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Bigger picture of Labour's tax shenanigans is to delay once again, possibly beyond the next election, the point at which UK politics makes some attempt to compromise with reality.
November 14, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Bigger picture of Labour's tax shenanigans is to delay once again, possibly beyond the next election, the point at which UK politics makes some attempt to compromise with reality.
observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
Detailed review of how the selectivity and selective omissions of the Prescott memo enabled the BBC to be stitched up.
Detailed review of how the selectivity and selective omissions of the Prescott memo enabled the BBC to be stitched up.
The Prescott memo flunks the impartiality test | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 4:41 PM
observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
Detailed review of how the selectivity and selective omissions of the Prescott memo enabled the BBC to be stitched up.
Detailed review of how the selectivity and selective omissions of the Prescott memo enabled the BBC to be stitched up.
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The remarkable story we discussed this morning. (No paywall but do consider subscribing.) www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-e...
EXCLUSIVE: Michael Prescott himself doctored Trump quote in his anti-BBC report
A report alleging Panorama broadcast misleading Trump quotes contains misleading quotes itself
www.thenewworld.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 12:48 PM
The remarkable story we discussed this morning. (No paywall but do consider subscribing.) www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-e...
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Watching Wes Streeting on Sky News successfully skewer the overnight Downing Street briefings against him, you almost have to admire the ineptitude of those around Keir Starmer in turning his own leadership problems into a major story while boosting the very politician they sought to kneecap
November 12, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Watching Wes Streeting on Sky News successfully skewer the overnight Downing Street briefings against him, you almost have to admire the ineptitude of those around Keir Starmer in turning his own leadership problems into a major story while boosting the very politician they sought to kneecap
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Sort of message given by every dictator who ran their economies into the ground.
November 12, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Sort of message given by every dictator who ran their economies into the ground.
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Conservative Shadow Culture Secretary Nigel Huddleston tells GB News that the BBC should "grovel" to Trump.
Amazing how many British 'patriots' are spending their time telling our national broadcaster to prostrate itself before a hostile foreign leader
Amazing how many British 'patriots' are spending their time telling our national broadcaster to prostrate itself before a hostile foreign leader
November 11, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Conservative Shadow Culture Secretary Nigel Huddleston tells GB News that the BBC should "grovel" to Trump.
Amazing how many British 'patriots' are spending their time telling our national broadcaster to prostrate itself before a hostile foreign leader
Amazing how many British 'patriots' are spending their time telling our national broadcaster to prostrate itself before a hostile foreign leader
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Be clear, the American far right are coming for British democracy.
November 9, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Be clear, the American far right are coming for British democracy.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
So the BBC has to apologise to Trump for the Panorama edit. Zero chance of the BBC reporting on Trump's plans for the mid-terms. This summary is so disturbing.
So the BBC has to apologise to Trump for the Panorama edit. Zero chance of the BBC reporting on Trump's plans for the mid-terms. This summary is so disturbing.
Trump’s assault on voting intensifies as midterms loom:‘a wholesale attack on free and fair elections’
White House is manipulating voting system, from redistricting to rule changes, to affect midterms
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:37 PM
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
So the BBC has to apologise to Trump for the Panorama edit. Zero chance of the BBC reporting on Trump's plans for the mid-terms. This summary is so disturbing.
So the BBC has to apologise to Trump for the Panorama edit. Zero chance of the BBC reporting on Trump's plans for the mid-terms. This summary is so disturbing.
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Trevor Philips, "You don't want a rise in income tax?"
Zack Polanski, "No, people are tired and exhausted"
"How can you take from the hardest working people with extra tax, while allowing multimillionaires and billionaires to continue to not paying CGT?"
Zack Polanski, "No, people are tired and exhausted"
"How can you take from the hardest working people with extra tax, while allowing multimillionaires and billionaires to continue to not paying CGT?"
November 9, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Trevor Philips, "You don't want a rise in income tax?"
