Solomon Hughes

Absolutely meaningless for Labour to apologise over the Gaza genocide while they're still literally holding people in prison for opposing it.

Streeting’s abortive leadership bid and the weakness of the Labour right Labour’s toxic centrists have wealthy backers but there’s little to suggest they can win over MPs or party members in an open fight, writes SOLOMON HUGHES morningstaronline.co.uk/article/street…

@horton_official @nw_nicholas Idk the Telegraph afair basically stole a story @newsbrooke created with foia requests when the Telegraph paid off a security guard for the paperwork, then presented the story in a partisan way minimising Tory sins , so them being dishonourable is consistent

A great pity that the paper behind the expenses scandal has debased itself by campaigning against the Guardian and Sunday Times doing investigative journalism into the finances of politicians telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/…

@Niven_Rennie @davidyelland Dont people say Manchester is The North of England, an English region , which is true ?Surely Scotland isn't "the North of Britain " that would demote it to a 'British Region' rather than the Nation of Britain which it is.

@davidyelland If there is such a thing as either the U.K. or GB the North is Ullapool or Aberdeen….it’s hard not to be triggered by the English bubble calling Manchester the North…they do not understand the country in which we all live

Finding it hard not be triggered by commentators who did not grow up in the north, do not understand the north and have never lived outside the London bubble lecturing us all on “danger of Manchesterism”… they do not understand the country in which we all live.

Labour's Jeremy Corbyn says he's obtained hundreds of pages of documents about US-UK trade talks he says "confirm the US is demanding the NHS is on the table" after Brexit Live updates: bbc.in/33ulTfP

A corporate media campaign has successfully manufactured a "defence funding gap" -- paving the way for the oligarchy to get the plebs to stump up money for arms corporations and future wars rather than spending to benefit the public.

@hauntedmchn1817 Christopher Steele, author of the ridiculous "Trump Dossier " with its "pee tape" claims is the author of this 'Dossier '

Mandelson liked to hang around with rich, powerful people and doesn't believe in democracy. That brought him into contact with people who wear several different hats. This is being used to legitimise officer class anti Russian hysteria and enforce increased military spending.

There’s a lot of talk about Andy Burnham being bad news for the Greens. But without the Greens taking Gorton and Denton, and battering Labour in the local elections, Burnham would not be on course to become PM on this platform. Whether he delivers is another question entirely.

This is utterly, utterly, outrageous. Lloyds is blocking The Canary from accessing its bank accounts. They are refusing to explain why. This will undermine free speech and independent accountability journalism. @LloydsBank must explain themselves NOW! Retweet @LloydsBank and make them come clean.

Burnham urged to remove Mahmood as Home Secretary and end her ‘performative cruelty’ Labour peer Alf Dubs calls on incoming PM to country’s Britain's borders with a ‘commitment to basic rights, and compassion for those who are in time of greatest need’ morningstaronline.co.uk/article/burnha…

Tomorrow's front page: Dubs rounds on ‘cruel’ Mahmood – New PM told to sack Home Secretary Subscribe to the Morning Star newspaper: morningstaronline.co.uk/subscribe

(2) Mahmood is dressing up her anti-worker policy as about 'only' attacking migrant workers rights, but thats not how it works. The union slogan is 'an injury to one injures all' because giving bosses more power to exploit migrant workers (Mahmood's plan) hurts all workers

(1)Labour's cabinet is so rotten that Shabana Mahmood wants to sack Mike Tapp for the one time he wasn't a right wing clown. Mahmood, supposedly a Labour Minister, wants to systematically reduce workers rights. Tapp says she should do it less theguardian.com/politics/2026/…

It’s wild how Gaza is being erased from the narrative surrounding Starmer’s unpopularity. Over 50% of Labour switchers at the locals said it influenced them. It came up on the doorstep over & over again. It’s one of the greatest moral stains of our era. And yet media silence.

Me from last year on Flint Global, run by Andy Burnham's new aide James Purnell - Inc clients and Labour links morningstaronline.co.uk/article/flint-…

I hear Wes Streeting has decided to back Andy Burnham and wants to join his government

@steamedhamms @Seanchuckle Being Lee Harpin

Lee Harpin lives in this kind of strange universe where everybody he meets has a quote that happens to fully align with what he thinks on internal Labour Party issues

@Calderbank Tbh imo if Burnham just did a limited number of radical , concrete flagship policies - eg actual council housing starts at volume, nationalising Thames, some significant tax on Amazon etc to go direct to high streets he could point to them as exemplars for a 2028 election.

@SolHughesWriter Yes the change has to be more than superficial and more than just tinkering around the edges - it has to be radical and systematic

Burnham standing on a "change is coming" platform. The 2 questions are (1)Can he Makerfield voters believe it ?(2) If they do and elect him, will he deliver real? ("end trickle down economics") change. Fail at either and he will be Starmer 2.0, hurt the left + feed the hard right