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This petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy already has over 30,000 signatures. Let’s get it to 100,000 this week.
Please sign and share 🙏
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Please sign and share 🙏
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Petition: Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy
We are concerned about reported efforts from Russia to influence democracy in the US, UK, Europe and elsewhere. We believe we must establish the depth and breadth of possible Russian influence campaig...
petition.parliament.uk
November 25, 2025 at 7:32 AM
This petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy already has over 30,000 signatures. Let’s get it to 100,000 this week.
Please sign and share 🙏
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Please sign and share 🙏
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
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Lord Edmiston worth £855m, donated £1m to Brexit.
Is now leaving the UK because it is 'chaos'.
Everyone who voted Brexit is running away or dying.
Why do we keep it?
Is now leaving the UK because it is 'chaos'.
Everyone who voted Brexit is running away or dying.
Why do we keep it?
November 13, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Lord Edmiston worth £855m, donated £1m to Brexit.
Is now leaving the UK because it is 'chaos'.
Everyone who voted Brexit is running away or dying.
Why do we keep it?
Is now leaving the UK because it is 'chaos'.
Everyone who voted Brexit is running away or dying.
Why do we keep it?
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On Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy’s refusal to review the BBC Board membership of Robbie Gibb, Lib Dem culture spokes Anna Sabine MP said:
"This is the wrong choice...Gibb isn’t fit to serve on the BBC Board, & the BBC Charter gives the Government the power to sack him." PM should step in, she says.
"This is the wrong choice...Gibb isn’t fit to serve on the BBC Board, & the BBC Charter gives the Government the power to sack him." PM should step in, she says.
November 11, 2025 at 6:02 PM
On Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy’s refusal to review the BBC Board membership of Robbie Gibb, Lib Dem culture spokes Anna Sabine MP said:
"This is the wrong choice...Gibb isn’t fit to serve on the BBC Board, & the BBC Charter gives the Government the power to sack him." PM should step in, she says.
"This is the wrong choice...Gibb isn’t fit to serve on the BBC Board, & the BBC Charter gives the Government the power to sack him." PM should step in, she says.
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Tees Valley mayor Lord (Ben) Houchen promised renewal. Instead, Britain’s biggest regeneration project has turned into a taxpayer-funded scandal - enriching a few local businessmen while leaving public bodies on the brink.
Watch the latest episode of Page 94, The Private Eye Podcast, on YouTube.
Watch the latest episode of Page 94, The Private Eye Podcast, on YouTube.
November 8, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Tees Valley mayor Lord (Ben) Houchen promised renewal. Instead, Britain’s biggest regeneration project has turned into a taxpayer-funded scandal - enriching a few local businessmen while leaving public bodies on the brink.
Watch the latest episode of Page 94, The Private Eye Podcast, on YouTube.
Watch the latest episode of Page 94, The Private Eye Podcast, on YouTube.
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Dubai Dicky was outraged when Lucy Connolly was convicted of the same offence. Sounds like he's in favour of two tier justice.
October 16, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Dubai Dicky was outraged when Lucy Connolly was convicted of the same offence. Sounds like he's in favour of two tier justice.
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Dumb Britain, in every issue of the mag, collates the best real answers given on real quiz shows, by real contestants.
Walsh: Truss at 10: How Not to Be Prime Minister is a book about which female prime minister?
Contestant: Margaret Thatcher.
From the new Private Eye, out now.
Walsh: Truss at 10: How Not to Be Prime Minister is a book about which female prime minister?
Contestant: Margaret Thatcher.
From the new Private Eye, out now.
October 6, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Dumb Britain, in every issue of the mag, collates the best real answers given on real quiz shows, by real contestants.
Walsh: Truss at 10: How Not to Be Prime Minister is a book about which female prime minister?
Contestant: Margaret Thatcher.
From the new Private Eye, out now.
Walsh: Truss at 10: How Not to Be Prime Minister is a book about which female prime minister?
Contestant: Margaret Thatcher.
From the new Private Eye, out now.
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England's Environment Agency went to just 13% of serious pollution incidents, relied on water companies who may be responsible for the pollution.