Zack Polanski, "No, people are tired and exhausted"
"How can you take from the hardest working people with extra tax, while allowing multimillionaires and billionaires to continue to not paying CGT?"
Zack Polanski, "No, people are tired and exhausted"
"How can you take from the hardest working people with extra tax, while allowing multimillionaires and billionaires to continue to not paying CGT?"
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"There is simply no sign of a fiscal catastrophe from the 'Boriswave'. Recent migrants are very likely to be employed, paying tax and seem to be contributing to British society..it will help, rather than hurt, Britain’s fiscal position."
Analysis by @lgilbert.co
ukandeu.ac.uk/lower-migrat...
Analysis by @lgilbert.co
ukandeu.ac.uk/lower-migrat...
Lower migration is bad news for the UK economy - UK in a changing Europe
Lauren Gilbert argues that migrants to the UK are net fiscal contributors, adding much more to the economy than they take out, and that the recent collapse in immigration will harm the UK's economic p...
ukandeu.ac.uk
November 6, 2025 at 4:00 PM
"There is simply no sign of a fiscal catastrophe from the 'Boriswave'. Recent migrants are very likely to be employed, paying tax and seem to be contributing to British society..it will help, rather than hurt, Britain’s fiscal position."
Analysis by @lgilbert.co
ukandeu.ac.uk/lower-migrat...
Analysis by @lgilbert.co
ukandeu.ac.uk/lower-migrat...
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BBC News bulletins leading on the story of an Algerian man being mistakenly released by the prison service.
Funnily enough I don't remember these cases ever leading the bulletins when an average of ten prisoners were mistakenly released a month in the final year of the last Government
Funnily enough I don't remember these cases ever leading the bulletins when an average of ten prisoners were mistakenly released a month in the final year of the last Government
November 5, 2025 at 2:55 PM
BBC News bulletins leading on the story of an Algerian man being mistakenly released by the prison service.
Funnily enough I don't remember these cases ever leading the bulletins when an average of ten prisoners were mistakenly released a month in the final year of the last Government
Funnily enough I don't remember these cases ever leading the bulletins when an average of ten prisoners were mistakenly released a month in the final year of the last Government
Little or no interest in UK media about what it means for us either geostrategically or domestically that our ‘closest ally’ is becoming an authoritarian dictatorship.
November 1, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Little or no interest in UK media about what it means for us either geostrategically or domestically that our ‘closest ally’ is becoming an authoritarian dictatorship.
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"The 76-page class action lawsuit paints a bleak picture of the facility, which attorneys say is 'extremely cramped' and 'smells strongly of feces, urine, and body odor,' while insects were found in the sinks and clogged toilets led to urine on the floor."
Advocates allege ‘inhumane’ conditions at Chicago-area ICE facility in new lawsuit
Illinois advocates have sued federal authorities over alleged inhumane conditions at a Chicago-area federal immigration facility.
apnews.com
October 31, 2025 at 6:18 PM
"The 76-page class action lawsuit paints a bleak picture of the facility, which attorneys say is 'extremely cramped' and 'smells strongly of feces, urine, and body odor,' while insects were found in the sinks and clogged toilets led to urine on the floor."
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Nope. Cluelessness far more important than being desperate. A total failure to understand the modern world, trade, geography, even international politics. Still not fixed.
And in milder forms quite widespread across Europe.
And in milder forms quite widespread across Europe.
‘I think we were so desperate to get out of the EU that at the time we basically came up with a very bad deal.’
Former Tory Brexit minister David Jones, who has since defected to Reform UK
#Traitors
Former Tory Brexit minister David Jones, who has since defected to Reform UK
#Traitors
November 1, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Nope. Cluelessness far more important than being desperate. A total failure to understand the modern world, trade, geography, even international politics. Still not fixed.
And in milder forms quite widespread across Europe.
And in milder forms quite widespread across Europe.
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Private equity decimated US hospitals, says Senate report; now targeting the NHS.
PE practice, Cut staff/wages, high debt/price, asset-stripping tax abuse, poor service.
