Lydia Maher
@lydiarm.bsky.social
Feminist, Labour, ex-social worker, social researcher.
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Harry Cole of Sun interviews Connor Tomlinson - who advocates banning ethnic minority MPs from parliament
Tomlinson regrets sacrificing Suella Braverman but feels sure (on no evidence) she would sacrifice herself to remove the risk of Kemi Badenoch, Rishi Sunak, Priti Patel & Shabana Mahmood!
Tomlinson regrets sacrificing Suella Braverman but feels sure (on no evidence) she would sacrifice herself to remove the risk of Kemi Badenoch, Rishi Sunak, Priti Patel & Shabana Mahmood!
December 13, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Harry Cole of Sun interviews Connor Tomlinson - who advocates banning ethnic minority MPs from parliament
Tomlinson regrets sacrificing Suella Braverman but feels sure (on no evidence) she would sacrifice herself to remove the risk of Kemi Badenoch, Rishi Sunak, Priti Patel & Shabana Mahmood!
Tomlinson regrets sacrificing Suella Braverman but feels sure (on no evidence) she would sacrifice herself to remove the risk of Kemi Badenoch, Rishi Sunak, Priti Patel & Shabana Mahmood!
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Good to see Sarah Vine KC is @thetimes.com Lawyer of the Week. Listen here to her wit and wisdom on the government’s sex & gender policy plans at our #LWDLiverpool25 fringe meeting in Liverpool
Labour Party Conference 2025 Fringe Event: Sarah Vine KC, Doughty Street Chambers
YouTube video by Labour Women's Declaration
www.youtube.com
December 4, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Good to see Sarah Vine KC is @thetimes.com Lawyer of the Week. Listen here to her wit and wisdom on the government’s sex & gender policy plans at our #LWDLiverpool25 fringe meeting in Liverpool
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NEW: The hardest questions for SEND are still to be answered.
@ckfarquharson.bsky.social, Kate Ogden, David Phillips, @lukesibieta.bsky.social and Darcey Snape’s briefing explains how the #Budget2025 will affect SEND spending and the options for councils' SEND-related deficits ⬇️
@ckfarquharson.bsky.social, Kate Ogden, David Phillips, @lukesibieta.bsky.social and Darcey Snape’s briefing explains how the #Budget2025 will affect SEND spending and the options for councils' SEND-related deficits ⬇️
December 2, 2025 at 10:56 AM
NEW: The hardest questions for SEND are still to be answered.
@ckfarquharson.bsky.social, Kate Ogden, David Phillips, @lukesibieta.bsky.social and Darcey Snape’s briefing explains how the #Budget2025 will affect SEND spending and the options for councils' SEND-related deficits ⬇️
@ckfarquharson.bsky.social, Kate Ogden, David Phillips, @lukesibieta.bsky.social and Darcey Snape’s briefing explains how the #Budget2025 will affect SEND spending and the options for councils' SEND-related deficits ⬇️
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It is not too late to put the brakes on assisted dying, and focus on what is really needed | Gordon Brown
It is not too late to put the brakes on assisted dying, and focus on what is really needed | Gordon Brown
Palliative care is deeply underfunded and unequal. Assisted dying cannot go ahead until politicians right that wrong, says former UK prime minister Gordon Brown
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2025 at 9:24 AM
It is not too late to put the brakes on assisted dying, and focus on what is really needed | Gordon Brown
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The Health and Social Care Committee’s evaluation of palliative care in England was published yesterday.
It’s hugely important, not least in the context of the assisted dying bill.
It’s had almost no media coverage.
committees.parliament.uk/publications...
It’s hugely important, not least in the context of the assisted dying bill.
It’s had almost no media coverage.
committees.parliament.uk/publications...
November 29, 2025 at 8:52 AM
The Health and Social Care Committee’s evaluation of palliative care in England was published yesterday.
It’s hugely important, not least in the context of the assisted dying bill.
It’s had almost no media coverage.
committees.parliament.uk/publications...
It’s hugely important, not least in the context of the assisted dying bill.
It’s had almost no media coverage.
committees.parliament.uk/publications...
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Good thread this. I think people are much smarter than they are given credit for, and they intuit that the government’s actual view is “what can we say to make these people shut up about immigration?”
Which then takes you back into the familiar territory of pleasing nobody - winding up the left for a policy that potentially doesn’t make that much difference in practice
November 16, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Good thread this. I think people are much smarter than they are given credit for, and they intuit that the government’s actual view is “what can we say to make these people shut up about immigration?”
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"Let's not forget, when we remember the service and the sacrifice with this poppy, that the people who bled and died for our democracy and our freedom, weren't just my grandfather who looked like me & worshipped the same God, but people across Empire & Commonwealth, who were Muslim, Sikh & Hindu'
October 26, 2025 at 10:13 AM
"Let's not forget, when we remember the service and the sacrifice with this poppy, that the people who bled and died for our democracy and our freedom, weren't just my grandfather who looked like me & worshipped the same God, but people across Empire & Commonwealth, who were Muslim, Sikh & Hindu'
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All these people really want is to pay no taxes and be treated with floor scraping deference. Everything else is just bullshit in pursuit of that goal.