EA downgraded the environmental impact of more than 1,000 incidents initially rated as serious without a second look.
Licence to pollute.
EA downgraded the environmental impact of more than 1,000 incidents initially rated as serious without a second look.
Licence to pollute.
Environment Agency failed to visit serious pollution incidents, leaked files show
Data from inside England's environment watchdog show an agency struggling to monitor serious pollution.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 25, 2025 at 9:56 AM
England's Environment Agency went to just 13% of serious pollution incidents, relied on water companies who may be responsible for the pollution.
EA downgraded the environmental impact of more than 1,000 incidents initially rated as serious without a second look.
Licence to pollute.
EA downgraded the environmental impact of more than 1,000 incidents initially rated as serious without a second look.
Licence to pollute.
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Reform’s £234bn claim about migrants is based on discredited numbers, says the Bear.
Policy built on lies is not policy, it’s theatre.
Policy built on lies is not policy, it’s theatre.
Farage wants to deport legal migrants in Britain
Reform’s “Boriswave” slogan masks cruelty, cooked-up data, and echoes of Trumpist authoritarianism
eastangliabylines.co.uk
September 24, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Reform’s £234bn claim about migrants is based on discredited numbers, says the Bear.
Policy built on lies is not policy, it’s theatre.
Policy built on lies is not policy, it’s theatre.
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Donald Trump announces that paracetamol can be very effective for treating outbreaks of people discussing the Epstein files.
September 23, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Donald Trump announces that paracetamol can be very effective for treating outbreaks of people discussing the Epstein files.
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As the #BigRiverWatch returns, today's focus is the River Cam.
Once fed by a chalk aquifer, it now runs on sewage outflows laced with phosphorus – smothering plants, stripping oxygen, killing life.
Kate Moore reports on a dying river.
Once fed by a chalk aquifer, it now runs on sewage outflows laced with phosphorus – smothering plants, stripping oxygen, killing life.
Kate Moore reports on a dying river.
Dry summers, dirty water: the river Cam’s slow collapse
The river Cam faces crisis from sewage pollution, over-abstraction, and inaction – locals fight to save its wildlife and natural flow
eastangliabylines.co.uk
September 19, 2025 at 5:55 AM
As the #BigRiverWatch returns, today's focus is the River Cam.
Once fed by a chalk aquifer, it now runs on sewage outflows laced with phosphorus – smothering plants, stripping oxygen, killing life.
Kate Moore reports on a dying river.
Once fed by a chalk aquifer, it now runs on sewage outflows laced with phosphorus – smothering plants, stripping oxygen, killing life.
Kate Moore reports on a dying river.
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UK banks sued over shared appreciation mortgages that left people with huge debts.
Borrowed £33,000, repayment £660,000+.
No attempt by regulator to bring a test case. Products not tested for potential harms before sale.
No end to bank scandals. Govt deregulating, diluting customer protection.
Borrowed £33,000, repayment £660,000+.
No attempt by regulator to bring a test case. Products not tested for potential harms before sale.
No end to bank scandals. Govt deregulating, diluting customer protection.
UK banks face lawsuits over mortgages that left people with huge debts
Group actions against Barclays and Bank of Scotland over products that left some people owing up to 20 times the sum they borrowed
www.theguardian.com
September 9, 2025 at 6:00 AM
UK banks sued over shared appreciation mortgages that left people with huge debts.
Borrowed £33,000, repayment £660,000+.
No attempt by regulator to bring a test case. Products not tested for potential harms before sale.
No end to bank scandals. Govt deregulating, diluting customer protection.
Borrowed £33,000, repayment £660,000+.
No attempt by regulator to bring a test case. Products not tested for potential harms before sale.
No end to bank scandals. Govt deregulating, diluting customer protection.
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This is infuriating. What is the point of a Marine Protected Area if trawlers are allowed to keep ploughing it?
Yet again, the government has succumbed to commercial lobbying.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Yet again, the government has succumbed to commercial lobbying.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Bottom trawling to continue in English protected waters, government rules
Defra says blanket ban on ‘destructive’ fishing practice disproportionate as MPs urge minister to reconsider
www.theguardian.com
September 9, 2025 at 6:15 AM
This is infuriating. What is the point of a Marine Protected Area if trawlers are allowed to keep ploughing it?