PE makes millions in the UK from hip/knee/cataract surgery, GP surgeries, care homes, will run new NHS neighbourhood hubs.
PE practice, Cut staff/wages, high debt/price, asset-stripping tax abuse, poor service.
PE makes millions in the UK from hip/knee/cataract surgery, GP surgeries, care homes, will run new NHS neighbourhood hubs.
Private equity - "decimated" US hospitals according to report - now targeting the NHS - The Lowdown
In late August the release of a report by US senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn) on the destruction of hospitals in his home state of Connecticut, and across the US by private equity companies highlights on...
lowdownnhs.info
October 26, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Private equity decimated US hospitals, says Senate report; now targeting the NHS.
PE practice, Cut staff/wages, high debt/price, asset-stripping tax abuse, poor service.
PE makes millions in the UK from hip/knee/cataract surgery, GP surgeries, care homes, will run new NHS neighbourhood hubs.
PE practice, Cut staff/wages, high debt/price, asset-stripping tax abuse, poor service.
PE makes millions in the UK from hip/knee/cataract surgery, GP surgeries, care homes, will run new NHS neighbourhood hubs.
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One further cruelty has not been spotted about the Conservative Mass Deportation bill proposed by Chris Philp, Katie Lam, Matt Vickers et al
Bill would block all people on the Syrian Vulnerable Persons Scheme of 2016-21 from ever getting ILR in Britain
+ revoke any past grants of ILR to those on it
Bill would block all people on the Syrian Vulnerable Persons Scheme of 2016-21 from ever getting ILR in Britain
+ revoke any past grants of ILR to those on it
October 23, 2025 at 9:38 PM
One further cruelty has not been spotted about the Conservative Mass Deportation bill proposed by Chris Philp, Katie Lam, Matt Vickers et al
Bill would block all people on the Syrian Vulnerable Persons Scheme of 2016-21 from ever getting ILR in Britain
+ revoke any past grants of ILR to those on it
Bill would block all people on the Syrian Vulnerable Persons Scheme of 2016-21 from ever getting ILR in Britain
+ revoke any past grants of ILR to those on it
The revolution may well end up being televised, but it is sure as hell not going to arrive in a cardboard box with free shipping from Amazon Prime.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Silly inflatable costumes are taking over anti-Trump protests. What are they actually saying?
Whimsical frogs and unicorns have become mascots of the resistance – but it’s easy for tactical frivolity to devolve into entertainment
www.theguardian.com
October 23, 2025 at 4:33 PM
The revolution may well end up being televised, but it is sure as hell not going to arrive in a cardboard box with free shipping from Amazon Prime.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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It is not “broadly in line”. It is *exactly in line* because it is literally the policy as set out in a “draft bill” presented to parliament as the law a Badenoch government would enact.
Mass deporting millions of people legally living here in order to make the UK "culturally coherent" is "broadly in line" with Conservative party policy, says Kemi Badenoch's spokesman
October 22, 2025 at 6:35 PM
It is not “broadly in line”. It is *exactly in line* because it is literally the policy as set out in a “draft bill” presented to parliament as the law a Badenoch government would enact.
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To be clear, the Conservatives, as His Majesty's Official Opposition, have drafted legislation which they propose to use, and which would allow for the deportation of tens of thousands of people from the United Kingdom. And provide arbitrary power to extend the conditions for such deportation.
The Conservatives have drafted the legislation.
ANY one of the conditions being met leads to ILR being revoked.
If annual income falls below £38,700 for six months (for any reason at all)
The Secretary of State would also have the powers add whatever further conditions they want.
ANY one of the conditions being met leads to ILR being revoked.
If annual income falls below £38,700 for six months (for any reason at all)
The Secretary of State would also have the powers add whatever further conditions they want.
October 21, 2025 at 9:53 PM
To be clear, the Conservatives, as His Majesty's Official Opposition, have drafted legislation which they propose to use, and which would allow for the deportation of tens of thousands of people from the United Kingdom. And provide arbitrary power to extend the conditions for such deportation.
