Daniel Katz

@SteveReedMP @Victoria_Spratt @BBCRadio4 building substandard housing won't solve any crisis. Nor will building private housing. Labour is intellectually bankrupt at best, corrupt at worst. Vote Green!

Build baby build is more than just a slogan. It’s about giving more people a secure roof over their head and a stable future to lay roots. Speaking to @Victoria_Spratt on @BBCRadio4 I set out why we’re pulling every lever to build 1.5 million homes and fix the housing crisis. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

@bphillipsonMP You've done less than zero for higher education, which is in a state of crisis. We have no break--we're spending the "holiday" marking and prepping as many of us face teaching load increases of 50%. While our salaries fall in real terms and young PhDs can't get jobs.

Thank you to everyone working in education for all your dedication this year. We've achieved so much together already. I'm determined to work with you to achieve even more in 2026. I hope you have a well deserved, peaceful break.

@ShabanaMahmood We're a wealthy nation. Asylum seekers should be treated with dignity and given support.

I am ending the unrestricted use of taxis by asylum seekers for hospital appointments, authorising them only in the most exceptional circumstances.   I will continue to root out waste as we close every single asylum hotel. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

@MikeTappTweets Are you saying there's a direct correlation between increased emigration and improvement in quality life of the UK's poorest people? That sounds like BS to me. In fact, I bet the opposite is true more likely to be true.

Don’t believe the spin. More migrants leaving means British workers are not being undercut. That’s what we want… As you can see, British nationals leaving has remained stable and this is in line with similar countries whose young people like to study and gain life experiences abroad. There was an increase in 2021 which was down to a data method change from sample surveys at airports (unreliable) to using gov data such as HMRC/DWP - so more reliable. Hope that helps. Overall; net migration has fallen from the Tory peak of 944,000 to 204,000 We are delivering.

@rosie_wrighting Typical of Labour to be more concerned with attacking the left than the right. Vote Green Vote Green Vote Green.

The Green Party continue to offer false hope whilst labour make the choices that will actually change our country.

@ShabanaMahmood Love humanity, and vote Green.

I will close every single asylum hotel.

@johnmcternan @residentadviser I'm all for that but not sure it's top of the list for Green supporters.

@residentadviser the obvious thing in almost all cases is the customs union…

Ultimately, the Mahmood/Hinder/Carden/Tapp-ists (who I’m more sympathetic to than others) need to answer the question: what are you prepared to give to the Green curious 2024 Labour voters in the marginals (and, sorry, they do exist)? Otherwise it’ll lead to electoral disaster.

@johnmcternan @rcolvile Exactly. Why vote for a Govt that declares itself powerless? And unfortunately, someone who is precisely NOT an alternative (Farage) is currently doing the best job of convincing people that he is.

@rcolvile Of course it can do both. The problem is the comforting fiction that Downing Street clings to - that it can outsource political arguments and party management to a fictional construct they call the “bond markets”. It’s their version of TINA and there really are alternatives.

The Government's fundamental problem is that it can't simultaneously please Labour backbenchers and the bond markets. And every time it appeases one it infuriates the other.

@DavidLammy @NewStatesman Vote Green

This is the fightback. Around the world progressives are actually winning. My essay on how we win again for @NewStatesman. newstatesman.com/international-…

@darrengrimes So "foreign nationals" living in the UK should pay taxes like everyone else but not get any of the benefits taxes fund? Did it ever occur to you that as a group we pay in more money than we take out?

1 in 6 people on Universal Credit is a foreign national. What they don't say is that this means 1.3 MILLION non-citizens are being supported by the British taxpayer. They’ll call you a bigot for noticing. They'll say it's "complex." It's not. The rule should be simple: you come to Britain to contribute, not to claim. Our safety net is for our people.

