From 2019 but Paula Keaveney 's Political Insight piece on political defections is well worth a read today! The Political Studies Association

journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…

at this rate we'll have Andrew Bridgen crossing the floor to Starmer's Labour, closely followed by Attila the Hun

Natalie Elphicke tried defecting to me first but I said no. I’m taking the trash out, not in. #PMQs

Wild to think that Sunak’s Zombie government will drag out for another six months or even more

Great to be at LSE for lecture from Shami Chakrabarti about ‘human rights: the case for the defence’ - with fellow Longford man Conor Gearty on the panel #lseioi

This looks like a terrific project from mySociety on APPGs and their funding - a subject close to my heart!

They're looking for volunteers. Do sign up if you're interested!

Stewart is terrific. Was the driving force behind so many of openDemocracy ‘s most successful campaigns - and a real pleasure to work with. Hire him!

Another excellent piece by Peter Geoghegan @ democracyforsale.substack on plutocratic populism: 'anti-establishment' politics, brought to you by the rich.

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Huge respects to Jak Jones. He’s really showing for it here. #snooker

Unfortunately an evergreen tweet for this final

Not sure ever seen a more staccato world snooker final. Lots of half breaks ended by routine pots missed.

Great work again by Peter.

It’s all deeply odd over at Reform.

Tice funds it. Farage controls it.

Is Tice naive or does he have something reallllly big on Farage to risk this?

Feels like Jones’ missed black off its spot is the end of this #snooker

Families in Gaza tell me they are evacuating from east Rafah to West Rafah in horse carts drawn by people. Some people are walking. So much confusion and fear. They can’t bring all their family members and belongings in one go so most vulnerable and children are going first.