The pointless, performative cruelty of Jack Straw replacing cash for asylum seekers with Sodexo vouchers was so bad even Blunkett felt he had to scrap it - but there was a campaign against it too - news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1916...

Butterflies galore in the Wenning Valley

Penultimate paragraph undermines story: 'The researchers stressed their findings were observational and did not prove a cause and effect relationship' - www.theguardian.com/food/2025/au...

Kent Police appear to be arguing that 'reasonable suspicion' of support for Palestine Action is the offence itself

This form of exchange should be revived: MacIntyre was "in frequent debate with the Marxist historian EP Thompson, who used to stick notes on the windscreen of MacIntyre’s car urging him to publish his thoughts on socialist consciousness". www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

Labour didn't impose the windfall tax - www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

'Listen to victims more. They are the experts.' www.bigissuenorth.com/magazine/201...