At the time, movements for civil rights or against the Vietnam War were vilified. Now most pretend they'd have been on their side. Those attacking students over Gaza should remember that! Full @zeteo_news with @mehdirhasan: www.youtube.com/watc…

If you're on the left, the results are very heartening indeed. - The Tories got smashed, and will lose the next election - But this is nothing like 1997. Labour had a 17 point lead over the Tories in the local elections before the 1997 general election. This time, they have a…

The reason London has become the worst nightmare of the hard right is very straightforward. People from different backgrounds not only live together and mix together, but they enjoy doing so. That's the future of Britain, which is an apocalyptic vision, sure, if you're a bigot.

I may regret tweeting this, but I think Sadiq Khan will make it. Too much of a polling error for Susan Hall to win. That said, it'll be closer than polls suggested. But Sadiq was undoubtedly hurt by younger and minority voters being disillusioned with Labour.

He's got a point. The Tories would still have lost, but they wouldn't have been routed. Instead they decided the real problem with Boris Johnson was he wasn't right-wing enough, so they replaced him with Liz Truss, who is most responsible for their coming electoral catastrophe.