Yet again, the government has succumbed to commercial lobbying.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Yet again, the government has succumbed to commercial lobbying.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Corruption Inc
Boris Johnson traded PM contacts for global business deals.
Used publicly funded office to manage commercial deals.
Secret meetings with Palantir, handed NHS data.
Secret Dinners during COVID lockdown to secure refurbishment of his flat.
£200,000 from a hedge fund.
Boris Johnson traded PM contacts for global business deals.
Used publicly funded office to manage commercial deals.
Secret meetings with Palantir, handed NHS data.
Secret Dinners during COVID lockdown to secure refurbishment of his flat.
£200,000 from a hedge fund.
Revealed: how Boris Johnson traded PM contacts for global business deals
Exclusive: Leak exposes how former leader has used publicly subsidised office to manage commercial interests
www.theguardian.com
September 9, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Corruption Inc
Boris Johnson traded PM contacts for global business deals.
Used publicly funded office to manage commercial deals.
Secret meetings with Palantir, handed NHS data.
Secret Dinners during COVID lockdown to secure refurbishment of his flat.
£200,000 from a hedge fund.
Boris Johnson traded PM contacts for global business deals.
Used publicly funded office to manage commercial deals.
Secret meetings with Palantir, handed NHS data.
Secret Dinners during COVID lockdown to secure refurbishment of his flat.
£200,000 from a hedge fund.
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Number crunching: Monthly cut to universal credit for newly sick and disabled claimants from 2026
From the latest Private Eye, out now.
From the latest Private Eye, out now.
August 11, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Number crunching: Monthly cut to universal credit for newly sick and disabled claimants from 2026
From the latest Private Eye, out now.
From the latest Private Eye, out now.
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🚨 New: The UK government spent £32,251 fighting to hide a blank form.
Yep - 30 grand plus to avoid releasing a blank template of the ministerial interests form.
A wild story - with a surprise twist. Would read to end of this one... 🙄 (🧵)
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/why-did-ta...
Yep - 30 grand plus to avoid releasing a blank template of the ministerial interests form.
A wild story - with a surprise twist. Would read to end of this one... 🙄 (🧵)
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/why-did-ta...
The blank piece of paper that cost taxpayers £32,000
Government ‘obsession with secrecy’ descends into farce
democracyforsale.substack.com
August 7, 2025 at 7:30 AM
🚨 New: The UK government spent £32,251 fighting to hide a blank form.
Yep - 30 grand plus to avoid releasing a blank template of the ministerial interests form.
A wild story - with a surprise twist. Would read to end of this one... 🙄 (🧵)
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/why-did-ta...
Yep - 30 grand plus to avoid releasing a blank template of the ministerial interests form.
A wild story - with a surprise twist. Would read to end of this one... 🙄 (🧵)
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/why-did-ta...
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Ofwat CEO to step down ahead of water regulator's abolition.
Ofwat has failed but that shouldn't overlook failures of law & govt oversight.
Changing heads and names of regulators won't do.
Need to end privatisation, put customer/employee elected directors on board, let them vote on exec pay.
Ofwat has failed but that shouldn't overlook failures of law & govt oversight.
Changing heads and names of regulators won't do.
Need to end privatisation, put customer/employee elected directors on board, let them vote on exec pay.
Ofwat chief executive to step down ahead of regulator’s abolition
David Black’s decision comes amid intense scrutiny of water companies and criticism of the sector
www.theguardian.com
August 5, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Ofwat CEO to step down ahead of water regulator's abolition.
Ofwat has failed but that shouldn't overlook failures of law & govt oversight.
Changing heads and names of regulators won't do.
Need to end privatisation, put customer/employee elected directors on board, let them vote on exec pay.
Ofwat has failed but that shouldn't overlook failures of law & govt oversight.
Changing heads and names of regulators won't do.
Need to end privatisation, put customer/employee elected directors on board, let them vote on exec pay.
