@alaintolhurst.bsky.social
Chief Reporter at @PoliticsHome.bsky.social and host of The Rundown podcast
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@lrb.co.ukReposted by @alaintolhurst.bsky.social‘In fixating on the threat of “foreign” money, Labour has implicitly accepted that plutocrats can buy politics, so long as they are on the electoral roll.’
@petergeoghegan.bsky.social on party fundraising.
@alaintolhurst.bsky.socialJust to pick at random, say, 3 villages that are within 10 miles of where the Guardian’s offices in Manchester used to be. Not to mention Wilmslow, Prestbury, Handforth, Hale Barns, Knutsford, Altrincham etc
@alaintolhurst.bsky.socialToday’s pod pick in @politico.eu Playbook is our chat with London mayoral hopeful Festus Akinbusoye at Tory conference - listen here: pod.fo/e/6953c0
@alaintolhurst.bsky.socialI enjoyed this very much
@politicshome.bsky.socialReposted by @alaintolhurst.bsky.social🔵 OUT NOW 🔵: London mayoral hopeful Festus Akinbusoye joins PolHome's @alaintolhurst.bsky.social & Harriet Symonds for a live recording of The Rundown podcast at Conservative Party conference
+ Editor @adampayne26.bsky.social reacts to Kemi Badenoch's speech pod.fo/e/6953c0
@alaintolhurst.bsky.social🚨 Tory conference podcast is out now:
London mayoral hopeful Festus Akinbusoye speaks about his campaign to replace Sadiq Khan
And myself and @adampayne26.bsky.social analyse today’s keynote speech by Kemi Badenoch in Birmingham
🎧 here: pod.fo/e/6953c0
@alaintolhurst.bsky.socialJust met the darling of Tory conference - party chairman Kevin Hollinrake’s black labrador zuzu - absolute 10/10 doggo
@liamkirkaldy.bsky.socialReposted by @alaintolhurst.bsky.social"It's more of a cormorant than a question", I say, with a wry smile, as my pet cormorant repeatedly dive bombs the panel, pecking at their eyes
@alaintolhurst.bsky.socialAsked what he makes of his new opposite number Alex Norris, shadow justice secretary tells a fringe at Tory party conference that it’s like “punching a shadow”, adding: “What is he?”
@matildamartin.bsky.socialReposted by @alaintolhurst.bsky.socialGreen Party figures are wrestling with a question: how can they demonstrate economic credibility while maintaining their radical edge? “there's still this perception that the Green Party are going to protect Britain with healing herbs and herbal tea”
@politicshome.bsky.socialReposted by @alaintolhurst.bsky.socialDespite anger over how the former PM was treated earlier this year, Starmer loyalists kept their heads down at Labour Party conference in Liverpool, with some staying away altogether, reports @alaintolhurst.bsky.social
@politicshome.bsky.socialReposted by @alaintolhurst.bsky.social🌹OUT NOW: The Rundown podcast at Labour conference 🌹
Listen to host @alaintolhurst.bsky.social's conversation with Defra Secretary @angelaeagle1.bsky.social in Liverpool, plus @adampayne26.bsky.social & @siennarodgers.bsky.social react to Andy Burnham's speech
@alaintolhurst.bsky.social🚨 New podcast: LIVE from Labour’s party conference in Liverpool 🚨
Featuring a newsy interview with Defra secretary @angelaeagle1.bsky.social and top analysis of Andy Burnham’s big speech by @siennarodgers.bsky.social and @adampayne26.bsky.social
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@grovewalker.bsky.socialReposted by @alaintolhurst.bsky.social
@artbutmakeitsports.bsky.socialReposted by @alaintolhurst.bsky.socialCircus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social
@alaintolhurst.bsky.socialAre you asking me? You know it’s not my sign right?
@alaintolhurst.bsky.socialBest sign outside Labour conference by far
@annamerlan.bsky.socialReposted by @alaintolhurst.bsky.socialNEW: I came across a bookseller who was afraid that a mysterious company trying to buy some of his rarest books was going to use them to train AI models. I went down the rabbithole with him, and was confused and altogether existentially weirded out by what I found www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
@theguardian.comReposted by @alaintolhurst.bsky.socialAlberta’s self-image as world’s only rat-free region shattered by discovery of rat
@alaintolhurst.bsky.socialHugh Corcoran decided The Yellow Bittern would only accept reservations via postcard or on the phone two years ago - would be very funny if he becomes some sort of trailblazer www.instagram.com/p/C_5J_UsIpm...
