in the thread: british political journalists who are worth reading

In general journos struggle if they come off London or other major cities etc. (a big failing) so although I haven't read Younge's stuff on the US I wouldn't fancy anything happening there.

Caroline Molloy:

https://www.opendemocracy.net/caroline-molloy/local-councils-love-and-loathing-life-story

this rings so true:
"These bad habits were developed long before the 2008 financial crisis really made things tough. In the Blair years, being tough on services used mostly by poorer women and children became something of a macho rite of passage for ambitious New Labour councillors"

Not so as much as journalism but for commentary on-the-left-from-the-left the crew at New Socialist is worth the time:

https://twitter.com/NewSocialistUK

I've not read lots of it mainly because I can get what the article is going to say as I quite often follow the writer's tweets or know the general direction of travel from discussion on left-twitter.