Party donor Nick Candy says "I cherish the values we grew up with here in the West. But today you are more likely to find the values we grew up with in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.’
Via Sam Leith in the Spectator
www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...
Via Sam Leith in the Spectator
www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...
October 7, 2025 at 8:50 PM
All these people really want is to pay no taxes and be treated with floor scraping deference. Everything else is just bullshit in pursuit of that goal.
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With so many voters having changed their minds in the last 15 months, for @samfr.bsky.social, I used @britishelectionstudy.com and @yougov.co.uk data to look at who is moving, why, and whether they’ll return.
A 🧵 looking at the key points, but the whole article has so many more essential details!
A 🧵 looking at the key points, but the whole article has so many more essential details!
New post just out:
"The story behind the polls"
Today we have guest post from the brilliant @dylandifford.bsky.social breaking down which voters have moved where since the election and why.
With loads of new data analysis and lovely charts.
(£/free trial)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...
"The story behind the polls"
Today we have guest post from the brilliant @dylandifford.bsky.social breaking down which voters have moved where since the election and why.
With loads of new data analysis and lovely charts.
(£/free trial)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...
The story behind the polls
Who's changed their mind since the 2024 election and why?
open.substack.com
October 5, 2025 at 7:59 AM
With so many voters having changed their minds in the last 15 months, for @samfr.bsky.social, I used @britishelectionstudy.com and @yougov.co.uk data to look at who is moving, why, and whether they’ll return.
A 🧵 looking at the key points, but the whole article has so many more essential details!
A 🧵 looking at the key points, but the whole article has so many more essential details!
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New from Institute of Jewish Policy Research: most comprehensive study of Jewish attitudes
> Rising experience + perception of antisemitism:feel less safe
> Growing (now majority) criticism of military campaign in Gaza; rising attachment to Israel
(July 2025 fieldwork)
www.jpr.org.uk/reports/two-...
> Rising experience + perception of antisemitism:feel less safe
> Growing (now majority) criticism of military campaign in Gaza; rising attachment to Israel
(July 2025 fieldwork)
www.jpr.org.uk/reports/two-...
Two years after the October 7 attacks: British Jewish views on antisemitism, Israel and Jewish life
www.jpr.org.uk
October 4, 2025 at 12:15 PM
New from Institute of Jewish Policy Research: most comprehensive study of Jewish attitudes
> Rising experience + perception of antisemitism:feel less safe
> Growing (now majority) criticism of military campaign in Gaza; rising attachment to Israel
(July 2025 fieldwork)
www.jpr.org.uk/reports/two-...
> Rising experience + perception of antisemitism:feel less safe
> Growing (now majority) criticism of military campaign in Gaza; rising attachment to Israel
(July 2025 fieldwork)
www.jpr.org.uk/reports/two-...
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‘An attack like this is against all human kind’ – mother of Manchester arena victim
www.channel4.com/news/an-atta...
www.channel4.com/news/an-atta...
‘An attack like this is against all human kind’ – mother of Manchester arena victim
We were joined by Figen Murray. She is the mother of Martyn Hett, who was killed in the Manchester Arena bombing in 2017.
www.channel4.com
October 2, 2025 at 7:07 PM
‘An attack like this is against all human kind’ – mother of Manchester arena victim
www.channel4.com/news/an-atta...
www.channel4.com/news/an-atta...
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The idea that "the median voter will feel attacked" by challenging Reform over racism is certainly not shown by the data in this piece. It shows they may be indifferent. (It may mean a different important swing voter, who isn't the median voter)
Crying racism only hurts Labour
Activists like it, but the median voter will feel attacked.
📊 @bwalker.uk
Activists like it, but the median voter will feel attacked.
📊 @bwalker.uk
Crying racism only hurts Labour
Activists like it, but the median voter will feel attacked.
www.newstatesman.com
October 1, 2025 at 6:35 PM
The idea that "the median voter will feel attacked" by challenging Reform over racism is certainly not shown by the data in this piece. It shows they may be indifferent. (It may mean a different important swing voter, who isn't the median voter)
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Why DO people keep talking about Andy Burnham as a possible Labour leader? It's a total mystery.
thecritic.co.uk/what...
thecritic.co.uk/what...
September 29, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Why DO people keep talking about Andy Burnham as a possible Labour leader? It's a total mystery.
thecritic.co.uk/what...
thecritic.co.uk/what...
