Agree, but surely it also means pointing out that many of the public voted for some of these. And many continue to back Farage et al despite their claims leading us to where we are now…
“walk through a town's fanciest shopping district, what seem to be the shops of lots of different brands are actually owned by a handful of conglomerates. That's one reason these districts seem so sterile; like suburbs built by a single developer, they have an unnatural lack of variety.”
Hitting desalination plants is so bad. Not just evil but strategically incomprehensible. Without desalination 75% of the entire population of the Middle East will be refugees. Israel and Kuwait depend on desalination for 90% of their water and other Middle East states aren’t far behind.
There’s also a distinction between technically possible but starts becoming unacceptable when the error rates, reliability etc get factored in. Then there’s the other aspect of legislative & accountability frameworks which mean certain requirements of people.
See also midday naps
Too late, you don’t want to see what’s got in!
Polling from More in Common shows that Greens and Reform win a higher share of voters who struggle to make ends meet, while Labour and the Conservatives win those who are most financially comfortable
Reform UK and the Greens are hoovering up financially insecure voters. My piece this week looks at the return of Britain's class politics (with a twist) www.economist.com/britain/2026...
Seeing comparison between Italy & UK unemployment. Worth considering population growth too…
This IPSO adjudication against the Telegraph is quite something
Confirms their story titled: ‘We earn £345k, but soaring private school fees mean we can’t go on five holidays’ was completely fabricated, with the family involved non-existent and stock pictures used
www.ipso.co.uk/rulings/0210...
Sounds like a win to me!
Folks, it’s been relentless in 2026 so far. Just endless stressful news. It’s fine to just mute the most likely words to give yourself a relief from it.
You’re not letting anyone down or “looking away” from the nastiness, you’re just not built as a human for the always-on bad news drips.
As journalists working today many of us are taught to recognise disinformation when we see it and fight back against it.
Unfortunately there are some who willingly seek it out and put it on their front pages. A disgrace to the profession.
Been watching Dirty Business dramatisation of the water industry pumping sewage onto beaches. Struck by the lackadaisical portrayal of Environmental Agency. And yet they also prevent lots of national infrastructure being built!
Doesn’t make sense does it? A cynic would ask where is the money made?
Thanks! Any thoughts on anything similar happening in U.K. & Europe?
obviously today is a huge embarrassment for Matt Goodwin and for Reform, which is something that we absolutely ought to celebrate, but we must also remember it's a huge embarrassment for Morgan McSweeney and Maurice Glasman and all the Blue Labour weirdos, and that's important to celebrate too :)
Can you expand? What sorting are you seeing and where? I suspect house prices reduce ownership and make geographical mobility more likely.
It’s true when you look at those figures it gives you hope for the progressive parties. But then you think back to the marches in summer and the airtime their agenda gets and I’m just not sure this one example gives me much confidence.
This is what happens when you appease, tolerate, and generally enable the xenophobes and racists.
Both Labour and the Tories have a whole pile of soul searching to do over their part in this by chasing after the racist and xenophobe votes since the last general election.
To clarify-she has just said 'it's no wonder Labour are being called the paedo protection party'
Which is exactly the language the extreme far right are using at Labour MPs - often alongside threats of violence. She is backing that up, from the dispatch box
Over 95% of UK adults are online, but this varies by age and income.
The biggest shift has been more over 60s now regularly using the internet.
Taken from: www.lloydsbankinggroup.com/assets/pdfs/...
I am so ANGRY watching this Reform press conference. How can we just let them get away with saying they will deport "hundreds of thousands" of people here "illegally" and in the same breath say that they will make it illegal to simply be here. These policies are horrifically racist and DANGEROUS.
We need to go back to a situation where racism is shameful rather than electorally advantageous.
Screen shot from Paul Embery’s X account: Respect to this police officer. Confronted by radicals demanding the arrest of a Christian preacher on the grounds that Whitechapel "is a Muslim area" she was calm and professional and gave them short shrift. Let's see more of this from the police. Has a video of a woman police officer talking to a group of Muslim men
This clip is all over the other place and has made its way onto GB News and Talk TV so I’ll do a bit of an explainer here too!
The clip doing the rounds is of a fantastic police officer telling a group of Muslim men that a Christian preacher nearby is entitled to freedom of expression.
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"The Green Party has a habit of supporting things in principle and opposing them in practice. It wants environmentally friendly transport, then opposes HS2. It wants clean energy, but opposes wind farms locally. It supports affordable housing, but opposes almost every building project it sees."
I’m pretty confident in calling this fake. The user who posted it seems to be part of a substantial network of accounts with similar usernames all posting and commenting on each other’s content. Ironically it’s a great example of an AI agent making stuff up to tell you what you want to hear
The whole missions approach seems to have disappeared without trace despite all the engagement with leaders like Mariana et al.
The gov made lots of noises on doing things differently but have quickly got bogged down by the day to day chaos esp of the world today.
Such a good point! BBC could do so much to shift the dial. Again guess it says a lot about what institutions are willing to tolerate - unfortunately…
Taken long enough, guess we know what some institutions believe to be tolerable.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
