Journalist, Private Eye magazine. Also available @solomonhughes.bsky.social
Joined June 2012
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Solomon Hughes retweeted
The consequences of the establishment parties bucking public opinion to enforce war driven austerity will be to increase the alienation of voters from the political process and raise the danger of far right nationalists filling the political vacuum
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The likes of Lisa Nandy doing the media rounds justifying choosing guns over butter do so as public opinion is increasingly hostile to that option.
Ipsos polling last week found 50% oppose increases in arms spending if it means increased taxes and 45% oppose arms increases if it means less spending on public services
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Solomon Hughes retweeted
Jun 12
‘Opportunities in politics’ – how lobbyists tell ministers who to meet - From Global Counsel to Arden, SOLOMON HUGHES finds firms linked to discredited politicians are still calling the shots in Britain
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Solomon Hughes retweeted
Jun 12
Scale of sentences on the 4 young people who took direct action against the arms supplier to Israel is truly shocking. To impose years of imprisonment for protesting to save lives in Gaza is unjust, especially sentencing on terrorist grounds they were never convicted of by a jury
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Solomon Hughes retweeted
Jun 11
Healey wanted to increase defence spending by £28bn/year from
£61bn to approx £89bn. That's an increase of 40%!
It was an ABSURD ask - UK would be the fourth largest military spender in the world after US, China and Russia.
Vast amounts of that would be siphoned off by rapacious, price-gouging contractors in the most corrupt industry in the world. And none of it would help - in fact, it would mostly worsen - the biggest threat to global security, which is climate change.
The right wing press will try and present Healey's ask as eminently reasonable, but it was a ludicrous cash grab at the same time that were cutting overseas aid, climate change mitigation and welfare spending.
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Al Carns saying (imo rightly) "platforms that cost billions can be defeated by systems that cost thousands", so why is he arguing for big increases in defence spending? Was he eg arguing for cancelling overpriced Tempest jets for cheap Drone capability?
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Solomon Hughes retweeted
Kevin Maguire: "After the attack on the Liverpool football parade & it was a white guy, middle class, former royal marine, no-one went after other white, middle class former marines & set this person represents that entire group"
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Solomon Hughes retweeted
Sarah Wakefield (the Green candidate in Makerfield): "We need more council houses.. [and] end right to buy"
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Solomon Hughes retweeted
Jun 3
In 2024 Wes Streeting said that South Africa's ICJ case was a "distraction."
Jun 2
The concerns I raised about Gaza - including distressing eyewitness accounts from UK medics - were a result of moral urgency, not 'mid life crisis'.
It felt like hitting a brick wall at the time - now I know how casually those concerns were dismissed.
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Solomon Hughes retweeted
I’m just as afraid of the NHS being a hate factory as I was of the National Trust being a Trojan horse of Woke, or the RNLI being treasonous migrant lovers, or the Proms banning Rule Britannia to pander to The Blacks. These things are all the same thing. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn0p…
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A significant slice of Centrist Labour would rather lose to Reform than see even the 'Soft Left' win Labour Leadership
Jun 3
Some Labour MPs who oppose replacing Keir Starmer are refusing to campaign for Andy Burnham in Makerfield
"People feel like they are being asked to take part in an act of self-harm and so aren’t happy about campaigning," one told PolHome
Party chair Anna Turley has asked all Labour MPs to canvass in the by-election twice during the campaign, plus polling day on 18 June
However, multiple Starmer loyalists plan to defy that instruction, with some saying they will stay away altogether, @harriet_symonds reports exclusively politicshome.com/news/articl…
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Many papers are picking up this Mandelson/McFadden exchange and acting as if Mandelson and his friends are the good guys lbc.co.uk/article/pat-mcfadd…
Minister Pat McFadden agreed with his friend ,disgusting billionaire-pervert-adjacent Peter Mandelson, that the rich shouldn't pay more tax to help the poor. This somehow proves Mandelson/McFadden are right: All newspapers inc. the Guardian theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Minister Pat McFadden agreed with his friend ,disgusting billionaire-pervert-adjacent Peter Mandelson, that the rich shouldn't pay more tax to help the poor. This somehow proves Mandelson/McFadden are right: All newspapers inc. the Guardian theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Pat McFadden and Peter Mandelson plotting FOR banks, AGAINST Angela Rayner ("agent of destabilisation") , Ed Miliband, Gordon Brown (Because Brown was calling for a big increase in social welfare support to get folk through the cost of living crisis) from latest files
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Solomon Hughes retweeted
The Briefcase is dead!
Long live the Briefcase!
Jun 1
The Times is reporting today that Darren Jones is considering a run for the Labour leadership and has drawn up a spreadsheet of potential MP supporters (denied by his team)
I reported a few weeks ago that MPs said he was quietly sounding out support for a future leadership bid of his own: politicshome.com/news/articl…
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Solomon Hughes retweeted
.@SolHughesWriter is always worth reading - his latest on whether Andy Burnham will bend to or resist Reform morningstaronline.co.uk/arti…
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Even when Tories are out of power, we see their education policy in the private Regent College, which employs funds so many Tory MPs: It's too-few lecturers, underfunded libraries staff trying to get student grades up with Essay Mills and AI cheating morningstaronline.co.uk/arti…
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(1)Cenk shouldn't be banned for criticising US Israel policy, but he's wrong that "Israel controls the US govt through donations to Congress" : The US backs Israel for "imperial" reasons , to have a loyal , aggressive military ally in the Middle East. Donations are secondary..
May 31
The British government is saying they're banning me because I am "a serious risk to the public order" due to my criticism of Israel.
They say that my charge that Israel controls the American government through donations to 94% of Congress, while factual, is antisemitic nonetheless. Don't know if facts will soon be banned in Britain.
I didn't get banned for criticizing the UK, but for criticizing Israel. They broke the irony record by saying it was because I said Israel might control other governments. I wonder if they're going to ban themselves.
Think about it - if I had said that the Israeli government controls the British government so thoroughly that they'll ban someone from coming to the UK just for criticizing Israel, they would have said that was an antisemitic statement. This is absolutely Kafkaesque.
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(2) its like UK backing for apartheid South Africa - the SA regime spent money/time cultivating UK politicians ( on attacking UK critics of Apartheid). It mattered. But the UK truly supported the Apartheid regime as a loyal, aggressive enemy of anti-imperialist African nations
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Solomon Hughes retweeted
Much like the crushing of student protests under Biden, the Starmer government is creating the mechanisms, precedent and, worst of all, legitimacy for the authoritarian Reform government they keep warning us about. They're paving the way.
Jun 1
I was supposed to chair the @hasanthehun discussion at SXSW this week, who's been banned from entering the UK by Shabana Mahmood. First of all, @sxsw must facilitate a way for Hasan and Cenk to contribute remotely, as a bare minimum refusal to comply with government censorship.
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