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David Mitchell
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Upright cyclist, dog servant and music.
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Surely the City can come up with something more interesting to keep trying to attack me with?

Cut bills. Tax billionaires.

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November 25, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Shabana Mahmood is an avatar of open Britain – that’s what makes her fable about immigration so seductive www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Shabana Mahmood is an avatar of open Britain – that’s what makes her fable about immigration so seductive | Nesrine Malik
‘She is the daughter of immigrants,’ supporters of her cruel asylum policies say. ‘How can she be wrong?’ Let me put them straight, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
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November 24, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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“If you go back a million minutes, you reach 2023. Go back a billion minutes, you reach the Roman Empire — that’s the scale of inequality we’re living with.”

Zack Polanski on #BBCLauraK discussing inequality and why a wealth tax should be in the budget
November 23, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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Our country is in crisis. Bills are too high. People are being forced to live in mouldy, unaffordable homes. One in three kids is living in poverty.

The budget is this government's chance to turn things around: it's time to cut bills and tax billionaires.
At the Budget, the Green Party's message is clear: Cut Bills. Tax Billionaires.
November 19, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Britain’s biggest housebuilder wants more free money to maintain fat profits www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Britain’s biggest housebuilder urges government to support first-time buyers
Taylor Wimpey chief Jennie Daly calls for revival of help-to-buy equity loan scheme to revive property market
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November 16, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Ofwat letting water firms charge twice to tackle sewage, court to hear www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Ofwat letting water firms charge twice to tackle sewage, court to hear
River Action bringing legal action against water regulator over who should foot bill for firms’ past failures to invest
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November 4, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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NEWS! 'It drives us mad when TV screens are full of Reform MPs when they're less than 1% of the Parliamentary population' confirms public newsthump.com/2025/10/28/i...
‘It drives us mad when TV screens are full of Reform MPs when they’re less than 1% of the Parliamentary population’ confirms public
The public have today confirmed they are sick and tired of seeing Reform UK politicians plastered all over their TV screens despite them making up less than 1% of the parliamentary population. Refo…
newsthump.com
October 28, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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Farage: epic grifter
October 27, 2025 at 12:45 PM
A-level English, voluntary work, delayed citizenship: it’s Labour’s Orwellian Two Minutes Hate for immigrants www.theguardian.com/world/commen...
A-level English, voluntary work, delayed citizenship: it’s Labour’s Orwellian Two Minutes Hate for immigrants | Nesrine Malik
It’s easier for politicians to blame others than to face the truth: Britain has been stripped of the spaces and opportunities that allow for true social integration, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Ma...
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October 20, 2025 at 9:39 AM
@greenparty.org.uk I’ve joined! For #hope for #courage 😁
October 19, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Tech bros need the world to believe their hype. Here’s an idea – let’s just ignore them www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
Tech bros need the world to believe their hype. Here’s an idea – let’s just ignore them | Pip Finkemeyer
Social media didn’t live up to its promises. So why do we think artificial intelligence will be any better?
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October 19, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Why can I remember no Labour politician making this point, this well?

Everybody except the Greens seems to think the best way to fight Reform is to agree with Farage about everything.

This, right here, is brilliant. And genuinely patriotic. And so, so true.
October 16, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Soaring bills are the gift that keeps on giving for Reform. Shame Labour doesn’t have the guts to do anything about them www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Soaring bills are the gift that keeps on giving for Reform. Shame Labour doesn’t have the guts to do anything about them | Mathew Lawrence
A cost of living crisis is not inevitable if there is the will to stop companies extracting profits from Britain’s essential services, says Mathew Lawrence of the Common Wealth thinktank
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October 14, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Millions ask “what is Labour for?” after regulator backs more price rises. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Millions in England face higher water bills after regulator backs more price rises
Competition watchdog agrees to requests from Anglian, Northumbrian, South East, Southern and Wessex to increase charges
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October 9, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Antifa Activist Michael Heseltine Shifts Overton Window Leftwards
“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight
October 8, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Nick Robinson has defected to Reform 😳
October 1, 2025 at 7:26 AM
I have now been a journalist for 40 years. The forces ranged against my profession have never been so powerful www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I have now been a journalist for 40 years. The forces ranged against my profession have never been so powerful | George Monbiot
Once, I believed that humanity’s problem was an information deficit. Now, I know you can’t speak truth to power if power controls your words, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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September 20, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Privatisation of UK industries is driving cost of living crisis, says Greens leader www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Privatisation of UK industries is driving cost of living crisis, says Greens leader
Zack Polanski calls mass privatisation a ‘failed experiment’ as report finds it has cost UK households £250 a year more
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September 18, 2025 at 8:47 AM
‘Privatisation premium’: billions from UK energy bills paid to shareholders www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
‘Privatisation premium’: billions from UK energy bills paid to shareholders
Analysis reveals £416 of average bill of £1,719 taken as pre-tax profits by the major energy industries last year, rather than being reinvested
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September 17, 2025 at 3:29 PM
It’s not about Rayner or Farage: the real tax story is how the super-rich avoid paying their share www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
It’s not about Rayner or Farage: the real tax story is how the super-rich avoid paying their share| Rebecca Gowland
To focus on individuals is misguided: the problem is a tax system hugely skewed in favour of the ultra-wealthy, says Rebecca Gowland of Patriotic Millionaires International
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September 11, 2025 at 10:23 AM