Solomon Hughes
@SolHughesWriter
Journalist, Private Eye magazine. Also words in Guardian, Independent, Tribune, Morning Star & more. Shortlisted 2022 Paul Foot Prize. Own views here.
Are Private Eye jokes now... criminal? PALESTINE Solidarity campaigner Jon Farley was arrested, bundled into a van and taken to the cells during a silent march in Leeds last weekend. What egregious act had prompted the police to act? He was, er, carrying a Private Eye joke piece…
There’s an interesting debate largely led by the Left that is challenging the Treasury orthodoxy on several fronts, especially posed by Prem Sikka. This is another contribution. Britain’s quiet billion-pound subsidy to banks and ‘shadow’ banks – Labour Hub labourhub.org.uk/2025/07/20/bri…
In a mix up for the ages, rather than copies of my book in translation, I have received in the post approximately 10,000 earrings. This is under half of them, Anyway, I guess I’m in the jewellery business now. 💍💍💍
Varun Chandra is Labour’s point man on Big Business & one of No 10’s top advisers Today, we reveal for the first time how he lobbied the Tories in the interest of major private equity firms - some of which he continues to deal with in government opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-…
I wasn’t elected on a manifesto to slash billions from disabled people’s benefits - and nor was any other Labour MP.
Jess Phillips on the media round this morning talking about the 4 labour MPs who've been suspended from the PLP for voting against slashing disability benefits. The edited highlights.
"If you look at what Boris Johnson did, I'm not advocating it, he just took the whip away from 25 Tories and had done with it. Now I'm guessing from your facial expression, you wouldn't go that far" Starmer: "No... disciplining people to be united is going nowhere"
As I was saying 👇 They're now in so deep, they've drunk their own kool-aid, against all rational evidence. tribunemag.co.uk/2025/07/mcswee…
When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. StarmerSweeney doesn't really know or believe in anything but punching Left. It's long since stopped working, but he's got nothing else Desperate.
Excl: Sir Keir Starmer is having a clear out of MPs he believes to have committed "persistent breaches of party discipline". Multiple sources tell me at least three MPs have so far lost the whip - with more to come this afternoon.
The Times report of Starmer's latest round of suspending MPs who voted against Welfare Cuts (which were not in the Labour Manifesto) This is Team Starmer's approach to politics: anonymous briefings to Murdoch papers accusing principled Labour MPs of "knobheadery"
👉NEW -- UK government secretly paid foreign YouTube stars for ‘propaganda’ by @martinrw Revealed: Media agency Zinc Network has contract to recruit social media influencers across Europe. declassifieduk.org/uk-government-…
A former minister has been accused of misleading the post-government appointments watchdog by failing to declare two meetings with an organisation supervised by the Bahraini government before taking up a paid advisory role thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…
The Govt censored all the names of the companies building HS2 in the Department for Transport's own report into why HS2 is so late + so over budget. Will they take on these overcharging late firms (Inc Balfour Beatty) if they can't even say their names? morningstaronline.co.uk/article/blatan…
This sounds too crazy to be true. @SolHughesWriter: Health Secretary Wes Streeting met with General Stanley McChrystal - who oversaw lots of torture and killing in Iraq - to discuss so-called reform in the NHS morningstaronline.co.uk/article/what-l… @medialens @FromSteveHowell @AaronBastani
Health Secretary Wes Streeting got US General Stanley McChrystal to advise him on NHS "reform". McChrystal ran "counterinsurgency " in Iraq & Afghanistan, including overseeing a secret interrogation camp known for abuse. Details here morningstaronline.co.uk/article/what-l…
👉NEW -- Britain trained KGB veteran's police force after major oil deal by @AdamRamsay Revealed: Met police officers coached Azerbaijan’s national security ministry amid crackdown on free speech. declassifieduk.org/britain-traine…
Corbyn's team raised Ware's comments in a complaint at the time. The BBC dismissed it. When Corbyn was the target, anything was permissible. When Israel is the subject, suddenly the "perception of partiality" is taken very seriously. Different rules.
Ware narrated Panorama's ‘Is Labour Antisemitic?’ He previously said Corbyn was “stimulated by disdain for the West, appeasement of extremism, and... would barely understand what fighting for the revival of British values is really all about.” Impartial? web.archive.org/web/2019071718…