National headlines when Kier Starmer accepted gifts worth £100k since 2019. But silence, when this grifter, accepts a million in the last year!
MPs declare over £1m of gifts in one year - from holidays to helicopter rides
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
MPs declare over £1m of gifts in one year - from holidays to helicopter rides
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage declared the highest value, receiving gifts worth a total of £98,709 over the past year - including a £8,413 for a helicopter ride
www.mirror.co.uk
July 3, 2025 at 7:35 AM
National headlines when Kier Starmer accepted gifts worth £100k since 2019. But silence, when this grifter, accepts a million in the last year!
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Since becoming an MP, Nigel Farage has managed to fit in nine trips to the US, has held down twelve jobs, which earned him nearly £1million, but has been too busy to hold any surgeries for people in Clacton who actually voted for him.
June 3, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Since becoming an MP, Nigel Farage has managed to fit in nine trips to the US, has held down twelve jobs, which earned him nearly £1million, but has been too busy to hold any surgeries for people in Clacton who actually voted for him.
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This should be put in front of Robert Jenrick during every interview
June 1, 2025 at 9:27 AM
This should be put in front of Robert Jenrick during every interview
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2.9m emergency food parcels provided by food banks to Britons facing hunger.
1.8m to families with children.
Shameful statistics.
Real wage/benefit cut, profiteering takes toll.
16m live in poverty.
1% have more wealth than 70% of population combined.
Must redistribute.
1.8m to families with children.
Shameful statistics.
Real wage/benefit cut, profiteering takes toll.
16m live in poverty.
1% have more wealth than 70% of population combined.
Must redistribute.
Food bank demand up by half in five years as charity urges Labour to act
“A whole generation” has now grown up in the UK while food banks are the norm, charity chief says
www.independent.co.uk
May 21, 2025 at 6:49 AM
2.9m emergency food parcels provided by food banks to Britons facing hunger.
1.8m to families with children.
Shameful statistics.
Real wage/benefit cut, profiteering takes toll.
16m live in poverty.
1% have more wealth than 70% of population combined.
Must redistribute.
1.8m to families with children.
Shameful statistics.
Real wage/benefit cut, profiteering takes toll.
16m live in poverty.
1% have more wealth than 70% of population combined.
Must redistribute.
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£4.8 billion - how much UK will gain annually with new trade deal with India
£140 billion - how much UK loses out annually by being outside the EU Single Market
£140 billion - how much UK loses out annually by being outside the EU Single Market
May 6, 2025 at 5:19 PM
£4.8 billion - how much UK will gain annually with new trade deal with India
£140 billion - how much UK loses out annually by being outside the EU Single Market
£140 billion - how much UK loses out annually by being outside the EU Single Market
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I'm announcing emergency funding to address a mental health crisis in Lincolnshire, where thousands of people are suffering from delusions, believing that Andrea Jenkyns gives a shit about them.
May 2, 2025 at 12:07 PM
I'm announcing emergency funding to address a mental health crisis in Lincolnshire, where thousands of people are suffering from delusions, believing that Andrea Jenkyns gives a shit about them.
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Alongside the rest of my team I've been hit by layoffs. I'd be grateful for help finding a new place to apply my skills at!
7y of professional Elm experience; would also be comfortable in Haskell, TypeScript, Erlang/Elixir/Gleam, OCaml, Kotlin, Scala
email: martin@janiczek.cz
Many thanks for RTs!
7y of professional Elm experience; would also be comfortable in Haskell, TypeScript, Erlang/Elixir/Gleam, OCaml, Kotlin, Scala
email: martin@janiczek.cz
Many thanks for RTs!
April 28, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Alongside the rest of my team I've been hit by layoffs. I'd be grateful for help finding a new place to apply my skills at!
7y of professional Elm experience; would also be comfortable in Haskell, TypeScript, Erlang/Elixir/Gleam, OCaml, Kotlin, Scala
email: martin@janiczek.cz
Many thanks for RTs!
7y of professional Elm experience; would also be comfortable in Haskell, TypeScript, Erlang/Elixir/Gleam, OCaml, Kotlin, Scala
email: martin@janiczek.cz
Many thanks for RTs!