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• ‘The Community Empowerment Bill is quietly shifting power from Westminster to local people’ – LabourList

  ‘The Community Empowerment Bill is quietly shifting power from Westminster to local people’ – LabourList

• Green Party candidate: ‘Jewish Nazis’ are ‘money grubbing thieves’

  She also said: “Israel must be eradicated. Even if it means killing every single Zionist”, as well as describing Zionists as “vermin. And vermin must be eradicated so they can’t harm children”. She also made numerous references to the idea that Jews are obsessed with money and use it to control the world, for example: Ion’s Threads account referred to “Jewish Nazis”, describing them as “the money grubbing thieves have built mountains of money over centuries that they use to buy their wa...

• Greens urged to ditch ‘openly antisemitic’ candidate in Lambeth - The Jewish Chronicle

  The Green Party has been urged to drop a candidate in Lambeth after she posted an image on social media claiming that Donald Trump is “owned by Jews”. As if Donald Trump, of all people, isn’t perfectly capable of being evil without help from Jews! Incidentally, I didn’t log on this morning intending to post a lot about antisemitism in the Green party, but there does seem to be a lot of it about.

• Zack Polanski’s criticism of Golders Green attack arrest will have ‘chilling effect’, says Met chief

  Full letter here and here.

• After Golders Green, this is what British Jews need from the government, the police – and the rest of society | Dave Rich

  You might be thinking that hating Israel is not the same as hating Jews, and in theory, you are right. In practice, it often does not divide that neatly. When incitement against “Zionists” reaches a certain point, attacks on Jews follow. This article and particularly this section neatly articulates why anti-Zionist rhetoric often ends up in an uncomfortable place. Worth bearing in mind, I think.

• What does a five-party political age mean for Labour? – LabourList

  As I’ve said before, it means that the Corbyn strategy - uniting the left - is now the only workable strategy for Labour.

• Labour faces a local election wipeout in England

  Labour faces a local election wipeout in England

• Broken promises, rising taxes: Inside Reform UK’s first year in power

  Broken promises, rising taxes: Inside Reform UK’s first year in power

• Co-op Group welcomes passage of retail staff protections into law

  Co-op Group welcomes passage of retail staff protections into law

• 'Industrial scale' solar farms attacked by Norfolk's Green