I’m sorry, those two, just like McSweeney (who is way too RW), do not believe in building a wide enough voting coalition, it’s the unthinking politics of marches and speeches vs the long slog of legislation. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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🚀 Public support for electoral reform is the highest it's been since records began
💥 60% now want to change to a fair, proportional voting system... including a majority of supporters of every party
🌹 Chair of @appgfairelections.bsky.social, Labour MP @alexsobel.co.uk, welcomes the news
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💥 60% now want to change to a fair, proportional voting system... including a majority of supporters of every party
🌹 Chair of @appgfairelections.bsky.social, Labour MP @alexsobel.co.uk, welcomes the news
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June 25, 2025 at 7:56 AM
🚀 Public support for electoral reform is the highest it's been since records began
💥 60% now want to change to a fair, proportional voting system... including a majority of supporters of every party
🌹 Chair of @appgfairelections.bsky.social, Labour MP @alexsobel.co.uk, welcomes the news
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💥 60% now want to change to a fair, proportional voting system... including a majority of supporters of every party
🌹 Chair of @appgfairelections.bsky.social, Labour MP @alexsobel.co.uk, welcomes the news
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British decline in one story.
Any state which finds itself incapable of managing a project as basic as rolling out a 20th century tech between its biggest cities needs to ask itself some profound questions about what hope it has of managing the technologies of the 21st.
Any state which finds itself incapable of managing a project as basic as rolling out a 20th century tech between its biggest cities needs to ask itself some profound questions about what hope it has of managing the technologies of the 21st.
June 18, 2025 at 10:25 AM
British decline in one story.
Any state which finds itself incapable of managing a project as basic as rolling out a 20th century tech between its biggest cities needs to ask itself some profound questions about what hope it has of managing the technologies of the 21st.
Any state which finds itself incapable of managing a project as basic as rolling out a 20th century tech between its biggest cities needs to ask itself some profound questions about what hope it has of managing the technologies of the 21st.
As the government didn't make a 'broad shoulders' arguments and purely a technocratic 'there's no money' - this has become an unnecessary PR disaster, from a government that HAS to succeed (as a committed, active Labour member).
The most disturbing thing about the winter fuel debacle is the chilling effect it'll have on any government which tries to think rationally about pensioner benefits and intergenerational fairness.
We really are in the Nanny State now. New writing from me.
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We really are in the Nanny State now. New writing from me.
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Winter Fuel: Proof that Britain has come an old folks' home with a government attached
Welcome to the real Nanny State
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June 10, 2025 at 7:53 PM
As the government didn't make a 'broad shoulders' arguments and purely a technocratic 'there's no money' - this has become an unnecessary PR disaster, from a government that HAS to succeed (as a committed, active Labour member).
RIP Sly Stone. Another legend (I use the word seriously) who shaped music history, gone.
June 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
RIP Sly Stone. Another legend (I use the word seriously) who shaped music history, gone.
Sometimes BBC..you can seriously do one.. They did *not* win
June 6, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Sometimes BBC..you can seriously do one.. They did *not* win
Wonderful news. The doom-loop narrative that some of the media would have loved did not play out. Well done @scottishlabour.bsky.social ✊🏼
Scottish Labour win pivotal Holyrood byelection, beating incumbent SNP and surging Reform UK
Scottish Labour win pivotal Holyrood byelection, beating incumbent SNP and surging Reform UK
Voters in the central seat of Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse rallied around popular local candidate Davy Russell
Scottish Labour has won a pivotal Holyrood byelection, beating the incumbent SNP and fighting off Reform UK’s aggressive racist campaigning, in a remarkable turnaround of fortunes that will boost the party ahead of next year’s Scottish parliamentary elections.
Voters in the central Scotland seat of Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse rallied round the popular local candidate Davy Russell after a toxic campaign that saw Nigel Farage launch an unprecedented series of personal racist attacks on Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
June 6, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Wonderful news. The doom-loop narrative that some of the media would have loved did not play out. Well done @scottishlabour.bsky.social ✊🏼
First fundraiser in a what feels like a while. Popped up to Croydon to see old Labour friends and help raise funds for 2026. So good to meet the wonderful @dawnbutlerbrent.bsky.social - one of the party’s best MP’s!
Thanks to Wes Streeting for making it down too.
Thanks to Wes Streeting for making it down too.
June 5, 2025 at 11:23 PM
First fundraiser in a what feels like a while. Popped up to Croydon to see old Labour friends and help raise funds for 2026. So good to meet the wonderful @dawnbutlerbrent.bsky.social - one of the party’s best MP’s!
Thanks to Wes Streeting for making it down too.
Thanks to Wes Streeting for making it down too.
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Jonathan Hinder is basically saying we should only cater to one portion of the potential labour voting audience (white, socially conservative and from The North). Also let it be known that he was educated at Oxford yet he’s talking down the values of a university education.
May 9, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Jonathan Hinder is basically saying we should only cater to one portion of the potential labour voting audience (white, socially conservative and from The North). Also let it be known that he was educated at Oxford yet he’s talking down the values of a university education.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Face it - sliced bread is industrially produced food, a sort of edible, thicker blotting paper. It has its place in the old fry-up (amongst tastier food) but is it a surprise that many people buy better, tangibly enjoyable bread, less often?
Face it - sliced bread is industrially produced food, a sort of edible, thicker blotting paper. It has its place in the old fry-up (amongst tastier food) but is it a surprise that many people buy better, tangibly enjoyable bread, less often?
Crumbs! How Britain fell out of love with the sliced loaf
Packaged bread, once a household staple, is in ‘inexorable decline’ because of rising costs and competition from other options
www.theguardian.com
May 9, 2025 at 2:17 PM
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Face it - sliced bread is industrially produced food, a sort of edible, thicker blotting paper. It has its place in the old fry-up (amongst tastier food) but is it a surprise that many people buy better, tangibly enjoyable bread, less often?
Face it - sliced bread is industrially produced food, a sort of edible, thicker blotting paper. It has its place in the old fry-up (amongst tastier food) but is it a surprise that many people buy better, tangibly enjoyable bread, less often?