@JohnRentoul @FraserNelson An excellent explanation as to why "stopping the small boats" is beyond idiotic for Labour to take on as a priority. Farage et al will just find something else, which could be almost anything. The answer is to fight racism and xenophobia and their causes. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

This is striking from Ken Macdonald, former pupil of Helena Kennedy’s, co-founder of Matrix chambers with Cherie Blair, Keir Starmer’s predecessor as DPP, former Lib Dem, on the Refugee Convention frasernelson.substack.com/p/were-risking… via @FraserNelson

@JohnRentoul Labour don't need to stop the small boats. They need to push through the real changes to people's lives that will free them from fixating on a non-problem and a non-issue. Labour cannot beat Farage at his own game. Only a genuine leftwing agenda has a chance.

I am surprised by the cries of “Keir must go”: a change of PM won’t solve Labour’s problems independent.co.uk/voices/labour-…

@johnmcternan @davidyelland Which Labour’s language has only enabled.

@davidyelland Pure Powell.

"Whitey has had more than enough..." what troubling madness this is, we have a democracy, we have courts, we need a media which champions those hard-won rights instead of enabling mobs.

@hwilliamssomers @MichaelRosenYes @barecommonsense @FadunkJerbi @RichMillett That's a content-less statement. The Nazis could have said that to France in 1940.

@MichaelRosenYes @barecommonsense @FadunkJerbi @RichMillett What do you think happens in a war? You shoot at me; I shoot at you. One of us dies. These aren’t consequence-free games. Borders everywhere are defined by historical wars and at some point you need to live peacefully behind them.

Imagine the state of mind of these settlers. They are saying through their actions: 'Let's starve Palestinians, because we want their land.' What's a word to describe that?

@michael_chessum Starmer is a useless moron, and the only question is which useless moron in Labour will replace him. They won't let any of the decent people anywhere near.

Astonishingly stupid. Labour have suspended three MPs for their rebellion over welfare cuts: Brian Leishman, Chris Hinchliff and Neil Duncan Jordan. More chaos, more briefings, more doubling down on austerity. These people have no idea how to do politics.

@jesslcotton Great essay!

"Cherries in the firmament or three gold coffins lined up'. I think of her in her apartment in the 10th arrondissement just writing and writing, relentless to the end." -- Luke Roberts' beautiful piece on Alice Notley newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/…

@kjavadizadeh Thanks so much for having me, Kamran! I really enjoyed the talk.

Dan knows this poet inside and out—he’s the author of the first monograph on Spicer and the editor of Be Brave to Things: The Uncollected Poetry and Plays of Jack Spicer—so he was an ideal guest for this one. You can also find us on Apple! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/clo…

How is poetry like psychoanalysis? I had a fascinating conversation with Daniel Katz (@DanielKatz6) about Jack Spicer and his poem “Psychoanalysis: An Elegy.” open.spotify.com/episode/78hExe…

@easyJet So my flight is delayed by over 4 hours, I will arrive at the airport at 3.00 am (!), and all you offer me is one 9 euro voucher? This is very, very poor. Don't expect me ever to fly with you again.

@johnmcternan @BeaconRosie once you start means-testing, things tend to go one way only.

@BeaconRosie It was a stupid decision made in a stupid way for stupid reasons. It would be stupid to stubbornly defend a decision so unpopular.

Labour should absolutely hold their ground on Winter Fuel Allowance IMO. The messaging needs to change but the policy shouldn't. Anyone that suggests wealthy pensioners should receive free money in a) such straightened fiscal context & b) crumbling public services isn't credible

@johnmcternan @Jonathan_Hinder @UKLabour The real truth is we will need more immigration if any of us want to retire and we need to be honest about that. Just as we need to acknowledge that climate change will bring about unprecedented movements of populations, and this will bring responsibilities.

@Jonathan_Hinder My alternative view. When the most charismatic politician in UK politics is cosplaying social democracy it’s time for @UKLabour to deliver the real thing! newstatesman.com/politics/labou…

“Can you hear that familiar sound? The engines of the liberal establishment are revving up to explain why Reform’s success is definitely not down to the one thing we know it definitely is: immigration.” My piece on what’s staring us in the face👇