Mike Craven
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Founder, Lexington. Chair, The Tablet. Politics, religion, education, dogs, Hull. Retweets imply agreement or disbelief
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This excellent essay has lessons for the government - too often ministers echo the doom narrative. Voters need a bit of positivity and optimism.
Violent, lawless, broken Britain? The facts tell a very different story. My Times essay:-.
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RT @FraserNelson: Immigration certainly has surged over the last 25 years - but overall crime has not…
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Very sad - Tom was a great guy. Beyond his contribution to Labour, Tom as no. 2 in NUPE with general secretary Rodney Bickerstaffe fought to make a statutory minimum wage Labour policy in the teeth of opposition from most other unions. They won and Tony Blair implemented it.
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RT @GoodGrowthFdn: 🚨 In today's @thetimes: Labour MPs are calling on Rachel Reeves to adopt GGF's Rapid Reforms to unlock housebuilding to….
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This is an excellent development in government communications.
🤳 Up to 90 content creators, with a combined 250m followers, are invited to Downing Street this week. The invitees are understood to have all been engaging with No10 during Labour’s first year in government.
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This is interesting - while just 15% support Israel, only 29% support the Palestinians. 43% in the Sunday Times poll support neither or both sides. The Government is more in sync with British public opinion than I would have expected. 41% support the ban on Palestine Action.
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RT @mattforde: 🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Donald Trump and Keir Starmer react to Chelsea’s FIFA Club World Cup victory
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I make no point about Angela who is a very good minister and no tribute act to anyone but if this piece is implying Prescott wasn’t bright, that is 100% wrong. He was one of the cleverest people I ever worked with. He was a formidable politician and Deputy PM.
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It is great that Gary got The Canary to issue such a humiliating apology but Jewish people involved in Labour politics shouldn’t have to constantly deal with this sort of abuse from far left platforms.
Far-left news site makes humiliating apology to Labour donor Lubner over Israel lobby slur via @JewishNewsUK
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RT @Daniel_Sugarman: After Novara Media’s highly embarrassing public climbdown last year after publishing rubbish about Gary Lubner, it’s n….
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RT @AnnaYearley: Oh look, The Canary having to apologise to philanthropist & all round good human Gary Lubner for making ‘conspiratorial &….
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A statement on allegations the Canary made against Gary Lubner from Canary on 4 July 2025
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This makes an excellent point about the excessive bureaucracy in today’s planning system.
In 1937, London built 80,000 homes. Last year, it built less than half that. To find out why, I looked at two different planning applications for a four-storey block of flats from now and back then. 1937: 3 pages long. 2025: 1,250 pages long.
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RT @TheCanaryUK: A statement on allegations the Canary made against Gary Lubner. On 26 June 2025, we published an article entitled "Yvette….
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"Furious and bewildered" - good name for the new party.
EXCLUSIVE: I understand Jeremy Corbyn has not agreed to join the new left party with Zarah Sultana yet . He is furious and bewildered at the way it has been launched without consultation.
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RT @timespolitics: Gary Lubner: I want to change the lives of millions of people
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The South African businessman bankrolling the Labour Party talks about why he believes in Starmer and how growing up under apartheid shaped his politics
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One win for the UK in the EU negotiation which hasn't had much coverage is that we are now back in the pet passport scheme. Around 250,000 dogs go through the channel tunnel each year. The pet passport will save money and unnecessary bureaucracy to a lot of holiday makers.
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RT @UCLPolicyLab: Today we launch This Place Matters in partnership with @CitizensUK and @Moreincommon_. The project aims to reimagine soci….
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A new joint research project, This Place Matters, is designed to provide local and national governments with a blueprint for good cohesion policy and to amplify the work of civic actors on the ground
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