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Aaron Bastani: The sad truth is a large number...

The sad truth is a large number of people are happy to do a 'Your Party', all over again to the Greens, if it gets retweets and likes. The incentives for thoughtful political strategy are just simply not there any more, which is why long form content, books and events have NEVER been more important. It's extraordinary how you repeatedly see the same thing, with people sincerely believing their X feed is reality: Stop Brexit - because everyone secretly wants it stopped; the radical right thinking Restore will displace Farage; people involved in your party, who crashed it, dismissing the Greens - a party which actually won 4 MPs and almost 1000 councillors - as useless. From the outside all of this looks ridiculous. These spaces are built for conflict, which itself drives engagement (the point is to sell ads after all) which in turn creates seriously distorted thinking. If you think the little numbers at the bottom of these takes represent anything of significance - good luck!

Liz Webster: And that’s exactly why I find...

And that’s exactly why I find this “both sides lied” line frustrating coming from a farmer. You know first-hand what has happened to support, labour, export friction, input costs and competition from imports. You can absolutely stand by why you voted Leave in 2016. But that is a different question from whether Brexit has worked for farming in 2026. Farmers are entitled to judge the policy by the outcome, not by the intention. If Brexit has made our businesses less competitive, our market access worse and our food system more exposed, saying “both sides lied” doesn’t make those consequences disappear.

Andrew Feinstein: The Green Party calls out...

The Green Party calls out @Telegraph for its racism. Why is the @EHRC not investigating the Telegraph for Islamophobia & Antisemitism? “The depictions of Zack and Mothin are instantly recognisable as racist and antisemitic, and we will always challenge this kind of behaviour wherever we see it. The Daily Telegraph has previously called out other papers for giving space to similar tropes, so we insist they practice what they preach and act immediately to address the harm they have caused. Until this is resolved and the paper is once again acting in line with accepted editorial standards, we refuse to support their journalism.”

Ben Judah: I think the demographic transformation...

I think the demographic transformation of London is definitely part of this drop off but it’s not the only explanation. The Left suffers analytically from downplaying demographic change whilst the Right suffers analytically from trying to make it the explanation for everything and this is a good case study. It’s not the main driver — which is Brexit and post-2016 politics. In the 2011 census we already have in this constituency a White British population at 42% and an Asian and Black population of just shy of 20% and 10% respectively. The demographics were close to what they are now with 42% to now 44% born abroad. But the Right was able to get 26% of the vote.Part of the explanation is that as the seat became less White British, it became more prosperous and middle class. The share of professional, managerial and associate professional jobs rose from 44% in 1991 to 65% in 2021. Therefore I don’t think you can ascribe the collapse of the Right’s vote share since to 15% in 2026 purely to ethnic change. It plays a part for sure but the main issue driving this drop off is Brexit and the culture war post 2016. A chunk of prosperous upper middle class voters stopped seeing the Right as the protectors of their economic interests and values with these political choices. This isn’t particularly mysterious. This was in fact celebrated by the Right as it trumpeted its enmity to Islington Remainers.
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