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Depressing myself by reading earlier speeches by prime ministers at their second party conference. Zero chance we get something as good as this:
Speech to Conservative Party Conference ('the lady's not for turning') ["The Reason Why"] | Margaret Thatcher Foundation
www.margaretthatcher.org
September 29, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Depressing myself by reading earlier speeches by prime ministers at their second party conference. Zero chance we get something as good as this:
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My column in tomorrow's paper:
Starmer and Badenoch are handling the far-right march all wrong
A look back to the days of Enoch Powell suggests a better model
www.ft.com
September 15, 2025 at 1:37 PM
My column in tomorrow's paper:
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When Ted Heath sacked Enoch Powell he was acting in the face of a majority in favour. Harold Wilson backed him up and called the speech “evil”. Long past time for Keir and Kemi to do the same.
September 13, 2025 at 8:32 PM
When Ted Heath sacked Enoch Powell he was acting in the face of a majority in favour. Harold Wilson backed him up and called the speech “evil”. Long past time for Keir and Kemi to do the same.
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Zarah Sultana tells BBC Breakfast local news that wages aren't rising. They are and above inflation.
Labour needs to big up its achievements.
Labour needs to big up its achievements.
September 8, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Zarah Sultana tells BBC Breakfast local news that wages aren't rising. They are and above inflation.
Labour needs to big up its achievements.
Labour needs to big up its achievements.
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Elon Musk has *personally*posted in favour of the racist remigration agenda of the maximalist racist abusing the Home Secretary with this on X & endlessly posting racist harassment on X
This should be a story.
It should be a scandal.
Musk should have to account for this, in person, in parliament
This should be a story.
It should be a scandal.
Musk should have to account for this, in person, in parliament
September 7, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Elon Musk has *personally*posted in favour of the racist remigration agenda of the maximalist racist abusing the Home Secretary with this on X & endlessly posting racist harassment on X
This should be a story.
It should be a scandal.
Musk should have to account for this, in person, in parliament
This should be a story.
It should be a scandal.
Musk should have to account for this, in person, in parliament
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When Yorkshire cricket dismissed the p-word as banter, all hell broke loose in media+politics
There is a p-word epidemic on X
Yet the platform keeps that abuse online
+ now Elon Musk personally promotes a fascist who uses it incessantly
Why is there infinite tolerance of lawless pro-racism X?
There is a p-word epidemic on X
Yet the platform keeps that abuse online
+ now Elon Musk personally promotes a fascist who uses it incessantly
Why is there infinite tolerance of lawless pro-racism X?
September 1, 2025 at 8:56 PM
When Yorkshire cricket dismissed the p-word as banter, all hell broke loose in media+politics
There is a p-word epidemic on X
Yet the platform keeps that abuse online
+ now Elon Musk personally promotes a fascist who uses it incessantly
Why is there infinite tolerance of lawless pro-racism X?
There is a p-word epidemic on X
Yet the platform keeps that abuse online
+ now Elon Musk personally promotes a fascist who uses it incessantly
Why is there infinite tolerance of lawless pro-racism X?
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Responding to today’s announcements, our director, Dr Mary-Ann Stephenson, said the scale of public investment marks a welcome shift but highlights the importance of ensuring funding decisions meet the specific needs of women.
Read our immediate response. 👇
www.wbg.org.uk/article/our-...
Read our immediate response. 👇
www.wbg.org.uk/article/our-...
June 11, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Responding to today’s announcements, our director, Dr Mary-Ann Stephenson, said the scale of public investment marks a welcome shift but highlights the importance of ensuring funding decisions meet the specific needs of women.
Read our immediate response. 👇
www.wbg.org.uk/article/our-...
Read our immediate response. 👇
www.wbg.org.uk/article/our-...
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Rock climbers Lucy Smith and Pauline Rankin of the Ladies’ Scottish Climbing Club, 1908, Salisbury Crags, Scotland #WomensArt #Sunday
June 8, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Rock climbers Lucy Smith and Pauline Rankin of the Ladies’ Scottish Climbing Club, 1908, Salisbury Crags, Scotland #WomensArt #Sunday
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This is superb.
Column, on the persistent spirit of Trussism in Badenoch's Tories and Farage's Reform ... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The spirit of Liz Truss, ridiculous but relentless, stalks British politics | Rafael Behr
Nigel Farage and Kemi Badenoch have much more in common with the failed Tory leader than either cares to admit, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr
www.theguardian.com
June 4, 2025 at 5:22 PM
This is superb.
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President Trump has slashed funding for medical research, threatening a longstanding alliance between the federal government and universities that helped make the U.S. the world leader in medical science. Here are the nearly 2,500 grants that have been canceled or delayed. https://trib.al/iBstU2B
June 4, 2025 at 5:40 PM
President Trump has slashed funding for medical research, threatening a longstanding alliance between the federal government and universities that helped make the U.S. the world leader in medical science. Here are the nearly 2,500 grants that have been canceled or delayed. https://trib.al/iBstU2B